ITM Master 2. Sem.
8xxx: Processes of Globalisation        

Tu. 08.15-11.30 h S 06

4 SWS Course

Workload: 60 h classroom work / 120 h self-study

ECTS points: 6

Examination: Presentation (25%), Assignment paper (12 pages p.P.) (75%)

Presentation and term paper about:
Functions of an Actor in Globalisation (World Bank, UN, Multinational Corporations, New Media, WTO, EU, ASEAN, Shipping companies, NGOs, Global Brands, BRICS countries etc.) or an globalisation-related process (Euro crisis, food production, Erasmus program etc.)

Course organisation:
First unit lecture/discussion, second unit seminar
After Easter Break: second unit Presentations
Final session Summing up, Feedback

All information given in this lecture is available here (www.arlt-lectures.com) for download.

Please check the homepage of the website regularly for announcements about time changes etc. Moodle will be introduced during the semester.

Visible hand: State Capitalism and Globalisation
www.economist.com/node/21542931

Globalisation has been discussed mostly as "Westernization"

However, with the global systemic economic crisis of the leading market economies, trapped in debt and unsustainable social security systems, going back to level of state interference unthinkable in Reaganomic and Neo-Lib times, globalisation appears more and more as a renewed competition between two systems:

Market Capitalism vs. State Capitalism

Five topics:

- Global Reach

- Different State capitalisms

- SOEs

- State capitalism and OFDI

- Discussion: Who will win?

Please form five groups and prepare a short presentation taking a supportive and a critical view

Decision Topics for Assignment Work 

  Contact: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt FRGS
Bachelor and Master Program International Tourism Management
arlt@fh-westkueste.de, Office 2.018, Tel. 0481 8555-513
Consultation hours (during lecture period): Tuesday 12.00-13.00 h