Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500259 Political Science and Public Management | OT | 3 | 2 |
2500259 Political Science and Public Management | OT | 4 | 2 |
2503778 International Relations | OB | 2 | 2 |
The students must read aprox 1000 pages
It's very useful to read newspapers and journal, particularly international sections and international news.
The general and specific goals are:
1. To locate knowledge of international theory in historical and epistemological perspective, in a comparative aprroach with social sciences and social and political theory.
2. To undertand the concepts of international theory and international theory, with all the nuances and meanings.
3. To study the main approaches of international theory from: a) the normal presentation in handbooks and mainstream narrativs; b) some classical sources; c) some classical and selected texts; d) new analytical tools; e) the view of each approach of the alternative approaches
4. To know several conceptual and analytical frameworks and mappings for locate and understand the international theory debates.
5. To study some special issues: a) realism-liberalism debates; b) interdepedence and security impact in theory; c) reflectivism and rationalism approaches, int he context of constructivism
6. To explore some cocnrete issues abotur the comtemporary international agenda from the point of view of the main international theory approaches
PART I. CONTEXT AND TOOLBOX
Lecture 1. International Relations versus international relations: context and concepts
Lecture 2. The notion of theory and the theory change (scientific revolution) in social sciences and International Relations
Lecture 3. Tools for mapping diversity: the state of the art on international theory
PART II. GREAT VISIONS AND APPROACHES
Lecture 4. Classical Realism (s)
Lecture 5. Structural Realism and another realisms
Lecture 6. Classical Liberalism (s)
Lecture 7. Neoliberalism or liberal neo-institutionalism
Lecture 8. “English school” of International Relations and the concept of “international society”
Lecture 9. Marxism and structural views
Lecture 10. Neo-marxist approaches and critical theory
Lecture 11. Constructivism (s)
Lecture 12. Several approaches and schools applied to International Political Economy (IPE)
PART III. METAHEORETICAL APPROACHES
Lecture 13. “Post” Approaches: post-structuralism, post-colonialism…
Lecture 14.Approaches based in feminist theory and gender studies
PART IV. CONCLUSION
Lecture 15. Examples of contemporary debates and the present situation of international theory
The edicación del estudiante a la asignatura se divide en diferentes tipos de actividades, que, en coherencia, se concretan en diversas exigencias y metodología diferenciadas. Se trata de una asignatura de 6 ECTS, por tanto equivalente a 150 horas
The course has 6 ECTS, 150 hours in total:
a) Presential activities s (50 hours, 33,3 %)
b) Supervised activitites: 25 hours (16,7%)
c) Papers and exams: 7,5 hours (5%)
d) Autonomous work: 67,5 hours (45%)
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures | 40 | 1.6 | |
Practical cases and activities | 4 | 0.16 | |
Seminaries | 6 | 0.24 | |
Type: Supervised | |||
Control of readings and papers | 25 | 1 | |
Exam | 7.5 | 0.3 | |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Readings and cases | 67.5 | 2.7 |
The final grade is a result of:
Final exam (with a presential part and one take-home part), 50%
Control of readings, 20%
Case studies, 30%
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Case studies | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 4, 6, 13, 9, 15, 12, 10, 16, 18 |
Control of readings and comprehension of literature | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 4, 3, 7, 6, 9, 5, 12, 10, 16, 17, 14, 11, 2, 8 |
Final Exam (presential and also with a take-home) | 50% | 0 | 0 | 1, 4, 6, 15, 12, 10, 16, 18, 14 |
GENERAL LITERATUREW AND HANDBOOKS
General (Handbooks on international relations, with section on international theory)
Brown, C. with K. Ainley (2009) Understanding International Relations (4th ed.) Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillian.
Art, R. J., and R. Jervis. 1995. International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues. 4th ed. Addison-Wesley.
Balaam, D. N., and M. Veseth, eds. 1996. Readings in International Political Economy. Prentice Hall.
Baylis, J., and S. Smith, eds. 1997. The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press.
Brown, M. E., O. R. Cote, S. M. Lynn-Jones, and S. E. Miller, eds. 1998. Theories of War and Peace: An International Security Reader. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Bull, Hedley (1977), The Anarchical society: a study of order in world politics, New York: Columbia University Press (traducción castellana en editorial la Catarata)
Creswell, John W. (2003), Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method approaches, 2a edición, Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications.
Keohane, Robert O. y Nye, Joseph (1971), Transnational Relations and World Politics, Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.
Keohane, Robert O (1984), After hegemony: cooperation and discord in the world political economy, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Keohane, Robert O. (1989), International institutions and state power: essays in international relations theory, Boulder [etc.]: Westview Press.
Carlsnaes, Walter, Risse, Thomas y Simmons, Beth A. (eds.) (2002), Handbook of International Relations, London [etc.]: Sage Publications.
Kegley, C. H. and E. R. Wittkopf. 1998. World Politics: Trend and Transformation. 7th ed.New York NY: St. Martin's.
Knutsen, T. L. 1997. A History of International Relations Theory. Manchester University Press.
Morgenthau, Hans Joachim (1990), Escritos sobre política internacional, presentación de Antonio Truyol y Serra; estudio preliminar, traducción y notas de Esther Barbé, Madrid: Tecnos.
Rosenthal, J. H. 1999. Ethics and International Affairs: A Reader. 2nd ed. Washington D.C: Georgetown University Press.
Russett, B. M. and H. Starr. 1996. World Politics: The Menu for Choice. New York NY: W. H. Freeman.
Tuathail, G. O., S. Dalby, P. Routledge, and G. Otuathail, eds. 1998. The Geopolitics Reader. Routledge.
Viotti, P. R., and M. V. Kauppi. 1997. International Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy, Identity. Prentice Hall College Division.
Waltz, Kenneth N. (1979), Theory of International Politics, Reading [etc.]: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
Wendt, Alexander (1999), Social theory of international politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wight, Martin (1991), International theory: the three traditions, edited by Gabriele Wight and Brian Porter, introductory essay by Hedldy Bull, Londres: The Royal Institute for International Affairs
- Burchill, S. et al. (2009) Theories of International Relations (4th ed.) Palgrave/Macmillian. A medio camino entre manual de relaciones internacionales y enfoque teórico. Nivel medio
- Dunne, T., M. Kurki & S. Smith (eds.) (2010, 2ª edición) Theories of International Relations: Discipline and Diversity, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (A 2nd edition in 2010 is also valid – references below are for the 1st edition). The best useaful handbook
- Griffiths, Martin (editor), International Relations Theory for the Twenty-First Century. An introduction, Londres, Routledge, 2007. Basic level, copy in virtual campus
- Jorgensen, Knud Erik, International Relations Theory. A New Introduction.New York.Palgrave7Macmillan, 2010. intermediate level.
Without specific software