- Docente: Sonia Lucarelli
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8048)
Learning outcomes
An introductory course to the analysis of international politics and of foreign policy, 'International relations' provides the students with the basic knowledge and skills to investigate international relations at both the theoretical and empirical levels. At the end of the course, students are expected to be familiar with the current debates in IR theories; to have acquired core skills to intepret key political processes at the international, supranational and transnational levels; to have developed the ability to apply such knowledge towards the understanding of selected outcomes in international politics, also in conjunction with concepts derived from other subjcet matters in their curricula.
Course contents
19 February, Wen 09:00 - 11:00
Introduction and origins of the discipline
2 March, Mon 15:00 - 17:00 on IOL
Debates
3 march, Tue 15:00 - 17:00 on IOL
Debates
4 March, Wen 09:00 - 11:00 on IOL
Debates
9 March, Mon 15:00 - 17:00
Realism
10 March, Tue 15:00 - 17:00
Realism
11 March, Wen 09:00 - 11:00
Realism
16 March, Mon 15:00 - 17:00
Realism
17 March, Tue 15:00-17:00
Seminar Realism
18 March, Wen 09:00 - 11:00
Liberalism
23 March
Liberalism
24 March NO CLASS due to thesis session
25 March
Liberalism
30 March, Mon 15:00 - 17:00
Liberalism
31 March, Tue 15:00 - 17:00
English School
1 April Seminar on Liberalism
6 April, Mon 15:00 - 17:00
IVth debate & Constructivism
7 April, Tue 15:00 - 17:00
Constructivism
8 April, Wen 09:00 - 11:00
Post-positivism
15 April, Wen 09:00 - 11:00
Q&A
15 April, Thursday 13.00-15.00 NOTE DIFFERENT TIME!
Explaining Russia’s foreign policy through IR theories
Guest Lecture, Mr. Nicolò Fasola *
20 April, Mon 13-15 and 15-17
Mid-term exam
21 April, Tue 15:00 - 17:00
Feminism and IR
Guest lecture Dr. Clara della Valle *
22 April, Wen 09:00 - 11:00
Globalization
27 April, Mon 15:00 - 17:00
Identity, Culture and international relations
28 April, Tue 15:00 - 17:00
Seminar on Global Multileval Governance
29 April, Wen 09:00 - 11:00
International Terrorism
Guest lecture, Dr. Silvia D’Amato
4 May, Mon 15:00 - 17:00
Security
5 May, Tue 15:00 - 17:00
"Exploring the European Union: the EU seen from your peers”
Gust lecture by Leonardo Gorrieri, in cooperation with Punto Europa
6 May, Wen 09:00 - 11:00.
Foreign Policy Analysis
11 May, Mon 15:00 - 17:00
Memory and Foreign policy: the case of Japan,
Guest Lecture Dr. Matteo Dian
12 May, Tue, 15.00-17.00
Class debates
13 May, Wen, 9.00-11.00
IPE
18 May, Mon 15-17
Q&A
25 May 13-15; 15-17
Mid term exam
Readings/Bibliography
Textbook:
Robert Jackson, Georg Sørensen, and Jørgen Møller, Introduction to International RelationsTheories and Approaches, Oxford UP, Vth Edition or more.
Compulsory reading material for the seminars:
1. Realism
John J Mearsheimer, “China's Unpeaceful Rise”, Current History; Apr 2006; vol. 105, n. 690, pp. 160-162 http://www.currenthistory.com/pdf_org_files/105_690_160.pdf
Charles Glaser, “Will China's Rise Lead to War?”, Foreign Policy,March/April 2011, vol 90, n. 2, pp: 80-91 http://politics.virginia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Glaser-VISC.pdf
G. John Ikenberry, "The future of the liberal world order: internationalism after America." Foreign Affairs 90.3 (2011): 56. https://courses.helsinki.fi/sites/default/files/course-material/4594676/Ikenberry.pdf
2. Liberal order
Daniel Deudney; G. John Ikenberry, Liberal World: The Resilient Order, 97 Foreign Affairs 16 (2018), available at: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2018-06-14/liberal-world
Amitav Acharya "After Liberal Hegemony: The Advent of a Multiplex World Order" September 8, 2017 Ethics and International Affairs, Available at: https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2017/multiplex-world-order/
Sonia Lucarelli, “The EU in the Post-Liberal Era: A Challenge with Global Roots, in A. Colombo e P. Magri, The end of a World. The decline of the Liberal Order, Milano Ledizioni LediPublishing, 2019 - available at: https://www.ispionline.it/it/pubblicazione/end-world-decline-liberal-order-22545
3. Global Multilevel Governance
M. Beeson & N. Bisley, Issues in 21st Century World Politics, Palgrave, 2013 (2nd edition) Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10. [course material]
NB: additional reading material will be distributed
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STUDENTS NON ATTENDING THE COURSE
Will also have to read one monograph among:
a) H. Bull, The Anarchical Society, 1977 (ed. it. La società anarchica, Vita e Pensiero).
b) K. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, 1979 (ed. it. Teoria della politica internazionale, Il Mulino). -
c) K. Waltz, Man, the State and War, 1959 (ed. it. L'uomo lo stato e la guerra, Giuffrè).
d) G. J. Ikenberry, Liberal Leviathan. The origins, crisis and transformation of American World Order, 2011 (ed. it. Leviatano Liberale. Le origini, le crisi e la trasformazione dell’ordine liberale, UTET, 2013) ]
e) S. Lucarelli, Cala il sipario sull'ordine liberale? Crisi di un sistema che ha cambiato il mondo, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2020.
Teaching methods
lectures and seminars
Tutor of the course:
Dr Clara della Valle
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/clara.dellavalle
Assessment methods
For students who regularly attend the course
Two written mid-term exams and a final oral exam. Only students with a positive mean in the written texts can take the final oral exam.
It is possible to (re)take one of the written exams at the end, the day of the oral exam.
For students who do not attend the course
a written text followed by an oral exam.
Teaching tools
power point
Office hours
See the website of Sonia Lucarelli
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.