This will be a large lecture course with smaller discussion sections. The focus will be on major developments in international politics and international economics in the 20 th Century. It then will explore how the issues raised by these specific problems have developed over time and how they reveal deep structural relationships between political and economic power. In practice, war is laced with inherent moral tensions and ambiguities.
Choices have life and death consequences.
Students in this course will examine how societies and individuals resolve these tensions, ambiguities and dilemmas. Course readings, lectures, movies and class discussions are complementary. The final examination is a take-home test. Many writers in the past two decades have argued that the state, through its bureaucratic implementation of economic policy, has been the single most important factor influencing development. While acknowledging the importance of the state, this course will examine the social economy of global capitalism.