Introduction to International Politics

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Intro to International Politics is, unsurprisingly, the intro class to the international politics subfield of political science.

Syllabus

  1. Introduction: theories and international politics
  2. Realism: What It Is and Why It Matters
  3. Realism and Causes of War.
  4. Culture, Religion and Conflict: A Challenge to Realist Rationality?
  5. The Liberal Critique of Realism
  6. Levels of Analysis as a Critique of Realism: Bureaucratic and Organizational Politics, and the Importance of Individuals
  7. Is Jihadi Terrorism a Challenge to Realism?
  8. Origins of World War I: Military Organizations and Alliances
  9. Origins of World War II: Appeasing and Bandwagoning
  10. Origins of the Cold War: Realism vs. Ideology
  11. Cuban Missile Crisis: Parity, Deterrence, and Accidents
  12. End of the Cold War: Realism, Liberalism and Ideas
  13. Economic Realism (mercantilism) vs. Liberalism/Neoliberalism
  14. Globalization and Inequality: Is al Qaeda the New Marxism?
  15. Hegemonic Stability Theory, the Bretton Woods System and the IMF
  16. The World Trade Organization and Global Liberalization
  17. Economic Regionalism and Politics: The European Union
  18. The United Nations: An Organization of Organizations
  19. Iraq, part one: Sanctions and WMD
  20. Iraq, part two: War and its Aftermath
  21. Proliferation and Deterrence Today: India and Pakistan
  22. Proliferation and Deterrence Today: Iran and North Korea
  23. U.S. Primacy and its challengers
  24. The Mearsheimer and Walt controversy