Application deadline

Type of course

Admission requirements

Admission requirement is a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, European Studies or another relevant subject.

The minimum average grade requirement is:

• C - for bachelor`s degree or equivalent issued in Europe, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand
• B - for bachelor`s degree or equivalent issued in all other countries

The course requires solid competence in reading and writing English.

Application code: 9371.

Course content

Objectives of the course

Students who have successfully completed the course should have achieved the following learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding

• solid grounding in the discipline¿s central theoretical ideas and approaches and how to apply them to the study of international politics.

Analytical abilities

• able to work independently - and employ relevant scholarly foundations - to address a variety of analytical challenges
• able to critically evaluate existing theories, methods and interpretations within the study of international politics
• able to apply scholarly knowledge critically, including reflection on his or her own scholarly practice
• able to take the initiative to apply knowledge to new domains
• able to formulate and structure complex scholarly arguments.

Competencies

• able to continue systematically the development of his or her own scholarly grounding and specialisation
• able to communicate research issues, questions, analyses and conclusions pertaining to his or her field with both specialists and lay-people
• able to participate in public debate on the basis of relevant knowledge from his or her field.

Language of instruction and examination

Teaching methods

Assessment

The exam has two components:

- A take-home exam on an assigned topic of up to 2.000 words to be completed in the course of a week. Students may take the opportunity to write the exam together in which case the maximum word-count will be 3000.

- A three-hour University-based, closed-book examination.The two components are give equal weight in evaluation and the assignement of the final grade. 

The Grade-scale goes from A (tope score) to E (pass) and F (fail). A re-sit exam will be arranged for this course.

Deadline for register for re-sit exams is January 15 for spring semester and August 15 for autumn semester. Both home and school exam must be submitted.

Recommended reading/syllabus

Masters in Political Science ¿ Spring 2018

STV 3005 ¿ International Politics

Required readings

R. Bhaskar, A Realist Theory of Science (London: Routledge, 2008), Introduction, 12-20. (9 pp.)

S. Bickford, `Constructing Inequality: City Spaces and the Architecture of Citizenship¿, Political Theory 28:3 (June 2000), 355-376. (14 pp.)

D. Brommesson and H.F. Fernros, `Individualisation and Destabilisation of the International Order: The Case of the Responsibility to Protect¿, International Review of Sociology 19:2 (July 2009), 315-330. (16 pp.)

H. Bull, `Society and Anarchy in International Relations¿, in H. Butterfield and M. Wight (eds.), Diplomatic Investigations (London: Allen and Unwin, 1966), 35-50.

B. Buzan, `Culture and International Society¿, International Affairs 86:1 (2010), 1-25. (25 pp.)

B. Buzan, O. Waever and J. de Wilde, Security: A New Framework for Analysis (London: Lynn Rienner, 1998), Ch. 2: `Security Analysis: Conceptual Apparatus¿, 21-48. (28 pp.)

D. Chandler, `Rethinking Global Discourses of Security¿, in Chandler and N. Hynek (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Human Security: Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations (London: Routledge, 2011), 114-128. (15 pp.)

R. Cox, `Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory¿, Millennium 10:2 (1981), 126-155. (30 pp.)

J. Der Derian, `The Boundaries of Knowledge and Power in International Relations¿, in Der Derian and M. Shapiro (eds.), International/Intertextual Relations (Toronto: Lexington Books, 1989), 3-10. (7 pp.)

S. Ewen, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of Consumer Culture (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), Ch. 1: ¿`Shorter Hours, Higher Wages¿¿¿ and Ch. 2: `Mobilizing the Instincts¿, 23-39. (17 pp.)

A. Giddens, `The Globalizing of Modernity¿, in D. Held and A. McGrew (eds.), The Global Transformations Reader (Cambridge: Polity, 2003), 60-66. (7 pp.)

G. Glasze, `Private Neighbourhoods as Club Economies and Shareholder Democracies¿, BelGeo 1 (2003), 87-98. (12 pp.)

J. Graz and A. Nölke, `The Limits of Transnational Private Governance¿, in S. Guzzini and I.B. Neumann (eds.), The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance: International Political Economy Meets Foucault (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 118-140. (23 pp.)

D. Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989): Chapter 17: `Time-space Compression and the Postmodern Condition¿, 284-307. (24 pp.)

A. Hasenclever, P. Mayer and V. Rittberger, `Integrating Theories of International Regimes¿, Review of International Studies 26:1 (2000), 3-33. (31 pp.)

C. Hay, Political Analysis, Ch. 5: `Divided by a Common Language? Conceptualising Power¿, 168-193. (25 pp.)

D. Held, `The Transformation of Political Community: Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization¿ in I. Shapiro and C. Hacker-Cordón (eds.), Democracy¿s Edges (Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 1999), 84-111. (28 pp.)

S. Huntington, `The Clash of Civilizations¿, Foreign Affairs (1993) 72:3, 22-50. (29 pp.)

R.O. Keohane, 'International Institutions: Two Approaches', International Studies Quarterly 32 (1988), 379-396. (18 pp.)

__________ and J.S. Nye, Power and Interdependence, Ch. 1: `Interdependence in World Politics¿, 3-19. (17 pp.)

A. Linklater, 'Men and Citizens in International Relations', in H.Williams (ed.), A Reader in International Relations and Political Theory (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1993), 309-325. (17 pp.)

E. McKenzie, Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government (London: Yale University Press, 1994), Ch. 3: `Homeowner Associations as Private Governments¿, 122-149. (18 pp.)

D. Mackinnon, `Natural Law¿, in H. Butterfield and M. Wight (eds.), Diplomatic Investigations (London: Allen and Unwin, 1966), pp. 74-88. (15 pp.)

J. Mearsheimer, `The Tragedy of Great Power Politics¿, in P.R. Viotti and M.V. Kauppi (eds.), International Relations Theory, 4th Edition (London: Pearson, 2010), 97-107. (11 pp.)

H.B. Milward and K.G. Provan, `Governing the Hollow State¿, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory: J-PART 10:2 (2000), 359-379. (21 pp.)

T. Mitchell, `The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics¿, American Political Science Review 85:1 (1991), 77-96. (20 pp.)

J.S. Nye, `Hard and Soft Power in American Foreign Policy¿, in P.R. Viotti and M.V. Kauppi (eds.), International Relations Theory, 4th Edition (London: Pearson, 2010), 89-97. (9 pp.)

A.H. Pashakhanlou, `Back to the Drawing Board: A Critique of Offensive Realism¿, International Relations 27:2 ( 2013), 202-225. (24 pp.)

V.S. Peterson and A. S. Runyan, 'The Gender of World Politics', in M.A. Genest (ed.), Conflict and Cooperation (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996), 533-544. (12 pp.)

R. Putnam, `Bowling Alone: America¿s Declining Social Capital¿, Journal of Democracy 6:1 (1995), 65-78. (14 pp.)

S.P. Ramet, `Kosovo: A Liberal Approach¿, Society 36:6 (1999), 1-9. (9 pp.)

A. Roberts, `Humanitarian War: Military Intervention and Human Rights¿, International Affairs 69:3 (1993), 429-449. (21 pp.)

J.G. Ruggie, `Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations¿, International Organization 47:1 (1993), 139-174. (36 pp.)

J.A. Scholte, `Globalization and Inequality¿, in Globalization: A Critical Introduction (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 316-347. (32 pp.)

M.J. Shapiro, `Textualizing Global Politics¿, in Der Derian and Shapiro, 11-22. (12 pp.)

C. Shearing and J.Wood, `Nodal Governance, Democracy, and the New ¿Denizens¿¿, Journal of Law and Society 30:3 (2003), 400-419. (20 pp.)

J. Steans, L. Pettiford, T. Diaz, and I. El-Anis, An Introduction to International Relations Theory: Perspectives and Themes, Ch. 5: `Postmodernism¿, 129-154. (26 pp.)

B. Teschke, `Geopolitical Relations in the European Middle Ages: History and Theory¿, International Organization 52:2 (1998), 325-358. (34 pp.)

R.B.J. Walker, Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), Chs. 1: `International Relations as Political Theory¿, 1-25, and 4: `History, Structure, Reification', 81-103. (48 pp.)

K. Waltz, `Political Structures¿ and `Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power¿, in R. Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and its Critics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), 70-130. (61 pp.)

__________, Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979), Ch. 7: `Structural Causes and Economic Effects¿, Part I (pp. 129-138); ch. 8: `Structural Causes and Military Effects¿, Parts I-III (161-176). (16 pp.)

M. Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (New York: Basic Books, 1992), Chs. 1: `Against ¿Realism¿¿, 3-20, and 6: 'Interventions', 86-108. (41 pp.)

A. Wendt, `Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics¿, International Organization 46:2 (1992), 391-425. (35 pp.)

P. Wilson, `The English School of International Relations: A Reply to Sheila Grader¿, Review of International Studies 15:1 (1989), 49-58. (10 pp.)

A. Zarakol, `What Makes Terrorism Modern? Terrorism, Legitimacy, and the International System¿, Review of International Studies 37:5 (2011), 2311-2336. (26 pp.)

Ø. Østerud, `Antinomies of Postmodernism in International Studies¿, Journal of Peace Research 33:4 (1996), 385-390. (6 pp.)

Total: 986 pages