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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on the relationship between international law and international politics. It provides the students with insight into historical, cultural and theoretical aspects of law as well as basic information on traditional international law topics such as the law of the sea, laws on the use of force, and international human rights.
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1.00 Credits
This is a weekly seminar targeted for second-year students. It is designed to examine the concepts and controversies in the discipline, as well as current political issues. Students and faculty will address topics and will respond to points raised by occasional guest speakers.
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3.00 Credits
Special Topics
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of cases and controversies arising from the constitutional principles of separation of powers and federalism. The case method will be used in studying issues such as federal-state and congressional-presidential conflict.
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3.00 Credits
This course is directed at current major theoretical statements concerning some of the most important ideas in political philosophy: justice, freedom, liberty, equality, self, community, individual rights, pluralism, and democracy. Current philosophers such as John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Sandel, Seyla Benhabib, and Juergen Habermas will be studied. The goal is not to come up with the "correct interpretation," given the controversy surrounding eachphilosopher, but to come to the best understanding we can of the ideas presented and, most importantly, how they fit with, and perhaps change, our ideas.
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3.00 Credits
The objectives of this course are (1) an inquiry into the politics of ideas in America and (2) an attempt to draw the connection between theories, religious values, and American institutions. Students will read selections by Jefferson and Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Lincoln's speeches, an intellectual biography of Jane Addams,among many other works.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines theoretical and practical relationships between democracy and the political participation of groups and individual citizens. Contemporary issues of declining participation and interest in democratic politics ("civic disengagement")throughout the world are discussed alongside efforts to address these problems through participatory and elite-restraining institutional reforms.
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3.00 Credits
This Seminar deals with the full range of issues in the politics of ethnicity, from the origins of ethnic consciousness to the varieties of ethnic conflict and the means that states and non-governmental organizations have used to manage this conflict. Case studies will focus on Central Asia, India, Eastern Europe, and the United States, although frequent reference will also be made to conditions in Southeast Asia and Africa.
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3.00 Credits
This Seminar presents the theoretical framework for the study of the political aspects of international economic relations. It concentrates on the evolution and deterioration of the Bretton Woods system, looking in particular at Atlantic interdependence and North-South cooperation, and discussing patterns and regimes of global and regional coordination and cooperation.
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3.00 Credits
Independent Study
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