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1.50 Credits
Appel This course seeks to provide students with an overview of several key international monetary and financial policy issues. It begins with an historical overview of the international monetary system, from the gold standard to the contemporary monetary system. It then examines how financial globalization affects the national policy autonomy of advanced industrialized countries. Subsequently, it looks at the international monetary experience of developing countries in the global economy, focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, post-Communist states and Asia, paying particular attention to the causes and consequences of the major financial crises. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Lynch This course will focus on the major political and social/ cultural movements in 20th -, and 21st-century America, with preliminary attention to elements and precursors of movements such as crowds, fads, and crazes. The social sources and conflicts that give rise to political/ social movements will be analyzed, as will movement leadership, tactics, resource mobilization, recruitment issues, and the role of media. Cross-cultural examples will also be covered. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This course introduces students to the security environment in South Asia. Specific topics covered include: Indian and Pakistani history since independence; fundamental characteristics of the Indian and Pakistani militaries; India's war with China; the sources of the Kashmir dispute; the Indo-Pakistani wars and ongoing security competition; and the impact of nuclear proliferation on the subcontinent. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This course will introduce students to the study of how states provide for their security through the use of military force. The course will first explore the origin and nature of threats to states' security. It will then examine the key military implements and strategies that states employ in attempting to deal with these threats. Finally the course will study several historical cases of military conflict in light of its earlier theoretical and strategic findings. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Taw This course offers students the opportunity to examine the domestic influences on U.S. foreign policy and foreign influences on U.S. domestic policies. Students will learn to identify and consider the implications of competing domestic interests and their effects on U.S. behavior abroad as well as global and international influences on U.S. domestic politics. As part of our examination, we will discuss lobbies and interest groups, competing federal and state agendas, electoral politics, and conflicting domestic and international priorities. We will also consider international pressures, obligations, and opportunities as they affect U.S. policymaking. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
C.J. Lee Examines Japan's contemporary international relations with special emphasis on the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China. It analyzes the way in which Japan conducts diplomatic activities, resolves international disputes, manages defense issues, and pursues a growing economic and political role in the world. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Haley Through the study of biography, autobiography, political history, and classical and contemporary theories of leadership, the course examines the actions of leaders in the U.S., Western Europe, and Asia who were active in important ways in domestic and international affairs. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Haley, Taw Studied are premises and implementation of American foreign policy, particularly in relation to Russia, India, China, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Topics include inter-allied relations; covert and overt intervention; nuclear weapons; the increasing demand for energy, raw materials, and food; the Cold War; and issues that arose during the 1990s, including ethnic and religious conflict and democratization. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Haley The course examines instances in which the United States has sought to combine diplomacy and military power to accomplish the ends of policy. They include World Wars I and II, the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars, as well as interventions in Lebanon, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, and Kosovo. The course is based on readings in the classics of strategy and diplomacy, such as Clausewitz and Thucydides, and of the works of more recent strategists and historians, including George Kennan and John Lewis Gaddis. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Haley This course examines the efforts of the United States, the Arab states, Israel, and the Palestinians to realize their international objectives in the Middle East, with primary emphasis on the period since Israeli independence in 1948. The class also covers the rise of Islam, the first and second Iraq wars, and the future of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Offered every other year.
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