Courses

• CAS PO 552: Japan in International Politics
  Meets with CAS IR 579. International and domestic influences on Japan's international behavior in the past as a predictor of Japan's future role in international politics. Covers Japan's role in the Cold War, post-war Asia, and the management of the global economy. Examines viability of the post-Cold War U.S.-Japan relationship. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 579.
• CAS PO 553: Taiwan: Politics and Transformation
  Meets with CAS IR 582. Examines Taiwan's history, economic development, ethnic identity, democratization, and its controversial position in international politics as a key to understanding questions of political economy, democratic transition, and East Asian security. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 582.
• CAS PO 554: Conflict and Cooperation in Asia
  Meets with CAS IR 501. Investigates patterns of conflict and cooperation in South and East Asia surrounding issues ranging from water resources and health to borders and war. Analyzes how such issues contribute to instability in the region, as well as methods of cooperation. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 530.
• CAS PO 558: War and Society in the Modern Age
  This course takes a state-oriented approach to understanding war in the modern age (as distinct from focusing on segments of the armed forces). How states fight wars and how changes in warfare affect the relationship between state and society.
• CAS PO 561: Latin American Political Parties
  Meets with CAS IR 502. Parties and party systems of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Historical origins and labor incorporation. Populist, working-class, and hegemonic parties. Market reform and party system transformation or collapse. Ethnic parties, clientelism, rise of a new Left. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 509.
• CAS PO 562: Political Economy of Latin America
  (Meets with CAS IR 590.) Historical and contemporary issues in Latin American political economy. Uses case studies and cross-regional comparisons to assess competing explanations. Analyzes the current political and economic situation facing Latin America in its quest for economic growth and development. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 550.
• CAS PO 565: U.S.-Latin American Relations
  (Meets with CAS HI 523 and CAS IR 568.) Explores both sides of the U.S.-Latin American relationship, tracing its development over time and analyzing its current challenges. Each week focuses on a different theme--including imperialism, intervention, hemispheric security, trade, immigration, and drug trafficking--within a roughly chronological framework. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 568.
• CAS PO 566: Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Latin America
  Meets with CAS IR 411. 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 411.
• CAS PO 569: Money, Guns, and Power
  (Meets with GRS IR 630.) What is the relationship between money and war? This course explores the relationship between money, guns, and power through the lens of American and European military spending and through larger theoretical conversations on the concept of power.
• CAS PO 571: Government and Politics of Contemporary Africa
  Meets with CAS IR 534. 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 the developing countries. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 565.
• CAS PO 572: Political Systems of Southern Africa
  Analysis of the balance of political forces in the multiracial societies of southern Africa; emphasis on the problems of governmental stability, the prospects for integration and disintegration, the range of responses to interracial tensions, and their international repercussions. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 566.
• CAS PO 576: The Foreign Policy of the People's Republic of China
  Meets with CAS IR 577. Explores China's perception of its role in the world, its evolution from a regional to a world power, and its security and economic relationships within the international system. Relationships with the superpowers, Third World, and world economy, focusing on technology and capital transfers. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 578.
• CAS PO 578: The United States as a World Power
  Meets with GRS HI 859. The course material is organized along a debate format. Although the course is primarily concerned with twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy, attention is also given to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century issues. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 674.
• CAS PO 580: Readings in International Relations in Political Science
  Topics vary. Topic for Spring 2017: Israel through the Lens of its Political Trials. Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic? This course traces the constant tension between the Jewish and democratic values in Israeli society through several dramatic trials that helped shape Israeli collective memory and identity.
• CAS PO 582: North Atlantic/European Security Issues
  Meets with CAS IR 589. Examination of the post Cold War security environment in the North Atlantic and greater European context. Exploration of threats to security, mechanisms in place and emerging (NATO, CSCE, CFE, WEU), and challenges posed by changes since fall 1989. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 531.
• CAS PO 583: Gender and War
  (Meets with CAS IR 518.) Examines gender constructions in world politics. Topics include gender biases in international relations theories, female and male roles in war, and rape as an instrument of warfare. Also assesses roles of women as leaders, actors, and objects of foreign policy.
• CAS PO 586: Science Fiction and World Politics
  Uses science fiction literature as a starting point for an analysis of themes that concern scholars of present international relations, and those interested in imagining and making alternative political futures. Topics include causes of war, distribution of wealth and power, and consequences of nationalism. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 670.
• CAS PO 589: Religion and International Relations
  (Meets with CAS IR 561 and CAS RN 561.) Explores the role of religion in contemporary international relations in the context of questions about the common core of modernity. Reviews scholarly and policy literature, and case studies, in order to elucidate religion's intellectual and operational diversity in international relations.
• CAS PO 590: Readings in Political Theory
  Topics vary. Topic for Fall 2017: Hannah Arendt. This seminar examines the writings of the 20th century Jewish German emigre thinker, Hannah Arendt, with special focus on her conception of political freedom. Readings include Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, On Revolution, and Eichmann in Jerusalem.
• CAS PO 591: Seminar in Political Philosophy
  An in-depth study of a major political philosopher, historical period, or topic in political philosophy. Topic for Fall 2016: Political Ideas and the Arts. Students develop their own reading list of works by a political philosopher; research art in all media--paintings, songs, poems, novels, and movies--illustrative of the concepts encountered; and write and present papers integrating the political ideas and art discovered. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course by the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 691.

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