UNIVERZITET U SARAJEVU

FAKULTET POLITIKIH NAUKA

Studij "Meunarodni odnosi i diplomatija"

Course
International Relations
BA level
Year: 1
Semester: II
ECTS credits: 6
Status:
Contact Hours: 3
Required course
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Eref Kenan Raidagi
rasidagick@fpn.unsa.ba
Dr. Hamza Kari
karcich@fpn.unsa.ba
1. Course
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the field of international
Objectives
relations. The course will introduce students to key theories, concepts and
ideas in contemporary international relations. The objective is to train
students to think critically about contemporary events and trends.
1.1. Topics

1. Introduction to International Relations

2. Theories of International Relations
3. Actors in International Relations
4. Factors in International Relations
5. States in International Relations
6. Types of International Relations
7. International Organisations
8. Unipolarity vs. Multipolarity
9. Foreign Policy Analysis
10. Key Trends in 21. Century

2. READINGS
Week 1: Introduction to IR Brown, 1-19.
Week 2: Theories in IR Brown, 19-63; Stephen M. Walt, One World,
Many Theories, Foreign Policy, Spring 1998.
Week 3: Power and Security; Balance of Power Brown, 80-116.
Global Governance; Collective Security Brown, 116-141.
Week 4: The Cold War Readings: State Dept. Office of the Historian
Week 5: The Cold War II
Week 6: Hegemony, Unipolarity, Multipolarity Brown, 232-255.;
Charles Krauthammer, The Unipolar Moment, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 70,
No1., 1990/1991.
Week 7: Midterm Exam
Week 8: Humanitarian Interventions Brown, Brown 207-232.; Richard
K. Betts, The Delusion of Impartial Intervention, Foreign Affairs,
Nov./Dec. 1994.; Hamza Kari, Saving Bosnia on Capitol Hill: The Case
of Senator Bob Dole, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, forthcoming 2015.
Week 9: U.S. intervention in Iraq James Fallows, Blind into Baghdad,
The Atlantic Monthly, Jan./Feb. 2004.
Week 10: Return of Old Powers: Russia
Ian Bremmer and Samuel Charap, The Siloviki in Putin's Russia: Who
They Are and What They Want, The Washington Quarterly, Winter
2006-7.; William Varettoni, Crimea's Overlooked Instability, The
Washington Quarterly, Summer 2011.; John J. Mearsheimer, "Why the
Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault" Foreign Affairs, Vol. 93 No. 5
(September/October 2014), pp. 1-12.

Week 11: Frozen Conflicts

Charles King, The Benefits of Ethnic War: Understanding Eurasia's
Unrecognized States, World Politics, July 2001.
Week 12: Return of Old Powers: Turkey
F. Stephen Larrabee, Turkey's Eurasian Agenda, Turkey's Eurasian
Agenda, The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2011.; Eref Kenan
Raidagi, Turkey's Foreign Policy Towards the Western Balkans: Fact
Checking the Popular Lore, Democracy and Security in Southeastern
Europe, Volume 4, Issue 12/13, June/July 2013.
Week 13: Return of Old Powers: Germany
Hans Kundnani, Germany as a Geo-Economic Power, The Washington
Quarterly, Summer 2011.
Week 14: New Actors: The Kurds
Michael M. Gunter, Unrecognized De Facto States in World Politics: The
Kurds, Brown Journal of World Affairs, 20 (Spring/Summer 2014);
Michael Crowley, Into Kurdistan, Time, 25 August 2014;
Gradings

1. Midterm exam
2. Final Exam
Make-up Exam

50%
50%
50%

3. LITERATURE
Book:
1. Chris Brown and Kirsten Ainley, Understanding International
Relations, Palgrave Macmillan, Third Edition, 2005.
2. State Dept. Office of the Historian: Cold War period
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952
Articles:
1. Stephen M. Walt, One World, Many Theories, Foreign Policy, Spring
1998.
2. William Varettoni, Crimea's Overlooked Instability, The Washington
Quarterly, Summer 2011.
3. John J. Mearsheimer, "Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault"
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 93 No. 5 (September/October 2014), pp. 1-12.
4. Ian Bremmer and Samuel Charap, The Siloviki in Putin's Russia: Who
They Are and What They Want, The Washington Quarterly, Winter
2006-7.
5. F. Stephen Larrabee, Turkey's Eurasian Agenda, Turkey's Eurasian
Agenda, The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2011.
6. Charles King, The Benefits of Ethnic War: Understanding Eurasia's
Unrecognized States, World Politics, July 2001.
7. Hans Kundnani, Germany as a Geo-Economic Power, The
Washington Quarterly, Summer 2011.
8. Richard K. Betts, The Delusion of Impartial Intervention, Foreign
Affairs, Nov./Dec. 1994.
9. Charles Krauthammer, The Unipolar Moment, Foreign Affairs, Vol.
70, No1., 1990/1991.
10. Eref Kenan Raidagi, Turkey's Foreign Policy Towards the Western
Balkans: Fact Checking the Popular Lore, Democracy and Security in
Southeastern Europe, Volume 4, Issue 12/13, June/July 2013.
11. Hamza Kari, Saving Bosnia on Capitol Hill: The Case of Senator
Bob Dole, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, forthcoming 2015.
12. James Fallows, Blind into Baghdad, The Atlantic Monthly, Jan./Feb.
2004.