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3.00 Credits
Deals with post-independence governmental political parties and ideological inclinations among African states. Emphasis is on origin and evolution of political institutions and their functions within contemporary Africa. (Same course as AACS 338) Humanities and Social Science230 s
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the evolution of international law up to the present. In addition to its history, rules, and process, it explores such international topics as treaties, customary law, general principles of law, and conflict of laws. Also covered are a variety of international tribunals, organizations, and doctrines.
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3.00 Credits
Analyses of global issues-such as the quest for new international order, world trade dilemmas, economic relations between rich and poor states and their political implications-from a political-economical perspective.
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3.00 Credits
Studies the leading international organization in the world today and its role in maintaining security, peacekeeping, economic and social development and human rights.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the political, economic, geopolitical, bureaucratic, and other factors that determine United States foreign policy, as well as an examination of how United States foreign policy is made.
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3.00 Credits
The Middle East-that region stretching from North Africa to Southwest Asia-is of tremendous importance in international relations, containing as it does immense oil resources, strategic waterways, colonial legacies, and contending nationalist movements. This course examines both the role of outside powers and local actors in this volatile region.
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3.00 Credits
What causes war? What promotes peace? An examination of the economic, political, psychological, and other causes of war, and various strategies for preventing it.
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3.00 Credits
Southeast Asia is a region of great diversity-encompassing democracies and dictatorships, a city-state and a vast archipelago, rich states and poor, the world's most populous Muslim country and one of the largest Catholic nations, ancient civilizations and one of the world's newest nations (East Timor). It is also a region of great economic and strategic importance: the scene of fast-growing states and of the United States' longest war. This course examines colonial legacies, nationalist and revolutionary movements, and big power interests in order to understand the foreign policy of regional states and the role of external powers.
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3.00 Credits
This course views poverty as a socially constructed artifact-an effect of political ideas and decisions-anda source of continuing political controversy. The course explores the ways in which poverty and inequality are defined and measured as well as the extent of poverty and its effects on different population groups. Various theories that attempt to explain the causes of poverty and prescribe solutions are explored in the context of a study of U.S. poverty policy from the Great Depression through the present. U.S. approaches to poverty are also explored in relation to comparable industrial democracies.
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3.00 Credits
A variety of philosophical, ideological, and historicalinstitutional arrangements related to labor are explored. Emphasis on the origins and development of trade unionism and class consciousness, relations between capital and labor, old and new working class, role of labor in competitive and monopoly capitalism, technology and labor, job satisfaction, and alienation under capitalism and socialism.
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