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Economic Powers in the Contemporary International Relations

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Course ID: 2100-ERASMUS-EPIR
Erasmus code / ISCED: 14.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0312) Political sciences and civics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: Economic Powers in the Contemporary International Relations
Name in Polish: Economic Powers in the Contemporary International Relations
Organizational unit: Faculty of Political Science and International Studies
Course groups: ERASMUS courses - summer semester
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 4.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language: English
Short description:

The aim of the course is to shape student’s competence in analyzing the basic logic of contemporary international relations based on the role and form of activity of economic powers.
Full description:

I.Introductory lecture: course description and organization, analytical concept.

II.Concept of power in IR

Literature:

1. D. Drezdner, Power and International Relations: a temporal view, Journal of International Relations, 2021,27/1/,p.29-52

III. The Power of Nations.

Literature:

1.M. Beckley, The Power of Nations .Measuring What Matters, International Security 2018,43/2/,p7-44.

IV.Concept of Economic Power in IR Literature.

Literature:

1.R. Cooper, Is “Economic Power” a Useful and Operational Concept? Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, No.04-02,2004

2. Sonmez Atesoglu, Economic Power and International Security, Insight Turkey,2019,21/3/

V.US Economic Power

Literature:

1.D. Julius, US Economic Power. Waxing or Waning?, Harvard International Review.Winter 2005

2. Gelb, GDP Now Matters More than Force., Foreign Affairs 2010,89/6/ .

VI .Economic Hegemony

Literature:

1.C. Noroff, Dollar Hegemony: Power Analysis, RIPE, 2014, 5, p. 1042-1070.

2. W. Winecoff, „The Persistent myth of lost Hegemony” revisited: structural power as a complex network phenomenon, European Journal of International Relations, 2020, 26, p.209-252.

VII. Economic Statecraft. Part I

Literature:

1. D. Baldwin, Economic Statecraft, Princeton 2020, p. 6-98.

VIII. What is Geoeconomics?

Literature:

1. E. Luttwak, From Geopolitics to Geoeconomics, The National Interest, 1990, 20, p. 17-12.

2. R.Blackwill, J. Harris, War by Other Means .Geoeconomics and Statecraft, 2016, s.19-93.

IX. Future of Global Economic Power Structure

Literature:

1. S. Benzell and others, The Future of Global Economic Power, National Bureau of Economic Research,2023, www.nber.org/papers/w30556

X. Economic Powers and International Order.

Literature:

1. The Long View. How will the global economic order change by 2050? Pwc The World 2050, www.pwc.com

2. Nana de Graaf, China’s rise in a Liberal world order transition, RIPE, 2020, 1, p.191-207.
Bibliography:

Required reading:

2. David Baldwin, Economic Statecraft, Princeton Univ. Press,2020

3. R. Blackwill,J. Harris, War by other means. Geoeconomics and Statecraft, Harvard University Pres. Cambrigde 2016
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Form of classes:

Lecture, student’s presentation, analysis of recommended text, discussion.

Final grading course requirements:

Class presentation; presence ,active participation

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span: 2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16
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Type of class:
Lecture, 20 hours more information
Coordinators: Marian Haliżak
Group instructors: Marian Haliżak
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