• knowledge of existing in social and political thought and political science traditions, approaches, research lines and schools of international relations;
• knowledge of the history of the origin and development of the basic international relations ideas, concepts and theories;
• knowledge of the structure, components of the international relations theories, the nature of the relationship between them;
• the ability to identify key international relations ideas, concepts and theories, logically and correctly lay out their contents;
• the ability to explain the role and place of concrete ideas and theories in one or another ideological worldview complex, in the global political process and international relations;
• the ability to compare the ideas, views and concepts of different thinkers, schools and theoretical areas in the sphere of international relations studies.

Prerequisites: International Relations Theory, History of Political (Juridical, Economic) Thought.

Co-requisites: Philosophy.

International relations theory as a scientific discipline. Methods and methodology in international relations studies. The origins of international relations theory in social and political thought of ancient world. The origins of political realism paradigm and liberal-idealist paradigm of international relations in the political thought of the Renaissance and Early Modern. Formation deterministic concepts of international relations in the late nineteenth - early twentieth century. The formation of international relations science in the first half of the twentieth century: the first "great debate" in international relations theory (political realism versus political idealism). Modernism in international relations theory. Current research lines in the international relations theory.

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2. Sebain Dzh. H. Istoria politychnoi dumky / Dzhordzh H. Sebain, Tomas L. Torson ; [per. z anhl.]. – K.: Osnovy, 1997. – 838 s.
3. Teoria mizhnarodnykh vidnosyn: Terminolohichnyi slovnyk / [Hetmanchuk M. P., Ivakhiv O. S., Kukartsev O. V., L. O. Kuchma ta in.] : za zah. red. Hetmanchuka M. P. – Lviv: Natsionalnyi universytet “Lvivska politekhnika”, 2011. – 368 s.

current control (40%): recitation, speeches at seminars, review writing, summarizing primary sources;

final control (60%): exam (three-level testing).