84526 - International Relations

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