Course description
Globalization has different effects in different fields: primarily as an economic and political process, starting already as the imperialism of the 19th century, at least as the worldwide financial crisis 2008; political on different fields of international cooperation for example in the United Nations for example concerning the international agenda for climate politics combined with efforts for technological innovation of energy production; of global political influence by the USA or for example China; and the global reflections of regional political conflicts for example in the Ukraine, the Iranian efforts to get nuclear technologies; and the worldwide terrorism and the so called global war on it. The spreading neoliberalism weakens the national states as well as supranational organizations. Especially the welfare state is object of political reforms aiming to reduce its costs with the consequence of increasing social inequality. On the other side a lot of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) emerged in the last decades as well as a lot of protest movements based on ethical, political, economic or ecological ideas and criticism, which try to fight against the different outgrowths of global capitalism. Naturally the globalization is accelerated by computerization, especially the internet, which become a field of war as well a controlling system, but on the other side also a place of communication of individual citizens. Therefore it is offering chance for people power and the fight for human rights.

The course offers possibilities for the students to work about the themes of globalization from different disciplines and from different national perspectives; for example economic, political, humanitarian, social or technological perspectives of globalization in their own countries.
Teaching Methods
Discourse, Statement, Lecture of the students, Reading an Analysing Texts in the Seminar together, Discussion

Evaluation
Presentation 50%, written exam at the end 50%; no midterm exam.

Literature
Ulrich Beck, World Risk Society, Polity, Cambridge 1999
Ulrich Beck, Risk and Power: The Loss of Confidence and the Fragility of Market in Global Risk Society – Lecture at Harvard University, Cambridge/MA. 2001
Colin Crouch, Post-democracy. Polity, Cambridge 2005
Colin Crouch, The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken 2011
Colin Crouch, The Knowledge Corrupters. Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life. Polity Press, Cambridge 2015
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man. Free Press, 1992
Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Simon & Schuster, New York 1996
David Graeber, Debt: the first 5000 years, New York 2011
James Griffin: On human rights. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008
Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Simon & Schuster, New York 1996
Hans Küng, Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic, New York: Crossroad 1991
Paul Gorden Lauren: The evolution of international human rights. Visions seen. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2011
Stephan Leibfried (ed.), Welfare state future, Cambridge 2001
Paul Mason, PostCapitalism – A Guide to Our Future, Penguin, London 1015
Karl Marx, Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy (Grundrisse der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie 1858) Penguin, 1973
Luca Mezzetti, Human rights, Bologna 2010
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Harvard 1971
John Rawls, Political Liberalism, Columbia University Press, New York 1993
Stephen J. Rosow, Globalization and democracy, Lanham 2015
Hans Schattle, Globalization and citizenship, Lanham 2012
Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices, Harvard Univ. Press 1984
Beat Sitter (ed.), Universality: From Theory to Practice – An intercultural an interdisciplinary debate ab out facts, possibilities, leis an myths, Academic Press Fribourg 2009
Wolfgang Streeck, Governing interests: business associations facing internationalization. Routledge, 2006
Gianni Vattimo, Belief, Polity Press, 1999
Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics and Law, Edited by Santiago Zabala, Columbia University Press, 2004
Gianni Vattimo, The Future of Religion, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo, Edited by Santiago Zabala, Columbia University Press, 2005
Michael Walzer, Arguing About War, Yale University Press, 2004
Michael Walzer, On Toleration, Yale University Press, 1997
Michael Walzer, The Paradox of Liberation, Yale University Press, 2015
Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice, Basic Books, 1983
Michael Walzer, Thick and thin: Moral argument at home and abroad, Notre Dame Press, 1994
Michael Walzer, Thinking Politically, Yale University Press, 2007
Michael Walzer, Toward a Global Civil Society, Berghahn Books, 1995