DAFF 25A69 - Fundamentals of world politics

This course scrutinizes some of the key concepts or conceptual building blocks in world politics, and some of the main issues in international and European affairs today. Focusing on basic thinking, the course also considers possible practical political implications, or options for policy. The course combines lectures with seminar-style discussions as well as group presentations and or debates relating to the concepts and issues covered.
Ulrich KROTZ
Séminaire
English
Spring 2021-2022
Class participation 10%; debate (group) or presentation (group) in-class 40%; short paper (individual) 50% Course participants are expected thoroughly to have done the reading, and to come to class fully prepared. Importance is placed on active class participation. The specifics and possible formats of the group presentations and or debates will be discussed in class.
Max Weber, Power and Domination, in Max Weber, Basic Categories of Social Organization in Economy and Society (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1978 [1921]), pp. 53-54.
Can There Be a Common European Identity? (pp. 67-81) in Key Controversies in European Integration, edited by Hubert Zimmermann and Andreas Dür (London et. al: Palgrave Macmillan, Third Edition, 2021).
John Gerard Ruggie, "Social Time and Ecodemographic Contexts," in John Gerard Ruggie, ed., Constructing the World Polity. Essays on International Institutionalization (New York, NY: Routledge, 1998) pp. 155-171.
Rana Mitter, How China's past shapes Xi's thinking - and his view of the world, 25 October 2021, BBC