Learning objectives
* Explain and compare core theories and concepts in international trade and international relations.
* Apply international trade theories and empirical evidence to analyze real-world cases involving cross-border trade and supply chain relationships.
* Differentiate and integrate multiple theoretical frameworks to develop a structured analysis of international trade issues.
* Analyze and evaluate the societal and distributional implications of cross-border trade, including sustainability, resilience, and ethical considerations, and formulate and defend a well-reasoned position on these issues.
* Compare and assess diverse functional, institutional, and cultural perspectives in international decision-making contexts.
* Construct and deliver persuasive, professional arguments tailored to negotiations, inter-organizational relationships, and team settings, in written assignments, facilitations, and exams.

If you start to think about all the different organizations involved with the production and delivery of manufactured goods and services, the amount of relationships and interconnections between these organizations becomes overwhelming. International trade is the constellation of cross-border exchanges that connects national economies through flows of goods, services, capital, and knowledge, shaping specialization, interdependence, and economic development at the global level. Supply chains are constellations of firms that together form the link between raw materials and the end consumer, including physical product flows but also services, information, and finances. International trade from a macro-economic perspective and inter-organizational relationships from a firm-level supply chain perspective come together in this course.

Cases, academic and practitioner articles.