| Dozent/in |
Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Jaeger |
| Veranstaltungsart |
Masterseminar |
| Code |
FS231172 |
| Semester |
Frühjahrssemester 2023 |
| Durchführender Fachbereich |
Politikwissenschaft |
| Studienstufe |
Bachelor
Master |
| Termin/e |
Fr, 24.02.2023, 12:00 - 14:00 Uhr, 4.A05 (Einführungsveranstaltung)
Fr, 28.04.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B01
Sa, 29.04.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B01
Fr, 05.05.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B01
Sa, 06.05.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B01 |
| Umfang |
2 Semesterwochenstunden |
| Turnus |
Blockveranstaltung |
| Inhalt |
Current discourse on global politics is haunted by the ostensible crisis of the liberal international order. The discipline of International Relations typically makes sense of this crisis with reference to established, largely realist and liberal traditions of international thought and practice. However, the question of international or global order, liberal or otherwise, has also been of at least implicit concern in contemporary political theory, as attested by the recent formation of a corresponding field of International or Global Political Theory. The latter typically investigates issues such as war and violence, global poverty and inequality, sovereignty and (global) democracy, or human rights and humanitarian intervention from a normative perspective. While acknowledging the importance of these issues, this course takes a more ontological than normative approach to global political theory focused on questions around the nature of international or global order itself. In inevitably selective fashion, we will investigate four (internally heterogeneous) modes of contemporary political thought (from the early 20th to the early 21st century) with a view to how their proponents theorize the international or global (in very different ways) as an anterior and/or contingent condition for contemporary politics (which frames any normative application). The four selected modes of contemporary political thought range from existentialist-phenomenological (Schmitt, Arendt) and liberal-cosmopolitan (Habermas, Beck) to post-/decolonial (Fanon, Mignolo) and (new) materialist approaches (Hardt and Negri, Latour, Mitchell). Substantively, these approaches address questions of international/global order in relation to international law and constitutionalism, technology and risk, existential and cultural difference, colonialism and violence, global capitalism and sovereignty, and democracy and climate change. While largely rooted within Western perspectives, the challenge for the approaches to global political theory discussed in this course is to provide orientation in an increasingly post-Western world. |
| Schlagworte |
Nachhaltigkeit |
| Voraussetzungen |
Seminar ist für fortgeschrittene BA-Studierende offen und kann als Hauptseminar angerechnet werden. |
| Sprache |
Englisch |
| Anmeldung |
Seminar ist für fortgeschrittene BA-Studierende offen und kann als Hauptseminar gerechnet werden. |
| Abschlussform / Credits |
Aktive Teilnahme, Essay (benotet) / 4 Credits
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| Hinweise |
Studienschwerpunkte: Internationale Beziehungen/Politische Theorie |
| Hörer-/innen |
Nach Vereinbarung |
| Kontakt |
hans-martin_jaeger@carleton.ca |
| Material |
Pflichtlektüre und Seminarmaterialien zugänglich auf Online-Plattform OLAT |
| Literatur |
- Boucher, David (1998) Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Schmidt, Brian C. (2002) Together Again: Reuniting Political Theory and International Relations Theory, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 4(1): 115-140. |