Statesmanship and Diplomacy

Deals with the role of leaders and diplomats in protecting and promoting countries’ interests and in influencing international politics, and addresses the factors that may guide or constrain statesmen in conducting foreign policy. IAF Democracy Democratization in International System (3.0); and the 3 cr. Covers the recent trends towards democratization and the factors, which promote or hinder democracy internationally. The seminar covers the theories of democracy and their evolution since the late eighteenth century, the development and expansion of democracy in various parts of the world or the constraints limiting its spread in others, as well as the implications of these questions on peoples, states, and international relations. and complex factors shaping identity and national formations of groups and states, and explores how issues of ethnic and national identities have shaped world politics, and how subnationalism, supranationalism, and/ or internationalism are reshaping it. Covers recent research and literature in the field concerning questions of identity in the international system and their effects on national integration and/or disintegration.