Content

Growing interdependence among countries, expanding trade flows, increasing prosperity and power of emerging economies, a changing nature of (geopolitical) conflicts, environmental degradation, and widening social cleavages within countries are some of the factors that have tremendously transformed global politics and diplomacy. At the same time, those factors make global diplomacy ever more important, both within the frameworks of international organizations and outside such frameworks. The course disentangles the complex web of global politics and diplomacy. It enables students to understand and analyse contemporary global problems, while familiarising them with the challenges, practices, and organization of global diplomacy.

Course material

The course will use the following course material:

• Reading material made available on Toledo
• Nicholas KRALEV (2024), Diplomatic Statecraft, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Format: more information

The course will make use of a combination of traditional teaching, discussion sessions, and collective excersises in class. As the course runs through nine weeks with three hours of class each week, there will be sessions in which in one three-hour session traditional teaching, collective exercises, and a discussion will be combined. Class attendance and participation are strongly advised with an eye on the final exam.