Theories of International Relations - JPM314

• Title: Theories of International Relations
• Guaranteed by: Department of International Relations (23-KMV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2012 to 2012
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. Ing. Petr Drulák, Ph.D.; doc. PhDr. Běla Plechanovová, CSc.
• Teacher(s): prof. Ing. Petr Drulák, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students

Annotation

This course is offered by the Department of International Relations to the IEPS and GS Programmes students and for non-programme students, including the international exchange students.

The course introduces students into the tradition of international thinking presenting its most important streams. It starts with the evolution of the discipline of IR illustrated by its great debates. Following this, ontological and epistemological problems in IR research are examined. Finally, the course addresses individual traditions and streams; realism, liberalism, postmodern and constructivist approaches to the study of IR, scientism, Marxism, feminism and green political theory in IR.

Last update: PLECH (25.09.2013)

Literature

Files of the literature from the list of required readings are uploaded in the system but are "visible" for enrolled students only, i.e. after your enrollement is confirmed after 12 October.

Last update: PLECH (25.09.2013)

Syllabus

Introductory session. Course objectives and requirements
Session 1. International relations: genealogy of the discipline
Session 2. Realist theory and the critique of liberal utopianism: state of nature, realpolitik, and the
origins of war
Session 3. Neorealism (structural realism): international system, stability and polarity
Session 4. The liberal response to neorealism: 'complex interdependence', cooperation and
international institutions
Session 5. The English school of international relations: 'international society' and 'world order'
Session 6. Sociological institutionalism: sovereignty and decolonization
Session 7. Social constructivism: norms, ideas, and practices in international relations
Session 8. The concepts of soft power and public diplomacy
Session 9. Marxism in international relations: world-systems theory and the critique of globalized
capitalism
Session 10. Post-structuralism: identities, discourses, and power

Last update: Kazharski Aliaksei, Ph.D. (27.01.2023)