Senior Seminar: The Liberal Project in International Relations. Its first part examines major thinkers in relation to the historical development of capitalism in Western Europe and the United States: the classical liberalism of Adam Smith, Karl Marx's revolutionary socialism, and the reformist ideas of John Maynard Keynes. In country after country, champions of cosmopolitan values and moderate reform are struggling to build sufficient popular support for their programs. Our discussions will address such topics as activism and stoicism; equality and economic freedom; sexual freedom and gender politics; freedom of speech and religion; citizenship, migration, and cosmopolitanism; racism and colonialism; mass incarceration; and the uses and limits of state power. Race is connected to salient issues like immigration and police conduct; to politicians across the political spectrum; and (some argue) to virtually everything in American politics, including fundamental concepts that have no manifest racial content, like partisanship and the size and scope of government. [more], Tens of thousands of international organizations populate our world. social conventions that treat the human body as a form of property. The goal of these discussions is to generate debates over the conceptual, historical, and policy significance of the subjects that we cover. It begins by addressing the arrival of Zionists, the pursuit of statehood and the in-gathering of Jews, and the responses of neighboring Arab states and local Palestinians. Or could they go anywhere? will examine multi-disciplinary texts, such as academic historical narratives, memoirs, political analyses, in critical and comparative readings of mid-late 20th century struggles. What economic, historical, and sociological theories have been advanced to explain poverty? defeat of Nazi Germany? We will read mostly primary sources, including texts by: Hermann Cohen, Theodore Herzl, Chaim Zhitlowsky, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, and many others. What might we expect to come next? Should the world try to regulate the use of these technologies and, if so, how exactly? and dominant media companies (Google, FaceBook, CNN, FOX, etc.). A primary goal of the course is to provide students with the intellectual resources to decipher problems central to philosophical discourse and to allow students an opportunity to apply what they learn to critical issues in current geopolitics. [more], This seminar examines the role of women in "liberation movements," it focuses on their contributions to civil and human rights, democratic culture, and theories of political and social change. But what role can the welfare state play in the twenty-first century? with a creative option = 50%; short response paper and GLOW posts = 10%; participation (attendance and class discussion) = 10% We will begin with an analysis of primary texts by Fanon and end by considering how Fanon has been interpreted by his contemporaries as well as activists and critical theorists writing today. The emergence of an international system of sovereign states--the core foundation of international relations--presumes the process of dismantling systems of domination, extraction, and exclusion ended long ago. Examples of internationalized transitional justice abound. Themes include: Where does political power come from? [more], This course examines the relationships between broad economic structures and political institutions. global integration had a future. In examining these issues, we will seek not only to understand the contours of the potentially dramatic political changes that some say await us but also to put these issues into historical context so that we may draw lessons from the crises of the past. Jews had to decide where to pin their hopes. We will examine the history of immigration to the U.S. and the policies that have shaped it; recent developments in electoral and protest politics; the policy initiatives of recent presidential administrations, Congress, and state and local governments; and the incorporation of immigrants into U.S. society and politics, past and present. The course also will examine the arrival of Arab Jews in the 1950-60, the conflicts between them and European Jews, and the effects of their conflicts on Israeli politics. Our primary questions will be these: Why is transformative leadership so difficult today? race, class, gender, disability, indigenous, queer, subaltern); and 3) exploring the implications of a more inclusive approach to International Relations, both within the classroom as well as contemporary decolonization movements in the US and around the world. 2) How do we identify democratic breakdown? We will study figures and movements for black lives whose geopolitics frame the milieu of Wynter's work. [more], This course provides an introduction to the politics of contemporary Africa, emphasizing the diversity of African politics. parties, social movements, organizations, or local communities--are just and legitimate agents of democratic change, and those most celebrated are those who have helped the country make progress toward its ideals. We focus on the ways in which the Silicon Valley model can threaten social welfare through economic inequality and precarious employment, and engage a variety of perspectives, including workplace ethnography, to examine these threats, as well as potential regulatory responses. [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. How and why have they changed over time? [more], This tutorial provides an introduction to comparative political economy by focusing on an enduring puzzle: the spread of capitalism led to both transitions to democracy and dictatorship/authoritarianism. We will study past campaigns and then research and discuss contemporary reform efforts. A phenomenal strategy? Terrorist attacks at home and abroad. Are "religious" reasons ever legitimate reasons for laws, policies or popular political action? Hence, this seminar will put two very different bodies of theory in conversation: American National Identity and State Power. How can a government of separated institutions operate and come to collective decisions given this discord? If so, should they focus their efforts on relocation to the historical land of Israel? Attention then turns to how post-World War II authoritariansm has been understood from a variety of perspectives, including: the "transitions to democracy" approach; analysis of problems of authoritarian control and authoritarian power-sharing; and examination of "authoritarian relience," among others. perhaps the most influential critic of American foreign policy and the Washington national security establishment. What aspects of politics will endure the ravages of fire or pestilence? It seeks to address why there was a resurgence of political violence at the dawn of the 21st century. He saw these movements as successfully bridging the longstanding tension between the ideal elements of our humanity and the physical conditions for human existence (a tension represented in philosophy by the contrast between Kant and Marx). But what do we mean when we claim to want freedom? is to obtain an enhanced understanding and appreciation of the salience of religion in public life. 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. [more], We rely on environmental laws to make human communities healthier and protect the natural world, while allowing for sustainable economic growth. We will conclude by reflecting on what lessons the welfare state offers for managing this century's biggest social risk: climate change. The final module introduces students to theory and methods for analyzing media relations (how a given media connects particular groups in particular ways). Yet, law is still where we look for justice and, perhaps, for power to be tamed by the pressure to be legitimate. As large as they loom in our daily experience and our historical memory, these sorts of events--concrete, discrete things that happen in and around the political world--are often underestimated as catalysts of political change. The class situates contemporary US migration policies within a global context and over time, placing the US case in conversation with considerations of migration politics and policies in countries around the world. This research seminar will engage the origins of the conflicts and the role of identities in them, the role of disputes about sovereign power in creating and intensifying them, the strategies for reconciling them that are adopted domestically and internationally, the deals that have been struck or have not been struck to bring peace in these societies, and the outcomes of the various efforts in their contemporary politics. After familiarizing ourselves with what academic and policy literatures have to say about them, we then will read about the histories and contemporary politics in each society. Should Harriet Tubman's portrait replace Andrew Jackson's on the $20 bill? 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. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Ella Baker and contemporary theorists like Saidiya Hartman, Charles Mills, bell hooks, and Frank Wilderson--among others. [more], Waste is not just a fact of life, it is a political practice. In much of the rest of the world, however, conservatives harbor no hatred of the state and, when in power, have constructed robust systems of social welfare to support conservative values. Everything else--including political ideology, nationalism, conservative religion, and sovereignty--was consigned to the ash heap. What is the relationship between parties and presidents? They see themselves as original, dynamic, serious. If it is not itself a form of property, how can we explain the use of the human body to acquire possessions, create wealth, and mediate the exchange of other kinds of property? What form of government best serves the people? Beyond the authors mentioned, readings may include such authors as Allen, Bruno, Clark, Debord, Friedberg, Goldsby, Joselit, Mitchell, Nightingale, Rodowick, Rogin, Silverman, and Virilio. One might even claim that when Plato deployed the metaphor in an extended allegory, he constituted the fields of both philosophy and political theory. a range of thinkers including Dionne Brand, Aim Csaire, Angela Davis, douard Glissant, Kwame Gyekye, Paget Henry, bell hooks, Katherine McKittrick, Charles Mills, Nkiru Nzegwu, Oyrnke Oyewm, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Cornel West, and Sylvia Wynter. Acute observers have long seen the U.S. as a harbinger of the promise and peril of modern democracies. How is the office and purpose of the presidency affected by an economic order predicated on private capital? Most readings will focus on contemporary political debates about the accumulation, concentration, and redistribution of wealth. What kinds of regimes best serve to encourage good leaders and to constrain bad ones? In this course we will assess various answers to these questions proffered by Jewish political thinkers in the modern period. This course explores the causes and consequences of democratic erosion through the lens of comparative politics. We will do this by exploring different interpretations of the American political order, each with its own story of narrative tensions and possible resolutions. 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. Thirty years later the future looks seriously derailed. and individual personality, constitution and institution, rules and norms, strategy and contingency. Coverage will include: Jewish liberalism, political Zionism, Yiddishist autonomism, messianic quietism, and other views. to revisit this assumption. Insofar as it fits student interest, we will also explore the cave's considerable presence in visual culture, ranging from Renaissance painting through such recent and contemporary artists as Kelley, Demand, Hirschhorn, Kapoor, Sugimoto, and Walker, to films such as The Matrix. The final section takes a comparative approach to some of the most pressing issues in Africa today: health crises, migration and mobility, technological revolution, climate change, and the emerging power of women and youth. Cohabitation has skyrocketed but marriage is disappearing, and the country's birth rate is at an all-time low. sciences through history: for example, some feminists argue that science has historically been premised upon a view of women as objects, not subjects, of knowledge. How does power relate to technology? Modern Midas? How do visions of politics without humans and humans without politics impact our thinking about longstanding questions of freedom, power, and right? things that happen in and around the political world--are often underestimated as catalysts of political change. Her words and her example should impel us to reject shortcuts to authentic understanding, the "unending activity by whichwe come to terms with and reconcile ourselves to reality." They contend that it legitimates a view of the status quo, in which such terrible things are bound to happen without real cause. We investigate three types of cases: UN Security Council threats and condemnations, international criminal prosecutions, and international election monitoring. and statehouses will likely determine what, if anything, President Biden achieves in the remainder of his term. New York City Politics: The Urban Crisis to the Pandemic. What is the relationship between leadership and morality-can the ends justify the means? How can a government of separated institutions operate and come to collective decisions given this discord? Particular attention will be devoted to the contrast between the views of Trump and those of the American foreign policy establishment over issues such as NATO, nuclear proliferation, Russia, immigration, terrorism, free trade, and conflicts in the Middle East. This course examines those institutions. How has America's democratic experiment compared with (and interacted with) democracy elsewhere in the world? the role of social identities, partisan affiliation, concrete interests, values, issues, and ideology in shaping opinion and behavior, as well as the role of external forces such as campaigns, the media, and political elites. The course extends over one semester and the winter study period. The class will be composed equally of nine Williams students and nine inmates and will be held at the jail. We cover the history, structures and functions of international organizations using case studies. How can this be? Du Bois, Richard Wright, Robert Williams, Yuri Kochiyama, Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs, Ishmael Reed, and Amiri Baraka; films of Bruce Lee; music of Fred Ho; revolutionary praxis of Mao Tse Tung's. What is the connection between social and physical power? How significant of a threat are concerns like nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and nuclear accidents? We will address basic questions such as 'What is populism?' Do certain kinds of processes yield better policies than others? Is intense security competition between major states inevitable, or can they get along, provided their main interests are protected? The goal is to develop a rich understanding of the foundations of public opinion and political behavior. Heroes and Villains: Iconic Leadership and the Politics of Memory. [more], "Not me. [more], Currently 272 million international migrants live in a country different from where they were born, an increase of 78% since 1990. From the perspective of the public sphere, we investigate the firm as an actor whose power maps uneasily onto the channels of democratic representation. This tutorial will examine his wide-ranging critique of American foreign policy over the last half century, focusing on his analysis of the role that he believes the media and academics have played in legitimizing imperialism and human rights abuses around the world. And what are their views on diversity, citizenship, and race, and how do heterodox leftists fit with conservative critiques of managerial liberalism? It concludes with a discussion of the prospects of right-populist politics in the United States. Which leaders developed coherent grand strategies? Ideological polarization that regularly brings the government to a standstill and periodically threatens financial ruin. 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. What does it mean for a government to be truly sovereign? Transportation will be provided by the college. Our primary questions will be these: Why does transformative leadership seem so difficult today? Can we get rid of politics in policy making or improve on it somehow? Students write weekly mini-reflection papers on assigned readings and collectively make analytical presentations. This course will investigate this debate over parties by examining their nature and role in American political life, both past and present. Finally, we will look at arguments that America has been "exceptional"--or, unlike other countries--as well as critiques of these arguments, to help us gain an understanding of future prospects for political transformation. 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. During this time, students will work primarily with their assigned faculty advisor, with the workshop leader's primary role becoming one of coordination, troubleshooting, and general guidance. How did key leaders balance competing objectives and navigate difficult international circumstances? Finally, we examine recent theories of screen and spectacle--read both for their resonances with and departures from debates over the Platonic legacy--and case studies in the politics of both military and racial spectacles in the U.S. We focus on the ways in which the Silicon Valley model can threaten social welfare through economic inequality and precarious employment, and engage a variety of perspectives, including workplace ethnography, to examine these threats, as well as potential regulatory responses. The first concentrates on common readings on these questions, and prioritizes discussion, explication, and hypothesis brainstorming. Fortunately, in recent decades philosophers have made significant progress in theorizing causation. The emphasis will be on the study of social attitudes concerning ethnic groups, gender/sexuality and class as they pertain to a "penal culture" in the United States. This course examines the historical development of American constitutional law and politics from the Founding to the present. The course will show how Muslims were constructed as subjects in history, politics, and society from the very beginning of the making of Europe and the Americas to the end of the Cold War to the post-9/11 era. race, class, gender, disability, indigenous, queer, subaltern); and 3) exploring the implications of a more inclusive approach to International Relations, both within the classroom as well as contemporary decolonization movements in the US and around the world. This course examines the political dynamics of disputes in which disadvantaged interests push for major change. While our examples will be drawn mainly from family law, the regulation of sex/reproduction, and workplace discrimination, the main task of this course will be to deepen our understanding of how the subject of law is constituted. and 3) What are strategies to counteract backsliding when it occurs? This course explores the relationship between politics and economics by surveying influential works of political economy. For governance? Should feminist theory embrace objectivity and model itself upon scientific procedures of knowledge production? Richard Nixon hoped to conclude a peace with honor when he assumed the presidency, but the war lasted for another four years with many additional casualties. What is it and how might it work? International Relations of the Middle East. 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. We engage pressing questions around technological innovation, populism, financialization, and globalization. Finally, we examine China's growing expansion into Africa and ask whether this is a new colonialism. POLITICAL SCIENCE. The course is designed to teach political science majors the nuts, and maybe also the bolts, of social science research. and politics from the Founding to the present. The combination of the historical focus of the early part of the course with discussion of modern policy issues and debates in the latter part of the course permits you to appreciate the ongoing dialogue between classical and contemporary views of political economy. Second, the tutorial will examine the past and ongoing uses and abuses of Orwell's legacy by scholars and analysts on both the political left and the right. For each subject, we will ask several key questions. The implications for political polarization, economic growth, social insurance programs, public health, military defense, even national survival are grim. Our examination of intellectuals and activists, with their explicit and implicit engagements with Wynter, shall facilitate assessing the possibilities, challenges, and visions of black living. Attention to the writing process and developing an authorial voice will be a recurrent focus of our work inside and outside the classroom. 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. They help us ask: What is freedom? Ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity is offset by common cultural traditions and practices that serve to unite the people of the Indian Subcontinent. It will not only survey the history of the nuclear age--and of individual countries' nuclear development--but also grapple with important contemporary policy dilemmas in the nuclear realm. The course draws from anthropology, gender studies, history, political science, religious studies, postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, and sociology. Rather, it will focus on certain moments that highlight changing grand strategic thought. We investigate who refugees are, in international law and popular understanding; read refugee stories; examine international and national laws distinguishing refugees from other categories of migrants; evaluate international organizations' roles in managing population displacement; look at the way that images convey stereotypes and direct a type of aid; consider refugee camps in theory and example; and reflect on what exclusion, integration, and assimilation mean to newcomers and host populations. 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). The course begins with several sessions that provide a technical overview of key information security concepts and an examination of some prominent hacks. Ill health, inadequate sanitation, and lack of access to safe drinking water are increasingly common. use tab and shift-tab to navigate once expanded, Experiential Learning & Community Engagement, PSCI 201 - 01 (S) LEC Power,Politics,Democracy Amer, PSCI 202 - 01 (S) LEC Intro International Relations, PSCI 202 - 02 (S) LEC Intro International Relations, PSCI 203 - 01 (S) SEM Intro to Political Theory, PSCI 204 - 01 (S) LEC Intro to Comparative Politics, PSCI 214 - 01 (S) SEM Racial and Ethnic Politics, PSCI 215 - 01 (S) SEM Race & Inequality in US City, PSCI 217 - 01 (S) LEC American Constitutionalism II, PSCI 222 - 01 (S) LEC IR in the Cyber Age, PSCI 225 - 01 (S) LEC International Security, PSCI 226 - 01 (S) LEC Pol Intervention Africa, PSCI 229 - 01 (S) LEC Global Political Economy, PSCI 247 - 01 (S) LEC Political Power Contemp China, PSCI 253 - 01 (S) LEC Tragedy of Venezuela, PSCI 291 - T1 (S) TUT American Political Events, PSCI 315 - 01 (S) SEM Parties in American Politics, PSCI 344 - T1 (S) TUT Palestinian Nationalism, PSCI 357 - 01 (S) SEM Anxieties of Democracy, PSCI 375 - 01 (S) SEM Modern Jewish Political Theory, PSCI 380 - 01 (S) SEM Sex Marriage Family, PSCI 398 - 01 (S) IND Indep Study: Political Science, PSCI 432 - 01 (S) SEM Sr Sem: Critical Theory, PSCI 442 - 01 (S) SEM The Authoritarian State, PSCI 494 - 01 (S) HON Sen Thesis: Political Science, PSCI 496 - 01 (S) IND Indiv Proj: Political Science, PSCI 498 - 01 (S) IND Indep Study: Political Science. [more], Arguably, the dominant discourse in American politics today is about race. Are the politics of the presidency different in foreign and domestic policy? Many of the seminar's themes, including democracy, power, inequality, judgment, deliberation, publicity, subjectivity, and agency, are central to political theory, but readings and course materials will also be drawn from such fields as media theory, surveillance studies, sociology, American studies, critical data science, film, and contemporary art. The desire for political freedom is as old as the ancient world and as new as today's movements and liberation struggles. Is this right? We will engage primarily with political science, but also with scholarship in other disciplines, including sociology, history, geography, and legal studies, all of which share an interest in the questions we will be exploring. [more], Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary Frantz Fanon was among the leading critical theorists and Africana thinkers of the twentieth century. The course will conclude by examining what Orwell's thought contributes to a consideration of current issues ranging from the emergence of cancel culture to the possibilities of democratic socialism in the 21st century. Building from an international relations framework, the course brings together a variety of texts, including documentaries, social media, and guest speakers working on the front lines of global advocacy (refugee rights, anti-colonial liberation struggles, and contemporary pro-democracy movements). Meanwhile, national activists look to international apologies and reparations for models of what to demand.
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