Overview

This topic will provide students with the knowledge and skills to analyse normative discourses in International Relations. It engages a series international political issues and institutional contexts using resources provided within the theoretical traditions of international ethics, global justice, critical theory and human rights.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Explicate key normative traditions for thinking about international relations
  • Equip students to engage in forms of normative international analysis
  • Enable students to apply normative analysis to specific selected issue areas

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Specify and evaluate normative approaches to International Relations
2.
Critically appraise theoretical analysis within normative approaches
3.
Produce normative analysis of specific cases
4.
Construct written and oral argumentation in the presentation of specialist and non-specialist knowledge

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