Having completed the course the sudents sould be able to: understand, and use comparative methodolgy; compare and contrast variety of forms of political systems; anlyse the processes of democracy and democratisation in variety of settings; link the process of globalistion with the existing socio-economic and political systems; situate the contemporary issuses of poverty, economic development within the context of globalisation; understand and explain global power relations and the role of inernational organisations in the political and economic developments of nation states