Leadership in Intl Relations

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course offers a broad introduction to leadership in international relations and wonders whether leaders make history, if history makes leaders, or if some third option is possible. Leadership in international relations is usually thought of in one of two ways. On the one hand, good leadership is thought of as the opposite of bad leadership (tyranny), in which case good leadership means something like providing subjects with freedom from tyrants. This course is designed to promote a full understanding of how leadership functions in international relations. It introduces the key paradigms and theories of “leadership” and examines a wide variety of portraits of leaders in international relations, and their consequential choices.