The course then will turn to Israeli settlement policies on the West Bank, the controversies surrounding the Oslo Agreement, and the contemporary situations in the West Bank and Gaza. is a solution. This course begins with an examination of the general phenomena of nationalism and national identity and their historical development in East Asia. Finally, could the Cold War have been ended long before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989? What, if any, is the relationship between economic development and the organization of power (regime type)? Catalog Williams Catalog Courses and Programs 2022-23 Political Science Political Science Spring 2022-23 Political Science Spring 2022-23 Catalog Search Updating enrollment. Yet at the same time, others worry that the U.S. has abandoned the Anglo-Protestant traditions that made it strong and has entered a period of moral decay and decline. [more], It is hard to overstate the enduring influence of George Orwell on political discourse in the 20th century and beyond. What are the root causes of racism? After examining general models of change and of leadership, we will consider specific case studies, such as civil rights for African-Americans, gender equality, labor advances, social conservatism, and populism. The course begins with the political economy of the colony, then covers the Cuba- US relationship from Jos Mart and 1898 through the Cold War to the present, emphasizing the revolutionary period. We will examine factors that shape election outcomes such as the state of the economy, issues, partisanship, ideology, social identities with a special focus on race, interest groups, media, and the candidates themselves. Yet to rest on this is too simple as it is, in part, an artifact of historical construction. More specifically, the class will examine the origins of the Zionist movement; the role that the First World War played in shaping the dispute; the period of the British mandate; the rise of Palestinian nationalism; the Second World War and the creation of the state of Israel; the 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars; Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and its consequences; the promise and ultimate collapse of the Oslo peace process during the 1990s and early 2000s; the rise of groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad; the rightward shift in Israeli politics since 2000; the intensification of Israeli-Iranian antagonism and its implications; the shift in Israel's relations with the Sunni Arab world that has occurred in recent years; and the future of the conflict. Our focus is on rights and liberties -- freedom of speech and religion, property, criminal process, autonomy and privacy, and equality. How should we decide what constitutes a good policy? Students will leave this course with a deeper understanding of contemporary urban problems, a knowledge of the political structures within which those problems are embedded, and a better sense of the challenges and opportunities leaders face in contemporary urban America. The pandemic, related economic distress, social protests and insurrection have only sharpened the precarious state of U.S. democracy. Environmental Studies 307 analyzes the transformation of environmental law from fringe enterprise to fundamental feature of modern political, economic and social life. Mackie, Marx, Nietzsche, and Max Weber. The course will give a global perspective on Islamophobia and how it is structuring and used by political actors in various territories. If so, should it be Hebrew or Yiddish? More information can be found on the Political Science site. Does the state and its policies make the nation, as many scholars claim? In addition to those who argue for an expanded and emancipatory conception of politics, we will consider arguments against politics as primary path to improvement or focus of commitment. The class is divided into four sections. But what does it mean? The second part of the course focuses on the Iraq War and its consequences; the rise of ISIS; the Arab Spring; Turkey's changing foreign relations; and the war in Syria. [more], Tens of thousands of international organizations populate our world. How have leaders from James Madison to George W. Bush thought about U.S. vulnerabilities, resources, and goals, and how have those ideas influenced foreign policy decisions? Senior Seminar in American Politics: Polarized America. and social inequalities. What is the relationship between leadership and morality-can the ends justify the means? Should feminist theory embrace objectivity and model itself upon scientific procedures of knowledge production? This course is part of a joint program between Williams' Center for Learning in Action and the Berkshire County Jail in Pittsfield, MA. [more], This is a class about international politics in the age of cyberweapons. The readings will begin with claims that democracy consists of government by elites, that the democratic component consists of elections that amount to choosing between rival slates of elites, and that agreements among elites set the boundaries for permissible democratic decision making. How is property defined, and how far should law go to erode or reinforce distinctions between property and humanity? CAPSTONE: Sylvia Wynter, Black Lives, and Struggle for the Human. How is political power generated and exercised? Toward that end, we begin by considering competing explanations of political violence (ethnicity, democratization, natural-resource endowments, and predatory elites). Does the structure of the international system necessarily cause conflict? move calling on those both within and outside of Europe to challenge the coloniality of the age and to forge a new vision of politics in the postcolonial period. And how will the unfolding pandemic change how we respond to these stories? Materials include journalism, official publications, biographies, travel accounts, polemics, policy statements of the US government, and a wide range of academic works. We will apply our learning on many of these topics to the ongoing 2022 midterm elections. First, through a variety of readings and discussions (including, perhaps, with the assigned scholars themselves), it aims to introduce students to the challenges of original scholarly research and expose them to the range of ways political scientists approach those challenges. What should be done to dissuade the authoritarian regime in North Korea from acquiring nuclear capabilities and lead it to different paths toward national survival? Can they be the same thing? We study structures, processes, key events, and primary actors that have shaped American political development. This course examines the complex political processes that led successive American presidents to get involved in a conflict that all of them desperately wanted to avoid. The course will give a global perspective on Islamophobia and how it is structuring and used by political actors in various territories. Asking. The course will begin by reading about both the general theoretical issues raised by conflicts in these "divided societies" and various responses to them. This course is an advanced seminar devoted to a comprehensive examination of Fanon's political thought. From the perspective of the public sphere, we investigate the firm as an actor whose power maps uneasily onto the channels of democratic representation. The course will begin--by focusing on the Manhattan Project--with a brief technical overview of nuclear physics, nuclear technologies, and the design and effects of nuclear weapons. The goal of this course is to assess American political change, or lack of, and to gain a sense of the role that political leaders have played in driving change. Treating the visual as a site of power and struggle, order and change, we will examine not only how political institutions and conflicts shape what images people see and how they make sense of them but also how the political field itself is visually constructed. The course will focus on these questions using an interdisciplinary perspective that leverages political science concepts, historical case studies, and contemporary policy debates to generate core insights. The basic format of the course will be to combine very brief lectures with detailed class discussions of each session's topic. [more], The seminar involves a critical engagement with key Africana political leaders, theorists and liberationists. Particular attention will be given to the modern liberal tradition and its critics. Du Bois' great book, Black Reconstruction in America. Our focus is on structures of power -- the limits on congressional lawmaking, growth of presidential authority, establishment of judicial review, conflicts among the three branches of the federal government, and boundaries between the federal and state and local governments. Jews had to decide where to pin their hopes. [more], Is the American party system what's wrong with American politics? We will address basic questions such as 'What is populism?' Course Catalog Search Title/Course Description Keyword Search input and button. With that as background, students will choose an aspect or aspects of these conflicts as a subject for their individual research. At the core of feminism lies the critique of inequitable power relations. In addition to addressing this important question about the health of American democracy, students will learn how the traditional media and social media influences Americans' political attitudes and behaviors. [more], Coastal communities are home to nearly 40% of the U.S. population, but occupy only a small percentage of our country's total land area. Although we will attempt to engage the readings on their own terms, we will also ask how the vast differences between the ancient world and our own undercut or enhance the texts' ability to illuminate the dilemmas of political life for us. How does racism influence political choices? Exploration of these and other questions will lead us to examine topics such as presidential selection, the bases of presidential power, character and leadership, congressional-executive interactions, social movement and interest group relations, and media interactions. Course cap: 19 What role do moral and legal considerations play in world politics? In ways often obscure to users, they structure communication or conduct in social media, education, healthcare, shopping, entertainment, dating, urban planning, policing, criminal sentencing, political campaigns, government regulation, and war. How is the office and purpose of the presidency affected by an economic order predicated on private capital? Course readings focus on Locke, Hegel, Marx, and critical perspectives from feminist theory, critical theory, and critical legal studies (Cheryl Harris, Alexander Kluge, Oskar Negt, Carole Pateman, Rosalind Petchesky, and Dorothy Roberts, among others). How are we to understand this contradiction as a matter of justice? Political science attends to the ways that social power is grasped, maintained, challenged, or justified. Within a few years, the finality of that victory was brought into question as the Taliban regrouped and eventually reasserted itself as a formidable guerilla army that the U.S. military could not easily defeat. Accompanying these interventions in the legal field is a deep and sustained inquiry into the subject of law: Who can appear before the law as the proper bearer of civil and human rights? We will focus on the role of political parties in democratization; the emergence of political dynasties; changes in the characteristics of the political elite; investigate claims of democratic deepening; and examine the effect of inter-state wars, land disputes, and insurgencies on democratic stability in the region. How can they be better regulated? How can it be established and secured? The seminar is open to all students; however, priority is given to seniors majoring in American Studies. colony, then covers the Cuba- US relationship from Jos Mart and 1898 through the Cold War to the present, emphasizing the revolutionary period. Finally, what are the costs of change (and of continuity)--and who pays them? Others, whose ambitions and initiatives arguably undermined progress toward American ideals, were not recognized as dangerous at the time. We then consider patterns of economic development in Africa. The class will address a combination of conceptual, empirical, and policy questions, such as: Have nuclear weapons had a "revolutionary" effect on world politics, such that, fundamentally, international relations no longer works in more or less the same way that it did before the advent of nuclear weapons in 1945? [more], Palestinian Nationalism: This tutorial will cover the history, bases of support, objectives, and accomplishments and failures of Palestinian nationalism over the past century. Under what circumstances has positive leadership produced beneficial outcomes, and in what circumstances has it produced perverse outcomes? [more], In Book VII of the Republic, Socrates famously asks his interlocutors to picture people living in a cave, bound in chains and able to see only shadows on the wall. Admission to Tulsa Community College does not guarantee admission to the Physical Therapist Assistant Program. into the "problem space" of Black Political Thought, students will examine the historical and structural conditions, normative arguments, theories of action, ideological conflicts, and conceptual evolutions that help define African American political imagination. Students will learn about the region's geopolitical significance from both an historical and political science perspective. We will critically analyze how those categories are constructed at the international and domestic levels, as well as how those categorizations are also racialized, politicized, and gendered. Among other issues, we will consider the points of conflict and consensus among different racial groups, how Americans of different racial backgrounds think about other groups, and the implications of demographic change (including the growth of the Latino and Asian-American populations and the shrinking white share of the electorate) for future elections. At the end we briefly reconsider current U.S. policies in historical perspective. What are the primary causes of war and conflict? The structure of the course combines political science concepts and historical case studies, with the goal of generating in-depth classroom debates over key conceptual, historical, and policy questions. This course is an investigation into this global liberal project, engaging both theory and practice. the Silicon Valley model and other countries' attempts to emulate it. Two questions will anchor the tutorial: how is the nation defined and what, if any, class interests are folded into various definitions? In so doing, we will seek to use controversial and consequential moments in American politics as a window into deeper questions about political change and the narratives we tell about it. How does racism influence political choices? Moreover, these institutions vary considerably both over time and between countries. This course examines those institutions. At a general level, it focuses on a set of core conceptual questions: How has the advent of cyberweapons changed how international politics works? Third, how did the Cold War in Europe lead to events in other areas of the world, such as Cuba and Vietnam? climate change) are organized and mobilized. As a final assignment, students will craft an 18-20-page research paper on a topic of their choice related to the themes of the course. Does it reflect increased inequality in a fast-changing global economy? Why do we find the visible presence of certain kinds of things or persons to be unbearably noxious? Environmental Studies 307 analyzes the transformation of environmental law from fringe enterprise to fundamental feature of modern political, economic and social life. When and why do states choose to use military force? Complicating things further, the nature of democratic competition is such that those vying for power have incentive to portray the opposition's leadership as dangerous. By the end of the semester, you will gain both a general perspective and substantive knowledge on East Asian international politics. What is the cause of this loss of faith in the future? We will conclude by reflecting on what lessons the welfare state offers for managing this century's biggest social risk: climate change. What does that portend, if anything, for other democracies, or for the general principle of popular sovereignty--the idea that the people govern themselves? The core of the course is made up of analyses of global trade, global finance, natural resources, and migration, with special attention to subjects such as free trade, currency wars, and border walls. Class will be driven primarily by discussion. The third emphasizes research design, allowing students to finalize their own project while bringing in primary sources such as original documents, debates, and data. What is the relationship of thinkers who emphasize the market, order, and traditional values? The course begins with several sessions that provide a technical overview of key information security concepts and an examination of some prominent hacks. First, why did America and the Soviet Union become bitter rivals shortly after the defeat of Nazi Germany? Topics include the politics of race; rapid urbanization, especially in the valley of Mexico; and the cultural impact of the turn toward the north, after 1990, in economic policy. Materials include classic texts, recent theoretical works, journalism, commentary, fiction, and a variety of sources related to current events in Ukraine and elsewhere. The readings will address the politics, policies, and composition of the African National Congress (ANC), the growth of black economic elites and the black middle class, the persistence of poverty and extreme inequality, expanding corruption, and why the ANC continues to prevail politically and electorally in spite of on-going poverty and worsening inequality, governmental failures, and corruption. [more], This seminar reviews contemporary theories of "anti-black racism"; their articulation or assimilation within current political movements and mobilizations; and the influence and impact such theories-expressed in and/or as activism-on social justice and civil rights. It then explores more deeply the reasons for the breakdown of this settlement, the rise of Hugo Chavez, and the decay of the "21st Century Socialist" regime under Chavez and Maduro. In this class we explore the dark side of democracy. Readings may include texts by Rene Descartes, Andreas Vesalius, Londa Schiebinger, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Helen Longino, Nancy Harstock, Sandra Harding, bell hooks, Donna Haraway, Mary Hawkesworth, and Octavia Butler. and 3) What are strategies to counteract backsliding when it occurs? Among the many specific questions we will consider are whether particular religious traditions might be incompatible with democratic values, the extent to which recent changes in higher education have affected the health of democratic politics, the effects of ideological polarization on democratic discourse, and the place of the jury system in securing democratic justice. When should we leave important decisions to technocratic experts? We consider how this history confirms or undermines influential views about U.S. foreign relations and about international relations generally. optimism, pessimism, enslavement, freedom, creativity, and being human? [more], This course provides an overview of the international relations of the Middle East, with a special focus on the period from the late nineteenth century to the present. Particular attention will be given to the modern liberal tradition and its critics. Possible texts include Hamilton, Madison, and Jay. When should we leave important decisions to technocratic experts? We begin by examining the colonization of Africa, nationalist movements, and patterns of rule in the first 30 years of independence. remained a vulnerable, segregated, and stigmatized minority population. We will also investigate cases of right-wing populism including France's National Rally and the Eric Zemmour phenomenon, Sweden's Sweden Democrats, Hungary's Fidesz, Poland's Law and Justice Party, and Trumpism, the alt-right and QAnon. [more], This seminar focuses on the entwined histories of liberation movements against racism, enslavement, and imperialism in the US, Cuba and Africa. We will consider military affairs, economics, and diplomacy, but the class is mostly concerned with ideas. sell! Are "religious" reasons ever legitimate reasons for laws, policies or popular political action? How does all of that media consumption influence the American political system? What should be done to dissuade the authoritarian regime in North Korea from acquiring nuclear capabilities and lead it to different paths toward national survival? Despite this, national government has grown in scope and size for much of this history, including under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Readings will be drawn from such authors as Adorno, Allen, Arendt, Berlant, Brown, Butler, Connolly, Dean, Foucault, Galli, Honig, Latour, Moten, Rancire, Rawls, Sen, and Sexton. They have led to, or expressed, political divisions, clashing loyalties, and persistent and sometimes consuming violence. social conventions that treat the human body as a form of property. sexuate rights). Some commentators argue that racial attitudes were at the center of opposition to Obama's candidacy and legislative agenda and are foremost on voters' minds in 2016. Transportation will be provided by the college. It also created ocean zones, with rules for each, and proposed a system for taxing firms that it licensed to exploit minerals on the high seas. The basic format of the course will be to combine brief lectures--either posted on the class website beforehand or given at the start of each class--with an in-depth discussion of each class session's topic. How are we to understand this contradiction as a matter of justice? Tracing the path of capitalist development in the rich democracies suggests a range of responses. How people ground this concept--what they think its origin is--does matter, but evaluating those foundations is not our focus. [more], The United States attacked and defeated the Afghan Taliban regime over in the course of a few short weeks in 2001. to serve three purposes for aspiring senior thesis writers. This course is an investigation into relations between the sexes in the developed world, the fate of children and the family, and government attempts to shape them. Finally, the course will address contemporary controversies about what it means to be a Jew in Israel, about the feasibility of a "two-state" solution to the Palestinian issue, about the prospects and implications of a "one-state" solution, and about the implications for Israel of not resolving the Palestinian issue to the mutual satisfaction of Israelis and Palestinians. After considering explanations of the rise of the left and assessments of its performance in power, we end our common readings by asking what it might mean today to be on the left in Latin America--or anywhere--both in policy and political terms. We also attend to the emigration governance of diaspora citizens particularly from the Global South. The course surveys the electoral politics of low and middle-income democracies in the developing world, investigating its similarities and differences with the historical and contemporary politics of developed democracies. Political theory addresses questions such as these as it investigates the fundamental problems of how people can, do, and ought to live together. Does it reflect increased inequality in a fast-changing global economy? The course begins with several sessions that provide a technical overview of key information security concepts and an examination of some prominent hacks. The goal of this course is to assess American political change, or lack of, and to gain a sense of the role that political leaders have played in driving change. Among the many specific questions we will consider are whether particular religious traditions might be incompatible with democratic values, the extent to which recent changes in higher education have affected the health of democratic politics, the effects of ideological polarization on democratic discourse, and the place of the jury system in securing democratic justice. However, with the election of Donald Trump, the American presidency is now in the hands of someone who proudly claims the America first mantle. Can certain forms of power be considered more feminist than others? It spells out who can be a sovereign state and how to become one, what states can do, what they cannot do, and who can punish transgressions. incarceration, and failing public services-social problems borne primarily by people of color.

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