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(IR) D. Epstein, A. Pitcher This course gives students an understanding of Latin America's position in the international system. It identifies some of the major actors and relevant issues in Latin America's foreign affairs, principally since 1945. In addition to examining the often contentious relationship between the United States and its neighbors to the south, the course covers interactions among Latin American states and between the region and other actors such as Japan and the European community. The course also focuses in depth on recent important policy issues such as the drug trade, the debt crisis, the problem of development, and the North American Free Trade Agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The course concludes with the controversial issue of economic growth and the environment.
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3.00 Credits
D. Macdonald This course introduces students to the complex and crucial process of obtaining, analyzing, and producing intelligence in the making of American foreign policy. Subjects covered include cognitive and psychological impediments to the successful uses of intelligence, covert action, bureaucratic constraints on the intelligence process, product sharing with other nations, the uses of disinformation, counterintelligence, moral and ethical issues raised in a democratic society, and efforts to improve the intelligence process since 9/11. Historical and contemporary case studies are used, with an emphasis on the "long war" against terrorism. Prerequisite : POSC 366 (may be taken concurrently).
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3.00 Credits
Staff This comparative historical study of foreign policy decision making and diplomacy among the major states from 1816 through 1945 emphasizes crisis bargaining, management, and escalation. Foreign relations of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States are covered in light of existing political science theories. Emphasis is placed on how decision making can be affected by domestic political struggles, such as those between hard liners and accommodationists, and external factors such as alliances and international norms. Comparisons are made between those crises that are peacefully settled, and those that escalate and/or get out of control. Prerequisite: POSC 232 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
(IR) T. Byrnes, E. Fogarty This analysis of the role of international institutions in international politics emphasizes both the United Nations and the major international economic institutions (WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank).
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3.00 Credits
T. Byrnes, E. Fogarty This course examines the segment of world politics that includes interactions and transactions between actors who are not representatives of governments or intergovernmental institutions. Non-state actors as diverse as global social movements, multinational corporations, religious communities, and even terrorist networks are now recognized as playing crucial roles on the world's political stage. This course focuses on a variety of these transnational actors, as we seek to stretch the limits of state-based approaches, and emphasize the rich variety of relationships and interactions that characterizes contemporary world politics. This course is crosslisted as PEAC 358.
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3.00 Credits
(IR) D. Epstein This course analyzes Russia as the heir to the USSR's geopolitical position, including the legacy of the USSR's foreign policy and Russia's relations with its new and distant neighbors. This course is crosslisted as RU SS 359
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3.00 Credits
(IR) T. Byrnes, M. Hayes To the extent that the U.S. sets its own course in international affairs, domestic sources of American foreign policy become a crucial consideration. This course examines the role of domestic politics in formulating U.S. foreign policy. Special emphasis is placed on the function of representative institutions, bureaucracies, and public opinion in determining and implementing American foreign policy. Students are presented with a comprehensive framework of analysis that permits them to describe and perhaps predict actions taken by the U.S. government.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Peace operations have been widely deployed to contain and promote resolution of conflicts. This course probes the different contexts in which peacekeepers have been introduced: post-colonial transitions, interstate conflicts, civil conflicts, and humanitarian emergencies. Comparative case studies are drawn from Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, and elsewhere, highlighting contrasts between traditional observer missions and the complex, multidimensional operations of recent years. Moreover, the expectation of United Nations engagement has been superseded by the newly prominent role of regional organizations and "coalitions of the willing" in many global contexts.
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3.00 Credits
F. Chernoff, M. Johnston, J. Wagner The nature of concept formation and theory construction in political science are considered. This course is intended to help students understand some of the fundamental problems encountered by political science theory - for example, the typical problems that arise in making causal claims, as well as the inevitable attempt to bridge the gap between fact and values. The objective is to develop students' analytic skills and cultivate tools necessary for research and writing. Emphasis is given to the process of identifying and articulating good research questions, constructing an honors thesis proposal, and executing a research project. Prerequisite : POSC 150, 151 , o r 152 . Required for all honors candidates. See "Honors and High Honors in Political Science.
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3.00 Credits
B. Rutherford This course focuses on the process of foreign policy formation in Middle Eastern countries from the point of view of these nations themselves. Topics studied include the Arab-Israeli conflict, the political economy of the region, state formation and development, democratization, political Islam, and U.S. policy toward the Middle East. Some prior study of the Middle East is strongly recommended. This course is crosslisted as MIST 363.
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