politics and international relations

1. international realtions

1.1. politics and the international system

1.2. states and power in international politics

1.3. nonstate actors in international politics

1.4. international organisations

1.5. geoppolitics

1.6. globalization and regionalism

1.7. globalisation

1.7.1. sovereignty and statehood

1.7.2. economy and society

2. democracy

2.1. what is it?

2.2. where does it come from

2.3. different types

2.4. crisis of democracy

2.5. normative case for democracy

2.6. normative case against democracy

2.7. realities and tensions in the 21st century

2.8. terrorism

2.9. war, old and new

3. non-democratic regimes

3.1. authoritarianism, totalitarianism, hybrids

3.2. why some last and others dont

4. the state and modern politics

4.1. power and authority

4.2. the state and violence

4.3. the rise of the modern state in the Western World: developing new forms of political power

4.4. from warfare to welfare: the apogee of state power

4.5. the state beyond the west: colonialism, instability and fragility

4.6. where does power lie in modern states?

4.6.1. marxist answers

4.6.2. elisitst and pluralist answers

4.6.3. rational choicce answers

5. Justifying the state

5.1. introducing the problem of poliitcal oligation

5.2. thomas hobbes and the state of nature

5.2.1. john locke and jean-jacques rousseau on the state of nature

5.2.2. hobbesian absolutism vs. lockean limited government

5.3. social contract theory

5.4. utilitarianism and fairness

6. Theorists

6.1. mill

6.1.1. the harm principle

6.1.1.1. freedom of peech

6.2. bentham

6.2.1. utilitarianism

6.3. john rawls

6.3.1. justice as fairness

6.4. mary collstonecraft

6.4.1. gender

6.4.2. rigths

6.4.3. justice

6.5. locke and nozick

6.5.1. property

6.5.2. rights

6.5.3. justice