International Relations

• CAS IR 543: The Changing Face of Eastern Europe
  Domestic and foreign policies of East European states, their relations with the former Soviet Union and with each other. Emphasis is on the period 1989-92, but recent events are presented with the historical contexts. Analysis of the formation and subsequent implosion of the Soviet sphere in Europe. The collapse of communism in Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria and its impact on the Soviet crisis, the Western alliance, and international relations.
• CAS IR 546: Power and Legitimacy: Ideology as a Political Tool
  Using original texts from Plato to Havel, political theories and ideologies are studied as instruments of power. Analysis of the relationship between ideas, political elites, institutions, decision-making processes, and legitimacy. Emphasis is on the newly emerged post-totalitarian states.
• CAS IR 548: United Nations Peacekeeping
  Provides an understanding of the problems confronting United Nations-led efforts to prevent armed conflict before it starts, contain and end such conflicts once they start, and create conditions whereby an enduring peace can be maintained.
• CAS IR 549: Politics and International Relations of the Federal Republic of Germany
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor.
  Meets with CAS PO 545. Analysis of contemporary German polity; domestic and international forces that have created the strengths and weaknesses of the present-day German state; implications for the viability of German political institutions and for Germany?s present and future role in the world.
• CAS IR 550: European Integration
  Meets with CAS PO 525. Assesses the meaning of "European Union" in its domestic, foreign policy, and economic dimensions. To understand the opportunities and limits of cooperation and conflict, relevant issue areas of European Community policy are discussed from a functionalist and realist perspective.
• CAS IR 551: Social Europe: Identity, Citizenship, and the Welfare State
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor.
  Meets with CAS PO 528. The past, present and future of "social Europe." Impact of European economic and political integration on national identities, cultures, politics, and citizenship; EU policies affecting these social constructions; and changes over time in the welfare state.
• CAS IR 552: Nordic Europe
  Meets with CAS PO 529. A brief historical overview of the region from the Viking Age to the emergence of the modern states is followed by study of the Nordic countries with respect to the European Union, security arrangements, and assistance to the developing world.
• CAS IR 553: Classics of International Relations
  Close reading of one or more of the following, with applications of their teachings to historic and contemporary problems: Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War; Xenophon, Anabasis and the Education of Cyrus; Tacitus, The Annals; Sun Tsu, The Art of War; Kau-tilya, The Arthasastra; Persia's Shah Nameh; Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses; Winston Churchill, The Life of Marlborough; Clausewitz, On War; and Charles DeGaulle, France and Her Army and The Edge of the Sword.
• CAS IR 556: Current Intelligence Issues
  Examines U.S. intelligence needs, with an emphasis on preparing for international developments in advance. Addresses issues of transnational terrorism and proliferation in additional to traditional concerns such as rogue states, counterintelligence, organized crime, regional rivals, and rising powers.
• CAS IR 557: Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism
  Advanced undergraduate course dealing with recent and ongoing guerrilla and terrorist campaigns worldwide. Origins, ideologies, and doctrines.
• CAS IR 559: Reckoning with the Past: Reparations and Justice in Comparative Perspective
  Meets with CAS AA 559 and PO 559. The debate about reparations for slavery and Jim Crow segregation in the United States examined critically as conversation about, and movement for, retrospective justice. Includes discussion of war crimes tribunals and truth commissions.
• CAS IR 560: The Politics of Religion, Ethnicity and Nationalism in International Relations
  Explores causes, consequences, and patterns of resurgent religion, ethnicity, and nationalism in post-Cold War international relations, using interdisciplinary scholarship, policy literatures, and case studies.
• CAS IR 561: Religion and International Relations
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor.
  (Meets with CAS RN 561.) Explores the role of religion in contemporary international relations in the context of questions about the common core of modernity. Reviews scholarly and policy literature, and case studies, in order to elucidate religion's intellectual and operational diversity in international relations.
• CAS IR 563: Public Religion and Politics Across Cultures
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor.
  The contested role of religion in modern politics and its implications for civil life. Begins with the West and includes Islam in the Middle East and SE Asia, Evangelism in Latin America and Africa, Hindu nationalism, and Buddhism in China.
• CAS IR 566: Democracy in Latin America and Its Challenges
  (Meets with CAS PO 580.) Provides an overview of democracy's achievements and challenges in Latin America. Draws comparisons between stable and unstable democracies in the region, and analyzes the reasons for, and implications of, these differences.
• CAS IR 567: Latin American Politics
  The nature and evolution of politics in the region, with emphasis on twentieth-century patterns in specific countries. Considers the physical, historical, social, and economic constraints that have affected political development and the various explanations available to advance our understanding.
• CAS IR 568: U.S.-Latin American Relations
  (Meets with CAS PO 568.) The international context within which Latin American countries operate, with primary emphasis on U.S. policy toward the region. Includes historical overview, the policy-making process itself, and case studies of specific policy issues.
• CAS IR 573: Introduction to Public International Law
  The role of international law in efforts to solve current problems of world order. Emphasis on environmental protection and the regulation of ocean space and resources. The role of law in conflict and cooperation, and the quest for international security.
• CAS IR 574: Ethics and International Relations
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor.
  (Meets with CAS PO 574.) Examines important ethical approaches to normative controversies of contemporary world politics. Such questions as: Is my nation always right? Can war be justified? Is terrorism always wrong? What is the place of human rights in foreign policy?
• CAS IR 575: Political Economy of Mexico and NAFTA
  Explores the dynamics of contemporary Mexican political economy and Mexico's participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement to understand the causes and effects of the profound transformation of Mexico in recent years. Addresses challenges that lie ahead.