Group presentation (approx. 10 minutes)

1 - Oral assessment and presentation - 30

Essay (2000 words)

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 70

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The module will consider empirical global changes and challenges to provide some substance to the context of the main theories of International Relations that are explored elsewhere in the programme. It will ask questions such as what is the impact that the rising powers such as China, India, Brazil, for example, have on the established order? Can they be accommodated or will they seek radically to transform the distribution and structures of power? What is the role and challenges faced by existing global institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations (UN) and new ones? What issues and actors have come to dominate the international agenda and how have they affected the traditional relations among states?

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Self-directed - 

Pan Chengxin,Power in Global Politics: Western Representations of China’s Rise 

The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars 

Rise and fall of the Great Powers

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order 

International Order and the Future of World Politics

A world of our making

Democracy

The West and the rest

Peculiar chauvinism or strategic calculation? Explaining the negotiating strategy of a rising India

International Affairs

The BRICS Report: A Study of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa with Special Focus on Synergies and Complementarities 

“The Rise of China and the Future of the West-Can the Liberal System Survive?”

Foreign Affairs

IP1019 - Emerging Issues in International Politics

IP1019-PRD2-PER-ALV1

Acquisition of knowledge and understanding is promoted through a combination of lectures and interactive classes with a strong emphasis on students' presentations. You are encouraged to undertake extensive reading and independent study in order to understand the topics covered in lectures and classes and to broaden and deepen your knowledge of the subject. You also receive feedback on your coursework to encourage you to reflect on what you have produced.

Emerging Issues in International Politics

Describe key changes characterizing the international order in the 21st century.

Knowledge

Identify the mechanisms of integration, accommodation, incorporation, and coercion applied to rising powers by established global powers.

Reflect on and manage effectively your own learning and make use of constructive feedback.

Values and attitudes

Learn how to think about global issues in a critical way.

Skills

Identify the key rising states’ internal development and dynamics, worldviews and trajectories.

Apply your theoretical understanding of the global system to analyse the prospects of global order.

Produce written materials that indicate in a precise and honest manner what your own work is and what is attributable to others. 

Define abstract concepts and utilise them with rigour and consistency.

Explain the key debates about the concept of rising powers and the challenges and opportunities presented to global order.

Show respect and engage with those who do not share your own political values.

By the end of the module, you will be better informed about key transformations and trends in global politics. You will also be better informed about the nature of global change presaged by rising powers and other actors and be in a position to consider the future of the global system.

Assess critically competing perspectives on the changing nature of the international system.