Abschnittsübersicht

  • In this section, the course will be focused on political dimension of globalisation, which embrasses range of issues on the following three levels:

    a) global;

    b) state;

    b) micro (incl. regional). 

    On the global level, there are issues to be discussed as "cosmopolitan democracy", "global governance", the "Lonely Superpower", "post-American world", "Rise and Fall of Chinamerica", the problems of immigration, global terrorism, pandemy etc.

    On the state level, there are issues to be discussed as declining power of the nation-states, rising power of some of the states, the national interests and state nationalism in general in the global world order etc.

    Finally, on the micro (incl. regional) level, the process of regionalization of the existing states and of secessionist attempts including the emergence of the Quasi-states phenomenon and "black holes" behaved by organized crime gangs or/and terrorists which means that the phenomenon of terrorist semi-states will be also included into the course.


    Recommended literature:

    A) Cosmopolitan democracy:

    Held, David (2005): Cosmopolitan Democracy and the Global Order: Reflections on the 200th Anniversary of Kant´s "Perpetual Peace". Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1995), 415-429.

    Held, David - Archiburgi, Daniele (2011): "Cosmopolitan Democracy. Paths and Agents". Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 4, 433-461. Online:
    http://www.danielearchibugi.org/downloads/papers/2017/11/Archibugi_Held_CD-Paths-and-Ways.pdf

    Martell, Luke (): Beck’s Cosmopolitan Politics. In: Contemporary Politics, Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2008. Online (draft version): https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/2724008.pdf

    B) Global governance:

    Weiss, Thomas G. (2000): "Governance, Good Governance and Global Governance: Conceptual and Acutal Challenges". Third World Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 5 (Oc. 2000), 795-814. Online: https://sta.uwi.edu/iir/normangirvanlibrary/sites/default/files/normangirvanlibrary/documents/Governance%20good%20governance%20and%20global%20governance.pdf

    Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (2003): "Mapping Global Governance". In: Held, David - McGrew, Anthony (eds.): Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance. Polity Press, Cam-bridge (UK).

    C) Powers and Superpowers after the fall of Communism

    Huntington, Samuel (1999): "The Lonely Superpower". Foreign Affairs. March/April 1999. Online: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1999-03-01/lonely-superpower.

    Zakaria, Fareed (2008): The Post-American World. W. W. Norton: London - New York. Online: https://azadegan.info/files/Post%20American%20World.pdf

    Handel, Jones (2010): Chinamerica: The Uneasy Partnership that Will Change the World. ‎ McGraw-Hill Education (1st edition).

    Fenggang Yang (2016): Exceptionalism or Chinamerica: Measuring Religious Change in the Globalizing World Today. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 55, No. 1, March 2016, 7-22. Online: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jssr.12253

    Questions for students related to the lecture:

    A) Cosmopolitan democracy:
    i) What is cosmopolitan democracy?
    ii) Does the concept of cosmopolitan democracy mirrors the global order in reality or is that only an optimistic vision which failed? Why so?

    B) Global governance:
    What is global governance and (how) does it work?

    C) Any Super(powers) in a new world order?
    i) Is (was) the US only superpower after the end of communism? If so, explain and argue if not explain and argue (for // against).
    ii) Rise of China - explain the causes, dynamics and (possible) consequences.