I. Recent emergence of ‘global’ politics
a. ‘Globalisation’ and International Relations (IR)
II. International Relations as a Cold War field of study
a. US dominance and IR
b. Realism
i. States as basic units
ii. Interests defined in terms of power
iii. International anarchy
iv. Morality subordinate to power
c. Liberalism
i. Stresses interdependence
ii. Centrality of ‘regimes’
III. The end of the Cold War
a. Unexpected/unpredicted historical events of the late 1980s
i. Glasnost and Perestroika
ii. Unravelling of central European political regime
b. Soviet/Russian retrenchment and the unreliability of Realism?
IV. The riddle of ‘security’
a. Cold War security as protection from threats
b. Security questions emerge in post Cold War
i. Peace was always limited
ii. Question of ‘new’security challenges
V. IR and the Post-Cold War Era
a. Reconceptualising security
i. Protecting the ‘western way of life’
b. Interconnected problems of international politics
i. Looking forward: ‘globalization’, institutions and ‘development’