POLS319 Глобализация и Новите политически идеологии
Анотация:
COURSE ANNOTATION AND AIMS:
This course introduces to the students the origins, goals and ideas of the new political movements that accompany the process of globalization. It also provides an opportunity to evaluate the potential of these new ideologies and their perspectives.
The aim of the course is to form an extensive knowledge and understanding of the analyzed new political ideologies, as well as their contribution to the current political life and their future.
Преподавател(и):
проф. Антоний Тодоров д.н.
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
SKILLS:
After completing successfully this course the students will:
1) know:
- The basic concepts, principles and documents of the new political ideologies.
2) be capable of:
- Analyzing and evaluating the objectives, actions and achieved results of the new political ideologies and their carriers.
- To be able to assess the prospects of the new political ideologies at home and abroad.
3) job opportunities, according to the National Register of Jobs and Positions in the Republic of Bulgaria:
- Middle level specialists at international organizations such as the UN, the Council of Europe, OSCE and NATO;
- Experts at the institutions of the EU (the European Commission and the European Parliament);
- Experts and consultants at international NGO's
- Experts and specialists in the field of social sciences and related fields.
- University, college and school lecturers.
- Diplomatic core officials.
- Professionals with analytic and control functions in the state and local administration.
Предварителни изисквания:
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Лекция
Език, на който се води курса:
Английски
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
Course Syllabus
1. Driving forces of the process of globalization
2. Globalization positives
3. Globalization risks (Zygmunt Bauman)
4. The New Ideologies as an answer to the globalization challenge
5. The Feminism - old and new.
6. The old and the New Left.
7. Communitarianism.
8. The New Right.
9. "Green Politics": conservation, restoration or green governance?
10. Sustainable development
11. Urban participation
12. Tolerance and multiculturalism 1
13. Interactive seminar on pre-selected topic
14. Interactive seminar on pre-selected topic
15. Interactive practical seminar
Литература по темите:
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Aristotle. Politics.
Isaiah Berlin. Four Essays on Liberty
Edmund Burke. Reflections on the French Revolution
Zbigniew Bzezinski. Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century
Robert Conquest. Reflections on a Ravaged Century.
Norman Davies. Europe. A History.
The Declaration of Independence.
Jard Diamond. Collapse. How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
Francis Fukuyama. The End of History and the Last Man.
Francis Fukuyama. On Trust.
Vasil Garnizov et al. The Government and the People. Conflicts in Bulgarian Society.
Ernest Gellner. Encounters with Nationalism.
Paul Johnson. History of the English People.
Paul Johnson. History of the American People.
Samuel Huntington. Clash of Civilizations?
Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan.
Henry Kissinger. Diplomacy
Wojciech Kosteski et al. Transformations of Post-Communist States.
Abraham Lincoln. The Gettysburg Address.
John Locke. Two Treatises on Government.
J.S.Mill. On Liberty. On Representative Government.
Barrack Obama. The Audacity of Hope (+ Zbigniew Bzezinski: The Hope of Audacity).
Ronald Reagan. Diaries.
Richard Rorty. Philosophy and Social Hope.
Bertrand Russell. History of Western Philosophy
George Schopflin. Politics in Eastern Europe.
George Schopflin et al. The Re-Unification of Europe
Roger Scruton. A Political Philosophy.
Amartya Sen. Identity and Violence.
Amartya Sen. Rationality and Freedom
Charles Taylor. The Malaise of Modernity.
Charles Taylor. Multiculturalism.
Margaret Thatcher. Statecraft.
Fareed Zakaria. The Future of Freedom.
Средства за оценяване:
CONTROL DURING THE SEMESTER:
PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS 25 %
ESSAY 50 %
CASE 25 %