Examines aspects of international relations. May be repeated for credit if topics are different. Three topics are offered for Fall 2023. Section A1: Democracy and the Populist Challenge in Europe and North America. Focuses on the crisis of liberal democracy in Europe and North America and the challenges of populism. Examines different possible sources of populist discontent, including economic, social, and political. Explores comparatively the populists' playbook while in (and out) of power. Section B1: Finance for Development in Africa. This course canvases the set of development challenges that the countries in Africa face and the avenues and opportunities for mobilizing the necessary financing in order to meet the region's development goals. Section F1: World War I and the Making of the Modern Middle East. World War I and the demise of the Ottoman Empire created the modern Middle East. This seminar analyzes the violence associated with the breakdown of empire and traces how the war shaped the region's conflicts and questions today. Topics for Spring 2024: Section A1: History of Neoliberalism. Examines the origins, rise and institutionalization of the ideology that prioritizes economic freedom above all other liberties. Topic will be approached through a global series of case studies with emphasis on international economic law, uneven geography, financialization, and accumulation by dispossession. Section B1: Technology & War. How do countries make choices between military technologies? How do they use them? What about emerging technologies? Examines the drivers behind countries' development of military technologies, how they operationalize them, and why they sometimes restrict them. Section C1: Structural Change and African Development. Provides deep understanding of the theories, challenges, opportunities and strategies for promoting development in Africa through structural change that students will encounter in their careers as international relation professions as well as in the broader policy world. Section D1: The EU, Global, and Human Security. A seminar on colonial legacies, conflict management and peacekeeping, refugees and human trafficking, global inequality, and climate security, with a focus on Europe's dual role: its legacy of creating global human insecurity and its governance towards addressing human security problems. Section E1. Development Financing. Introduces the role of development finance institutions in fostering economic and social development. Examines the operating model for development finance institutions (DFIs) and the changing operating environment with special focus on DFIs operating in Africa. Section F1: History of Political Islam. Examines Islamic political movements in the Middle East from the late eighteenth century through the present. Considers responses to European colonialism, struggles between Islamic movements and secularizing states, and how the Cold War influenced Islamic political thought. Section G1: Debates in International Politics. Examines frameworks and solutions for major controversies in international affairs. Confronts issues such as cyberwar, climate diplomacy, state failure, insurgency, terrorism, humanitarian intervention, and inequality. Encourages discussion and cultivates abilities to navigate complexities in our interdependent world. Section H1: International Relations.

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