Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: International Relations

SOCIOLOGIA DAS RELAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS - 2023/2024

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 3

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Fernanda Alves
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Fernanda Alves

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Provide students with a solid knowledge of the main concepts of the sociological approach of International Relations, seeking to understand how social relations, cultural norms, identities and social institutions affect relations between states and international actors and delve into case-studies in order to prepare the students to analyze critically the most relevant issues of International Relations.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Knowledge and understanding of the main concepts, structures, contexts and instrumental ideas in the area of Sociology of international relations, namely the processes that led to the formation of modern societies and their interrelation.

Skills to be acquired

Acquisition of intellectual skills on key concepts, theories and methods of analysis of contemporary international relations in order to develop innovative and critical arguments about political phenomena, social and economic factors that characterize the current international society.

Teaching Procedures

Lectures are designed to be collaborative, combining explanatory and debates on the matter, with text analysis and subsequent involvement and discussion.
Active learning methods with moments for student interaction (debates, simulations, presentations, problem solving exercises, news article analysis).

Programme

1. Introduction
1.1 - Nature, purpose and methodology of the discipline
1.2 - Justification of the importance of discipline in the course
1.3 - Presentation of basic bibliography
2. The sociology of international relations: theoretical-methodological approaches
2.1 - The sociological approach: basic principles
3. Ways of conceiving the international
3.1 - International Anarchy
3.2 - International community
3.3 - International society
4. Transformation of International Politics
4.1 - Explanatory paradigms and levels of analysis: the structural factor; the state factor, the individual factor and the ideological factor. The agent-structure debate.
4.2 - International Order
5. Different forms of violence in the international
5.1 - Direct
5.2 - Structural
5.3 - Cultural
6. Beyond Eurocentrism in International Relations: critical approaches
7. Nation-state, citizenship and marginalization
8. Identity and Otherness. Practices of hierarchy and exclusion of difference
9. Neoliberal globalization, discontent and resistance
9.1 - The end of History and its implications
10. Universalism x cultural relativism
11. Coercion, discipline and the (im)possibility of resistance
11.1 - Social movements
12. Collective memory and memorialization

Evaluation Type

The evaluation system is carried out according to the rules defined in the General Regulations for Knowledge Assessment of Lusíada University. In this sense, it is taken into account ongoing evaluation, including attendance, participation, two mini tests and a critical essay.

Teaching Resources

Power point, Internet

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Anarchy,
Order,
Governance,
Society,
Identity

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography