Gender and International Relations (P03028)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-P03028

This course demonstrates that gender is a constitutive force enabling security practices, global capitalism, and power politics. In other words, gender makes possible international politics and economics in their current form. It introduces feminist approaches and considers the role gender plays in war, militarization, conflict prevention and resolution, and new security and development challenges. Through examining gender as a central issue in war, peace and global politics, this course will fill both a substantive and methodological gap in the IEP MSc.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Science), (School of Social and Political Science, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
23/09/2008	11:00	13:00	Room 3.3, 22 Buccleuch Place	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Tutorial	Tuesday	10:00	12:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

This course examines various critiques raised by feminists of the mainstream discipline of international relations, ranging from the practical (issues such as war, security, the international economy, human rights, development, peacekeeping and conflict resolution), to the theoretical (such as whether international relations theories are gendered and, if so, how this might affect their explanations and understandings of and prescriptions for conduct in global affairs). It aims to explore the implications for IR of taking gender seriously, and to illustrate what feminist approaches contribute to our understanding of issues in world politics. At the end of the course, students will have a good understanding of gender as a category of analysis in relation to issues in world politics. They will be familiar with and be able to reflect critically on feminist thinking on war, militarism, the global economy, human rights and development. They will also explore the relationship between feminist and mainstream approaches to IR.