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Learning outcomes |
Objectives
1 - Transmit to students the fundamentals of the foreign policy of the great powers and of security studies.
2 - To equip students with knowledge that will enable them to analyze and reflect critically on the international reality taking into account: i) the main lines of foreign policy of the great powers; (ii) their action within or with respect to some of the institutions most relevant to international security, in particular the UN, NATO and the European Union; (iii) the main factors and dynamics of international politics as regards international security in its traditional dimension, i.e. military and strategic; and (iv) the challenges that the great powers face at the international and regional levels which threaten the international order.
3 - Encourage students to deepen the themes addressed through their own research;
4 - Develop the capacities to analyze the international reality and debate about it.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course unit, students should be able to identify the main lines of foreign policy of the great powers, reflect on international politics by considering international security in its traditional dimension and analyze the major threats which the great powers face.
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Syllabus |
1. Introduction: foreign policy, international politics, great powers and international security
2. Foreign policies of the USA, Russia, China, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan
3. War, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and cyberwar
4. Regional challenges and threats
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Main Bibliography |
Allison, Graham. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Cox, Michael, and Doug Stokes. US Foreign Policy. 3.ª ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Freire, Maria Raquel, ed. Política Externa: As Relações Internacionais em Mudança. 2.a ed. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2015.
Hough, Peter, Shahin Malik, Andrew Moran and Bruce Pilbeam, eds. International Security Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 2015.
Lanteigne, Marc. Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction. 3.ª ed. London: Routledge, 2016.
Kissinger, Henry. A Ordem Mundial. 3.ª ed. Alfragide: D. Quixote, 2016.
Smith, Steve, Amelia Hadfield, and Tim Dunne, eds. Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases. 3.a ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Tsygankov, Andrei P. Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity. 4.ª ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Williams, Paul D., ed. Security Studies: An introduction. 2.ª ed. London: Routledge, 2013.
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