Universiteit Leiden (UL) • International Relations and Organizations

International politics is increasingly shaped by international organizations. What role do these organizations play exactly? Are they only the servants of powerful states or do they also have influence autonomous of their member states? How are global power relations reflected in international organizations? How do international organizations work and how do they differ? In this course the role and functioning of international organizations in international politics are analyzed. While the focus...

The course Introduction to Political Science provides a general but systematic overview of the theoretical approaches, research areas, research design and research methods used in political science to study national, international, supranational and transnational politics. It serves as the first introductory course to the science behind political science. Some important questions addressed in this course are: what is politics? What is political science? What do political scientists do? What is a...

This course will simultaneously introduce students to the basics of economics and demonstrate, with examples, the political importance of economic principles. It will explore the various ways economics helps us understand politics and how politics helps us understand how the economy works. The course will examine topics from both microeconomic and macroeconomics. They include economic growth, unemployment, inequality, trade, monetary policy, the role of prices, finance, market failures, the eco...

explanations of the concepts from the lectures for international law and human rights with links to their relevance for international law. this is an important part of the exam.

All lecture and reading notes for the course

All lecture and reading notes for the course

Full lecture and reading summary

Extensive notes and exam revision for Statistics I, IRO 1st year, Bloc 4. This is just for the exam, not for the seminars. I have a weekly overview of the content, with some examples of exercises which are useful for the exam. It is the same statistics professor, with the same exam format. My grade was an 8.5 for the exam only.

A summary of the entire course of Politics of the European Union as part of the IRO course, Year 1, Bloc 4. It contains extensive notes from each lecture. These notes were written by me, and my grade was 10/10 on the final exam, with every single MCQ correct. This was for the year 2022-23, with a differrent teacher. However it still covers the majority of the course with updated information. It also includes notes from the readings.

Summary of all required readings for QRM. The numbering of the lectures might differ a bit because we had some schedule changes but all topics are included :)