Final State Exams
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Major specialization final state exam
The final state exam includes selected topics from the courses:
Topics
- State as global economic actor: economic policies, competitiveness, and social-economic systems
- The economics of international trade: trade theories, balance of payments, and regional economic integration
- Exchange rate and international capital: exchange rate, monetary systems, and global capital flows
- Economic growth and cycle: business cycle, global growth trends and major economic crises
- The economics of European integration: European Union as a global player, Economic and Monetary Union, debt crisis
- World system, regional systems and sectorial ones
- Polarity in international relations
- The identities of great powers
- The sources of power of great powers
- The foreign policy of great powers
- The foreign policy of European countries
- European security system
- The EU’s construction and enlargements
- The EU and its neighbours
- The EU’s relations to world macro-regions
- The objectives and means of foreign policy: in general and as applied to a selected state
- International system and international regimes from the view of foreign policy analysis
- Actors influencing foreign policy making: in general and as applied to a selected state
- Institutions involved in foreign policy making: in general and as applied to a selected state
- Individual as a foreign policy maker: in general and as applied to a selected state
- Main theoretical reflections and their concepts of international relations
- Realist school of thought in the IR theory
- Liberal school of thought in the IR theory
- Critical tradition in the IR theory
- Applying selected IR theories on a particular issue in international relations
- The nature of the current globalisation processes and their reflection in theory and practice of international relations
- The global and regional levels of integration, the interdependence dynamics of international relations subjects
- Globalisation and environmental issues, global environmental security, the international-political repercussions of ecological interdependence of states
- The mutual relationships of economic, political, and security dimensions of globalisation
- 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.