| source Yale (X) |
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department International Studies (X) |
MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Introduction to the contemporary study of international relations. Topics include reasons why countries go to war and why they enter into alliances; the effectiveness of international peacekeeping efforts; the determinants of consequences of international trade; and the role of international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Introduction to the contemporary study of international relations. Topics include reasons why countries go to war and why they enter into alliances; the effectiveness of international peacekeeping efforts; the determinants of consequences of international trade; and the role of international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
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F 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Introduction to research methods in global health that recognize the influence of political, economic, social, and cultural factors. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches; ethical aspects of conducting research in resource-constrained settings; the process of obtaining human subjects' approval. Students develop proposals for short-term global health research projects conducted in resource-constrained settings.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Study of the relationship between intrastate conflict and international politics. Secessions and irredentas; third-party interventions and the durability of peace; spatial diffusion of conflict within and across borders; management techniques to moderate the occurrence and extent of hostilities. Readings from theoretical literature, with applications to real-world situations.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Political problems and theories of justice examined from a cosmopolitan point of view. Special attention to the contrast between international and global theoretical frameworks and to their respective institutional realizations.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Historical roots and modern interpretations of the assertion that the United Kingdom is the closest ally of the United States. Attention to international relations theory, practical discussions of politics and policy, diplomacy, and business.
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Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required State-society relations in the People's Republic of China. Popular protest and social mobilization, media commercialization and the Internet, and prospects for political reform and democratization.
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MW 2.30-3.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas So An introduction to international security. General theories of state interests and behavior; the causes, conduct, and regulation of violence among nations.
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T 7.00-8.50p Fall 2009 Permission of instructor required The development of the human rights regime from the first appearance of the laws of war in Grotius, through the Hague conventions of 1899 and 1907, the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Formation of the Yugoslav and Rwanda Tribunals; creation of the International Criminal Court. The politics of human rights law; effects of the Cold War on the human rights regime; the rise of the NGO community; the role of the great power states.
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Fall 2009 Areas So Permission of instructor required
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M 7.00-8.50p Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period The history of America?s rise to power explored in the broader context of a changing international environment. The dominant intellectual and political approaches Americans themselves have used to understand and shape their role in the world.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Areas So An examination of political violence with an emphasis on civil wars, presently the dominant form of war.
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TTh 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So The emergence and evolution of various forms of protest, including strikes, demonstrations, and revolutions. Case studies include the civil rights movement, the women's movement in the United States, and social movements in Central America, South Africa, and elsewhere. Theoretical approaches range from ethnographic to mathematical models.
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MW 1.30-2.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas So Examination of capitalism as it functions in practice, with extensive use of business cases. The role of capitalism in generating wealth and innovation unprecedented in history. Negative consequences of capitalist development such as radical inequality, disruption of the natural environment, and intermittent social crises.
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W 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Examination of public and private welfare systems in the developing world. Analysis of the evolving relationships between kin or community and states and market. Particular attention is paid to the politics of contemporary reforms.
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T 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The impact of and responses to the AIDS pandemic in Africa examined from a comparative perspective. Focus on South and southern Africa.
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W 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The role of scientific authority and thinking explored from historical and contemporary perspectives. Theoretical approaches to the study of science in society and their application with regard to the West and Africa. The nature of the scientific method, pseudoscience and its rise in modern society, science as a system of power, and the scientific regulation of medicine.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Areas So Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Current problems and prospects faced by the economies of Turkey and other Middle Eastern countries. Links between state building, economic development, and democratization in the region. Comparative discussion of how the Turkish economy diverges from others in the Middle East.
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Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 22) 12/12/2009 S 2.00 Areas So Permission of instructor required Theoretical perspectives and empirical debates in international political economy. Trade, monetary and financial systems, regional integration, multinational institutions, domestic political institutions, investment and capital markets, development, and globalization.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The history, institutions, and policy-making processes of the European Union. Theories of European integration, the creation of the single market and the euro, the eastward enlargement of the European Union, and the so-called democratic deficit.
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Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Key ethical dilemmas accompanying the practice of humanitarian intervention. Ethical and political obligations of states to protect citizens of other states, justifications for 'killing in order to save,' who can legitimately make the decision to intervene, and what criteria should guide humanitarian interventions in the twenty-first century.
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Fall 2009 Final exam HTBA Areas So Meets during reading period Introduction to human rights issues in theory and practice. Concepts, instruments, and mechanisms of international law, including human rights treaties and regional systems; international enforcement dilemmas such as the use of force and humanitarian intervention; issues of accountability through international and domestic prosecutions and truth commissions; and critical issues such as women?s rights, cultural relativism, NGO advocacy, corporate accountability, and social and economic rights.
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Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The phenomenon of international law examined from the perspective of both international legal scholars and international relations theorists. Schools of thought include the New Haven school, legal positivism, and critical legal studies as well as classical realism, neorealism, and institutional and constructivist theories of international relations.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The influence of the Marshall Plan and the Cold War in the making of postwar Europe, with a focus on how these developments affected the European integration process. The antecedents and evolution of European integration from its origins to the Treaty of Maastricht. Greece used as a case study.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Areas Hu The immediate causes, experience, and consequences of the conquest of European countries during World War II. Comparison of occupation experiences under different conquerors, with an emphasis on Nazi and Soviet rule. Occupational patterns, collaboration and resistance, genocide, and the impact of military and diplomatic events on the internal social and political developments of individual European nations. Greece used as a case study.
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