Courses

• CAS IR 320: The American Military Experience
  Meets with CAS HI 286. Investigates how the United States waged war during the twentieth century-- and continues to wage war since 9/11. Why and how do Americans fight? Who serves and who sacrifices? With what consequences for American democracy?
• CAS IR 325: The Great Powers and the Eastern Mediterranean
  Meets with CAS HI 229. The Eastern Mediterranean as center of Great Power confrontation. Its impact on wider international relations, the domestic political results, the role of sea power, and the origins, conduct, and resolution of wars.
• CAS IR 328: Turko-Persia in the Twentieth Century
  The twentieth-century history of the non-Arab Muslim Middle East, i.e., Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Analysis of the constitutional revolutions in Turkey and Iran, Kemalism, the Islamic revolution in Iran, and communism in the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. Also offered as CAS HI 382.
• CAS IR 329: History of Premodern Iran
  Meets with CAS HI 385. History of Iran from the Muslim conquest to 1900. Examines political developments; Persian literature, visual arts, and culture; Irannian Islam, and religious minorities.
• CAS IR 330: Diplomatic Practice
  Introduces the practice of diplomacy as management of a country's foreign relations with a view to secure or restore peace. The nation state in diplomatic relations; foreign ministries, diplomatic missions, embassies, and consulates; the peacekeeping role of international law and international government organizations.
• CAS IR 333: Non-State Actors in International Relations
  Meets with CAS PO 327. Examines the important role of non-state actors in international relations. Non- state actors include subnational governments, international organizations, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, religious groups, violent groups, for-profit security firms, social movements, and grassroots organizations.
• CAS IR 341: Central Europe
  Intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, and military history of the region between Germany and Russia from the end of the Middle Ages to the present. Also offered as CAS HI 278.
• CAS IR 347: Causes of War and Peace
  Meets with CAS PO 357. War is the most destructive social act in which humanity engages. Why does war happen? This question is addressed by focusing on a variety of scholarly explanations. Theoretical discussions are paired with an examination of historical cases.
• CAS IR 348: History of International Human Rights
  Meets with CAS HI 346. History of international human rights since the eighteenth century. Examines political, social, economic rights, the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and related international conventions, enforcement, regionalism, globalization, and NGOs. Analyzes tensions between national sovereignty and human rights.
• CAS IR 349: History of International Relations, 1900–45
  Meets with CAS HI 289. The causes and consequences of the First World War; the search for postwar reconstruction and stability during the twenties; economic collapse, revolutionary nationalism, and fascism during the 1930s; the Second World War and the advent of the bipolar world.
• CAS IR 350: History of International Relations since 1945
  Meets with CAS HI 290. The causes and consequences of the Soviet-American Cold War from its origins in Europe to its extension to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The rise of the multipolar international system, the emergence of the nonaligned blocs, and inter-and intra-alliance conflicts.
• CAS IR 351: Africa in International Politics
  Meets with CAS PO 377. 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 221. 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 341. 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 370. 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
  (Meets with CAS PO 371.) 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 352.) 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 360.) 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.

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