“Entorno Económico Global” (Global Political Economy) is an undergraduate course on international political economy which combines lectures, oral presentations and colloquium. It focuses on the main issues in international political economy, such as globalization, governance, trade, foreign investment, international migrations or financial markets.

Global Political Economy is designed as an introduction to the main ideas, trends, events and forces which shape the political, institutional and social framework in which the world economy develops.

For this purpose the course takes a multidisciplinary approach combining questions from different social sciences such as economics and political science. This analysis will help students develop a critical understanding of the new reality of the world economy, which some define with the sole word "globalisation" but which has many different sides to it. During the course we shall address the role and position of the economies of Spain and Europe in this global framework.