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PS006. International Relations: Evolution and Theory
- GENERAL INFORMATION
| Title | International Relations: Evolution and Theory |
| Unit code | PS006 |
| Credit rating | 15 |
| Level | MA |
| Contact hours | 21 |
| Pre-requisite units | History of Political Thought, Method of Sociological Research |
| Co-requisite units | |
| School responsible | Moscow School of Social & Economic Science (Faculty of Political Science) |
| Member of staff responsible | Dr. Arutyun (Artyom) Ulunyan |
- AIMS
In accordance with the chief aim of the course the programme has for its object to educate students in an environment that emphasizes advanced knowledge, scientific approach and critical thinking that give an idea of an essence of International relations, its combined multiple character, background immanence, theoretical foundations and evolutionary potential. In the area of the chosen subject the following goals being placed on an agenda are supposed to be reached:
- to introduce existing concepts of International relations and its interpretations by world’s leading schools of thought from the perspective of political science;
- to create a coherent image of systems of International relations since its recognition as a dominating mode of interaction and interplay between relevant subjects, including governments, economic systems, labour and multinational corporations acting on the international scene;
- to define the role and place of think-tanks and lobbying groups in decision-making process including their contribution to the development of an agenda and international discourse;
- to set forth theoretical foundations of International relations and its regional projects of geospatial restructuring as it is being done in the new generation of foreign policy doctrines.
- BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT
Content
- International relations: Definition and Understanding from a historical point of view in political science.
a) Diversity of definitions of International relations;
b) Complexities of foreign policy and structural elements of International relations through historical perspective.
- Conceptual approaches to the international developments.
- Types and forms of existing concepts of International relations;
- Past and present schools of International relations’ thought: unity and diversity.
- Systems of International relations through political and historical perspective. Critical and comparative analysis.
- Mode of interplay between relevant subjects in International relations.
- Definitions of status of the actors in the International relations;
- Peculiarities of interplay of different subjects in International relations.
- Historical and political background of think-tanks’ activity worldwide. Current political and expert role of think-tanks.
- Emergence of the predecessors of think-tanks;
- Modern think-tanks and decision-making process and their influence on formulating International relations’ agenda in democratic societies;
6. Lobbyism and its national peculiarities.
7. Global and regional concepts of geospatial restructuring and their role in International relations in historical perspective and political strategy.
Core Reading
- Geiger A. EU Lobbying Handbook. Helios Media GmbH, 2007;
Krahlisch D. Lobbyismus in Deutschland – Am Beispiel des Dieselpartikelfilters. VDM Verlag - Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2007;
- Linklater A. International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Routledge, 2000;
- Linklater A., Suganami H. The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Assessment . Cambridge University Press, 2006;
- Markwell D. John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace, Oxford University Press. Oxford & New York, 2006;
- Theories of International Relations. Ed. by Linklater A., Burchill S. Palgrave, 2005;
- Ulunyan Ar. New Political Geography. Eurasia’s Reshapement. Historized Foreign Geoconcepts. Late XX-th – early XXI-st centuries. Moscow, IWH RAS, 2009 (Originally in Russian Улунян Ар. А. Новая политическая география. Переформатируя Евразию. Историзированные зарубежные геоконцепты. Конец ХХ в. – начало ХХI в. - М.: ИВИ РАН, 2009);
- Vigezzi B. The British committee on the theory of international politics (1954–1985): the rediscovery of history. Milano: Edizioni Unicopli, 2005;
- Waltz K. Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics: The American and British Experience. Little, Brown and Company. New York: 1967;
- Wight M. Four seminal thinkers in international theory : Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant, and Mazzini. 2005.
- INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
| Category of outcome | Students should be able to: |
| Knowledge and understanding | - learn basic concepts of International relations – know main postulates of leading modern schools of International relations, basic theoretical, scientific and analytical approaches to International relations from historical and political perspectives, - understand role and place of think-tanks in decision-making process and of foreign policy lobbyism in International relations; - understand characteristic features of evolution of International relations; - understand practical meaning of geospatial projects in foreign policy; |
| Intellectual skills | - develop the capacity of describing and analyzing International relations’ systems on the basis of existing theoretical methods; - develop the ability to understand a mechanism of decision-making process in International relations; - determine role and place of main actors in International relations to produce its coherent vision; |
| Practical skills | - resolve problems: identify the features of problem, including aspects of risk and select approaches and solutions; - identify desired communication outcomes; enhance understanding and engagement by academic and professional audiences; - research independently, by identifying and managing library and information resources including online, correctly citing, acknowledging and referencing sources; - undertake effectively independent and self-managed learning; |
| Transferable skills and personal qualities | - effective written and oral communication; - read, write and communicate in English on academic topics; - reflect and write analytically; - engage in scientific discussion and deliver creative and original thought; - find information and use information technology (including e-library resources) - exercise self-reliance skills and develop independent learning ability; - manage time and work to deadlines. |
- LEARNING AND TEACHING PROCESSES (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING)
- Contact hours: lections (70%) and tutorials (30%).
- Private assignment preparation
- Directed reading (paper and electronic texts)
- Essay writing
- ASSESSMENT (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING)
| Assessment task | Length | Weighting within unit (if relevant) |
| Essay | 3000-5000 words | 100% |
| Date of current version | 12 March 2010 |
| Approved by Deans’ meeting | 23 March 2010 |