The Changing Global Order

The Changing Global Order sharpened my interest in International Relations, now am keener to absorb it all.
Democracy and Autocracy are fighting for the soul of our world, United States, western Europe, newly democratized eastern European countries on one side, Russia, China on the other side, both fighting to retain and expand their hold in a delicately poised game of intrigue and power.
The course began and closed with an introduction to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). This powerful organ of the United Nations is charged with maintaining global peace, yet the veto power wielded by five powerful countries is an impediment to global peace as we see from invasion of Ukraine by Russia. How do we reform the UNSC to reflect current global power constellation?
The course dwelt on a few theories of international relations, realism, neo-realism, liberalism, neo-liberalism, constructivism, neo-functionalism etc. In this era of globalization, no country is operating exclusively one model of IR theory. While some like, North Korea, Iran may lean more towards realism, others deploy a mixture of realism, liberalism and constructivism in unequal measure.
This leads us to the Changing Power Relations, a dynamic process with diverse implications. China, the rising soft and responsible power, ready to take its rightful place at the center of the world, Russia, a revisionist power, intent on reclaiming its lost glory. Since the beginning of the millennium, Russia through Vladimir Putin has strengthened its old as a regional/global power, playing active role in the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperative Organization. But Putin's recent action of invading Ukraine may spell doom for Russia. Will this be the beginning of the collapse of Russia?
The course moved quickly to conflicts, conflicts resolution and security. We learn about mediation and coercion. Can a country be completely politically isolated in a globalized world as ours? How effective is economic sanctions as a tool for change in attitude of countries? The course materials provids useful insights.
Then there are regional organizations and their influence. The European Union is the most prominent and most coordinated, perhaps because of shared interest among the members, beginning with security expressed in their membership of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The course also provides a peep into the activities and challenges of NATO as a collaborative, global security provider.
I love this course, but I wish there is active feedback on students' enquiries on different issues.

This has the potential to be a really great course, but it left me disappointed and very, VERY frustrated. It's hard to give a simple star rating.

The content itself, and the format would deserve 4.5-5.
I think it's a great course in this aspect and I'm very thankful for the University of Leiden for making it freely available.

However, they've published this well-put-together course without ever checking it's written content, which is full of mistakes and inaccuracies. Because most of the professors speak with a very heavy accent, it's an absolute must to have subtitles displayed, even in English. Showing the transcript of the videos is also the default option on Coursera, so it's safe to assume that most English speakers watch these videos with English subtitles. Which in this case are horrendous. The transcript is automatically generated and every paragraph contains multiple mistakes. At best, it's just small details, but very often full words are changed which give a completely different meaning to the sentence. Let me give you an example: the transcript says "The Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria argued that due to the rise of the West, you are now seeing the emergence of a post-American world." It's exactly the opposite what Zakaria says!!! It's the "rise of the rest," meaning the economic emergence of China, India, Brazil, and other countries, in opposition to the West, which he describes in The Post-American World (2008).

So far I found no way to get in touch with the publisher to give them the list of amendments necessary. This really could be a very good course, but this way I'm struggling to understand most of the videos.