Module POL1045 for 2020/1
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL1045: International Politics of the Global South
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.
Module Aims
1) To introduce students to the historical construction and evolution of the Global South in international politics
2) To critically discuss theories of International Relations (IR) that pay particular attention to the Global South as well as non-Western contributions to IR
3) To identify key features of foreign policy, security and regionalism in the Global South, as well as the Global South’s impact on the global governance
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate a contextualised understanding of the historical evolution of the Global South in international politics as well as the key contemporary features of foreign policy, security, regionalism and global governance in/from these areas; 2. Demonstrate the capacity to critically situate and engage with IR theories that deal with the Global South, originating from both the Global South itself and the Western mainstream/core of the discipline; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Find, use and analyse secondary and primary data relevant to specific issues in politics and IR; 4. Place contemporary political issues in larger contexts; 5. Deploy critical arguments in analysing political issues and evaluating sources; |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. Work independently and in a group, including the presentation of material for group discussion; 7. Demonstrate analytical skills and the ability to digest, select and organise material; 8. Demonstrate writing skills including the ability to produce well organised and coherent essays to a deadline, practice in articulating and defending positions on tutorial topics. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Colonialism, decolonisation and postcolonial state- and nation-building
- The ‘Third World’ and non-alignment during the Cold War
- (Under)development, ‘developing countries’ (G-77) and foreign aid
- Post-Cold War and neoliberal globalisation
- IR theories: structuralism/dependency/international political economy (IPE), subaltern realism, postcolonial and decolonial theories
- Foreign policies of ‘dependent’/’weak’/’peripheral’ states of the Global South
- Security: violent conflicts and intervention, representations of failed states
- Regionalism in the Global South and South-South cooperation
- The impact of the Global South on global governance: economic governance, climate change
- Global migration governance and South-North relations
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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26.5 | 123.5 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 16.5 | 11 x 1.5-hour lectures |
Scheduled learning and teaching activities | 10 | 10 x 1-hour seminars |
Guided independent study | 50 | Reading for seminars |
Guided independent study | 50 | Completion of coursework |
Guided independent study | 23.5 | Exam revision |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ELE
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Individual reading summary | 5 minutes | 1-7 | Oral |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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50 | 50 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Essay | 50 | 1,500 words | 1-8 | Written |
Examination | 50 | 1.5 hour | 1-8 | Written |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Essay | Essay (1500 words) | 1-8 | August/September reassessment period |
Exam | 1.5 hours | 1-8 | August/September reassessment period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
- Acharya, A. (2014) Rethinking Power, Institutions and Ideas in World Politics: Whose IR? (Oxon/New York: Routledge).
- Acharya, A. and B. Buzan (eds.) (2010) Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives On and Beyond Asia (Oxon/New York: Routledge).
- Alejandro, A. (2018) Western Dominance in International Relations? The Internationalisation of IR in Brazil and India (Oxon/New York: Routledge).
- Ayoob, M. (1995) The Third World Security Predicament: State Making, Regional Conflict, and the International System (London: Lynne Rienner).
- Bergamaschi, I., P. Moore and A.B. Tickner (2017) South-South Cooperation Beyond The Myths: Rising Donors, New Aid Practices? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
- Betts, A. (ed.) (2011) Global Migration Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
- Braveboy-Wagner, J.A. (ed.) (2003) The Foreign Policies of the Global South: Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks (Boulder/London: Lynne Rienner).
- Braveboy-Wagner, J.A. (ed.) (2009) Institutions of the Global South (Oxon/New York: Routledge).
- Braveboy-Wagner, J.A. (ed.) (2016) Diplomatic Strategies of Nations in the Global South: The Search for Leadership (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
- Burnell, P., L. Rakner and V. Randall (eds.) (2017) Politics in the Developing World (5th ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
- Chan, S. (2017) Plural International Relations in a Divided World (Cambridge: Polity Press).
- Chimni, B.S. and S. Mallavarapu (2012) International Relations: Perspectives for the Global South (New Delhi: Pearson).
- Cox, R.W. (ed.) (1997) The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order (Tokyo/Hampshire: United Nations University Press/Macmillan).
- Fanta, E., T.M. Shaw and V.T. Tang (eds.) (2013) Comparative Regionalisms for Development in the 21st Century: Insights from the Global South (Oxon/New York: Routledge).
- McMahon, R.J. (ed.) (2013) The Cold War in the Third World (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
- Nagar, D. and C. Mutasa (eds.) (2018) Africa and the World: Bilateral and Multilateral International Diplomacy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
- Peters, I. and W. Wemheuer-Vogelaar (eds.) (2016) Globalizing International Relations: Scholarship Amidst Divides and Diversity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
- Sabaratnam, M. (2017) Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique (London: Rowman & Littlefield).
- Seth, S. (ed.) (2013) Postcolonial Theory and International Relations: A Critical Introduction (Oxon/New York: Routledge).
- Tickner, A.B. and Ole Wæver (eds.) (2009) International Relations Scholarship around the World: Worlding Beyond the West (Oxon/New York: Routledge).
- Tickner, A.B. and K. Smith (eds.) (2020) International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of Difference (Oxon/New York: Routledge).
- Warner, J. and T.M. Shaw (eds.) (2018) African Foreign Policies in International Institutions (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
- Wright, S. (ed.) (1999) African Foreign Policies (Boulder: Westview Press).