Prerequisites: Instructor's permission prior to registration.
This course will delve into how states infer what others are likely to do in the future and how they try to project desired images of how they will behave. This involves both purposeful or intended communication, as in diplomacy, and the ways in which perceivers try to discern others' capabilities and intentions from attributes and behaviors that the senders cannot readily manipulate. Substantive areas to be covered--or at least touched on--include how states try to open negotiations without appearing weak, how promises and threats can be orchestrated, and the use of peace feelers.
No other institution in world history has been granted by its near universal membership the authority to mandate coercive measures, including sanctions and the use of force against sovereign states. Has the Security Council fulfilled the dreams of its founders? The course will define the Security Council's authority and powers through the provisions of the charter. It will discuss in detail the issue of collective security, sovereignty, threat to international peace and security, the use of force and non intervention. Through various case studies, it will examine the array of tools the Council has at its disposal from persuasion and diplomatic tools to peace keeping, economic sanctions, military enforcement and use of force.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
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This seven-week practicum is designed to give students from a variety of disciplines a background in education in emergency contexts, from preparedness to response and recovery. Class sessions will explore the multiple roles of education, including critical linkages to sectors like health and protection, in each of these phases; introduce students to the major education actors within the international humanitarian architecture; and prepare students to utilize best practices and minimum standards for education programming and policy-making.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Advanced topics in radiogenic isotope and trace-element geochemistry. Origin and composition of the Earth, evolution of the continents and mantle, and applications to igneous and surficial processes.
The Business and Human Rights Clinic provides a space for students to deepen their knowledge and experience of business and human rights. Through student education, skills training, and collaborative, rigorous and self-reflective project work, students will learn to be strategic and creative advocates in partnership with NGOs and communities, while advancing business and human rights methodologies and scholarship. The Clinic is also a laboratory for testing and modeling new and innovative modes of business and human rights work, with a focus on enhancing human rights methods through interdisciplinary partnerships. Our subject for 2015-2016, investment chain mapping, is a cutting edge, highly technical skill taught nowhere else and with strong career potential. Through direct contact with the Client, Inclusive Development International, and its international and local partners, and through possible site visits, the Clinic will provide a unique opportunity for students to acquire the skills to put into practice an innovative and timely advocacy approach to holding transnational corporations and development finance institutions accountable for human rights harms. This expertise will position them strongly to become leaders in the field. In future years, the Clinic will continue to engage in projects at the cutting edge of the evolving business and human rights field, as it aims to establish successful long-term relationships with clients.
Instructor permission required for registration. Please join the waitlist is SSOL and follow instructions on the waitlist to be considered.
The colloquium, brings together all students at the same level within the Ph.D. program and enriches the work of defining the dissertation topic and subsequent research and writing.
The projection and realization of urban development in the Netherlands from 1900 to 1945. Comparative critical analysis of the extant scholarly studies dealing with the period in question. The interrelation between ideological, socio-economic, and technological factors on the one hand, and architecture and urban development on the other.
The evolution of architectural discourse particularly as it has emerged during the late 19th or 20th century through the publication of critical/polemical magazines or other documents. Emphasis on primary texts. Addresses the intrinsic substance of the discourse, the interweaving and interrelationship of themes, sources, the nature of the debate, the respective values involved, and establishes the significance of the material under consideration in relation to the changing context in which it emerged.
This course will study the materials, techniques, settings, and meanings of skilled craft and artistic practices in the early modern period (1350-1750), in order to reflect upon a series of issues, including craft knowledge and artisanal epistemology; the intersections between craft and science; and questions of historical methodology and evidence in the reconstruction of historical experience. The course will be run as a “Laboratory Seminar,” with discussions of primary and secondary materials, as well as text-based research and hands-on work in a laboratory. This course is one component of the Making and Knowing Project of the Center for Science and Society. This course contributes to the collective production of a transcription, English translation, and critical edition of a late sixteenth-century manuscript in French, Ms. Fr. 640. In 2014-15, the course concentrated on mold-making and metalworking; in 2015-16, on colormaking. In 2016-17, it will focus on natural history, researching the context of the manuscript, and reprising some color-making and moldmaking techniques. Students are encouraged to take this course both semesters (or more), but will receive full credit only once. Different laboratory work and readings will be carried out each semester.
Environmental conflict resolution has emerged with an integrated role of research and practice within the growing field of conflict analysis and resolution. As the world faces increasing environmental problems and conflicts with growing environmental dimensions, there has also been an increasing creativity of response through different channels. The implications for the successful resolution of environmental conflict are the necessary and integrated contributions of all aspects of international affairs, including international security policy, economic policy, human rights and development.
This course is designed to introduce all first-year graduate students in History to major books and problems of the discipline. It aims to familiarize them with historical writings on periods and places outside their own prospective specialties. This course is open to Ph.D. students in the department of History ONLY.
This course is designed to introduce all first-year graduate students in History to major books and problems of the discipline. It aims to familiarize them with historical writings on periods and places outside their own prospective specialties. This course is open to Ph.D. students in the department of History ONLY.
U.S. agricultural practice has been presented as a paradigm for the rest of the world to emulate, yet is a result of over a century of unique development. Contemporary agriculture has its historical roots in the widely varied farming practices, social and political organizations, and attitudes toward the land of generations of farmers and visionaries. We will explore major forces shaping the practice of U.S. agriculture, particularly geographical and social perspectives and the development and adoption of agricultural science and technology. We will consider how technological changes and political developments (government policies, rationing, subsidies) shape visions of and transmission of agriculture and the agrarian ideal.
This colloquium will examine the historical literature on the public sphere, particularly in Europe, Latin America and the United States. We will examine uses of the category in studies that deal with intellectual debates, cultural processes, elite and popular politics, and the shifting boundaries of public and private life. Thus, discussions will stress criticisms of Jurgen Habermas' model from the perspective of gender, non-European societies, popular cultures, and class analysis.
Field(s): LA
It has become vital (because of mass poverty, climate change, biodiversity rapid erosion, water and food crisis,...), to shift to a more sustainable form of development. This will require effectively mobilizing all resources of human societies: scientific and technical resources, as well as behavioral and institutional moving forces. None may be neglected, and the way they are articulated will be decisive.
This year-long workshop will meet every two weeks for two hours to discuss the structure of a dissertation prospectus, strategies of grant-writing, and, most importantly, successive drafts of individual dissertation prospectuses. Consistent attendance and participation are mandatory.