Exploring the international
Introduction
Teaching format
Lectures (17 in total, 2 per week)
Seminars (4, every other week)
Workshops (6, every other week)
3rd of November is a reading week – no teaching sessions.
Lectures
2 per week until December.
In 3 sections:
What is the ‘international’ as a political environment?
Who are the main actors in IP?
What are some of the key dynamics of IP?
These are the foundational issues of IP.
Seminars
4, every other week.
6 seminar groups, 3 seminar leaders:
Dr. Andrew Davenport
Pro. Milja Kurki
Bethan Burnett
Workshops
6, alternating week from the seminar.
Practical orientation, they are focused on study skills.
Assessment
In two parts:
1. Concept exposition (1000 words) 40 percent
2. Essay (2000 words) 60 percent
Deadlines:
Concept exposition: Friday 7th of November (4pm)
Essay: Friday 12th of December (4pm)
Workshops 3 and 4 are based on how to an assignment.
,Submit written assignments through Blackboard/Turnitin.
Failure to submit by the deadline means a 0 grade unless you have an extension
or special circumstances.
Plan, keep multiple copies and submit in good time.
Feedback will be given 15 working days after the submission deadline.
Where to find things
All materials related to the module will be posted on Blackboard.
All essential readings are available online through the reading list on Blackboard.
Check Blackboard regularly.
Seminars and workshops aren’t recorded.
Check emails regularly.
Who should I go to?
Academic questions:
Seminar Leader
Module Convenor
Administrative questions:
Module Convenor
Contact details are available on Blackboard.
What are we studying?
IP12420 is the introduction to the academic study of IP.
In this module we try to see deeper structures or processes that shape what
appears on the surface.
Why is the world is as it us?
Concepts
Focus on basic concepts of IP.
What are concepts and what do they do?
Abstractions.
Organise thought and experience.
Enable us to understand the world.
Academic study is, partially, about awareness of concepts.
Our concepts
The International
Territory and the State
, Sovereignty and Order
Globalization and Actors
Lecture 2 – International Space
Why should we begin with this?
The nature of international space is fundamental to shaping international politics,
therefore most of the deepest issues go back to the character of international
space.
The term ‘international’
International was first used by Jeremy Bentham in 1780s.
A modern term, part of the world of Modernity
Nations and states are the central elements, there is no international without
them as a basis
However, the international is not just the various states.
It is what is between the states, the relationships between them and so
on.
What is beyond or outside the state.
The interconnectivity of the states.
International is a basis a spatial term but it is a space of a particular sort.
Basic Distinction
Politics inside – ‘domestic politics’ (studying politics within the boundaries)
Politics outside – ‘international politics’ (studying the outside and between the
boundaries of the states)
First definition/preliminary idea
Global political space within which different political entities relate to each other
International relations
The space shapes international relations
One and many
Two further dimensions of the international space:
1. Multiple different states – a space of many, with their own stark territories
2. The international – a space of one
‘International relations’ means a complex combinations of one and many.
Duality of international space
Two fundamental characteristics:
Division – what does this mean and what are the consequences
Introduction
Teaching format
Lectures (17 in total, 2 per week)
Seminars (4, every other week)
Workshops (6, every other week)
3rd of November is a reading week – no teaching sessions.
Lectures
2 per week until December.
In 3 sections:
What is the ‘international’ as a political environment?
Who are the main actors in IP?
What are some of the key dynamics of IP?
These are the foundational issues of IP.
Seminars
4, every other week.
6 seminar groups, 3 seminar leaders:
Dr. Andrew Davenport
Pro. Milja Kurki
Bethan Burnett
Workshops
6, alternating week from the seminar.
Practical orientation, they are focused on study skills.
Assessment
In two parts:
1. Concept exposition (1000 words) 40 percent
2. Essay (2000 words) 60 percent
Deadlines:
Concept exposition: Friday 7th of November (4pm)
Essay: Friday 12th of December (4pm)
Workshops 3 and 4 are based on how to an assignment.
,Submit written assignments through Blackboard/Turnitin.
Failure to submit by the deadline means a 0 grade unless you have an extension
or special circumstances.
Plan, keep multiple copies and submit in good time.
Feedback will be given 15 working days after the submission deadline.
Where to find things
All materials related to the module will be posted on Blackboard.
All essential readings are available online through the reading list on Blackboard.
Check Blackboard regularly.
Seminars and workshops aren’t recorded.
Check emails regularly.
Who should I go to?
Academic questions:
Seminar Leader
Module Convenor
Administrative questions:
Module Convenor
Contact details are available on Blackboard.
What are we studying?
IP12420 is the introduction to the academic study of IP.
In this module we try to see deeper structures or processes that shape what
appears on the surface.
Why is the world is as it us?
Concepts
Focus on basic concepts of IP.
What are concepts and what do they do?
Abstractions.
Organise thought and experience.
Enable us to understand the world.
Academic study is, partially, about awareness of concepts.
Our concepts
The International
Territory and the State
, Sovereignty and Order
Globalization and Actors
Lecture 2 – International Space
Why should we begin with this?
The nature of international space is fundamental to shaping international politics,
therefore most of the deepest issues go back to the character of international
space.
The term ‘international’
International was first used by Jeremy Bentham in 1780s.
A modern term, part of the world of Modernity
Nations and states are the central elements, there is no international without
them as a basis
However, the international is not just the various states.
It is what is between the states, the relationships between them and so
on.
What is beyond or outside the state.
The interconnectivity of the states.
International is a basis a spatial term but it is a space of a particular sort.
Basic Distinction
Politics inside – ‘domestic politics’ (studying politics within the boundaries)
Politics outside – ‘international politics’ (studying the outside and between the
boundaries of the states)
First definition/preliminary idea
Global political space within which different political entities relate to each other
International relations
The space shapes international relations
One and many
Two further dimensions of the international space:
1. Multiple different states – a space of many, with their own stark territories
2. The international – a space of one
‘International relations’ means a complex combinations of one and many.
Duality of international space
Two fundamental characteristics:
Division – what does this mean and what are the consequences
