Research Methods and Theories in International Relations 2104-GPIR-D1RMIR
This course is a workshop, it aims at teaching practical skills. Since skills are practical, there is no handbook which could cover them and which would allow students to acquire skills. However, students certainly can acquire required skills by individual practice.
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Term 2023Z:
Part 1: methods This course is a workshop, it aims at teaching practical skills. Since skills are practical, there is no handbook which could cover them and which would allow students to acquire skills. However, students certainly can acquire required skills by individual practice. Part 2: IR Theories This part will introduce four basic paradigms of theoretical reflection on iternational relations at the systemic level of analysis: realist, liberal, neomarxist, postmodern. It will shown how particular IR theories within those paradigms addressed the most pressing issueas of the day: containment of violence under international anarchy (realism, neorealism), containment of anarchy in the international system (functionalism, neofunctionalism, liberal institutionalism), containemt of disparate economic development (world system approach, dependency), "progressive" evolution of the interantional system (constructivism). The course will be conducted in a seminar fashion with substantial emphasis on class participation. |
Term 2024Z:
Part 1: methods This course is a workshop, it aims at teaching practical skills. Since skills are practical, there is no handbook which could cover them and which would allow students to acquire skills. However, students certainly can acquire required skills by individual practice. Part 2: IR Theories This part will introduce four basic paradigms of theoretical reflection on iternational relations at the systemic level of analysis: realist, liberal, neomarxist, postmodern. It will shown how particular IR theories within those paradigms addressed the most pressing issueas of the day: containment of violence under international anarchy (realism, neorealism), containment of anarchy in the international system (functionalism, neofunctionalism, liberal institutionalism), containemt of disparate economic development (world system approach, dependency), "progressive" evolution of the interantional system (constructivism). The course will be conducted in a seminar fashion with substantial emphasis on class participation. |
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
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Learning outcomes
Student:
- conducts academic literature review
- uses tools for analyzing academic impact of research
- develops research question
- can apply theory to empirical analysis (in uncomplicated cases)
- distinguishes quantitative and qualitative methods and to what types of questions and data each of then is applied
- knows the basic principles of scholarly inference, including distinction between correlation and causality
- knows basic principles of quantitative analysis
- knows basic principles of qualitative analysis
- structures properly the content of the dissertation
- knows ethical issues of academic activity, especially concerning intellectual property
- is familiar with academic writing rules
- is familiar with criteria upon which M.A. dissertation is graded
- understands key paradigms in the study of IR;
- is familiar with basic theories of IR;
- understands their relative explanatory power and their limitations;
- relates particular IR theories to basic problems of IR.
Assessment criteria
The grade will be a sum of methodology (A.Wojciuk) and theory (J.Ciechański). In %:
60-72 grade 3
73-77 grade 3+
78-86 - grade 4
87-91 - grade 4+
92 - grade 5.
The grade will be given on the basis of research prospectus submitted at the end of the course. The prospectus has to fullill detailed criteria discussed during the course, key ones include:
1. good research question
2. literature review according to international standards
3. structure
4. methodology
Bibliography
ATTENTION: There is no handbook for this course, literature can only give additional insight into the content.
Chris Hart, Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (SAGE Study Skills Series)
D. Della Porta, M.Keating, Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective, Cambridge University Press
G.King, R.Keohane, S.Verba, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, Princeton University Press.
J.Miles, M.Shevlin, Applying Regression and Correlation, SAGE
R.Abelson, Statistics as Principled Argument, Taylor & Francis.
D.Silverman, Doing Qualitative Research
D. Silverman, Interpreting Qualitative Data
Part 2: IR Theories
No textbook(s) will be used. Instead, students will be assigned readings from the most seminal works of the luminaries of the discipline. Among the works consulted will be:
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations;
Kenneth N. Waltz, Man, the State and War;
Knneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics;
Robert Gilpin, War & Change in World Politics;
Karl W. Deutsch, Political Community in the North Atlantic Area;
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World Economy;
Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye, Power & Interdependence;
Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony;
Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics.
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Term 2023Z:
Part 1: methods ATTENTION: There is no handbook for this course, literature can only give additional insight into the content. Chris Hart, Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (SAGE Study Skills Series) Part 2: IR Theories No textbook(s) will be used. Instead, students will be assigned readings from the most seminal works of the luminaries of the discipline. Among the works consulted will be: |
Term 2024Z:
Part 1: methods ATTENTION: There is no handbook for this course, literature can only give additional insight into the content. Chris Hart, Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (SAGE Study Skills Series) Part 2: IR Theories No textbook(s) will be used. Instead, students will be assigned readings from the most seminal works of the luminaries of the discipline. Among the works consulted will be: |
Notes
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Term 2023Z:
Part 1: methods Anna Wojciuk is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Research Methods and Theories in International Relations part 1 Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 842 6102 6338 Dial by your location Part 2: IR Theories: Tuesdays, 3:00 - 4:30 PM CET: |
Term 2024Z:
Part 1: methods Anna Wojciuk is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Research Methods and Theories in International Relations part 1 Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 842 6102 6338 Dial by your location Part 2: IR Theories: Tuesdays, 3:00 - 4:30 PM CET: |
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