Learning Results
To follow the events and understand the most important processes of the international scene.
Understand the transformations elapsed in the last decade of the twentieth century and the social, political and
economic organization of the new world.
Understand the current situation in the world as well as the contemporary European civilization.
Program
I – INTRODUCTION
– Nature, purpose and methodology of the discipline
– Specificity of the social phenomenon of international relations
II – THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
– Concept of the Theory of International Relations
– Classical School of International Relations (Realistic Theory)
– School of Transnationalism (Idealist Theory)
– Marxist Theory of International Relations
– Theories partial
– Theories of conflict
– Theory of strategy
– Integration of theory
III – SOCIOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The multipolar world
– Japan and the United States
-The BRICs (Brazil, India, Russia and China)
– The rest of the world: Africa, Asia and the Arab countries
International Organizations as actors of International Relations
International Political Systems
– Rules and laws of operation
– Types of international systems
– Geopolitics
– Geostrategy
Internship(s)
NAO
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