Accreditations
In addition to the common core of mandatory courses, students are free to create their own path in subject areas such as Africa, India, China, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Transatlantic Studies, and International Management. Students who choose two optional courses in the same area and prepare a dissertation on this regional or thematic specialization will have that choice recognized and mentioned in their diploma supplement.
Programme Structure for 2024/2025
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Anthropology, Citizenship and Human Rights
6.0 ECTS
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Europe as A Global Actor
6.0 ECTS
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Globalization and Governance in International Relations
6.0 ECTS
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History and Theory of International Relations
6.0 ECTS
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International Organizations, N.G.O.S and Social Movements
6.0 ECTS
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Conflicts, Peace-Building and International Regulation
6.0 ECTS
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Research Design
6.0 ECTS
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Globalization and Development Challenges
6.0 ECTS
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Nationalism and Ethnicity in the International System
6.0 ECTS
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Master Dissertation in International Studies
48.0 ECTS
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Master Project in International Studies
48.0 ECTS
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2nd Cycle Internship
6.0 ECTS
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Anthropology, Citizenship and Human Rights
OA1. Perception of the social and cultural otherness;
OA2. Criticism of euro and ethnocentrism;
OA3. Stimulating humanism and humanitarian concerns;
OA4.Development of analytical and critical skills.
1.Introduction to the course. Summary of the syllabus. Evaluation.
From collaborative research to Public Anthropology.
Ethical dilemmas and impasses.
2. Lines in the sand: frontiers, borders, boundaries, limits.
3. For an anthropology of discrimination.
4. Women rights.
The local and the global
5. Who is the subject of Human rights?
Universalism and cultural relativism.
A Critical Approach.
6. Acts of citizenship and Human Rights (with film screening).
7. Representation. The Politics of suffering
8. The Encounters and Contradictions of Aid and Development
9. Environment. Changes and Societal Challenges
10.Final roundtable.
Preparation of final essays.
Assessment includes class attendance and informed participation (10%) and the group presentation and debate of one topic of the syllabus followed by a group report (30%).
The final paper consists of the analysis of one of the topics debated in the seminar (60%). To be uploaded by email.
Title: -Nixon, Rob, 2011, ?Introduction?, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Cambridge, Harvard University Press
-Mezzadra, S & Neilson, B 2013. Border as method or the Multiplication of Labor. Duke University Press
- MacClancy, J. (ed.) Exotic No More: Anthropology in the Front Lines, Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press
-Isin, Engin F., and Greg M. Nielsen (ed.). 2008. Acts of Citizenship, London/New York: Zed Books
-Boltanski, L 1999. Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
-Benhabib, S. 2004 The rights of others: Aliens, Residents and Citizens, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
-Bauman, Zygmunt, 2004, Wasted Lives. Modernity and its Outcasts, Cambridge, Polity Press
-Balibar, E 2002. Politics and the Other Scene, London/New York: Verso
-Agamben, G., 1998. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
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Title: -Zizek, Slavoj 2005. Against Human Rights, New Left Review 34.
-de Waal, A 2002. "Anthropology and the Aid Encounter", in MacClancy, J. (ed.) Exotic No More: Anthropology in the Front Lines, Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, pp. 251-269;
-Secor, Anna, 2004, " 'There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me': Citizenship, Space, and Identity in the City", in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. 352-368;
British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 286-303;
-Ross Source, Alistair, 2007, "Multiple Identities and Education for Active Citizenship", in
-Rancière, Jacques 2004. 'Who is the subject of human rights?', South Atlantic Quarterly 103 (2/3);
-Phadke, Shilpa, Shilpa Ranade, and Sameera Khan. 2009. "Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent" In Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities, edited by Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham, Oxon/New York: Routledge, pp. 185-203;
- Perez, Rosa Maria, 2013, The Tulsi and the Cross. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter in Goa, Delhi, Orient Longman;
-Parasunaman, S., 1999, The Development Dilemma. Displacement in India, London, MacMillan Press, caps. 9, 10 and 11;
- Neto, P.F. (2017). The consolidation of the Angola-Zambia border: Violence, Forced Displacement, Smugglers and Savimbi, Journal of Borderlands Studies 32(3): 305-324
-Moreno, Melissa. 2008. "Lessons of Belonging and Citizenship Among Hijas/os de Inmigrantes Mexicanos." Social Justice 35 (1 (111): 50-75;
-Moore, Amelia, 2015, ?Anthropocene anthropology: reconceptualizing contemporary global change?, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, NS, 22, pp. 27-46;
", in Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 181-219;
-Moehn, Frederick, 2007, "Music, Citizenship, and Violence in Postdictatorship in Brazil;
-Mentore, Laura, 2017, "The virtualism of "capacity building" workshops in indigenous Amazonia: Ethnography in the new middle grounds", in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory , vol.7, no. 2, pp.297-307;
-McCLain, Linda and Joanna L. Grossman eds., 2009, Gender Equality. Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, chaps.2, 10,11;
-McGloin, C. & Georgeu, N 2016 'Looks good on your CV': The Sociology of voluntourism in higher education, Journal of Sociology 52(2): 403-417;
-Mathur, Nayanika, 2015, "'It's a conspiracy theory and climate change": Of beastly encounters and cervine disappearances in Himalayan India", in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, vol.5, no.4, pp.87-11;
-Marais, Mike, 2014, Shame, Divine Cannibalism, and the Spectacle of Subaltern Suffering in Ken Barris's "What Kind of Child", in South African Literary History Project: Special issue: Community and Commonality, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 79-95;
, 2003, "Soul Citizenship: The Black Hebrews and the State of Israel", in American Anthropologist, New Series, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 302-312;
-Markowitz, Fran, Sara Helman and Dafna Shir-Vertesh
-Malkki, L.H. 1995. "Refugees and Exile: From 'Refugee Studies' to the National Order of Things" Annual Review of Anthropology 24, pp. 495-523;
-Hughes, D. Mcdermott 2005. Third Nature. Making time and Space in the Great Limpopo Conservation Area, Cultural Anthropology 20(2):157-184;
-Hage, G., 2016. "État de siège: A dying domesticating colonialism?" American Ethnologist, 43(1): 38-49;
, in American Sociological Review, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 1-24;
-Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, 2011, "Constructing Citizenship: Exclusion, Subordination, and Resistance"
-Gaventa, John and Rajesh Tandon, eds., 2010, Globalizing Citizens. New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion, London and NY, Zed Books, chaps. 9, 10 and 11;
-Friedman, Marilyn, ed.,2005, Women and Citizenship, Oxford, Oxford University Press, chaps. 5, 6, 10;
-Frase, P 2016. Four Futures: Life after capitalism, Verso Books;
-Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn, 2008. "Collaborative Anthropology as Twenty-first-Century Ethical Anthropology", in Collaborative Anthropologies, volume 1, pp. 175-182;
- Ferguson, J 1990. The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticisation and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press;
-Fassin, D. 2008. Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France, Cultural Anthropology 20(3):362-387;
-Cody, Francis, 2016, "The obligation to act: Gender and reciprocity in political mobilization, in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, vol.6, no. 3, pp. 179-199;
-Cloud, Christine, 2010, Cherri?e Moraga's "Loving in the War Years": lo que nunca paso? por sus labios: Auto-ethnography of the "New Mestiza", in Confluencia, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 84-97;
-Brondo, KV 2015. The spectacle of saving: conservation voluntourism and the new neoliberal economy on Utila, Honduras, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 23:10, 1405-1425, DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2015.1047377;
-Bloemraad, Irene, Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul, 2008, "Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State", in Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 34 153-179;
-Balibar, E. 2004. Is a Philosophy of Human Civic Rights Possible? New Reflections on Equaliberty, South Atlantic Quarterly, 103 (2-3): 311-322;
- Bangstad, Sindre, ed., 2017, Anthropology of our Times. An Edited Anthology in Public Anthropology, NY, Palgrave Macmilan, foreword and chap.1;
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Europe as A Global Actor
Learning Outcomes:
LO1: to evaluate the role of the EU as a global actor in the 21st century.
LO2: to understand European external policies and the comprenesive approach to external action
LO3: to identify the external aspects of internal policies in the EU
LO4: To analyze the role of the EU in the emerging multipolar global order
1.Europe as a Global Actor in the 21st Century;1.1The history of European integration;1.2European integration theories and International Relations theories;1.3Key concepts: international actor, polity, international organization;1.4The Lisbon Treaty and its implications for the EU as a global actor;1.5Institutional framework and decision-making proceduresm;
2.European external policies and the comprehensive approach;2.1The Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defense Policy;2.2The European Neighborhood Policy and enlargement;2.3Euromed and the Union for the Mediterranean;2.4EU and crise response mechanisms;2.5Global Justice and Global Governance;
3.External aspects of internal policies;3.1Economic and Monetary Policy;3.2Environmental and Energy Policy;3.3The Common Commercial Policy;
4.The EU and the emerging multipolar global order;4.1The EU and other International Organizations;4.2The Transatlantic partnership;4.3The EU and the Emerging Powers
The evaluation will be based in two article reviews written by students. Each review should not exceed 2000 words and counts for 50% of the final grade.
Title: Smith, K.(2008), European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World, 2nd ed., Cambridge:Polity Press
Marsh, S.& H. Mackenstein (2005), The International Relations of the European Union, London:Pearson Longman
Keukeleire, S.& J. MacNaughtan (2008), The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Houndmills:Palgrave Macmillan
Jørgensen, K.E.& K.V. Laatikainen (eds) (2013), Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions. Performance, Policy, Power, Abingdon:Routledge
Hill, C.& M. Smith (eds) (2011), International Relations and the European Union, 2nd ed., New York:Oxford University Press
Bretherton, C. & J. Vogler (2006), The European Union as a Global Actor,2nd ed., London, New York:Routledge
Bouchard, C., J. Peterson & N. Tocci (eds) (2013), Multilateralism in the 21 Century:Europe's Quest for Effectiveness, London:Routledge
Bindi, F. (ed), The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Assessing Europe's Role in the World, Brookings Institution Press, 2010.
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Title: Wright, Nick, "The European Union: What Kind of International Actor?", Political Perspectives, vol. 5, nº 2, 2011, pp. 8-32. Disponível em http://www.politicalperspectives.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/PPVolume5-Issue2-2011-Wright-1_final.pdf
Woolcock, Stephen (2010), "The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Union as an actor in international trade," ECIPE Working Paper, Nº 01/2010. Disponível em http://www.ecipe.org/media/publication_pdfs/the-treaty-of-lisbon-and-the-european-union-as-an-actor-in-international-trade.pdf
Wiener, Antje e Thomas Diez (eds), European Integration Theory, 2ª ed., Oxford University Press, 2009.
Vogler, John, "The European contribution to global environmental governance," International Affairs vol. 81, nº 4, 2005, pp. 835-850. Disponível em http://cesruc.org/uploads/soft/130311/1-130311152133.pdf
Thody, Philip, An Historical Introduction to the European Union. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
Niemann, Arne e Bretherthon, Charlotte, "Introduction: EU external policy at the crossroads," International Relations, vol. 27, nº 3, 2013, pp. 261-275. Versão provisória disponível em http://internationale.politik.uni-mainz.de/files/2012/10/Niemann-and-Bretherton_Special-edition_introduction_final.pdf
Maurer, Heidi e Simão, Licínia, "From regional power to global power? The European Neighborhood Policy after the Lisbon Treaty," paper apresentado na 13ª conferência bianual EUSA, Baltimore, maio de 2013. Disponível em http://euce.org/eusa/2013/papers/12c_maurer.pdf
Ludlow, Piers, "European Integration and the Cold War", in Leffler, Melvyn & Westad, Odd Arne, The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 179-197. [cota ISCTE: H.123(0) Cam v.1-3]
Jørgensen, Knud Erik (ed), The European Union and International Institutions, 2013, Routledge.
Elgström, Ole, "Outsiders' Perceptions of the European Union in International Trade Negotiations," Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 45, nº 4, 2007, pp. 949-967.
Cameron, Fraser (2011), "The EU and the BRICs," DSEU Policy Paper, 3/2011. Disponível em http://dseu.lboro.ac.uk/Documents/Policy_Papers/DSEU_Policy_Paper03.pdf
Barry, Linda, "European Security in the 21st Century: The EU's Comprehensive Approach," The Institute of International and European Affairs, 2012. Disponível em http://www.iiea.com/publications/european-security-in-the-21st-century-the-eus-comprehensive-approach
Bäckstrand, Karin e Elgström, Ole, "The EU's role in climate change negotiations: from leader to 'leadiator'," Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 20, nº 10, 2013, pp. 1369-1386.
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Globalization and Governance in International Relations
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to:
LO1. Know the main themes debated in studies on globalisation and global governance.
LO2. Understand and critically discuss the main challenges related to processes of globalisation and global governance.
LO3. Analyse contemporary cases and events defined by processes of globalisation and global governance, with a particular focus on the Global South.
LO4. Critically analyse texts (including scientific articles, books, reports and official documents) that discuss various approaches and topics on globalisation and global governance.
PC1. Critical theories of International Relations, with a focus on feminist theories.
PC2. The role of non-state actors, mainly social movements and NGOs, in the processes of globalisation and global governance.
PC3. Transnational migratory flows.
PC4. Environmental impacts of globalisation and global governance processes.
PC5. South-South cooperation and the role of the Global South.
PC6. Health and global politics.
- For students attending the course (evaluation throughout the semester):
Attendance and participation in class discussion: 10%
Group work (simulation on a topic discussed in the course) with oral presentation: 30%
Final essay (literature review based on 3 scientific articles/book chapters - 2500 words): 60%
- For students not attending the course:
Final essay (literature review based on 7 scientific articles/book chapters - 5000 words): 100%.
Title: - Baylis, John et al. (eds.) (2019) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
- Beck, Ulrich (2000) What is Globalization? (Cambridge: Polity Press)
- della Porta, Donatella and Sidney Tarrow (2005) Transnational Protest and Global Activism (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield)
- Enloe, Cynthia (2014) 2nd edition. Bananas, Beaches and Bases (Berkeley: California University Press)
- Held, David and Anthony McGrew (eds) (2000) The Global Transformations Reader (Cambridge: Polity Press)
- Mohanty, Chandra Talpade (2003) Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Durham: Duke University Press)
- Scholte, Jan Aart (2005) Globalization: A Critical Introduction (London: Red Globe Press)
- Steans, Jill (2013) Gender & International Relations (Cambridge: Polity Press)
Compulsory readings per each week will be uploaded on Moodle in the beginning of the semester.
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History and Theory of International Relations
OA1: Identify the main theories of IR and how they are applied to the knowledge of the History of International Relations
OA2: Analyze the emergence of the Westphalian system and the development of the modern system of international relations;
OA3: Understanding the origins and consequences of the two world wars of the twentieth century
OA4: Identify the origins of the Cold War as well as its essential characteristics;
OA5: Assess the importance of the end of the European colonial empires;
OA6: Analyze the process of European integration in its main dimensions;
OA7: Identify the causes of the end of the Cold War and the features of the international system after 1989;
OA8: Explain the phenomenon of globalization and the decline of American supremacy in the international system in the 21st century.
1: The Theories of International Relations: interpretation models of the international system
2: Westphalia and the modern system of international relations
3. The Two World Wars of the Twentieth Century
4. The Cold War and the bipolar international system (ajustei ligeiramente só para distinguir do ponto seguinte)
5. The impact of the Cold War on the Global South
6. European integration
7. The end of the Cold War and the world after 1989
8. The post-American world? Changes of the international system in the 21st century
Assessment during the semester (requires attendance of at least 2/3 of the classes):
Essay, based on a literature review of 4 academic articles suggested by the students and approved by the professors, addressing one or more research questions derived from the material covered in class (between 3000 and 3500 words) - 60%
Written test conducted during one of the classes as indicated by the professor, without consultation and with questions related to the content covered in class - 30%
Attendance and participation - 10%
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Final Assessment:
Final Paper: Essay, based on a literature review of 6 academic articles suggested by the students and approved by the professors, addressing one or more research questions derived from the material covered in class (maximum of 5000 words) - 100%
Title: Acharya, A. and Buzan, B. The Making of Global International Relations: Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019
Baylis, J. et al. (eds.). The globalization of world politics: an introduction to international relations (9th ed.). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023.
Bukovansky, M., Keene, E., Reus-Smit, C. and Spanu, M. (eds.). Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023
Darwin, J. The Empire Project. The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009.
Judt, T. Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945. London, 2007.
Sorensen, G., Moller, J. and Jackson, R. Introduction to international relations: theories and approaches (8th ed.). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021.
Tickner, A. B. and Smith, K. (eds.). International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of Difference. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.
Westad, O. A. The Global Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007.
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Title: Buzan, B. and Little, R. International Systems in World History. Remaking the Study of International Relations. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
Dockrill, S. The End of the Cold War Era. The Transformation of the Global Security Order. London: Bloosmbury Academic, 2005.
Gaddis, J. L.. The Cold War. Allen Lane, 2005.
Gaspar, C. (coord.). Teorias das Relações Internacionais: Textos Clássicos. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2021.
Hill, C., Smith, M. and Vanhoonacker, S. International Relations and the European Union (4th ed). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023.
Leffler, M. P. & Westad, O. (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vols. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010.
Mazower, M. No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009.
Reynolds, D. From World War to Cold War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Weber, C. International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.
Wedgwood, C. V. The Thirty Years War. New York: New York Review of Books, 1938.
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International Organizations, N.G.O.S and Social Movements
Skills and Competences:
SC1: Acquisition of a critical understanding of social reality and development of an informed and conscious citizenship;
SC2: Ability to organize and analyze complex research results in a coherent form;
SC3: Knowledge and ability to use information retrieval tools, such as bibliographical repertoires, reports, electronic resources;
Learning Outcomes:
LO1: To understand development policies design, restrictions and scope
LO2: To identify the main agents in international development
LO3: To analyze the role of the civil society organizations
P1. Development concept and development policies
P2. International organizations and the design of development programs
P3. The role of international organizations: case studies
P3.1. Health interventions in Africa: key players
P3.2. From Alma Ata to vertical programs
P3.3. NGOs as new development actors
P3.4. The case of SWAP Mozambique.
P4. Social movements and public intervention
Participation in seminars: 25%
Presentation in a seminar with presentation outline and reading sheet (2 pages): 25%
Final essay (7/9 pages): 50%
Assessment by examination
Students may opt, as an alternative to periodic evaluation, the assessment by examination
Absences up to a maximum of 3 double sessions, involve the presentation of a record reading of the texts discussed in those classes.
Proposal for essay:
based on analysis of a program report
Title: Stiglitz J. 2002. Globalization and its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton
Rincón Becerra, M. , Rodríguez Colmenares, I. 2010. "Barrio Adentro y Alma Ata", Revista de Ciencias Sociales (RCS) Vol. XVI, No. 3, Julio - Septiembre 2010, pp. 515 - 525
Pita, J. I. eds. 2006. Nuevos instrumentos de la cooperación española: la experiencia mozambiqueña. Madrid: Fundación Carolina CeALCI.
Pfeiffer J, Johnson W, Fort M, Shakow A, Hagopian A, et al. 2008. Strengthening health systems in poor countries: a code of conduct for nongovernmental organizations. Am. J. Pub. Health 98(12):2134-40
Herz, Monica & Andrea R. Hoffman, 2004, Organizações Internacionais. História e Práticas, Rio de Janeiro, Elsevier
Escobar, Arturo, 1995, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Craig D, Porter D. 2003. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: a new convergence. World Dev. 31(1):53-69
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Title: Turshen M. 2007. Women Health Movements. A Global Force for Change. New York: Pallgrave MacMillan.
Turshen M. 1999. Privatizing Health Services in Africa. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
Porter, D. (1999). Health, civilization, and the state : a history of public health from ancient to modern times. London; New York, Routledge (parte 3)
Pfeiffer, J., 2003, "International NGOs and primary health care in Mozambique: The need for a new model of collaboration". Social Science & Medicine, 56(4), 725-738
Ferguson, James, 1999, Expectations of Modernity. Myths and Meanings of Urban Life in Zambian Cooperbelt, Berkeley, University of California Press
Farmer, Paul (1999) Infections and Inequalities. The Modern Plagues, Berkeley, University of California Press. (preface, chap. 1 and 10)
Fassin, Didier, 2007, When bodies remember : experiences and politics of aids in South Africa, Berkeley, University of California Press
Escobar, Arturo, 1991, "Anthropology and the Development Encounter: the Making and Marketing of Development Anthropology" in American Ethnologist, 18, 4, 658-682.
Beyer, J. A. d., A. S. Preker, et al. (2000). "The role of the World Bank in international health: renewed commitment and partnership." Social Science and Medicine 50(2): 169-76
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Conflicts, Peace-Building and International Regulation
When successfully completing this UC students will be able to:LO1.Theoretically define relevant dimensions of contemporary military conflicts, resolution, peacekeeping and peace building processes, and mechanisms of international regulation of stabilization.LO2.Theoretically and empirically explain the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of the CU;LO3.Analyze relevant concepts of understanding military conflict and its resolution in the contemporary world;LO4.Describe forms of managing violent military conflicts of relevance in different regional contexts, be it in the most developed countries, in emerging countries and in least developed countries;LO5.Theoretically and empirically analyze the global and local dynamics of military conflicts;
LO6.Use major indicators, measures and categorizations of military conflicts, processes leading to their pacification, and mechanisms of international regulation, in a methodologically grounded and heuristically critical way;
Week 1: Introduction to the study of conflict and the module
Week 2: Conflict prevention, management and resolution
Week 3:The study of war
Week 4: Terrorism, counterterrorism and conflict
Week 5: Developments in the study of peace
Week 6: Peace keeping and peacebuilding
Week 7: War torn states and post-conflict reconstruction
Week 8: Peacebuilding through reconciliation: South Africa, Rwanda and Guinea
Week 9: Conflict, DDR and transitional justice in Colombia
Week 10: A critical approach to peacebuilding in Bosnia-Herzegovina
a) Attendance of lectures (10%)
b) Discussion in class of literature topics and empirical information (10%)
c) Written essay composed of 5 academic blog posts (up to 500 words each) . Criteria for evaluation: 1) structure and academic writing; 2) engagement with theory; 3) use of relevant examples; 4) critical reflexivity. Penalties: 1) 0.5 marks will be deducted for missing the deadline; any assessment that exceeds the word limit by more than 10% will receive a 0.5 mark deduction.
Title: Stedman, S., Rothchild, D. and Cousens, E. (2003) Ending Civil Wars, the Implementation of Peace Agreements. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
Paris, R. (2003) At War?s End. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jackson, R. (2016) Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies. London: Routledge.
Collins, A. (2019) Contemporary Security Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chesterman, S. (2004) You the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration and State-Building. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Brown, M. (1996) The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Title: Turney-High, H. 1991 (1949). Primitive war. Its Practices and Concepts. South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press
Keegan, J., 1993. The History of Warfare. London: Random House.
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Research Design
At the end of the CU students should be able to:
1) recognize and use different types of methodological strategies, mastering its theoretical, methodological and technical requirements, in order to make adequate choices;
2) identify central problems in research design, from problem definition to conceptualisation, operationalization, observation and proposal writing;;
3) write a research and/or intervention project proposal.
1. Research as a producer of knowledge to know and/or to intervene.
1.1. Empirical research as theoretically oriented.
1.2. Research as problem solving: diagnosis, evaluation, intervention.
1.3. Ethics in different types of research.
2. How to design a research project and/or intervention.
2.1. Formulation of the problem and definition of objectives.
2.2. Conceptualization.
2.3. Operationalization and observation.
2.4. Project's design.
3. Methodological strategies.
3.1. Adequacy of the methodological strategies to the objectives of tthe research.
3.2. Extensive research: large surveys, statistical databases, etc..
3.3. Intensive research: case studies, field research, participant observation, ethnographic approach, etc.
3.4. Action research and social intervention.
3.5. Comparative research: objectives and problems of comparison.
3.6. Mixed methods.
The learning process proceeds trough theoretical-practical classes, seminar presentations and debate (which are given prevalence), tutorials and students' autonomous work.
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Evaluation along the semester, comprising the following components:
(a) Class participation and presentation of the research and/or intervention project (35%)
b) Final written work: research project and/or intervention (65%).
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Final assessment, consisting of a final written work: research project and/or intervention, complemented with an oral discussion, if the teacher considers necessary (100%).
The evaluation of this course does not include a final exam.
Globalization and Development Challenges
The course aims to develop the following skills and competences:
LG1. Knowledge and understanding of the articulation between globalization processes and global development challenges
LG2. Applying knowledge: capacity of combining conceptual and theoretical approaches with reflection on specific issues
LG3. Capacity of evaluation of the coherence and relevance of development promoting interventions
LG4. Communication: ability to formulate reasoned propositions and to communicate them to others
1. Globalization and development: conceptual and historical issues
2. International trade and investment
3. Poverty and inequality
4. Migrations
5. Environment
6 Transformative Social Innovation
7. Sustainable Development Goals
Assessment will consist of a group assignment and presentation (25% of the final grade) and an individual essay (75% of the final grade). For the students opting for the final assessment, the essay will account for 100% of the final grade. In repeat period, assessment will consist of a written exam (100% of the final grade).
BibliographyTitle: Allen, R. (2011). Global economic history: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP
Dauvergne, P (2021) The globalization of artificial intelligence: consequences for the politics of environmentalism, Globalizations, 18(2): 285-299
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Rodrik, Dani (2011). The Globalization Paradox: Why markets, states and democracy can't coexist. Oxford: Oxford UP
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Title: Betts, Alexander (2019). Nowhere to Go: How Governments in the Americas Are Bungling the Migration Crisis. Foreign Affairs, 98 (6): 122-133.
Birdsall, Nancy (2006). The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy. WIDER Annual Lecture 9. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
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Clark, David A. (ed.) (2006). The Elgar companion to development studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Colgan, Jeff D. and Robert O. Kehoane (2017). The Liberal Order is Rigged: Fix It or Watch It Wither?.Foreign Affairs, 96(3): 36-44.
Craig, Alastair, David Hulme and Mark Turner (2007), Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Currie-Alder, B., R. Kanbur and R. Medhora (eds.) (2014). International Development: Ideas, Experiences and Prospects. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dauvergne, P (2021) The globalization of artificial intelligence: consequences for the politics of environmentalism, Globalizations, 18:2, 285-299
Desai, V. and R. Potter (ed.) (2007). The Companion to Development Studies, 2nd edition. London: Routledge.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2013). Globalization: The Key Concepts. London and New York: Bloomsbury.
Frieden, J (2006). Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. New York: Norton.
Fukuda-Parr, S. (2015). From the Millenium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: shifts in purpose, concept and politics of global goal setting for development. Gender and Development, 24(1), pp.43-52.
Gamble, Andrew (2014). Crisis Without End? The Unravelling of Western Prosperity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Gong, H., Hassink, R., Foster, C., Hess, M., & Garretsen, H. (2022). Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 15(2), 165?181
Harris, Jerry (2020). China-US Tensions: Is Globalisation Dead?. International Critical Thought, 10 (2): 263-281.
Harvey, David (2005), A Brief History of Neoliberalism, New YorK: Oxford University Press.
Hu, Fred and Michael Spence (2017). Why Globalization Stalled, and How to Restart It?. Foreign Affairs, 96(6): 54-63.
Lee Hsien Loong (2020). The Endangered Asian Century: America, China, and the Perils of Confrontation. Foreign Affairs, 99 (4): 52-64.
Lighthizer, Robert E. (2020). How to Make Trade Work for Workers: Charting a Path Between Protectionism and Globalism. Foreign Affairs, 99 (4): 78-92.
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Piketty (2019). Capital et idéologie. Paris: Seuil.
Reinert, Erik (2007), How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor, London: Constable.
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Rockstrom, J. et al. (2009) Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity. Ecology and Society 14(2): 32.
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Nationalism and Ethnicity in the International System
At the end of the curricular unit the student is expected to be able to:
LO1. Define the specificity of studies about nationalism and ethnicity.
LO2. Distinguish the main elements that characterise nationalism, ethnicity and race.
LO3. Compare and assess the main theories of nationalism and ethnicity.
LO4. Analyse contemporary cases of national and ethnic conflicts.
LO5. Develop a critical approach to the field of ethnic and racial studies.
LO6. Analyse current academic debates on nationalism, ethnicity and race.
PC1. The politics of nationalism.
PC2. The politics of ethnicity.
PC3. Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its current main challenges.
PC4. Ethno-national narratives and conflicts.
PC5. Contemporary populist and nationalist movements.
PC6. Racism and anti-racism.
- For students who will attend the course (evaluation throughout the semester):
Attendance and participation in class discussion: 10%
Group work (case-study) with oral presentation: 30%
Final essay (literature review based on 3 scientific articles/book chapters - 2500 words): 60%
- For students who will not attend the course:
Final essay (literature review based on 7 scientific articles/book chapters - 5000 words): 100%
Title: - Anderson, B. (1991) Imagined Communities (New York: Verso)
- Fanon, F. 81986), Black Skin, White Masks (London: Pluto press)
- Gellner, E. (1983) Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press)
- Hutchinson, J. & Smith, A. (1996) Ethnicity (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
- Smith, A. (2010) Nationalism (Cambridge: Polity Press)
- Stefancic, J. & Delgado R. (2011) Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (New York: NYU Press)
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Title: BALAKRISHNAN, Gopal (ed.). Mapping the Nation, London, Verso, 1996
BANTON, Michael. Ethnic and Racial Consciousness, London, Longman, 1997
BARTH, Frederick. Introduction in Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference, Oslo, Universitetsforlaget, 1969
BRASS, Paul. Ethnicity and Nationalisms: Theory and Comparison, New Delhi, Sage, 1991
CHATTERJEE, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse, London, Zed Books, 1993 [1986]
DIECKHOFF, Alain (ed.). The Politics of Belonging. Nationalism, Liberalism, and Pluralism, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2004
DUNN, John (ed.). Contemporary Crisis of the Nation-State?, Oxford, Blackwell, 1995
HANNUM, Hurst. Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996
HOBSBAWM, Eric. A Questão do Nacionalismo. Nações e Nacionalismo desde 1780. Programa, mito e realidade, Lisboa, Terramar, 1998 [1990]
HOROWITZ, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1985
JAFFRELOT, Christophe. For a theory of nationalism, Questions de Recherche / Research in Question, 10, 2003
LEOUSSI, Athena (ed.). Encyclopedia of Nationalism, New Brunswich, Transaction Publishers, 2000
MAALOUF, Amin. As Identidades Assassinas, Lisboa, Difel, 2002 [1998]
MOYTL, Alexander (ed.). Encyclopedia of Nationalism, San Diego - London, Academic Press, 2 Vols., 2001
NEUBERGER, Benyamin. National Self-Determination in Postcolonial Africa, Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996
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Master Dissertation in International Studies
LO1: Ability to identify an issue / problem as the central theme of the Master's thesis.
LO2: Identification, among the faculty of the program, of the supervisor of the dissertation.
LO3: Knowledge of the rules related to the preparation of Master's thesis.
LO4: Ability to prepare a research project, taking into account aspects such as objectives, theory, methodology, empirical basis, bibliography.
LO5: Ability to develop the theoretical framework of the Master's thesis as well as to define methods and techniques to be used.
LO6: Ability to prepare a "State of the Art" of the dissertation topic and to use bibliographic databases.
LO7: Ability to collect and use primary sources.
LO8: Ability to provide regular progress reports on the Master's thesis.
S1: Presentation of the Curricular Unit.
S2: Debating ideas for dissertation projects and consulting models.
S3: Notes for guidance of the Master's thesis.
S4: Explanation of applicable regulations for the preparation of dissertations
S5: Preparation of a research project (objectives, theory, methodology, empirical base, bibliography).
S6: Elaboration of the theoretical framework and definition of methods and techniques.
S7: Preparation of "State of the Art" and use of bibliographical databases.
S8: The search and use of primary sources.
S9: Reporting Master's thesis progress made by the students.
The classes of this UC are seminarial. They include, among its components, clarification by the Professor of the rules regarding the dissertation and of research organization and development in the area of IS; oral presentations by the students of progress reports and partial results of their own research; collective discussion of the research work of each student. The OTsupervising involves tracking individual research work.
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In terms of evaluation, the Master?s thesis in International Studies is presented and defended publicly and will be assessed by a jury.
The evaluation is based on the scientific merit of the dissertation, its theoretical, methodological and empirical components, and the quality of the oral presentation and defense, in accordance with the regulations in force at ISCTE-IUL.
Title: Wallimann, N. (2001) Your research project: A step-by-step guide for the first-time researcher, Sage.
Scott, John (1990), A Matter of Record. Documentary Sources in Social Research, Cambridge, Polity Press.
Robson, C. (1993) Real world research: A resource for social scientists and practitioner-researchers, Oxford University Press.
Ridley, D. (2008). The literature review: a step-by-step guide for students. London: Sage.
Punch, K.F. (2006). Developing effective research proposals (2nd Ed.) Londres: SAGE.
O'Dochartaigh, Nial (2002), The Internet Research Handbook: a Pratical Guide for Students and Researchers in the Social Sciences, Londres, Sage Publications.
May, T. (1997) Social research: Issues, methods and processes, Open University Press.
ISCTE (2008), Normas Orientadoras para a Dissertação ou Trabalho de Projecto de Mestrado.
Booth, Wayne, Gregory Colomb e Joseph Williams (2003), The Craft of Research, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2ª ed.
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2nd Cycle Internship
The learning outcomes of the Internship are adapted to each internship and the institution where it is developed. These are:
LO1. To acquire technical skills linked to methods and techniques for action within different kinds of institutions related to the general objectives and learning outcomes of the master's degree;
LO2. To develop research and action-research skills within organizations related to the master's degree;
LO3. To prepare an internship report that reveals analytical reflection of the professional or academic context;
LO4. Develop indicators for recording and evaluating professional practice.
1. Topic and problem of the internship
2. Internship plan
3. Theoretical and methodological framework
4. Methodology of collaborative action research
5. Evaluation
6. Report
Individual report, which contains the following elements:
a) Characterization of the institutional context (history, organization, policies and services, activities, organizational structure and functioning);
b) Framing the internship institution;
c) Description of the activities developed (roles, responsibilities, agents, work processes, methodologies used)
d) Critical and theoretically based conclusions
e) References
The UC does not contemplate the modality of evaluation by Exam.
Title: - Sweitzer, H. Frederick e King, Mary A. (2014), The Successful Internship: Personal, Professional, and Civic Development in Experiential Learning, Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.
- Reeher, Gant e Mariani, Mack (2002), The Insider's Guide To Political Internships: What To Do Once You're In The Door, Nova Iorque: Basic Books
- Neves, José, Garrido, Margarida, Simões Eduardo (2008), Manual de Competências Pessoais, Interpessoais e Instrumentais. Teoria e Prática, Lisboa: Editora SÍLABO
- Della Porta, Donatella e Keating Michael (eds.) (2008) Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences. A Pluralist Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Courtney, Roger (2013), Strategic Management in the Third Sector, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- Capucha, Luís (2008), Planeamento e Avaliação de Projetos. Guião Prático, Lisboa: ME/DGIDC
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Recommended optative
Optional courses will only be held if they achieve a minimum number of enrollments.
1sr year | 2nd semester
00022 | State and Politics in Africa
02081 | Political Dynamics of the Mena Region
02491 | Contemporary China
03310 | International Organizations
03394 | Corporate Governance (Sege)
M8533 | Global Business and Management
2nd year | 1st semester
00809 | Intercultural Management (2nd Cycle)
02859 | Global Challenges
03219 | International Management, Ethics and Social Responsibility
Other recommended methodological courses
00555 | Using Statistical Indicators
M8106 | Archives and Other Sources Studies
M8109 | Field Research