21-25 SEP | Summer School Global Challenges
The Summer School Global Challenges is a policy-oriented course that focuses on the current political, economic, developmental, climate and security issues that shape and reconfigure the architecture of the global system. It is also an optional course of Iscte’s Master’s in International Studies.
The course is also offered as a specialization seminar to other graduate and post-graduate students or participants that wish to acquire 6 ECTS. It is a 20-hour course, from 21 to 25 September 2020, with 2 daily classes, from 18h00 to 20h00 and from 20h30 to 22h30.
This year classes will take place online, subject to registration.
SYLLABUS
| Days | Classes and Speakers | |
| 18h00-20h00 | 20h30-22h30 | |
| 21 | On Geopolitics
Luís Amado |
On Geoeconomics
José Félix Ribeiro |
| 22 | How to Power the World
Catarina Roseta Palma; Nuno Antunes |
China’s Global Strategy
Cátia Miriam Costa |
| 23 | Global Health and the Pandemic
Paulo Telles de Freitas; Rita de Jesus |
The Pandemic in Africa
Clara Carvalho |
| 24 | Jihad: Insurgency or Terrorism?
Carlos Branco; Raquel Vaz Pinto |
On Cybersecurity
Lino Santos |
| 25 | Liberalism vs Authoritarianism
Jaime Nogueira Pinto, André Freire |
Sports and Politics
Marcelo Moriconi |
Academic coordinator: Luís Nuno Rodrigues, director of the Master’s in International Studies, director of the Centre for International Studies at Iscte.
Executive coordinator: (representative of the partners): Fernando Jorge Cardoso, head of Strategic and Development Studies of IMVF, executive director of the Clube de Lisboa.
Further information: https://cei.iscte-iul.pt
Contact: magdalena.bialoborska@iscte-iul.pt
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