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15685
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S1
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Relações Internacionais
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Entry requirements |
N/A
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Learning outcomes |
1 – Transmit to students the fundamentals of the foreign policy of the great powers and of security studies.
2 – Provide students with knowledge that will allow them to analyze and reflect critically on the international reality, taking into account: i) the main lines of the foreign policy of the great powers; ii) their performance within or in relation to some of the most relevant institutions for international security, namely the UN, NATO and the European Union; iii) the main factors and dynamics of international politics with regard to international security in its traditional dimension, i.e., military and strategic; and iv) the challenges facing the great powers at the international and regional levels that threaten the international order.
3 – Encouraging students to delve deeper into the themes addressed through research carried out by themselves;
4 – Develop capacities for analyzing the international reality and debating it.
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Syllabus |
1. The relationship between international politics, foreign policy and security.
2. Foreign Policy
2.1 The history and evolution of foreign policy analysis
2.2 The concept of foreign policy
2.3 Levels of analysis
2.4 The agency-structure debate
2.5 Foreign policy instruments
2.6 Foreign policy analysis and International Relations Theories
2.7 Decision-making models in foreign policy
2.8. Case studies: USA, Russia, China, Portugal, Brazil, India and EU.
2.9. Typology of contemporary diplomacy and challenges of diplomacy in the 21st century
3. Security
3.1 The concept of Securitization
3.2 The historical evolution of security studies
3.3 Global security challenges
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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, e 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 e 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, e 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 e
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
The subject's teachers provide students with preparatory materials for classes in advance, in order to improve prior information and facilitate participatory reflection by students. Theoretical sessions or exposition of contents by the teacher, execution inside and outside the classroom of written exercises by the students (for example: application of theoretical models, preparation of questions and reflections on a certain subject, problem solving); discussion of the main ideas of the class texts; organization of debates and analysis of case studies. The preparatory materials represent important learning resources and are available on the University's Moodle platform. The contact sessions include, in balanced doses, the teacher's exposition and the debate with the class.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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