INT'L POLITICAL ECONOMY-DISC

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4865.

• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Marnie A Ginis
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M.A. PROSEMINAR

CLASSIC QUESTIONS&NEW CHALLENG

This course introduces students to the different subfields of the discipline by presenting various perspectives on one key topic in political science. Throughout the course, both theoretical and empirical debates surrounding the study of democracy are explored. Although the specific topic may change from year to year, the goal and structure of the course will remain the same: to contribute to the students understanding of an important topic in political science and discuss it through the lens of the different subfields: American politics, comparative politics, international relations, and political theory. By doing so, students will also learn the technical language, important concepts, and different methodological approaches of each subfield. Please note that this course is only for students in the Political Science Departments M.A. Program.

• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Chiara Superti
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ISSUES IN POLITICAL THEORY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. A survey of selected issues and debates in political theory. Areas of the field discussed include normative political philosophy, history of political thought, and the design of political and social institutions.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Turkuler Isiksel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 9 Info
• 4 points

THEORIES & DEBATES-AMER POL II

This is the second of two semester-long courses that provide graduate students with an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. G6210 and G6211 constitute the American politics field survey. The field survey is designed for political science doctoral students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the American style of political science. In this course we will cover a range of topics related to American politics that, for the most part, are not covered in G6210. Our focus will be on public opinion and political behavior. The reading assignments are a mix of foundational contributions (i.e. the canons of American politics literature) and recent research. The first part of each seminar session will aim to clarify and probe enduring puzzles, theories, and debates highlighted in the foundational texts. The latter portion of the seminar session will focus on how recent studies contribute to ongoing debates and define the research agenda going forward.

• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Yamil R Velez
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SURVEY I

This is the first course in the two-semester sequence surveying covering foundational research in comparative politics across the developed and developing world. The course is designed for Ph.D. students preparing for comprehensive exams and who intend to conduct research relating to comparative politics, and has two core objectives. The first objective is to expose students to a range of arguments organized around questions motivating major research agendas in comparative politics. The second objective is to expose students to processes of theorizing, hypothesis formation, and testing and to strengthen students’ analytical skills in evaluating and critiquing political science research. It should go without saying that these two classes cannot exhaustively cover the many important works, topics, and methodologies in the field.

The Fall semester of this sequence will primarily focus on citizen-level and politician-level behaviors, while the Spring semester will focus on more macro-level institutions and applications of the building blocks covered in this course. However, it is not necessary to take the classes in a particular order.

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Marshall
  h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

THEORIES OF INT'L RELATIONS

THEORIES INTERNATNAL RELATIONS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Issues and problems in theory of international politics; systems theories and the current international system; the domestic sources of foreign policy and theories of decision making; transnational forces, the balance of power, and alliances.

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack L Snyder
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

Neoliberalism

This course will examine the work of the twentieth-century thinkers often lumped together as “neoliberals,” as well as some of the scholarly literature around neoliberalism that has proliferated in recent decades. We do not begin from the assumption that neoliberalism has a single clear and coherent meaning. Instead, we will ask some of the following questions: Is there such a thing as neoliberalism at all? If so, how does its meaning differ from other terms of analysis such as “liberalism” or “capitalism”? Is neoliberalism best understood as an intellectual movement, or as a social formation whose key characteristics may not be captured in the works of its theorists? When did neoliberalism begin, and how might identify its end?

• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Luban
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• 4 points

Political Communication

POLS GR8228 is designed as a graduate-level introduction to the study of political communication. As an introduction to the field, it is structured to cover a wide range of topics and methodological approaches. No single course can provide comprehensive coverage of a fascinating subfield with as long and diverse a history as political communication. As such, this seminar will focus on relatively recent work. Students will leave this course with a strong grasp of major theories, trends, methods, findings and debates in this area of study, as well as the gaps in our knowledge and promising directions for future research.

• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eunji Kim
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• 4 points

Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew J McCall
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• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. This is a survey course in international political economy. This course examines how domestic and international politics influence the economic relations between states. It will address the major theoretical debates in the field and introduce the chief methodological approaches used in contemporary analyses. We will focus attention on different types of cross-border flows and the policies and international institutions that regulate them: the flow of goods (trade policy), the flow of people (immigration policy), the flow and location of production (foreign investment policy), the flow of capital (financial and exchange rate policy), and the flow of pollution (environment policy). The goal of this course is to cover, in some depth, many of the main topics and readings in international political economy. The readings each week are designed to tackle some of the essential points of a substantive topic, as well as raise deeper methodological questions that have application to other issues and themes in the sub-field. Not coincidentally, a related goal is to partially prepare students for the IR Field Exam. To help with that, a number of recommended readings accompany each weeks topic.

• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nikhar Gaikwad
  h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

CIVIL & ETHNIC WARS

This course explores the causes, dynamics and outcomes of civil wars and insurgencies. It addresses when and why violence is employed in place of peaceful solutions to conflict and what accounts for individual and mass recruitment into armed organizations. It aims to understand variation in warring groups’ cohesion, repertoires of violence, and relations with civilians, state counterinsurgency methods, and the political economy of conflict. The course concludes by examining war duration and termination. Students will be pushed to grapple with research written in many traditions including philosophical, statistical, game theoretic, and qualitative materials.

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sarah Daly
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• 4 points

Domestic Politics & Intl Relations

Domestic Pol & Intl Relat

This course explores the literature on domestic politics and international relations. It is intended to be an illustrative, rather than exhaustive, overview of this area of international
relations scholarship. It will concentrate on recent developments in the literature, including new understandings of the domestic politics of both authoritarian and democratic regimes

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth N Saunders
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• 4 points

SPECIAL RESEARCH COURSE

• Instructor: David C Johnston
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Michael Doyle
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• 1-6 points

DISSERTATION SEMINAR

Provides students the opportunity to present draft dissertation proposals and draft dissertation chapters.

• F 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Shigeo Hirano
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points