International Trade

[\\'International Trade Organizations - This course focuses on international economic relations and trade organizations. It reveals challenges and limits for the nation-state to manage international affairs alone. The course evaluates specialized international organizations (WTO, UNCTAD, ICC, World Bank, IMF, WIPO) and examines their achievements in promoting global governance. The course discusses regional trade areas and arrangement worldwide (NAFTA, MERCOSUR, APEC, ASEAN, ECOWAS).\\', \\'Trade Promotion Strategies - The course provides students with the knowledge of how to promote business interests of national trade promotion agencies, non-government organizations, trade associations, chambers of commerce and TNCs. It focuses on trade promotion and role of the major international trade organizations in setting policy and standards that govern global trade.\\', \\'Global Economics - This course examines the function of the economy and the role of the firm in the economy. The course underlines the macro-economic principles in order to understand domestic and international policy issues, international trade policies and economic growth.\\', \\'Geoeconomics, Influence and Power - This course explores the impact of geoeconomics strategies of state and non-state actors in international relations. It examines European, US and East-Asian competitive intelligence, trade and economic interests at stake. The course addresses the issue of information operations and disinformation strategies, enforcement or destabilization of the nation state and state support to strategic industrial sectors through economic diplomacy. The relations between the state, corporate sector and civil society are examined in the form of case studies.\\', \\'Cross-Cultural Negotiations - In this course students develop negotiating strategies and tactics applicable in a global setting. The interrelationship between culture, communication and business is analyzed and appropriate approaches formulated.\\', \\'International Law - This course examines relations between nations and the legal framework that underpins these relations. The course reviews treaty law, law of the sea, international criminal law and various aspects of humanitarian law. The supernational context is studied in relation to the UN Charter and the workings of various international courts.\\', \\'International Trade Policy -The course addresses trade related issues in respect to economic development and growth, regional cooperation and interdependence among economies. It focuses on trade agreements, custom unions, economic sanctions and trade protection policies.\\', \\'Economic and Political Diplomacy - This course introduces students to the tools of economic policy and standard setting organizations. It develops an understanding of economic resources and trade relations as a policy objective. The course discusses how states conduct their economic relations, how they make decisions domestically, how they interact with non-state actors and engage in multilateral negotiations.\\', \\'International Trade and Finance - Trade and global governance, the contribution of the different players to the construction of a coherent multilateral system and the interaction between trade and sustainable development will be the course topics. Students will be introduced to international finance such as exchange rate systems, macroeconomic stability and international capital markets.\\', \\'Trade Statistics & Analyses - The course introduces students to statistical theory and its application to econometric models. It provides students with analytical tools to understand and analyze international economics and trade related issues by using statistics and econometrics.\\', \\'Foreign Policy-Making and Analysis - The course deals with domestic and external factors affecting the formulation of foreign policy and national security. It examines major political events after 1989 and policy making conceived and practiced by nation-states. The course aims to integrate theory and policy-making, diplomacy and strategy while focusing on foreign policy and national security.\\', "Innovation & Technology - Innovation is a strategic priority for companies\\' survival and growth. An efficient innovation management is crucial for every organization not only for new products but also for services and processes that can drive down costs, improve productivity and increase customer satisfaction. Technology is also an integral part of many strategic decisions and future plans for developing new products and services, achieving operational excellence and competitive advantage. In this course, students will be introduced to Innovation domain through case studies, explore Innovation processes and strategy. Then they will examine a number of business model disruptions in technology-driven industries and review several key/emerging technologies as well as enterprise information technologies as resources for Innovation. And finally they will explore how to link an organization\\'s technology strategy with the business strategy through innovation.", \\'Future Trade Issues (Capstone Course) - This course focuses on interaction between states, international organizations and non state actors on trade related issues. Trends of selected global issues such as natural resources and environment, intellectual property rights and WTO perspective are examined.\\', \\'Ethics, Strategy and Social Responsibility - This course examines CRS issues from the perspective of different aspects of corporate operations including strategy, accounting, finance, economics, entrepreneurship, marketing, organizational behavior and operations management, It includes lectures, case studies and student research projects and presentations.\\']