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Students should read the text, and do the activities before the session starts later
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1-TEXT COMPREHENSION
2- MASTERY OF LANGUAGE
3- TRANSLATION
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READ CAREFULLY THE TEXT THE DO THE ACTIVITIES
READ CAREFULLY THE TEXT THE DO THE ACTIVITIES
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Students can justify why Realism is still relevant under current circumstances:
Realism has four main weaknesses. Three of these weaknesses, which inspire much of the criticism against Realism, appear at what Waltz identifies as the human and state levels of analysis. First, Realism has typically relied on a gloomy view of humans derived from assuming a supposedly unchanging conflict-prone ‘human nature.’ This leads to the second weakness, a tendency to treat politics both within and between states as involving unending competition for advantage. Third, Realists lack clearly articulated theories of how governments of states (or any other type of actor) make decisions. The fourth weakness spans the state and international system levels, and consists of insufficient attention to the increased influence of non-state actors resulting from changes at both of those levels in the last 150 or so years. Conversely, Realism’s continued strengths derive from the attention Realists pay to the structure and the process at the international system level. The shape of that system level does not directly determine the choices of governments and other actors, but it does constrain their choices significantly and shape the outcomes of their interactions.
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Learning objectives:
To understand the basic arguments of the critical theoristsTo make difference between positivist and post-positivist theories (after the cold war)To make an attempt to understand how the understanding of critical theory influences international relationsCritical Theory aims to question theoretically the intellectual, social, cultural, political, economic and
technological trends in modern societies. This theory is based on the assumption that international political processes
are subject to political interests which must be critically evaluated. The various theories of international relations are
necessarily conditioned by social, cultural and ideological influences, and the real and the most crucial task of critical
international theory is to reveal the effect of this conditioning. This theory is not just interested in the state alone; it is
also interested in other factors that shape international relations.Read the text carefully and answer the question:
1/ Text comprehension
2/ Mastery of language
3/ Translation
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Students will be able to make a useful reading on IR Books (Theories):
In this session, you are dealing with REALIST THEORY as a main theory in international relations, with a focus on its main assumptions, leaders, key concepts and some historical cases it explained in detail
1- Don't forget dictionaries to find the meaning of words or expressions you cannot understand
2- Learn the importance of summarizing and paraphrasing
3- Translation is a main task in this course