Globalization and Climate Change: Dual Challenges for the Nation State

Dozent/in	Ass.-Prof. Dr. Lena Maria Schaffer
Veranstaltungsart	Hauptseminar
Code	FS201282
Semester	Frühjahrssemester 2020
Durchführender Fachbereich	Politikwissenschaft
Studienstufe	Bachelor Master
Termin/e	wöchentlich (Di), ab 18.02.2020, 16:15 - 18:00 Uhr, 3.B57
Umfang	2 Semesterwochenstunden
Turnus	wöchentlich
Inhalt	This course centers on the question how increasing international interdependence during the last decades (globalization) as well as pressure arising from a global environmental problem (climate change) has impacted on nation states’ policies. It thus brings together two main challenges to any nation state in the 21st century. We first introduce both phenomena and their distinct implications on government ‘s room to manouvre in key domestic areas such as the welfare state or tax policy. What are implications on domestic politics (parties, public opinion)? What can we learn from research on globalization on how to incorporate or compensate winners and loser of climate change? Second, we consider implications of one phenomenon on the other, how do the two challenges interlink, i.e. what are consequences of climate change for globalization and vice versa. In addition to reading recent scholarly contributions, an emphasis will also be placed on how research is designed to answer the substantive questions posed.
Sprache	Englisch
Anmeldung	Teilnahmebeschränkung vorbehalten: Studierende ab dem 3. Semester werden bevorzugt.
Abschlussform / Credits	oral presentations, Class discussion (benotet) / 4 Credits
Hinweise	Studienschwerpunkt: Internationale Beziehungen
Hörer-/innen	Nein
Kontakt	lena.schaffer@unilu.ch
Material	wird auf OLAT zur Verfügung gestellt
Literatur	- Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson. 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Publishers - Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Esther Duflo. 2011. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. New York: Public Affairs. - Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, Germs and Steel. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. - Rodrik, Dani. 2017. Straight Talk on Trade: ideas for a Sane World Economy. Princeton; NJ: Princeton University Press. - Sachs, Jeffrey. 2015. The Age of Sustainable Development. New York: Columbia University Press. - Scott, James C. 2017. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. New Haven: Yale University Press. - Stiglitz, Joseph E. and Mary Kaldor, eds. 2013. The Quest for Security. Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance. New York: Columbia University Press. - Jackson, Tim. 2017. Prosperity Without Growth. Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow. New York: Routledge.