International relations theory
[SPRI2080]
[30h] 5 credits
This course is taught in the 1st semester.
Teacher(s): Michel Liegeois
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
The student will have to be able to decode and criticize the theoretical hypothesis of a scientific article.
He will be moreover capable of applying and distinguish the most appropriate theoretical and conceptual tools in order to elucidate a given problematic.
Main themes
The course deals then with a panorama of the concepts and theories constituting the foundation of the Interna-tional Relations discipline(IR). The great interparadigmatic debates which enamelled its evolution are reviewed. The approach is thus overall but not strictly chronological. Thus, teaching coherence will impose, for example, to gather in the same chapter the whole of the theories of realistic inspiration whereas those did not cease occu-pying the scene since second half of the XXth century.
Content and teaching methods
2) Realistic theories: traditional realism, neo-realism, neo-classic realism and contemporary alternatives
3) Transnationalists theories, neo-liberal institutionalism
4) Constructivism and the contemporary theoretical debate
5) Theories of the foreign policy
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Written exam + application exercise
ICampus Website, Slide show, collection of readings