Courses for 2012/2013
| Course | Instructor | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| A Critical Survey of Theories of World Politics This is a survey course that looks at both mainstream and heterodox approaches to world politics. The course is designed to equip PhD students with a good grasp of some of the key concepts, themes, theories and debates in IR and to prepare ... | 4 | |
| Academic Writing for International Relations Continuing course from the Fall Semester. Master's Mandatory IRES 5002 2 4 2012/2013 ... | 2 | |
| Academic Writing for International Relations COURSE OBJECTIVES The aim of this course is to help you develop as a writer within the English speaking academic community by raising awareness of, practising, and reflecting upon the conventions of written texts. The course will also ... | 0 | |
| Critical Security Studies This course is concerned with how the so-called ‘critical turn’ in International Relations has been reflected specifically in thinking about Strategy and Security. ‘Critical Security Studies’ is, in its ... | 4 | |
| East Asia in International Relations The aim of this course is to introduce the international relations of East Asia. The course is divided in two parts. The first provides an overview to the region. An overview of East Asia during the 20th and early 21st centuries is first ... | 4 | |
| Economic Nationalism Economic nationalism has for long been one of the standard approaches in international political economy scholarship. Recently, however, criticism has been voiced with regard to the traditional analytical focus on state policy, and the ... | 4 | |
| EU Diplomacy: From Theory to Actor Over the period of the course, students will learn about the nature and structure of the EU’s external relations. Apart from description of the policies and the machinery set up to implement them, students will analyse the effectiveness of ... | 2 | |
| EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy The objective of the course is to provide students with the analytical tools to understand the special nature of the EU neighborhood policy. After a short introduction about the external competences of the EU and the structure of EU foreign ... | 4 | |
| EU Security and Defence Policy: What It is, How It Works, Why It Matters Security and defence is one of the areas in which the EU has advanced most in recent years. Europe has come a long way since the disappointments and frustration in the 1990s, when, in light of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, ... | 2 | |
| EU Security and Defence Policy: What It is, How It Works, Why It Matters II Security and defence is one of the areas in which the EU has advanced most in recent years. Europe has come a long way since the disappointments and frustration in the 1990s, when, in light of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, ... | 2 | |
| European Governance The objective of the course is to provide students with the analytical tools to understand the actual problems and proposed solutions of European governance. The semester is structured in two parts. The first is dealing with political ... | 2 | |
| European Integration This course is aimed at introducing participants to the main debates on European integration through an overview of the history and actuality of integration and a range of integration theories. Participants are expected to get a good grasp ... | 2 | |
| European Union Law Whether one likes it or not, governance and integration in the European Union are still very much based on, and shaped by, law and legal institutions. For that reason, anyone interested in these processes must possess a basic understanding ... | 4 | |
| Foreign Policy Analysis This course aims to familiarize students with the process by which foreign policy is made. In exploring this question, the course takes students on a tour through the range of theories of foreign policy-making. Broadly speaking, the course ... | 4 | |
| Gender in IR: Security, War, and Militarism This course is concerned with gender ‘in’ International Relations. More specifically, it is concerned with how the primary function of the sovereign state, security , and the most visible ... | 4 | |
| Global Economic Inequalities Does globalization reduce income and wealth inequalities? Or does it make the rich richer and the poor still poorer? In this course, we will examine long-term trends in global economic inequalities between and within countries, and we will ... | 4 | |
| International and European Refugee Law This course explores the legal and policy issues of forced migration. It is practice oriented, enabling the students to meet leading actors of the refugee scene. The course consists of four major blocks: the first sets the historic, ... | 4 | |
| International Interventions and Civil Wars This course covers the various efforts of the international community to help civil war countries. To better understand this topic, the course consists of four parts. The first part covers definitions of concepts and introduces many of the ... | 2 | |
| International Organization Looking at international relations through the prism of "organization" the problems of reproducing both the system of states and other systems, such as the economy or (world) society can be explained from a new perspective. In ... | 2 | |
| International Relations and Law The aim of this course is to familiarize the student with the basic elements of the international legal order. In particular we want to examine how social and political changes have transformed the traditional notion that international law ... | 4 | |
| International Relations Theory International Relations theory has been the subject of intense academic, intellectual and political debates. The main aim of this course is to introduce students to the main theoretical trajectories and contending positions that have shaped ... | 4 | |
| International Security The field of security studies has become one of the most dynamic and contested areas in international relations, conducive to the emergence of versatile research agendas. This has developed vis-à-vis the traditionally conservative field of ... | 4 | |
| International Security Studies During the period of the Cold War, International Security Studies was overwhelmingly concerned with the nation-state and the protection of its sovereignty: the safeguard of territorial integrity and political autonomy, largely through the ... | 4 | |
| International State-building The course surveys scholarly and policy debates on contemporary statebuilding, including humanitarian intervention, human security, the role of civil society, and the security-development nexus. It discusses both the liberal peace ... | 2 | |
| Introduction to Game Theory This course is an introduction to game theory for international relations that concentrates on the most commonly used game theoretic models in the international relations literature, and provides the basic mathematical background necessary ... | 2 | |
| Migration Politics and Policy There is nothing new about global migration. According to the latest statistics, the global migrant stock amounts to barely more than the 3% of the world’s population. Nevertheless, the movement of people across borders is a central ... | 4 | |
| Political Economy of International Finance Course Outline: This course presents systematic explanation of the emergence, evolution and current state of world financial system. We begin with historical overview and follow with emphasis on the last two decades when globalization ... | 4 | |
| Political Islam The course is concerned with understanding why and how Islam, a monotheistic religion has transformed into Islamism thus a political movement, whether this is an exception when compared to other religions and whether the relationship between ... | 4 | |
| Political Violence This course is intended to introduce students to various types of political violence that occur mostly at the domestic level. The course consists of five parts. The first part covers a general introduction to studies of political violence, ... | 4 | |
| Public International Law The course - designed for students with no legal background - covers major chapters of public international law, including the fundamental principles (also exploring the debates on the use of force), the rights of the individual, (human ... | 4 |
