Master in International Relations Subject Description pdf

SKILLS, COMPETENCIES AND LANGUAGESQuantitative Methods • Quantitative analyses in political economy • Graphical presentation of data, sampling methods, rules of probability, statistical

Subject Description

SKILLS, COMPETENCIES AND LANGUAGES

Quantitative Methods

• Quantitative analyses in political economy

• Graphical presentation of data, sampling methods, rules of probability, statistical inference, hypothesis tests, simple and multiple linear regressions, correlation, and other relevant econometric tools

Spanish

A Spanish language course will be mandatory for students who are not professionally proficient in Spanish

French

Students who are proficient in Spanish will be required to take a French language course

The program comprises the following 21 core courses (subject to minor changes):

EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS AND SECURITY STUDIES

The European Union

• EU institutions and decision-making processes

• Treaty reforms, including the failed European Constitution and the Treaty of Lisbon

• Core EU policies: internal market, economic and monetary union, external trade, foreign and security policy, enlargement

Theories in International Relations

International Environmental Policy

Euro-American Relations

• Institutional structure and common security concerns

• The relationship between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union

• EU and NATO peacekeeping operations

Globalized Terrorism: Threats and Responses

• Actors in the global terrorism network

• Scenarios of the global terrorism threat

• Evolving trends and western responses to global terrorism

• Responses from the international community

• Perspectives on terrorism and counterterrorism

The European Union: Advanced Topics

• Balance of power between the Commission and the European Parliament

• Commitology and its reform

• The EU and political regions

• Rethinking economic and monetary union

• Justice and home affairs in the EU

• The road towards European defense

• Fundamental rights in the EU

• European external action service

• EU communication policy

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Negotiation

• Approach to the concept of negotiation The

negotiator’s dilemma

• Preparing for negotiations, Claiming value, Negotiating

interests

• Creating Value

• Multilateral-multiatribute negotiations

• Fair agreements and deviation from rational behavior

Comparative Politics

• Polities, policies, and politics

• States, regimes, and institutions

• Citizens, parties, and party systems

• Elections and Electoral systems

• Governance and performance

History of International Relations

• The making of the European system of states

• Colonialism and imperialism

• The rise of non-European powers

• World Wars and the Cold War, globalization

Game Theory and Conflict Resolution

Fundamentals of rational-choice and game theories

applied to international decision-making and to the

choice of public policies by states

Challenges to Democracy in Latin America

• Analysis of recent political events in the region

• Overview of main historical tendencies that influence

political processes in the region

• General trends, but also diversity and differences

within the region

• Analysis of the main challenges facing democratic

governments

New Strategic Players in the 21 st century:

China and India

• The growing “weight” of the two states in international decision-making

• Role in world markets

• Concerns of other actors with the appearance of Beijing and New Delhi as new brokers in the evolving international system

Understanding contemporary China:

Chinese culture and society

• Introduction China and its people

• Chinese Language

• The Chinese classics

• Confucianism and democratization

• The Literary Revolution, Maoism and Revolution Literature, Internet and political control in contemporary China

• The Maoist era

• The Value of Culture when Negotiating in China

• Communism, Nationalism and Economic Patriotism

• Intellectuals and Power in China: The 20th anniversary

of the 1989 June 4th Massacre

Politics, Society and International Relations of the Middle East

• Introduction to state-society relations in the Middle East

• Political economy of the Middle East

• Roles of Middle Eastern countries in world politics

During the electives period in June, students select topics of special interest from a list of courses offered

in both the Master in International Relations and the Law programs.

All students will also be required to write a master’s thesis.

The program’s academic curriculum will be further enriched by a series of seminars during which international experts from politics, business and civil society will share their privileged insights and experiences with program participants.

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS

Micro and Macro Economics

• An introduction to the basic notions and models in

micro- and macro-economics

• Consumers and firms

• Demand, production, market structure and market

failure

• Growth, employment and the role of government

International Trade and the International Monetary

System.

• Theory of international trade and investment

• Trade policy measures

• International monetary theory

• The balance of payments and the trade balance

• Exchange rate systems

Economic Development Theory

• Patterns and causes of economic growth

• Development factors: population growth, research,

access to international financial flows

• Main obstacles to economic development

• Economic development and natural resources

International Finance

Management of the Multinational Corporation

• Internationalization choices and processes

• Market selection

• Intellectual property protection

• Production delocalization

• Strategic alliances

IE School of International Relations

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