Primary papers are due to respondent/professor 48hrs before the tutorial meets; response papers are emailed to the professor 2hours before the weekly tutorial meets. It covers domestic and international factors that lead to democratization and democratic backsliding. Political theory addresses questions such as these as it investigates the fundamental problems of how people can, do, and ought to live together. 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). Our concern with these events is not with why they happened as or when they did but, rather, with how they altered the American political order once they did--with how they caused shifts in political alignments, created demands for political action, or resulted in a reordering of political values. Are cyberweapons that target critical infrastructure similar to nuclear weapons, or is that comparison fundamentally flawed? The course will be divided into three parts. at the dawn of the 21st century. Who benefits from the idea of universal human rights? life? 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. Who might change it, and how? How can this be? Critics argue that today's media is shallow and uninformative, a vector of misinformation, and a promoter of extremism and violence. How does political leadership in the 21st century differ from leadership in earlier eras? Rastafari has evolved from a Caribbean theological movement to an international political actor. With this preparation, we then look more closely at major contemporary figures and movements in Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Brazil, and other countries. Guided by a Black diasporic consciousness, students will explore the canon's structural and ideological accounts of slavery, colonialism, patriarchy, racial capitalism, Jim Crow, and state violence and, subsequently, critique and imagine visions of Black liberation. sexuate rights). Or should feminists reject objectivity as a myth told by the powerful about their own knowledge-claims and develop an alternative approach to knowledge? The course ends with a discussion of the successes and failures of the European Union as the principal embodiment of the liberal project today. 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. Contributions to theory include the writings and activism of Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Political science attends to the ways that social power is grasped, maintained, challenged, or justified. social conventions that treat the human body as a form of property. This tutorial has two main objectives. The specific disputes under these rubrics range from secession to impeachment, gun control to child labor, waging war to spurring commerce; the historical periods to be covered include the Marshall and Taney Court years, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the Warren Court, and the contemporary conservative ascendancy. Who gains and loses from the idea that people have human rights? 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. What is it that they oppose and support? We then move on to the empirical section of the course in which we cover case studies of state failure in parts of Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. role in extending democracy, protecting rights, and organizing power. We will apply our learning on many of these topics to the ongoing 2022 midterm elections. Are "religious" reasons ever legitimate reasons for laws, policies or popular political action? 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. A phenomenal strategy? Yet, in spite of the state's efforts, opposition and dissent continue to bubble to the surface. [more], Reserved for and required of those students accepted into the honors program during the second semester of their junior year, the fall semester Senior Thesis Research Design Seminar is intended to serve three purposes for aspiring senior thesis writers. We will assess traditional theories about the weakness of the American state in light of arguments about the state as: regulator of family and "private" life, adjudicator of relations between racial and ethnic groups, manager of economic inequalities, insurer of security, and arbiter of the acceptable uses of violence and surveillance. of politics generally--the state, legitimacy, democracy, authoritarianism, clientelism, nationalism--to comprehend political processes and transformations in various parts of the world. What types of institutions, dynamics, and processes animate American political life in the twenty-first century? This revolution was the most successful revolt of the enslaved in recorded history. The second half covers the most important current issues in hemispheric relations: the rise of leftist governments in Latin America; the war on drugs; immigration and border security; and competition with China for influence. To create and maintain political order requires devising collective means to pile up, bury, burn, or otherwise dispose of stuff deemed dirty or disorderly: waste management is regime management. Some appear durable and resilient; they are not simply transient political failures awaiting a breakthrough to democracy. While the course will focus primarily on the United States, our conceptual framework will be global; though our main interest will be contemporary, we will also examine previous eras in which democratic leadership has come under great pressure. Most countries around the world have built elaborate institutions to ensure citizens' welfare by protecting some people from some risks, but not all people and not all risks. and social inequalities. What is the relationship between leadership and morality-can the ends justify the means? Other critics take aim at the two-party system with the claim that the major parties fail to offer meaningful choices to citizens. Who are the people, anyway? about how history is portrayed in high school textbooks, national identity is hotly debated and politically mobilized all across the region. Should they, perhaps, abandon Europe altogether and re-constitute themselves elsewhere? The basic structure of the class is interdisciplinary; the goal of this approach is to utilize key conceptual arguments to gain greater leverage for the examination of major historical decisions in national security policy. Why does Congress not act, especially when the U.S. confronts so many pressing problems, and how do legislators justify inaction? 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. Serious inquiry into waste is rare in political theory and political science--perhaps understandably, given that the study of politics is shaped by the same taboos that shape politics. [more], When Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 to "drain the swamp," he built on the idea held by Republicans since Ronald Reagan's 1981 pronouncement that "government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." [more], An unprecedented assault on the U.S. Capitol, the rise of white nationalism, a pandemic, a volatile economy, racial reckoning, and rapidly evolving environmental crises have all rocked American politics in the last year. To address these questions, we will study portrayals of some of the most famous leaders in American history--including Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Our sources will include political speeches, literature, film, and journalism as well as monuments and museum exhibits; though our examples will be drawn mostly from the United States, our conceptual framework will be transnational. Our time and Arendt's are similarly darkened by the shadows of racism, xenophobia, inequality, terror, the mass displacement of refugees, and the mass dissemination of lies. Through the lens of coastal and ocean governance and policy-making, we critically examine conflict of use issues relative to climate change, climate justice, coastal zone management, fisheries, ocean and coastal pollution and marine biodiversity. [more], The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea gathered into one place what most countries considered in 1982 to be scattered ancient laws about piracy, transit through other countries' territorial waters, jurisdiction over ships, and so forth. [more], Identities have been either the stakes, or the guise taken by other kinds of conflicts, in Bosnia, Israel-Palestine, Northern Ireland, and South Africa for centuries. But there are other examples of treating the body as property that seem more ambiguous, or even benign: the employment contract in which bodily services are offered in exchange for payment; the feminist slogan "my body, my choice"; or even the every-day transfer of bodily properties into creative projects that then become part of the things people own --- chairs, tables, houses, music, art, and intellectual property. 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. Illustrative cases to aid our inquiry will be drawn primarily from the USA and Canada, with additional examples from India, South Africa, and possibly European law. Hoc Tribunals for crimes in Yugoslavia and those in Rwanda, in Sierra Leone and in Cambodia are giving way to a permanent International Criminal Court, which has begun to hand down indictments and refine its jurisdiction. Indeed, in the study of American political development, we often look to complex processes and underlying causes as explanations for how and why ideas, institutions, and policies both emerge and evolve. Should the world try to regulate the use of these technologies and, if so, how exactly? We will draw on case studies from Latin America, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East to analyze the effectiveness of these theories. Drawing on political speeches, documentary films, humanitarian campaigns, and a variety of academic texts, we critically analyze how those categories are constructed, as well as the political work they do in making claims, justifying policies, and shaping public opinion. We will read classic philosophical texts on art and politics by Schiller, Kant, Schopenhauer, Marx, Adorno, and others, and pair them with contextual studies of works of Western classical music from the last two hundred years and popular music of the last hundred years. But since the Revolution, leaders have been fighting to make real for all Americans the promise of government of, by, and for the people. [more], The 2022 midterm elections are happening in November. Toward that end, we begin by considering competing explanations of political violence (ethnicity, democratization, natural-resource endowments, and predatory elites). [more], George Kennan is widely considered to be the author of the containment strategy that ultimately won the Cold War. The first part of the course focuses primarily on the Middle East's impact on the international system throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while the second part of the course examines contemporary issues. Is it possible to return to a world without nuclear weapons? How can a government of separated institutions operate and come to collective decisions given this discord? We will explore conflicts over how "the people" are defined in different moments, and we will examine how these conflicts connect to the exercise of state power in areas including territorial expansion, census taking, public health, immigration, social welfare, and policing. Will Japan continue to live as a nation with enormous economic power but limited military means? How did we get to this point and what does the future hold? Why do people vote or engage in other types of political action? The course will sweep across American history but will not attempt to be exhaustive in any way. Some defenders argue that the media is a convenient scapegoat for problems that are endemic to human societies, while others claim that it actually facilitates political action aimed at addressing long-ignored injustices. 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. Possible authors include Arendt, Bal, Belting, Benjamin, Browne, Buck-Morss, Butler, Campt, Clark, Crary, Debord, Deleuze, Fanon, Foucault, Freedberg, Hobbes, Kittler, Mercer, Mitchell, Mulvey, Plato, Rancire, Scott, Sexton, Starr, Virilio, Warburg, and Zeki. they cannot do, and who can punish transgressions. To address these questions, we will study portrayals of some of the most famous leaders in American history--including Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Our sources will include political speeches, literature, film, and journalism as well as monuments and museum exhibits; though our examples will be drawn mostly from the United States, our conceptual framework will be transnational. Central to the black radical tradition's architecture are inquiries into the concepts of freedom, race, equality, rights, and humanism; meaning of "radical"; the national-transnational relationship; notions of leadership; status of global capitalism; the nexus of theory and praxis; and revolutionary politics. The pandemic, related economic distress, social protests and insurrection have only sharpened the precarious state of U.S. democracy. Is there a resource curse, or is it possible for mineral rich countries to escape the modern counterparts of Midas? This course identifies the political conditions under which welfare states developed in the twentieth century, and examines how they have responded to globalization, immigration, digital transformation, and other contemporary challenges. 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. How is the domination or conquest of nature connected with domination and conquest within human societies? Du Bois and the subsequent cleavages in political thought and allegiances among their respective adherents will be addressed, along with various other core issues including: the relationship between race, nation, and empire; transnationalism; the meaning of power; notions of leadership; the limitations of understanding Garveyism by the phrase "Back-to-Africa"; the moral philosophy of respect, reparation, and redemption; prophetic political theory; Pan-Africanism; the impact of Garveyism on political theological movements such as the Nation of Islam and Rastafari; women in the Garvey movement; and Garveyite strategies for forging models of political solidarity in dark times. 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. The second engages students with theory and methods for understanding and analyzing media contents (the stories, images, etc. 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. that media convey). This course focuses on Sobukwe's Africanist project and Biko's Black Consciousness Movement, the strategies against apartheid they promoted, and the visions of a free South Africa they imagined. What anti-democratic means? does it mean to be an American? We will explore answers to these questions through seminar discussion, analytic essays, and independent research culminating in the writing of a longer (15 to 20 page) research paper. From there, we analyze the causes, achievements and limitations of the recent wave of political liberalization across Africa. [more], Palestinian Nationalism: This tutorial will cover the history, bases of support, objectives, and accomplishments and failures of Palestinian nationalism over the past century. How is it that the expansion of markets led to the birth of democracy in some countries, but dictatorships in others? Is it manufactured by a political elite using the rules of the game to maintain power while ignoring the concerns of the people? 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. 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. We invite students either to organize their major through the subfields that structure the discipline of political science (American politics, international relations, political theory, and comparative politics), or to develop individual concentrations reflecting their particular interests, regardless of subfields. Scholars, practitioners, and observers of American politics have debated whether the net effect is positive or negative. [more], This introductory seminar investigates the relationship between three major schools of thought in contemporary Africana social and political philosophy: the African, Afro-North American, and Afro-Caribbean intellectual traditions. [more], This is a course about international politics in the nuclear age. We begin with the legacies of colonialism, the slave trade, and the politics of liberation. 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. How do resource gaps tied to inequality in society (such as race and class) influence who votes and for whom? [more], This course, the senior capstone for both Leadership Studies and the American Politics subfield in Political Science, examines the challenges and opportunities facing political leaders in contemporary liberal democracies. 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. The Impact of Black Panther Party Intellectuals on Political Theory. How are tensions between liberty and equality resolved? At the core of feminism lies the critique of inequitable power relations. 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. In turn, our feelings of disgust for anything deemed waste shape political deliberation and action on environmental policy, immigration, food production, economic distribution, and much more. 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. [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. It examines work on electoral systems, formal and informal institutions, bureaucratic politics, political parties, party systems, clientelism, ethnic politics, and political violence. But, coastal and ocean-based climate-induced impacts such as sea level rise, ocean warming and acidification pose extraordinary challenges to our coastal communities, and are not borne equally by all communities. To examine this claim, the readings will address two fundamental issues. 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. With authority? An important goal of the course is to encourage students from different backgrounds to think together about issues of common human concern. 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. With this preparation, we then look more closely at major contemporary figures and movements in Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Brazil, and other countries. 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. Are legal citizenship and formal political rights sufficient for belonging? We first engage with the treaty's content and exclusions, next examine the incentives it provides states and criminals, and last assess the way that geopolitical and climate change create new opportunities and constraints for states, firms, international organizations, and activists. We will begin by examining institutional constraints facing political leaders: globalization, sclerotic institutions, polarization, endemic racism, and a changing media environment. Finally, a pervasive strand of Romantic thought holds that (good) music, by its nature, is apolitical-what might it mean to deny social relevance to an entire field of human expression? Not even the Civil War could resolve this issue, as demonstrated by the failure of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. This course identifies the political conditions under which welfare states developed in the twentieth century, and examines how they have responded to globalization, immigration, digital transformation, and other contemporary challenges. 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. Yet he stopped short of identifying new social movements with the Marxist notion of a revolutionary class. Catalog Williams Catalog Courses and Programs 2022-23 Political Science Political Science Spring 2022-23 Political Science Spring 2022-23 Catalog Search Updating enrollment. With that as background, students will choose an aspect or aspects of these conflicts as a subject for their individual research. Type in your search terms and press enter or navigate down for suggested search results. Is it freedom, empowerment, privilege, or oppression? The second half covers the most important current issues in hemispheric relations: the rise of leftist governments in Latin America; the war on drugs; immigration and border security; and competition with China for influence. By the early 21st century, the city had largely met these challenges and was once again one of the most diverse and economically vital places on earth-but also one marked by profound inequality. 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. Readings and discussions provide a view on the past and ongoing use of media in the shaping of popular knowledge, collective actions, and public policies. Alongside a selection of readings by canonical postcolonial writers and current political theorists, James and Du Bois provoke us to ask what it would take for the democratic world to be truly free. The region is also one of the poorest in the world and lags in human development. 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. one of the poorest in the world and lags in human development. What is the fate of democracy in the U.S.? Wherever they might go, should they aspire to build a modern Jewish nation-state, a semi-autonomous Jewish community, or some other arrangement? is an investigation into this global liberal project, engaging both theory and practice. But social risk has not disappeared--you could lose your job, get into an accident, or find yourself plunged somehow into poverty. sexuate rights). It may be tempting to conclude from these similarities--as some recent commentators have--that we are witnessing the return of "totalitarianism" as Arendt understood it. uses this category, to what ends, and with what success. Africanist Project to Black Consciousness. Does freedom make us happy? Can the framers' vision of deliberative, representative government meet the challenges of a polarized polity? What is our individual and collective responsibility for creating and disposing of waste? The implications of Garvey's conflict with W. E. B. Attention to the writing process and developing an authorial voice will be a recurrent focus of our work inside and outside the classroom. Acute observers have long seen the U.S. as a harbinger of the promise and peril of modern democracies. How does all of that media consumption influence the American political system? Indeed, in the study of American political development, we often look to complex processes and underlying causes as explanations for how and why ideas, institutions, and policies both emerge and evolve. By the early 21st century, the city had largely met these challenges and was once again one of the most diverse and economically vital places on earth-but also one marked by profound inequality. Are these conflicts related, and if so, how? Can public policy reverse these trends? Our task in the seminar is to uncover and interrogate those visions. white, male, elite). Problems and Progress in American Democracy. How has America's democratic experiment compared with (and interacted with) democracy elsewhere in the world?

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