Course title and code: Political Philosophy 2. BBNNT01000
Credits: ECTS 6
Type of course (lecture/seminar) and hours per week/semester: seminar /2/30
Method of assessment (exam/practical grade):practical grade
Suggested semester: 2
Prerequisites (if any): Course description:
After students have acquired a basic knowledge of philosophical arguments and some classic
political philosophers (see BBNPO04900), the course gives an introduction to twentieth century
and contemporary political philosophy. Readings lay stress on some important transformations
which recently took place in the interpretation of such basic concepts as duty, right, freedom,
legitimacy, authority, or the state; while also giving an insight into the tensions and debates
between various twentieth century and contemporary schools of political thought (continental
and analytical, liberal and communitarian, moralist and realist); followed by a theoretical
summary. The main aim is to understand the significance of political philosophy for contemporary
political practice, and the inevitability of recourse to those basic issues of politics which
nevertheless remain essentially contested.
Required and recommended reading:
Set readings
David A. Phillips: Reforming the World Bank, Cambridge University Press, 2009
David Vines - Christopher Gilbert: The IMF and its critics, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004
Kent Jones: The Doha-Blues, Oxford UP, 2009
John Toye - Richard Toye: The UN and Global Political Economy, Indiana UP, 2004
Suggested reading
Peter Isard: Globalization and the International Financial System. Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Lecturers participating in teaching: