| CODE | PPL3005 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Foreign Policy and World Politics | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Policy, Politics and Governance | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit looks into foreign policy-making in a dynamic world. Foreign policy is not considered just another subset of public policy, but a key policy area that shapes the politics and history of every nation. Students will gain an appreciation of how governments systematically direct a set of actions to deal with the outside world. Through the lens of various themes such as; security, globalization, power, anarchy, poverty, migration, debt, the environment, and human rights, amongst others, the unit makes an assessment of the international system. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims to: - help students recognize the importance of world politics and to develop the tools to analyze and understand current events. - review fundamental concepts and theoretical approaches to the study of world politics, examine foreign policy objectives, and explore current issues in international security and economic relations. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - describe the main approaches to the study of international politics, and the characteristics of the contemporary international system. - explain the concept of sovereignty, levels of analysis, foreign policy decision making, the role of international organizations, regimes, and international law. - describe contemporary security and economic relations. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - apply basic concepts and knowledge of politics, foreign policy and economic relations to the analysis of contemporary international issues; - communicate politics by citing a wider spectrum of literature on the link between national and global affairs; - assess the dynamics of global events and crises, by identifying causation (what triggers events) and agency (autonomy to act) in international affairs; - identify different methods of inquiry regarding research on foreign policy and international relations. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Frieden, J.A. et al. (2018), World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions, W. W. Norton & Company; Fourth International Student edition. Supplementary Readings: - Baylis, J. and Smith, S. (2016), The Globalisation of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, Oxford University Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Marguerite Camilleri James Sater George Vital Zammit (Co-ord.) |
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