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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the political and economic reform processes in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since the collapse of communism. The course is not intended to provide a full survey of events in this particularly tumultuous time in post-communist history. Rather, we will focus on some of the more important aspects of the simultaneous political, economic and social transformations, emphasizing some key themes that emerge in the social science academic literature on the subject.
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India is on the move. Sixty years after attaining its independence, India's growing economic and military power has begun to attract the world's attention. But in its quest to become the next great power, India must also surmount enormous political, cultural and social hurdles in order become a stable, well-ordered democracy. This course aims to understand both these aspects of modern democratic India -- its promise and its challenges. It will examine a number of topics including democracy, federalism, religion, caste, foreign policy, and economic reform and development.
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This course treats intelligence and constitutional issues essential to evaluate controversies in national security and civil liberties in a democracy. We examine tensions through history, statute, technology, public opinion, the media and current events. Can we implement effective security and not adversely impact our constitutional rights? What is the "correct" relationship between intelligence and law enforcement? Should information be shared and/or protected? Technology threatens or protects? Is post 9/11 reform on track? You decide if government is making the right choices "for the country and individuals" based on this critical material.
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This course introduces students to theories about the international system. It examines sources of conflict and cooperation among states on both trade and security issues. In addition, it considers whether domestic politics influence international outcomes. The emphasis in this course, however, is on systemic explanations. The course will include some use of economics, game theory, and statistics, but it presumes no background knowledge in any of these areas.
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This course explores the following questions: who wins and who loses from globalization of trade and finance? Who sets the rules under which the game of international capitalism is played? How powerful are international organizations like the WTO or the IMF, nation-states, or NGOs? These issues are explored with reference to economic and political theories, history and contemporary events.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Governments have tremendous power over our lives and thus the competition over who controls them is always intense and often violent. This course will study various ways in which violence is used to political ends. The larger goal of the course is to understand the sources of violence in political competition and the conditions under which political disputes can be peacefully resolved. Specific forms of violence to be covered include assassination, civil war, ethnic conflict, insurgency, revolution, riots, terrorism, and war.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course covers the basic constitutional design of American government, and compares this design to the Canadian constitution. The course materials are primarily Supreme Court cases; thus there is a heavy focus on the Supreme Court case-law method for analyzing constitutional law. The course includes an introduction to judicial review, congressional/parliamentary power, federalism, executive power, and rights. With each issue and doctrine covered in the course, comparisons will be made to Canadian constitutional law.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will analyze American foreign policy from the nation's founding to the present. Diplomatic, security and economic issues will be covered. Among the specific topics examined will be the U.S. rise to global power; the origins, course and end of the Cold War; Vietnam; and U.S. foreign policy in the post Cold War and post 9/11 world.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar examines an important conundrum associated with the theory of executive power. Political theorists have long recognized that as the laws cannot foresee every contingency, men and women must rule when necessity demands. However, entrusting men and women with such discretionary power is problematic because they might abuse it. We will study how prominent theorists of executive power, including Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Publius have attempted to solve this conundrum. Drawing on secondary literature as well as documentaries and news reports, we will also analyze the feasibility of their solutions in the modern world.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
What political models do ancient Athens, Sparta, and Rome represent, and how have these models been interpreted and used in the subsequent history of political thought? Half of this course is devoted to understanding the political institutions of ancient Greece and Rome by reading major historical writers of the time such as Thucydides, Livy, and Plutarch, as well as modern scholars. The other half explores the significance of Greece and Rome for political theory, including case studies of authors such as Machiavelli, Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and modern democratic theorists.
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