Global

• Different debates and approaches to the study of international relations

  • Realism
  • Liberalism
• 73%
• The course on Global Affairs covers a wide range of issues, concepts, including international relations, global economics, diplomacy, conflict resolution, national interest, foreign policy, actors, globalization, balance of power, cold war, multi-polar systems, and international law
• Prepared in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


  September 2019
• Chapter One - Levels of Analysis in International Relations


  • The individual level
  • The group level
  • The state level
  • The system level
• Course Title

  • Global Affairs
• Chapter One - Self-Check Exercise

  Self-Check Exercise
• Prepared by: 'Moges Demissie (PhD)<|>Seife Hailu (Ass. Prof)'
• Chapter One - Actors in International Relations


  • State Actors
  • Non-State Actors
• Summary of Chapter One: Understanding International Relations
• Chapter Two - Understanding Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Behaviors


  • Defining Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Policy Objectives
  • Foreign Policy Behavior: Patterns and Trends
  • Foreign Policy Dimensions
  • Instruments of Foreign Policy
• Course Code

  • GLAF
• Chapter One

  • Understanding International Relations
  • Introduction
  • Objectives
  • Conceptualizing Nationalism, Nations and States
  • Understanding International Relations
  • The Nature and Evolution of International Relations
  • Actors in International Relations
  • Levels of Analysis in International Relations
  • The Structure of International System
  • Theories of International Relations
• Chapter One - Theories of International Relations

  • Idealism/Liberalism
  • Realism
  • Structuralism/Marxism
  • Constructivism
  • Critical Theories
• Chapter Two


  • Understanding Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
  • Introduction
  • Objectives
  • Defining National Interest
  • Understanding Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Behaviors
• Sections in Chapter Two

  • Foreign Policy during Tewodros II (1855-1868)
  • Foreign Policy during Yohannes IV (1872-1889)
  • Foreign Policy during Menelik II (1889-93)
  • Foreign Policy during Emperor Haile Selassie I (1916-1974)
  • Foreign Policy during the Military Government (1974—1991)
  • The Foreign Policy of Ethiopia in the Post 1991
• Sections in Chapter Three

  • Meaning and Nature of International Political Economy (IPE)
  • Theoretical perspectives of International Political Economy
  • Survey of the Most Influential National Political Economy systems in the world
  • Core Issues, Governing institutions and Governance of International Political Economy
  • Exchange Rates and the Exchange-Rate System
• Sections in Chapter Four

  • Defining Globalization
  • The Globalization Debates
  • Globalization and Its Impacts on Africa
  • Ethiopia in a Globalized World
• Chapters in the document

  • Foreign Policy Behavior: Patterns and Trends
  • Foreign Policy Dimensions
  • Instruments of Foreign Policy
  • Overview of Foreign Policy of Ethiopia
  • International Political Economy (IPE)
  • Globalization and Regionalism
• Debates and approaches to the study of international relations including realism, liberalism are given emphasis
• The first chapter lays the foundation of the course
• The course aims to equip students with the basics of international relations to expose them to global challenges and perspectives
• The course is comprehensive, broad, and multidisciplinary in nature
• The contents of the course are organized into 5 chapters
• Chapters in the Global Affairs Module

  • Globalization and Its Impacts on Africa
  • Ethiopia in a Globalized World
  • Pros and Cons of Globalization
  • Defining Regionalism and Regional Integration
  • The Old Regionalism
  • New Regionalism
  • Major Theories of Regional Integrations
  • Functionalism
  • Neo-functionalism
  • Selected Cases of Regional Integration
  • Regionalization versus Globalization and State
  • The Relations between Regionalization and Globalization
  • Major Contemporary Global Issues
• The first chapter introduces concepts like realism, liberalism, and other relevant theories and approaches to the study of international relations
• The first chapter introduces major concepts such as the nature, scope, evolution, actors and levels of analysis, structure, and theories of international relations
• The Global Affairs Module is designed for the course, Global Affairs
• The course covers concepts like national interest, foreign policy, actors, globalization, balance of power, cold war, multi-polar systems, international law, and other relevant concepts
• Nationalism is the most influential force in international affairs
• State

  Combined with a 'nation' forming a compound noun - the 'nation-state' - which was organized differently and pursued different goals
• Nationalism’s triumph is the coming of the nation-state as key actors in world politics-accepted as ultimate, legitimate and the most basic form of political entity
• Nationalism has caused the outbreak of revolutions and wars across the globe
• Course Objectives

  • Understand nations, nationalism and states
  • Explain the nature and historical development of international relations
  • Examine the extent and degree of influence of state and non-state actors in the international system
  • Gain basic knowledge of the major theories of International Relations and develop the ability to critically evaluate and apply such theories
  • Elucidate national interest, foreign policy and diplomacy
  • Assess the overriding foreign policy guidelines of Ethiopia in the past and present
  • Explicate the nature and elements of international political economy
  • Examine the roles major international and regional institutions play in world politics
  • Explore Ethiopia’s role in regional, continental and global institutions and affairs
  • Critically evaluate the major contemporary global issues
• Nationalism

  The doctrine that asserts the nation as the basic political unit in organizing society
• Nation


  Constitutes a community of people joined by a shared identity and by common social practices
• Nationalism is noted as a factor for the collapse of age-old empires, marker for new borders, a powerful component for the emergence of new states, and it is used to reshape and reinforce regimes in history
• Nation

  Historical entities that evolve organically out of more similar ethnic communities and reveal themselves in myths, legends, and songs
• Nationalists argue

  The nation should take over the state and make use of its institutional structures to further the nation’s ends
• Global Affairs Module Objectives

  • Define the meanings and nature of nation, states and nationalism
  • Describe the meaning and evolution of International Relations
  • Acquaint yourself with different perspectives, approaches and paradigm of international relations
  • Identify and analyze the roles different actors play using the three levels of analysis
  • Examine the structure of international system and the laws governing its operation