CEI-Iscte SUMMER SCHOOL GLOBAL CHALLENGES
in partnership with the Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr (IMVF) and the Lisbon Club
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 the Master’s in International Studies of Iscte. 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 hours course, from 21 to 25 September 2020, with 2 daily classes, from 18h00 to 20h00 and from 20h30 to 22h30.
This year classes will be given online.
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 CEI-Iscte, the Center for International Studies of Iscte.
Executive coordinator: (representative of the partners): Fernando Jorge Cardoso, head of Strategic and Development Studies of IMVF, executive director of the Lisbon Club
Speakers, faculty bios: global challenges_faculty bios
Other information: magdalena.bialoborska@iscte-iul.pt