Courses

• CAS IR 370: China: From Revolution to Reform
  (Meets with CAS PO 351.) 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 355. 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 384. 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 372.) 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 376. 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.
• CAS IR 390: International Political Economy
  Meets with CAS PO 329. Emphasizes the dynamic interaction between politics and economics to understand and explain historical and contemporary issues in international political economy, including international monetary, trade, investment, financial, and environmental relations. Considers emerging challenges and structures in the international political economy.
• CAS IR 395: North-South Relations
  (Meets with CAS PO 328.) Employs a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the relations between the industrialized nations of the "North" and the developing nations of the "South." Addresses historical and current issues in North-South relations, including trade, investment, migration, regional economic integration, and the environment.
• CAS IR 396: Cultural Heritage and Diplomacy
  (Meets with CAS AR 396.) Considers the place of heritage in archaeology and cultural diplomacy; art and architecture as cultural ambassadors; culture representation in museums and cultural landscapes; international art law; cultural affairs in U.S. embassies; the State Department; strategic impact of heritage in promoting U.S. foreign policy.
• CAS IR 401: Sr Indep Work
  
• CAS IR 402: Sr Indep Work
  
• CAS IR 410: Latin America Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach
  (Capstone course for Latin American Interdisciplinary Studies Program concentrators.) Topic for Spring 2011: Latin America Today: Latin American Cities. These population centers are critical sites for understanding issues of development, poverty, governance, equity, globalization, and the environment. Uses case studies and urban ethnographies, emphasizing a comparative approach to research and policy analysis, to explore these core concerns.
• CAS IR 411: Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Latin America
  Meets with CAS PO 566. Examines a range of historical and contemporary conflicts and wars in Latin America, both internal and regional, examining their causes and consequences, and the most important factors that explain how they were resolved or why they persist.
• CAS IR 415: Eu in 21st C
  
• CAS IR 421: Global Governance, Economic Development, and Human Rights
  Examines the roles of international "governing" institutions (the UN, NGOs, etc.) in the development of lower-income countries and the integration of human rights policies into such activities. Includes guest speakers from global organizations such as the WHO and the UN.

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