POLS251 Transitions: What Are They and Where Do They Lead
Annotation:
The course aims to introduce the number of interpretations of the term "transitions". The lectures will show the political, the historical, the innovative and the openly manipulative motivations behind the usage of the term "transitions". In addition the students will cover different geopolitical spaces, known for being part of a political or/and historical transition. Finally the course will compile different ideas about the direction of those "transitions."
Lecturers:
Asst. Prof. Lyubomir Stefanov, PhD
Course Description:
Competencies:
Able:
1. To recognize different voices, calling for transition.
2. To compare different cases and consider the implacability of the transitions.
3. To construct coherent analysis of past and present cases of transitions by combining the historical conditions in each case with the political motivations and the individual ambitions of all the agents of change.
Prerequisites:
Types:
Full-time Programmes
Types of Courses:
Lecture
Language of teaching:
English
Topics:
- ime, History and Directions: The birth of the modern idea of change
- The six killer apps of Niall Fergusson: The history of Europe as an ideal image of the transtion from tradition to modernity
- What is a transition outside of the European context
- Imagination, Politics and Change - Latin America
- Media and the remaking of the term "transitions"
- In the steps of the New Millennium: what has changed and what did remain the same
- Some practical implications
- A never ending process?
- Transitions in the Modern world - challanges and possible roads ahead
- Discussion
- Presentations
Bibliography:
Braudel, Fernand: A History of Civilizations, 2000.
Fergusson, Niall: The six killer apps