BUSINESS DIPLOMACY AND GEOPOLITICS (2 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: LO1 – Identify key concepts in the field of Business Diplomacy and Geopolitics; LO2 – Describe several theories as well as scholars in the field of Business Diplomacy and Geopolitics; LO3 – Illustrate contemporary issues, challenges, and policy options made by the state at the international as well as domestic level in the field of Business Diplomacy and Geopolitics.

Topics:

1. The Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Development from Independence to Hyperglobalisation;
2. Lessons from the G7 and G8 for the G20 summit;
3. Economic diplomacy: Challenge in the new global economic 2;
4. NGOs in economic diplomacy;
5. The future of economic diplomacy;
6. The causal mechanisms of global production networks;
7. Conceptualizing China’s economic diplomacy: Conversion between wealth and power;
8. Theoretical antecedents to the Global Production Network (GPN) approach;
9. The economic diplomacy of small and poor countries in the global trading system;
10. Economic diplomacy: An analytical toolkit towards economic diplomacy in practices;
11. Intra-extra Firms as actors in a global production network;
12. Economic diplomacy: Challenge in the new global economic 1;
13. Climate change negotiations: Pushing diplomacy to its limits.