The course History of International Relations A LM (Module ‘World Politics’ falls within the domain of the Core learning activities of the Master’s degree in Modern Languages for International Communications. These activities are labeled “Sectorial Languages, advanced language skills, and linguistic mediation from and to the studied languages” and are specifically related to the activities aiming at providing adequate tools for the analysis and the theoretical study of the historical and social-political context. The course is designed to provide graduate students in foreign languages an advanced introduction to the study of contemporary world politics through the analysis of the main analytical frameworks in the discipline of international relations, such as realism, liberalism, Neo-Marxist theories, contructivism and critical theory, as well as of different regional approaches to the study of world politics Students who have successfully passed the course will be able to employ analytical tools for understanding contemporary world politics, and the major analytical approaches in international history as well as their application to specific case studies.