Global Issues: Challenges and Solutions

1. Global Issues: Challenges and Solutions

Class 1
Global Issues:
Challenges and Solutions
Introduction to the Course

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Břetislav Tureček
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[email protected]
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Lecturer at Metropolitan University Prague
PhD candidate in cultural anthropology
Contributor/IR
analyst for leading Czech
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and Slovak media
1993-2013 – Journalist coverning the
Middle East
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2008-2013
– Permanent correspondent of
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the Czech Radio in the Middle East
Author of four books on the ME region

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4. What is this course about?

Global system (Post-Cold War period)
Challenges of globalization
Possible solutions – Responses
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
GLOBAL SECURITY
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

5. Global Governance

6. Global Security

7. Development

8. Environment

9. Global Issues?

What is essential characteristic of global issues?
What makes them distinct from
national/regional problems?

10. Interconnectedness of Actors

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12. Relevance of this course?

You will study topics, which are up-to-date,
important and challenging
You will think critically about recent world politics
You will be able to distinguish global x international
issues

13. Why to pay attention?

Global issues have
consequences for
each individual,
including YOU!

14. Your task for the next week:

E-mail me to [email protected] by midnight 24 October
E-mail subject: GI + your country, please! („GI Spain“ etc.)

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Next class (October 26):
Globalization and Pieces of Global Governance
Although some IR theories would not agree with the following claim, there are many
relevant players on the international scene; not only states, but also organizations and
institutions of various forms or individuals matter. We will start with conceptualization
of globalization while introducing the economic, political and cultural dimensions of
this phenomenon. Further, we will move to various forms of international
organizations, which are responsible for global governance. Finally, there will be
discussed the concept of multilateralism and its principles.
Readings:
1) Karns, Margaret P. and Karen A. Mingst (2004) “The Challenges of Global Governance”, in
International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance. London: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, pp. 3-34.
2) Falk, Richard A. (2015) Horizons of Global Governance, in Critical perspectives on the crisis of
global governance: reimagining the future. New York,: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 24- 44.