International Relations

• CAS IR 351: Africa in International Politics
  Meets with CAS PO 390. Introduction to the international relations of post-colonial Africa. Core themes include the politics of post-independence international alignments, the external causes and effects of authoritarian rule, and Africa's role in the global political economy.
• CAS IR 358: Global Feminism: Race and Gender in International Relations
  (Meets with CAS WS 360.) Exploration of critical issues concerning women, gender, and race throughout the world. Topics include women and the global economy, health care, reproduction, the dynamics of sex industries, violence against women, international women's movements, and political/institutional change.
• CAS IR 359: British Political Institutions
  Meets with CAS PO 360. The institutions of British democracy and political participation. Voting patterns, interest groups, and political parties; the role of Parliament, the cabinet, the monarchy, and civil service.
• CAS IR 362: European Politics
  Meets with CAS PO 361. Comparative study of politics in member states of the European Union, with emphasis on political development, institutions, major issues in contemporary politics, and the impact of European integration. Selective references to original and new member states of the EU.
• CAS IR 363: Soviet Politics 1917-91
  (Meets with CAS PO 363.) Analysis of the structure of major political institutions - government bureaucracy, Communist party, and others - and policy-society relations during the seventy-four years of the USSR's existence. Prime focus is institutional rather than historical, and deals with the Soviet politics "game" as it was played.
• CAS IR 364: Politics of Post-Communist Russia
  Analysis of the emergent political forces, institutions, and alliances in the post-Soviet Russian Federation, against the background of the unresolved economic, ethnic, and social problems that are the USSR's legacy to the "new Russia." Prospects for stabilization are assessed in the context of the multiple crises facing Russia today.
• CAS IR 365: Rise of China
  (Meets with CAS PO 374.) China's political, economic, and strategic development since the late nineteenth century, with emphasis on the period since 1949. Examines three questions: In what ways is China rising? How did it happen? What are the impacts of China's rise on the U.S. and the global system?
• CAS IR 367: Introduction to Latin American Politics and International Relations
  (Meets with CAS PO 367.) Introduction to the patterns and complexities of Latin American politics and foreign policies. Focuses on the distinctive Latin American political experience and alternative explanation for it, including colonization, the international economy, and human and material resource capacity and utilization.
• CAS IR 368: Contemporary East Asian Economics
  An introduction to the economics of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Topics include Japanese firms, labor markets, finance, monetary and fiscal policies, industrial policies, and Taiwanese and Korean post-1960 economic development.
• CAS IR 370: China: From Revolution to Reform
  (Meets with CAS PO 369.) Introduction to modern Chinese politics including the development of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the political development of the PRC since its founding in 1949. Focus is on the party's official policy and its changing relationships with the people of China.
• CAS IR 372: International Relations of South Asia
  Meets with CAS PO 378. Introduction to South Asia and regional conflict and cooperation. Focus on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka inter-state relations; great power interventions; power distributions; norms; political, military, and economic conflict and cooperation.
• CAS IR 373: Global Governance and International Organization
  Meets with CAS PO 385. Provides an overview of major theoretical perspectives on the creation and function of international organizations, comparative case studies of selected organizations, and an examination of present and future roles of international organizations in selected issue areas.
• CAS IR 374: Introduction to Security Studies
  Analysis of the factors determining national and international security. Examines the historical relationship between military power and politics. Topics include causes of war, conduct of war, prevention of war. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS IR 375: Introduction to Russian and Post-Soviet Relations
  (Meets with CAS PO 375.) Decisive factors in the foreign relations of Russia and the other former Soviet republics, including historical continuity and change, survival and change of ideology, domestic politics, economic and geographical factors, military and external political considerations. The future of arms control, nuclear weapons, the economy, and relations among the former republics are also examined.
• CAS IR 376: American Foreign Policy Since 1945
  (Meets with CAS HI 288.) America's tradition and heritage in foreign policy. American foreign policy during the Cold War. Conflicting approaches to the formulation of American foreign policy in the current international environment. Domestic and institutional actors in policy formulation: Congress, media, Presidency, CIA, military.
• CAS IR 378: Intelligence in a Democratic Society
  The intelligence process and its role in democratic societies; the organization and functions of the U.S. intelligence community; techniques of intelligence collection, analysis, counterintelligence and covert action; assessment of problems and attempted solutions in the United States and other democracies.
• CAS IR 380: American Foreign Policy: Practice and Process
  How U.S. foreign policy is made. After a historical introduction, focus on the external.bureaucratic, societal, and leadership forces that combine to shape broad policy lines and particular initiatives that produce feedback influencing the future.
• CAS IR 381: U.S.-Pakistan Relations
  Examines the history and current state of U.S.-Pakistan relations. Considers the political and strategic complexities of the bilateral alliance as well as Pakistan's key role in the international relations of South Asia, Central Asia, and the Muslim world.
• CAS IR 382: Understanding the Middle East
  Introduces the contemporary Middle East, including the Arab world, Iran, Israel, and Turkey; examines the systems of government; the role of external powers; the origins of the state system; the sources and objectives of opposition forces; the prospects for political reform, including democratization; and the prospects for future cooperation or conflict.
• CAS IR 383: Understanding Modern North Africa
  Meets with CAS PO 383. Considers political, cultural, economic, and social developments in the modern states of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya as they struggle to gain independence from colonial domination and to consolidate viable, secure, and legitimate states and prosperous national communities.

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