Introduction to International Politics
Intro to International Politics is, unsurprisingly, the intro class to the international politics subfield of political science.
Syllabus
- Introduction: theories and international politics
- Realism: What It Is and Why It Matters
- Realism and Causes of War.
- Culture, Religion and Conflict: A Challenge to Realist Rationality?
- The Liberal Critique of Realism
- Levels of Analysis as a Critique of Realism: Bureaucratic and Organizational Politics, and the Importance of Individuals
- Is Jihadi Terrorism a Challenge to Realism?
- Origins of World War I: Military Organizations and Alliances
- Origins of World War II: Appeasing and Bandwagoning
- Origins of the Cold War: Realism vs. Ideology
- Cuban Missile Crisis: Parity, Deterrence, and Accidents
- End of the Cold War: Realism, Liberalism and Ideas
- Economic Realism (mercantilism) vs. Liberalism/Neoliberalism
- Globalization and Inequality: Is al Qaeda the New Marxism?
- Hegemonic Stability Theory, the Bretton Woods System and the IMF
- The World Trade Organization and Global Liberalization
- Economic Regionalism and Politics: The European Union
- The United Nations: An Organization of Organizations
- Iraq, part one: Sanctions and WMD
- Iraq, part two: War and its Aftermath
- Proliferation and Deterrence Today: India and Pakistan
- Proliferation and Deterrence Today: Iran and North Korea
- U.S. Primacy and its challengers
- The Mearsheimer and Walt controversy