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3.00 Credits
The class between Jewish Zionists and the Arab peoples of Palestine and surrounding countries has been a focal point of world politics for roughly the last 100 years. It has involved six wars, as well as near continual violence short of outright war. This course is designed to make the major issues comprehensible and to enable students to begin to form their own assessments of what is needed for a just and lasting resolution. Through readings, films, discussion, and simulation exercises, the class explores the political, social, economic, psychological, and cultural dynamics of the conflict, as well as questions such as why the conflict has proven so difficult to resolve, how the conflict resembles and differs from other cases of protracted conflict between ethnic and national groups, and what factors have motivated U.S. policy toward the conflict.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an intensive examination of the international human rights regime including philosophical sources; legal instruments; governmental and non-state actors; and impacts on states and international order. It considers classic civil and political rights as well as emerging rights of children, minorities and indigenous peoples.
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3.00 Credits
Three weeks in Moscow, Russia. Subject matter focuses upon economic and market reforms, and the political/policy implication of them. All lectures taught in English, with Duquesne faculty (Dr. Moors) and program director with students on site throughout. Students will be provided with all course materials (three volumes of translated works). Russian faculty are from government ministries, leading academics, appellate judges, and national legal scholars. The course meetings are at the Moscow Institute of International Business, the educational division of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Trade in the beautiful "Lenin Hills" overlooking the city. Discounted package air flights will be organized, all students and faculty stay in the Hotel Rossiya on Red Square. Course meetings in the mornings, allowing a range of organized cultural activites and excursions in the afternoons. Long weekend trip to St. Petersburg; others to Novgorod, Pskov, and Zagorsk also available. The program began last year as a Duquesne University School of Law ABA (American Bar Association) approved program for Western law school students. It is now being expanded to include Duquesne University graduate and undergraduate students. No previous background in the subject matter is required. Dr. Moors developed the curriculum and text books for the program and holds appointment in the Moscow-based faculty.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers the major health and illness issues apparent in both regional and national areas. Students are involved in library and field research on the outcomes (identifiable or probable) of current or proposed policy responses to such health and illness issues.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the historical evolution of American public policy toward minorities. This includes the legal/constitutional changes, migratory patterns, social institutions and political mobilization. Contemporary problems and issues are evaluated within this context.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines images, assumptions and explanations of crime and criminality, then disentangles the facts from the fictions which contributes to scientific understanding about crime. In this process, we study the implicaitons of these models for public and social policy.
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3.00 Credits
Social policies are public policies that almost invariably involve the redistribution of wealth from one set of citizens to another, in order to achieve a desired societal goal. When is it legitimate to ask society in general to pay for the needs of a relative few? Do such policies benefit all citizens generally? What have been the practical results of these programs over their histories? This course offers the student an opportunity to analyze federal and related Pennsylvania state law in depth in the areas of education policy, affirmative action, healthcare, welfare, Social Security, and other social policies, with the primary goal being to enable the student to make reasoned and compelling arguments for or against future social policy changes.
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3.00 Credits
Ethnic conflict threatens political stability in countries around the world. From Iraq to Bolivia, from Spain to Indonesia, conflicts have erupted over a wide variety of "ethnic" issues in recent years. Yet despite it ubiquity, ethnic politics remains poorly understood: Why do people identify with ethnic groups? Why does ethnic identity sometimes lead to private ritual, sometimes to peaceful mobilization through mass movements or political parties, and sometimes to violent contlict, pogroms, and genocide? Most pressingly, are there solutions to ethnic conflict, particularly in deeply-divided, violence-ridden countries? This course gives an overview of current theories of ethnic politics, covering ethnic identity formation, ethnic mobilization, and conflict reduction measures. While focusing on ethnic groups in the developing world, the course includes significant attention to the broader commonalities of ethnic politics and includes readings on ethnic politics in the developed world.
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3.00 Credits
This course acquaints students with the stages of the criminal justice system from police investigation through arrest, charging, adjudication, sentencing and punishment. Topics addressed will be the history of the system, its effectiveness, the rights of suspects, defendants and the convicted at different stages of the process. The impact of law on practice, and the interrelationship among the parts of the system at various decision points will also be topics of interest.
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3.00 Credits
American defense policy is undergoing a transformation now that the Cold War has ended. The end of Soviet communism has led to a reevaluation of the threats, which confront the United States and policies, and strategies, which are necessary to meet those threats. Implementing changes in America's defense policy will not be an easy or painless task. There are many entrenched interests within the military and in American society who will resist changes in policy, strategy, and budgets. The policy choices, which are made in these years, will shape American defense policy for decades to come. This course investigates the formulation of American defense policy. Students become acquainted with the major institutions and their responsibilities, the different policy areas and some of the current debates over defense policy. Little time is devoted to examining actual operations by the American military.
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