Sections offered FALL 2020:
#36442 |
LEE FEINSTEIN |
M 3:00-5:30pm |
WEB |
CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Above class meets 100% Online through Synchronous instruction. For more information visit https://fall2020.iu.edu/learning-modes/
In a time of head-spinning global change, this course will help you make sense of the global system: How it works in theory, and how it works in practice. Why and under what circumstances have conflict and war emerged in international politics? When has diplomacy, cooperation, and peace prevailed? What explains the global decline of democracy and human rights? What is the role of nuclear weapons and arms control? What is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global change? How are the presidential campaigns responding to global events? Why does genocide persist as an instrument of national security policy in some repressive states. In addition to readings and interactive lectures and discussion groups, you will have the chance to meet and network with leading policy scholars and experts who will help us understand how the international system is organized now; and what can be done to improve it.