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 2013 to 2013
• 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
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Běla Plechanovová, CSc.
• Teacher(s): prof. Ing. Petr Drulák, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students

Syllabus

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

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