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The process of globalization, the enormous growth in numbers of transnational social movements and nongovernmental organizations, and the broad reach of transnational capital and corporations has generated considerable academic and policy interest in future of global governance and role of "global civil society" in it. This senior seminar provides broad view of theory and debates behind global civil society and case studies of specific transnational networks, movements, and coalitions. Prerequisite(s): One of course 160, 160A, 160B, 162, or 173. Enrollment restricted to senior politics and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Systematic introduction to the nature of politics and government, organized around the dynamic relationship between power, principle, and process in democratic politics. Provides historic and contemporary overview; explores the interactions among government, laws, and societies at the national and international levels. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Introduces key concepts in political discourse and key debates generated by contested terms such as "powers," "ideology," and "multiculturalism." Students read from canonical texts, feminist scholarship, historical materials, and contemporary cultural and postmodernist writings. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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What does a citizen do? Uses political theory to answer this question as it relates to a number of issues, such as voting rights, diversity, gay marriage, and revolution. Draws on texts ranging from Aristotle to contemporary legal and cultural debates, to bear on the relationship of citizen action and identity. Other readings include Thoreau, Ellison, Rousseau, Marx, Arendt, and Socrates. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Considers both the religious sources of political ideas and the political sources of religious ideas, addressing topics such as sovereignty, justice, love, reason, revelation, sacrifice, victimhood, evil, racism, rebellion, reconciliation, and human rights. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Links the study of democratic theories with an interdisciplinary approach to issues at the intersection of democracy and technology, such as participation, freedom of speech, access with regard to diversity, and income inequality. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Explores intellectual and empirical trends shaping the U.S. relationship with the global economy. Traces debates about liberalism and interventionism, surveys post-war American foreign economic policy and discusses varieties of capitalism emerging around the world. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Analysis of the development and operation of American political institutions, focusing on the constitutional powers of the Congress, presidency, and Supreme Court; and the development of the American political parties. Topics include the ideological underpinnings of American democracy; the changing balance of power between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches; the expansion of national government power; the expansion of the right to vote and political representation; and the rising power of "non-governmental" forces. Satisfies American History and Institutions Requirement. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Examines role of ideas, interests, and institutions in shaping contemporary social policy in the U.S. Focuses on political struggles and policy debates in the areas of crime and drug control, health care, and income security. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Following a survey of the development of the former USSR that emphasizes those factors responsible for its dissolution, focuses on the politics of nation building and international reintegration, and the prospects of democratic or authoritarian futures. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Can common global interest prevail against particular sovereign desires? Surveys selected contemporary issues in global politics such as wars of intervention, ethnic conflict, globalization, global environmental protection, and some of the different ways in which they are understood and explained. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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From September 2001 the U.S. committed to a "War on Terrorism." What are its political sources? Objectives? Effects on internal politics, external alliances, and civil liberties? Military implications? Costs? How is political discourse deployed? How can it be assessed? (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Beginning with the basic concept of state sovereignty, explores ways in which different types of intervention problematize and compromise state sovereignty, particularly in the Third World. Examines the dis/incentives behind military, economic, humanitarian and cultural interventions, their un/intended consequences, and their ethical controversies. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Examines role of nation-state in global politics by studying processes of state formation in four regions: Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Evaluates recent challenges to the state that have begun to emerge from above and below. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Situates ongoing debates around feminist theory and practice within the context of political theory, the role of the state, and the position of women in contemporary (predominantly Western) society. Engages with classical political theory, second wave feminism, and the role of the state on matters pertaining to pornography and prostitution. Enrollment restricted to politics, legal studies, and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only.
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Basic problems of political theory within the American setting. The course explores both the mainstream tradition and some branches of the counter tradition of political ideas in America, focusing on the themes of authority, community, equality, and liberty. Enrollment restricted to politics, legal studies, and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only. Satisfies American History and Institutions Requirement.
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Ancient political ideas in context of tension between democracy and empire, emergence of the psyche, and shift from oral to written culture. Emphasis on Athens, with Hebrew, Roman, and Christian departures and interventions. Includes Sophocles, Thucydides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, the Bible, and Augustine. (Also offered as Legal Studies 105A. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to politics and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only.
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Studies republican and liberal traditions of political thought and politics. Authors studied include Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Examination of issues such as authorship, individuality, gender, state, and cultural difference. (Also offered as Legal Studies 105B. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to politics and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only.
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Studies in 19th- and early 20th-century theory, centering on the themes of capitalism, labor, alienation, culture, freedom, and morality. Authors studied include J. S. Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, Foucault, Hegel,Fanon, and Weber. (Also offered as Legal Studies 105C. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to politics and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only.
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The politics of identity and recognition as the basis for institutional legitimacy and social struggles in the late 20th century. Conflicting views of Hegel's master-slave dialectic are used to relate, e.g., Sartre, Fanon, Bataille, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Lacan, Levinas, Derrida, Deleuze, Zizek, and Badiou to present-day concerns. (Also offered as Legal Studies 105D. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to politics and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment.
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Examines Marx's use of his sources in political philosophy and political economy to develop a method for analyzing the variable ways in which social change is experienced as a basis for social action. Provides a similar analysis of contemporary materials. Contrasts and compares Marxian critiques of these materials and readings based on Nietzsche, psychonalysis, cultural studies, and rational choice materialsim. (Also offered as Legal Studies 106. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to politics and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only.
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What are the continuing relationships between victims, perpetrators, and beneficiaries of a past that is recognized as evil? Focus on contrast between the competing moral logics of struggle and reconciliation, and various rationales for allowing beneficiaries to keep their gains in order to bring closure to the past. Theoretical perspectives drawn from law, philosophy, theology, and psychoanalysis. (Also offered as Legal Studies 107. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to politics and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only.
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Focuses on reading texts written by Milton and Dante, including Paradise Lost and Purgatorio. Topics of political theology, medieval and reformation Christian thought and related historical studies are examined. Enrollment restricted to politics majors.
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Studies "Orientalism" as a concept of political theory and as a historical practice. Considers how "Western" views of the peoples, cultures, and governments of 'the East" influenced political, intellectual, and aesthetic projects of the 18th and 19th centuries, with attention to the themes of colonialism, nationalism, language, and gender. Also considers Orientalism as a subject of post-colonial thought. Prerequisite(s): course 105A, or 105B, or 105C, or 105D; or by permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to politics majors.
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Examines current problems in law as it intersects with politics and society. Readings are drawn from legal and political philosophy, social science, and judicial opinions. (Also offered as Legal Studies 110. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to politics, legal studies, and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only.
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