INR122:Concept in International Relation

INR 122: Concepts in International Relations is a second-semester course in the first year of B.A. (Hons.) Degree in French and International Relations. It is a two-credit unit course designed to explore the various concepts most popularly linked to international relations. The course begins, in the first module, with a critical discussion of the nature of international relations, its importance and scope. This module also examines the importance or relevance of concepts to international relations study. The second module will cover concepts from A-J. This module would cover key concepts such as Alliances, Actor, brinkmanship, Debt Trap, Failed State which are all current in international relations practice; failed state for instance has been bandied about for some years now following the virtual collapse of nation-state such as Somalia, Liberia and even the Soviet Union in the 1990s. The final module will focus on key theoretical concepts such as peace, Multi-polarity, Non-intervention amongst others. Though these concepts are abstract, yet great efforts have been made to simplify the discussions in order to aid understanding.