Global Issues: Austria & Czech Republic

GLOBAL ISSUES: AUSTRIA & CZECH REPUBLIC

This textbook, Global Issues: Austria & Czech Republic, is initiated as a collaborative writing project for a Webster University study tour course in Summer 2010.

Preface

1. Global Issues and Global Citizenship in Austria & Czech Republic
2. Sustainable Development / Environmental Degradation
3. Discrimination and Racism
4. Poverty and Homelessness
5. Migration, Immigration and Human Trafficking
6. The Politics of OIl
7. Case Reports

   a. European Fundamental Rights Agency (EFRA)

   b. The Palaces in Vienna & Prague (Hofburg/Imperial Hapsburg Palace & The Prague Castle)

   c. The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)

   d. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP)

   e. International Organization for Migration (IOM)

   f. OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) and OFID (OPEC Fund for International Development)

   g. Sigmund Freud Museum(Vienna) & Franz Kafka Museum (Prague)

   h. Anti-Semitism & Neo-Nazism in Vienna & Prague

   i. Literati and Intellectuals at Vienna's Cafes

   j. The Torte Wars in Vienna

   k. Global Issues in TV Movie: I Spy Returns (1994)