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Research Seminar in International Relations

Objectives

To associate PhD students to current research projects, thus contributing to improve their theoretical and methodological abilities and technical skills both in quantitative and qualitative analysis.

General characterization

Code

73218102

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Available soon

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

n/a

Bibliography

  • Hill, Christopher (2003) The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy. Londres: Palgrave,.
  • Hocking, Brian & David Spence eds. (2005) Foreign Ministries in the European Union. Integrating Diplomats. Londres, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Maroco, João (2007) Análise estatística: com utilização do SPSS. Lisboa: Sílabo.
  • Pinto, António Costa; Pedro Tavares de Almeida & Nancy Bermeo (2006) Quem Governa a Europa do Sul? Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.
  • Teixeira, Nuno Severiano (2010) “Breve ensaio sobre a política externa portuguesa”. In Relações Internacionais, 28, pp. 51-60.

Teaching method

In the seminar sessions the work in progress and preliminary results of the above-mentioned research project are presented and discussed, as well as the students’ progress reports on their bibliographic and empirical research. In the end, each student will submit a short written essay thereon.

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter

Students’ research (bibliographic review, and primary sources and data collection) will focus on two major themes: (a) profile of the Foreign Affairs officials; (b) political and diplomatic elites; (c) organizational structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and diplomatic and consular network; and (d) decision-making process in foreign policy.