Power and Foreign Policy in International Relations
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Power and Foreign Policy in International Relations at Coursera Overview
Duration | 16 hours |
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Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
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Credential | Certificate |
Power and Foreign Policy in International Relations at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion
Power and Foreign Policy in International Relations at Coursera Course details
- 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
- Then, the course delves deeper into case studies of contemporary great powers, middle powers, and small powers
- 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
Power and Foreign Policy in International Relations at Coursera Curriculum
Course Introduction
Meet Your Instructor
Course Introduction
Course Overview
Power and Foreign Policy–The Inseparable Twins
What Is Power and Why Does Size Matter in World Politics?
Hard Power, Soft Power, and Smart Power
Measuring a Nation-State's Overall Power or Comprehensive National Power
What Is the Present International Power Configuration?
What Exactly Is Foreign Policy?
National Interests and the Determinants of Foreign Policy
Do Only State Elites Conduct Foreign Policy?
Typical Attitudes and Outlooks of Great Powers
Typical Attitudes and Outlooks of Middle Powers
Typical Attitudes and Outlooks of Small Powers
Recommended Reading: Hard Power, Soft Power, and Smart Power
Essential Reading: India’s Foreign Policy
Recommended Reading: Foreign Policy Approaches
Introduction to Peer Review Assignment
Graded Quiz: Power and Foreign Policy–The Inseparable Twins
Foreign Policy of Great Powers: Case Study–The United States of America
Sustaining Primacy and the Global Balance of Power
Preserving the Capitalist World Order
Making the World Safe for Democracy
The Seismic Shift After the Collapse of the Soviet Union
The Liberal Takeover and the Trend of Humanitarian Interventions
The Global War on Terrorism: A Fatal Diversion from Great Power Competition
Are we Entering Bipolarity or Multipolarity?
Exiting the Forever Wars
Reorienting US Foreign Policy to Face China
Shifts in Domestic American Politics and an Inward Turn
Recommended Reading: Introduction in Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism
Recommended Reading: Does America Need a Foreign Policy?
Recommended Reading: Emerging Powers in a Post-American World
Graded Quiz: Foreign Policy of Great Powers: Case Study I–The United States of America
Foreign Policy of Middle Powers: Case Study–India
From the Hindu Rate of Growth to the Express Train
From Estranged Democracies to Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership
Strategic Diffidence to Strategic Assertion
A Net Provider of Security in the Indian Ocean Region
To Intervene or Not in Smaller Neighboring Countries
Rescue Diplomacy and Vaccine Diplomacy
Regional Integration and Connectivity Strategies
Narendra Modi’s Three Ds
Idealism vs. Realism in Indian Foreign Policy
A Multilateral Alliance of Democracies to Counterbalance China
Recommended Reading: Emerging Powers in a Post-American World
Essential Reading: Indian Foreign Policy: The Quest for Greatness
Recommended Reading: The Foreign Policy of India’s Prime Minister
Graded Quiz: Foreign Policy of Middle Powers: Case Study I–India
Foreign Policy of Small Powers: Case Study–Qatar
The Watershed Moment of the Gulf War of 1990-91
Military and Economic Interdependence with the West
The Trump Disruption and the Qatar-Saudi Cold War
The Role of Values in the US-Qatar Alliance
Iran and Qatar’s Zero Enemy Policy
Picking up the Radical Palestinian Cause
Teaming up with Erdogan’s Turkey
Al Jazeera and the Forging of a Critical Arab Voice
Energy Diplomacy as a Vehicle for Influence
Mediating the War in Afghanistan
Recommended Reading: Qatari-US Military Relations
Recommended Reading: Reflecting on Qatar's "Islamist" Soft Power
Essential Reading: From Afghanistan to the World Cup, Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Steps Up
Graded Quiz: Foreign Policy of Small Powers: Case Study II–Qatar
Peer Review Assignment
Course Wrap-Up
Course Wrap-Up
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