Actualités et agenda
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Présentation
Introduction to International Relations and World Politics
The purpose of the course is threefold. First, it aims at introducing the students to the discussion about how to approach, analyze and possibly intervene “on” so-called international phenomena, i.e. socio-political phenomena that develop beyond, or transcend the limits of their spatially and temporally situated sites of materialization. Second, it ambitions to make students aware of the radical heterogeneity of the practices that have constituted the “international” as both a domain of practices and an object of knowledge. Thirdly, it aims at equipping the students with “critical” skills, that is with conceptual and analytical tools so they approach contemporary social and political issues without merely reproducing commentaries and discussions about what is unreflectively referred to as the “international.”
In this purpose, the course is divided in two main clusters. The first will develop about some of the most influential approaches to international relations [(neo-)realist, marxist, (neo-)liberal, constructivist and the so-called critical approaches] as well as the main concepts around which they have come to articulate their understanding of particular issues they attach to the ‘international’, hence their conception of the latter. The second cluster of lectures will more specifically discuss some of the most pressing issues of our contemporary era such as violence, war and security, migration, mobility and borders, development and/or environment, trying more particularly to assess the way they are being problematized by each of the previously introduced approaches.
Session 01 – 20.01.2017 – Introduction (3h)
- Overall presentation of the course: aim, method and evaluation.
- What are, and how to study “international relations” ?
- A brief history of IR studies
- Theor-y/ies vs theorization(s): IR and epistemological issues
- Political Modernity
- Distribution of work for the first class of the Reading Seminar
CLUSTER 1: Approaches of ‘international relations’
Session 02 – 27.01.2017 – Realist and neo-realist approaches
Concepts: international system, anarchy, polarisation, fragmentation, state, sovereignty, power, structure
Important authors: E.H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz
Session 03 – 03.02.2017 – Liberal and transnationalist approaches
- Concepts: International organization, non-governmental organizations, cooperation
- Important authors: Hedley Bull, Raymond Aron, Stanley Hoffmann, Pierre Hassner, David Mitrany, Andrew Moravcsik, Robert Keohane, James Roseneau
Session 04 – 10.02.2017 – Marxist and IR Critical Theory approaches
- Concepts: Imperialism, Center/Periphery divide, Wealth, Development, Growth, Structural Violence
- Important authors: Immanuel Wallerstein, Johan Galtung, Robert Cox
Session 05 – 17.02.2017 – Constructivism
- Concepts: Ideas, norms, agent, structure, language
- Important authors: Nicholas Onuf, Alexander Wendt, Emmanuel Adler.
Session 06 – 03.03.2017 – Sociological approaches
- Concepts: the International, the social, process, empiricism, rationalism, decision, state,
- Important authors: Didier Bigo, Iver Neumann, Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth.
Session 07 – 17.03.2017 – Conceptual approaches
- Concepts: Discourse, reflexivity, critique
- Important authors: RBJ Walker, Richard Ashley, James Der Derian, Michael Shapiro, Jens Bartelson
CLUSTER 2: Contemporary Challenges
Session 08 – 24.03.2017 – Violence, War, Conflicts and Security
- Concepts: Violence, terrorism, war, peace, diplomacy, conflict, security, enemy, adversary, threat
Session 09 – 31.03.2017 – Migration, Mobility, Borders
- Concepts: Migration, mobility, border, border control, surveillance
Session 10 – 07.04.2017 – Development and Progress
- Concepts: Development, progress, North/South, West/Non-West, Center/Periphery
Session 11 – 14.04.2017 – Technology and Environment (3h)
- Concepts: Technique, technology, environment, milieu, nature, culture, anthropocene
Modalités
Ressources
<strong>Session 01 – Introduction (3h)</strong>|| Waltz Kenneth, [1979]. “Laws and Theories”, in <i>Theory of International Politics</i>, Reading : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, pp. 18-37.|| Ruggie, John, [1993]. “Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations”, <i>International Organization</i>, 47(1) : 139-174.|| <strong>Session 02 – Realist and neo-realist approaches</strong>|| Waltz Kenneth, [1990], “Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory”, <i>Journal of International Affairs</i>, 44(1) : 21-37.|| Morgenthau Hans, [1948]. “A Realist Theory of International Politics”, in <i>Politics among nations. The Struggle for Power and Peace</i>, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, pp. 4-15.|| <strong>Session 02 – Realist and neo-realist approaches</strong>|| Waltz Kenneth, [1990], “Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory”, <i>Journal of International Affairs</i>, 44(1) : 21-37.|| Morgenthau Hans, [1948]. “A Realist Theory of International Politics”, in <i>Politics among nations. The Struggle for Power and Peace</i>, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, pp. 4-15.|| <strong>Session 03 – Liberal and transnationalist approaches</strong>|| Moravcsik Andrew, [1997]. “Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics”, 51(4) : 513–53.|| Hedley Bull, [2002 (1977)]. “The Concept of Order in World Politics”, in <i>The Anarchical Society. A study of Order in World Politics</i>, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 3-21.|| <strong>Session 04 – 10.02.2017 – Marxist and IR Critical Theory approaches</strong>|| Galtung Johan, [1971]. “A Structural theory of Imperialism”, <i>Journal of Peace Research</i>, 8(2), pp. 81-117.|| Cox Robert, [1981]. “Social forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory”, <i>Millenium. Journal of International Studies</i>, 10(2): 126-155.|| <strong>Session 05 – Constructivism</strong>|| Onuf Nicholas, [1989]. “Constructivism”, In <i>World of our making</i>, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, pp. 35-65.|| Wendt Alexander, [1992]. “Anarchy is what States make of it”, <i>International Organization</i>, 46(2) : 391-425.|| <strong>Session 06 – Sociological approaches</strong>|| Bigo Didier, Walker R.B.J., [2007]. « Political Sociology and the Problem of the International », <i>Millennium. Journal of International Studies</i>, 35(3) : 725-739.|| Siméant Johanna, Lickert Victoria, Pouponneau Florent, [2016]. “Introduction : Face à l’international. Textes et pratiques de l’enquête en sciences sociales”, in Johanna Siméant, <i>Guide de l’enquête globale en sciences</i> sociales, Paris, CNRS Editions, pp. 13-31.|| <strong>Session 07 – Conceptual approaches</strong>|| Foucault Michel, Lecture 11 (March 28) in <i>Security, Territry, Population. Lectures at the Collège de France 1978.</i> London/New York : Palgrave-McMillan, pp. 375-392.|| Berenskoetter Felix, [2016], “Unpacking Concepts”, in <i>Concepts in World Politics</i>, Sage, pp. 1-19.|| <strong>Session 08 – Violence, War, Conflicts and Security</strong>|| Hassner Pierre [2012]. “Violences, conflits et guerre : déclin ou mutation ?”, in <i>Les relations internationales</i>, Les Notices de la Documentation française.|| Bigo Didier [2001]. “A Fresh Look at Conflicts” In, Marie-Claude Smouts, <i>The New International Relations. Theory and Practice</i>. London: Hurst, pp. 171-199.|| <strong>Session 09 – Migration, Mobility, Borders</strong>|| Hassner Pierre, [2002]. “Fixed Borders, Moving Borderlands. New Type of Border for a New type of Entity”, in J. Zielonka (ed.),<i> Europe Unbound</i>, London : Routledge, pp.38-50.|| Bonditti Philippe, [2011]. “Tracer les individus, effacer les frontiers”, <i>CERISCOPE Frontières</i>.|| <strong>Session 10 – Development and Progress</strong>|| Hall Stuart, [1996]. « The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power », in S. Hall <i>et al.</i> (dir.), <i>Modernity: An Introduction to