Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Введение в международные отношения
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Программа двух дипломов НИУ ВШЭ и Университета Кёнхи «Экономика и политика в Азии»)
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the basic theories, history, and philosophy of international relations. This course combines theoretical knowledge with the analysis of practical experience in international relations. It covers the leading theories of international relations (realism, liberalism, marxism) along with the key historical topics (World War I, World War II, the Cold War) and modern tendencies (the coronacrisis, the contemporary U.S.-China rivalry, sanctions and trade wars). In addition, the students will be exposed to the main ideas of more sophisticated and modern IR theories such as neorealism, neoliberalism, neomarxism, constructivism, and their major concepts and will be able to conduct their own theoretically based research.
Learning Objectives
- The course aims to initiate a systematic and holistic view on the basic theoretical approaches to international relations as a discipline, their historical evolution and influence as well as to form a systemic view on the specificity of key global political and economic processes through the prism of IR theory.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- By reading Thucydides, Morgenthau and other realist scholars students would have a fairly good idea as to how realists understand the world and what lessons they are trying to teach the world
- Students will be able to develop a comprehensive view on democracy and liberal values from different IR theories perspective.
- Students will be able to discuss the great power rivalry though the prism of main IR theories.
- Students will be able to examine the flaws of the traditional explanations for the end of the Cold War
- Students will be able to examine the main causes of WWI, WWII and the Cold War.
- Students will be exposed to Marx’s idea of communism and make a judgment as to what would be our best economic system.
- Students will have a basic understanding of Copenhagen school of IR, namely securitizations theory, as well as security communities theory of Karl Deutsch
- Students will have a basic understanding of realism, liberalism, marxism, constructivism, and neo theories as major theoretical paradigms of international relations in the US and the West: By studying historical cases such as WWI, WWII, the Cold War, etc., students will develop an interest in history. By combining theory, history, and philosophy, students will develop analytical and debating skills that will enable them to succeed in whatever they do
- Students will have a basic understanding of such burning issues in IR theory as anarchic politics, ethical questions, and International Politics, three views of the role of morality.
- Students will have a basic understanding of such burning and «new» issues in IR as sanctions, trade wars, information wars, the impact of coronacrisis on great power management, IR system and global institutions
Course Contents
- - An Overview of the course
- - Liberalism
- - Marxism
- - Academic writing
- - Balance of Power and the Origins of World War I
- - The Origins of World War II.
- - The post WWII order
- - Neo-theories
- - Constructivism
- - Securitization
- English School
- - Security communities
- - The rise of China and the decline of the U.S.
- - Brave New World: the new coronocrisis reality
- Non-Western IR Theories.
Assessment Elements
- Attendance (3 module)
- Final Exam
- Attendance (4 module)
- Homework (4 module; Essay)
- Homework (3 module; Essay)
- Midterm Exam (3 module)This element of control is an exam
- In-class Participation (4 module)
- In-class Participation (3 module)
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 4th module0.2 * Midterm Exam (3 module) + 0.3 * Final Exam + 0.025 * Attendance (3 module) + 0.125 * In-class Participation (3 module) + 0.1 * Homework (4 module; Essay) + 0.1 * Homework (3 module; Essay) + 0.125 * In-class Participation (4 module) + 0.025 * Attendance (4 module)
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- International systems in world history : remaking the study of international relations, Buzan, B., 2000
- Understanding international conflicts : an introduction to theory and history, Nye, J. S., 2005
- Гуров О.Н., Дерзаева Г.Г., Карнаухова О.С. и др. - «Новая нормальность» и международные отношения: от теорий к практикам - 978-5-9275-4658-9 - Южный федеральный университет - 2024 - https://znanium.ru/catalog/document?id=472326 - 472326 - ZNANIUM
- Мерзлякова И.Л. - Теория международных отношений - 978-5-7972-2607-9 - РГЭУ (РИНХ) - 2019 - https://znanium.ru/catalog/document?id=465078 - 465078 - ZNANIUM
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Олейников И.В. - Международные отношения и внешняя политика стран Восточной Азии - 978-5-7782-3509-0 - Новосибирский государственный технический университет - 2018 - https://znanium.ru/catalog/document?id=397742 - 397742 - ZNANIUM