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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
Event type:
Lecture
Org-unit: 03-African Studies
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Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
English
Official course description:
This lecture gives an introduction into the fields of global studies and international studies. At the beginning an overview on traditional globalisation research as it has developed in the social sciences is given. Then three alternative perspectives are introduced that allow to decentre this conventional wisdom: critical area studies, post-colonial reasoning as well as new political geography. The potential of these perspectives is then discussed with a view to cases studies, including the rise of the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), the role of China in Africa, and global climate change politics or the fracturing of the Arab world (depending on participants’ preferences). Finally, the future of studies on regionalisms in global politics is discussed.
Readings:
For preparation: Amitav Acharya 2014. “Global International Relations (IR) and Regional Worlds. A New Agenda for International Studies”, International Studies Quarterly 58 (4): 647-659. Ulf Engel 2019. “International Studies”. In M. Middell and Konstanze Klemm (eds.) Global Studies. A Reader. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. Ulf Engel 2019. “Global Challenges”. In M. Middell (ed.) The Routledge Handbook on Transregional Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 651-658.
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