We will critically analyze how those categories are constructed at the international and domestic levels, as well as how those categorizations are also racialized, politicized, and gendered. In country after country, champions of cosmopolitan values and moderate reform are struggling to build sufficient popular support for their programs. no hatred of the state and, when in power, have constructed robust systems of social welfare to support conservative values. inexplicably lawless, violent, and anarchic. We will also discuss changes in religion under the influence of capitalism including romanticism, Pentecostalism, moralistic therapeutic Deism, and the 'God gap' between largely theist Africa, South and West Asia, and the Americas on the one hand and largely atheist Europe and East Asia on the other. See the college's, Experiential Learning & Community Engagement, Introduction to American Politics: Power, Politics, and Democracy in America. Should the world try to regulate the use of these technologies and, if so, how exactly? Among the topics we will cover are: the structures of urban political power; housing and employment discrimination; the War on Crime and the War on Drugs (and their consequence, mass incarceration); education; and gentrification. Who gets to make these judgments, and according to what rules? What, if any, is the relationship between economic development and the organization of power (regime type)? How can feminist power be realized? Her words and her example should impel us to reject shortcuts to authentic understanding, the "unending activity by whichwe come to terms with and reconcile ourselves to reality." We begin with examinations of these central notions and debates, and then move to investigations of the political thought of four key late modern Afro-Caribbean and African-American thinkers within the tradition: Walter Rodney, Sylvia Wynter, Cedric Robinson, and Angela Davis. Scholars, practitioners, and observers of American politics have debated whether the net effect is positive or negative. During this time, students will work primarily with their assigned faculty advisor, with the workshop leader's primary role becoming one of coordination, troubleshooting, and general guidance. How do visions of politics without humans and humans without politics impact our thinking about longstanding questions of freedom, power, and right? This course will examine how New Yorkers have contested core issues of capitalism and democracy-how those contests have played out as the city itself has changed and how they have shaped contemporary New York. Yet he stopped short of identifying new social movements with the Marxist notion of a revolutionary class. Much of this work was inspired by his own experiences as a police officer in Burma, several years working and traveling with destitute workers in England and France, as well as his experiences fighting against fascism during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. How does the mass media and campaigns influence public opinion? We end by asking: Do anti-democratic means have to be employed to fully realize democracy? The course will begin by reading about both the general theoretical issues raised by conflicts in these "divided societies" and various responses to them. Most readings will focus on contemporary political debates about the accumulation, concentration, and redistribution of wealth. How are tensions between liberty and equality resolved? In this tutorial, we will investigate what Arendt's vision of politics stands to offer to those struggling to comprehend and transform the darkest aspects of the contemporary political world. It also created ocean zones, with rules for each, and proposed a system for taxing firms that it licensed to exploit minerals on the high seas. Or should feminists reject objectivity as a myth told by the powerful about their own knowledge-claims and develop an alternative approach to knowledge? The third emphasizes research design, allowing students to finalize their own project while bringing in primary sources such as original documents, debates, and data. Migration Governance: A Global Perspective, international migrants live in a country different from where they were born, about 1 out of every 30 humans in the world and a population that has roughly doubled since 1990. Along the way, we will consider a number of longstanding questions in the study of politics, such as: is the public rational? [more], An unprecedented assault on the U.S. Capitol, the rise of white nationalism, a pandemic, a volatile economy, racial reckoning, and rapidly evolving environmental crises have all rocked American politics in the last year. This tutorial investigates the relationship between state and nation over time in the United States. The basic format of the course will be to combine very brief lectures with detailed class discussions of each session's topic. Most of the course will focus on the historical and contemporary relations between whites and African Americans, but we will also explore topics involving other pan-ethnic communities, particularly Latinos and Asian Americans. We will engage classic texts that helped to establish political theory's traditional view of nature as a resource, as well as contemporary texts that offer alternative, ecological understandings of nature and its entwinements with politics. Particular attention will be devoted to the contrast between the views of Trump and those of the American foreign policy establishment over issues such as NATO, nuclear proliferation, Russia, immigration, terrorism, free trade, and conflicts in the Middle East. What does that portend, if anything, for other democracies, or for the general principle of popular sovereignty--the idea that the people govern themselves? Approaching questions historically, it centers on but is not restricted to the conflict between Zionism and Palestinians. How people ground this concept--what they think its origin is--does matter, but evaluating those foundations is not our focus. What standards should we use to judge how political power is constituted and used? Should "religion" be singled-out for exclusion from government? But their worth is a continuing subject of debate. Beliefs about music can serve as a barometer for a society's non-musical anxieties: Viennese fin-de-sicle critics worried that the sounds and stories of Strauss's operas were causing moral decline, an argument that should be familiar to anyone who reads criticism of American popular music. After investigating the origins of the Silicon Valley model, we trace attempts to adopt it in Europe and Asia, which highlight the model's political contingencies and some of the more salient conflicts over the tech sector. In discussions and writing, we will explore the diverse visions of modernity and of politics offered by such thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Mill, and Freud. First, it will consider the the terms of American foreign policy after the Cold War, how it sets these, and continuities and discontinuities between the Clinton and Bush administrations. And what does it mean to study this richly diverse region? The issues we will explore include: What is poverty, and how do Americans perceive its dangers to individuals as well as the political community? More recent arguments may come from John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Martha Nussbaum, Jeffrey Stout, Winnifred Sullivan, Brian Leiter and Andrew Koppelman. In this tutorial, students will examine the origins of the Silicon Valley model and other countries' attempts to emulate it. Attention to the writing process and developing an authorial voice will be a recurrent focus of our work inside and outside the classroom. democracies have collapsed and longer standing ones appear to be stumbling. While our examples will be drawn mainly from family law, the regulation of sex/reproduction, and workplace discrimination, the main task of this course will be to deepen our understanding of how the subject of law is constituted. Is leadership that privileges desirable ends, such as justice or security, at the expense of democratic means acceptable? How are international organizations and domestic governments regulating this level of unprecedented global mobility in destination countries as well as countries of origin? What do Americans want from their political leaders?". How has the relation between the governors and the governed changed over time, and what factors and events have shaped those relations? The course goes back to the founding moments of an imagined white-Christian Europe and how the racialization of Muslim bodies was central to this project and how anti-Muslim racism continues to be relevant in our world today. modernity and of politics offered by such thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Mill, and Freud. It is no accident that tech became a symbol for economic growth in the 1970s, precisely when it also began to build powerful alliances in Washington. Any diagnosis of contemporary maladies is premised on a vision of what a healthy functioning republic looks like. This suggests that the better we can understand the nature of cause and effect, the better we can understand power. They are using debt to create liquidity, demand, and uphold credit markets. From the perspective of the workplace, we investigate the firm as an arena of power, where workers and managers meet each other in continuous contests for control. [more], Tens of thousands of international organizations populate our world. How people ground this concept--what they think its origin is--does matter, but evaluating those foundations is not our focus. Thinkers we will engage include Judith Butler, Audre Lorde, Catherine MacKinnon, Hannah Arendt, and Patricia Hill Collins. How can it be known and pursued? While a fairly obscure and struggling author for much of his life, Orwell achieved worldwide fame after the Second World War with the publication of Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949). Should Harriet Tubman's portrait replace Andrew Jackson's on the $20 bill? What does that portend, if anything, for other democracies, or for the general principle of popular sovereignty--the idea that the people govern themselves? [more], Hannah Arendt (1906-75) bore witness to some of the darkest moments in the history of politics. It then considers how nationalism is manifest in the contemporary politics and foreign relations of China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Taiwan. What kinds of alternatives to objectivity exist, and should they, too, count as "science"? retreat!) This class will involve students in close reading of, and exegetical writing about, core texts of ancient Chinese philosophy in English translation. Intense population density, critical transportation infrastructure, significant economic productivity, and rich cultural and historic value mark our coastal regions as nationally significant. Today the 'secularization thesis' is largely defunct. Finally, we examine recent theories of screen and spectacle--read both for their resonances with and departures from debates over the Platonic legacy--and case studies in the politics of both military and racial spectacles in the U.S. Beginning with the evolution of the field, this course will equip students with the methodological tools to critically navigate their own specific regional, inter-regional, or interdisciplinary tracks in the Asian Studies concentration. an anarchic political structure for order and justice in world politics? Can public policy reverse these trends? Can public policy reverse these trends? Near the end of the semester, students will receive feedback on their complete draft from their advisor and two additional faculty readers selected by the workshop leader; following revisions, the final work--a roughly 35 page piece of original scholarship--will be submitted to and evaluated by a committee of faculty chosen by the department for the awarding of honors as well as presented publicly to the departmental community at an end-of-year collective symposium. We cover the history, structures and functions of international organizations using case studies. We will examine the role of social identities, partisan affiliation, concrete interests, values, issues, and ideology in shaping opinion and behavior, as well as the role of external forces such as campaigns, the media, and political elites. Does how Americans define themselves as a nation inform the shape of the American state and the types of policies it creates? Our task in the seminar is to uncover and interrogate those visions. The course concludes with an examination of a number of major contemporary policy debates in security studies. as it did in the prenuclear era, or has it undergone a "revolution," in the most fundamental sense of the word? What aspects of politics will endure the ravages of fire or pestilence? Visionaries, Pragmatists, and Demagogues: An Introduction to Leadership Studies. Resource Abundance and Development. Does this idea ultimately reinforce American hegemony, or plant the seeds of a non-American order? Transportation will be provided by the college. In ways often obscure to users, they structure communication or conduct in social media, education, healthcare, shopping, entertainment, dating, urban planning, policing, criminal sentencing, political campaigns, government regulation, and war. The first is historical and mostly lecture. The course will consider these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective that combines political science concepts with an historical approach to the evidence. When should we leave important decisions to technocratic experts? The readings will address the politics, policies, and composition of the African National Congress (ANC), the growth of black economic elites and the black middle class, the persistence of poverty and extreme inequality, expanding corruption, and why the ANC continues to prevail politically and electorally in spite of on-going poverty and worsening inequality, governmental failures, and corruption. [more], American politics is often unequal, and well-organized advantaged interests tend to triumph. Can the framers' vision of deliberative, representative government meet the challenges of a polarized polity? How can it be established and secured? optimism, pessimism, enslavement, freedom, creativity, and being human? "rights"? PSCI 493 - 01 (F) SEM Sen Thesis: Political Science Division II. How is the domination or conquest of nature connected with domination and conquest within human societies? We will examine leadership to better understand American democracy--and vice versa. Everything else--including political ideology, nationalism, conservative religion, and sovereignty--was consigned to the ash heap. The readings include Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Karl Polanyi, Barrington Moore, Robert Putnam, Michel Foucault, and Edward Said. international politics, its strengths and limitations, depend on how people use it. Who might change it, and how? This course interrogates the many perils that pundits and activists tell us we should worry about in 21st century America. While focusing primarily on the welfare states of Western Europe, we will also examine how the politics of social risk unfold around the world, extending our investigation to Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Our focus, then, is nothing less than the story of America -- as told by those who lived it. What is it and how might it work? This course looks at how difference works and has worked, how identities and power relationships have been grounded in lived experience, and how one might both critically and productively approach questions of difference, power, and equity. The course will begin--by focusing on the Manhattan Project--with a brief technical overview of nuclear physics, nuclear technologies, and the design and effects of nuclear weapons. The seminar will examine: original source materials; academic/popular interpretations and representations of the BPP; hagiography; iconography; political rebellion, political theory. [more], Many academics, international nongovernmental organizations, international financial institutions, and the media assert that natural resource endowments--oil, gas, and diamonds--are like the touch of Midas. Catalog Williams Catalog Courses and Programs 2022-23 Political Science Political Science Spring 2022-23 Political Science Spring 2022-23 Catalog Search Updating enrollment. Exploration of these and other questions will lead us to examine topics such as presidential selection, the bases of presidential power, character and leadership, congressional-executive interactions, social movement and interest group relations, and media interactions. The course places the US in conversation not only with European countries, but also (and especially) considerations of migration governance in destination countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. We will begin with an analysis of primary texts by Fanon and end by considering how Fanon has been interpreted by his contemporaries as well as activists and critical theorists writing today. In repeatedly examining the allegory over the centuries, later thinkers have elaborated their approaches not only to Plato but also to the nature of politics and the tasks of thinking. Are legal citizenship and formal political rights sufficient for belonging? Themes may include power, authority, freedom, justice, equality, democracy, neoliberalism, feminism, and violence, though the emphases will vary from semester to semester. What is at stake, and what do different groups believe to be at stake? How do nuclear weapons affect great power politics? The structure of the course combines political science concepts and historical case studies, with the goal of generating in-depth classroom debates over key conceptual, historical, and policy questions. This course begins with the observation that power is often described as a causal relation--an individual's power is supposed to equal their capacity to produce a change in someone else's behavior. What behaviors do different algorithms solicit, reward, discourage, or stigmatize? Designed not only to uncover these (sometimes melodious, sometimes cacophonous) values but also to place current ideological debates about them in a broader developmental context, this tutorial will offer a topical tour of American political thinking from the birth of nationalism in the colonial period to the remaking of conservatism and liberalism in the early twenty-first century. Which leaders developed coherent grand strategies? In most other respects, it is the same: it protects the status quo, including the unequal distribution of power among its members; it spells out legitimate and illegitimate ways of resolving conflicts of interest; it is biased toward the powerful and legitimates their interests; it tells its members how to act to coordinate their interests and minimize direct conflict; some of it is purely aspirational, some of it necessary for survival. Political dissent has taken various forms since 1979 but the regime has found ways to repress and divert it. The third part surveys significant topics relevant to the themes of the course, with applications to current public policy issues, such as: power relations and autonomy in the workplace; asymmetric information and social insurance; economic inequality and distributive justice; equality of opportunity; the economics of health care; positional goods and the moral foundations of capitalism; social media and addiction; economic nationalism; behavioral economics; climate change and intergenerational equity; finance and financial crises; and rent-seeking. The resurgence of authoritarian styles and practices in politics. Second, was one side primarily responsible for the length and intensity of the Cold War in Europe? [more], By the late 19th century, Jews across Europe were faced with an urgent political problem. The course will focus on these questions using an interdisciplinary perspective that leverages political science concepts, historical case studies, and contemporary policy debates to generate core insights. How, if at all, do nuclear weapons affect how political disputes run their course? Yet, more than ever before, the means exist in affluent regions of the world to alleviate the worst forms of suffering and enhance the well-being of the poorest people. We will draw on case studies from Latin America, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East to analyze the effectiveness of these theories. The second introduces social science methodology, covering hypotheses, literature reviews, and evidence while continuing half time with materials about human rights. It will address how the Palestinian nation has been defined, who has defined it, what factions and classes have controlled its organizations, and the reasons why it has failed to achieve its goals. Yet he stopped short of identifying new social movements with the Marxist notion of a revolutionary class. More specifically, the class will examine the origins of the Zionist movement; the role that the First World War played in shaping the dispute; the period of the British mandate; the rise of Palestinian nationalism; the Second World War and the creation of the state of Israel; the 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars; Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and its consequences; the promise and ultimate collapse of the Oslo peace process during the 1990s and early 2000s; the rise of groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad; the rightward shift in Israeli politics since 2000; the intensification of Israeli-Iranian antagonism and its implications; the shift in Israel's relations with the Sunni Arab world that has occurred in recent years; and the future of the conflict. movements and liberation struggles. The second part of the course focuses on the Iraq War and its consequences; the rise of ISIS; the Arab Spring; Turkey's changing foreign relations; and the war in Syria. of 2008-10. The course is based on the literature of multidisciplinary studies by leading scholars in the field, drawing from anthropology, gender studies, history, political science, religious studies, postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, and sociology.This course's goal is to show how the racialization of Islam and Muslims has been constitutive to the latter's imagination. This tutorial unsettles that framing, first by situating the black radical tradition as a species of black politics, and second through expanding the boundaries of black politics beyond the United States. We will investigate the founding of Garveyism on the island of Jamaica, the evolution of Garveyism during the early twentieth century across the Americas and in Africa, Garveyism in Europe in the mid-twentieth century, and the contemporary branches of the Garvey movement in our own late modern times. We then move on to the empirical section of the course in which we cover case studies of state failure in parts of Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The contests over power and the values that it should be used to further give politics its drama and pathos. As a writing intensive course, attention to the writing process and developing an authorial voice will be a recurrent focus of our work inside and outside the classroom. It concludes with a discussion of the prospects of right-populist politics in the United States. Second, was one side primarily responsible for the length and intensity of the Cold War in Europe? Hoc Tribunals for crimes in Yugoslavia and those in Rwanda, in Sierra Leone and in Cambodia are giving way to a permanent International Criminal Court, which has begun to hand down indictments and refine its jurisdiction.
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