The main purpose of the bachelor in International Relations, Global Economy and Strategy (BA) is to provide advanced knowledge in an interdisciplinary approach that intends to combine four separate but still interlinked sectors of international life. First, international politics proper. Second, international political economy. Third, European integration and regional political, strategic, and economic developments. Fourth, strategy in international politics and enterprises.
The bachelor in International Relations, Global Economy and Strategy (BA) considers “economics” both at the state level and at the international level as crucial for understanding the contemporary world and the strategies of states and enterprises. Economics is crucial in all sectors of international and transnational interactions.
International political economy (IPE) as it developed during the last decades by authors such as Krasner, Keohane, Nye, Gilpin, et al, links, inter alia, state strategies, international economic organizations and international governance, state power.