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1. REVIEW QUESTIONS – HOME ASSIGNMENT

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How does IR differ from domestic politics?
What is power?
How can some types of power be unusable?
What is an international system?
What systems has the world gone through over a
century?
In what ways was the mneteenth-centur) imperial system
desirable? Could one be restored?
What kind of a system is now operating? How can you
tell?
Is this new system stable or unstable?
How have statesmen recently misunderstood power
realities?
Are states and sovereignty still the foundations of IR?

2. KEY TERMS

Absolutism
balance of
power
bipolar
Bismarckian
chimera
domestic
politics
duopoly
force
globalizaiton
hierarchy of
power
international
anarchy
international
relations
Interwar
Mettermchia
Multipolar
Power
Reification
sovereignty
state
Stratified
strong state
Superpower
Supranational
System
Unipolar
Versailles
Treaty
Westphalian

3. Recommended Literature

Karen A. Mingst, Ivan M. Arreguin-Toft. Essentials of International
Relations. 5th Ed. 2010: New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 9780393935295
Michael Cox, Richard Campanaro. Introduction to international
relations. 2012: University of London. IR1011, 2790011.
International Relations as a Social Science: Rigor and Relevance
Jeffry A. Frieden and David A. Lake1 March 23, 2005
International relations theory for the twenty-first century : An
introduction / ed. M. Griffiths. - London ; New York : Routledge,
2007.

4. FURTHER REFERENCE

Armitage, David. Foundations of Modern International Thought. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2013.
Braumoeller, Bear F. The Great Powers and the International System: Systems Theory in
Empirical Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Buzan, Barry, and Richard Little. International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of
International Relations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Calvocoressi, Peter. World Politics Since 1945, 9th ed. New York: Pearson, 2009.
Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York:
HarperCollins, 2013.
Cohen-Tanugi, Laurent. The Shape of the World to Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a New
Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Ferguson, Niall. The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West.
New York: Penguin, 2006.
Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War. New York: Knopf, 2013.
Hiro, Dilip. After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
Kagan, Robert. The Return of History and the End of Dreams. New York: Knopf, 2008.
Kaplan, Robert D. The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts
and the Battle Against Fate. New York: Random House, 2012.
Klare, Michael T. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict. New York: Henry Holt,
2002.
Kupchan, Charles. No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Lebow, Richard Ned. A Cultural Theory of International Relations. New York:
Cambndge University Press, 2009.
Lundestad, Geir, ed. International Relations Since the End of the Cold War. New
York: Oxford Limversity Press, 2013.
MacMillan, Margaret. The War tint Ended Peace: The Road to 1914. New York:
Penguin, 2013.
Marks, Sally. The Ebbing of European Ascendancy: An International History of the
World, 1914-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
McMeekm, Sean. July 1914: Countdown to War. New York: Basic Books, 2013.
McWilliams, Wayne C., and Harry Piotrowski. The World Since 1945: A History of
International Relations, 7th ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2009.
Nye, Joseph, Jr. The Future of Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2011.
Opello, Walter C., Jr., and Stephen J. Rosow. The Nation-State and Global Order: A
Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner,
2004.
Philpott, Daniel. Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern
International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Ramo, Joshua Cooper. The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder
Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It. New York: Little, Brown,
and Company, 2009.
Sheehan, Michael. The Balance of Power: History and Theory. New York: Routledge,
1996.
Simms, Brendan. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present.
New York: Basic Books, 2013.
Steinberg, Jonathan. Bismarck: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

6. Information about the Professor

Anastasia Tsybuliak
PhD in Political Science
Contacts:
+30673103355
[email protected]

7. Certificates and Awards

Postgraduate Studies. Doctoral Program. Research project: “Ecologization of the world trade in
the context of the global development transformation” (2015 – 2020)
Participation in YIO Annual Reunion London “Change through Generation” - Credit Suisse –
Young Investors Program Certificate (2014)
Complition of miniMBA Executive Development Program on the basis of London School of
Business & Finance (2014)
Participation in YIO Berlin programme “Energy”. Credit Suisse – Young Investors Program
Certificate (2013)
Participation in YIO Dubai programme “Energy” (2013)
Participation in YIO Hong-Kong programme “Starts-up: thinking outside the box”
Credit Suisse – Young Investors Program Certificate (2012)
Participation in "Current issues of regenerative medicine", a scientific and practical conference
with international participation (2012)
Academy of Business Ernst & Young – Intensive training “Planning and Budgeting II: budgeting
Process Organization and Budgeting Trough Responsibility Centers” (2008)
Academy of Business Ernst & Young – Intensive training “Financial Analysis II: Valuation of the
Effectiveness of Company’s Activity” (2008)
Academy of Business Ernst & Young – Intensive training “Cash Flow Statement: Preparation
Techniques (2008)
National Academy of Management – second prize winner at the fifth annual Business English
Contest (2004)
Scientific conference "Humanity is on the verge of millennia: dialogue of civilizations" Diploma in the nomination "The best study of communication history and contemporary and
original form“ (2003)