Political Science

Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

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Module Code: POU22022

Module Name: International Relations B

ECTS Weighting: 5
Semester/Term Taught: Semester 2
Contact Hours: 22 hours lectures + fortnightly tutorials; 5 hours tutorials
Module Personnel: Dr Eleonora La Spada
Module CO-Requisite: International Relations A

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module, students should be familiar with a variety of different topics in contemporary international relations, including international terrorism, international human rights politics, and international environmental politics, among others. They will be able to use theories of international relations to map and analyze different aspects of world politics.nal politics.

Module Learning Aims

The objective of this module is:ches to studying international relations.

To favor student’s ability to navigate in today’s world politics
To equip students with the background and conceptual tools needed to understand contemporary international relations
Equally, to foster critical reasoning and analytical skills to map and examine important topics of international relations that are especially relevant to understanding the international system of the 21st century

Module Content

This module (POU22022) is the second part of an introduction to the study of international relations. Together with its pair POU22021, the module looks at different theoretical approaches to international relations using a wide selection of topics in historical and contemporary politics. Topics include in POU22022 span international human rights politics, international environmental politics, international terrorism, civil wars from a local to a global perspective, among others. POU22022 builds on POU22021, and knowledge of the readings in POU22021 is expected and required of all students. Both modules have an emphasis on international collective action problems, where states have individual incentives to free-ride on making contributions to collective international outcomes from which they might benefit.