Course code

RIR7003

old course code

RIR7003

Course title in Estonian

Rahvusvaheliste suhete klassikalised käsitlused

Course title in English

Intellectual History of International Relations

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

The course helps to develop an understanding of intellectual origins of International Relations (IR) as a discipline and provide an in-depth knowledge of IR thought, based on familiarity with key texts and contributions to the study of IR and their contemporary reception and critique. The course will help students to understand the broader intellectual context of their own research and successfully employ IR theory in their dissertations.

Brief description of the course

The first part of the course investigates the roots of approaches to IR in the social philosophy from Ancient Greece to the 19 century and presents some of the traditional mainstream IR theories.
The second part of the course is dedicated to an in-depth analysis of such IR approaches as the English School, structuralism and critical theory, constructivism and post-structuralism, as well as to the critique that these approaches have mounted on the ‘mainstream’ IR, notably realism and liberalism.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:

Understanding of the historical and social context of the discipline of IR;
- In-depth understanding of different theoretical approaches to the study of international relations and skills in their applications in dissertation research.

Teacher

Jyrki Käkönen, Jevgenia Viktorova Milne

Prerequisite course 1

International Relations: Approaches, Theories, Analysis (RIR6001.YK)