NU:BE_PH_PGB Political and Cultural Aspects - Course Information

BE_PH_PGB Political and Cultural Aspects of Global Business

Extent and Intensity

2/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Dr. Jakub Wondreys (lecturer)
Dr. Jakub Wondreys (seminar tutor)
Dr. Jakub Wondreys (alternate examiner)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Lukáš Valeš, Ph.D.
Centre for International Programmes – NEWTON University

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

An essential feature of the current world economy and business environment is the growing importance of political and cultural influences and the interconnection of business, politics, and culture. This trend is related to globalization's current state, which significantly connects world markets and various political, social, and cultural systems. Subsequently, with the onset of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the effects of the last global economic crisis on the processes of European integration, global epidemiology (COVID-19), the introduction of tariff barriers in world trade, and tensions between the most important actors (especially the US versus China). On the contrary, they strengthened de-globalization tendencies and the influence of the state and public institutions, including political and economic nationalism, in the sense of America first. This fact records the weakening of international and supranational organizations´ influence, economic and political integration in favor of nation-states. That will further strengthen the influence of political representations on the economic and business environment. Attention will be paid, among others, to current issues of international migration and its political and security economic impact, a series of crises in the EU, and the rise of economically (militarily) strong but undemocratic (or semi-democratic) political systems - China, Russia, Turkey - at the expense of the democratic West.

Syllabus

• Course main topics:
• 1) Politics, culture and global business - introduction
• 2) Historical development of globalization - competition of world economic and political centers - China, Southeast Asia, India, Europe, Turkey, Russia, South America, USA.
• 3) The connection of economic and political power in contemporary international relations - the rise of the old new powers of China, India, Turkey
• 4) Globalization, regionalization, localization, and fourth industrial revolution
• 5) World economic, security, and health crises and their economic and political consequences 6) International economic and political institutions and their role in the present
• 7) Economic and political integration - the example of the EU
• 8) Possibilities and limits of European integration - current European integration process crisis 9) History and future of the EU
• 10) Security threats to world trade and business - terrorism, the fight for water and other world resources, climate change, overpopulation, and others.
• 11) The role of culture (and religion) in contemporary economic relations - peace cooperation or civilizations' clash?
• 12) Intercultural dimensions and their use in global business
• 13) The state's role, public administration, and market economy - a model for the 21st century?

Assessment methods

Ungraded credit: (on campus) minimum attendance at seminars, obtaining a specified minimum number of points for activity at seminars and preparation of continuous assignments; (online) submission of a credit seminar paper meeting the specified requirements Examination: (on campus.) written final test; (online) defence of the seminar paper, written final test; oral examination (implemented by in-person or remote method) in remedial periods 

Language of instruction

English

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