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  • POL 435: Constitutional Politics Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    This course is an intermediate to upper level undergraduate course. We consider how European and international sources of political and economic pressure are reshaping domestic political landscapes and generating demands for constitutional reform in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The course seeks to highlight the similarities and divergences across these countries with emphasis placed on European integration and developments since the Cold War.
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  • POL 440: Russian Defense and Security

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    In this course I intend to provide a close look at Russia¿s national security policy from 1992 to the present, and to offer a survey of key elements of the Russian government linked to the country¿s security policies, like the Kremlin¿s Security Council, the Defense Ministry, the Ministry of Interior, the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). I would also cover the country¿s defense doctrine and its military forces, including the Defense Ministry¿s Russian Armed Forces (Ground Forces, Air Force, Navy, Strategic Missile Forces, the GRU military intelligence, Airborne Troops and Space Forces), the Internal Troops and paramilitary forces of the Ministry of Interior, the Border Troops of the FSB, the various special forces of the Defense and Interior Ministries, and of the FSB and Foreign Intelligence Service. I will discuss Russian civil-military relations in the post-Soviet period, the issue of military reform and modernization of the armed forces in light of the defense challenges of the 21st century, international military cooperation with ¿ and arms exports to - countries such as Algeria, Libya, Syria, India, China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Venezuela, the First and Second Chechen Wars, and the War of Georgia of 2008. The course will cover also Russian defense and security policies in terms of NATO¿s expansion and its agreed missile defense system, the war in Afghanistan, and with regard to regional multilateral defense and security organizations such as the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Finally, I will wrap up the course by contemplating the aims sought by the Kremlin in terms of its security and defense policies, and where Russia is heading militarily taking these factors into consideration.
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  • POL 444: Politics of Film

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    The film industry is arguably America¿s most influential contribution to popular culture, yet it is often seen as merely a form of entertainment. This course will consider the extent to which American films provide a unique perspective on the self-understanding of America. Films intended for a mass audience must somehow interpret society to itself. They are representative creations in a way that is parallel to political representation. In that sense films, in the hands of the best creators, aim at a truth the audience can recognize as authentic. What is the political self-understanding they depict?
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  • POL 445: US Foreign Policy

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    An introduction to the institutions, processes, and debates of United States foreign policy making. Formal constitutional powers as well as informal types of power exercised over foreign policy by the various branches of government; theories of how the foreign policy making process works; the decision making process; tensions between democracy and foreign policy; the media and U.S. foreign policy; current debates in U.S. foreign policy. World Politics.
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  • POL 446: European Integration

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Covers the developments of European integration after World War II. The history, the institutions, and the policies of EC-EU with special focus on institutions and their interplay in the decision-making mechanism. Future prospects of EU with regard to its enlargements to Eastern European countries. The future of transatlantic relations. World Politics.
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  • POL 447: War & Peace in the Nuclear Age

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Based on the thirteen-part PBS series with the same title. Stresses the evolution of American thinking on the role of nuclear weapons in peace and war and the impact of nuclear weapons on political and military affairs. World Politics.
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  • POL 448: Varieties of Capitalism

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Our general understanding of capitalism tends to reflect a one-dimensional view that suggests that there is but one form and one set of rules according to which a capitalist economic system functions. Political, social and historical factors have shaped the development of capitalism across countries, so that German capitalism functions quite differently from American, Swedish or even French capitalism. We will explore the "varieties of capitalism" thesis, which suggests that capitalism is not a monolithic set of principles, but a set of institutional arrangements that varies in form across countries. Finally, we will assess arguments that economic globalization is pressuring countries toward economic "convergence," undermining the pluralism of capitalist and economic diversity that lies at the very heart of our investigation in this course. Prerequisite POL 112 and POL 212 or permission from instructor.
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  • POL 452: The American Federal System

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    An examination of the intergovernmental relations in the United States, including consideration of constitution, administrative, and financial aspects. Particular attention to their significance for public policy and its implementations and to contemporary issues in the federal systems. American Government.
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  • POL 453: Courts and Public Policy

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

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