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课程名称：国际关系中的权力与外交政策 课程概述：欢迎参加国际关系中的权力与外交政策课程！本课程将让你了解权力在国际关系中的重要性，以及它如何影响国家与其他国家互动时的战略和战术。课程展示了一个国家在国际体系中的排名与其对外政策手段和方法之间的关系。课程开始时介绍了权力的构成、计算方式及国际权力格局如何随着时间变化的概念。您还将学习外交政策的定义及其构成要素、策略和活动。接着，课程深入分析当代大国、中等大国和小国的案例研究，以提高学生对各地区外交关系发展趋势的认识。 课程大纲： 1. 课程介绍：概述课程内容，强调权力在国际关系中的作用及其对国家策略的影响。 2. 权力与外交政策：学习权力在国际关系中的定义、测量方法，以及国际秩序的核心概念，分析国家利益如何影响外交政策。 3. 大国外交政策案例研究—美国：研究美国自二战以来在塑造国际体系方面的角色及其外交政策的变迁。 4. 中等大国外交政策案例研究—印度：探讨印度作为新兴中等大国的崛起及其在地区和全球权力格局中的影响。 5. 小国外交政策案例研究—卡塔尔：分析卡塔尔如何平衡与美国的同盟关系与其独立战略，及其在中东和全球能源机构中的角色。 6. 同侪评审作业：介绍作业目标、项目简要和评审标准。 7. 课程总结：回顾和总结课程内容，巩固学习成果。 通过本课程，学生将对国际政治的本质有更深入的理解，并为未来的国际秩序变化做好准备。
Name:Course Introduction
Description:Welcome to the Power and Foreign Policy in International Relations course! This course acquaints you with how power matters in the conduct of international relations and how it affects the strategies and tactics of a nation-state in dealing with other nation-states. It demonstrates the link between a country’s ranking in the international system and the means and methods it adopts to deal with the rest of the world. The course begins with introducing a few concepts about what constitutes power in world affairs, how it is calculated, and how the international power configuration changes over time. You will also learn what foreign policy means and what its constituent elements, strategies, or activities are. Then, the course delves deeper into case studies of contemporary great powers, middle powers, and small powers. These empirical case studies will raise the general knowledge of students about current developments and trends in foreign relations from different regions of the world. The examples of foreign policy approaches and decisions of nation-states, based on world news events of recent times, will help students to figure out the essence of world politics as it is being practiced in present times and prepare students to anticipate the future international orders to come.
Name:Power and Foreign Policy–The Inseparable Twins
Description:In this module, you will learn about what power means in international relations and how it is measured in terms of specific attributes of a nation-state. You will also learn about core concepts such as international power configuration and international order and the role of units (nation-states and non-state actors) in these structures. The module also analyzes what foreign policy means, how it is formulated on the basis of national interests, why a nation-state adopts a particular type of foreign policy, and how all this is inextricably linked to its power position in the international system. By the end of this module, you will gain an insight into why a great power behaves in a manner that is different from the behavior of a middle power or a small power.
Name:Foreign Policy of Great Powers: Case Study–The United States of America
Description:In this module, you will build upon the earlier awareness of power and foreign policy behavior. You will closely examine the conduct of the USA, which has been a key great power since the end of World War II, and how it shaped the post-World War II international system through a variety of strategies and means. You will also gain an insight into how there was a shift in the policies of the USA in tandem with the changes in the international power configuration from the Cold War era of bipolarity to the post-1991 unipolar period and then again from bipolarity to the present emergent multipolar world order. By the end of this module, you can appreciate how the USA has dealt with fellow great powers and weaker powers and what kind of grand strategy has motivated the USA since 1945.
Name:Foreign Policy of Middle Powers: Case Study–India
Description:In this module, you will learn about concepts like power and foreign policy in the context of an emerging middle power, India, which is estimated to have the potential of becoming a great power. You will also learn how India’s rise in the past two decades is closely associated with its high economic growth, its international multilateral alignments and strategic partnerships, and the vision of its political leadership to attain the status of a leading power in the world. The module will take you along India’s journey from being a sub-regional power in South Asia to an Asian regional power and an important balancing power in present times in the broader Indo-Pacific. Finally, you will gain an insight into the factors pushing India up in the international power configurations and the domestic political obstacles to its rise.
Name:Foreign Policy of Small Powers: Case Study–Qatar
Description:In this module, you will learn about the tiny Persian Gulf monarchy of Qatar, which has adopted a foreign policy mix of alliance with the USA while simultaneously pursuing an independent and ambitious form of assertiveness vis-à-vis its regional competitors. The module discusses the rise of Qatar as a fossil fuel colossus and how it parlayed its natural resource abundance to punch above its weight in the Middle East and global energy institutions. You will also learn why Qatar moved to a policy of supporting Islamist political groups in the region and beyond and how it capitalized on being a small power to become a moderator and mediator in multiple armed conflict zones. Finally, the module also explains how regime survival is a critical driver of foreign policy in this authoritarian country.
Name:Peer Review Assignment
Description:This module describes the learning objectives, project brief, review criteria, and submission instructions for the Peer Review Individual Assignment for the course.
Name:Course Wrap-Up
Description:
Welcome to the Power and Foreign Policy in International Relations course! This course acquaints you with how power matters in the conduct of international relations and how it affects the strategies and tactics of a nation-state in dealing with other nation-states. It demonstrates the link between a country’s ranking in the international system and the means and methods it adopts to deal with the rest of the world. The course begins with introducing a few concepts about what constitutes power i
