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Major specialization final state exam

The final state exam includes selected topics from the courses:

Topics 
  1. State as global economic actor: economic policies, competitiveness, and social-economic systems
  2. The economics of international trade: trade theories, balance of payments, and regional economic integration
  3. Exchange rate and international capital: exchange rate, monetary systems, and global capital flows
  4. Economic growth and cycle: business cycle, global growth trends and major economic crises
  5. The economics of European integration: European Union as a global player, Economic and Monetary Union, debt crisis
  6. World system, regional systems and sectorial ones
  7. Polarity in international relations
  8. The identities of great  powers
  9. The sources of power of great powers
  10. The foreign policy of great powers
  11. The foreign policy of European countries
  12. European security system
  13. The EU’s construction and enlargements
  14. The EU and its neighbours
  15. The EU’s relations to world macro-regions
  16. The objectives and means of foreign policy: in general and as applied to a selected state
  17. International system and international regimes from the view of foreign policy analysis
  18. Actors influencing foreign policy making: in general and as applied to a selected state
  19. Institutions involved in foreign policy making: in general and as applied to a selected state
  20. Individual as a foreign policy maker: in general and as applied to a selected state
  21. Main theoretical reflections and their concepts of international relations
  22. Realist school of thought in the IR theory
  23. Liberal school of thought in the IR theory
  24. Critical tradition in the IR theory
  25. Applying selected IR theories on a particular issue in international relations
  26. The nature of the current globalisation processes and their reflection in theory and practice of international relations
  27. The global and regional levels of integration, the interdependence dynamics of international relations subjects
  28. Globalisation and environmental issues, global environmental security, the international-political repercussions of ecological interdependence of states
  29. The mutual relationships of economic, political, and security dimensions of globalisation
  30. The role of international institutions and models of global governance
Essential required reading is in the syllabi of the above-listed courses in the ISIS.

Minor specialization final state exam

The final state exam has the form of a defence of the Individual Project, completed during the semester abroad.