Dr Peter Wilson CLM 5.10

This course is compulsory on the MSc in International Relations and MSc in International Relations (LSE and Sciences Po). This course is not available as an outside option.

An historical and theoretical analysis of core concepts in International Relations, of the normative and analytic issues involved; the disciplinary history of International Relations. Analysis, theoretical and empirical, of key issues in contemporary international politics (e.g. globalisation, US hegemony, global warming). Analysis, theoretical and empirical, of the main regimes in contemporary international politics (e.g. Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, Africa). Watch a short introductory video on this course: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalrelations/video/IR410-IP-video.aspx

10 hours of lectures and 13 hours and 30 minutes of seminars in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 15 hours of seminars in the LT.

Students deliver seminar papers and write three 2,000-word essays for their seminar teachers on topics notified at the beginning of the session.

Chris Brown with Kirsten Ainley, Understanding International Relations, 4th edn, (Palgrave, 2009); Tim Dunne, Michael Cox, Ken Booth (eds) The Eighty Years Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Michael Cox, Ken Booth & Tim Dunne (eds) The Interregnum: controversies in world politics, 1989-1999 (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Scott Burchilll et al, Theories of International Relations, 4th edn, (Palgrave 2009); Barry Buzan & Richard Little, International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2000); Michael Cox, Tim Dunne & Ken Booth (Eds), Empires, Systems and States: Great Transformations in International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2002); Martin Hollis & Steve Smith, Explaining and Understanding International Relations (Oxford University Press, 1991).

Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the main exam period.

The paper contains about 12 questions, of which three are to be answered.