Politics 387DW - Polit. in the Developing World

This course examines various political, economic, and social debates surrounding the foundations, meanings, and empirics of the state in the developing world. While the region encompasses a wide-variety of nations and cultures, there are a number of shared characteristics which provoke a context for a comparative analysis of post-colonialism, economic development, authoritarianism, and societal-state relations. Focus in this course is on the ever-changing position of the state in the post-colonial world, with questions investigating the debate on civil society and democratization, differences of colonialism, role of resistance, and on the politics created by state development.