Class State and Globalisation

This Curricular Unit aims at the transdisciplinary understanding of the State and globalization, in the light of legal and economic discourse and a methodological plural affirmation. The heterogeneity of these themes requires different argumentative theories and reflection on transnational explanations of a pluridimensional nature, as well as prospective proposals on governance and global security, democracy, economics and law. Themes such as global capitalism and the coordination of economic policies in the European Union, the Network-State, the tensions of globalization and human inequalities, must be its matrix. Therefore, it is intended to promote a more complete understanding of the scope and boundaries of the functions of the State in an increasingly globalized world, including the key concepts of globalization, public management and multilevel governance.

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I. The State and Democracy Modern constitutionalism. The Network-State and globalized social welfare. The State: its typologies, limitations and its weakening. The reinvention of the state. The role of the State and the citizen in globalized infractional capitalism. State behavioral trends and global security. Interdependence, cooperation and regional integration. Crisis, quality and deficit of democracy and global governance in the digital age. Democracy in theory and in contemporary globalized democratic practice. Political systems compared in the EU and in the Portuguese-speaking space. Public Governance Reforms and Traditions. Public Governance Hybridism and New Modes of Interactive Governance. Public Governance in Portugal in a comparative perspective. Global media, technologies and digital transition. II. The challenges of globalization The forces of globalization and the nation-state: inequalities and human rights. Globalization and the Law and its contradictory resistances

This curricular unit is taught through lectures, debates on scientific articles and discussion on the dynamics of globalization, the role of the State and governance in different countries. The evaluation methodology consists of a written work and the elaboration of a critical review of a scientific article.

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