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Geoeconomics in theory and practice

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Course ID: 2100-MON-GETP-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED: 14.1 The subject classification code consists of three to five digits, where the first three represent the classification of the discipline according to the Discipline code list applicable to the Socrates/Erasmus program, the fourth (usually 0) - possible further specification of discipline information, the fifth - the degree of subject determined based on the year of study for which the subject is intended. / (0312) Political sciences and civics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: Geoeconomics in theory and practice
Name in Polish: Geoekonomia w teorii i praktyce
Organizational unit: Faculty of Political Science and International Studies
Course groups: General university courses
General university courses in Faculty of Political Science and International Studies
General university courses in the social sciences
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.

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Language: Polish
Type of course:

general courses

Prerequisites (description):

Classes are to answer the question what geoeconomics is and how it differs from geopolitics. In addition, during the classes we will analyze examples of modern geoeconomics in relation to the activities of the USA, the PRC, the Russian Federation and the EU.

Short description:

Classes are to answer the question what geoeconomics is and how it differs from geopolitics. In addition, during the classes we will analyze examples of modern geoeconomics in relation to the activities of the USA, the PRC, the Russian Federation and the EU.

Full description:

Classes are to answer the question what geoeconomics is and how it differs from geopolitics. In addition, during the classes we will analyze examples of modern geoeconomics in relation to the activities of the USA, the PRC, the Russian Federation and the EU.

Bibliography:

Theory:

TG Grosse, Wprowadzenie, [w:] Paliwo dla dominacji. O ekonomicznych podstawach supremacji geopolitycznej, (red.) T.G. Grosse, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademia Nauk, Warszawa 2020, s. 7-83.

Luttwak, Edward N., “From Geopolitics to Geo-Economics: Logic of Conflict, Grammar of Commerce.” National Interest, No. 20, summer 1990, pp. 17-24.

Sparke, Matthew, “From Geopolitics to Geoeconomics: Transnational State Effects in the Borderlands.” Geopolitics, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1998, pp. 62-98.

China:

TG Grosse, Geoekonomia Chin, [w:] Paliwo dla dominacji. O ekonomicznych podstawach supremacji geopolitycznej, (red.) T.G. Grosse, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademia Nauk, Warszawa 2020, s. 131-171.

TG Grosse, Umiędzynarodowienie juana jako przykład strategii geoekonomicznej Chin, [w:] Paliwo dla dominacji. O ekonomicznych podstawach supremacji geopolitycznej, (red.) T.G. Grosse, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademia Nauk, Warszawa 2020, s. 173-202.

Yu, Hong. “Motivation behind China’s One Belt, One Road’ Initiatives and Establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 26, No. 105, 2017, pp. 357-357, 359, 361-362, 365-366.

USA:

Seung-Ook Lee, Joel Wainwright, Jim Glassman, Geopolitical economy and the production of territory: The case of US–China geopolitical-economic competition in Asia, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2018, Vol. 50(2) 416–436.

Crister S. Garrett (2018): Constructing narratives of global order: The Obama presidency, TPP, TTIP, and the contested politics of geoeconomics, Atlantic Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2018.1434107.

Morrissey, John. “Geoeconomics in the Long War.” Antipode, Vol. 49, No. S1, 2017, pp. 94-113.

TG Grosse, Bretton Woods jako reżim geoekonomiczny, [w:] Paliwo dla dominacji. O ekonomicznych podstawach supremacji geopolitycznej, (red.) T.G. Grosse, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademia Nauk, Warszawa 2020, s. 365-397.

Russia:

Stulberg, Adam N., Moving Beyond the Great Game: The Geoeconomics of Russia’s Influence in the Caspian Energy Bonanza, Geopolitics, 10:1–25, 2005.

Vihma, Antto and Mikael Wigell. “Unclear and present danger: Russia’s geoeconomic and the Nord Stream II.” Global Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2016, pp. 377-388.

Wigell, Mikael and Antto Vihma. “Geopolitics versus geoeconomics: the case of Russia’s geostrategy and its effects on the EU.” International Affairs, Vol. 92, No. 3, 2016, pp. 605-627.

EU:

James Wesley Scott (2005) The EU and ‘Wider Europe’: Toward an Alternative Geopolitics of Regional Cooperation?, Geopolitics, 10:3, 429-454.

Andreas Nölke, Arjan Vliegenthart (2009): Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism The Emergence of Dependent Market Economies in East Central Europe, World Politics 61, no. 4, 670–702.

TG Grosse, Rozwój polityki obrony i przemysłu zbrojeniowego w Unii Europejskiej, [w:] Paliwo dla dominacji. O ekonomicznych podstawach supremacji geopolitycznej, (red.) T.G. Grosse, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademia Nauk, Warszawa 2020, s. 233-287.

Learning outcomes: (in Polish)

Efektem uczenia powinno być zdobycie umiejętności w zakresie analizy geoekonomicznej, interpretowania sytuacji międzynarodowej, w ramach której są wykorzystywane narzędzia geoekonomiczne, interpretacji zdarzeń dotyczących stosunków międzynarodowych w kontekście geoekonomicznym itp.

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Preparation of the presentation and its delivery during our meetings on the canvas of the given readings as well as group discussion on that presentation.

Internships:

No.

Classes in period "Winter semester 2024/25" (past)

Time span: 2024-10-01 - 2025-01-26
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Seminar, 30 hours, 23 places more information
Coordinators: Tomasz Grosse
Group instructors: Tomasz Grosse
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Credit: Course - Grading
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Classes in period "Winter semester 2025/26" (future)

Time span: 2025-10-01 - 2026-01-25
Selected timetable range:
Go to timetable
Type of class:
Seminar, 30 hours, 23 places more information
Coordinators: Tomasz Grosse
Group instructors: Tomasz Grosse
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Credit: Course - Grading
Seminar - Grading
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