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Course Description: The course summarizes key themes about environment and development policy. It uses a political and institutional approach to analyze the challenges of resource scarcity, population and development, climate risk and adaptation, poverty and environment, natural disasters and vulnerability, deforestation and governing land use change. The course focuses on debates about “institutions” within environmental policy, how these are made, and how can they help address problems in inclusive and effective

Course Description: This course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the long-term, structural causes and implications of globalisation processes. The pace of technological change and globalisation forces led by Multinational Enterprises challenge continuously modes of production and innovation and sustainable development trajectories worldwide, providing incentives to upgrading and growth. On the other hand, the transformations in the global division of labour brought about by globalisation p

Course Description: Since 2008 (perhaps even since 2001), the world has entered a long period of international (or “geopolitical”) volatility or upheaval. It is a thirty-years crisis: since 2001-2030, perhaps beyond. We had 9.11, the Iraq War, the Russia-Georgia War, the Arabic Spring and its aftermath, the Crimean crisis, the Brexit, Trump, the Russia-Ukraine crisis, the Israel-Hamas war, and of course, the US-China rivalry. And we now have a second Trump presidency in the US.

Course Description: The course is intended to give students a big picture analysis of the regional politics of the Middle East from the end of World War I in 1918 till the present, and of their interaction with problems of international security, global resources and great power/super power/hyperpower politics. The overarching aim of this module to enrich students historical understanding of this pivotal region of the world and provide them with the analytical-theoretical tools that help them unlock the riddle of

Course Description: Development is one of the most important topics of our time. This course takes students on a journey to explore the past, present, and future of globalization, introducing them to theories and frameworks to help make sense of the world in which they live, and where it might be headed.