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[IR312 ] History of Political Thought
Instruction Language
English
Course Description
This course traces the emergence and development of political doctrines across major historical periods and intellectual traditions. Students study ancient political thought, including Greek and Roman traditions and political philosophical ideas from ancient India and China, as well as differences between European and Eastern worldviews and concepts of authority and rulership in the East. The course covers the social, cultural and intellectual features of the medieval period and the doctrines formed within it, then moves to the development of concepts of society, state and law in modern political thought, including Renaissance ideas, the formation of politics as an independent field, theories of civil society, Enlightenment social political ideas, theories of separation of powers, popular sovereignty and direct popular rule. Students also examine German classical philosophy, political and legal doctrines developed in the United States in the seventeenth century and in Germany and England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and major political ideas that emerged in the West in the twentieth century, alongside the stages of development of Azerbaijan’s own history of political thought. The course strengthens analytical thinking, scholarly approach and conceptual analysis and helps students connect political theory with political practice when evaluating contemporary political processes
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