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A collection of videos from the LSE Department of International Relations.

Name Description Released Price

1 CleanVideoIR407 International Political Economy of the Environment [Video] Contributor(s): Robert Falkner | This course is intended primarily for MSc International Political Economy. An introduction to concepts and issues in the study of international environmental politics, with special emphasis on the political economy of environmental protection. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

2 CleanVideoIR410 International Politics [Video] Contributor(s): Peter Wilson | This course is compulsory for the MSc International Relations & MSc International Relations (Research) and for students taking MSc International Relations as part of the LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Affaires Internationales. It is not available to students on any other degree programme. The course provides an historical and theoretical analysis of core concepts in International Relations, of the normative and analytic issues involved, and of their relationship to the social sciences in general. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

3 CleanVideoIR416 The EU in the World [Video] Contributor(s): Karen Smith | This course covers the development of the external activities of the European Communities since 1957, including the development of European Political Cooperation and the Common Foreign and Security Policy. The relationship between the member states and these external activities, in particular the impact of the evolution of EU institutions and policies on national foreign policies. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

4 CleanVideoIR418 International Politics: Asia and the Pacific [Video] Contributor(s): Christopher Hughes | This course covers the international political experience of major powers and post-colonial states in a region beset by recurrent conflict and external intervention during the Cold War and subject to a novel multilateralism in its wake. The inter-linkages between the global, regional and local; the interests and role of the US; foreign and security policies of the major regional powers in relation to East Asia-Pacific; the impact of the legacy of colonialism and external intervention; the sources of bilateral and intra-regional conflict; the problem of regional order with reference to East and South-East Asia; the emergence and development of regional institutions. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

5 CleanVideoIR419 International Relations of the Middle East [Video] Contributor(s): Fawaz Gerges | The course is intended to provide an analysis of the regional politics of the Middle East since 1918, and of their interaction with problems of international security, global resources and great power/super power/hyperpower politics. The emergence of the states system in the Middle East during the inter-war period. The interplay of domestic politics, regional conflicts and international rivalries. The Cold War and post-Cold War significance of the Middle East in global politics. The importance of oil and other economic factors and interests. Conflict in the Gulf and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The foreign policies of major Middle Eastern states and the Lebanese civil war. The role of ideologies and social movements: Arab nationalism, militarism, political Islam and global jihadism. State and non-state actors. Democracy and human rights issues. International relations theory and its significance for the study of Middle East politics. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

6 CleanVideoIR431 European Union Policy-Making in a Global Context (Half Unit) [Video] Contributor(s): Ulrich Sedelmeier | The course places the development of EU policy-making in its international context. It examines the impact of the external factors on the evolution of common policies and the external impact of common policies. The USA and West European regional integration; the single market and social policies; finance and Economic and Monetary Union; trade policy; the pursuit of a common foreign policy, with a security and defence dimension; environmental policy; police cooperation and counter-terrorism, immigration and asylum policy; enlargement as a policy and a process. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

7 CleanVideoIR433 The International Politics of EU Enlargement (Half Unit) [Video] Contributor(s): Karen Smith | This course examines EU enlargement from the point of view of International Relations. The principal aim is to understand the interplay between enlargement, EU foreign policy and wider geopolitics. With this in mind enlargement is considered both as an act of European foreign policy and as a phenomenon impacting on the foreign policies of other states and actors. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

8 CleanVideoIR438 Theory of International Society: The English School and its Critics (Half Unit) [Video] Contributor(s): Peter Wilson | A critical examination of the principal texts and core ideas of the English school (ES) of International Relations. This course examines the idea of international society and the formal structure of that society as depicted by Bull, Wight, James and other leading ES scholars. It also examines the dynamics of and challenges to international society as articulated by Vincent, Watson, Buzan among others. The course aims at a close reading of specific texts in the context of their critical reception and subsequent theoretical debates. It seeks to evaluate the importance of these texts and their contribution to international theory. It explores the solidarist and pluralist strands of ES theory and the nature of the interrelationship between international and world society. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

9 CleanVideoIR445 Chinese Foreign and Security Policy [Video] Contributor(s): Christopher Hughes | This course will provide students with an historical overview of the development of Chinese foreign and security policy, the theoretical concepts used for analysing the making of Chinese foreign policy, and an up-to-date survey of China's evolving relations around the world. The first five weeks will be dedicated to providing a long historical perspective, and use a number of case studies to show how basic factors used in foreign policy analysis shape policy outcomes, including economic factors, the role of perception, geopolitical influences, bureaucratic politics, nationalism, and socialisation into the international system. The remainder of the course will involve analysing case studies on China's relations with the United States, Japan and Korea, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Russia and Central Asia, Australasia and the Pacific Islands, the EU, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

10 CleanVideoIR457 The Political Economy of International Trade [Video] Contributor(s): Leonardo Baccini | The study of the choice of trade policy and the institutional context in which it takes place. This course investigates how theories of emphasising distributional interests and institutions can explain trade policy choices. Particular emphasis is placed on giving students an understanding of the fundamental models of political economy. The course then applies these various issue-areas of trade policy, among them the role of the GATT and the WTO, regional trade agreements, trade in services, and the relationship between trade and foreign direct investment. While there is no formal pre-requisite for the course, it would be preferable for students to have already completed an introductory course in microecnomics and basic knowledge of quantitative analysis. Students without a previous background in quantitative methods can attend lectures from M1451 and M1452. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

11 CleanVideoIR461 Islam in International Relations: From Al-Andalus to Afghanistan [Video] Contributor(s): John Sidel | The course focuses on the role of Islam in world politics, posing two inter-related questions: First, how can we explain the varying nature and strength of Islam as a discursive and mobilisational force in international relations? Second, how should we understand the impact of changes in international relations on the institutions, authority structures, and identities associated with Islam? 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

12 CleanVideoIR482 Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies [Video] Contributor(s): Tomila Lankina | The course covers the various factors shaping Soviet, post-communist Russian and Eurasian foreign and security policy. It explores both the traditional foreign policy and security issues, such as the arms race and Détente, the role of the military, economic power projection, etc., as well as new soft power and security factors shaping policy, such as transnational civil society, sub-national regionalization, transnational ethnic and cultural networks, migration, the role of ideas, norms and norm entrepreneurs, etc. Key topics covered are Cold War, East-West relations and Détente; relations with Eastern Europe; relations with the Third World; Gorbachev’s foreign policy and the end of the Cold War; post-Cold War Russian foreign and security policy; Russia and the ‘near abroad’; ethnic separatism and regional conflict; Russian national and sub-national engagement with the West; Russia’s relations with China and the other ‘rising powers’; other security challenges (demographic problems, social protest, regional developmental disparities, etc.); regionalism and multilateralism in Eurasia; domestic and external influences on foreign policy and security in Ukraine, Belarus and the states of the Caucasus and Central Asia; Caspian energy and foreign policies; the challenge of Afghanistan for the region; regional responses to the Middle Eastern uprisings. 25 7 2013 Free View in iTunes

13 CleanVideoMSc International Relations [Video] Contributor(s): Dr Katerina Dalacoura | In this short video aimed at prospective students, Dr Katerina Dalacoura gives an overview of the MSc International Relations programme. 12 10 2012 Free View in iTunes

14 CleanVideoMSc International Relations Theory [Video] Contributor(s): Dr George Lawson | In this short video aimed at prospective students MSc International Relations Theory Programme Director, Dr George Lawson, answers the following questions: What is theory of international relations? How does the IRT programme differ from others in the department and the School? What specific subjects are covered in the core course and options? What kinds of backgrounds do students on the course have? What kind of jobs do they get? 26 9 2012 Free View in iTunes

15 CleanVideoIR429 Economic Diplomacy [Video] Contributor(s): Dr Stephen Woolcock | This course enables students to gain an in-depth understanding of the nature of economic diplomacy. The course focuses on decision making and negotiating processes in international economic relations and includes, as an integral part of the course, an opportunity for a dialogue with a range of senior policy practitioners and simulation of negotiations. 26 9 2012 Free View in iTunes

16 CleanVideoIR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III [Video] Contributor(s): Dr Toby Dodge | This course covers the ways in which international actors formulate decisions and strategies for dealing with other members of the international community. Critical examination of theoretical perspectives on foreign policy, involving the analysis of the foreign policy behaviour of a broad range of states through selective use of case studies. 15 5 2012 Free View in iTunes

17 CleanVideoIR422 Conflict and Peace Studies [Video] Contributor(s): Mr Mark Hoffman | This course is intended for those interested in theoretical and practical approaches to the question of peace, the problems of conflict and violence, and responses to them particularly in the form of liberal peacebuilding and statebuilding. 15 5 2012 Free View in iTunes

18 CleanVideoIR436 Theories of International Relations [Video] Contributor(s): Dr George Lawson | The course will cover the main explanatory and normative paradigms in international relations theory. The purpose of the course will be to provide a thorough background in all schools of International Relations theory and the debates between them. 15 5 2012 Free View in iTunes

19 CleanVideoIR437 (Half Unit) Postcolonial Perspectives in International Relations [Video] Contributor(s): Professor Kimberly Hutchings | The aim of the course is to introduce students to the growing body of postcolonial work in International Relations. This will include examining postcolonial readings of the history of international political thought, theories of imperialism and neo-imperialism, the work of postcolonial thinkers. 15 5 2012 Free View in iTunes

20 CleanVideoIR450 International Political Economy [Video] Contributor(s): Dr Jeffrey Chwieroth | An advanced introduction to concepts and contending approaches in international political economy, and an overview of the evolution of international economic relations since the late nineteenth century. 15 5 2012 Free View in iTunes

21 CleanVideoIR451 The Politics of Money in the World Economy [Video] Contributor(s): Dr Andrew Walter | This course is designed as a component of the study of a global system in which the management and mismanagement of money and finance are matters of fundamental consequence, for both international relations and domestic politics. It is intended to be of particular relevance to students specialising in international political economy. 15 5 2012 Free View in iTunes

22 CleanVideoIR460 Comparative Political Economy [Video] Contributor(s): Dr Lauren Phillips | This course will investigate how theories emphasising distributional interests and domestic institutions can explain economic policy choices. Particular emphasis will be placed on giving students an understanding of the use of quantitative methods in political economy research. 15 5 2012 Free View in iTunes

23 CleanVideoIR462 (Half Unit) Introduction to International Political Theory [Video] Contributor(s): Dr Kirsten Ainley | Course content: Background to International Political theory, Liberal Political theory and the Development of International Political Theory, The Moral Standing of the State, International Human Rights, Critiques of Human Rights and Universal Values, International Humantarianism, Global Social Justice, International Criminal Law, Beyond the Liberal Origins of International Political Theory. 15 5 2012 Free View in iTunes

24 CleanVideoIR463 (Half Unit) International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention [Video] Contributor(s): Professor Chris Brown | The course will involve both theoretical explorations of the nature and prehistory of 'humanitarianism' and empirical examples of claimed 'humanitarian interventions' (such as Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor) along with cases where it is claimed interventions should have taken place (such as Rwanda 1994) and others where humanitarianism has been combined with geo-strategic motivations. 15 5 2012 Free View in iTunes

25 CleanVideoIR464 (Half Unit) The Politics of International Law [Video] Contributor(s): Dr Kirsten Ainley | An introduction to the politics of the creation and implementation of international law, intended for non-lawyers. The course focuses on the areas of international law most relevant to International Political Theory. 15 5 2012 Free View in iTunes

26 CleanVideoMSc International Political Economy [Video] Contributor(s): Dr Jeffrey Chwieroth | In this short video Dr Jeffrey M Chwieroth introduces prospective students to the MSc International Political Economy programme and answers the following questions: What is international political economy? How does an MSc in IPE differ from an MSc Economics or MSc Politics degree? What specific subjects are covered in the core course and options? What kinds of backgrounds do students on the course have? What kind of jobs do MSc IPE students get? 9 11 2011 Free View in iTunes

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