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Professor: Dean Lisa Anderson
Time: Monday 2:10-4:00
Place: 417 IAB Altschul Auditorium
Cordier Fellows and
writing tutors
Writing Workshop:
Tuesday, 10/2, 10-11am, room 413
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November 19 2001 --Human Rights Professor: Manning Marable
October 23 2000 --Theory and Practice in International
Political Economy Professor: Jagdish Bhagwati
October
30 2000 -- State Formation and Citizenship Lecturer:
Dean Lisa Anderson
November
13 2000 -- Human Rights Panelists: Professor
Jack Snyder and Reed Brody, Advocacy Director of Human Rights
Watch
December
4 2000 -- International Politics: Conceptual Foundations
and Changing Realities Craig Calhoun and Gayatri Spivak
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York
Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman discusses
his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, in which he argues
that globalization has become the central organizing principle
of the post-cold war era. See
the video from Rice University
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Course Introduction
Drawing on academic literature, lectures,
panel discussions and films, Conceptual Foundations of International Politics
examines many of the central concepts, theories, and analytical tools
used in contemporary social science to understand and explain international
politics. The theoretical literature is drawn from different fields in
the social science, including comparative politics, international relations,
political sociology, and economics. The course is designed to enhance
students' abilities to think critically and analytically about current
problems and challenges in international politics.
The course is composed of several introductory
sessions followed by two-week modules on International Political Economy;
States, Regimes and Rights; War and Peace; Culture and Identities. The
weekly requirements, including the reading assignments, the plenary session
and seminar-style sections form an integral whole. All students are required
to attend the Monday plenary sessions and to do the assigned readings
before their (6804) section each week because the readings and lectures,
films and panels form the basis of the sections. For each module there
will be an assignment that will constitute one quarter of the final grade;
the remaining quarter will be based on participation in section.
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