[more], The People's Republic of China has experienced rapid and extensive economic, social and cultural transformation over the past forty years. How does all of that media consumption influence the American political system? democracies have collapsed and longer standing ones appear to be stumbling. legislation, balancing human needs and environmental quality has never been harder than it is today. They are using debt to create liquidity, demand, and uphold credit markets. Why not simply claim that something is an interest rather than also a right? things that happen in and around the political world--are often underestimated as catalysts of political change. But is anyone immune to media influence? We investigate these and related questions, primarily through active, project-based group research activities, guided by political theory and empirical research in the social sciences. Intense population density, critical transportation infrastructure, significant economic productivity, and rich cultural and historic value mark our coastal regions as nationally significant. [more], America's founders didn't mean to create a democracy. Social unrest over the definition of American morality and over who counts as an American. The tutorial will address the evolution of Palestinian nationalism historically and thematically, employing both primary and secondary sources. Do East Asian countries seek security and prosperity in a way fundamentally different from the Western system? [more], The course deals with South African politics since the end of apartheid. Others suggest that most Americans have moved "beyond race" and that racism explains little of modern-day partisan and electoral politics. and 3) What are strategies to counteract backsliding when it occurs? Methodologically interdisciplinary, the course shall examine written and audiovisual texts that explore Wynter's inquiries into the central seminar queries. Transportation will be provided by the college. The course is designed to teach political science majors the nuts, and maybe also the bolts, of social science research. The course is organized with a focus on legal status: which "categories" of people (i.e. Throughout the semester we interrogate four themes central to migration politics: rights, representation, access, and agency. Finally we will entertain right-wing populism as both a cause and a symptom of a crisis in liberal democracy. Students will be asked to analyze and evaluate the strategic choices we examine, as well as the process by which they were reached. Indeed, a central concern of the founders was that democracy would invite demagogues who would bring the nation to ruin. This tutorial will intensively examine Wilson's efforts to recast the nature of the international system, the American rejection of his vision after the First World War, and the reshaping of Wilsonianism after the Second World War. [more], This class is interested in thinking critically and empirically about one of the most polarizing and relevant issues of our time: how countries regulate cross-border mobility. Finally, we examine China's growing expansion into Africa and ask whether this is a new colonialism. We will then use our investigation of how different authors, and different traditions, understand the nation to help us assess contemporary politics and come to our own conclusions about what animates conflicts. As Louis Menand argues, "almost everything in the popular understanding of Orwell is a distortion of what he really thought and the kind of writer he was." Theorists we read will represent many kinds of feminist work that intersect with the legal field, including academic studies in political theory, philosophy, and cultural theory, along with contributions from community organizers engaged in anti-violence work and social justice advocacy. What kinds of alternatives are considered as solutions to these problems? [more], This course will examine the role of psychology in politics. [more], Noam Chomsky emerged as one of the most influential figures in the development of modern linguistics during the 1950's. The primary objective of the course is for students to improve dramatically their understanding of the role of leaders and strategic choice in international relations. 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. What produces political change? Why do we end up with some policies but not others? The course will begin by reading about both the general theoretical issues raised by conflicts in these "divided societies" and various responses to them. The basic format of the course will be to combine very brief lectures with detailed class discussions of each session's topic. standard responses to economic crises. The first module engages students in readings on the economic and political situation of dominant types of media (AI, social media, news, etc.) What sparks political violence and how can countries emerge from conflict? A phenomenal strategy? Visionaries, Pragmatists, and Demagogues: An Introduction to Leadership Studies. We will assess traditional theories about the weakness of the American state in light of arguments about the state as: regulator of family and "private" life, adjudicator of relations between racial and ethnic groups, manager of economic inequalities, insurer of security, and arbiter of the acceptable uses of violence and surveillance. This seminar, after discussing briefly the institutions and logic of neoliberalism, will address recent challenges to it from both the left and the right in the United States and Europe. In this tutorial, students will examine the origins of the Silicon Valley model and other countries' attempts to emulate it. How do nuclear weapons affect great power politics? The Trump Era and the Future of World Politics. What is democracy, how does it arise, and how might it fail? This tutorial will examine his wide-ranging critique of American foreign policy over the last half century, focusing on his analysis of the role that he believes the media and academics have played in legitimizing imperialism and human rights abuses around the world. Who gains and loses from the idea that people have human rights? By the completion of the semester, students will understand both the successes and failures of modern environmental law and how these laws are being reinvented, through innovations like pollution credit trading and "green product" certification, to confront globalization, climate change and other emerging threats. The specific disputes under these rubrics range from abortion to affirmative action, hate speech to capital punishment, school prayer to same-sex marriage; the historical periods to be covered include the early republic, the ante-bellum era, the Civil War and Reconstruction, World Wars I and II, the Warren Court, and contemporary America. Currently over 281 million 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. Readings and discussions provide a view on the past and ongoing use of media in the shaping of popular knowledge, collective actions, and public policies. Can the framers' vision of deliberative, representative government meet the challenges of a polarized polity? than taking the Senior Seminar-in their subfield of specialization. Or is it the reverse? In much of the rest of the world, however, conservatives harbor no hatred of the state and, when in power, have constructed robust systems of social welfare to support conservative values. We cover the history, structures and functions of international organizations using case studies. War, a strong bipartisan consensus emerged around the principles of liberal international internationalism and "America First" perspectives were marginalized in American politics. Readings may include texts by Rene Descartes, Andreas Vesalius, Londa Schiebinger, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Helen Longino, Nancy Harstock, Sandra Harding, bell hooks, Donna Haraway, Mary Hawkesworth, and Octavia Butler. This course identifies the political conditions under which welfare states developed in the twentieth century, and examines how they have responded to globalization, immigration, digital transformation, and other contemporary challenges. Theorists we read will represent many kinds of feminist work that intersect with the legal field, including academic studies in political theory, philosophy, and cultural theory, along with contributions from community organizers engaged in anti-violence work and social justice advocacy. Taking up a handful of alternative paradigms, from social investment to mutual aid, we will assess different trajectories of solidarity in the twenty-first century. We will focus on the role of political parties in democratization; the emergence of political dynasties; changes in the characteristics of the political elite; investigate claims of democratic deepening; and examine the effect of inter-state wars, land disputes, and insurgencies on democratic stability in the region. 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. We will explore answers to these questions through seminar discussion, analytic essays, and independent research culminating in the writing of a longer (15 to 20 page) research paper. CAPSTONE: Sylvia Wynter, Black Lives, and Struggle for the Human. [more], What can a critical analysis of gender and sexuality bring to the study of law, constitutions, legal interpretation, and the task of judging? Our concern with these events is not with why they happened as or when they did but, rather, with how they altered the American political order once they did--with how they caused shifts in political alignments, created demands for political action, or resulted in a reordering of political values. The region is home to the world's largest democracy in India, often cited as an unlikely and puzzling success story. Theorists studied include: Frank Wilderson; Angela Davis; Derrick Bell; Cheryl Harris. However, there is increasing recognition that International Relations in all forms, including theory, research, and policy, continue to be structured by traditional paradigms of power (e.g. Donald Trump's rise to the presidency was fueled in part by his pledge to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. At the same time, Republicans and Democrats fight over the scope and limits of government power on policies ranging from taxation and spending, to abortion, immigration, healthcare, policing, gun ownership, and voting rights. Do the People Govern? 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. Do the institutions produce good policies, and how do we define what is good? 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. This course is an investigation into contemporary right-wing populism in Europe and North America in its social, economic, and political context. In this class we draw these works into conversation with political theories of the "state of nature" and "state of exception" to better understand what political possibilities are opened and foreclosed in times of crisis. vary. Students will take up the central philosophical questions that shaped the tradition from the early nineteenth century to the present by engaging historical thinkers like Anna Julia Cooper, W.E.B. Born a Jew in Germany, Arendt lived through--and reflected deeply on--two world wars, the rise of totalitarianism, and the detonation of the first atomic bomb. How has "human rights" been deployed in international politics, and by whom? We first read polemics from both sides, before stepping back to consider Latin American political economy, including the twentieth-century left, from a more historical and analytical perspective. With this preparation, we then look more closely at major contemporary figures and movements in Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Brazil, and other countries. Throughout the semester we interrogate three themes central to migration politics (and political science): rights, access, and agency. Every week we explore a different component of South Asian politics. [more], The racialization of Islam and Muslims has been constitutive to how they have been imagined in Europe and elsewhere. Black Marxism: Political Theory and Anti-Colonialism, Shadows of Plato's Cave: Image, Screen, and Spectacle, Thus begins the presentation of perhaps the most influential metaphor in the history of philosophy. But what do we mean when we claim to want freedom? We will examine factors that shape election outcomes such as the state of the economy, issues, partisanship, ideology, social identities with a special focus on race, interest groups, media, and the candidates themselves. end of the world and its aftermath pervaded recent television, movies, literature, philosophy, and critical theory. Why do we find the visible presence of certain kinds of things or persons to be unbearably noxious? Our focus is both contemporary and comparative, organized thematically around common political experiences and attributes across the region. Its first part examines major thinkers in relation to the historical development of capitalism in Western Europe and the United States: the classical liberalism of Adam Smith, Karl Marx's revolutionary socialism, and the reformist ideas of John Maynard Keynes. This course will examine the political underpinnings of inequality in American cities, with particular attention to the racialization of inequality. [more], The idea that all humans have rights simply because they are human-independent of anything they might do or achieve-has transformed local and international politics, probably permanently. When should we leave important decisions to technocratic experts? [more], Politics as usual. Course readings will engage your thinking on the central debates in moral philosophy, normative approaches to international political economy, and grassroots efforts to secure justice for women and other severely disadvantaged groups. [more], Reserved for and required of those students accepted into the honors program during the second semester of their junior year, the fall semester Senior Thesis Research Design Seminar is intended to serve three purposes for aspiring senior thesis writers. But is anyone immune to media influence? Possible authors include Arendt, Bal, Belting, Benjamin, Browne, Buck-Morss, Butler, Campt, Clark, Crary, Debord, Deleuze, Fanon, Foucault, Freedberg, Hobbes, Kittler, Mercer, Mitchell, Mulvey, Plato, Rancire, Scott, Sexton, Starr, Virilio, Warburg, and Zeki. This suggests that the better we can understand the nature of cause and effect, the better we can understand power. How significant of a threat are concerns like nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and nuclear accidents? Can the strategies theorists propose and employ really aid in the advancement of racial equity? We will take a very wide definition of "politics," as music can have political meaning and effects far beyond national anthems and propaganda. Do particularly aggressive states? What does it say about pre-pandemic politics that we were so eager to consume stories of states falling and bands of survivors scraping together a nasty, brutish and short existence? The course concludes by considering what policies could be appropriate for supporting, while also regulating, the tech sector in the twenty-first century. In addition to active class participation, students will be expected to write a 5-page proposal for a research paper on a leader of their choice, a 10-page research paper, an in-class midterm exam, and a cumulative, in-class final exam. We will consider military affairs, economics, and diplomacy, but the class is mostly concerned with ideas. Indeed, a central concern of the founders was that democracy would invite demagogues who would bring the nation to ruin. The course integrates theoretical perspectives related to a range of international security issues--including the causes of war, alliance politics, nuclear strategy, deterrence, coercion, reassurance, misperception, and credibility concerns--with illustrative case studies of decision-makers in action. If so, should they focus their efforts on relocation to the historical land of Israel? Under what circumstances has positive leadership produced beneficial outcomes, and in what circumstances has it produced perverse outcomes? Or ideology? Toward that end, we begin by considering competing explanations of political violence (ethnicity, democratization, natural-resource endowments, and predatory elites). Who, exactly, has been permitted to participate in American politics, and on what terms? This course interrogates the many perils that pundits and activists tell us we should worry about in 21st century America. 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 engage primarily with political science, but also with scholarship in other disciplines, including sociology, history, geography, and legal studies, all of which share an interest in the questions we will be exploring. Illustrative cases to aid our inquiry will be drawn primarily from the USA and Canada, with additional examples from India, South Africa, and possibly European law. After examining general models of change and of leadership, we will consider specific case studies, such as civil rights for African-Americans, gender equality, labor advances, social conservatism, and populism. It has been said that parties are essential to democracy, and in the U.S., political parties have played a central role in extending democracy, protecting rights, and organizing power. In weekly one-hour sessions, students read their work aloud followed by dialogue and critique. This course begins with the premise that knowledge is embedded within, and often reproduces, power hierarchies. Here we look closely at whether it is economic development which leads to the spread of democracy. This course is part of a joint program between Williams' Center for Learning in Action and the Berkshire County Jail in Pittsfield, MA. Asking whether liberal thought, to borrow the famous joke about economists, assumes the can openers of liberalism and capitalism, taking as given that which is constructed historically, the course will look at leading theories about the role states play in constituting and maintaining capitalist economies, the definition and nature of power in liberal societies, and, more recently, the connection between identities, politics, classes, and states. In so doing, we will seek to use controversial and consequential moments in American politics as a window into deeper questions about political change and the narratives we tell about it. How do religion and politics interact? Attention then turns to how post-World War II authoritariansm has been understood from a variety of perspectives, including: the "transitions to democracy" approach; analysis of problems of authoritarian control and authoritarian power-sharing; and examination of "authoritarian relience," among others. Throughout the semester, our goal will be less to remember elaborate doctrinal rules and multi-part constitutional "tests" than to understand the changing nature of, and changing relationship between, constitutional power and constitutional meaning in American history. From the Founding to the present, the American political order has undergone cataclysmic and thoroughgoing transformations, yet it has also proven to be remarkably enduring. Yet assessments of what is at the heart of the country's problems vary. Four class debates will focus general concepts on a specific topic: the global implications of the Russo-Ukrainian War. To address these questions, we will study portrayals of some of the most famous leaders in American history--including Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Our sources will include political speeches, literature, film, and journalism as well as monuments and museum exhibits; though our examples will be drawn mostly from the United States, our conceptual framework will be transnational. important cultural differences, and mixed feelings about its neighbor to the north. 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. Topics include the politics of race; rapid urbanization, especially in the valley of Mexico; and the cultural impact of the turn toward the north, after 1990, in economic policy. More information can be found on the Political Science site. Economic inequality on a level not seen in over a century. Should the world try to regulate the use of these technologies and, if so, how exactly? And we will ask persistently: what constitutes a "Jewish justification" for a political claim in modern Jewish political theory? This course is an investigation into this global liberal project, engaging both theory and practice. Mackie, Marx, Nietzsche, and Max Weber. Why has historical commemoration gotten so contentious--or has it always been contentious? The course introduces students to the comparative politics of South Asia, highlighting the complexities and potential of the region. Communities need a way to reconcile conflicts of interest among their members and to determine their group interest; they need to allocate power and to determine its just uses. The first half is a historical survey of U.S.-Latin American foreign relations from the early Spanish American independence movements through the end of the Cold War and recent developments. Can public policy reverse these trends? We will assess traditional theories about the weakness of the American state in light of arguments about the state as: regulator of family and "private" life, adjudicator of relations between racial and ethnic groups, manager of economic inequalities, insurer of security, and arbiter of the acceptable uses of violence and surveillance. Is intense security competition between major states inevitable, or can they get along, provided their main interests are protected? basic format of the course will be to combine brief lectures--either posted on the class website beforehand or given at the start of each class--with an in-depth discussion of each class session's topic. To study the presidency is to study human nature and individual personality, constitution and institution, rules and norms, strategy and contingency. How has globalization changed the international system? And what is justice? How should we respond to the fact that these unbearable beings persist in existing, despite our best efforts to eliminate them? We will discuss theories of right-wing populism's appeal from both Left and Right perspectives. Does freedom make us happy? 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. But what does this mean? and an unscientific, patriarchal worldview. [more], This seminar reviews contemporary theories of "anti-black racism"; their articulation or assimilation within current political movements and mobilizations; and the influence and impact such theories-expressed in and/or as activism-on social justice and civil rights. We investigate these and related questions, primarily through active, project-based group research activities, guided by political theory and empirical research in the social sciences. Terrorist attacks at home and abroad. Through the lens of coastal and ocean governance and policy-making, we critically examine conflict of use issues relative to climate change, climate justice, coastal zone management, fisheries, ocean and coastal pollution and marine biodiversity. Finally, we will assess whether US foreign policy decisions are coherent - that is, whether the US can be said to follow a "grand strategy." Politics is our focus. Looming environmental catastrophes capable of provoking humanitarian crises. As a final assignment, students will craft an 18-20-page research paper on a topic of their choice related to the themes of the course. By the early 21st century, the city had largely met these challenges and was once again one of the most diverse and economically vital places on earth-but also one marked by profound inequality. The research results must be presented to the faculty supervisor for evaluation in the form of an extended essay. Introduction to International Relations: World Politics. 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. Yet he stopped short of identifying new social movements with the Marxist notion of a revolutionary class. The course extends over one semester and the winter study period. The structure of the course combines political science concepts with a detailed survey of the region's diplomatic history. Is there a single best way to maintain regional order and cooperation across regions? We investigate who refugees are, in international law and popular understanding; read refugee stories; examine international and national laws distinguishing refugees from other categories of migrants; evaluate international organizations' roles in managing population displacement; look at the way that images convey stereotypes and direct a type of aid; consider refugee camps in theory and example; and reflect on what exclusion, integration, and assimilation mean to newcomers and host populations. Admission to Tulsa Community College does not guarantee admission to the Physical Therapist Assistant Program. We consider how this history confirms or undermines influential views about U.S. foreign relations and about international relations generally. Or is economic crisis the key to understanding the conditions under which dictatorships fall? Political Theory and Comparative Politics. The course traces the conservative welfare state's development from its origins in late nineteenth and early twentieth century corporatism, through the rise of Christian Democracy and the consolidation of conservative welfare regimes in continental Europe after World War Two, to its contemporary challenges from secularism, feminism, and neoliberalism. [more], Coastal communities are home to nearly 40% of the U.S. population, but occupy only a small percentage of our country's total land area.
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