International Relations Theory I
0
2024-2025
01620757
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of English.
Teaching Methods
Teaching methods include interactive lectures complemented by moments of discussion and analysis of texts that allow an in-depth knowledge of the theories and debates, as well as of the implications of these for reading international relations.
Learning Outcomes
Main learning outcome
- Understand and analyse the main International Relations theoretical approaches and relate these to the debates that are part of their development.
Specific learning outcomes and skills
- Identify the main theoretical approaches to International Relations, contextualise its emergence and identify the central elements to its evolution
- Get acquainted with the main authors, concepts and theoretical debates in the discipline
- Relate theoretical debates to case studies in International Relations.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. Theoretical debates in International Relations
2. Liberalism
3. Realist School
4. Neorealism and Neoliberalism
5. Marxist Schools in International Relations
6. English School.
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Research work: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Mini Tests: 50.0%
Bibliography
BALDWIN, D., Neorealism and neoliberalism: the contemporary debate, Columbia Univ Press, 1993
BURCHILL, S. et al, Theories of international relations, Palgrave, 2001
CARLSNAES, W. et al, Handbook of international relations, Sage, 2003
CARR, E.H., The Twenty years' crisis: 1919-1939, Palgrave, 2001
CRAVINHO, J. G., Visões do mundo: as relações internacionais e o mundo contemporâneo, Lisboa, ICS, 2002
DOYLE, M., “Kant, liberal legacies, and foreign affairs”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 12, 3/4, 1983
LINKLATER, A. (ed.), International Relations: critical concepts in political science, 5 vols, Routledge, 2001
JACKSON, R. et al, Introduction to international relations: theories and approaches, Oxford University Press, 2003
KEOHANE, R. (ed.), Neorealism and its critics, Oxford University Press, 1986
MEARSHEIMER, J., “The False Promise of International Institutions”, International Security, 19, 3, 1994/95
WALTZ, K, Theory of International Politics, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1979.