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Theories of International Relations

Code 15459
Year 2
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload TP(60H)
Scientific area Relações Internacionais
Entry requirements N/A
Learning outcomes - Deepen students' understanding of international relations, leading them to question preconceptions about the phenomena
international.
- Deepen students' understanding of the main theoretical debates in international relations, the context of their
development, its main concerns and how they relate to the empirical dimension, both historical and
contemporary world of international relations.
- Deepen students' understanding of how international relations theories constitute a set of
perspectives/tools at your disposal, which are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and which are fundamental for a
critical and sustained analysis of international phenomena.
- Stimulating research guided by themes and cases within the framework of international relations.
- Promote reasoned debate and thematic discussion with a critical sense.
Syllabus 1. Introduction: disciplinary and scientific autonomy, object, method, concepts and theory
2. What is a theory of international relations?
3. Major debates in international relations theory
4. Liberalism
5. Neoliberalism
6. Classical realism
7. Structural realism/neorealism
8. Constructivism
9. Marxism
10. Critical theory
11. Feminism
12. Postmodernism/Poststructuralism
13. Post-colonialism
Main Bibliography Dario Battistella, Théories des relations internationales, Paris, Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2019
Joao Pontes Nogueira e Nizar Messari, Teorias das Relacoes Internacionais: Correntes e Debates, Sao Paulo, Elsevier, 2005
Celestino del Arenal e José Antonio Sanahuja, Teoria de las Relaciones Internacionales, Tecnos, 2015
Paul Viotti e Mark Kauppi, International Relations Theory, New York, Pearson Education, 2011
Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki e Steve Smith [eds.], International Relations Theories: Discipline and diversity, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016
Scott Burchill et al. [eds.], Theories of International Relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Stephanie Lawson, Theories of International Relations: Contending Approaches to World Politics, Polity, 2016
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria The teaching and evaluation methodology described is related to the student's need to explore the theories of IR with a view to their operationalization in the choice and treatment of each international reality that the student chooses to approach. The realization of these written works follows very specific parameters that allow the student to explore the various analytical and conceptual lenses and the theoretical imagination of the discipline, taking into account the learning related to the form and structure of essay writing, so essential for an informed, systematic and theoretically sustained international order.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2024-01-20

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