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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines political parties and their relationship to political competition in the U.S. Considers the function of parties, alternative mechanisms of interest representation, and recent American electoral events. Paden.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Considers the role of gender in American politics, including historical and contemporary examples of movements, interest groups, and electoral politics. Places special emphasis on women who have served in Congress or the State House. Doherty.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq: POLS 102 or consent of instructor. Examines the problems and processes of international organizations. Analyzes the issues dealt with by international organizations and the reasons for their successes and failures. Focuses on the United Nations and its role in resolving international conflicts. Abuza.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines the political dimensions of the Arab- Israeli conflict. Analyzes the interests and objectives of all the major parties in the conflict, ranging from its impact on Israeli society and the Palestinians to the concerns of other regional and global actors. Beattie.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines the principles of geography, resourcebased sources of interstate conflict, and the general concepts of geopolitics. Introduces cartography, as well as comparative and thematic maps (social, physical, and economic). Considers the geopolitical impact of environmental issues such as global warming. Abuza.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines the basic dilemmas surrounding the issue of human rights in international affairs since 1945. After an overview of the emergence of the "human rights regime," we will explore debatesover the universality of human rights and over the proper way to define them (as civil, economic and social, and/or cultural). Case studies of human rights violations will highlight key policy choices that confront activists, citizens, and policymakers alike. Welch.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines the international politics of East Asia, with particular attention to the foreign policies of the great powers: the U.S., China, and Japan; as well as to the flashpoints on the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan. Also examines important transnational issues in the region, as well as the region's rapid economic development. Abuza.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: POLS 102 recommended. Examines foreign policy of various countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and North America (except the United States). Focus on top leaders and their worldviews; bureaucracies, size of a state, national culture, and type of regime; rising significance of NGOs, and International Organizations. The goal is to understand how and why foreign countries behave as they do. Simulation game provides hands-on experience in foreign policymaking. Park.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Discusses classic and contemporary theories of political justice. Topics include the relationship of personal ethics to political justice, the extent of our obligations to the state, the nature and proper scope of liberty and equality, and the relationship of justice to various economic and social systems. Welch, Beckett.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Analyzes important theoretical perspectives on politics in the 20th century, focusing on attempts to comprehend the century's traumatic events: world war, revolution, economic collapse, the rise of totalitarianism, and genocide. Texts include novels and works of history, political sociology, and philosophy. Welch, Beckett.
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