Introduction to International relations

This course will give you a cutting-edge introduction to International Relations. You will explore the history of the subject and learn about the main institutions of the international system. The course will provide you with theoretical tools and approaches to analyze real-world events and will train you in theoretical reflection. Focus is placed on different important contemporary processes in relation to for example war and peace, climate and sustainability, and gender dimension is embedded throughout the course. In focusing on International Relations theories and the ways in which different theoretical perspectives compose different pictures of the world, you will be trained in academic analysis and argumentation.

In addition to lectures, we work with interactive processes through for example seminars, debate seminars and a special feature which we call the IR-cafés. Here we bring up current real-world events for discussions and reflections.