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Small States and International Governance
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:39
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PZK_155 | LQF level: | All Levels | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 5.00 | ECTS: | 7.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Political Science | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Māris Cepurītis | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Students should have basic knowledge about the concepts of international relations. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The course aims at identifying small states, the problems they face as well as challenges, and approaches to ensuring the survival, well being and development. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The concepts of small state politics. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Basic concepts of diplomacy and their types. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Security aspects of small states. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Economy aspects of small states. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The foreign policy of small states. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | The foreign policy of small states as part of the EU and NATO. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | The foreign policy of Latvia as a small state. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Student presentations. | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | • Essays; • Final report. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Students have to take into account the following requirements and grading criteria: • Active participation during classes and seminars (as well as criticism and recommendations given in response to other students' reports) – 35% • Essays – 10% • Final report – 20% • Presentation of the final report – 15% • Exam – 20% | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will be able to describe the challenges and available solutions of small states, and provide information on successful foreign policy examples of small states. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will be able to understand the limits of small states in international politics, as well as the importance of use of strategy. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will be able to carry out research on the foreign policy of small states. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Robert Steinmetz and Anders Wivel, Introduction. Small States in Europe. Challenges and Opportunities. Robert Steinmetz, Anders Wivel Ed. (Ashgate: Farnham, 2010), 3-14 | ||||||||
| 2 | Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, and Ramesh Thakur ed. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2013), 35-69 | ||||||||
| 3 | Pauline Kerr, Geoffrey Wiseman (ed). Diplomacy in a Globalizing World. Theories and Practices (Oxford University Press: New York, 2013), 68-84 | ||||||||
| 4 | Gabriel Sheffer. The security of Small Ethnic States: A counter Neo-Realist Argument. in Inbar Efraim and Sheffer Gabriel ed. The National Security of Small States in a Changing World. 9-40 pp | ||||||||
| 5 | Clive Archer, Small States and the European Security and Defence Policy. Small States in Europe. Challenges and Opportunities. Robert Steinmetz, Anders Wivel Ed. (Ashgate: Farnham, 2010), 47-62 | ||||||||
| 6 | Naren Prasad. Small but Smart: Small States in the Global System. in Andrew F. Cooper, Timothy M. Shaw. The Diplomacies of Small States: Between Vulnerability and Resilience. Palgrave Macmillian – Houndmils, Basinggstoke, Hampshire, New York – 2009, 41-64 pp. | ||||||||
| 7 | Pauline Kerr, Geoffrey Wiseman ed. Diplomacy in a Globalizing World. Theories and Practices (Oxford University Press: New York, 2013), 141-159 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Raimo Varyrynen. Small States: persisting Despite Doubts. In Inbar Efraim and Sheffer Gaqbriel ed. The National Security of Small States in a Changing World. 41-76 | ||||||||
| 2 | Giorgi Gvalia, David Siroky, Bidzina Lebanidze, Zurab Iashvili. Thinking Outside the Bloc: Explaining the Foreign Policies of Small States (Security Studies, 22:98-131, 2013) | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Alan K. Henrikson. Diplomacy and Small States in Today`s World | ||||||||
| 2 | Baldur Thorhallsson. Small States in the UN Security Council: Means of Influence? The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 7 (2012) 135-160 pp. | ||||||||
| 3 | Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury. Small states in UN System: Contrains, Concerns, and Contributions. ISAS Working Paper. No. 160-22 October 2012. | ||||||||
| 4 | Jozef Batora Public Diplomacy in Small and Medium-Sized States: Norway and Canada. | ||||||||
