Lectures and write at home exam (2 ECTS) + book exam (10 ECTS).

Compensations in IR: KVPOS2 or KVPOS3, or in ERS17 Major Theoretical and Methodologcal Orientations in IR: Introduction

The course presents a disciplinary history of International Relations from its inception to the present, focusing on the major theoretical and methodological debates in the discipline. We shall analyze the development of the discipline in terms of key debates, focusing on ontological foundations, epistemological principles and methodological orientations. The course will cover the realist-idealist debate of the 1920s-1950s, the traditionalist-behavioralist debate of the 1950s-1970s, the 'interparadigm debate' of the 1970s-1980s and the fourth, 'post-positivist' debate of the 1990s. The course concludes with the discussion of the current state of the discipline and its relation to the wider debates in pilosophy and social sciences.