課程資訊
課程名稱
 世界政治批判導論
Critical Approaches to World Politics: An Introduction 
開課學期
 109-2 
授課對象
 社會科學院  政治學系  
授課教師
 林婉萍 
課號
 PS5706 
課程識別碼
 322EU2420 
班次
  
學分
 2.0 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期一3,4(10:20~12:10) 
上課地點
 社科研604 
備註
 本課程以英語授課。
限學士班三年級以上
總人數上限：20人
外系人數限制：3人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
 http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1092PS5706_ 
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課程概述

This course aims to familiarize students with fundamental perspectives and practices concerning critical approaches to world politics within and beyond the West. Topics to be covered include international relations (IR) as a divided discipline, various major contentions in IR and their responses and the broadly defined Chinese international relations theories. This course includes one hour of lecture/presentation plus one hour of discussion. In-class workshops and mock conferences are designed to prepare students to develop and write a thoughtful term essay through the process of discussions and peer reviews.

Course Content
1. Acquire professional knowledge and its contexts
(1) Pre-class reading assignments
(2) In-class assigned readings presentations
(3) In-class discussions and summaries
(4) Formulating new ideas

2. Apply critical approaches to world politics
(1) Brainstorming ideas
(2) Researching and crafting essay proposals
(3) Peer reviews on essay proposals
(4) Mock conferences
(5) A term essay  

課程目標
 By the end of the course, students will
1. Understand common critical approaches to world politics.
2. Apply their knowledge of critical approaches and skills to world politics.
3. Demonstrate familiarity with critical approaches to world politics.
4. Submit a term essay (undergraduate 1500-3000 words; graduate 2500-5000 words).  
課程要求
 1. Students are required to attend all classes. No more than three absences are permitted. Being often late and/or leaving early may negatively impact the final course grade.
2. All materials and lectures are presented in English. Assignments and discussions should be submitted and conducted in English.
3. Active participation in class discussions is required.
4. Assignments are carefully scheduled as stages toward the fulfillment of the course’s objectives. The assignments should be your own work and submitted electronically as a MS Word file. Late assignments are accepted, but the grades would be substantially lower and may not receive any feedback. Plagiarism will not be accepted.
5. Make sure you familiarize yourself with CEIBA system and stay on track throughout the semester.

Note: This course is designed for students who have basic disciplinary knowledge in international relations and are interested in critically reflecting upon the given studies, perspectives and approaches to world politics. 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
 備註： 每週一 12:00~13:00 備註欄：Please email me in advance. 
指定閱讀
 See the detailed weekly schedule.  
參考書目
 See the detailed weekly schedule.  
評量方式
(僅供參考)
    
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
Week 1
 2/22  Course introduction
Course overview, requirements, grading policy, grouping, Q&A  
Week 2
 3/01  ― Holiday ―

The origins and the evolution of modern international relations:
1. The Peace of Westphalia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o52GPe_EBG4

2. The Treaty of Westphalia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-WO73Dh7rY&t=86s

3. From Westphalia to Versailles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSE5MgRSel4


What is the studies of International Relations?
1. International Relations: An Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVCDnUZqLzU

2. Theories of International Relations-basic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3d5eq_9SAg



 
Week 3
 3/08  IR: a Divide Discipline and its Major Contentions
Required Reading
Brown, C. 2016. “Theory and Practice in International Relations,” in Booth, K. & Erskine, T. (ed.) International Relations Theory Today, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 39-52.
Recommended Reading
Bilgin, P. 2016. “Do IR Scholars Engage with the Same World?” published on Political Studies Association. https://www.psa.ac.uk/insight-plus/blog/do-ir-scholars-engage-same-world  
Week 4
 3/15  The Expansion of International Society
Required Reading
Shih, C. Y. & Chang, C. Y. 2017. “The Rise of China Between Cultural and Civilizational Relationalities: Lessons from Four Qing Cases,” International Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-25.
Recommended Reading
Neuman, I. 2011. “Entry into International Society Reconceptualized: The Case of Russia.” Review of International Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 117-145.  
Week 5
 3/22  Civilizational Contentions
Required Readings
Huntington, S. P. 2011[1996]. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Chapter 8, 9 & 12, New York: Simon & Schuster Press.
Ling, L. H. M. & Chen, B. 2018. “International Relations and the Rise oof Asia: A New ‘Moral Imagination’ for World Politics?” in Gofas, A., Hamati-Ataya I. & Onuf, N. (ed.) The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations, London: SAGE.
Recommended Reading
Sterling-Folker, J. 2016. “The Future from Inside the Liberal World Order,” in Booth, K. & Erskine, T. (ed.) International Relations Theory Today, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 253-257.  
Week 6
 3/29  Contentions of Eurocentrism
Required Readings
Hobson, J. M. 2012. “Introduction: Constructing Eurocentrism and International Theory as Eurocentric construct,” The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760-2010, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-30.
Sajed, A. 2016. “Race and International Relations—What's in a Word? A Debate Around John Hobson’s The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics,” Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 168-172.
Recommended Reading
Wallerstein, I. 1997. “Eurocentrism and Its Avatars: the Dilemmas of Social Sciences,” Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 46, No.1, pp. 21-39.  
Week 7
 4/05  ― Holiday ―  
Week 8
 4/12  Asian school of IR? Global IR?
Required Readings
Amitav, A. & Buzan, B. 2017. “Why is there no non-Western international relations theory? Ten years on,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 341-370.
Anderl, F. & Witt, A. 2020. “Problematising the Global in Global IR,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, pp. 1-26. December 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829820971708
Recommended Reading
Chen, C. C. 2011. “The absence of non-Western IR theory in Asia reconsidered,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-23.  
Week 9
 4/19  ― Midterm Exam Week (No Class) ―
[Write your essay proposal]  
Week 10
 4/26  [Essay proposal peer-review workshop]  
Week 11
 5/03  Homegrown Sinophone IR-Relational Theory
Required Readings
Qin, Y. 2016. “A Relational Theory of World Politics,” International Studies Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 33-47.
Creutzfeldt, B. 2011. ‘Theory Talk #45: Qin Yaqing on Rules vs Relations, Drinking Coffee and Tea, and a Chinese Approach to Global Governance’, Theory Talks, http://www.theory-talks.org/2011/11/theory-talk-45.html (30-11-2011)
Recommended Readings
Emirbayer, M. 1997. “Manifesto for a Relational Sociology,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 281-317.
Qin, Y. 2018. A Relational Theory of World Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  
Week 12
 5/10  Homegrown Sinophone IR-Moral Realism
Required Readings
Yan. X. 2019. Leadership and the Rise of Great Power, Chapter 1& 9, pp. 1-24 &190-206, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Creutzfeldt, B. 2012. ‘Theory Talk #51: Yan Xuetong on Chinese Realism, the Tsinghua School of International Relations, and the Impossibility of Harmony’, Theory Talks, http://www.theory-talks.org/2012/11/theory-talk-51.html (28-11-2012)
Recommended Readings
Yan. X. 2011. Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Hui, V. T. 2012. “Building Castles in the Sands: A Review of Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 5, No. 4, 425–449.
Zhang, F. 2012. “The Tsinghua Approach and the Inception of Chinese Theories of International Relations,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 73–102.  
Week 13
 5/17  Postcolonialism
Required Readings
Ling, H. M. L. 2016. “What’s in a Name? A critical interrogation of the “Chinese School of IR,” in Zhang, Y. & Chang, T. (ed.) Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations: Ongoing Debates and Sociological Realities. London: Routledge, pp. 1-18.
Tucker, K. 2018. “Unraveling Coloniality in International Relations: Knowledge, Relationality, and Strategies for Engagement,” International Political Sociology, Vol. 12, pp. 215-232.
Recommended Readings
Capan, Z. G. 2017. “Decolonising International Relations?” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 1-15.  
Week 14
 5/24  Critical Sinophone IR theories
Required Readings
Ling, H. M. L. 2014. The Dao of World Politics: Towards a Post-Westphalian, wordlist International Relations, Chapter 1& 2, London: Routledge.
Shih, C. & Huang C. 2016. “Balance of relationship and the Chinese School of IR: being simultaneously Confucian, post-Western and post-hegemonic,” in Zhang, Y. & Chang, T. (ed.) Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations: Ongoing Debates and Sociological Realities, London: Routledge, pp. 177-191.
Recommended Readings
Ling, H. M. L. 2014. The Dao of World Politics: Towards a Post-Westphalian, wordlist International Relations, London: Routledge.
Shih, C. et. al. 2019. China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships, London, Routledge.  
Week 15
 5/31  [Mock Conference I]  
Week 16
 6/07  [Mock Conference II]  
Week 17
 6/14  ― Holiday ―
[Revise your term essay]  
Week 18
 6/21  ― Final Exam Week (No class)―
[Revise and submit your term essay]