After the successful completion of the module, students will be able to understand the global networking of corporations, nation states and international organisations in their causal complexity, and to logically link and critically discuss recent developments in the field of economic, ecological and social sustainability.
In detail:
The students will be capable of categorising global economic networks.
They will have the technical and methodical understanding to analyse and critically discuss the entrepreneurial strategy of global supply chains with its motives and consequences for globalisation activities for countries of origin and target coun-tries.
They will be able to describe state regionalisation strategies along with their motives and consequences, and to identify and understand potential problems for the capacity to act democratically.
They will be able to recognise and classify the influence of in-ternational organisations, and the influence of agreements that are significant for the international cooperation of states and for the global activities of companies.
They will be able to reflect on the importance of (inter)na-tionally recognised principles and guidelines for economic, ecological and social sustainability from the point of view of
the various stakeholders and critically discuss their potential effectiveness.

•  Introduction into the globalisation of production

•  Introduction into the globalisation of markets

•  Introduction into the globalisation of politics

•  Actors and types of general international frameworks

•  Companies as drivers of globalisation: The case of global value-added chains

•  Governments as drivers of globalisation: The EU as case of regionalization

•  International organizations as drivers of globalisation: The cases of intellectual property and global sustainability

•  Concluding on general international frameworks: Risks and opportunities

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• Gereffi, G. (2006). "The new offshoring and global develop-ment of jobs." ILO Social Policy Lectures, pp. 1-16

• Godart, O., Görg, H. and Görlich, D. (2009). Back to Normal? The Future of Global Production Networks. The Crisis and Be-yond. Klodt, H. and Lehment, H. Kiel, IfW Kiel: 119-126.

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• Lloyd, P. E. (2010). "Global economic integration." Pacific Economic Review 15(1): 71–86

• Nugent, N. (2010). The Government and Politics of the Euro-pean Union. Basingstoke, pp. 419-430

• Pelkmans, J. (2006). European integration - Methods and economic analysis. Harlow et al., pp. 2-13, 53-62

• Pilbeam, K. (2010), Finance and Financial Markets. Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Chapter 18, pp. 459-465

• Ricketts, M. (2008). Economic regulation: principles, history and methods. International handbook on economic regula-tion. M. A. Crew and D. Parker. Cheltenham, pp. 34-62

• Ritzer, G. (2009), Globalization: A Basic Text, Chiches-ter, Chap. 8

• Ritzer, G. (2011), Globalization: The Essentials, Chichester, Chap. 3

• Sturgeon, T. J., J. v. Biesebroeck, et al. (2008). "Value Chains, Networks, and Clusters: Reframing the Global Auto-motive Industry." ITEC Working Paper Series (08-02), pp. 7-27

Mix of lecture and group work; presentations by students; case studies; preparation based on reading list, problem-based learning

English

Written examination, compiled exam or scientific paper with presentation

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Student and learning centred approach