STV-3005 International Politics - 10 stp

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.

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.

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.

The date for the exam can be changed. The final date will be announced at your faculty early in May and early in November.

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