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Jul 05, 2025
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SECR 6910 - International Relations Theory (3 Credit Hours)This 3-hour course introduces students to the most important theoretical approaches to the study of international relations (IR), providing a gateway to subfields intelligence and security studies. The first part of the course focuses on the history of the discipline. Secondly, the course investigates the mainstream IR theoretical approaches including, realism, institutionalism, world-systems, and constructivism Thirdly, this course turns to the critical approaches including, but not limited to, post-modernism, feminism, other critical theories. This course concludes with the prospect for dialogue and synthesis among the diverging theories, and, into the relevance of theory to policy and military operations. This course serves as the foundational course for more advanced course-work along with Introduction to Security Studies. The purposes of this course are fully theoretical, and do not delve into case-illustrations or specific nation-state studies.
Lecture Hours: 3 Repeatability: May not be repeated for credit. Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Schedule Type (Primary): Lecture, Asynchronous Instruction
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