International politics in a global age I

Lecture are planned to include:

A challenge to international stability? Russian foreign policy under Putin
A11 Putin and the Russian petro state
B11 Russian foreign policy with special reference to the Middle East and Ukraine
C11 The crisis in Ukraine and hybrid war

Terrorism and guerrilla insurgencies
A11 Terrorism and guerrilla insurgencies in the Middle East and Afghanistan
B11 Counterinsurgency in the post-World War Two era
C11 State breakdown, warlordism and hybrid warfare in global politics

Diplomacy and conflict resolution in international relations
A11 The functions and purposes of diplomacy in international relations
B11 Styles of diplomatic conduct in the modern world order
C11 Diplomacy and conflict resolution in the Middle East

Chinese domestic politics from an historical and contemporary perspective
A11 Mao, Maoism and political revolution in China
B11 Deng, Dengism and economic revolution in China
C11 The political consequences of economic reform in China

A11 Human rights in China: Discourse, diplomacy and defensive nationalism
B11 Nationalism in China: A double-edged sword
C11 The political consequences of economic reform in China

Post-conflict state-building process: security, reconstruction, rule of law and economic development; case studies including Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and selected others
A11 State collapse: Yugoslavia - story of state collapse
B11 Building security after conflict: when the guns are silent
C11 “Ending the war” - a group discussion exercise of challenges facing state-building actors

A11 Rule of law: institutions for democracy
B11 Statehood: the constitutional puzzle
C11 “Re-wiring the state” – a group discussion exercise of challenges facing state-building actors

Iran and the post-revolutionary political economy
A11 The 1979 Constitutional Framework
B11 Factionalism in Post-Khomeini Iran
C11 Iran in the Global Economy - Oil and Sanctions

Niccolo vs Woodrow: morality in foreign policy
A11 Machiavelli and the Westphalian System
B11 The Wilsonian Challenge
C11 Wilsonianism in practice; international law and multilateralism

The death and rebirth of power politics: 1945-2015
A11 The Cold War
B11 The US World Order
C11 What now?