Class Economic Blocs and Areas of Influence

The course approaches the international system through economic lenses, by analyzing the formation of economic blocs and the dynamics that determine the creation and consolidation of economic spheres of influence. It focuses on the European Union as an economic block and sphere of influence and on the main dynamics of globalization and regionalization that shaped the international economic system in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Globalization and deglobalization Regionalization and geoeconomics  Dynamics of integration and disintegration: the case of the European Union and the political consequences of globalization Areas of influence and multilateral and regional dynamics of cooperation and competition Economic blocs and spheres of influence in the digital era Stakeholder and global governance  

Oxford style debates; simulation learning exercises; case-based approach.

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