Introduction to International Politics UoY Year 1 FULL NOTES

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL
POLITICS

Year 1
2017 – 2018

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LECTURE 1: INTRO – POWER AND AUTHORITY IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS .......................... 7

LECTURE 2: THE MODERN INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM (1600-1900) ............................................ 9

SEMINAR 1: POWER, AUTHORITY, SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY ........................................... 13

LECTURE 3: FROM STATES TO NATION .................................................................................... 16

LECTURE 4: GREAT POWER AND IMPERIALISM ....................................................................... 20

SEMINAR 2: STATES, NATIONS AND THE WESTPHALIAN SYSTEM ........................................... 23

LECTURE 5: TOTAL WAR ........................................................................................................... 27

LECTURE 6: PEACE THROUGH LAW .......................................................................................... 31

SEMINAR 3: GREAT POWERS AND GREAT WARS ..................................................................... 37

LECTURE 7: THE RISE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ................................................... 41

LECTURE 8: THE END OF EMPIRED AND THE DECOLONISATION ............................................. 47

SEMINAR 4: ORGANISING PEACE ............................................................................................. 52

LECTURE 9: THE COLD WAR ..................................................................................................... 57

LECTURE 10: US HEGEMONY .................................................................................................... 63

SEMINAR 5: FROM EMPIRES TO SUPERPOWERS ..................................................................... 68

LECTURE 11: NEW WARS AND GOOD WARS ........................................................................... 72

LECTURE 12: GLOBALISATION .................................................................................................. 78

SEMINAR 6: POWER, HEGEMONY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ........................................................ 85

LECTURE 13: REGIONALISATION .............................................................................................. 89

LECTURE 14: GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY ........................................................................................ 95

SEMINAR 7: GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONALIZATION .......................................................... 100

LECTURE 15: CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE ......................................................... 102

LECTURE 16: REVISION .......................................................................................................... 109

SEMINAR 8: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND ESSAY.................................................................... 113



LECTURE 1: ORIGINS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM ...................................................................... 131


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LECTURE 2: STABILIZING GLOBAL CAPITALISM ..................................................................... 138

SEMINAR 1: CAPITALISM ........................................................................................................ 143

LECTURE 3: COLONIALISM AND CAPITALIST IMPERIALISM................................................... 146

LECTURE 4: INDUSTRIALISATION AND BRITISH POWER ........................................................ 152

SEMINAR 2: COLONIALISM, EMPIRE, AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION .................................. 158

LECTURE 5: GLOBAL ECONOMY AFTER 1945 ........................................................................ 161

LECTURE 6: DEVELOPMENT UNDER USA HEGEMONY .......................................................... 168

SEMINAR 3: GLOBAL ECONOMY UNDER U.S. HEGEMONY .................................................... 176

LECTURE 7: THE RISE OF NEOLIBERALISM AFTER 1970......................................................... 177

LECTURE 8: THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS .......................................................................... 189

SEMINAR 4: RISE OF NEOLIBERALISM AND GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS................................. 199

LECTURE 9: CRISIS IN THE EUROZONE ................................................................................... 201

LECTURE 10: AUSTERITY IN THE U.K...................................................................................... 207

SEMINAR 5: EUROPE AFTER THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ................................................. 213

LECTURE 11: RESTRUCTURING GLOBAL PRODUCTION ......................................................... 214

LECTURE 12: UNFREE LABOUR IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY .................................................. 222

SEMINAR 6: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES – PRODUCTION AND WORK UNDER GLOBALIAZTION
................................................................................................................................................ 227

SEMINAR 7: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES – POWER, AUTHORITY, AND EXTERNALITIES IN GLOBAL
CAPITALISM ............................................................................................................................ 229

SEMINAR 8: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES – THE RISE OF CHINA AND THE DEMOSE OF GLOBAL
CAPITALISM ............................................................................................................................ 231



LECTURE 1: FROM NATION STATE TO GLOBALIZATION (TERM 1) ......................................... 235

SEMINAR 1: TERM 1 REVISION ............................................................................................... 239

LECTURE 2: GLOBALIZATION TO GLOBAL CRISES (TERM 2) ................................................... 247

SEMINAR 2: TERM 2 REVISION ............................................................................................... 251




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TERM 1


INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS




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