Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie - Centralny System Uwierzytelniania
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Decision-making in International Relations POL-IRA-LS-DMIR
Ćwiczenia (CW) Semestr zimowy 2024/2025

Informacje o zajęciach (wspólne dla wszystkich grup)

Liczba godzin: 15
Limit miejsc: (brak limitu)
Zaliczenie: Zaliczenie na ocenę
Uwagi: (tylko po angielsku) The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the basic approaches to the analysis of political decisions and the basic phenomena and mechanisms of political decision-making in international relations. During the course will be discussed: types of decisions; biases in decision making; the rational actor model and alternatives to the rational actor model; psychological factors affecting foreign policy decisions; leader’s personality; international, domestic and cultural factors influencing decision making.
Literatura: (tylko po angielsku)

1. Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Jessica D. Blankshain, David A. Cooper, “Decision-Making in American Foreign Policy, Translating Theory into Practice”, Cambridge University Press, 2019

2. Alex Mintz, Karl DeRouen Jr., “Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making”, Cambridge University Press 2010.

3. Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, “Understanding International Relations”, Palgrave, 2009

4. Christopher Hill, “Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century”, Palgrave, 2016

Efekty uczenia się: (tylko po angielsku)

-student knows and understands the basic mechanisms of political decision making

- student can analyze and explain the mechanisms of political decision-making using various analytical approaches

- student can analyze and evaluate the process of political decision-making in the field of international security and foreign affairs

Metody i kryteria oceniania: (tylko po angielsku)

We will have two kinds of meetings this semester. ‘Lectures’ are traditional university classes in which most of the work is done by the professor, and ‘classes,’ in which most of the work is done by the students.

There are different requirements for each type of session. Student must complete all the requirements in order to pass the ‘lecture’ and ‘class’ portions of the course. Because the purpose of the course is to get students to think about decision making in IR and participate in discussions about current foreign policy issues, students are expected to attend each class session, do the reading prior to class, and follow our class discussions.

-class attendance and class engagement are worth 60% of grade for the lecture and class portions of the course.

-final exam for the lecture and the presentations/ for the class are worth 40% of grade.

Zakres tematów: (tylko po angielsku)

PRESENTATIONS:

AI and Decision-Making

Spirals of Delusion, How AI Distorts Decision-Making and Makes Dictators More Dangerous

By Henry Farrell, Abraham , Sep/Oct 2022, Foreign Affairs

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/system/files/pdf/2022/101509.pdf

Final Report: National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1124333.pdf

Beijing’s Decision-Making

What Does the West Really Know About Xi’s China?, Why Outsiders Struggle to Understand Beijing’s Decision-Making By Odd Arne Westad, June 13, 2023, Foreign Affairs

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/system/files/pdf/2023/what-does-the-west-really-know-about-xi’s-china-2023-06-13-09-56.pdf

China's Space Odyssey, What the Antisatellite Test Reveals About Decision-Making in Beijing

By Bates Gill and Martin Kleiber,

https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/fora86&div=36&g_sent=1&casa_token=oiU2iDJw0okAAAAA:78aJPeUoz2LoqvjvwzLZy0lyFmfzsiwLtA5dTrkoJNfY1Hr1-DkE5T038ZbP256L3wrvJv4&collection=journals

The psychological barries to proper decision-making

Heads in the Sand, Why We Fail to Foresee and Contain Catastrophe

By Elke U. Weber, Novemeber/ December 2020, Foreign Affairs

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/system/files/pdf/2020/99602.pdf

The Human Factor, How Robert Jervis Reshaped Our Understanding of International Politics, By Thomas J. Christensen and Keren Yarhi-Milo January 7, 2022, Foreign Affairs

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/system/files/pdf/2023/the-human-factor-2023-05-25-15-27.pdf

Church and Decision-making

Pope Francis’ Silence on Central Europe’s Migration Crackdown, Why He’s Unlikely to Intervene, By Victor Gaetan, March 7, 2018, Foreign Affairs

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/central-europe/2018-03-07/pope-francis-silence-central-europes-migration-crackdown

Grupy zajęciowe

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Grupa Termin(y) Prowadzący Miejsca Liczba osób w grupie / limit miejsc Akcje
1 (brak danych), (sala nieznana)
Andrzej Demczuk 19/ szczegóły
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