Cursos / 1º Ciclo / / Faculty of Law :: International Relations
POLÍTICA EXTERNA DOS ESTADOS - 2023/2024
3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6
Teachers
Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Paulo Amorim
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 |
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Title | Foreign Policy In Comparative Perspective: Domest |
Place | Washington |
Editor | SAGE Publications |
Year | 2013 |
Author | SMITH, Steve, HADFIELD, Amelia; DUNNE, Tim |
Title | Foreign Policy - Theories, Actores, Cases |
Edition | Edição/Reimpres |
Place | Oxford |
Editor | Oxford University Press |
Year | 2016 |
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.) |
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Title | Política Externa - As Relações Internacionais em |
Author | DAEHNHART, Patrícia - FREIRE, Maria Raquel (Coord) |
Title | A Política Externa Russa no Espaço Euro-Atlântico |