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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

COLLEGIUM CIVITAS

Collegium Civitas is an accredited university in Warsaw, Poland entitled to award BA, MA degrees in Social Sciences, Political Sciences, International Relations and PhD degree in Social Sciences

Warsaw, 2013

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THE BA AND MA PROGRAMS

2013 / 2014

Academic and Report Writing

Academic Writing and Study Skills

Analysis of Current International Affairs

“Baby Capitalism”: the Foundation of the Modern World Order

Business Planning

Confronting Polish Culture

Contemporary Diplomacy: Roots and Patterns

Cross-Cultural Psychology

Cultural Diversity of Polish Society

Decision-Making in International Relations

Democracy and Human Rights in East Asia and the West. Human Rights Diplomacy

Demography

Diplomacy: Theory and Practice

Diplomatic Protocol

Elites and Leadership in Contemporary Politics

Enlargement, Neighbourhood and Beyond: The European Union and its Regional Milieu

Entrepreneurship and Management

Eros, Death and Culture. The Use of Psychoanalysis for Social Sciences

EU as a Global Actor: Europe’s Power in the Age of Multipolarity

EU Foreign and Security Priorities and Policies

Foreign and Security Policy of India

Foreign and Security Policy of the Russian Federation

Global New Media: Opportunities and Challenges

Globalization Process

Holocaust and Genocide

Human Rights and Democracy in Diplomacy of Great Powers

Human Rights Organizations

Indian Civilization

Intelligence in International Relations

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International Economics

International Marketing

International Mass Media

International Public Law

International Relations in South and Central Asia

International Trade Law

Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology of Business and Politics

Introduction to Financial Management

Introduction to International Relations

Introduction to Law

Introduction to Management

Introduction to Political and Economic Geography

Introduction to Political Science

Introduction to Sociology

Japanese Civilization

Lobbing in International Environment

Macroeconomics

Media and Mass Communication

Mediation and Management

Microeconomics

Music in International Relations

Non-military Aspects of Conflicts

Philosophy

Political Economy of Regional Integration and Development in East Asia

Political Leadership

Political Marketing

Populism and Identity

Public Administration

Smart Leadership Training

Statistics

Strategic Management

Terrorism and Threats to International Security

The Dance of Ghosts and Symbols

The European Union and the Neighbourhood

The World Media and Correspondent’s Work

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Theory of International Relations

Trade, Aid and Partnership: External Aspects of European Economic and Political Integration

Universal and Regional Systems of Human Rights Protection

World History 1914-1949

World History since 1949

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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS (in alphabetical order)

one semester seminar

(30h) Academic and Report Writing

Magdalena Kraszewska, PhD

2013/2014 academic year:

fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

Academic writing During the academic writing module students will become familiar with wide range of aspects related to writing academic texts. Students will learn how to prepare and organize their writing, how to pre-write, redraft and edit academic texts. Moreover, they will learn to make a scientific argument and make good use of sources. Typical forms of academic writing, including essays, articles, dissertations and students projects reports will be discussed thoroughly. Crucial elements of academic texts such as title, abstract, introduction, literature review, method section, results, conclusion, discussion, recommendations, references, appendices will be analysed. After the course students are capable of discerning features of successful abstract, introduction, literature review and other elements of academic texts. They also recognize the characteristics of academic style and are capable of using it. Report writing for professional purposes Writing a good report is one of the most essential skills in professional environment. During the course students will be provided with practical information on how to write professional texts clearly and effectively. They will learn about numerous aspects of report writing i.e.: how to prepare and plan the report, how to organize the process of writing, revising and editing a text. Moreover, students will be given essential guidelines on methods of acquiring and evaluating information, characteristics of professional writing style and how to improve layout and design in their reports. Common types of reports will presented (interview report, minutes, research report, scientific report, students projects reports). Every theoretical class will be followed by practical exercises.

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one semester workshop

(30h) Academic Writing and Study Skills

Magdalena Kraszewska, PhD


fall semester

obligatory (BA) ECTS: 4

The course consists of two modules -academic writing and study skills. During the academic writing part students study a wide range of aspects related to writing academic texts. Students will read and analyse texts and do written exercises. Students will learn how to prepare and organize their written work, how to pre-write, redraft and edit academic text. Moreover, they will learn to make an argument in academic text and make good use of sources including detailed information on how to cite, paraphrase, make reference, and avoid plagiarism. The characteristics of crucial elements of academic texts will be also introduced. Furthermore, students will understand how to prepare page design and present tables and figures. Finally, students will become familiar with the main forms of academic writing including essays, literature reviews, dissertations and student project reports. Study skills module improves students’ knowledge acquisition, comprehension, the ability to interpret academic texts and acquire new vocabulary, develop and validate scientific argument, evaluate and synthesize information Finally, students will be provided with practical advice on effective studying, which includes: reading strategies and note-taking techniques, active learning methods, preparation to different types of exams, managing the stress before the exams and time and task management.


(30h) Analysis of Current International Affairs

Agnieszka Nitza

2013/2014 academic year: spring semester

obligatory (BA)

ECTS: 4

This seminar is designed to test students' knowledge and understanding of current international affairs. The lecturer will be conducting the discussion of selective texts/events; the classes are about interacting with the students not lecturing. Students will be asked to choose at least 3 subjects per week that were especially interesting for them, investigate them deeply reading different sources (eg. using EBSCO base). Students' interests and initial assignments will be coordinated at the first meeting. Students will be expected to be able to report on issues discussed in journals and other relevant sources, noting their importance and implications. Students are expected to be familiar with items covered and to contribute to the discussion at each session. The students will be obliged to follow current analysis, reports and publications available on the websites of leading think tanks and institutions such as eg. The Heritage Foundation, The Brookings Institution, Carnegie Council, International Crisis Group; and services such as CNN Word section, BBC news.

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one semester (30h)

seminar

“Baby Capitalism”: the Foundation of the Modern World Order

Professor Paweł Dobrowolski


elective ECTS: 4

The course covers different economic, political and social problems, tendencies and facts from the historical perspective. The following topics are included : Global Shifts (The relations in the world conquest), Global Europe, Industrial Revolution, Railroad as Progress (First goods-and-information exchange system, French, German, and Russian responses), Luxury as Wealth (Nature of relationship to wealth), Bankrupt States (Defaults and conditions of economic survival), Bankrupt People (The failed businessman as social prototype), Big Corporations, State Loans, The case of „Naples’ Sums” (Polish loan to Spain), Consumer Society (European consumer’s choice). During the lections students will be provided with fine examples and interesting information, theories and problems which unite the global community.


(30h) Business Planning

Zofia Telakowska


obligatory (MA)

ECTS: 4

This course covers all aspects of the business planning process – financial, strategic a s well as managerial. The course is based on case study. Students progress by solving all the problems an organization is dealing with in a business planning process. Knowing the studied organization market conditions, strategic initiatives and financial standing the students work on long and short term business plans to reflect the organization priorities. They prepare a formal document covering all the marketing information, and the organization planned financial statements – P&L, BS and cash flow. This course is run as a workshop. After finishing this course the students will understand what aspects of an organization activity should be taken into account in the proper business planning process. They also should understand how to translate marketing initiatives to financial plans. They will learn the difference between long and short term planning, and prioritizing activities given financial standing of the organization. They should be able to prepare coherent business plan document.

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(30h) Confronting Polish Culture

Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska, PhD


fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

"Poland – that is to say nowhere." These are the famous words of Alfred Jerry’s play, "Ubu the King". In fact, in times when the Polish state did not exist as an independent territory, Poland was where its culture was. Aspects of Polish history, politics and social life will be explored by looking through the lenses of art. We will analyse cultural phenomena bearing in mind the underlying assumption that art constitutes a means of communication within a given culture, as well as between different cultures, and that it is through art that we see and discover ourselves. The main focus of the course will be modern and contemporary Polish culture. Topics discussed will include the avant-garde art of the 1920s, the importance of the Polish jazz scene under communism, the role of Polish posters and graphic design in social and political life, as well as Polish cinema and the influence of the Łódź Film School. We will take a look behind the Iron Curtain to explore the quirks and oddities of life in the People’s Republic of Poland. The course will provide participants with a better understanding of the country, its sense of humour with the many social, political and artistic connotations, and Polish cultural heritage. At the same time it will give them an intellectually intense look into the contemporary art scene. It is therefore addressed to both foreign and Polish students.

one semester lecture/seminar

(30h) Contemporary Diplomacy: Roots and Patterns

Professor Paweł Dobrowolski



The course is designed to show the main laws, tendencies and facts of contemporary diplomacy, its historical importance and future directions. The students will be offered the following topics: Contemporary Diplomacy: Hot, Cooked or Frozen (state-to state and society-to society relationships), Diplomatic anthropology (International relations and history), Italy: birth of political system, European balances of power (Changing patterns of domination), Diplomatic Games (Diplomatic protocol), Beyond European protocol (The roots of diplomatic imperialism), A Professional at Work (Professional foreign service), Diplomacy and empire building (Efficient & well informed diplomatic service, case studies of Spain, Poland, Russia), Ordered World? (Contemporary international order), European Real politic (Cold war), Radical Change (New factors and challenges of contemporary diplomacy) The students will study real examples by case study method. The students are provided with examples and asked to contribute their opinion.

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(30h) Cross-Cultural Psychology

Klaudia Pingot


obligatory (MA)

ECTS: 4

Intercultural competence is crucial for career and business success in our global village. Communication and negotiation are among the top skills searched by employers. This course will present and involve students into some of the most important areas of intercultural philosophy. Apart from theoretical background, it will be full of activities, boosting workshops and improving participants’ cross cultural communication skills, intercultural competence, empathic psychic abilities, expanding their comfort zone, learning many ways and levels of human communication. Students will have a lot of fun, performing group and individual tasks, sharing experiences, playing games, simulating real situations and doing their homework. The aim of the course is to make students aware of multilevel and multicultural communication and barriers as well as to teach them acquire a deep esteem for other culture values and true empathy for other people, beliefs and styles of life. Additional aim is to build their own self-confidence, pride of cultural roots and eliminate the possible complexes. These skills will be the key ones to effective business negotiation and comfortable work in any cross cultural team.


(30h)

Cultural Diversity of Polish Society

Professor Ewa Nowicka-Rusek


fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

There are various dimensions of cultural diversity in every society. I plan to devote our course to following aspects of Polish society differentiation:

1. Ethnic and national minorities in Poland (Roma/Gypsies, Rutenians/Łemko, Tartars, Armenians as minority)

2. Immigrants in Poland: permanent residents and refugees (Vietnamese diaspora, Ukrainians as diaspora, Armenians as diaspora, Chechens as refugees)

3. Foreign tourists in Poland – their level of knowledge about Poland, type of tourism, what they experience in Poland

4. Regional diversity of Polish population (Kashubians, Górale/Podhale, Śląsk and Ślązacy)

Practical effects:

1) Knowledge of subgroups in Polish society, 2) knowledge of the literature about social structure of Polish society, 3) sensitivity in perception of cultural differentiation of any society 4) ethical and diagnostic sensitivity in case of prejudices and stereotypes.

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(30h)

Decision-making in International Relations

Piotr Kozłowski, PhD


elective ECTS: 4

The course aims at helping students in reintroducing the human factor into their studies of international relations. It is done by shifting focus from foreign policy behaviour to foreign policy decision-making which puts it at the centre of analysis. The course is based on framework derived from literature on Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). It builds students’ understanding on what is ‘the essence of decision’ in international relations. It begins with presenting the students with a documentary of an interview with a top decision-maker on foreign policy. Decision-making is studied in three consecutive perspectives. At the level of an individual decision-maker, perspectives on rationality are addressed. On the one hand, Rational Actor Model (RAM) is presented along with related game theories and models of strategic interaction that assume decision-makers to be utility maximisers. One the second hand, students are exposed to various cognitive and cybernetic approaches that assume decision-makers to be problem-solvers. Finally, hybrid models of human decision-making that reconcile rationalist and cognitive takes are put forth. In small group, the individual decision-makers are examined within cabinet-size dynamics which turn them into concurrence-seekers. At the level of wider institutional contexts typical features in vertical bureaucratic structures are examined, originating from both within and in between. In the end, ideas how to understand foreign policy decision-making are presented, and the study of decision is ultimately re-connected with the structural pressures of international relations. Throughout the course the classes follow the pattern of involving students in critical discussions, short concept-testing games and collective analyses of case studies relevant to the subject at hand. Thus, the course requires regular reading and proactive approach to the course. The conceptual body of the course prepares the students to recap it with a simulation game the design of which they contribute to by selecting a historically accurate decision-making group to face a previously unknown counterfactual scenario prepared by the lecturer. The lecturer advises and guides the students throughout preparations to their simulation game, but the bulk of this creative effort is in their hands.

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(30h)

Democracy and Human Rights in East Asia and the West. Human Rights Diplomacy

Marta Kosmala-Kozłowska, PhD


fall semester

obligatory (MA) ECTS: 4

The course addresses the issue of democratization and human rights in East Asia in its tree aspects. First, it familiarizes with the cultural, philosophical, ethical and socio-psychological underpinnings of how those concepts are understood within the bounds of civilization codes intrinsic to East Asia. Second, it comparatively explains how those concepts relate to the political and social structures of states and societies in the East Asian region, juxtaposed to western referents of democracy, rule of law and human rights protection. Third, it shows what doctrines in domestic and foreign policies East Asian governmental and NGO policymakers have adopted and how they have been responding, individually and collectively, to the aspirations of their societies and to the Western pressure related to democracy, rule of law and human rights. The course finally offers insights into how those three aspects come together in a dynamic diplomatic interplay within East Asia and between East Asia and the West that has led to the emergence of intra- and intercivilizational dialogues in those issue-areas and the nascence of regional multilateral institutions of human rights protection. Comparative analysis is widely applied in the course, using universal and regional and civilization (predominantly Western) referents to explain the distinct East Asian experience. In result of the course the student is capable of more informed participation in rule of law building practices in East Asian countries and in debates on human values; presenting dialogical attitude when involved in discussion with representatives of non-Western world. The course enhances skills in understanding and participating in the political, social, business and scholarly life of East Asia, being effective in developing relationships, negotiating, information processing and networking with East Asian counterparts.


(30h) Demography

Krzysztof Tymicki, PhD


fall semester


The lecture aims at introduction to the subject of modern demography. Introduction to micro and macro theories used in demographic explanation of human behaviour. The lecture presents essential methodology used in demography and provides description of demographic situation of Poland and Europe.

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(30h) Diplomacy: Theory and Practice

Ryszard Żółtaniecki, PhD


fall semester


The main aim of the lecture is to link theoretical assumptions and principles of diplomacy with various forms of diplomatic activity and to provide explanation for individual and collective behaviours of actors playing important roles in international affairs. The course will cover such topics as the classical concept of diplomacy, rules of diplomatic game, actors and procedures in diplomacy, public diplomacy, international law and international organizations, and diplomacy within the framework of changing global order.


(30h) Diplomatic Protocol

Ambassador Grzegorz Dziemidowicz



The purpose of the course is to present the history of the diplomatic protocol, the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations – 1961 and the Vienna Convention on Consular relations – 1963. The course will also include analyses of precedence among states and their representatives, diplomatic correspondence, official visits, receptions, savoir-vivre. The course would be divided into theoretical and practical part. In particular, the preparation of different diplomatic notes will be discussed and put in practice. Various ranks of diplomatic representation will be examined, based on the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. The issue of diplomatic and consular immunities will be exposed in the context of both Vienna Convention of 1961 and 1963. We will study also the order of precedence in the EU Member States, the United State and Russia, including the Diplomatic Corps, in international organizations, in the EU; also during international conferences and multilateral meetings. Various kinds of diplomatic receptions will be studied in the context of behaviour and appropriate clothing.

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(16h) Elites and Leadership in Contemporary Politics

Professor Jan Pakulski


fall semester

elective ECTS: 3

The unit is designed for advanced (postgraduate) students. It introduces a meta-theoretical perspective, an ‘analytic toolbox’ and theoretical foundations of contemporary elite theory. It also provides a guide for the application of this perspective, conceptual ‘toolbox’ and theory in social research on, and analysis of, historical developments and contemporary politics and international relations. The unit cover mainly the 20th and 21st century developments in advanced democracies. Students examine critically the elite perspective, the main concepts, and the key theoretical models that have been developed in contemporary elite analysis and research. They are also expected to apply these ‘tools’ – all presented in the context of social change – a in their own analyses and research projects.


(30h)

Enlargement, Neighbourhood and Beyond: The European Union and its Regional Milieu

Kerry Longhurst, PhD



This module shows European integration from the perspective of enlargement policy and the EU's interactions with states and regions in its immediate geographical milieu. IOne of the most important goals of this module is to situate enlargement as an integral and constant element of the EU's evolution. It considers the history, current dynamics and future perspectives attached to the enlargement process. The module will introduce aspects of the European Neighbourhood Policy, its origins, drivers and objectives and instruments. The course will serve as a compulsory element for International Relations students and those on Diplomacy, Cultural Studies and East and Central European Studies. Materials will rely to EU documents on enlargement policy (and ENP); strategy papers and communications, country reports, progress reports, accession treaties and so on. Students will be given the task of orally presenting 'position papers' on a particular country's readiness to accede to the EU or to become a candidate state. Students will learn about the various waves of enlargement and consider the impulses behind the widening of the EU, impacts upon European integration ‘big bang enlargement' of 2004. They will explore the interplay of political, economic, security and normative drivers behind enlargement, current enlargement dynamic, neighbourhood policy and cooperation, frontiers of the EU.Students will acquire a sophisticated understanding of the enlargement process in terms of empirical knowledge and conceptual debates in a historical and contemporary context. They will be able to differentiate between previous enlargement rounds and their characteristics and specific effects on integration in Europe. Students will acquire the practical skills and relevant vocabulary necessary to enable them to use web-based primary documents, raw data and reports. Students will gain understanding of the 2004 enlargement, comprehend its significance and be equipped to critically analyse the current on-going phase of enlargement. Students will be able to comprehend the similarities and differences between enlargement and neighbourhood policy and gather the conceptual and empirical tools to debate the relative merits of the two policies vis a vis the EU's neighbours.

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(30h)

Entrepreneurship and Management

Zofia Telakowska


fall semester obligatory (BA) ECTS: 3

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the basic rules of business management and entrepreneurship. They will be introduced to the basic financial control problems as well as importance of cash management in keeping any business liquid. They will learn the vital role the good strategy plays in an enterprise market success. They will find out how important it is to know one's customer needs and the competitors movements to be able to specify potential competitive advantage. The students will also be introduced to basics of process management as a tool of executing the company strategy.


(30h)

Eros, Death and Culture. The Use of Psychoanalysis for Social Sciences

Professor Adam Lipszyc


fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

Sigmund Freud's vision of human being revolutionized the way we perceive ourselves. Freud defined man as torn between erotic and aggressive drives, a tragic animal, desperately trying to keep balance between conflicting demands and find some partial satisfaction. According to his vision, man is in a inevitable conflict with his/her society which limits the possibilities of his/her fulfilment. At the same time, from the very start he is defined, shaped and distorted by his society as represented by his/her family and significant others. Freud himself was very well aware of the importance of his teaching for social sciences and sketched - sometimes fascinating and sometimes misguided - psychoanalytic theories of society, morality and religion. Later, his ideas were developed, supplemented and sometimes deeply modified by later thinkers of the psychoanalytic tradition, whose theories are often of much use for the scientific understanding of social phenomena. During the course we will discuss most important elements of Freud's teaching, as well as various ideas of other crucial psychoanalysts such as C.G. Jung, M. Klein, D. Winnicott, J. Lacan; we shall discuss the possible and actual applications of their theories for social sciences.

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(30h)

EU as a Global Actor: Europe’s Power in the Age of Multipolarity



fall semester


The overall objective of the course is to situate the development of the EU's global 'actorness' in the broader setting of international relations. The module will fuse the study of European integration, international political economy and international relations. It targets students of cultural studies and sociology, as well as those on IR programmes. The module will run as a seminar, meaning a short lecture and active student participation. Students will be provided with detailed reading lists and key questions to guide their reading and research and to enable them to prepare for actively participating and leading discussions. Students will be introduced to the various 'future trends' and 'forward study' reports produced by governments and think tanks to enable them to analyse and interpret the types of political, economic, security-related and demographic trends and developments experts are foreseeing for the future world. The main content will be divided into four equal parts.

1. Overview of the evolution of EU's external policies in its many dimensions, going beyond the traditional foreign and security policies, consideration of the notions of soft, transformative and normative power.

2. Domains of EU power in a global context: exploration and debate about the role of the EU as a trading power, the EU as a promoter of multilateralism and the rule of law, the EU as an exporter of good governance and stability via enlargement, stabilization and the European Neighbourhood Policy.

3. Analysis of the changing context of international relations, debating the features of globalisation and multipolarity and the EU's position as a regional form of integration.

4. Further analysis of concrete issues, including the rise of the 'BRIC' states, demographic trends, shifts in global economic and trade patterns towards the East and their multifarious implications for Europe and the EU. A further innovative aspect of the module will be its assessment methods; one task will be to produce a podcast reporting on future global trends and implications for the EU.

The students will have a comprehensive understanding of the nature of the EU's external relations and its various expressions and policy manifestations, be able to define and critically analyse a range of global trends and processes and demonstrate an ability to interpret their implications for the EU, understand the specificities of the European model of integration in economic, political and cultural senses.

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(30h) EU Foreign and Security Priorities and Policies




This course will provide students with a wide-ranging program of lectures honing in the subject of EU foreign and security policy. It will meet the needs of those students who already have knowledge of the institutions and policy making processes of the EU and want to specialise and those students following courses such as Diplomacy or China Studies who wish to bring an EU dimension into their learning. Beginning with an introduction to the historical chronology of the policy area and discussion of when and why jumps forwards or set-backs occurred in EU member states ambitions in this area, the course will encourage students to consider why foreign and security policy have (and continue to be) contentious. It will nurture thinking about the concept of national sovereignty. Following this the course will pick up on the momentum which began in the 1990s and arguably accelerated in the 2000's, which saw a greater degree of integration and joined-up thinking on foreign and security issues amongst member states, but at the same time saw the EU split over many security challenges. Students will study the European Security Strategy and assess how far Europe's rhetoric was has been matched by real commitments. The course will then pick up case studies of civil and military deployments (Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq) and more recent conflicts (Mali) and consider questions relating to decision making and policy implementation (post-Lisbon) and institutions, defence procurement issues and transatlantic relations to encourage students to critically analyse EU policy in this area. The module will be run as a lecture, but with time devoted to discussion with students.


(30h) Foreign and Security Policy of India

Łukasz Tolak, PhD


elective ECTS: 4

The course will focus on the India's foreign and security policy and consider its impact on the international relations in Asia (especially South Asia). It will introduce students to the most critical aspects of security environment with the particular focus on nuclear weapon and policies, arms race, military modernization. The course will examine the historical roots/sources of the most important challenges which the political elites of India must face. Furthermore, the course will show the possible future problems India has to deal with on its way to the status of a major power in Asia and a global player. Lectures will discuss questions such as: What are the reasons of the permanent conflict with Pakistan? What is the real attitude of the Indian political elites on the rule of a nuclear arsenal in the foreign and security policy? What is the condition of India relationship with other major political powers (in particular the USA and China). What are the political and economical factors' influence on the future position of India in the international security system? During the course process students will develop their understanding of a specific security environment of India. After successful completing of this course they will gain basic understanding of some of the most critical security challenges of India and the ability to analyse the relations between the most important powers in Asia.

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(30h)

Foreign and Security Policy of the Russian Federation

Dominik Smyrgała, PhD



The lecture aims to present the issues related to the foreign and security policy of one of the most important powers in the modern world which is striving to regain its global position. During the course the students learn the geopolitical context and the strategic issues of the Russian foreign and security policy, as well as the theoretical and ideological background of it. In the series of micro case-studies they analyse the most important conditions and doctrines and their practical execution in different geographical regions of the world. The course will take the form of a regular lecture. The first part of it is dedicated to history and geography of Russia. Later on, the most important issues of the Russian power status are introduced (energy resources, nuclear weapon, military, diplomacy). The final part of the course presents the Russian foreign policy in the various parts of the world.


(30h)

Global New Media: Opportunities and Challenges

Natalya Ryabinska, PhD


elective ECTS: 4

Iran’s Twitter revolution, Arab Spring, WikiLeaks and online terrorism all demonstrate that the world has changed after the rise of new media. This course helps students understand the effects of new media on international and national politics around the globe. Do new media undermine authoritarian regimes? Do they make the world safer and more democratic? Does the Internet remove/lessen information and cultural barriers between nations, countries and continents? Students will examine the impact of new media on the global power dynamics of information flow and control. They will get acquainted with the shift that occurred in world politics with the increased opportunities for persuasion on international arena, enabled by the ability to disseminate free information via new media. They will also assess the democratizing potential of new media. Importantly, they will consider the dark side of Internet freedom as well, and discuss the ideas about regulating the Web.

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(30h) Globalization Process

Professor Leszek Jesień



The aim of the course is to provide students with a wide ranking and cross-cutting approach to understanding of contemporary global developments. The international relations and political sciences approaches will be combined with the economic and demographic data, as well as an overview of global governance problems and institutions. The course will allow the students to get acquainted and discuss the globalization issues from a variety of perspectives and normative assumptions: liberal, intergovernmental, realist, institutionalist and idealistic. It will give them an opportunity to prepare their presentation, deliver them in public and to actively discuss issues in a cross-cutting perspective. The course will be delivered in a combined form of work shop / lecture. For that, the students will be expected to read the key texts on globalization. They would prepare their own presentations which should include their own research and input. The presentations will be a team work, that implies a cooperation and delivery of at least two persons in a group. In order to have the course passed, the students will be therefore required to prepare a presentation delivered during the course and to pass the examination session. The examination will be a written response to open questions given for choice: 2 responses out of 4 questions to choose from. Both, the presentation and examination will be weighted equal, as 50% of the final score. A 60% of the maximum score will be required to have the course passed at a minimum grade.


(30h) Holocaust and Genocide

Maciej Kozłowski, PhD


elective ECTS: 7

The course will teach students about the background history and the meaning of the Holocaust. The course will be based on the mixture of lectures (illustrated with pictures) combined with discussion, field trips, meetings with the witnesses, and showing of the films. After completion students should:

• Understand ideological and philosophical background of the Holocaust. (ideologies of racism, anti-Semitism, theories of euthanasia etc.

• Acquire in-depth knowledge of the major events in the Holocaust

• Be able to critically analyse the impact of genocidal Nazi policies on perpetrators, victims, witnesses and rescuers

• Relate the Holocaust to other cases of mass murder during the war

• Locate the Holocaust in its broader historical contexts

• Reflect on the question of the uniqueness of the Holocaust and its legacy.

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(30h)

Human Rights and Democracy in Diplomacy of Great Powers



elective ECTS: 4

The course presents and analyses the places and functions of concepts of democracy and human rights in foreign policies of selected great powers in the contemporary world. It focuses on the convergences and divergences between their domestic institutions and practices in relation to democracy and human rights with foreign policy agenda. For the purpose of the course the great powers are divided into three consecutively presented groups:

• The established Western powers once known as the Group of Seven: US, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy, the latter four presented against the backdrop of the EU diplomacy, plus Australia and Norway, sectoral powers in the dimension of democracy and human rights;

• The emergent non-Western powers known collectively as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa);

• The newly emerging powers recently dubbed TIMP (Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico and Philippines), optionally along with other states selected from the so-called Next Eleven group, like Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Korea or Vietnam, the Southeast Asian ones additionally against the backdrop of ASEAN diplomacy.

This open-ended selection is presented comparatively within and across groups, while the division allows to connect power politics with civilization differences informing value-oriented approaches to foreign policies and with developmental needs. By the end of the course this allows the use of ‘follower’, ‘contender’ and ‘offender’ designates to describe model foreign policy approaches and attitudes of non-Western powers to the proliferation of Western-based norms and institutions of democracy and human rights across the world. During the course students develop insights into politico-strategic, economic and socio-cultural determinants of value-oriented diplomacies of selected powers along with the roles played by key individual decision-makers. They also learn how to reach beyond official propaganda and oversimplified assumptions in this dimension to discern relevant strategies and tactics. In result, they develop broad skills to critically analyse and discuss the concepts of human rights and democracy in international politics. Thanks to the worldwide variety of comparatively examined powers the course also balances out students’ knowledge of foreign policies of the states they otherwise study by focusing analysis on their normative dimension.

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(30h) Human Rights Organizations

Dominik Smyrgała, PhD


elective ECTS: 7

The course aims at presenting the historical/political background of the growth of the HROs in the 20th century and familiarizing the students with international organizations dealing with human rights. It presents the presenting legal bases of the HROs and discusses the activities of the most important HROs, as well as presents the role of the organizations in the modern world. The course adopts a form of a seminar with an active participation of students.


(30h) Indian Civilisation

Professor Krzysztof M. Byrski


fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

A thesis will be formulated and defended that one of the ways out of the present entanglement in the southernmost subcontinent of Eurasia, presumably the most feasible one, is the reconstruction of the Republic of India by her sovereign decision into the South Asian Union. This should be achieved by conferring upon present states of India paraphernalia of sovereignty. In order to substantiate the feasibility of such solution, first of all the nature of this entanglement will be determined – entanglement, which found its expression in conflict between the two states created in the aftermath of the British withdrawal from the Subcontinent. This conflict is determined by the radically divergent way, in which Hindus and Muslims perceive their mega-tribal identity. An overall effort will be made to challenge some of universally current stereotypes in the way the Indian Subcontinent and its cultures are treated. The final aim of the course is to change the optics of students regarding South Asia internally with reference to Indo-Pak conflict and also in the global context, as well as in the context of European Union - India mutual perceptions and mutual relations. The idea is to impress upon participants that EU and India are natural partners, facing many problems. Mutual exchange of information regarding these problems and their nature may facilitate for both political entities their coping with these problems.

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(30h) Intelligence in International Relations

Jan Bury, PhD


elective ECTS: 4

The aim of the course is to facilitate a critical awareness of the theory and practice of intelligence in the contemporary world. It examines of the origins, structure, role and limits of intelligence services in contemporary international relations. The main scope of the course considers the following issues: 1. Introductory matters: definitions; notions of intelligence in theory and practice; collection of intelligence; uses and limits of intelligence. 2. Brief history of intelligence from ancient times to the 20th century. 3. Intelligence in the 20th century: World Wars, Cold War. 4. Intelligence community of Poland: structure and place of intelligence in Poland's national security system. 5. US Intelligence Community: brief history, structure, selected institutions (CIA, NSA, DIA, NRO, NGA, FBI). 6. Russian secret services: origins and structure (SVR, FSB, GRU). 7. Britain's intelligence community, its origins and structure (JIC, MI-6, MI-5, GCHQ, DIS). 8. Israeli intelligence community: origins, structure and tasks (Mossad, Aman, Shabak, CPR). 9. Successes and failures of intelligence. Deceptive operations. Oversight of intelligence. 10. Information security, cryptography, and signals intelligence. 11. Special Forces, covert action and intelligence community. 12. Spies, lies, intelligence: secret services in the 21st century; political and business intelligence. 13. Privatization of intelligence. Competitive intelligence. The course outline is designed to allow students to evaluate critically important international events, and to acquire the practical skills necessary to analyse the source materials upon which the interpretations are based. Teaching and learning will take place through a combination of lectures, student-led seminars, essays and case studies.

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two semester lecture/seminar

(30h per each semester)

International Economics

Michał Brzozowski, PhD

2013/2014 academic year: fall and spring

semesters

obligatory (BA) ECTS: 3 per semester

We live in a global economy in which international trade and international capital flows are now more important to an economy than it used to be. The subject matter of the course will consist of issues raised by the special problems of economic interaction between sovereign states. The International Economics course provides tools of analysis for understanding international economic relations and evaluating international economic policies. The first half of the course covers international trade issues. Students examine alternative explanations of the pattern of trade among countries and the potential economic gains from trade. The course pays particular attention to differences in technology, the availability of capital, labour and other factors of production, and the existence of economies of scale. It assesses the consequences of policies to restrict international trade and considers possible motivations for protectionist policies that are chosen. The second part of the course is devoted to international finance and covers a broad range of topics including exchange rate determination, monetary and fiscal policy in an open economy, balance of payments crises and the relative advantages of fixed and flexible exchange rate systems. The insights provided by these theoretical frameworks will enable students to discuss topics such as the single currency in Europe, currency crises, government intervention in the foreign exchange market and the role of international factors in a nation’s economic performance. The course has five main objectives. It develops an understanding how international trade and financial relations affect consumers, firms, and economic policy. Students learn to critically evaluate the claims of politicians and other policymakers regarding the economic effects of their proposals of macroeconomic policy and international trade. They gain factual knowledge about international trade and finance. Finally, they develop the ability to use a set of theoretical tools that will assist the international professional/business person to make better decisions related to the global economic environment. By working in groups on

projects, they also learn about teamwork, managing complex assignments and communicating professionally.

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(30h) obligatory (MA)

International Marketing

Agnieszka Wilczak, PhD


fall semester ECTS: 4

The course examines the major issues involved in entering international markets and in conducting marketing operations on an international scale. It deals with all aspects of marketing from an international perspective and prepares students to deal with foreign competitive situations and international opportunities. Company growth or even survival can require internationalization with its potential rewards and risks. Decisions must be made regarding international marketing objectives, strategies and policies, foreign market selection, brand internationalization, adaptation of products, distribution channels, marketing communications and price to fit each foreign market. This course is for those who want to develop or enter a career in marketing, particularly in international organizations, as well as for those who just want to understand how international brands are managed. During the course students can develop practical skills that companies use in international markets, first of all creating successful marketing plans including identifying and understanding customers, competitors and other environmental factors. All mentioned topics, along with exploration of cultural issues, are examined through reading, case discussion and a term project. The term project calls for student team to develop a marketing plan for the successful marketing of a specific product (brand) to a specific foreign country chosen by the students.


(30h) International Mass Media

Tomasz Płudowski, PhD



The seminar is designed to familiarize students with issues relating to the global communication system. As a result they should become more acquainted with the industries and forces behind the international media images and networks. Students should be able to identify and critically assess the various journalistic traditions shaping media content in the US and Europe. The seminar will focus on the major international media players in the most powerful nation states. The main goal of this seminar is to present, analyse and discuss the ways in which the media and politics interact within the United States and some European countries, and on the international level. The following topics will be covered: global communication systems, media ownership and regulation, the political importance and functions of mass media, and the various journalistic traditions shaping media content in the US and Europe, such as the polarized pluralist, democratic corporatist and liberal models. In the second part of the seminar the condition and role of the media in the US and Europe will be explained in a comparative perspective. Finally, a detailed analysis of the media in Southern Europe, the mass media in Northern Europe, and the media in Central Europe after 1989 will be offered.

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two semester lecture


International Public Law

Aleksander Gubrynowicz, PhD


semesters


The main goal: As a tool setting legal frameworks for actions undertaken by states and other actors active within international relations international public law remains of crucial importance for any expert in international politics or IR. Thus, the main goal of the lecture is to make students familiar with some basic mechanisms of the international public law machinery so that they could understand the mutual interaction between international law as such, (i.e. certain branch of law specifying the rights and duties of states in their mutual intercourse) and international relations, where –during lecture the “law in action” is to supersede the classical discourse focused more upon the “law in the books”. At the end of the course students participating in lectures are supposed to:

a) Have some basic information on the basic principles and rules of the international

law, as applied by states in their day-to day diplomatic and administrative practice.

b) Be aware of existence certain limits and minimal standards which must be met so

that any action performed by subjects of international law could be classified as a

legal one (including so called norm of ius cogens problem).

c) Being aware of existence non-state actors and subjects and have some information

on their legal status.

d) Be able to describe the basic mechanisms of creation of norms of the international

public law

e) Be aware of the complicated problems dealing with the enforcement of international

law and to address the main tools of enforcement being applied by states and other

subjects.

f) Have elementary knowledge on the mechanisms of the international judiciary.

g) Be able to address some basic rules dealing with the diplomatic and consular

intercourse.

Methodology: The course based on the interactive relations between students and lecturer. The basic materials used in teaching are treaties, domestic laws and judgements of the courts (international as well as domestic ones). During every lecture some standard reading is placed before students so that they could follow the line of reasoning adopted in the case in question by the decision-makers and judges being in charge to settle a dispute in question.

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(30h)

International Relations in South and Central Asia

Professor Krzysztof Dębnicki


fall semester


The student will have acquired: - knowledge about international relations in South and Central Asia with special emphasis on the main players in the area: India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Afghanistan; - knowledge and understanding of the impact of Afghan wars (since 1979) on regional relations, including the great power rivalry; - knowledge of the wider regional interests, especially of the great and regional powers: USSR/Russia, USA, Iran, Saudi Arabia, China; - knowledge about economic interests of the main players in the region; After completing the course student should: - understand the interests of the regional players as well as those of the great powers in South and Central Asia; - be able to point out the main friction points and conflicts of the major states in the region; - understand the social, political and economic factors contributing towards international relations in the region; - understand the importance of cultural factors and tradition in the politics of South and Central Asia


(30h) International Trade Law

Ruairi O’Neill



This module will be primarily lecture-based and will introduce students to the essential elements of international private law and international commercial agreements, the law of the World Trade Organization, and will build on the knowledge gained in the arbitration module within the sphere of international commercial dispute resolution. Through this course, students will acquire a basic understanding of contracts in the context of international trade, and will build on their public international law comprehension to the negotiation and drafting of international contracts, and the issues inherent in disputes involving international commercial agreements. The course will develop upon the role of the WTO and international organizations, and the system of law facilitating international trade, in governing international commercial agreements. As part of continuing assessment, students will be required to draft a short international sale of goods contract and will sit a written examination at the end of the course.

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(30h)

Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology of Business and Politics



fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

The course is focused on presenting the role of cross-cultural psychology in understanding human behaviour in transnational corporations, international organisations and multicultural governments as well as any other institutions where people from various cultures collectively pursue business or political goals. It provides practical information how such knowledge can inform operating in an intercultural environment: business, intergovernmental, governmental, NGO or civil society. The following aspects of cross-cultural psychology are examined throughout the course, among others: • Individual cognition and value-oriented behaviour across cultures • Cross-cultural communication and negotiation • Organizational behaviour and decision-making in cross-cultural institutions • Models of leadership, teamwork and problem-solving across cultures • Ways to utilize cross-cultural insights in business endeavours, policy making and civil society activities. The course draws on comparative case studies from several major civilizations and cultures of the contemporary world. It also includes simulation games of cross-cultural interactions for its participants.


(30h) Introduction to Financial Management

Zofia Telakowska


fall semester


The course covers basics of financial management which future non-financial managers need to know. Students learn to read financial statements like P&L, Balance sheet and cash flow statement and understand how they reflect the financial standing of an organization. They learn elements of corporate finance like cash management and financing, and corporate governance. Very important part of the course is the problem of rules and execution of financial control and problems resulting from lack of it. The course will be run as a lecture with elements of workshop. As an effect of this course the students will understand how different organization activities are reflected in financial statements and what is their effect on organization financial standing. They should understand what factors influence organization financial health and why “cash is the king”. They should be able to understand and control the financial side of their project, department etc.

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one semester lecture (30h)

Introduction to International Relations

Radosław Stanczewski


fall semester


This course is designed to introduce students to the major theoretical approaches to international politics, to explore important historical and contemporary questions and debates in international affairs, and to teach students to think critically about international relations. In order to understand connections among states, the course will explore vital topics such as war, cooperation, international law, political economy, human rights and the forms of conflict that characterize the international system. Upon successful completion of the course the student will have learned to identify and critically analyse:

• The various theories of state behaviour and their application to current and past political events;

• The causes of war and other forms of conflict, such as ethnic conflict;

• The influence of non-state actors such as international organizations on the actions of states; How and why cooperation occurs in the international system;

• Issues concerning current international relations and the way they shape the foreign policy decisions of states.


(16h) Introduction to Law

Aleksander Gubrynowicz, PhD



This course introduces students to basic legal concepts about the law, its sources, principles and procedures. It is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the structure of Polish, English and European legal system including the role of the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of law, as well as human rights, civic duties, criminal law and some aspects of international law. After the course the student is aware of the basic notions and concept of law as such, has certain knowledge on key legal terms (i.e. legal norm, comity, custom, responsibility, liability, guilt etc.), is able to indicate the key differences between the main legal branches (private, criminal, administrative, state and international law) and knows some basic principles of those branches as well. He/she is aware of the existence of the two big European legal cultures (common law, civil law countries) and can indicate some key differences between the Transatlantic legal communities and Islamic law and the Chinese legal tradition. He/she can explain the key factors stimulating the legal exchange between international law, European law and domestic law of the EU Member States. During the lecture some emphasis will be put on some other question such as the idea of rule of law, some rules of interpretation as well as on mechanism of creation, application, modification

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and expiration of a legal norm. This lecture is interactive in its character. During the lecture some cases or classical text produced by the top legal scholars are submitted for discussion with the participants. The exam is an oral one. The main idea of the exam is based on a sort of simulation aiming at establishing if a student is able to reconstruct a line of reasoning as adopted on day – to – day basis by state and international organs when settling disputes between individuals, public administration and other actors.


(30h) Introduction to Management

Oskar Szumski, PhD


fall semester obligatory

(MA) ECTS: 4

The course focuses on contemporary issues in theory and practice of management. The course will be divided into parts related to functions of management: Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing (Leading) and Controlling. As an introduction will be presented modern management with particular reference to concepts and skills. This will be a background for comparison of historical and current issues of management. During part related to planning there will be presented principles of planning, planning tools, making decisions and strategic planning. Participants will be prompted to think about role of planning in successful organisations and how to properly evaluate plans. Outcomes of planning are input to the process of organizing. This function of management will be discussed in terms of fundamentals of organizing, responsibility, authority, delegation and organizational change. In this context students will discuss how to execute organizing in efficient and effective way with use of IT. Staffing and directing will present issues of human perspective in organization. There will be presented role of Human Resource Management, influencing and communication, leadership, motivation, groups and teams in organization and organizational culture. Students will be encouraged to discuss role of leadership in modern organization and what are the contemporary problems of motivation of highly qualified employees, especially in the era of the information society. In the last part of the lecture will be discussed controlling, as a tool of ensuring effective management. During the course, in addition to the presentation of the theory, strong emphasis will be put on practical aspects of management. Cases will be background for students’ discussion, as well as their professional experience. The course will present management science not only as a collection of theories and techniques, but also as a philosophy and method for approaching problems in a logical manner. By the end of the course students will have acquired knowledge about theoretical and practical aspects of management in modern organization. Students will also gain a general understanding of efficient management system design. Active participation in lecture is expected and participants should ensure that they do the weekly mandatory reading. Each class will consist of lecture (half of class time) and student’s presentation and discussion (second half of class time).

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Introduction to Political and Economic Geography

Bogumiła Lisocka-Jaegermann, PhD


fall semester


Enhancing basic knowledge of political, social and economic geography of the world - with special attention to recent issues and processes and their spatial dimension Knowledge of new trends, approaches and perspectives within the discipline Lecture topics:

• political and economic divisions within the contemporary world

• economic development problems from the geographical perspective

• the environmental context of human activities

• selected demographic issues and their regional patterns

• economic activities: industry, agriculture, services - their spatial distribution and regional characteristics

• specific features of social and economic problems of selected world regions

• globalization processes and their impact on economic development of the world and regions.


Introduction to Political Science

Professor Bohdan Szklarski



The course is designed to familiarize students with basic concepts and approaches used in examining current political events. Students should be able to understand the dynamics of political life: identify major institutions and actors, analyse their interactions, explain their motivations. They should also acquire proper language and terminology necessary to describe political phenomena.


Introduction to Sociology

Aneta Gawkowska, PhD


fall semester


The lecture is aimed at familiarizing the students with the basic subject matter of sociological research and theory. The goal is thus to introduce the students to the fundamental concepts and categories of social sciences as well as to present the most important issues and questions in sociology. The topics to be covered will, therefore, include: the sociological method, socialization, personality, culture, mass media and communication, family, conformity, social groups, social institutions, stratification, political and economic systems, and globalization. Throughout the lecture the various links between sociology, political science and other social sciences will be shown. Moreover, the practical use of sociology in everyday life of social groups, structures, and institutions will be presented.

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one semester seminar (30h) Japanese Civilisation

Ambassador Henryk Lipszyc


elective ECTS: 4

The lecturer will attempt to bring closer to students the unique model worked out by the people of Japan of establishing relationships between themselves and others, including the outside world. Examples of Japan’s exposure to waves of foreign influence, and the resulting consequences will be presented. A general pattern of absorption, adjustment and peaceful evolution rather than revolutionary changes will emerge as one of the formative mechanisms of the development of the Japanese civilization.


(30h) Lobbing in International Environment

Agnieszka Cianciara, PhD



Analysis of international politics requires thorough understanding of interactions and impact made within the multi-level and transnational networks of policy-makers, business groups, non-governmental organizations, policy and strategic communication advisors, media and think-tanks, all involved in shaping decisions that crucially affect international organizations, states and citizens. The aim of this compulsory course is to familiarize students with lobbying activities at the international arena, with particular focus on lobbying in the European Union. Class participants acquire knowledge about the essence of lobbying at the national and international level, while looking at a variety of political, legal, historic and economic scope conditions in respective institutional settings. The focus of the course is on international lobbying in the context of globalization, lobbying as a tool of modern diplomacy, as well as the role of interest groups in the consolidated democracies and possible links of lobbying with corruption and other pathologies of power. The aim of this interactive lecture is also to show, while taking example of the EU lobbying arena, how political objectives are achieved by means of public affairs strategies. Participants of this course are expected to have basic background in international relations and/ or political science as well as basic understanding of the functioning of EU institutions and decision-making process. All students are expected to actively participate in the course: read the assigned texts in advance of each class, actively contribute to class discussions, prepare oral presentations and write group reports based on case studies. At the end of the course students are expected to be able to use the theoretical knowledge and skills acquired to independently interpret the interest game in the decision-making process at the international and supranational/ EU level. The tasks assigned during the course allow students to develop their individual research skills, cooperate on a project within a group, as well as to prepare and deliver an oral presentation and to draft a report.

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(30h) Macroeconomics

Joanna Siwińska, PhD



The course will introduce students to the models and techniques used in modern macroeconomic theory. The models will be linked to a discussion of the performance of the Polish, European and the U.S. economy. This course will provide students with a basic understanding of the mechanisms that drive inflation, unemployment, and output. It will cover: equilibrium in the goods and assets markets, the determinants of the rate of economic growth; the cyclical behaviour of the economy and the stabilizing role of fiscal and monetary policy.


(30h) Media and Mass Communication

Tomasz Płudowski, PhD



This course is an advanced-level introduction to mediated communication. First, various components of mass communication are explained. Then the role of media in the social and political world as well as its relationship with culture is discussed. Both government and economic aspects are taken into consideration. The course also looks at various types of media and at the history of mass communication, e.i. the so-called six information revolutions. Other issues include: media content and media audiences. Finally, a great deal of attention is paid to media effects, including normative, critical, cultural and empirical theories such as the limited effects perspective, agenda-setting, framing and priming. The main textbook is the current edition of Baran & Davis’ Mass Communication Theory.

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(30h) Mediation and Management

Ruairi O’Neill


fall semester


ADR does not refer to any one particular method of solving problems, but rather is the name given to all forms of dispute resolution that do not require recourse to the civil courts. ADR methods generally divide into two distinct groups: binding and non-binding, with the outcome of the procedure being binding on the parties to the dispute in the former and the latter depending on the trust and confidence of the parties in being held to the agreement in the latter. This module will focus on the two most commonly utilized forms of alternative dispute resolution: arbitration (binding) and mediation (non-binding). The first series of lectures will introduce students to the different types of ADR, with further emphasis on the form of an arbitration hearing and a mediation, looking at the basic rules and procedures followed, as well as the personal qualities and skills required of the mediator or arbitrator. The second group of seminars will take the form of practical workshops, where students will role-play as parties to several disputes common to mediation and each will have the chance to assume the role of a mediator. In this way, students will become aware of the difficulties in mediation, and will be able to identify the most common reasons for breakdown of a mediation process. As part of continuing assessment, students will be required to draft a mediation agreement and will sit a final written examination at the end of the course.


(30h) Microeconomics

Joanna Siwińska, PhD


fall semester


The course aims at providing students with an introduction to economic theory that applies to decisions made by consumers and producers within a larger economic system. The course covers basic concepts and approaches needed to undertake the analysis of markets from microeconomic perspective. It introduces economic models and shows how they can be applied to solve real policy issues and problems.

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(30h) Music in International Relations

Agnieszka Topolska, PhD


fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

Subject description: When has music emerged? Why French fought. with Italians for the opera? Can a gifted pianist become a prime minister? Can music kill? Does leftish music exist? Where has been sent music by postmodern society? These and more other questions emerge between sociology and musicology. The meeting cycle will be focused on the role played by music in the society, on its significance and on changes fluctuate along with the social, political and economic processes. Full description: Lecture with workshop elements (discussions, outdoor activities) will be focused on music as a social phenomenon. During our meetings we will be discussing selected topics from music history (19th-21st centuries) by using methodological tools of sociology, anthropology and musicology. The main criteria of the topic selection will be the social changing. Among them you can find not only those general in character (e.g. music in mass culture), but also more specified ones (music in nazism and communism, music as a strategy of defiance, social background of punk music emergence etc.).


(30h) Non-military Aspects of Conflicts

Jan Bury, PhD


fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

The class examines the issues related to non-military aspects of conflicts in the international system. It focuses on the asymmetry of modern conflicts which provided for the origins as well as the potential failure of governmental forms that have been intended as tools for stabilizing societies. The social and economic contexts of modern conflicts will be analysed to include weak or failed states; a collapse of the formal economy, and rivalry between criminal groups over natural resource wealth or illegal commercial activities, and those related to globalization to include the gradual erosion of state authority and the emergence of violent ‘war economies.’ Human, societal and migration insecurities, health insecurities and security significance of infectious diseases, climate change, water and food insecurities due to privatization and curtailment of alimentation sources, energy insecurity, the phenomena of nationalism, humanitarian and external economic interventions, non-state actors in conflicts like multinational terrorist organizations, international economic production, human trafficking, and global labour migrations will be discussed. The class also examines security maintenance, the rule of law and human rights, economic and social development, the human rights regime, protection of refugees and the 2005 UN’s R2P principle. The emerging

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challenges like information warfare and psychological operations, fraud and corruption, cybercrime and cyber security, industrial espionage, corporate liability, business and organized crime links, the role or private military corporations, as well as UN peacekeeping and peace building efficacy in discharging modern conflicts will be analysed. Teaching and learning will take place through a combination of lectures, student-led seminars, case studies and crisis simulations.

two semester lecture


Philosophy

Professor Nina Gładziuk


semesters


The proposed course is aimed at presenting to students in a compact way diverse views, concepts and ideas that shaped Anglo-American and European-Continental traditions of philosophical thought since Greek antiquity till contemporary post-modern theory. Why these days it is important to be familiar with main currents of western philosophy? And – to ask more specifically – why it is important to understand them for a student of Collegium Civitas? The answers are simple. In a present digital culture students have to confront a true overabundance of easily accessible information and quite often get lost in the middle of it. Therefore having some conceptual criteria for selecting and comprehending information seems to be indispensable. Philosophy delivers intellectual tools to deal with the problem. Understanding the Past always helps to understand the Present. Studying philosophy provides valuable history-of-ideas-perspective that makes perception of our own problems and dilemmas more substantive and better structured. Thanks to this course students can learn how many out of historical concepts proved to be essential to inform our contemporary concerns and debates. Since Collegium Civitas is designed as a school for social-political studies, philosophy provides most general body of knowledge to discuss further, on other social science courses, issues such as: state and society, individual and community, democracy and dictatorship, constitutionalism and rights, property and free economy, independence and autonomy, human equality and dignity, liberty and power, authority and tolerance, human nature, race and gender. Studying philosophy can make students more reflective when they choose other social science courses. It is so because philosophy makes one more attentive to the language of any discourse. For instance, the political can be today comprehended by such popular yet contradictory metaphors as: organism, mechanism, architecture, spectacle, bargain or war and campaign etc. It is important to be aware that such popular metaphors are not innocent, they highlight certain ways of understanding political phenomena and at the same time they downplay other. The main method of this course will be common reading and interpretation of the essential texts of the Western Canon. Personal contribution to the class will be expected and encouraged in many ways such as individual presentations, participation in task groups, exercises in debating and argument. Philosophy will turn to be a solid academic companion when students will learn how many old ideas seem to still inform our contemporary concerns and dilemmas.

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(30h)

Political Economy of Regional Integration and Development in East Asia

Piotr Kozłowski, PhD


fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

The main aim of the course is to enhance students' knowledge and understanding about distinct models of regional integration and development in East Asia. East Asian experience in these fields is often dismissed when contrasted with Western theories and practice and this course is meant to correct the Western bias and learn how to adroitly study contemporary East Asian phenomena. During the course the student will be exposed to an interdisciplinary (politico-economic) perspective on main structures, agents and dynamics of regional integration and development in East Asia. Skills: - reducing the impact of Western bias in analysing East Asia - critical analysis of East Asian politico-economic phenomena - conducting professional research on East Asian affairs - comparing thought and practice of regional integration and development between East Asia and the West Knowledge: - Interdisciplinary knowledge on regionalism, integration and development in East Asia


Political Leadership

Professor Bohdan Szklarski


fall semester


The purpose of this course is to analyse the patterns of leadership in a variety of political systems. We will focus on the ways political leaders use constitutional and extra-constitutional resources to maximize their power. In each case we will look at the factors which define the range of power of leaders. Thus we shall examine the nature of external, “hard" constraints coming from the: structural design of the system, from the party system as well as the “soft" constraints stemming from specific context in which leadership is exercised and from the predominant political culture in which leaders operate. Studying the ways leaders try to overcome such constraints and use their key role in the system to maximize their power we will see how personal the nature of political power may become. Our texts will cover leadership behaviour in various forms of democratic settings, primarily the parliamentary and presidential systems, but we will also look at the role of leaders in authoritarian and totalitarian systems as well as in social movements and revolutions, all in an effort to compare the nature of resources necessary for efficient leadership and the ways leaders use them.

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(30h) Political Marketing

Sergiusz Trzeciak, PhD


fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

An interactive lecture with workshop elements. The workshops will comprise three key parts: 1) film presentations and teem presentations, e.g. developing strategy and election campaign plan, 2) case studies for election campaigns, 3) simulation games. The course will cover the following topics: • Political marketing & communication – introduction • Strategic planning • Campaign planning • Organization and management in campaign • Analysis of election materials • Political image • Direct campaign • Media campaign • Targeted campaign • Negative campaign • Political marketing in the Internet • Interactive workshop: Strategy and planning of selected election campaign The aim of the course is to familiarize with the topic of political marketing in a way allowing not only to acquire knowledge, but most of all practical skills of using marketing tools in a political, social or election campaign. Apart from the basic theory of political marketing the participants will be familiarized with the process of strategy building and planning of political and election campaigns and of conducting direct and media campaigns, and also targeted and negative campaigns. The latest state-of-the-art political marketing tools in the Internet will also be discussed.

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(30h) Populism and Identity

Professor Rafał Pankowski


elective ECTS: 4

The course will discuss the dynamics of national identity construction and highlight the multi-dimensional character of national identities. It will provide examples of historic moments which can be seen as symbolic junctures having a lasting impact on national identity debates and on the self-definition of the nation in various historical-political narratives, in Poland and the broader region of East-Central Europe. The symbolic events provide us with discursive “windows” into wider issues of identity. A comparison of the national identity construction processes in Poland and other countries will be made. The course will use both constructivist and ethno-symbolist theories of nationalism and national identity. Moreover, it will assess possible applications of the “modernist” paradigm to the emergence of nationalism as a cultural-political movement in Poland and other countries. In this context it will also draw from the social movement theory (in particular the concept of discursive opportunity structure vis a vis nationalist and populist movements). In addition, elements of cultural studies theory are to be used especially in the analysis of national identity construction through popular culture. In particular, the specific cultural resources of nationalist populism are to be analysed because they are deemed to be of crucial importance to contemporary identity politics.

one semester

lecture (30h)

Public Administration

Andrzej Zybała, PhD


obligatory (BA)

ECTS: 3

The course is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of public administration. The subject is regarded as a wide range of analysis concerning its political and legal environment at the national, European, and international levels. The course explores the growing importance of public administration in the modern state and in governing essential socio-economic processes (is it bureaucracy, red tape or strategic resource of the state?). Public administration will be examined as an academic discipline and a field of practice. The course provides an overview of the structure of public administration (local, regional and central government administration), the concept of civil service (civil servants and their political superiors, professions in the public administration, recruitment processes, corps of civil service, decision making process), the instruments of governing (legislation, cooperation, divers types of budgeting), the ethics in civil service, the modes of management. The important aspect of the course refers to the role of public administration in public policy making and in designing public services. The significant part of the course focuses on reforming the public sector with the aim of making it more efficient and more responsive to citizens’ needs. The concept of New Public Management has emerged as a dominant approach in reforming public administration in many countries. Another key topic of the course concerns the emergence of the public governance issues. Public administration is regarded as a part of a wider network and strategy for service production.

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(30h) Smart Leadership Training

Klaudia Pingot


fall semester


Idea: Leadership as Your Way of Life & Profession. Smart Leadership Training is the course, which allows participants to exhibit leadership, communication, interpersonal skills and to receive swift feedback on their progress. This course will provide theoretical background and a lot of activities that will be improving students’ personal skills, developing charisma, multiple intelligence and self-confidence. This course is suitable for all students desiring to develop and learn about their leadership potential. The aim of the course is to make Students aware of their own potential and the process of becoming a competent leader. Course is planned as series of workshops with practical homework, dynamically enhancing leadership skills. Students will take a lot of practical tasks during classes as well as in their free time, having a lot of fun, but first of all working with their personal development, especially self-awareness, empathy, charisma, confidence, determination, time management and clarity of purpose.


(30h) Statistics

Piotr Goldstein, PhD

every academic year:

fall semester


Aims of the course are: practicing and description of large collections of data and reading graphs of random variable distributions. Discussing: the questions of correct sampling, estimation of population parameters from sample data and the question of proper choice of the tests, depending on the tested hypotheses and measurement scale. Practical exercising in formulation of hypotheses, and testing the hypotheses with a spread sheet. The contents of the course encompasses: measures of central tendency (mean, median, modes), measures of dispersion, asymmetry and deviations from the normal distribution. Also two-variable statistics with correlation and graphing. Next, random variables, theory of estimation, problems and errors in sampling, basic statistical tests (various applications of the Student-t test, Fisher-Snedecor test and chi-square test).

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(30h) Strategic Management

Oskar Szumski, PhD



The purpose of the course is to present modern approach to process of formulation and implementation of organization's strategy. This course will cover roles and responsibilities of top management, content of strategy and relations between companies. During lectures will be presented cases with particular reference to ICT. This course consists of three parts: strategy analysis, strategy formulation, strategy implementation and control. First part will cover the strategic management process, external and internal analysis, competitive advantage and organization performance. Participants will be encouraged to discuss the common constraints of effective implementation of strategic planning process, proper analysis of competitive forces and capabilities. During second part will be presented Company Mission, types of business strategy (Differentiation, Cost Leadership, Integration, Innovation and Strategic Entrepreneurship) and corporate strategy (Vertical Integration, Diversification, Acquisitions, Alliances and Networks). Participants will be prompted to formulate criteria for organizational strategy selection in times of global financial crisis. Third part will cover Organizational Design (Structure, Culture, and Control), Corporate Governance and Strategic Leadership. Building upon this, the course will draw out a set of tools and good practices for strategy implementation. During the course participants will analyse company strategies and evaluate strategic decisions. Active participation in lecture is expected and participants should ensure that they do the weekly mandatory reading. Each class will consist of lecture (half of class time) and student’s presentation and discussion (second half of class time).

one semester

seminar (30h)

Terrorism and Threats to International Security

Paulina Piasecka


fall semester

elective ECTS: 4

The course aims at introducing participants to the phenomenon of terrorism and the threats it poses to state security in the contemporary world. Participants will also be introduced to actions and tasks of institutions and services responsible for terrorism combating and prevention. The classes will aim also at presenting threats to Poland's security and international interests. During the course students will get to know basic facts on terrorism history and the history of terrorism combating. Upon completion of the course students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of terrorism trends, forms and terrorist networks. They will also be able to determine the most important elements of state's strategy in terrorism combating.

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(30h) The Dance of Ghosts and Symbols

Professor Ewa Nowicka-Rusek


elective ECTS: 4

The course is to present both the diversities and universal traits and developments in the contemporary globalized world. Aspects and phenomena selected for discussion are:

1. Culturally differing notions of „stranger” – „familiar” (insider) opposition 2. Idea of poverty and affluence (including the concept of „culture of poverty” by Oscar

Lewis) 3. Circle communal dances: Yakut ohuochaj, Buryat jochor, Aromanian corlu mari,

Catalonian sardana, and historical case of Ghost Dance in the US. 4. Contemporary shamanism: traditional and modern pattern. 5. Small, smaller and smallest nationalities/ethnic groups in the contemporary scene:

European and Asian cases. 6. Economic growth and traditional culture: phenomenon of Japanese society.

The effect of the course is the awareness of rarely discussed questions of social reality and criticism about commonly held ideas of globalization, uniformity of developmental processes and evolutionary schemes of thinking. It will reinforce the intellectual and ethical sensitivity for „easy” generalizations and current theories, often treated as obligatory.


(30h) The European Union and the Neighbourhood



fall semester


This course will provide students with a wide-ranging programme of lectures focused on the European Neighbourhood Policy. The module will be interdisciplinary, examining the political, economic and societal aspects of the policy area, from the perspectives of both the EU and the neighbours. The student will study background impulses and contexts behind the creation of ENP, eastern enlargement of the EU in 2004,, legacies of the EU's earlier attempts, cooperation with the Southern neighbours, EU's interests. Students will be encouraged to evaluate the set-up of ENP, political purposes, the EU's official 'balanced (East and South) approach', neighbourhood policy connection to the enlargement process, official EU policy documents, speeches, ENP strategy papers and so on; they will be taught about the significance of different types of policy documents and shown how to use primary sources as research materials. Next part of the module introduces basic features of

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ENP, how the policy operates; European institutions, objectives, how the EU cooperates with ENP partner states, how a state joins ENP; what qualifies a potential partner to be part of ENP; the process from country report through to action plans, programming, implementation and the review process. Also student will analyse a selection of ENP states, their historical relations with Europe/the EU; socio-economic indicators, trade patterns, their foreign and security policies and regional relations in amongst their own neighbourhoods, Eastern Partnership and the Union for the Mediterranean. Students will benefit from a study visit to the EU information centre in Warsaw to receive a briefing on ENP issues from the EU's own perspective, EU agency FRONTEX to learn about EU border management, migration issues and cooperation with the EU's Southern and Eastern neighbours in these areas. They will visit a Think-Tank to receive briefings from researchers. Students will visit the Secretariat of the 'Community of Democracies', based in Warsaw to enhance their understanding of democratization and the role of the international community. The next part of the course will enable students to delve into specific issues and policy areas. Thematic subjects will include; democracy and good governance, frozen conflicts in the neighbourhood, mobility and visa policy, energy, trade and economic cooperation, migration and borders, EU's broader external policy portfolio. Country case studies will be focused at partner states with varying levels of cooperation with the ENP (Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgiaand Morocco, Libya, Lebanon and Egypt) and important actors, such as Russia, China, the US and the Gulf states.


(30h) The World Media and Correspondent’s Work

Nissan Tzur


elective ECTS: 4

The “World Media and Correspondent's work” course will offer a comprehensive review of media systems in different parts of the world and the work of a Correspondent abroad. The students will learn how Journalists work in different geographic areas and under many and changing conditions, as: media under dictatorship regimes, media in war zones, media under censorship and different ways of circumventing censorship, the most important news and photo agencies around the world, photojournalism, important rules for being a successful correspondent and of working in a in a different country - how to avoid being manipulated, avoiding stereotypes, developing useful connections and information sources, discovering interesting stories and more. The course will help the students to become familiar with the influence of the media on relations between countries. The students will take an active part in the lessons and will have the opportunity to learn from first hand of the Correspondent’s work and the differences between media systems in different regions of the world.

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(30h) Theory of International Relations

Rafał Trzaskowski, PhD



The course is designed as an introduction to fundamental theories of international relations and regional integration, the acquaintance with which is indispensable to any IR student. It is devoted to main IR theories - realism, liberalism and globalism, and more modern theories of IR, such as constructivism, postmodernism, discourse theories, as well as theories of regional integration (neo-functionalism or liberal intergovernmentalism). The course will deal with general “classical" and canonical IR theories texts as well as with more concrete case studies. The students will be required to participate in class discussions, and pass an oral exam.

one semester

lecture/seminar (30h)

Trade, Aid and Partnership: External Aspects of European Economic and Political Integration



fall semester


This module is designed to provide a broad group of students non-economists, but also students of business and finance with the tools to gain a solid understanding of the uniqueness of the EU model of political and economic integration, with a focus in the second part of the course on some of the external aspects of the policy area. The course will begin with explanatory lectures on the various models and stages of economic integration from the 1950's to the present day, taking time to define and discuss key terms and concepts: what is meant by customs union, free trade areas, the single market, monetary union and so on. Students will also be encouraged to think about the heterogeneous nature of the EU economy and the different economies of individual EU member states', national GDPs and other socio-economic indicators, EMU and the EURO currency, their introduction and political and economic rationales, details and origins and effects of the EURO zone crisis and attendant implications for the economies of Europe and the EU's role in global trade. The module will then turn to key policy topics and developments, including EU budget, the functioning of the single market and Common Agricultural Policy, Research and Development, amongst other areas. The third part of the course will set in a comparative context the EU with other global economies and with regional groupings and trade areas such as ASEAN, NAFTA and Mercosur. To enrich student's understandings of the subject lectures will use data from the World Bank, EBRD and UN to plot the state of Europe's economies vis a vis other parts of the world according to various indicators such as the UN Human Development Index. This will provide an innovative way for students to see emerging patterns of economic growth, areas of divergence and to then consider the effects for the EU. The next elements of the course will look at the EU's trade and economic relations with third countries and regions as case studies, including the states in the EU's southern and eastern neighbourhoods and in particular the development of Deep and Free Trade Areas, Russia and in particular energy issues, the United States and Canada and subsequently the ACP countries and other areas of the developing world and the uses of aid and EU development policy particularly in the context of EUROPEAID.

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(30h)

Universal and Regional Systems of Human Rights Protection



elective ECTS: 4

The course presents and analyses the origins, development and the current institutional structure, norms (human rights covenants and conventions and the body of soft law) and respective practices within the UN-based universal system of human rights protection as well as within selected regional organizations. The regional systems covered are the European (Council of Europe, OECD and the EU), the Inter-American (Organisation of American States), the African (African Union) and the Southeast Asian (ASEAN). In addition, attention is given to specific approaches to human rights in the Arab world and in the rest of Asia, particularly in East Asia. The activity of non-state actors, particularly Western human rights-oriented NGOs like Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, is also scrutinized during the course. The above systems, approaches and activities are analysed comparatively throughout the course in order to prepare for the final part of it when contemporary human rights discourses, both within the regional regimes and between different world regions (civilizations), are given focus. By participating in the course students acquire basic knowledge about human rights and related concepts as well as the international human rights regimes. They enhance their understandings of different perspectives on human rights than their own. They are also better prepared to engage in complex discourses about rights and freedoms in contemporary world.

one semester

lecture (30h)

World History 1914-1949

Professor Dariusz Stola


fall semester

obligatory (BA)

ECTS: 3

The course aims at expanding students’ knowledge of the 20th century history, its political, social and economic dimensions. It is designed to develop their analytical skills, stimulate their interest in history and help them see contemporary issues from a historical perspective.

Its approach is mainly Eurocentric with special insights into Central European affairs. It covers the first half of the short 20th century – the “new Thirty Years War” and its consequences for Europe and the world. The following subjects will be discussed: the First World War, Revolutions, the Versailles Order, the Apogee of the Colonial System, the Great Depression; Communism, Fascism and Authoritarian regimes in interwar Europe, the Second World War and its aftermath. Each class consists of a lecture and Q&A session. Its follow-up is the course on World History since 1949.

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one semester

lecture (30h)

World History since 1949

Professor Dariusz Stola


spring semester


The course aims at expanding students’ knowledge of the 20th century history, its political, social and economic dimensions. It is designed to develop their analytical skills, stimulate their interest in history and help them see contemporary issues from a historical perspective. Its approach is mainly Eurocentric with special insights into Central European affairs. It covers the second half of the 20th century – the Cold War era and the following decade up to September 11, 2001. It pays particular attention to the Cold War division of Europe and the world, Europe’s relative decline and continuing centrality, decolonization, the evolution and collapse of the communist regimes, the expansion of the welfare state and consumer society. Each class consists of a lecture and Q&A session. The course is a continuation of the lecture on World History 1914-1949.

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