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POL 380 - Global Politics Seminar


FDR: SS2
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.



Prerequisite: POL 105 or instructor consent. Examination of selected topics dealing with international and comparative politics. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Winter 2013 topics:

POL 380-01: Seminar: Human Security (3). The traditional goal of ‘national security’ has been to defend states against external enemies. The focus of ‘human security’ is the protection of individuals – often from the state. As events like the Rwandan genocide and the war on terror illustrate, many of the most acute threats to international peace and security now come from forces within states. But human security is a contested and broad concept; while its proponents agree that its goal is to assure the security of individuals, there is less agreement over which threats individuals should be protected from. This course provides an introduction to the key debates in, and policy relevance of, human security through issues like genocide, civil war, terrorism, migration, development, and hunger. (SS2) Kennedy.

POL 380-02: Seminar: Russian Politics (3). Satisfies the global politics field requirement or elective credit in the politics major. … (SS2) McCaughrin.





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