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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. Abuza, Staff.
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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 superpower actors. Beattie.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the basic dilemmas surrounding the issue of human rights in international affairs since 1945 with focus on the politics of genocide and mass murder. Other topics include the emergence of the human rights regimes; the role of international law; the UN and regional human rights systems and institutions. Case studies of human rights violations will highlight key policy choices that confront activist, citizens, and policymakers.
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Most courses in international relations focus on the role of states, but increasingly global security issues involve sub-actors, such as trans-national criminal gangs, terrorist organizations, and transnational issues. This course will focus on the issues of human security, including human trafficking, transnational crime, narco-states, piracy and threats to public health. Abuza.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the international politics of East Asia, with particular attention to the foreign policies of China, Japan, North and South Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia, as well as to the important issues in the region. Abuza.
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4.00 Credits
Examines foreign policy of various countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin and North America (except the US). Focus is on top leaders and their worldviews; bureaucracies, state size, 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.
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4.00 Credits
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, Staff.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes important theoretical perspectives on politics in the 20th century, focusing on attempts to comprehend the centurys traumatic events: world war, revolution, economic collapse, the rise of totalitarianism, and genocide. Texts include novels and works of political sociology and philosophy. Readings from Freud, Thomas Mann, Camus, Arendt, Berlin, Dahl, Habermas, and Foucault. Welch.
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4.00 Credits
We will approach works by a variety of novelists with a particular interest in their observations on human nature and politics. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart allows us to explore the origins and destruction of political society, as well as the effects of European colonialism in Africa. Joseph Conrad's Nostromo shows us the failing of modern politics which relies solely on technology, the conquest of nature, and the faith that material wealth will lead to happiness and the common good. Fyodor Dostoevsky examines human freedom, that problem of veil, the political problem of atheism, and the origins of communism. Alexander Solzhenitsyn explores the effects of communist ideology on human nature and character. Finally, Erich Maria Remarque explores the relationship between the individual and the state and the problem of statelessness in the Interwar period.
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4.00 Credits
Examines politics, economy, and society in post-colonial Africa, with emphasis on the continuing influence of colonialism on the problems and prospects of establishing and maintaining stable political communities and economic development and on the role of the African countries in regional and international politics. Staff.
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