Course for international guest/part time students

Faculty

Faculty of Social Sciences

Organization

TÁTK Department of Political Sciences

Code

IRB121

Title

Globalisation - Information Society

Usual semester

Spring

Published semester

2025/26/2

ECTS

4

Language

en

Learning outcomes

Course objectives: The course covers phenomena related to the concepts of globalization and information society. During the course, students will be introduced to conceptual elements, to the direction of global processes and to related debates and dilemmas. The course is considered successful if students by the end of the semester are able to formulate their own critical view of the political, economic, social and cultural aspects of the transformations discussed. The course is a lecture, although appearance is highly expected and recommended. It is also recommended that students read the literature related to each lesson.

Course content

Topics: 1 What is globalisation? What is an information society? 2 Changing roles of states 3 Global governance? 4 Global Economy, Information Capitalism 5 6 Global Justice 7 Globalization and human rights 8 Cultural Globalisation Spring Break: April 8-14, 2019 (Tuesday-Wednesday) 9 Cultural Imperialism? 10 Movie (The Founder, 2017. R.: John Lee Hancock) 11 Media and democracy, identity in the information age 12 Ideological dimensions, challenges, future 13 Exam for the offered grade

Assessment method

The course is considered successful if students by the end of the semester are able to formulate their own critical view of the political, economic, social and cultural aspects of the transformations discussed. Evaluation: Based on a written exam through Coospace system, based on the lectures and the given literature. Students can get an offered grade based on the result of the final class exam.

Bibliography

Mandatory readings Manfred B. Steger: Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. Robert Cooper: The Post-Modern State. IN: Re-Ordering the World: The long- term implications of September 11. (ed.: Mark Leonard; Foreign Policy Centre, London, 2002) https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/20954/Reordering_World.pdf Jürgen Habermas: Why the Development of the European Union into a Transnational Democracy is Necessary and How it is Possible https://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/arena-working-papers/2014/wp13-14.pdf David Held: The Changing Contours of Political Community: Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalisation https://www.jstor.org/stable/41802122 Richard Falk: Global Civil Society and the Democratic Prospect. IN: Global Democracy. Key Debates (ed.: Barry Holden; New York: Routledge, 2000) Chantal Mouffe: Which world order: cosmopolitan or multipolar? https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/910y3/which-world-order-cosmopolitan-or-multipolar Joseph Stiglitz: Globalization and Its Discontents. (W. W. Norton, 2002.) 3-22. & 214-252. Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. Crown Business, 2012., 2. Theories That Don’t Work  45-69 Manuel Castells: Global Informational Capitalism (Held-McGrew: 311-334) Frank Webster: What Information Society? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01972243.1994.9960154 Jeffrey G Williamson: Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization https://www.nber.org/papers/w9161.pdf Xavier Sala-i Martin: The Disturbing "Rise" of Global Income Inequality https://www.nber.org/papers/w8904.pdf Alix Dietzel: Global Justice IN International Relations Theory. 91-96. https://www.e-ir.info/publication/international-relations-theory/ Gábor Halmai: Perspectives on Global Constitutionalism. Epilogue: Towards Global Constitutionalism? 247-. https://gaborhalmaidotnet.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/perspectives-on-global-constitutionalism-final-proofs.pdf Jan-Werner Müller: Constitutional Patriotism. (Princeton UP 2007) Introduction 1-14. John B. Thomson: The Globalization of Communication (Held-McGrew, 246-259.) Robert W. McChesney: The New Global Media (Held-McGrew, 260-268.) John Tomlinson: Globalization and Cultural Identity (Held-McGrew, 269-277.) Andrew Kirby: The Global Culture Factory (Nagel O’Loughlin et al., 133-158.) James Curran: Media and Democracy. Routledge, 2011. Mandatory: PART II Media and democratic theory (61-98.) Evgenij Morozov: The Net Delusion – The Dark Side of Internet Freedom 1-57. Hugh Mackay: The globalization of culture? IN: David Held (ed.): A globalizing world? culture, economics, politics. Routledge, London. (Chapters from) the Caastells-trilogy Castells, Manuel (1996). The Network Society. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. 1.  Maiden/Oxford: Blackwell. Mandatory: Prologue: the Net and the Self & Conclusion: the Network Society Castells, Manuel (1997). The Power of Identity. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. 2. Maiden/Oxford: Blackwell. Mandatory: Chapter 5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State? Recommended: Chapter 6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy Castells, Manuel (2000). End of Millenium. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. 3. Maiden/Oxford: Blackwell. Mandatory: Chapter 2 The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion Recommended: Chapter 5 The Unification of Europe: Globalization, Identity, and the Network State Other Resource: Lecture: Albert-László Barabási: Networks are everywhere with Albert-László Barabási (Science & Cocktails, 22th Nov. 2016.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c867FlzxZ9Y Suggested readings: Ian Clark: Globalization and International Relations Theory. Oxford University Press, 2003. Susan Strange The Defective State. Daedalus. Volume: 124. Issue: 2. 1995.: pp. 55-  http://maihold.org/mediapool/113/1132142/data/strange-defective.pdf Balázs Géza, Szilágyi Katalin (szerk.): Globalizáció és kapitalizmus. Budapest, Századvég, 2008. Anne-Marie Slaughter: Governing the Global Economy Through Government Networks (Held-McGrew: 189-203.) James N. Rosenau: Governance in a New Global Order (Held-McGrew: The Global Transformations Reader – An Introduction to the Globalization Debate 223-233.) Kristen Hill Maher: Who has a Right to Rights? Citizenship’s Exclusions in an Age of Migration. (In: Alison Brysk: Globalization and Human Rights. University of California Press, 2002. 19-43.) Caroline Nagel: Questioning Citizenship in an „Age of Migration” (Nagel O’Loughlin et al.: Globalization and Its Outcomes, 231-252.) Anna Leander: Digital/Commercial Visibility: The Politics of DAESH Recruitment Videos James Curran: Media and Democracy. Routledge, 2011. Denis McQuail: Mass Communication, SAGE Publications Ltd 2010 Evgenij Morozov: The Net Delusion – The Dark Side of Internet Freedom Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld -- How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World David Held (ed.): A globalizing world? culture, economics, politics. Routledge, London. https://www.edge.org/responses/how-is-the-internet-changing-the-way-you-think Adam Gopnik: The Information https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-information Albert-László Barabási: Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else…. Jürgen Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

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