| source Georgetown (X) |
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department Masters in Foreign Service (X) |
This course will explore a range of issues affecting youth globally. Building on an approach taken in the World Development Report 2007, which focuses on Youth Development, the course will focus on 4 transitions: progressing through school, going to work, forming families and staying healthy, and exercising citizenship. The course will also focus on critical issues of children and youth at risk, including human trafficking, street children, and child soldiers.
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This course examines major trends that shape a growing divergence between traditional national interests and evolving global business. While incorporating international trade concepts, the course focuses on cross-national investment and establishment patterns that raise questions of corporate national identity and citizenship, including how transnational business strategies affect national policy objectives. Interrelationships between global corporate operations and the mechanisms of national political sovereignty and control are analyzed in both developed and developing countries across a range of manufacturing, advanced technology, natural resource and service sector activities. Assigned readings and lectures will provide an historical and comparative context while class discussion will focus on applying past experience to an analysis of current events, drawing on recent case studies and new issues emerging from media reports.
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Credits: 3
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The purpose of this course is to track and understand the evolution of the political, economic, social, and cultural relations of the world's people. The course will examine the establishment of national states in Europe and its subsequent global expansion, and the impact of that expansion on peoples with different political and social traditions. It will also include the impact of the world wars and twentieth-century ideological conflicts on inter- and intra-societal relations; the post-1945 transformation of Latin American, African, and Asian societies and their relations to the international system; the growing influence of a dynamic and pervasive global economy; the expanding roles of regional and transnational organizations and actors; and the rise transnational actors and problems. Extrapolating from past and current trends, the course will conclude with some speculation on the future of international and intersocietal relations.(Not required for MSFS/MA in History majors).
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This seminar examines secret intelligence and its institutions in the context of democratic society, focusing primarily on the United States Intelligence Community. Course will survey intelligence structures, processes, and issues with special reference to the dilemmas of secret information and covert practices in open societies and to the political and bureaucratic context of intelligence and its activities. It will take up the role of intelligence in the national security policy process, the question of âintelligence reformâ in response to perceived intelligence community performance âfailures,â and the âpolitics of intelligenceâ in a liberal democracy.
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Credits: 3
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The first part of the course offers a brief historical background to the theory of international relations. Part II examines in detail mainstream theoretical arguments (i.e., structural, unit-level, cognitive and world society) about the nature of international relations and seeks to demonstrate the utility of theory for practitioners. The third part of the course applies these theories to a variety of important issues such as nationalism, ethics, environmental change, security, North-South relations, and trade and development. The course concludes with a discussion of several scenarios of the future that emphasize different trends in international relations.The main objectives of the course are to provide students with a useful set of analytical tools, an appreciation of the complexity of the field and of the value of different approaches to it, and an understanding of some of the major issues facing contemporary policymakers. In addition, the course offers students an opportunity to refine presentation and discussion skills.
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This is a graduate-level introduction to comparative politics, starting with an examination of the behaviors, organizations and institutions involved in national policy-making: voting and electoral systems, political parties and interest groups, legislatures, and executives. The focus will be on relating system types to policy outcomes â are the kinds of policies enacted by parliamentary democracies different from those of presidential systems? What is the impact of unitary vs. federal government structure? Finally we will compare institutions and behaviors across political systems (such as the UK, Canada, India, Brazil, South Africa, for instance) and evaluate the role of political culture in policy formulation.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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This course examines international law and U.S. domestic law relevant to the handling of national security matters by US policymakers. On the international level, the course focuses on international laws that govern the use of military force and conflict management. On the domestic level, we will study the allocation of power under the U.S. Constitution between the three branches of the federal government: Congress, the Executive and the Courts. Particular attention is given to war powers and intelligence activities. The class will also assess the role of the courts as a check on the two political branches of the federal government in these areas, particularly as it relates to ongoing efforts to fight terrorism and other non-state actors. With respect to domestic statutory authority, the War Powers Resolution, the National Security Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the Military Commissions Act are some of the specific statutes that will be covered. Specific executive orders such as E.O. 12333 and the military order to create military commissions will also be covered under domestic authorities. As for international legal instruments, the class will review the lawfulness of the use of military force in several illustrative cases and assess key problems in international laws of war presented by the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and by operations against transnational and subnational terrorist networks. We will consider such specific topics as war crimes, the question of unlawful combatants, the treatment of prisoners of war, and the protection of civilian persons in time of war. Special attention will also be given to the U.N. Charter and other international treaties such as the Geneva Conventions, The Hague Conventions and customary international law. Finally, the class will examine the various challenges for national security presented by new weapons technologies and those in the international community that proliferate those weapons technologies. The course will look at several key disarmament and arms control issues, focusing on efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
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How do governments, donors, and international organizations make decisions about development policies? Why does "slippage" often occur during implementation? How are policy reform initiatives introduced, expanded, and sustained ("scaled up")? This course analyzes major policy and programmatic efforts that have been used reduce poverty in developing and transitional countries, including transfers, credit and land-based programs, and market development. It emphasizes ways that institutional and political analysis can improve policy analysis, particularly regarding decision making, implementation, and the management of reformist initiatives. It assesses how historical conditions, state capacity, stakeholder relationships, and bureaucratic influences shape policy decision making and the allocation of public resources. Assignments focus on the analysis of reforms as well as antipoverty programs selected by students and the strategic management of political conflicts related to policy change.
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Credits: 3
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This course will cover aspects of public finance theory, examine the components of the budget and the budget process, and review tools for budget analysis. It starts from the premise that the budget is a key policy document, reflecting how a government has chosen to translate its economic and social priorities into spending and tax policies. The goal of this class is to teach students the mix of skills that will help them â whether they are working inside government or outside government â to shape effective tax and spending policies as well as monitor and assess the implementation of these policies. These skills include the ability to review a budget and its components, use analytical tools to assess new budget proposals and on-going policies, apply public finance concepts to the analysis of budget policies, and understand how the budget process and budget decision-making interact. The class will also examine selected policy issues, reflecting a range of experiences in the United States as well as other developed and developing countries, and assess the impact of these policies on the budget as well as on equity and economic efficiency.
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Credits: 3
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The purpose of this course is to give students a firm grasp of how and why governments and businesses interact the way they do across a wide spectrum of situations and issues. In addition to looking at the interaction between business and government per se, we will examine how the structures, environments, interests, agendas, and constituencies of both parties shape the interactive relationship, and drive issue and policy outcomes. The course will start with an analytic, organizing framework. We will look at governments and examine how their logics, environments, interests and agendas shape their policy responses to issues involving businesses. We will then examine businesses and how their logics, environments, interests and agendas shape their responses to issues involving governments. We will then leverage the frame developed to provide insights into business-government relations across a range of issues, actors, and geographies, in such spheres as environmental policy, public health, intellectual property, developing country debt, national competitiveness, privatization, labor migration, and government regulation.
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The purpose of this course is to give students a firm grasp of how and why governments and businesses interact the way they do across a wide spectrum of situations and issues, and to impart skills students will need to operate in a business-government relations milieu. In addition to looking at the interaction between business and government per se, we will examine how the structures, environments, interests, agendas, and constituencies of both parties shape the interactive relationship, and drive issue and policy outcomes. The course will start with an analytic, organizing framework. We will look at governments and examine how their logics, environments, interests and agendas shape their policy responses to issues involving businesses. We will then examine businesses and how their logics, environments, interests and agendas shape their responses to issues involving governments. We will then leverage the frame developed to provide insights into business-government relations across a range of issues, actors, and geographies, in such spheres as environmental policy, intellectual property, developing country debt, national competitiveness, privatization, labor migration, and government regulation. As we move thru the course the skills of advocacy, issue analysis, policy analysis, impact analysis and concise oral and written communication will be introduced and reinforced.
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This seminar explores the role of mediation as an instrument of conflict management and a foreign policy technique. Students will consult both theoretical and case study materials, and become adept at analyzing the suitability of diverse mediatory approaches and actors to concrete conflict situations at diverse stages of the conflict life cycle. Adopting the mediatorâs perspective, they will address the challenge of how to design and conduct mediation as a form of third party intervention in violent international conflict. The course will identify and explore strategies and techniques used to overcome obstacles to a mediated settlement in intractable conflicts. Simulation and mediation analysis exercises will be used to illustrate the perspectives of mediators and conflict parties, and to introduce elements of mediation strategy.
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This course is designed as an introduction to the use of quantitative methods for graduate students. The progression of this course includes the theory and rubric of scientific research designs and the practice in generating, interpreting, and ultimately employing quantitative methods to critically assess empirical works as well as informing oneâs own research questions. The goals of this course are to develop statistical literacy coupled with analytical and research abilities. We will cover topics such as descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency, dispersion, and association; inferential statistics, including probability theory, Normal distributions, and statistical significance; and OLS regression, including the use of dummy variables, interactions, factor analysis, and extensions to regression for categorical and limited dependent variables. The course is designed to enable students to critically assess and contribute to a broad range of quantitative work in the policy setting (e.g. risk assessment, policy analysis), applied fields (e.g. development, political organization), and applied theoretical work in international affairs (e.g. academic and professional works such as Foreign Affairs). The course will include weekly exercises in the discussed analytical techniques (including independent lab work) and three policy papers that include presentations. It will include a final exam and a participation evaluation.
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Credits: 3
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This course provides an overview of the major theories and issues regarding the interrelationship of international business, politics and society within an interdependent world political economy, while developing students' sense of leadership and ethical responsibility. The dynamic between markets, politics, and social movements are examined in both developed and developing countries. The course helps prepare students for careers and advanced coursework in entrepreneurship, cross-national investment and trade, and politics/policy.
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Credits: 3
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This seminar examines executive branch decision-making using four case studies â the decision to enter the Persian Gulf War in 1992, the 1998 attack on Afghanistan and Sudan, the 2001-2002 war in Afghanistan, and the more recent U.S. decision to conduct a war in Iraq. The emphasis will be on discovering the key variables that led to these momentous decisions, including: Who were the decision makers? What factors influenced them? Were similar variables at work in all cases? How do our findings square with the existing body of theoretical writings? In making our judgments, we will concentrate on the words of the main players as well as examine the views of outside observers, compare and contrast the cases, build decision timelines, and relate our findings to the broader work of political decision-making theory. By their very nature, executive branch decisions, especially those involving the use of force, take place in great secrecy. But in the cases selected for the seminar an abundance of writings by the major players themselves, or those who agreed to share their remembrances with others, exists. All four events have also received extensive coverage in the media before, during, and after the decisions were made. In making our judgments, we will use all these sources, plus sample the extensive body of theoretical work in the academic community focused on decision-making.
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