Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPO321 OR CASPO324) or consent of instructor. - Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - Surveys forces contributing to national differences in social and economic policy; identifies current challenges to state sovereignty, such as globalization and immigration; and examines how nations from different welfare state regimes are coping with these threats to the nation state.

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