IR Topics:

1. IR definitions
2. Elements of IR
i) Interest
ii) Nature
iii) Relations
iv) Actors
v) Levels of Analysis
a) Individual level
b) Societal level
c) Global level
3. Evolution of IR
4. Significance of study
5. Actors
i) INGOs
ii) MNCS/TNCS
iii) Transnational group
iv) Media/ Civil Society
v) Terrorist Organization
6. Nation-State System
i) Treaty of Westphalia
a) 5 Principles of Westphalia
ii) Expansion of Nation-State System
a) Via non-colonized
b) Via decolonized
c) Via disintegration
iii) Challenges to Nation-State System
7. North-South Gap
8. Brandt Line
9. Concept of First, Second and Third world
10. Concept of security in the 21st century
i) Barry Buzan
11. National Power
i) Elements
ii) Types
12. Foreign Policy
i) Instruments of Foreign Policy
a) Diplomacy = Negotiation
b) Publicly & Propaganda
c) Balance of Power
d) Collective Security
e) International Law & Organization
f) Economic and Non-political
g) War and Military
ii) Determinants of foreign policy
iii) Decision Making
13. Sovereignty
14. National Interest
15. War
i) Conventional Concept
ii) Modern Concept
iii) Short histories of war
iv) Types of War
a) General or Total war
b) Limited war
c) Civil war
d) Proxy war
 e) Hegemonic war
v) Classification of warfare
vi) Generations of Warfare
a) 1st Generation
b) 2nd Generation
c) 3rd Generation
d) 4th Generation
vii) Causes of war
a) Individual level
i) Aggressive leader
ii) Aggressive masses
iii) Cognitive Biases
b) Society or State level
i) Types of Government
ii) Types of Economic Structure
iii)Internal State Dynamic
iv) Conflict over structure
v) Diversionary war
vi) Militarization
c) Global level
i) Thucydides Trap
ii) Power Transition Theory
iii) International Anarchic Structure
iv) Irredentism
v) International Capital Class
vi) Long cycle of War and Peace

16. Terroism
i) Characteristics
ii) Elements
iii) Tactics
17. Strategic Culture
i) Determinants of Strategic Culture of Pakistan
ii) Policy outlook
18. Deterrence
i) Components
a) Capabilities
b) Credibility
c) Communication
19. International Political Economy
i) Relationship between Politics and Economy
ii) Mercantilism and its tools
a) Bullionism
b) Infant Industry
c) PPP
d) Social level
i) Protectionism
ii) Non-Tariff Barriers
iii) Opposing Outsources
iii) Economic Liberalism
iv) Imperialism
a) Colonisation
b) Neo- Colonisation
c) Neo-Neo-Colonisation
20. International Political Community
i) Nationalism
a) Political Concept
 b) Ideological Concept
ii) Internationalism
a) Hegemonic
b) Liberal Internationalism
c) Revolutionary
iii) Globalisation
a) Integration
b) Interaction
c) Interdependence
21. World War I
i) Reasons
a) Variation in Political System
b) Imperialism
c) Alliances
d) Domino effect
e) Balkan war
f) Nationalism
g) Immediate Reason
ii) Cause of lost for Germany
a) Italy betrayed
b) Schlieffen Plan failed
c) Russian Revolution
d) UK and US
e) Ottoman empire and and Austrian-Hungarian Empire
iii) Effects
22. Russian Revolution
23. Great Depression
24. Treaty of Versailles
25. Fascism
26. Nazism
27. Cold and Post Cold war
28. End of History
29. Clash of Civilization
30. International Organization
31. Weapon of mass destruction
i) Characteristics
ii) Types
iii) Non-Proliferation Regime
iv) Nuclear deterrence
v) Efforts
a) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) I November 17, 1969, II June 18, 1979
b) Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) I 31 July 1991, II January 3, 1993,
c) NEW START 8 April 2010
d) Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty (SORT) 24 May 2002
e) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) July 29, 1957, HQ: Vienna, Austria
f) Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) 1968
g) Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) May 1974
h) Biological Weapons Convention (BWT) April 10, 1972
i) Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) 13 January 1993
j) Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 September, 1996

vi)Challenges
32. International Law
i) Law of war
ii) Chapter 6 (peaceful settlement of disputes) Article 33-38
iii) Chapter 7 (Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and
Acts of Aggression) Article 39- 51
33. Pre- Emptive Strike
34. Bretton woods System
i) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
ii) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) 1944, HQ Washington,
USA
iii) ) The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1947,
35. Foreign policies
36. Indian Ocean
37. Pacific Ocean
38. Kashmir issue
39. Palestaine issue
Theories
40. Realism
i) Classical Realism
a) Hans J.Morgentheu
ii) Neo-Realism
a) Kenneth Waltz
b) Measheimer
41. Liberalism
i) Classical Idealism
a) John Lucke
b) Immanuel Kant
ii) Neoliberalism
a) Walter Eucken
b) Wilhelm Röpke
c) Alexander Rüstow
d) Alfred Müller-Armack.
42. Great debate theories
43. Constructivism
a) Alexander Wendt
44. Feminism
45. Postmodernism
46. Critical Theory
a) Marxism
b) Neo-marxism
47. HDI and GDP model
i) Mahbub-ul-Haq
ii) Amrita Sen
48. Imperialism
i) Colonisation
ii) Neo-colonisation
iii) Neo-Neo-colonisation
49. Dependency and Interdependency
50. Balance of power

Maps
World map
Before WW1
After world war 1
WWII
Indian Ocean
Middle East
South Asia