College of Social Sciences and International Studies
International Politics of the Global South
Module POL1045 for 2021/2
Module POL1045 for 2021/2
- 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 2021/2 academic year.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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
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).
