PL22058: Foreign policy making
[Page last updated: 03 June 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWPG 30%, EXCB 70% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Project output Group (CWPG 30%)
- Closed-book written examination (EXCB 70%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take PL12003
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Illustrate and evaluate key concepts, ideas and theories in foreign policy analysis;
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the origins, evolution and contemporary dynamics of the foreign policy;
- Learn to use different set of methodologies to study and analyse empirical cases of foreign policy;
- Describe, compare and critique different events, issues and actors in foreign policy analysis;
- Select, systematise and use evidence, data and information from a variety of secondary and primary sources in accordance to the ethical requirements of study;
- Display critical judgement;
- Demonstrate self-organisation and time-management skills.
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| Synopsis: | Study different theories and cases of foreign policy. Explore why states behave differently from each other and the various types of actors that influence the making of foreign policy. Explore different kinds of domestic and international actors that are relevant in the process of foreign policy decision-making. Discover how individuals (leaders), states and their different institutions and the international system are key to understanding foreign policy strategies, principles and behaviour.
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| Content: | Leaders in foreign policy; influence of political parties in foreign policy; role of congress in foreign policy; coalition politics in foreign policy; bureaucracies in foreign policy; international system in foreign policy; emerging powers and populism in foreign policy, economic sanctions, foreign economic policy, foreign security policy, diplomatic foreign policy.
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| Course availability: |
PL22058 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UHPL-AFB53 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations (Year 2)
- UHPL-AKB53 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHPL-AKB53 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with professional placement and study abroad (Year 2)
- UHPL-AKB53 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with study abroad (Year 2)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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