Spring 2027

Psychological Approaches to International Relations

Examines psychological approaches to international relations, covering reputation, personality, emotions, and 50 years of political psychology scholarship.

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What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain important concepts and arguments made by prominent scholars in political psychology and international relations

  • Assess a variety of research designs on several dimensions

  • Apply course concepts to analysis of current research and contemporary social scientific debates

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POLISCI 950

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Spring 2027

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Designed around substantive topic areas, including reputation, personality, and emotions. Covers the broad patterns of scholarship in political psychology over the last 50 years. The larger methodological issues around political psychology and International Relations (IR) (how do you study this? what tradeoffs do the various approaches entail?) will form a backdrop to most of our discussions.

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  • Reputation, personality, and emotions in political contexts.
  • Historical patterns of political psychology scholarship.
  • Methodological issues and tradeoffs in studying political psychology and IR.

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  • Explain concepts and arguments from prominent scholars in political psychology and IR.
  • Assess various research designs across multiple dimensions.
  • Apply course concepts to analyze current research and contemporary debates.

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Recorded 2026-10-14

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