Open to undergraduate students with Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing and graduate students. Sources of conflict between the states, the dynamics of intervention in civil strife, and the role of extra-regional actors will be examined. Attention paid to conflict and cooperation between states in the General Assembly and Security Council, the influence of NGOs, and the operation of the bureaucracy. An exploration of Russia's ambiguous relationship with the West, focusing on the political, cultural, philosophic, and historical roots of this relationship, as well as its foreign policy consequenses. Cases are drawn from tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods.
Special emphasis is placed on issues of political economy and international security.
Major texts of political theory from Plato to the present. Emphasis on comparison of basic concepts such as those of human nature and the ideal society, freedom, and authority, equality and leadership, and methods of creating change. No credit is given for BC 1014 unless BC 1013 has been satisfactorily completed. Case studies of Indian nationalism, Nazism, Bolshevism, the civil rights and women's movements. Satisfies the Quantitative reasoning requirement.