本课程为您提供系统的知识和知识工具，以批判性地回顾国际关系理论和实践的发展。它使您能够以复杂，批判性的方式评估国际关系广泛领域中的概念，理论和范式，从涉及定量和定性研究的实证研究中汲取教训。您将发展以适当的高级方式部署研究策略和方法的能力，以批判性地评估当前的研究和高级奖学金。每种学习途径都旨在提供动态知识，包括形成该地区当代国际关系的文化和地方政治与意识形态因素的动态知识。该课程还提供了一个研究国际关系的机会，并从比较和历史的角度考虑了区域特定的政治和经济因素。
This course provides you with the systematic knowledge and intellectual tools to critically review developments in the theory and practice of international relations. It enables you to evaluate in a sophisticated and critical fashion concepts, theories and paradigms within the broad field of international relations, drawing lessons from empirical studies involving both quantitative and qualitative investigations. You will develop your ability to deploy research strategies and methods in an appropriately advanced fashion to critically evaluate current research and advanced scholarship. Each study route aims to provide advanced knowledge and understanding of the dynamics, including cultural and local political and ideological factors, which shape the contemporary international relations of the area. The course also provides an opportunity for studying international relations and in comparative and historical perspective taking account of regional specific political and economic factors.