Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Tutorial
Module Offerings
5500BICIRP-SEP-PAR
Aims
1. To understand the evolution of IR as a body of knowledge and intellectual pursuit.
2. To understand the interplay between history and theoretical development.
3. To critically engage the Great Debates in the history of IR and understand the key questions at stake in those debates.
4. To develop a comprehensive understanding of the strength and limits of each theoretical approach
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of key questions and major debates in the history of IR.
2.
Critically reflect on the strengths and limitations of individual theoretical approaches.
3.
Discuss and analyse the key texts in the subject of IR.
4.
Breakdown the relationship between international theories and the development of international affairs.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Module will typically include the following:
• The emergence of IR as a subject in the early 20th Century
• What are the ‘Great Debates’?
• Realism/Liberalism
• Traditionalism/Behaviouralism
• Neorealism/Neoliberalism
• Rationalism/Reflectivism
Additional Information:In the first year of your UG degree you examined the different theories that are applied in International Relations, and how they were developed. Whilst we touched on how these theories formed and how they disputed each other, this module goes into the controversies in further detail. Structured around the ‘Great Debates’, this module provides greater insight into the theories that help inform our understanding of the world.