Where available, syllabi may be accessed by clicking on the NUMBER of
the course. If the course number is not linked, please contact the
instructor directly for a copy of the syllabus or check for the
syllabus on Courseworks.
By the Numbers
The Department of Political Science offers courses in the fields of
American Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Theory, and
International Relations. We also offer courses in Methodology.
- "X"-denominated courses (ie: G6601x) are courses being offered in
the fall semester. "Y"-denominated courses (ie: G6403y) are courses
being offered in the spring semester.
- Undergraduate courses in Political Science are numbered 3999 and below. These courses are not open to graduate students.
- Undergraduate seminars: You may not pre-register for these courses. You may enroll in
them only with permission of the instructor on the first day of class. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines.
- all sections of 3911 and 3912 are seminars in Political Theory
- all sections of 3921 and 3922 are seminars in American Politics
- all sections of 3951 and 3952 are seminars in Comparative Politics
- all sections of 3961 and 3962 are seminars in International Relations
- Graduate courses in Political Science are numbered 4000 and above.
However, 4000-level courses are mixed-level lectures, open to both undergraduates and graduate students.
- Except where indicated graduate courses are numbered as follows:
- x2xx courses are in the subfield of American Politics
- x4xx courses are in the subfield of Comparative Politics
- x6xx courses are in the subfield of Political Theory
- x8xx courses are in the subfield of International Relations
- Methodology courses do not follow this numbering system.
-
With one or two exceptions, courses at the 6000-level are graduate
"field surveys." These courses are intended for PhD students in
Political Science. Other students should obtain the permission of the
instructor before registering
- 8000- and 9000-level courses are graduate colloquia and seminars; enrollment in these courses requires instructor permission.
- If the course number begins with "8" (eg: 84145Y) rather than
with a letter (eg: V1601, C3930, W4210, G4415, U8715, L9823, etc.), the
course is cross-listed in another department. The second number will
indicate the course level. Thus 84145Y is a 4000-level course
cross-listed in the Philosophy Department, not a graduate colloquium
(8000-level).
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American Politics
Robert Erikson, Field Coordinator
W1201x
Introduction
to American Government and Politics
Instructor: Justin Phillips
Day(s): MW
Time: 10:35a-11:50a
Lecture
and discussion. Dynamics of political institutions and processes, chiefly of
the national government. Emphasis on the actual exercise of political power by
interest groups, elites, political parties, and public opinion. Discussion
Section Required.
W1201y
Introduction
to American Government and Politics
Instructor: Judith Russell
Day(s): MW
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
Lecture
and discussion. Dynamics of political institutions and processes, chiefly of
the national government. Emphasis on the actual exercise of political power by
interest groups, elites, political parties, and public opinion. Discussion
Section Required.
W3202y
Labor
and American Politics
Instructor: Dorian Warren
Day(s): TR
Time: 1:10p-2:25p
This
course examines the role and impact of organized labor in American politics. It
will explore the history and development of the American labor movement; its
significance as a central political actor in major social policy debates of the
20th century; as a mobilizing force in elections; its complex and often uneasy
relationship with other political actors including business, urban political
machines, and the civil rights movement; and contemporary dilemmas facing labor
in a period of union decline and resurgence.
W3208y
State Politics
Instructor: Justin Phillips
Day(s): TR
Time: 10:35a-11:50a
This
course is intended to provide students with a detailed understanding of politics
in the American states. The topics covered are divided into four broad
sections. The first explores the role of the states in America's
federal system of government. Attention is given to the basic features of
intergovernmental relations as well as the historic evolution of American
federalism. The second part of the course focuses on state-level political
institutions. The organization and processes associated with the legislative,
executive, and judicial branches are discussed in depth. The third part
examines state elections, political parties, and interest groups. Finally, the
fourth section looks closely at various policy areas. Budgeting, welfare,
education, gay marriage, and environmental policy are each considered.
W3215y
Workshop in Media and Politics
Instructor: Kathleen Knight
2-credit workshop. Permission of the instructor is required before
signing-up for this course. Interested students should contact Professor Knight
at [email protected]. Prerequisite:
POLS 3218 “Mass Media and American Democracy,” or equivalent. The Workshop in
Media and Politics is the academic component of a media internship, and is
available to both Barnard and Columbia
students. Through it the student receives two units of academic credit while
working in a media-related job. The internships themselves must be pre-arranged
independently or through the Office of Career Services. Any kind of
media-related internship (radio, television, magazines, the music industry,
public relations firms, government agencies, political campaigns, and so on) is
potentially acceptable, but only if the student can relate the internship to
larger issues of the role/impact of the mass media in contemporary politics.
It is advised that students download the application form, fill it out, and bring it with them to the
first meeting with the professor. An appointment for the first meeting should
be arranged with the professor via e-mail, or during office hours.
W3218y
Mass Media and American Democracy
Instructor: Kathleen Knight
Day(s): TR
Time: 1:10-2:25p
The course considers the development and current practices of the mass media in
the United States
in terms of the expectations of democratic government.
W3220x
Logic of Collective Choice
Instructor: Jeffrey Lax
Day(s): MW
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
W3245x
Race
and Ethnicity in American Politics
Instructor: Raymond Smith
Day(s): TR
Time: 2:40p-3:55p
Historical and contemporary roles of various racial and ethnic groups;
initiation, demands, leadership and organizational styles, orientation,
benefits, and impact on the structures and outputs of governance in the United States.
Major Cultures Requirement: African Civilization List C. Major Cultures
Requirement: Latin American Civilization List C.
W3260y
Latino Political Experience
Instructor: Carlos Vargas-Ramos
Day(s): MW
Time: 5:40p-6:55p
Focuses on political incorporation of Latinos in the American polity. Topics
include patterns of historical exclusion; the impact of the Voting Rights Act;
organizational and electoral behavior; and the effects of immigration on the
Latino national political agenda.
W3285x
Freedom of Speech and Press
Instructor: Lee Bollinger
Day(s): MW
Time: 4:10p-5:25p
Examines the constitutional right of freedom of speech and press in the United States.
Examines, in depth, various areas of law, including extremist or seditious
speech, obscenity, libel, fighting course model, with readings focused on
actual judicial decisions.
W3290x
Voting and American Politics
Instructor: Robert Erikson
Day(s): TR
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
W3921x Sec. 001
Seminar in American Politics: Bill of Rights
Instructor: Martha Zebrowski
Day(s): T
Time: 6:10p-8:00p
Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. This
seminar is an investigation of the nature and importance of the federal Bill of
Rights in the American federal and state constitutional systems. Common
readings, class discussions, and student seminar papers consider the social,
political, and legal significance of the Bill of Rights in historical and
contemporary American discourse and analysis, along with constitutional case
law regarding specific rights. The first part of the course is devoted to a
discussion of common, required readings that consider the Bill of Rights in
historical and contemporary perspective. The second part of the course is
devoted to students' presentations, in class, of their own research on
individual topics relating to a particular rights grounded in the American
federal and state bills of rights.
Note: Interested students should e-mail the instructor at
[email protected] to be added to the waiting list.
W3921x Sec. 002
Seminar in American Politics: Issues that Divide America
Instructor: Irwin Gertzog
Day(s): M
Time: 11:00a-12:50p
Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission.
Seminar focuses on four political issues so contentious that they have produced
enduring cultural, socio-economic, and political divisions throughout the United States.
The four issues are slavery and efforts to end it; the use of alcoholic
beverages and the struggle to curtail it; abortion and attempts to prohibit it;
and lesbian and gay rights and the battle to impede them.
W3921x Sec. 003
Seminar in American Politics: Policy Making
Instructor: Judith Russell
Day(s): M
Time: 11:00a-12:50p
Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. This
seminar directs readings and research on public policymaking in the American
federal government. It is designed to help students think analytically about
the ways in which the structures, processes and actors at the heart of public
policymaking interact. It examines how political institutions--the executive
and legislative branches--are organized and motivated to produce policy, the
politics of government organization, bureaucratic operation and survival, how
the budget process drives policymaking processes, policy structures and
relationships that have emerged out of custom and practice, theories and models
of decision making, concepts of rationality and choice, agenda-setting,
political innovation, interest groups' role in policy formationa as well as
that of the judiciary. Specific policy areas we will engage as case studies
are: economic and employment policy, energy and environmental policy, and
policy responses to terrorism and disaster. Some policy investigations we will
engage are evolving as we study them during the semester.
W3921x Sec. 004
Seminar in American Politics: Equality and the Law
Instructor: Robert Amdur
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
W3921x Sec. 005
Seminar in American Politics: Bureaucratic Politics
Instructor: Michael Ting
Day(s): W
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. This
course is a comprehensive, high-level introduction to American bureaucracies
and their study. It is appropriate for any student with an interest in American
political institutions and a background in political science or economics.
Topics include the working environment of bureaucrats, the external
institutional environment, and the roles played by various agenices in the
American political system.
W3921x Sec. 006
Seminar in American Politics: African-American Politics
Instructor: Fredrick Harris
Day(s): W
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. The
course considers the struggle of African Americans for inclusion in the American
political system. Primary topics will include the historical development of
black activism, the role of black leadership, the transformation from protest
to mainstream politics since the civil rights movement, and the consequences of
blacks' incorporation into the channels of mainstream political institutions.
W3921x Sec. 007
Seminar in American Politics: Media, Communication and Violence
Instructor: Brigitte Nacos
Day(s): W
Time: 11:00a-12:50p
Prerequisites: POLS W1201, or POLS W4220, or the equivalent, and instructor's
permission. The seminar will examine how the mass media portray various forms
of violence (crime, terrorism, counterterrorism, war, genocide, etc.) and how
perpetrators, victims, and other actors utilize and exploit mass communication
and media to further their objectives.
W3922y
Sec. 001
Seminar in American Politics: Executive Leadership in the US: Public,
Private & Non-Profit
Instructor: Martha Zebrowski
Day(s): T
Time: 6:10p-8:00p
Note: Interested students should email the instructor ASAP at
[email protected] to be put on the waiting list for the course.
Prerequisites:
POLS W1201 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. This seminar is an
examination of the nature and practice of executive leadership in public,
private (i.e., for profit, business), and non-profit institutions in the United States.
The course does not begin with a theory of executive leadership. Rather, the
goal of the course is to develop such a theory, a theory that takes into
account the similarities and differences among the very different institutional
sectors in American life, and a theory that distinguishes authentic leadership
from three related matters, the effective exercise of power, effective
management, and celebrity. The first half of the term is devoted to a
discussion of common, required readings that consider the nature and practice
of executive leadership in public, private, and non-profit institutions, and to
a discussion of problems associated with research and with organizing and
analyzing data on leadership. During the first half of the term, each student
prepares a research prospectus (approximately 12 pages) for a major research
paper (approximately 35 pages) on a particular public, private, or non-profit
executive leader or problem in executive leadership. The second half of the
term is devoted to students' oral presentations, in class, of their own
research and to class discussions of their research (each presentation
approximately 50 minutes). The seminar research paper is due at the beginning
of exam week; there is also a final quiz during exam week.
W3922y Sec. 002
Seminar in American Politics: Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Instructor: Brigitte Nacos
Day(s): F
Time: 11:00a-12:50p
Note: Interested students should email the instructor ASAP at [email protected]
to be put on the waiting list for the course.
Prerequisite
W1201 or equivalent; W3335, W4220 or equivalent; instructor's permission. The
seminar is designed to illuminate students' understanding of the most important
aspects of domestic and international terrorism with an emphasis on the United States
as target of and responder to this sort of political violence.
W3922y Sec. 003
Seminar in American Politics: First Amendment
Instructor: Robert Amdur
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
W3922y Sec. 004
Seminar in American Politics: Issues that Divide America
Instructor: Irwin Gertzog
Day(s): T
Time: 11:00a-12:50p
Prerequisites:
POLS W1201 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. Seminar focuses on
four political issues so contentious that they have produced enduring cultural,
socio-economic, and political divisions throughout the United States.
The four issues are slavery and efforts to end it; the use of alcoholic
beverages and the struggle to curtail it; abortion and attempts to prohibit it;
and lesbian and gay rights and the battle to impede them.
W3922y Sec. 005
Seminar in American Politics: Majority Rule and Minority Rights
Instructor: Raymond Smith
Day(s): T
Time: 2:10-4:00p
Prerequisites:
POLS W1201 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. This course will
examine one of the central challenges to both the theory and the practice of
democracy: the reconciliation of majority rule with minority rights in a way
that neither sacrifices popular sovereignty nor oppresses small or disfavored
groups. This course will draw upon both "classics" of political
science regarding the role of minority groups in American politics as well as
upon contemporary scholarship focused largely on ethnoracial and other minority
groups.
W3922y
Sec. 006
Seminar in American Politics: Direct Democracy
Instructor: Justin Phillips
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
W3922y
Sec. 007
Seminar in American Politics: The 2008 Election
Instructor: Robert Erikson
Day(s): T
Time: 11:00a-12:50p
W3922y Sec. 008
Seminar in American Politics: Political Psychology
Instructor: Kathleen Knight
Day(s): W
Time: 11:00a-12:50p
Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the equivalent, and instructor’s permission. The
seminar is designed to examine some major psychological concept useful in
politics. These include: rationality & emotion, socialization, ideology,
persuasion, tolerance, authoritarianism, racism and terrorism.
C3930x
Constitutional Law Workshop
Instructor: Jay Topkis
Day(s): T
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
Two-point
Workshop.Cannot be used to replace a 3pt. lecture course towards POLS major.
Preference given to seniors. Juniors will be permitted to register after the
first class session if space permits. Using Supreme Court cases, this workshop
studies the development of several areas of constitutional law, how our
judicial system works, and how judges and lawyers think, argue and write.
W4226x
American Politics and Social Welfare Policy
Instructor: Robert Lieberman
Day(s): MW
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
The
politics and development of the American welfare state. Study and analysis of
the origins and growth of domestic social programs that provide income support
(welfare and Social Security), employment opportunities, health care, and
protection against poverty.
G6210x
Theories and Debates in American Politics (Field Survey)
Instructors: Robert Erikson and Jeffrey Lax
Day(s): W
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
A survey of a broad range of important contemporary debates in the field of
American politics.
G8203x
Colloquium on State Politics
Instructor: Justin Phillips
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
G8210y
Colloquium on Political Behavior
Instructor: Robert Shapiro
Day(s): T
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
G8223x
Legislative
Behavior and Institutionalism
Instructor: Sharyn O'Halloran
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
Instructor
permission required. Examination of the interactions between individual
incentives and political institutions in shaping policy. The course presents an
approach to the study of politics that emphasizes individual incentives in an
electoral system, examines how reelection-minded legislators organize to solve
collection dilemmas, and focuses on the effects of these political institutions
on policy choice.
G8230x
Judicial Institutions
Instructor: Jeffrey Lax
Day(s): M
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
Instructor permission required. The focus is on the study of law and courts as
political institutions and judges as political actors. Primary topics will
include judicial behavior and decision-making, the internal politics of the
Supreme Court, politics within the judicial hierarchy, politics between the
judiciary and other branches, and the impact of courts.
G8245y
Controversies
in American Politics
Instructor: Robert Erikson
Day(s): W
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
G8247y
Mass Mediated American and Global Politics
Instructor: Brigitte Nacos
Day(s): T
Time: 11:00a-12:50p
Instructor permission required. Readings
and class discussions explore the domestic and global news media at the
beginning of the 21st century as they relate to and impact on mass-mediated
domestic and international politics. The focus is on post-World War II and
post-9/11 conditions and changes in terms of ownership, audience, technology,
organizational and individual values and imperatives, and, especially, on the
media's role during conflicts--in particular the ongoing "war on
terrorism."
G8248y
Bureaucracy and Organizations
Instructor: Michael Ting
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
G9208y
Legislatures in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Instructor: Gregory Wawro
Day(s): W
Time: 10:00a-11:50a
G9290y
Qualitative Methods in Political Science
Instructor: Dorian Warren
Day(s): W
Time: 6:10p-8:00p
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Comparative Politics
Andrew Nathan, Field Coordinator
V1501x
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Instructor: Mona El-Ghobashy
Day(s): TR
Time: 10:35a-11:50a
Lecture and discussion. Introduction to some of the major approaches and issues
in the contemporary study of politics within nations, including the causes of
revolution, the roots of democracy, and the nature of nationalism, through
systematic study of politics in selected countries.
V1501y
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Instructor: John Huber
Day(s): MW
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
Lecture and discussion. Introduction to some of the major approaches and issues
in the contemporary study of politics within nations, including the causes of
revolution, the roots of democracy, and the nature of nationalism, through
systematic study of politics in selected countries.
HRTS V3001y
Introduction to Human Rights
Instructors: Andrew Nathan & Tonya Putnam
Day(s): MW
Time: 2:40p-3:55p
Note: This course may count as a Comparative Politics or
International Politics course.
V3401y
Democracy & Dictatorship in Europe
Instructor: Sheri Berman
Day(s): TR
Time: 2:40p-3:55p
This
course will examine the development of democracies and dictatorships in Europe from the French Revolution to the present
day. It will analyze the nature and dynamics of European political
history and use the European experience as a foundation upon which to build a
broader understanding of how different types of political regimes emerge,
function and are sustained over time.
Prior
knowledge of European history and comparative politics is welcome, but not
presumed.
W3951x Sec. 001
Seminar in Comparative Politics: Democratic & Authoritarian Regimes, and
the Cases of India & Pakistan
Instructor: Philip Oldenburg
Day(s): T
Time: 9:00a-10:50a
Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. This
course will survey briefly the literature on why certain countries are
democratic and others are not, and then consider (also briefly) the important
cases of India and Pakistan.
Students will choose two countries - hopefully, at least one of which they've
studied in some detail - and write a substantial research paper comparing their
"regime-choice" history, seeking explanations for differing (or
similar) paths. The last four or so class meetings will be devoted to
presentations by students of their research work, including tentative
conclusions.
W3952y Sec. 001
Seminar in Comparative Politics: Public Service & Political Careers: the
Professional Lives of Politicians
Instructor: Lisa Anderson
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
This seminar examines the careers of politicians, particularly Presidents and
Prime Ministers, around the world...Why and how do these individuals pursue
public service? What do they do to maintain their positions? What do they do
when they retire or lose elections? The focus of the class is particularly, but
not exclusively, politicians of newly emerging democracies and particularly,
but not exclusively, politicians facing retirement. What kinds of careers are
available to politicians in democracies after they leave office? Should
democracy promotion efforts consider the "after-life" of defeated or
retired politicians in assessing (and designing) the incentives for how they
behave in office. The course treats theories of political leadership, democracy
and democratic transitions, and draws on empirical data on
"retirement" careers around the world.
W3952y Sec. 002
Seminar in Comparative Politics: Agrarian Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Instructor: Kimuli Kasara
Day(s): T
Time: 9:00a-10:50a
W4431y
Religion & Secularism in Multicultural Societies
Instructor: Dmitri Glinski
Day(s): MW
Time: 7:40p-8:55p
W4445y
Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
Instructor: Azzedine Layachi
Day(s): T
Time: 4:10-6:00p
Why is this region so prone to conflict and violence? Taking a step back from
the headlines, this course examines the political economy and history of the
Arab states, Israel, Turkey, and Iran. The first third of the course
surveys defining historical moments from the 18th century to 1948: the Ottoman
Empire, European colonial penetration, the rise of nationalisms, and the
formation of the Arab states and Israel. Part II examines the
political economy of the region from 1948-1979: the geopolitics of oil, the
Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Cold War on the structuring of state-society
relations. The last third focuses on the rise of citizen demands, exemplified
by the Iranian Revolution of 1979. What kinds of citizen actions have been
resurfacing in response to incompetent and/or repressive states? Cases include
Islamist movements, human rights movements, the peace movement in Israel, the student movement in Iran, and the
rise of new media in the Arab world.
W4471x
Chinese Politics
Instructor: Scott Harold
Day(s): F
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
Selected aspects of contemporary Chinese politics, including the causes and
character of the Chinese revolution, the transformation worked in Chinese
society by the revolutionary government, political conflict, and the goals of
government policies and the policies of carrying them out.
G4472x
Japanese Politics
Instructor: Gerald Curtis
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
Analysis of contemporary Japanese politics and government policymaking. Topics
include patterns of political leadership and popular political participation,
political party organization and behavior, public policy decision-making
processes, and the domestic politics of foreign and defense policies.
W4491x
Post-Soviet States and Markets
Instructor: Peter Rutland
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
An introduction
to the political and economic challenges facing the post-Soviet states.
W4496x
Contemporary African Politics
Instructor; Kimuli Kasara
Day(s): TR
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
G6403x
Issues in Comparative Politics
Instructor: M. Victoria Murillo and Kimuli Kasara
Day(s): T
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
Instructor permission required. This seminar surveys major questions that
motivate contemporary research in comparative politics. The course is
specifically designed to introduce PhD students to the modern subfield, and to
help prepare them for success on the comparative comprehensive exam. The course
should also help students to develop skills that are necessary to become
successful teachers and scholars in the comparative subfield.
G8427y
Comparative Ethnic Politics
Instructors: David Epstein & Macartan Humphreys
Day(s): M
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
G8428y
Democracy, Autocracy and Regime Change
Instructor: Kimuli Kasara
Day(s): M
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
G8432y
Issues in Comparative Secularism & Democracy
Instructor: Alfred Stepan
Day(s): W
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
Empirical predictions and normative prescriptions about secularism once
dominated many of the foundational works in social science, particularly in
modernization theory. However, recently scholars as diverse as Jürgen Habermas
and Charles Taylor in political theory, Peter Katzenstein in international
relations,and Stathis Kalyvas , Ronald Inglehart, and José Casanova in their
comparative work have been engaged in a fundamental rethinking of religion,
secularism, and desecularization. Some of the issues we will explore in the
seminar are the following. In a lecture series organized by Jack Snyder and
myself in Lindsay Rodgers that immediately follows this seminar, five scholars
over the course of the semester, will argue that some of the fundamental
categories used in IR theory and in comparative politics make religion almost
impossible to study. Are they right? If so, what new approaches might be called
for?How can social science survey analysis help us explore issues of religion
and politics? Most religions have been at times restrictive of full women’s
rights. What can we learn from successful patterns of contestation in this
area? Can we identify, from the perspective of democratic theory, what the
minimal degree of freedom democracy needs from religion to function, and the
minimal degree of freedom that religion must be allowed if the polity is to be
a democracy.If so, what do these “twin tolerations” say about
secularism?Finally, just as we now understand that there are “multiple
modernities” does it make more analytic sense to speak of the “multiple
secularisms of modern democracies”?We will explore this last question by
exploring at least four different patterns of state-society relations that
actually exist in contemporary democracies;“freedom of the state from religion
separatism ” (France and Turkey), “freedom of religion from the state
separatism” (USA), “ a state with an established religion” ( most of the
Scandinavian countries, UK, and Greece), and the under-theorizedpattern that
Rajeev Bhargava (who will participate in the seminar) calls the“ respect –all,
support-all, principled distance” model for India. Are two of the more
successful new democracies in Islamic majority states, Indonesia and Senegal,
close to this model?For any given polity can we say anything about what
conditions are most, and least, supportive for each model if the goal is
democracy and relative peace in a specific polity? Do Holland,
Germany, and Switzerland
have more in common with the Indian model than they do with “separatist” or one
“established religion”: model?
G8434y
Latin American Politics in the Comparative Perspective
Instructor: Robert Kaufman
Day(s): F
Time: 11:00a-12:50p
G8446x
Political Science of the Middle East
Instructor: Lisa Anderson
Day(s): T
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
This course examines a selection of the work in political science on the Middle East produced in the last decade. It is designed
for students who expect to contribute to this literature professionally.
G8454x
Formal Comparative Politics and Constitutional Design
Instructor: Massimo Morelli
Day(s): W
Time: 9:00a-10:50a
This course covers recent models of democratic policy making, with particular
emphasis on the comparison of institutional systems used across liberal
democracies.
G8490y
States & Nationalism
Instructor: Pierre Birnbaum
Day(s): R
Time: 9:00a-10:50a
G8493x Sec. 001
Political Development
Instructor: Sheri Berman
Day(s): R
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
G8493x Sec. 002
Topics in Comparative Politics
Instructor: John Huber
Day(s): W
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
G9208y
Legislatures in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Instructor: Gregory Wawro
Day(s): W
Time: 10:00a-11:50a
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International Relations
Page Fortna, Field Coordinator
V1601x
Introduction to International Politics
Instructor: Kimberly Marten
Day(s): MW
Time: 2:40p-3:55p
Lecture and discussion. The basic setting and dynamics of global politics, with
emphasis on contemporary problems and processes.
V1601y Sec. 001
Introduction to International Politics
Instructor: Robert Jervis
Day(s): MW
Time: 10:35-11:50a
Lecture and discussion. The basic setting and dynamics of global politics, with
emphasis on contemporary problems and processes.
V1601y
Sec. 002
Introduction to International Politics
Instructor: Tonya Putnam
Day(s): MW
Time: 9:10-10:25a
Lecture and discussion. The basic setting and dynamics of global politics, with
emphasis on contemporary problems and processes.
HRTS
V3001y
Introduction to Human Rights
Instructor: Andrew Nathan & Tonya Putnam
Day(s): MW
Time: 2:40-3:55p
Note: This course may count as a Comparative Politics or
International Politics course. Assesses the meaning and impact of human rights
in principle and practice by tracing the evolution of its theory and content;
the ideology and impact of human rights movements; national and international
laws and institutions, with attention to universality and relevance of human
rights for U.S.
policy.
W3619y
Nationalism and Contemporary World Politics
Instructor: Jack Snyder
Day(s): MW
Time: 10:35a-11:50a
Nationalism as a cause of conflict in contemporary world politics. Strategies
for mitigating nationalist and ethnic conflict.
W3631x
American Foreign Policy
Instructor: Joseph Parent
Day(s): TR
Time: 2:40p-3:55p
Introduction to
American foreign policy since 1945 with an emphasis on post-cold war topics.
Will cover major schools of American thought, the policy making process, and
key policies and issues.
W3961x
Sec. 001
Seminar
in International Politics: Political Economy of Trade & Investment
Instructor: Pablo Pinto
Day(s): W
Time: 9:00a-10:50a
Prerequisites: POLS V1601 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. This
seminar examines the politics of several major issues in international trade
and direct investment. It analyzes the distributional impact of globalization,
and explores why and how governments regulate the flow of goods and capital
across national borders. The course is divided into four blocs that look at the
patterns and distributive consequences of trade, the political economy of trade
politics, the political economy of trade reform, and the political economy of
investment, respectively. Students are required to actively participate in
weekly discussions, to write two review papers during the course of the
semester, and submit a final research paper on one of the topics of the
seminar.
W3961x Sec. 002
Seminar in International Politics: State Failure
Instructor: Tanisha Fazal
Day(s): W
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
W3961x Sec. 003
Seminar in International Politics: Human Rights in World Politics
Instructor: Bruce Cronin
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
NOTE: Interested students should email instructor ASAP @
[email protected] to be put on waiting list.
Prerequisites: POLS V1601 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. This
seminar examines the development and implementation of human rights norms in
the international system. It explores the debates surrounding the concept of
human rights in world politics and investigates legal, political and military
efforts to implement these at the national, regional and international levels.
Throughout the course we consider the tension between international human
rights and the principle of state sovereignty and whether there is a right
and/or obligation for states and international institutions to intervene when
human rights are violated. Finally, we examine the degree to which human rights
concerns are incorporated into foreign policies and in particular how they fit
within traditional conceptions of "national interest." In this
context, we discuss the question of human rights in the current "war on
terrorism."
W3961X sec 004
International Politics Seminar: Foreign Policy and Decision-Making
Instructor: Farnham, Barbara
Day(s): R
Time: 410p-600p
Prerequisites: POLS V1601 or the equivalent, and instructor’s permission.
How can we account for the foreign policies of states in the international
system? Why do they behave the way they do? This seminar focuses on a critical
examination of the major explanations for foreign policy outcomes. Our main
emphasis is on decision-making. However, we will begin with explanations
operating at other levels of analysis, such as the international system and
domestic politics. We then explore decision-making explanations, including
those derived from cognitive and social psychology, theories of motivation and
personality, the impact of the political context, and the role of group
dynamics. Throughout, we will be looking at these different approaches in the
light of actual episodes taken largely, but not exclusively, from American
foreign policy.
W3962y
Sec. 001
Seminar
in International Politics: The Cold War
Instructor: Robert Jervis
Day(s): T
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
W3962y
Sec. 002
Seminar in International Politics: Ending Wars and Keeping Peace
Instructor: Virginia
Page Fortna
Day(s): M
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
Prerequisites:
POLS V1601 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. The study of war in
international relations has traditionally focused on its causes, but less
attention has been paid to ending wars once they begin, and to keeping peace in
their aftermath. This course will address: the process by which belligerents in
international and civil wars reach cease-fires and negotiate peace; why peace
sometimes lasts and sometimes falls apart; and the prospects for reconciliation
among adversaries and for rebuilding after war. We will examine both
international and civil conflicts. Students write a research paper and present
their research to the class.
W3962y
Sec. 003
Seminar
in International Politics: Globalization
Instructor: Pablo Pinto
Day(s): M
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
Prerequisites: POLS V1601 or the equivalent, and instructor's permission.
Globalization involves the increasing integration of economic, social and
political processes across international borders. Workers in Bangalore
man telephones in the middle of the night to provide technical support to
customers in the US and Europe. Farmers in Chiapas
and college students in Nice demonstrate against the World Bank. Multinational
corporations and backyard businesses clamor for greater access to markets.
Governments in Asia find that they are
beholden to panic by investors a world away.
To some degree, these processes (or ones like them) have always been with us.
However, international politics, which has traditionally been organized around
the physical control of geography by sovereign governments, increasingly poses
tensions or contradictions as the scope of the world that defies boundaries
increases. While globalization means many things to many different people, this
course will begin to map some of the most obvious examples where sovereignty
and the global society collide. Globalization defies easy definition in part
because these processes are dynamic and ongoing. We will explore the economics,
politics, and conflict processes associated with a globalizing world.
W3962y Sec. 004
Seminar in International Politics: Foreign Policy and Decision Making
Instructor: Barbara Farnham
Day(s): R
Time: 4:10-6:00p
Prerequisites:
POLS V1601 or the equivalent, and instructor’s permission. How can we account
for the foreign policies of states in the international system? Why do they
behave the way they do? This seminar focuses on a critical examination of the
major explanations for foreign policy outcomes. Our main emphasis is on
decision-making. However, we will begin with explanations operating at other
levels of analysis, such as the international system and domestic politics. We
then explore decision-making explanations, including those derived from
cognitive and social psychology, theories of motivation and personality, the
impact of the political context, and the role of group dynamics. Throughout, we
will be looking at these different approaches in the light of actual episodes
taken largely, but not exclusively, from American foreign policy.
W3962y Sec. 005
Seminar in International Politics: International Law
Instructor: Bruce Cronin
Day(s): TBA
Time: TBA
Note: Interested students should email [email protected] ASAP to be put
on the waiting list.
Prerequisite: POLS V1601 or the equivalent, and instructor permission.
W4808y
Weapons, Strategy and War
Instructor: Warner Schilling
Day(s): MW
Time: 4:10p-5:25p
An examination of how the interrelationships among military technology,
strategy, foreign policy, and the cultural ethos have shaped warfare from the
introduction of gunpowder to the present; special attention to selected cases
from World Wars I and II and the development of U.S. strategy for nuclear
weapons.
W4871y
Chinese Foreign Policy
Instructor: Andrew Nathan
Day(s): MW
Time: 10:35a-11:50a
The
international politics of China-its foreign relations; its intentions,
capabilities, and strategies in world affairs; and the major instruments of its
foreign policy-with primary emphasis on the People's Republic.
W4895x
War, Peace and Strategy
Instructor: Richard Betts
Day(s): MW
Time: 11:00a-12:15p
Survey of the causes of war and peace, functions of military strategy,
interaction of political ends and military means. Emphasis on 20th-century
conflicts; nuclear deterrence; economic, technological, and moral aspects of
strategy; crisis management; and institutional norms and mechanisms for
promoting stability.
G6801X
Theories of International Relations (Field Survey)
Instructor: Robert Jervis
Day(s): M
Time: 210p-400p
Issues and problems in theory in 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.
G6802x
Methods of Inquiry and Research Design
Instructors: Tanisha Fazal and Virginia
Page Fortna
Day(s): M
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
G6820y
Theory of International Political Economy
Instructor: Pablo Pinto
Day(s): W
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
Political aspects of international economic phenomena, including
international monetary system, trade and investment, North-South relations, and
East-West economic relations.
G8821y
Topics in International Relations and Rational Choice: Conflict, Bargaining and
International Organizations
Instructor: Massimo Morelli
Day(s): W
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
The first part of the course will be on the rationalist explanations of
bargaining breakdown and bilateral conflict, including the analysis of leaders’
selection, strategic militarization, and other variables at the boundary
between domestic and international choices. The second part of the course will
focus on alliance formation and multilateral conflict. Then we will bring the
insights from bilateral and multilateral conflict together and will study the
open problems in conflict resolution mechanism design. The final part will be
on cooperation, as opposed to conflict. We will present models and useful
frameworks to study the functioning of international organizations and their
development in an anarchic system.
G8826x
Political Economy of Trade and Investment
Instructor: Pablo Pinto
Day(s): T
Time: 9:00a-10:50a
Instructor permission required. This course examines the politics of several
major issues in international trade and investment. It explores why and how
governments regulate the flow of goods and capital across national borders. The
course is divided into four blocs that look at the distributive consequences of
trade, the political economy of trade politics, the political economy of trade
reform, and the political economy of foreign direct investment and
multinational corporations, respectively. The course presumes some familiarity
with international economics. Economic theory will help us identify the welfare
and distributional implications of alternative policies. We will also make
extensive use of the insights from the positive political economy tradition to
analyze how political actors (voters, interest groups, political parties, and
politicians) interact within political institutions to shape policy outcomes.
Students are required to actively participate in weekly discussions, write two
review papers during the semester, and submit an original research paper on one
of the topics of the seminar at the end of the semester.
G8843x
International Law and International Relations
Instructor: Tonya Putnam
Day(s): M
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
G8861y
Change in the International System
Instructor: Jack Snyder
Day(s): T
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
G8865y
United States Foreign Policy
Instructor: Richard Betts
Day(s): M
Time: 9:00a-10:50a
G8870x
US Relations with East Asia
Instructor: Gerald Curtis
Day(s): W
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
Instructor permission required. Examination of key developments in East
Asian international relations and their implications for United States foreign policy.
Students should have knowledge about at least one East Asian country (China, Japan,
Korea
and the countries in ASEAN). Admission to the course is with the permission of
the instructor.
G8876y
US-Japan Relations, WWII-Present
Instructor: George Packard
Day(s): W
Time: 6:10p-8:00p
Instructor permission required. This course starts with a broad look at the
history of US-Japan relations from the arrival of Commodore Perry in Tokyo Bay
150 years ago, and seeks answers to why the relationship has been marked by
conflict and a major war. It then looks at how the relationship evolved as a
result of the Pacific War, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's
surrender, the US Occupation and the San Francisco Peace Treaty. What was the
legacy of the Occupation? How did the alliance develop between these former
rivals? What was the environment of Northeast Asia
that drove the alliance? What were the costs and benefits of alliance to each
nation? The course then analyzes the trade disputes and economic frictions of
the 1970's and 1980's, looks into the rise of revisionism and American fears of
Japan
as a threat to its security. Finally the course covers events from the 1990's
to the present, including the bursting of Japan's
"bubble economy," the Clinton, Bush and Koizumi policies,
"Japan-passing" in Washington, and
the crisis on the Korean
Peninsula. Students are
encouraged to take and defend controversial views on major events.
G9801x
Seminar in International Politics
Instructor: Robert Jervis
Day(s): T
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
G9802Y
Seminar on International Politics II
Instructor: Kenneth Waltz
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
Application Required. Please click HERE for the application (pdf). Complete it and return it to
Professor Waltz's mailbox in the Saltzman Institute, 13th Floor IAB, by Friday,
January 18th. Those accepted will be listed on his office door, room 1338 IAB,
on January 22nd. Others who do the reading (assignment listed on the syllabus,
linked above) and attend the first class meeting on January 24th may be
admitted if dropouts open enough places.
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Political Theory
David Johnston, Field Coordinator
W1002x
Introduction to Political Thought
Instructor: Martha Zebrowski
Day(s): MW
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
Lecture and Discussion.
Note: This course is not open to Columbia College
Students.
W1002y
Introduction to Political Thought
Instructor: Martha Zebrowski
Day(s): MW
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
Lecture and Discussion.
Note: This course is not open to Columbia College
Students.
W3140x
Animal
Rights: Theory and Practice
Instructor: Julian Franklin
Day(s): TR
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
The course will be divided into two parts.The first part of the course will
deal with the moral theory of animal rights with special emphasis on Kant.The
second part will take up animal issues in environmentalism, bio-medical
research and practice, and jurisprudence.
W3160x
Politics & Religion: the Crisis of Sovereignty
Instructor: TL Popejoy
Day(s): MW
Time: 5:40p-6:55p
Much
of contemporary politics concerns the struggle of the secular state with
religious claims to civil authority. This course will explore the intertwining
of these two spheres in Western thought, and the identity crisis of sovereignty
in the mirror of its 'theological' double. Readings
include Plato, Spinoza, Heidegger, Averroes, Kantorowicz, Schmitt, Strauss, Roy.
W3911x
Sec. 001
Seminar in Political Theory: Tocqueville
Instructor: Jon Elster
Day(s): T
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
W3912y
Sec. 001
Seminar in Political Theory: Human Rights & Global Justice
Instructor: Maria Kowalski
Day(s): W
Time: 2:10-4:00p
W4134y
Modern Political Thought
Instructor: Anna Stilz
Day(s): MW
Time: 11:00a-12:15p
Interpretations of civil society and the foundations of political order
according to the two main traditions of political thought--contraction and
Aristotelian. Readings
include works by Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Rousseau, Kant,
Hegel, Saint-Simon, Tocqueville, Marx, and Mill.
W4622x
Emotions and Political Science
Instructor: Ross Poole
Day(s): T
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
According to Montesquieu, fear is the principle of behavior appropriate to
despotism, honor to the monarchy, and virtue to the republic. Nietzsche claimed
that ressentiment
is the motivational source of democracy and socialism. These claims provide the
starting point for an examination of the role of the emotions, forms of
character, and specific virtues and vices in political life.
G6601y
Issues in Political Theory (Field Survey)
Instructor: David Johnston
Day(s): M
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
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.
G8622x
Nationalism and Political Theory
Instructor: Anna Stilz
Day(s): W
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
This class provides a survey of the literature on nationalism in political
theory. We will examine the birth of nationalist theory in the nineteenth
century; assess recent defenses of "liberal nationalism," special
obligations to the nation, and "the right to culture;" and examine
contemporary literature on the nation-state and global justice. The course will
also integrate some recent empirical work on nationalism, as well as case
studies of nationalism and conflict.
G8651y
Normative Theories of Justice
Instructor: David Johnston
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
An examination of classic and contemporary theories of justice
with attention to both distributive and retributive justice
as well as other topics. Although the focus of this
course will be on modern issues, theorists to be discussed include Plato and
Aristotle as well as Kant, Rawls, and other recent and contemporary writers.
G8654y
Transitional Justice
Instructor: Ruti Teitel
Day(s): W
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
G8658x
Constitution-making
Instructors: Jon Elster and Melissa Schwartzberg
Day(s): M
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
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Research and Methods
Gregory Wawro, Methods Committee Chairperson
C3998x-C3999y
Senior Honors Seminar
Instructor: Lucy Goodhart
Day(s): T
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
Instructor permission required.
W4209y
Game Theory and Political Theory
Instructor: Macartan Humphreys
Day(s): TR
Time: 4:10p-5:25p
Application of
non-cooperative game theory to strategic situations in politics. Solution,
asymmetric information, incomplete concepts information, signaling, repeated
games, and folk theorems. Models drawn from elections, legislative strategy,
interest group politics, regulation, nuclear deterrence, international
relations, and tariff policy
G4210x
Research Topics in Game Theory
Instructor: David Epstein
Day(s): MW
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
Advanced topics
in game theory will cover the study of repeated games, games of incomplete
information and principal-agent models with applications in the fields of
voting, bargaining, lobbying and violent conflict. Results from the study of
social choice theory, mechanism design and auction theory will also be treated.
The course will concentrate on mathematical techniques for constructing and
solving games. Students will be required to develop a topic relating political
science and game theory and to write a formal research paper. Prerequisite:
W4209 or instructor's permission.
W4291x
Advanced Topics in Quantitative Research
Instructor: Gregory Wawro
Day(s): TR
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
Instruction in
methods for models that have dependent variables that are not continuous,
including dichotomous and polychotomous response models, models for censored
and truncated data, sample selection models and duration models.
W4292y
Advanced Topics in Quantitative Research: Models for Panel and Time-Series
Cross-Section Data
Instructor: Gregory Wawro
Day(s): TR
Time: 9:10-10:25a
This course
covers methods for models for repeated observations data. These kind of data
present tremendous opportunities as well as formidable challenges for making
inferences. The course will mostly focus on how to estimate models for panel
and time-series cross-section data. Topics covered include fixed effects,
random effects, dynamic panel models, random coefficient models, and models for
qualitative dependent variables. The course will discuss the theory behind the
methods as well as applications to substantive research questions.
W4360x
Mathematical Methods for Political Science
Instructor: John Huber
Day(s): MW
Time: 9:10a-10:25a
Provides
students of political science with a basic set of tools needed to read,
evaluate, and contribute in research areas that increasingly utilize
sophisticated mathematical techniques.
W4910x
Principles of Quantitative Political Research
Instructor: Robert Shapiro
Day(s): TR
Time: 11:00a-12:15p
Introduction to
the use of quantitative techniques in political science and public policy.
Topics include descriptive statistics and principles of statistical inference
and probability through analysis of variance and ordinary least-squares
regression. Computer applications are emphasized.
W4911y
Analysis of
Political Data
Instructor:
Robert Shapiro
Day(s): TR
Time:
10:35a-11:50a
Prerequisite:
W4910 or the equivalent. Multivariate and time-series analysis of political
data. Topics include time-series regression, structural equation models, factor
analysis, and other special topics. Computer applications are emphasized.
W4912y
Multivariate
Political Analysis
Instructor:
Gregory Wawro
Day(s): TR
Time:
12:50p-2:05p
Prerequisite:
basic data analysis through multiple regression (e.g., W4910) and knowledge of
basic calculus and matrix algebra (e.g., W4360). More mathematical treatment of
topics covered in W4911. Examines problems encountered in multivariate analysis
of cross-sectional and time-series data.
88990x-88991y
Research in Quantitative Political Science (Cross-listed in Statistics
Dept.)
Instructor: Andrew Gelman
Day(s): R
Time: 1100a-1250p
Instructor permission required.
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Dissertation Seminars
G9901x-9902y
Dissertation Seminar
Instructors: Macartan Humphreys and Anna Stilz
Day(s): F
Time:12:00p-1:50p
This seminar is for students in all fields working on any and all topics in
political science. Students will have the opportunity to present draft
dissertation proposals and draft dissertation chapters. Enrollment is limited
to advanced students in the Political Science Ph.D. program except by
permission of the instructor.
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Field Surveys
G6210X
Theories & Debates in American Politics (Field Survey)
Instructos: Robert Erikson and Jeffrey Lax
Day(s): W
Time: 210p-400p
A survey of a broad range of important contemporary debates in the field of
American politics.
G6403x
Issues in Comparative Politics (Field Survey)
Instructor: M. Victoria Murillo and Kimuli Kasara
Day(s): T
Time: 4:10p-6:00pp
Instructor permission required. This seminar surveys major questions that
motivate contemporary research in comparative politics. The course is
specifically designed to introduce PhD students to the modern subfield, and to
help prepare them for success on the comparative comprehensive exam. The course
should also help students to develop skills that are necessary to become
successful teachers and scholars in the comparative subfield.
G6601y
Issues in Political Theory (Field Survey)
Instructor: David Johnston
Day(s): T
Time: 210p-400p
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.
G6801X
Theories of International Relations (Field Survey)
Instructor: Robert Jervis
Day(s): M
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
Issues and problems in theory in 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.
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ClCiv W4145x
Ancient Political Theory
Instructor: James Zetzel
Day(s): MW
Time: 11:00a-12:15p
ANTH V3980x
Nationalism
Instructor: Partha Chatterjee
Day(s): T
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
This course, primarily intended for seniors, will try to combine the lecture
and seminar formats. Each day's readings will be assigned to selected students
who will be expected to respond to questions from the Instructor and lead the discussion
in class. Each student will be required to submit a 1500 word note on her/his
assigned reading, based on the discussion in class. Each student will also be
required to submit a term paper (about 5000-6000 words) on a topic to be
decided in consultation with the Instructor.
ECON W4921y sec. 001
Political Economy Seminar: Political Institutions
Instructor: Massimo Morelli
Day(s): T
Time: 6:10p-8:00p
ECON W4921y sec. 003
Political Economy Seminar: Non-Market Business Environments
Instructor: Sharyn O'Halloran
Day(s): R
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
CGTH W4510y
Global Governance
Instructors: Michael Doyle & Katharina Pistor
Day(s): TBA
Time: TBA
INAF U6295y
Democracy, the World's Religions, & Problems of the 'Twin Tolerations'
Instructor: Alfred Stepan
Day(s): TBA
Time: TBA
The course will be devoted to a set of questions and problems that are now
central to modern political debates about the role of religion in modern
politics, especially to questions of democracy, and intolerance and tolerance
within, and between, the major religions of the world.
INAF U6355y
Globalization
Instructor: Sharyn O'Halloran
Day(s): R
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
INAF U8370x
Labor in the Age of Globalization
Instructors: M. Victoria Murillo and Dorian Warren
Day(s): M
Time: 2:10p-4:00p
This course analyzes the challenges for labor facing increasing capital
mobility as well as the local challenges of political and economic
liberalization. The course analyzes a variety of theories on labor behavior
with a special emphasis on labor politics. The theories are applied to
understand labor responses to current process of economic liberalization,
expansion of the informal sector, changes in the labor supply and transformation
of labor regulations in Latin American and other regions of the world. Class
discussion will center on the theoretical implications of readings and students
should be prepared to use the analytical tools learnt in class for a research
paper on labor strategies facing changes in labor market institutions in any
chosen country or region.
PHIL G9750x
Topics in Political Philosophy
Instructors: Jon Elster and Akeel Bilgrami
Day(s): T
Time: 4:10p-6:00p
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