The course outlines and discusses the analytical categories of violence, domination, and politics as three inextricably intertwined fields of inquiry and (re)reflection. The aim is for students to become familiar with the analytical categories of violence, sovereignty, and politics through which scholars in Political Science and International Relations engage in discourse and produce knowledge. In this way, it is expected that they will acquire the ability to discern, understand, interpret, compare, and critically evaluate the multifaceted manifestations of collective human activity on the national, transnational, and international stages. To this end, students are asked, each week of a thematic unit, to read and critically engage with a text, based on which they must reflect on the semantic content and the empirical implications and perspectives of the aforementioned analytical categories. In this way, the course also aims to help students learn how to deconstruct and reconstruct knowledge independently by developing skills in critical thinking and synthesis.