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3.00 Credits
Thiscourse examines the development and growth of international organizations and their relationship between each other as well as their member states. It focuses on the internal dynamics of the organizations as well as their external manifestations in subregional, regional, and global policies and programs. The organizations covered in the course are the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the African Union, and the Arab League. The emphasis behind each organization is its origins, growth, and change. The course reviews the establishment of the United Nations and the original attempts by member states to correct the failures of the League of Nations before following the political and economic development of the organization. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is examined in terms of its origins and how the organization continued to modify its purpose and mission as international dynamics altered around it. This will be compared to the defunct South East Asian Treaty Organization with the purpose of understanding why the former succeeded and the later failed. The course covers how and why the African Union was conceived from the Organization of African Unity and the development and progression of its policies to form a continental customs union and common market through the work of regional economic commissions. The Arab League is examined in terms of its original purpose, how and why the organization decreased in effectiveness, the growth of sub- regional organizations to carry out its original purpose, and its recent resurgence as a single voice for its members.
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3.00 Credits
By combining academic work with hands-on experience as a volunteer, this course provides students an in-depth understanding of the economic development process. The course begins by examining the concept of development and the forces that influence economic development and growth in developing countries. With a focus on the relationships between the market, state, and civil society, it covers the various components of development that economists typically study, including economic growth, income inequality, poverty, population, urbanization, migration, education, health and nutrition, and the environment. Throughout the course, individual readings and assignments are selected with a view to students' volunteer placements so they can apply the concepts covered in their onthe-ground work and share their experiences with others.
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3.00 Credits
The course will review the new context for state interaction and global order. The most significant question is whether the international community can weather the storm of new challenges and threats without a central gatekeeper, such as the United States. Globalization has also given other states (established and newly emerging powers) opportunities to exploit the inability of the United States to foment a new architecture of stability and order. Follower states have found opportunities (many derived from the expanding and deepening global trading system) to undermine American dominance. Also, some states have moved to establish regional political and security alliances that not only speak to their needs (counter-terrorism, immigration, and natural resource exploitation, for example) but also dilute the "traditional" influence of the United States in these matters. At the same time, there has been a proliferation of "non-state actors" who are able to capitalize on the measurable weakening of national authority and the hesitancy of nation-states to coherently identify, define, and deal with the new challenges. Students will review the impact of global issues from two perspectives: (1) challenges and (2) opportunities within the framework that the traditional role of states as "gatekeepers," buffering and processing challenges to stability and order has been gradually been transformed. Throughout the course, student groups will take up several issues and proceed to analyze whether international institutions such as the United Nations, and regional and functional non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are in fact dysfunctional when confronted with the challenges of globalization. Student groups will also address the question of whether the Cold War origins and patterning of these NGOs are obstacles to the development of flexible and creative strategies. Finally, although it might be fairly argued that the traditionally conceived state's influence and role has been diminished, it can also be proposed that the state system will not wither away quietly, and that states will engage in behavior necessary to protect and grow their influence-newly emerging states may resist the influence of older states, but the former seeks similar symbols of power and behave in ways to enhance their own economic and political power on the world stage. Students will be required to complete a comprehensive final exam and to submit a research paper that may be derived from one or more of the paradoxes and contradictions described above. Students with relevant experiences in the private sector, government, military, or non-governmental organizations may, with the permission of the instructor use such experiences to shape their research paradigms.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the various principles and models of leadership and applies them to US Foreign Policy decision making with an emphasis on the leadership styles exhibited by different US presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisers. The course covers leadership and decision making from the individual and group level perspectives and includes factors related to personal psychology, group dynamics, models of bureaucracy, evaluation of inputs, and interpretation/misinterpretation of information. The course applies these factors to a series of major US foreign policy decisions covering topics that include deploying the military, political negotiations, and economic bargaining. The case studies also range from those where a leadership decision must be made within hours or days to those where the decision required a year or more for formulation. In each case study, the leadership styles of the US president, secretary of state, and national security adviser (and in some cases the secretary of defense) are analyzed in terms of the principles and models of leadership and decision making.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to public international law for students of international relations. The primary purpose of this course is to enhance students' understanding of the ways in which international law orders international politics. Why do sovereign states voluntarily forfeit maximum independence and agree to constrain their behavior in the international system? How and to what extent has international law been used in resolving conflicts between nations? How and to what extent has it facilitated the achievement of common goals? What is the relationship between international law and states' foreign policies? Emphasis throughout the course is on the substantive rules of the law, the relationship between law and politics, and on the historical episodes that illustrate the issues.
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3.00 Credits
What causes war? What causes intergroup conflict short of war? Why do groups of people systematically kill other groups of people? What do we need to know to prevent conflict/war if possible, and prepare for it when necessary? Is it possible to prevent conflict/war (or prepare for it) if it is often caused by accidents, miscalculation, and misperception? With these questions in mind, this course will develop your ability to analyze the causes, conduct, and consequences of intergroup conflict and war. We will begin by exploring the consequences of war for personal, national, international, and global security. We will then examine theories about the causes of war and apply them to understand the occurrence of World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Next, we will explore the conduct and consequences of these wars at the doctrinal, strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Finally, we will discuss contemporary issues in war, peace, and security, including the causes, conduct, and consequences of the war on terror and the war in Iraq, weapons proliferation, the future of military technology, the rise of new great powers, humanitarian intervention, and alternatives to war. During the course, you will develop critical reading skills by evaluating other scholars' theories, arguments, and evidence. As will become apparent, there are numerous theories that attempt to explain what causes war and/or peace. You are encouraged to challenge these theories and arguments.
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3.00 Credits
Major theoretical writing from the ancient Greeks to the present day with emphasis on a comparison of ideas and on the relationships between theories and contemporary problems.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the underlying and basic principles of the Constitution as reflected in the leading decisions of the United States Supreme Court with special attention directed to the Bill of Rights and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the underlying and basic principles of the Constitution as reflected in the leading decisions of the United States Supreme Court with special attention directed to the Bill of Rights and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the scientific study of behavior; emphasis upon experimental investigation of such fields as development, cognition, preception, motivation, learning, emotions, phsiology, and personality.
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