Courses

• GRS IR 707: Political Reform in the Middle East
  Seminar analyzes and rethinks Middle East politics. Authoritarian governments rule most of the Middle East, but internal and external pressures for change are mounting. Given the tenuousness of the status quo, political reform will be hard to avoid.
• GRS IR 711: Civil Society and The State
  The relationship between civil society and democracy is a subject of major debate however, and many scholars contest the notion that the existence of civil society is a sufficient condition for democracy. At best there seems to be a necessary relationship between civil society and democracy, but even this claim is challenged, especially when it is applied to the developing world.
• GRS IR 712: International State Systems
  The pivotal issues in the development of the international state system will be explored: the presumed obsolescence of the national state through economnic interdependence, democratic peace and transnational demands; the rise and fall of great powers as states, hegemonies and empires.
• GRS IR 718: International Migration and Diaspora in World Politics
  Explores how the movement of people across borders is reshaping world politics. Impacts of migration on the economy, domestic politics, regional integration, national identity, and the institution of the sovereign nation state. Historical perspectives and contemporary case studies.
• GRS IR 721: War, Guilt, and World Politics
  Explores questions regarding the politics of memory: how countries define their past; what lessons and moral consequences they draw from their history; and how representations of the past influence multilateral and bilateral relations. Case studies involving France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, and the United States.
• GRS IR 722: U.S. Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War
  This graduate seminar exmines the formulation and conduct of U.S. foreign policy since 1989. It identifies the objectives and essential elements of American grand strategy and evaluates the extent to which U.S. policy is realistic, effective and democratic.
• GRS IR 757: Transnational Shi’ism
  Begins with the original split in Islam that generated Twelver Shi’ism, discusses key features of the religion such as Muharram rituals and the existence of a quasi-clergy, and ends with a discussion of individual Shi’ite countries and relations between them.
• GRS IR 758: Comparative Political Economy of China and India
  (Meets with GRS PO 785.) Compares China and India's economic reform, focusing on their reform policies and government-business relationships. Examines their political development (or lack thereof) during their economic reform. Discusses China and India's rise and implications for the global system.
• GRS IR 759: International Institutions for Finance, Development, and Trade
  Intensive examination of the roles the IMF, World Bank, and WTO play in the postwar international economic order---addressing less the decision-making within these institutions and more the issues in which they are involved, including their policies and programs.
• GRS IR 760: The Political Economy of the European Community
  Investigates major issues of Western European economic integration, utilizing theories of political/classical economics. Since all previous schemes for economic/monetary integration have failed, identification of conditions, winners, and losers of the integration process is focal.
• GRS IR 762: Turkey and The European Union: The History and Contemporary Aspects of Turkey's European Path
  Examines Turkey-EU relations in terms of European integration. Explores theoretical and operational factors shaping discourse and processes of Turkey-EU engagement, in order to answer core question: "Is Turkey part of Europe?"
• GRS IR 764: Seminar on China in the Contemporary World
  (Meets with GRS PO 764.) Examines the various dimensions of China's rise – economic, military, and in reputation – and its implications for Asia and the world. Special attention to the links between domestic and foreign policy and to the dynamic of Sino-U.S. relations.
• GRS IR 765: Japanese Political Economy
  Addresses various aspects of the Japanese political economy, ranging from the occupation to the roles of political parties and the bureaucracy. Considers state-society relations and the nature of the Japanese state from both theoretical and empirical angles.
• GRS IR 767: Latin American Comparative Politics
  Review of comparative politics literature, combined with country case studies, to assess to what degree Latin America is "the graveyard of development theories." Particular attention on recent patterns of redemocratization and economic liberalization and their multiple challenges.
• GRS IR 768: Democratic Reforms in Latin America
  Examines efforts at political and institutional reform in Latin America, their successes, challenges, and failures.
• GRS IR 772: Classics of International Relations
  A reading of major international relations classics of the twentieth century in the original texts, assessed both in their historical context, and from a contemporary point of view.
• GRS IR 778: Problems of Strategic Intelligence
  Explores major aspects of strategic intelligence; interrelationship of intelligence and other aspects of foreign policy; performance of U.S. intelligence community; and intelligence as a tool in the formulation of foreign policy.
• GRS IR 780: CIA’s National Clandestine Service
  The National Clandestine Service spends 5% of the US Intelligence budget but receives 95% of public and private scrutiny. Examines the unique legal mandate of the clandestine service: espionage, covert operations, counterintelligence, and special operations.
• GRS IR 787: The Latin American Policies of the United States
  Examination of key factors shaping past and present U.S. policies toward Latin America--including political, economic, and bureaucratic; as well as domestic, regional, and international. Includes case studies of contemporary issues to highlight decision-making processes, instruments of implementation, and policy consequences.
• GRS IR 788: International Relations of Asia-Pacific
  Focuses on the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region. Analysis of issues that have defined regional relations; the impact of the Cold War and its aftermath, the impact of regional economic growth and dynamism, and the emergence of contention over regional identity and its relationsip to global politics.

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