Course code

RIR7608.YK

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Rahvusvaheliste suhete paradigmad

Course title in English

Paradigms in International Relations

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Matthew Crandall (language of instruction:English)

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring 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 theory, 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 course introduces a diverse selection of theoretical perspectives and approaches. It starts with unsettling the origins of IR theorising and confronts the eurocentric and exclusionary beginnings of the discipline by offering a post-Western overview of the foundational theories of IR. After this, we will thus re-centre how we teach IR theories and offer diverse perspectives, such as feminism, queer theory and critical relationalism, constructivism, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives. This course will give a thorough understanding of what is a theory and which building blocks it consists of (ontology, epistemology, methodology, reflexivity).

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- understands the historical and social context of the discipline of IR;
- understands of different theoretical approaches to the study of international relations and the can use theory in research.

Teacher

Matthew Crandall

Study programmes containing that course

International Relations (RIRAM/24.YK)