Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | POLITICAL SCIENCE II : INTERNATIONAL POLITICS | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | APOL201 | ||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 4 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
Course Contents | Introduction to key concepts and perspectives. Course methodology: analytic schools on international relations as the axes of the analysis of modernization and the dynamics of the contemporary world. Uses of theory/analytic models to decipher rhetorical structures in news reporting. Initial discussion of idealist and realist schools.
Elaboration on realist and idealist schools. Marxist and radical perspectives. The conception of the world system and a world economy. Hegemony. Sovereignty.
The rise of the world system and modernity. From the Renaissance to the English revolution. Sovereignty and the treaty of The spreading of democratic revolutions and the diffusion of industrial capitalism: the emergence/legitimation of new political concepts/practices [equality, revolt/questioning of authority, mass society, nations/nationalism]. Conflicts on hegemony in the world system. Imperialism and the collapse of the western “balance of power”. Early post colonial models: Internal western dynamics: the Russian revolution and the coalescing of cultural and social revolution. Counter-revolution: the rise of fascism-nazism and the path towards World War II.
Global trends: hegemonic war, the rise of anti-colonialism and the emergence of American hegemony.
The students must begin collecting material on a geopolitical area for their final project and exam.
The division of The anti-colonial tide: shifts in the non-western world: the Chinese revolution, the independence of | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The taught part of the course is delivered to the students by means of lectures. Lecture notes are available for students to use with the textbooks. Other methods used beside the lecture, are discussions and presentations. | ||||||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |