166-223 International Relations

Note

Available as 166-323 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This subject explores the relations between the developed world and Africa and Asia. Particular attention is paid to those processes of change and exchange which fall outside the formal interaction of states. Among the areas and issues considered are gender and sexuality, race, ideas about the nation and questions of economic dependency. By the end of this year-long subject students should have: a firm grasp of both traditional approaches to international relations and contemporary discourses which challenge established ways of thinking; an understanding of the ways in which the problems and perspectives of the Third World contest Eurocentric First World conceptualisations of international relations; a basis for undertaking more advanced work on the place of race, culture and gender in international studies.

Assessment

Essay work or equivalent totalling 5000 words.