INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

International Relations is an academic subject which studies relations among its actors —especially the states which are accepted as the primary actors— in the international system and with other actors such as states, international organizations, multinational corporations, international norms and international society. The principal aims of International Relations education are to help students gain necessary knowledge and skills required in their future career life through a framework of scholarly inquiry, and acquire critical and analytical thinking and problem solving skills.  

The undergraduate course structure in our department is organised to cater for these aims. Thus, through a study of such main courses as Theories of International Relations, International History, International Organizations, International Law and Foreign Policy Analysis  students are enabled to acquire a solid ground on the history of international system, the stages through which it has evolved, its workings and its legal and economic framework. A large array of departmental electives and free electives along with must courses allow students to specialise in line with their career expectations.

 The department which is organised around four main subfields —i.e. International Relations, International History, International Economic Integrations, and International Public Law— also offers two separate Masters degrees one of which is in “International Relations” and the other in “Regional Relations: European Union-Mediterranean Studies”.