External Policies of the Great Powers

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes systematizing the main issues under study, on the basis of a dynamic of presentation of contents and interaction with the students, in order to assure an adequate follow-up to the materials under study. Practical lectures of presentation/comment/defense of essays, including a weekly exercise of press review debate about the topics under study. The interaction professor/student is fundamental in a logic of knowledge acquisition, development of analytical skills and deepening of competencies regarding critical analysis.

Evaluation: General regime (final exam – 100%) or continuous evaluation (individual and group assignments, participation in class – 100%).

Learning Outcomes

Analysis of the processes associated to the formulation and implementation of foreign policy, such as institutional structures, agenda-setting, decision making and prosecution of objectives. Goals, actors and instruments in the formulation and conduct of the foreign policies of great powers, as a framework for the analysis of the main developments in the foreign policies of the United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the Popular Republic of China. This curricular unit offers the basic framing for the analysis of foreign policies, applying this framework to the study of concrete foreign policies. It is envisaged to offer the needed knowledge for the understanding of the international dynamics in the foreign policy domain, stimulating critical competencies as well as the development of conceptual and operational capacity of analysis.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Theoretical introduction. Actors, dynamics and theoretical models in foreign policy analysis.

2. The foreign policy of the United States of America.

3. The foreign policy of the Soviet Union/Russian Federation.

4. The foreign policy of the Popular Republic of China.

5. Prospective.

Head Lecturer(s)

Sarah Carreira da Mota

Assessment Methods

General regime
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous evaluation
individual and group assignments, participation in class: 100.0%

Bibliography

FOREIGN policy of the United States. Editor Ernest Simone. Huntington : Nova Science Publishers, 2010.

MULTILATERAL (The) dimension in Russian foreign policy. Edited by Elana Wilson Rowe and Stina Torjesen. London: Routledge, 2009. [BP 327 MUL]

NEW DIMENSIONS of Chinese foreign policy. [Edited by] Sujian Guo and Shiping Hua. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007.

NEW DIRECTIONS in US foreign policy. Edited by Inderjeet Parmar, Linda B. Miller and Mark Ledwidge. New York: Routledge, 2009.

PAPP, Daniel S.; JOHNSON, Loch K.; ENDICOTT, John E. - American foreign policy: history, politics and policy. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005. [BP 327 PAP]

ROSS, John - Chinese foreign policy. Charleston: BiblioLife, 2009.

RUSSIAN foreign policy: sources and implications. Olga Oliker [et al.]. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Project Air Force, 2009.

US FOREIGN policy. Ed. by Michael Cox, Doug Stokes. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.