Objectives and competences
Students:
- get acquainted with the globalization process,
- get to know the development of globalization and its impact on today’s image of the World,
- get to know structural changes in individual economic sectors,
- form a critical relation and their own comprehension of economic, social and environmental effects of globalization on development of individual regions in the world and the position of Slovenia in the globalized world.
Content (Syllabus outline)
1. Concept and definition of globalization.
2. Understanding the globalization process:
- scientific approach to studying globalization,
- political and ideological understanding of globalization,
- open-ended questions of globalization.
3. Development of globalization:
- early capitalism and development of imperialism,
- globalization background: from guided- to liberal capitalism,
- from national to transnational production,
- information in communication globalization,
- financial globalization.
4. Effects of globalization – regional differences: economic, social and environmental ones.
5. From development to sustainable development of the World.
6. Socio-economic impacts of globalization on economic and technological development of the world in the 20th century.
7. Slovenia in the globalized world.
Learning and teaching methods
- lectures,
- AV presentations,
- case studies discussions,
- individual work.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
- students acquire key knowledge for understanding developmental differences and regional disparities by studying the understanding of the globalization process and its impact on economic, social and environmental differences through the development phases of globalization of the world,
- the globalization process provides the students with the basis for understanding economic and political changes in Slovenia and the necessity of its integration in the global world.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
- the emphasis is given to the analysis of positive and negative effects of globalization on development of balanced sustainable regional development.
Readings
Dicken P., 2011: Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, The Gilford Press.
Rifkin J. 2014: The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, palgrave Macmillan Trade.
Rifkin J. 2019: The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth, St. Martin's Press.
Sachs J.D. 2020: The Ages of Globalization: geography, technology and Institutions, Columbia University Press/New York.
The World Bank and The EUROSTAT. (izbrana poglavja)
http://www.polity.co.uk/global/links.asp
http://www.globalisation.eu/articles/
