79 277 - Globalizing States: Culture, Power, and Politics

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Carnegie Mellon University

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What are the key characteristics of modern states and how did they get to be the way they are? What are the relations between states and nations, and between states and the societies they govern? How are contemporary states being transformed by globalizing processes? Are states becoming more powerful or weaker? Are basic forms of state power over such things as law, the use of military force, and the regulation of markets being altered, and if so, how, and with what consequences? These are some of the critical questions that will be addressed in this course through a series of theoretical readings and case studies that will consider the forces shaping both immensely powerful, highly-developed advanced states and weaker, and in some instances, ?failed? states around the world.

Credits:

9.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cmu.edu/

Phone Number:

(412) 268-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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