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3.00 Credits
Politics, institutions, and public policy making in selected European States and the European Union.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the attempts by Islamic groups, movements, and networks to influence political processes in terms of agenda setting, demonstrations, and electoral activities. The task of this course will be to assess how social and political factors produce diverse forms of Islam and how Islam, in turn, impacts upon politics and state and society relations.
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3.00 Credits
Comparative study of Middle East political systems including state-society relations, prospects for pluralism and democratization, consequences of structural adjustments and current obstacles to government reform.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth introduction to current political, economic, and social issues affecting Mexico and its citizens. Topics considered include economic and political development, social movements and popular politics, parties and elections, state-society relations, migration, poverty and politics, U.S.-Mexico relations.
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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to provide an overview of regional cooperation and competition among Northeast Asian states with a focus on Korea. As East Asian economies become increasingly integrated, the linkages between these societies are deepening and broadening. However, this region faces considerable challenges as well. Security issues are dominant, examples being North Korean nuclear weapons and territorial disputes around the Korean peninsula. Issues concerning nationalism and unresolved historical debates provide other key challenges. How can we understand these challenges and how do we evaluate the responses of South Korea and its neighbor states? This course will begin by outlining prominent theories of global politics, which will then become the tools we use to analyze the important issues and challenges facing East Asian countries and the U.S. We will select from a number of case studies in contemporary East Asia and investigate them from the perspective of Korea's international relations. Students are expected to become familiar with historical and current affairs in the East Asian region and to exercise their understanding of basic theories of international relations for the analysis of events occurring there. The course will end with a discussion of identity and globalization and their relation to peace and trust in Asia.
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3.00 Credits
What is identity and how does it shape social and political behavior? When, where, and why do identities become politicized? And how does this occur? The notion that individuals possess multiple and overlapping social memberships is a ubiquitous fact of social and political life. This course will focus on what is often called 'identity politics,' aiming to understand: where identities come from and how they come into formation in the first place; 2) how identities become salient and politicized; and 3) the myriad consequences identities and identity politics carry for important outcomes like development, representation, and inequality. We will interrogate these questions by taking a comparative approach, immersing ourselves in such diverse contexts as Latin America, Africa, South Asia, Western Europe and the United States across a range of historical time periods.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to be a survey of the government and politics of Latin America countries, highlighting important issues common to countries in the region such as transition from authoritarianism, economic reforms and change, environmental politics, human rights, quality of democracy, revolts and revolutions, poverty and protest, etc.
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3.00 Credits
This is a community engaged learning abroad course (CELA) to explore the power of community engagement in an international context. We will utilize the history, culture, and the civic issues affecting Costa Rica, including sustainability, as a living learning journey. The course is composed of weekly on-campus classes and a one week intensive in-country experience in Costa Rica over spring break in March. This is a collaboration between The Lowell Bennion Community Service Center, Learning Abroad, the Department of Political Science, Undergraduate Studies, and the Monteverde Institute. Central to the course is the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of community-based experiential learning. We will consider and discuss civic leadership, environmental sustainability, community health, and collective impact to better understand people, systems, and places away from home.
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3.00 Credits
In the 1990s, autocracy seemed like a thing of the past. The collapse of the USSR along side the democratization of countries in Western Europe, Latin America, South East Asia and Africa seemed to suggest the world would soon be inhabited by vibrant democracies. Unfortunately, that was not the case. In countries like North Korea, Saudi Arabia, or Cuba democratization did not even start; in countries like Russia, Nicaragua and, more recently, Egypt it was short-lived; countries like Belarus and Mozambique never moved past holding 'awed elections; and countries like Hungary and Venezuela'thought to be solid democracies'have turned into dictatorships. What explains the stubborn persistence of authoritarianism across the world? In this class we will answer that question. Using examples from all over the world, we will discuss what an authoritarian regime is (and what it is not), why and how do authoritarian regimes come about, and how they survive. We will talk about the use of congress, courts, and elections to solidify authoritarian politics as well as the opportunities these provide to oppose them. In that process we will learn about the role of politicians, political parties, public opinion, social movements, and the international community in strengthening or weakening dictatorships.
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3.00 Credits
This course will use theoretical and empirical study to understand the normative and ethical implications of globalization.
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