Topic outline

  • General

  • Contact form

    Establishment: Faculty of Law and Political Science

    Department: Political science

    Scale: English

    Professor: Dr Bourib Khadidja

    Contact by Email: khadidja.bourib@univ-jijel.dz

  • Lesson objectives

    these lessons are instructive for students to practice how to translate academic texts in the political science speciality.All the concepts and texts are related to the lessons they study in Arabic. At the end of this course the student will be able to summarize the main ideas and will compile a good glossary in political science.

  • Prerequisites

    The main problematics related to English  in political science in general:

    -Psychological problematics:deconstructing the psychological knot and misperception towards the English language

    - Scientific and practical problematic

    2-Motivation and guidance strategies for studying English in political science

    3- the principal norms for translating political books and articles

    -Cognitive norms

    - methodological norms

    4- Applications about texts and articles in English in political science.

  • Lesson contents

    First axis: International relations concepts

    1-war in international relations  

    2- Balance of power

    3- Nuclear weapons

    4- Great powers

    5- Security

    6- Terrorism

    7- Peace-building

    Second axis :Geopolitics of international relations

    1-definition of geopolitics

    2-geopolitical analysis of international relations

    third axis: Foreign Policy Analysis

    1-Definition of Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Analysis

    2-Lelvels of Foreign Policy Analysis:

    - The Individual Decisionmaker

    - Group Decisionmaking

    - Culture and National Identity

    - Domestic Politics

    -The levels of national attributes and international system  

    3- Foreign policy decision making

    Fourth  axis:Integration in international relations

    1- Integration definition

    2-integration  theories:

    -Functionalism theory

    -Neo-functionalism theory

    -Dependency theory

    -Institutionalism

    -International Federalism

    -Intergovernmentalism

    -Supra-Nationalism

    -complex interdependence:Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye

  • English lesson:Google meet 15:30 -17:00 h First axis: International relations concepts

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