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International Relations and Politics in Shipping & Sea Transport

(SST105) -  ΡΕΒΕΚΚΑ ΠΑΙΔΗ

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Introduction

The course will combine the study of International Relation Theory, focusing mainly on the area of Maritime Studies and the geostrategic condition that exists nowadays around the globe regarding the major trade and military sea routes. The course will combine the theoretical with the empirical dimensions that compose the modern status quo in global shipping and sea transport, bringing forward related themes, such as Mahan’s Theory of Sea Power, Maritime Security, Globalization and Interdependence, major political conflicts and antagonisms in the Seas today, modern piracy and terrorism et al. The main goal of the course is to offer the opportunity to a future professional in the area of Shipping to specialize in the main theoretical and empirical aspects of International Relations and be equipped with the additional skills that will make their CVs highly competitive in the global market.  

 

Weekly Schedule:

  1. Introduction to the course / Meeting with the Instructor / Distribution of presentation topics
  2. International Relations Theory: The concepts of interstate competition, security, and power
  3. International Relations Theory: The concepts of sovereignty, interdependence, globalization 
  4. Foreign Policy Analysis and Decision Making: Do Decision Makers Matter?
  5. Foreign Policy Analysis: The Influence of the Bureaucracy, Rational Choice and Game Theory 
  6. Maritime Security & Capacity Building  
  7. Maritime Security Theory Then and Now: Sir Julian Stafford Corbett & Alfred Thayer Mahan
  8. Sea power US and China 
  9. Sea power and Britain and Japan
  10. Sea power and Russia and India
  11. Modern Piracy as a major Maritime security gap in the 21st century
  12. Concluding the course

 

Course Assessment

Each student has to submit an essay of 3000 words (maximum) and make a 25 minutes presentation in class on a given topic. The essay and presentation count for 40% of the overall grade. The essay and the presentation are obligatory as well as the final exams (60% weight on the overall grade).

 

Essays/Presentation Topics:

 

Week 3: How have EU sanctions on Russia affected the shipping industry at an international level?

 

Week 4: What is the impact of personality on Foreign Policy, in the case of the Russo-Ukrainian War? 

Week 5: Apply Game Theory in the Shipping Market (Provide at least 2 cases). 

 

Week 6: Define the concept of Maritime security and present paradigms from history that maritime supremacy paved the way to political and economic supremacy at an international level

 

Week 6: What is the modern Naval Strategy of Norway? 

 

Week 7: What are the main weaknesses in Sir Julian Stafford Corbet’s Theory for a maritime analyst of the 21st century?

 

Week 7: To what extent Alfred Thayer Mahan’s Theory can be efficiently adopted today by a Great Power? 

 

Week 8: Compare and contrast the Ancient Athenian and the 21st century’s American Naval Strategies.  

 

Week 8: Can China be a first-class Naval power today?

 

Week 9: What are the main steps for Britain to regain its naval status today?

 

Week 9: Does the re-emergence of Japan as a regional naval power alarm the US?

 

Week 10: Can bears swim? What is the Potential of Russia at the Sea 

 

Week 10: Present the naval antagonism between India and Pakistan today in the Sea

 

Week 12: What was the role of France in dealing effectively with the Somalian Pirates?

 

Suggested bibliography: 

 

Week 2: 

Compulsory

  • Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics, Waveland Press, 1979
  • Ripsman, N. M. (2011). Neoclassical realism. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies.

Complementary

  • Daniel D. Drezner, Theories of International Politics and Zombies, Princeton University Press, 2011.
  • David A. Baldwin, Power and International Relations: A Conceptual approach, Princeton University Press, 2016
  • Mazarr, Michael J., Jonathan S. Blake, Abigail Casey, Tim McDonald, Stephanie Pezard, and Michael Spirtas, Understanding the Emerging Era of International Competition: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2018. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2726.html.

 

Week 3:

Compulsory

  • Robert, O., and Nye Joseph S. Keohane. Power and interdependence. Longman Publishing, 1997.
  • Biersteker, T., & van Bergeijk, P. A. (2015). How and when do sanctions work? The evidence. On target, 17-28.

Complementary

  • Nye Jr, Joseph S. "Power and interdependence with China." The Washington Quarterly 43.1 (2020): 7-21. 
  • Keohane, R. O., & Nye Jr, J. S. (1998). Power and interdependence in the information age. Foreign Affairs, 77, 81.
  • Keohane, R. O., & Nye, J. S. (2020). Globalization: What's new? What's not?(And so what?). In Making Policy Happen (pp. 105-113). Routledge.
  • Drezner, D. W. (2000). Bargaining, enforcement, and multilateral sanctions: when is cooperation counterproductive?. International organization, 54(1), 73-102.

 

Week 4:

Compulsory

  • Kouskouvelis, I. (2018). Thucydides on Choice and Decision Making: Why War Is Not Inevitable. Lexington Books.

Complementary

  • Jervis, R. (2013). Do leaders matter and how would we know?. Security Studies, 22(2), 153-179.
  • Hermann, M. G., Preston, T., Korany, B., & Shaw, T. M. (2001). Who leads matters: The effects of powerful individuals. International Studies Review, 3(2), 83-131.

 

Week 5:

Compulsory

    • Morin, J. F., & Paquin, J. (2018). Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox. Springer.
  • Complementary
  • Holsti, K. J. (1970). National role conceptions in the study of foreign policy. International studies quarterly, 14(3), 233-309.
  • Putnam, R. D. (1988). Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games. International organization, 42(3), 427-460.Putnam, R. D. (1988). Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games. International organization, 42(3), 427-460.

 

Week 6

Compulsory 

  • Bueger, C. (2015). What is maritime security?. Marine Policy, 53, 159-164.
  • Germond, B. (2015). The geopolitical dimension of maritime security. Marine Policy, 54, 137-142.

Complementary 

  • Bueger, C., Edmunds, T., & McCabe, R. (2020). Into the sea: capacity-building innovations and the maritime security challenge. Third World Quarterly, 41(2), 228-246.
  • Germond, B., & Mazaris, A. D. (2019). Climate change and maritime security. Marine Policy, 99, 262-266.
  • Ryan, B. J. (2019). The disciplined sea: a history of maritime security and zonation. International Affairs, 95(5), 1055-1073.
  • Larsson, O. L., & Widen, J. J. (2022). The European Union as a Maritime Security Provider–The Naval Diplomacy Perspective. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1-23.
  • Bueger, C., Edmunds, T., & McCabe, R. (2020). Into the sea: capacity-building innovations and the maritime security challenge. Third World Quarterly, 41(2), 228-246.
  • Nevers, R. D. (2015). Sovereignty at sea: States and security in the maritime domain. Security Studies, 24(4), 597-630.

 

Week 7

Compulsory

   Complementary

 

Week 8:

Compulsory

  • Rosenberg, D., & Chung, C. (2008). Maritime security in the South China Sea: coordinating coastal and user state priorities. Ocean Development & International Law, 39(1), 51-68.
  • Papa, P. (2013). US and EU strategies for maritime transport security: A comparative perspective. Transport policy, 28, 75-85.
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Complementary

 

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