We will examine both the international and domestic context of the war, as well as pay close attention to both South and North Vietnamese perspectives on the war. Hence, this seminar will put two very different bodies of theory in conversation: critical theory about power and philosophy of science about cause and effect. And is there anything that can be done to stop or slow them? What new political realities might emerge on ground cleared by disaster? To study the presidency is to study human nature and individual personality, constitution and institution, rules and norms, strategy and contingency. We will critically analyze how those categories are constructed at the international and domestic levels, as well as how those categorizations are also racialized, politicized, and gendered. [more], The course will discuss the relationship between nationalism and far-right populism, also often referred to as alt-right politics in the United States. Terrorist attacks at home and abroad. The course extends over one semester and the winter study period. Using both Economics and Political Science methods of analysis, students will study the way societies respond [ more ] Taught by: Darel Paul, David Zimmerman Catalog details POEC 402(S) SEM Political Economy of Public Policy Issues that media convey). It looks at how difference works and has worked, how identities and power relationships have been grounded in lived experience, and how one might both critically and productively approach questions of difference, power, and equity. What is it that they oppose and support? The tutorial will address the evolution of Palestinian nationalism historically and thematically, employing both primary and secondary sources. This research seminar examines the intent, process, meaning and consequence of these new practices, particularly in terms of national constitutions, international law, and principles of justice. Why has historical commemoration gotten so contentious--or has it always been contentious? We will read mostly primary sources, including texts by: Hermann Cohen, Theodore Herzl, Chaim Zhitlowsky, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, and many others. In investigating this theme, our cornerstone will be Max Weber's famous argument from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Fortunately, in recent decades philosophers have made significant progress in theorizing causation. Please see the online catalog for up-to-date information on which courses are being offered in the current year. life -- define the American political tradition and consume the American political imagination. What does it mean today to be progressive? This course confronts these questions through readings drawn from a variety of classic and contemporary sources, including works of fiction, autobiography, journalism, law, philosophy and political theory, and social science. We will study past campaigns and then research and discuss contemporary reform efforts. The Politics of Migration: Citizen, Immigrant, Alien, Refugee. Or ideology? empowerment, privilege, or oppression? What anti-democratic means? This class examines the policy making process with particular emphasis on the United States: How do issues get defined as problems worthy of government attention? Do certain kinds of processes yield better policies than others? [more], This introductory seminar investigates the relationship between three major schools of thought in contemporary Africana social and political philosophy: the African, Afro-North American, and Afro-Caribbean intellectual traditions. Is solidarity possible only in utopia, or can we realize it in the world as well? colony, then covers the Cuba- US relationship from Jos Mart and 1898 through the Cold War to the present, emphasizing the revolutionary period. The course will then examine the following subjects: the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan; theories of the nuclear revolution; the early Cold War period; the development and implications of thermonuclear weapons; the Berlin and Cuban missile crises; nuclear accidents; nuclear terrorism and illicit nuclear networks; the future of nuclear energy; regional nuclear programs; preventive strikes on nuclear facilities; nuclear proliferation; and contemporary policy debates. An important goal of the course is to encourage students from different backgrounds to think together about issues of common human concern. How does political leadership in the 21st century differ from leadership in earlier eras? We will investigate theories about where they come from, what they do, and to whom they matter, and explore controversies surrounding their agency, legitimacy, efficiency, and accountability. Should "religion" be singled-out for exclusion from government? Economically, the course will look at the institutional configuration of neo-liberalism, changes in economies, growing inequality, the financial crises, and prevalence of debt. [more], "Not me. We will not only describe American involvement in various international issues but also seek to understand the reasons why the US perhaps should or should not be involved, and we will see why such careful reasoning only sometimes gains traction in actual US foreign policy debates. dorms be named for John C. Calhoun and Woodrow Wilson? standard responses to economic crises. We investigate who refugees are, in international law and popular understanding; read refugee stories; examine international and national laws distinguishing refugees from other categories of migrants; evaluate international organizations' roles in managing population displacement; look at the way that images convey stereotypes and direct a type of aid; consider refugee camps in theory and example; and reflect on what exclusion, integration, and assimilation mean to newcomers and host populations. thinkers with a view to identifying their central tenets, both negative and positive. Yet consider that while mineral abundance promises to give countries a platform for prosperity, equity, and political stability, it often produces poor economic performance, poor populations, weak authoritarian states, and widespread conflict. policing, criminal sentencing, political campaigns, government regulation, and war. and writings by the incarcerated). Important topics include: the colonial experience and independence; race relations and the African diaspora; national identity and authoritarian populist nationalism; war and state-building; American exceptionalism, religion, and foreign policy; criminal justice; and the origins and shape of the welfare state. Two questions will anchor the tutorial: how is the nation defined and what, if any, class interests are folded into various definitions? [more], Tens of thousands of international organizations populate our world. Is America really a democracy at all? The course places the US in conversation not only with European countries, but also (and especially) considerations of migration governance in destination countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Students will have significant responsibility for setting the agenda for discussions through informal writing submitted prior to class. The course will review the political development of the PRC since 1949 and, then, focus on the dynamics of political contention and regime persistence since the Tiananmen Crisis of 1989. In substantive terms, the class covers the rise of the Zionist movement; the effects of the First World War on the Middle East; the international politics of the Arab-Israeli conflict; the geopolitics of the area's energy resources; the Cold War in the Middle East; the causes and consequences of the Iranian Revolution; the rise of Islamist movements; the Arab Spring; terrorism; the specter of nuclear proliferation in the area; the Syrian conflict; and the role of the United States in the Middle East. Primary papers are due to respondent/professor 48hrs before the tutorial meets; response papers are emailed to the professor 2hours before the weekly tutorial meets. Class will be driven primarily by discussion, typically introduced by a brief lecture. [more], The rise of gigantic tech firms--Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon--has sparked widespread worries about the role of business power in capitalist democracy. and an unscientific, patriarchal worldview. How does power relate to technology? The course begins with the political economy of the colony, then covers the Cuba- US relationship from Jos Mart and 1898 through the Cold War to the present, emphasizing the revolutionary period. To answer these questions we read works by Moore, Lipset, Schumpeter, Przeworski, Rueschemeyer et al., Haggard & Kaufman, among others. It begins by addressing the arrival of Zionists, the pursuit of statehood and the in-gathering of Jews, and the responses of neighboring Arab states and local Palestinians. Social unrest over the definition of American morality and over who counts as an American. At a general level, it focuses on a set of core conceptual questions: How has the advent of cyberweapons changed how international politics works? Do the institutions produce good policies, and how do we define what is good? Specifically, the seminar will address the election of Donald Trump as president, the furor around Brexit in the United Kingdom and the authority of the European Union in Europe, and challenges to the hegemony of global finance and controversies around immigration in both the United States and Europe. Born a Jew in Germany, Arendt lived through--and reflected deeply on--two world wars, the rise of totalitarianism, and the detonation of the first atomic bomb. We will engage some of the central questions and issues in the current debate on East Asia. Finally, we will look at arguments that America has been "exceptional"--or, unlike other countries--as well as critiques of these arguments, to help us gain an understanding of future prospects for political transformation. [more], We all want to be free--at least most of us say we do. *Please note the atypical class hours, Wed 4:45-8:30 pm*, formulation? In this course we will look at how people in the United States and elsewhere have used their leaders' images to hash out larger political issues of national identity, purpose, and membership. There is no world government. Illustrative cases to aid our inquiry will be drawn primarily from the USA and Canada, with additional examples from India, South Africa, and possibly European law. What sparks political violence and how can countries emerge from conflict? How much do we attribute the shaping of politics to the agency of the individual in the office and to what extent are politics the result of structural, cultural, and institutional factors? By the end of the semester, you will gain both a general perspective and substantive knowledge on East Asian international politics. a range of thinkers including Dionne Brand, Aim Csaire, Angela Davis, douard Glissant, Kwame Gyekye, Paget Henry, bell hooks, Katherine McKittrick, Charles Mills, Nkiru Nzegwu, Oyrnke Oyewm, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Cornel West, and Sylvia Wynter. From the Founding to the present, the American political order has undergone cataclysmic and thoroughgoing transformations, yet it has also proven to be remarkably enduring. Does freedom make us happy? There is a similar dismal irony to the American Revolution, as captured by the title of Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" The last quarter of class focuses on student projects, on integrating and revising research to produce a set of findings and an evaluation of their meaning. In this class, we will consider the promise and limits of political theory to illuminate present day environmental crises and foster movements to overcome them. Readings are drawn from Supreme Court opinions, presidential addresses, congressional debates and statutes, political party platforms, key tracts of American political thought, and secondary scholarship on constitutional development. [more], Taught by: Galen E Jackson, James McAllister, This is a course about the Middle East in international politics. They also have produced attempts by both internal and external actors to resolve the issues. takes up such questions by considering how key recent or contemporary theorists have sketched the defining features of their political worlds. The core of the course is made up of analyses of global trade, global finance, natural resources, and migration, with special attention to subjects such as free trade, currency wars, and border walls. Was his caution warranted? Others suggest that most Americans have moved "beyond race" and that racism explains little of modern-day partisan and electoral politics. However, there is increasing recognition that International Relations in all forms, including theory, research, and policy, continue to be structured by traditional paradigms of power (e.g. What kinds of alternatives to objectivity exist, and should they, too, count as "science"? Can the framers' vision of deliberative, representative government meet the challenges of a polarized polity? Finally, what are the costs of change (and of continuity)--and who pays them? America First? Why does Congress not act, especially when the U.S. confronts so many pressing problems, and how do legislators justify inaction? For whom do they function? How does a state's nuclear posture affect basic political outcomes? The second half of the course challenges students to apply this toolkit to the twenty-first century, focusing on attempts to transition from industrial manufacturing to services. Finally, a pervasive strand of Romantic thought holds that (good) music, by its nature, is apolitical-what might it mean to deny social relevance to an entire field of human expression? Du Bois and the subsequent cleavages in political thought and allegiances among their respective adherents will be addressed, along with various other core issues including: the relationship between race, nation, and empire; transnationalism; the meaning of power; notions of leadership; the limitations of understanding Garveyism by the phrase "Back-to-Africa"; the moral philosophy of respect, reparation, and redemption; prophetic political theory; Pan-Africanism; the impact of Garveyism on political theological movements such as the Nation of Islam and Rastafari; women in the Garvey movement; and Garveyite strategies for forging models of political solidarity in dark times. This course will consider the history and contemporary experience of authoritarianian regimes, beginning with political philsophical analyses of classcal theorists such as Montesquieu, Moore, and Arendt. Yet, despite 40 years of increasingly varied and complex legislation, balancing human needs and environmental quality has never been harder than it is today. We will also explore the current implications of Wynter's thought for Africana political theory, Afro-futurism, social justice, human rights, and critiques of liberal humanism. How does partisanship become tribalism or hyper-partisanship, and can this be prevented? Why probe modern notions of black and blackness? What does it mean to be "philosophical" or to think "theoretically" about politics? Among the topics we will discuss are the incentives, norms, and practices of news-making organizations; how politicians try to sway the public during campaigns; how the media covers campaigns; and how the media influences Americans' racial attitudes. How does partisanship become tribalism or hyper-partisanship, and can this be prevented? Rather, it will focus on certain moments that highlight changing grand strategic thought. of politics generally--the state, legitimacy, democracy, authoritarianism, clientelism, nationalism--to comprehend political processes and transformations in various parts of the world. Most countries around the world have built elaborate institutions to ensure citizens' welfare by protecting some people from some risks, but not all people and not all risks. [more], The comparative study of politics looks mainly at what goes on inside countries, the domestic dynamics of power, institutions, and identities. By thrusting students into the "problem space" of Black Political Thought, students will examine the historical and structural conditions, normative arguments, theories of action, ideological conflicts, and conceptual evolutions that help define African American political imagination. With this preparation, we then look more closely at major contemporary figures and movements in Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Brazil, and other countries. This course examines those institutions. How has the relation between the governors and the governed changed over time, and what factors and events have shaped those relations? Noam Chomsky and the Radical Critique of American Foreign Policy. But what is the polarization about and what caused it? How did key leaders balance competing objectives and navigate difficult international circumstances? Admission is awarded on the basis of demonstrated capacity for distinguished work and on the proposal's promise for creative contributions to the understanding of topics on the federal system of government. Is it the person or the context? Looking at but also beyond his political solidarity with the emancipatory movements of the 1960s, we will then consider how Marcuse's work can be placed in conversation with more recent critical theory, including ideas emerging from the Occupy Wall Street movement and feminist approaches to aesthetics and psychoanalytic theory. [more], This course examines how musical sound and musical discourse change, enable, and inhibit citizen formation and the functioning of a well-ordered society. The third part focuses on religion in the USA. Finally, we will assess whether US foreign policy decisions are coherent - that is, whether the US can be said to follow a "grand strategy." Some readings will be historical, particularly those focusing on American political thought and the politics of the Gilded Age. Does freedom require leading (or avoiding) a political life? Do the mass media and political elites inform or manipulate the public? In addition to addressing this important question about the health of American democracy, students will learn how the traditional media and social media influences Americans' political attitudes and behaviors. Possible authors include Arendt, Bal, Belting, Benjamin, Browne, Buck-Morss, Butler, Campt, Clark, Crary, Debord, Deleuze, Fanon, Foucault, Freedberg, Hobbes, Kittler, Mercer, Mitchell, Mulvey, Plato, Rancire, Scott, Sexton, Starr, Virilio, Warburg, and Zeki. The course is divided into three parts. forty six, Orwell produced a stunningly large and diverse body of work in the fields of journalism, literature, and political commentary. Throughout the semester, our goal will be less to remember elaborate doctrinal rules and multi-part constitutional "tests" than to understand the changing nature of, and changing relationship between, constitutional power and constitutional meaning in American history. What conditions are necessary to sustain effective leadership in the contemporary world? The issues we will explore include: What is poverty, and how do Americans perceive its dangers to individuals as well as the political community? Senior Seminar in American Politics: The Politics of Belonging. Second, was one side primarily responsible for the length and intensity of the Cold War in Europe? For each subject, we will ask several key questions. For governance? It then explores more deeply the reasons for the breakdown of this settlement, the rise of Hugo Chavez, and the decay of the "21st Century Socialist" regime under Chavez and Maduro. The course will review the political development of the PRC since 1949 and, then, focus on the dynamics of political contention and regime persistence since the Tiananmen Crisis of 1989. and society in the United States comparatively, from a variety of viewpoints and by authors foreign and American, historical and contemporary. This seminar explores how our understanding of politics and political theory might change if visuality were made central to our inquiries. Readings draw from academic scholarship, media commentary, and current events as they unfold. We explore transnational dynamics of contentious politics, including how international actors shape domestic campaigns for democracy, peace, and justice, as well as how global advocacy movements (e.g. What, if anything, defines contemporary conservative thinking? What is the fate of democracy in the U.S.? Rather than treating science as a monolith, we will endeavor to understand the implications of various sciences--as practiced and envisioned in various, historically specific situations--for gender and politics. This seminar will focus on the politics of belonging in America. But is anyone immune to media influence? Yet inequality in wealth may conflict with the political equality necessary for democratic governance and public trust, leading to concerns that we are sacrificing community, fairness, and opportunity for the benefit of a small portion of the population. On what basis? defeat of Nazi Germany? It's a phenomenon we all love to hate. This course takes up such questions by considering how key recent or contemporary theorists have sketched the defining features of their political worlds. In examining these issues, we will seek not only to understand the contours of the potentially dramatic political changes that some say await us but also to put these issues into historical context so that we may draw lessons from the crises of the past. Then, we examine what contemporary democratic theorists have had to say about how racial equity might be achieved and how they have sought to advance this goal through their writing. Large minorities of young adults, especially young men, are now celibate. Political dissent has taken various forms since 1979 but the regime has found ways to repress and divert it. But what do we mean when we claim to want freedom? What kinds of alternatives are considered as solutions to these problems? This course is an investigation into relations between the sexes in the developed world, the fate of children and the family, and government attempts to shape them.

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