This course introduces students to the main concepts, approaches and theories of the study of international politics. It emphasizes the core ideas that have explained state interaction in the past and that remain valid amid rapid change of contemporary International relations. Among these are power, principle, national interest, nationalism, and the pursuit of economic well being. There will be a 2 hour lecture and a one hour tutorial per week . There will be no tutorials the first week of classes .
Final exam is comprehensive of all materials except tutorial readings.
The following suggestions should help avoid the worst errors with respect to the first four of these. This document comes from the SFU Department of Political Science and dates from Sep 16, 1994. This guide is a hypertext version of the printed guide prepared by the SFU Political Science Department to summarize the University policy on Academic Honesty. I have uploaded this HTML version of the Departmental guide and added a link to the SFU Policies dealing with Academic Honesty. This document comes from the SFU Department of Political Science and dates from Aug 17, 1995.