International Relations

• CAS IR 506: India and the World: The Foreign Policy of a Rising Power
  Today, India is a nuclear power with a huge and growing economy. This, along with the rise of China and 9/11, has catapulted India into the international limelight. This course examines India's rise, focusing on its foreign policy and international role.
• CAS IR 507: The Muslim and Western Worlds---Prospects for a Clash of Civilizations
  Explores the perennially troubled relationship between the Western and Muslim worlds in an effort to shed light on the realities and mutual misperceptions that give credence to the perceived cultural fault line between Muslims and Westerners.
• CAS IR 509: Islam in Middle East Politics
  Analysis of Islam in the classical and popular forms; examination of the role of the Muslim religion in the international politics of the modern Middle East, especially Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Libya; their interrelationships and their attitudes toward the West.
• CAS IR 511: The Middle East Today
  A critical survey of the rise and development of modern nations, states, and economies in the Middle East and North Africa since 1900. Provides context and perspective essential for understanding contemporary issues (e.g., peace process, gender relations, religion's roles, democracy).
• CAS IR 513: Bureaucracy and Governance: A Comparative Inquiry
  (Meets with CAS PO 546.) Bureaucracy is not only credited with underpinning economic development but also blamed for corruption and inefficiency. Exploring both theory and comparative development, this course looks at some of the most basic and important issues informing our understanding of governance.
• CAS IR 514: Empire and Power: British Foreign Policy, 1782–Present
  Meets with CAS HI 533. Examines the evolution of British foreign policy over time as well as the nature of Great Power rivalry. Key themes include formulation of national diplomatic strategies, policy coordination, diplomatic vs. military considerations, alliance politics, and policy over-stretch.
• CAS IR 516: Intelligence and Homeland Security
  Aspects of homeland security, including information and intelligence sharing, the role of first responders, the structure and functioning of the system, and defensive and operational aspects. No prior knowledge of intelligence or security issues required.
• CAS IR 518: Gender and War
  (Meets with AS PO 583 and WS 345.) Examines gender constructions in world politics. Topics include gender biases in international relations theories, female and males roles in war, and rape as an instrument of warfare. Also assesses roles of women as leaders, actors, and objects of foreign policy.
• CAS IR 520: The State and Public Purpose in Asia
  Explores how noncommunist Asian governments have attempted to advance public purpose, and how organizational factors in countries' governments affect their ability to do so. These questions are addressed in a comparative framework, considering theory and cases.
• CAS IR 521: Congress and National Security
  Examines the role and influence of Congress on the intelligence agencies of the US, Congress's oversight of intelligence collection, counterintelligence, covert action and surveillance in relation to the executive powers. Explores the influence of espionage on national security policy.
• CAS IR 522: Ideas and American Foreign Policy
  (Meets with CAS HI 566.) Examines the intellectual foundations of U.S. foreign policy from the founding of the republic to the present.
• CAS IR 524: The Cold War in Latin America
  Analyzes the Cold War as experienced in Latin America. Examines government policies, social movements, economic conditions, and power struggles across Latin America. Compares episodes of direct and indirect intervention by the United States as well as Latin American responses.
• CAS IR 527: Political Economy of China
  Meets with CAS PO 527. How did China implement economic reform? What were the progresses and limitations? How is China's political-economic development influencing the global system? Discussions are conducted in a comparative perspective. Countries of reference include Japan and India.
• CAS IR 529: Cuba in Transition
  Analysis of the prospects for peaceful transition in Cuba and the pressures for greater openness and democratization today. Discussion of the factors that facilitated Castro's Revolution and of Cuba's continuing impact on the policies of the U.S. and other countries.
• CAS IR 531: Intercultural Communication
  Examines communicative problems that arise in contact between people from different cultural backgrounds in everyday life, social service encounters, and business transactions. Uses interdisciplinary approaches to study how verbal and nonverbal presentation, ethnic, gender, and cultural differences affect communication.
• CAS IR 533: Comparative Political Development
  Meets with CAS PO 551. An investigation of contemporary debates on democracy and the state, with implications for contemporary American society as well as societies of developing nations.
• CAS IR 534: Government and Politics of Contemporary Africa
  Meets with CAS PO 565. Analysis of independent black Africa; factors of continuity and change in modern Africa, problems of political order, ambiguities of independence. Case studies of individual countries selected for additional emphasis on specific issues and problems of developing countries.
• CAS IR 535: Diplomacy and Statecraft
  Examines the mechanisms and process of diplomacy in historical context, to assess approaches to the implementation of foreign policy, analyze the success and failure of these approaches in different circumstances, and consider wider issues in the application of statecraft.
• CAS IR 536: European Environmental Policy
  Focuses on key concepts, actors, and issues related to European integration, environmental policy making, and sustainable development. Also examines transatlantic environmental relations and the role of the European Uinion in global environmental governance. Also offered as CAS GE 536.
• CAS IR 542: The Reemergence of Russia
  Disintegration of the old Soviet system and signs of a reemerging Russia; careers of Gorbachev and Yeltsin and their attack on the foundations of Stalinism; Moscow's role in the 1989 revolutions; the August 1991 coup d'état. The legacy of communism in the present medical and ecological crises; current political developments.

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