EVSBPIPM International Integration Processes

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Summer 2026
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Dr. Ing. Ingrid Majerová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Dr. Ing. Ingrid Majerová
Departament of Economics and Public Administration – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Contact Person: Dr. Ing. Ingrid Majerová
Timetable
Mon 15:35–17:10 A216
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
EVSBPIPM/01: Mon 17:15–18:00 A216, I. Majerová
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(OPF) && TYP_STUDIA(B) && FORMA(P) && ROCNIK(2) && PROGRAM(B_MZO)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 16 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 14/16, only registered: 4/16
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course creates basic knowledge prerequisites for understanding the nature of contemporary integration processes and the degrees of their development in the world economy, respectively on individual continents. It introduces students to the motives and theoretical models of integration, as well as to globalization and regional integration processes. Last but not least, it deals with integration tendencies in the history of the Czech state.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be familiar with the development of integrations in all parts of the world and identify their basic differences. She/he will be able to identify the most important integration trends in the world, including specific integration groupings.
Syllabus
1. The concept of integration, theoretical models of integration processes and degrees of economic integration

Political and economic motives of integration processes. Lines and forms of integration. Integration models and stages of integration. Functionalism and institutionalism in the theory of integration processes. Individual representatives of integration theory and their theories.
2. Globalization and regionalization in integration processes

Concept of globalization. Factors and carriers of globalization and its main features. Subjects and levels of global integration. Consequences of globalization for integration processes. Concept of regionalization. Intra-regional and inter-regional integration processes. Mega-regional and supra-regional integration. Relationship between the globalization process and regional integrations.
3. Integration processes in Central and Eastern Europe

Development of integration processes in Central and Eastern European countries – Comecon, its creation, course of activity, and dissolution. Transformation processes in these economies and new integration groupings. The Visegrád Four. CEFTA. Customs union between the Czech Republic and Slovakia. CIS and the Baltic states grouping. Relation of these groupings to the EU.
4. Integration processes in Western Europe

Organization for European Economic Cooperation. European Free Trade Association. European Economic Area. Western European Union. Development of the European Union – ECSC, EEC, EC, EU, EMU. The present and future of European integration.


5. Integration processes on the American continent

Specifics of integration processes in developing countries. Characteristics of the region. Integration in the North American region. Central American and Caribbean integration processes. Integration processes in South America.
6. Integration processes on the African continent

Integration processes on the African continent

Regional characteristics. Historical development of African integrations and their specifics. West African integrations. East African integrations. Central and Southern African integration efforts.

7. Arab integration processes and pan-African integration

Regional characteristics. Arab Maghreb Union. Pan-African integration. United Arab Emirates. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).
8. Integration processes in Asia and the Pacific

Regional characteristics of Asia and the Pacific. Regional integration processes in Asia. Regional integration processes in the Pacific. Intercontinental integration – APEC and IOR-ARC.

Literature
    required literature
  • MAJEROVÁ, I. Mezinárodní integrační procesy. Karviná: SU OPF, 2014. info
    recommended literature
  • Nagy, S.G. (Ed.), (2025). The Economics of Regional Integration (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003506423
  • MUKHERJEE, D., 2019. Economic Integration in Asia: Key Prospects and Challenges with the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1138480957
  • BALASSA, B., 1961. The Theory of Economic Integration. Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin.
  • TINBERGEN, J., 1965. International Economic Integration. 2nd Ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0444405739.
Teaching methods
lectures, presentation of current topics, discussion
Assessment methods
participation in seminars min. 60% (10% rating), presentation (30% rating), combined exam (60% rating)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2021, Summer 2023, summer 2024, Summer 2025.
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