The Historical Sociology of Politics and International Relations

1. Forms of pre-state organization of power. Bands, tribes, chiefdoms.

2. Theory of the origin of the early state. The early states of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Central America.

3. Oriental despotism, comparison of ancient China and India

4. Muslim empires, institutions of military slavery

5. Patrimonialism and feudalism according to Max Weber

6. Development of parliaments

7. Realist, idealist and constructivist theories of international relations.

8. Geopolitical theories

9. Types of international systems in history according to Buzan and Little

10. Hobbesian, Kantian and Grotian paradigm of the international order according to Hedley Bull