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

Versao Portuguesa

POLÍTICA EXTERNA DOS ESTADOS - 2018/2019

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Pedro Mendes
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Pedro Mendes

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Explain the foreign policy of states. Identify and understand the key determinants for its formulation. Understanding the relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy and the historical patterns of the foreign policies of states.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Explain the historical patterns of the foreign policies of the major international players. Explaining continuity and change in the foreign policy of the main actors, including the hegemonic, the counter-hegemonic, the emerging and peripheral actors in the current international order.

Skills to be acquired

At the end of the semester, each student should be familiar with the patterns of the foreign policies of major states in the current international system. And to understand what are the main determinants, domestic and international, of the foreign policy of states.

Teaching Procedures

Classes are interactive, encouraging oral intervention to the students on the program themes of the course, as well as conducting group discussions, reflection on case studies and practical problems.

Programme

1. Foreign Policy Analysis: Theoretical Issues
1.1. Internal factors
1.2. International factors
1.3. Ideological and perceptual factors
1.4 Dynamism and change in Foreign Policy

2. Foreign Policy Analysis: Europe
2.2 France
2.3 Germany
2.4 The UK
2.5 Russia
2.6. The European Periphery
2.7 The European Union

3. Foreign Policy Analysis: Asia
3.1 China
3.2 Japan
3.3 India

4. Foreign Policy Analysis: America
4.1 The U.S. A.
4.2 Latin America

5. Foreign Policy Analysis and the current international order
5.1 Hegemonic actors
5.2 Counter-hegemonic actors
5.3 Emerging Actors
5.4 Peripheral Actors

Evaluation Type

The system evaluation is carried out according to the rules defined in the General Regulations Assessment of Knowledge Universities Lusiada. In this sense, it is taken into account continuous assessment, including attendance, participation, completion of work, quizzes, etc..

Teaching Resources

In classes are used the audiovisual and website provided by University, in particular, through the use of projectors, data show, television and video.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Foreign Policy Analysis
Continuity / Change
Agent / structure
International actors
International Order

Main Bibliography

Author BEASLEY, Ryan K, e tal
Title Foreign Policy In Comparative Perspective: Domest
Place Washington
Editor CQPress
Year 2002
Author SMITH, Steve, HADFIELD, Amelia; DUNNE, Tim
Title Foreign Policy - Theories, Actores, Cases
Edition Edição/Reimpres
Place Oxford
Editor Oxford University Press
Year 2008
Author MACRIDIS, Roy -
Title Foreign Policy in World Politics
Edition (8th Ed.)
Place Englewood Cliffs:
Editor Prentice-Hall
Year 1992

Complementary Bibliography

Author FREIRE, Maria Raquel (coord.)
Title Política Externa - As Relações Internacionais em
Author MENDES, Pedro Emanuel
Title Portugal e a Europa: Factores de afastamento e Apr