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Learning outcomes |
Objectives:
1 - Introduce the students to the academic discipline of International Relations, aiming at the understanding of its process of scientific and academic autonomization within the framework of the social sciences;
2 - Provide students with the fundamentals of International Relations, namely, the main events in the history of international relations from the Peace of Westphalia to the present day, the central concepts used by the discipline and the theories developed within it;
3 - Deepen students' intellectual interest in various topics of contemporary international relations, leading them to question their previous ideas and encouraging them to use International Relations Theories to better understand the international reality.
Learning outcomes:
1 - Understand and explain the theoretical and historical foundations of the discipline of International Relations.
2 - Consolidate a critical spirit characterized by the ability to analyze the international reality using the various Theories of International Relations.
3 - Deepen the themes addressed through the research carried out by the students themselves using various sources and taking into account the perspectivism underlying International Relations.
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Syllabus |
1. Introduction: disciplinary and scientific autonomy, object, method and theory
2. Historical context of international relations: from Westphalia to present day
3. Concepts
3.1. State
3.2. Nation
3.3. Sovereignty
3.4. Power
3.5. Order
3.6. Anarchy
3.7. System, society and community
3.8. Cooperation
3.9. Conflict
4. Actors in international relations
4.1. States
4.2. International Organizations
4.3. Transnational actors
5. Theories of International Relations
5.1. Realism
5.2. Liberalism
5.3. English School
5.4. Marxism
5.5. Critical Theory
5.6. Postmodernism
5.7. Constructivism
5.8. Feminism
6. Themes of international relations
6.1. International Security
6.2. Globalization and international political economy
6.3. Global governance
6.4. Nationalism, regionalism and cosmopolitanism
6.5. Identity, culture and religion: clash of civilizations?
6.6. Human rights
6.7. Environment and climate change
6.8. International relations in the 21st century
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Main Bibliography |
Bull, Hedley. A Sociedade Anárquica: um estudo da ordem na política mundial. São Paulo: Editora Universidade de Brasília, 2002.
Cravinho, João Gomes. Visões do Mundo: As Relações Internacionais e o Mundo Contemporâneo. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2002.
Heywood, Andrew. Global Politics. 2.a ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Kissinger, Henry. A Ordem Mundial. 3.ª ed. Alfragide: D. Quixote, 2016.
Maltez, José Adelino. Curso de Relações Internacionais. São João do Estoril: Principia, 2002.
———. Manual de Ciência Política: Teoria Geral da República. Lisboa: Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2018.
Mingst, Karen A., e Ivan M. Arreguín-Toft. Essentials of International Relations. 7.a ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.
Moreira, Adriano. Teoria das Relações Internacionais. 9.a ed. Coimbra: Almedina, 2016.
Santos, Victor Marques dos. Introdução à Teoria das Relações Internacionais: Referências de Enquadramento Teórico-Analítico. Lisboa: ISCSP, 2007.
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