LSE Department of International Relations | Video

Contributor(s): Dr George Lawson | The course will cover the main explanatory and normative paradigms in international relations theory. The purpose of the course will be to provide a thorough background in all schools of International Relations theory and the debates between them.

Contributor(s): Dr Jeffrey Chwieroth | An advanced introduction to concepts and contending approaches in international political economy, and an overview of the evolution of international economic relations since the late nineteenth century.

Contributor(s): Dr Kirsten Ainley | Course content: Background to International Political theory, Liberal Political theory and the Development of International Political Theory, The Moral Standing of the State, International Human Rights, Critiques of Human Rights and Universal Values, International Humantarianism, Global Social Justice, International Criminal Law, Beyond the Liberal Origins of International Political Theory.

Contributor(s): Professor Chris Brown | The course will involve both theoretical explorations of the nature and prehistory of 'humanitarianism' and empirical examples of claimed 'humanitarian interventions' (such as Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor) along with cases where it is claimed interventions should have taken place (such as Rwanda 1994) and others where humanitarianism has been combined with geo-strategic motivations.

Contributor(s): Dr Kirsten Ainley | An introduction to the politics of the creation and implementation of international law, intended for non-lawyers. The course focuses on the areas of international law most relevant to International Political Theory.