The lecture will mainly be held in person, but there might also be virtual sessions.
Assignments will be explained in the first session. This session on 12 October will be online due to the current restrictions in public traffic.
The tentative table of contents is as follows:
1. Introduction and Basic Concepts
A. Paradigms and Theories
2. Neoliberal Globalisation and its Critics
3. Global Governance: an Emergent Paradigm or a Concept in Decline?
4. The Renaissance of Geopolitics?
5. & 6. Contested Concepts of Development: From the Promises of Modernisation to Post-Development
B. Rise and Decline of the Liberal World Order
7. Hegemony and the Liberal World Order
8. China and BRICS as Challengers
9. The Role of Multilateral Institutions (especially IMF and World Bank, WTO)
C. Governance in the Shadow of Multiple Developmemt Crises
10. The Global Financial Crisis of 2007/8 and the Rise of the G20
11. The Global Climate Crisis: Towards Polycentric Governance?
12. The World Health Crisis: COVID-19 and the Neoliberal Paradigm
13. The Crisis of the International Development System
14. Crisis of Democracy: Populism and Autocratisation as Consequences of the Neoliberal Development Model
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