Academic Catalog

PSIR423 HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Course Code: 3540423
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 6.0
Department: Political Science And International Relations
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
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Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course provides a critical analysis of different historical sociological approaches to international relations. It aims to provide a comprehensive account of international political and economic change. Can international relations be explained only as an interaction between states? What is the effect of war on social change? What is the relation between capitalism and the international state system? Does domestic class structure of societies and their economic transformation effect international change? This course will adress these questions in the context of different historical sociological approaches thus analysing the overlapping concerns of international relations, history and sociology.