This course serves as an introduction to the political systems of African countries, and explores the cultural and economic legacies of anglophone, francophone, lusophone, hispanophone and italophone colonial rule.
Read Full ArticleExamines the changing context of post-Cold War conflict and how contemporary disputes may be resolved. Analyzes the nature of intervention strategies and their consequences; negotiation and mediation techniques, as well as other political instruments to deal with conflict resolution; the institutions and regimes of security and conflict management, plus the problems related to peace and state building.
Read Full ArticleCovers the formal structure of the international legal order; sources, uses and dynamics of law in international relations; use of force, war crimes; the status and functions of states, governments, international organizations, companies, and individuals; law of the sea, environment, jurisdiction, aliens, human rights, the diplomatic process and its protection, and treaties. Discusses theory and future directions of international law. *Global Leaders Certificate Program approved courseCrosslisted.
Read Full ArticlePhilosophical and political modernity concerns the development of rationality, freedom, and social responsibility from out of the tensions between ethics, religion, politics and the economy. With postmodernist epistemology, the so-called ‘return’ of religion, and economic globalization, this modernity has been questioned. In this historical context the course re-elaborates the problematic of modernity through selective reading of Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche.
Read Full ArticleExamines the role of force, including coercive diplomacy, in contemporary international relations. Considers definitions of national security, alliance systems, force structures, force deployments, and coercive diplomacy. Examines the entire spectrum of force from terrorism and counter-terrorism, insurgency and counter-insurgency, low-intensity conflict, to conventional and nuclear weapon systems.
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Read Full ArticleTopics courses change every semester, offering advanced study in themes, theories and issues beyond the regular departmental course offerings. Taught by permanent or visiting faculty, recent Topics courses include: ‘The French Elections’, ‘Refugee and Asylum Law’, ‘Turkey and the EU’, or ‘Law and Corruption’.
Read Full ArticleThis course examines key analytical and normative challenges of the present: global rebalancing and the emergence or reemergence of postcolonial states, uneven development, the role of culture in world politics, the future of the nation state, the global environmental imperative, mass forced and free migrations, the new landscape of armed conflict, the sources and implications of sharpening social divides, and the challenges to liberal-democratic theory and practice.
Read Full ArticleThis course investigates how political processes shape human geography and, conversely, how assumptions about places underpin world politics. It presents the main theories of political geography, as well as essential concepts and terminology. It points to the historical contingency of political identities and organizations and reveals how major world events as well as spaces are shaped by everyday politics.
Read Full ArticleThis course introduces students to the comparative study of politics, focusing on political behavior and the structures and practices that political systems have in common and those that distinguish them. We study different forms of democratic and authoritarian rule, state-society relationships, and key issues of political economy like development and welfare states. While the emphasis is on domestic features, we also analyze the impacts of globalization on national politics.
Read Full ArticleThis course introduces students to the comparative study of politics, focusing on political behavior and the structures and practices that political systems have in common and those that distinguish them. We study different forms of democratic and authoritarian rule, state-society relationships, and key issues of political economy like development and welfare states. While the emphasis is on domestic features, we also analyze the impacts of globalization on national politics.
Read Full ArticleThis course analyses the basic setting, structure and dynamics of world politics with emphasis on current global problems, practices and processes. In doing so, it introduces the major theoretical approaches to international politics, and uses theory as a methodological tool for analyzing sources of change and causes of conflict and/or cooperation in the global arena.
Read Full ArticleStudies the origins, politics, structures, and impact of international organizations with a focus on the United Nations group, specialized agencies, regional organizations, and international administration. Discusses the UN role in peacekeeping, decolonization, refugees, social and health problems, trade and monetary policy, development, technology transfer, and UN reform as well as new developments since the end of the Cold War.
Read Full ArticleStudies the origins, politics, structures, and impact of international organizations with a focus on the United Nations group, specialized agencies, regional organizations, and international administration. Discusses the UN role in peacekeeping, decolonization, refugees, social and health problems, trade and monetary policy, development, technology transfer, and UN reform as well as new developments since the end of the Cold War.
Read Full ArticleOnly six or seven years ago, few would have considered the Arctic as more than a marginal issue in global affairs. A scholar specializing in the Arctic proposing a paper at a mainstream conference on international relations would have seemed as irrelevant as a specialist of Jack London showing up uninvited at a conference devoted to Nabokov, Virginia Woolfe and Alain Robbe-Grillet and asking for the microphone.
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