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This course examines selected issues in the field of global studies, with a focus on emerging, contemporary research topics concerning international affairs, sustainability, and international political economy. The course stresses interdisciplinarity, methodological plurality, and provides students with advanced theoretical and empirical approaches to researching in the field of global studies. It focuses on US-China competition, changes and continuity in global order, emerging technologies and their implication for the global economy and global sustainability, as well as social issues prompted by global integration and economic development.
This handbook draws from the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. It provides a concise and solid introduction to political science and its ten sub-disciplines, which are political theory; political institutions; political behavior; comparative politics; international relations; political economy; law and politics; public policy; contextual political analysis; and political methodology. In the introductory part, the editor Goodin discusses the past, present, and future of the discipline. In the main body of the book, 67 of the top political scientists worldwide survey recent developments in those fields and present 52 essays altogether to provide penetrating introductions in those fields.
