Topics Course. An examination of the role of Latinos in society and politics in the U.S. Issues to be analyzed include immigration, education, electoral politics, and gender.

Topics course. This seminar will examine the ways in which we ask and answer questions about inequality. We will study inequality and related social policy in the United States, with special attention to the methodological choices of the authors we read, and the kinds of answers that these methodological choices make possible or foreclose. We will draw on texts from political science, sociology, and anthropology, and the reading list for the course will be adjusted as we go to ensure that the interests of the participants in the seminar are well represented.

An examination of political thought in America from the colonial period to the present. Prominent themes include: politics and religion, constitutional structures, political parties, slavery, industrialization, welfare, foreign policy, and liberalism-conservatism.

An examination of the great thinkers of the classical and (time permitting) medieval periods. Possible topics include: family and the state, freedom and the gods, war are faction, politics and philosophy, secular and religious authority, justice, citizenship, regimes, and natural law. Selected authors include: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, Cicero, Lucretious, Augustine, Aquinas, and Marsilius.

This course examines refugees - i.e., people displaced within their country, to another country or, perhaps, somewhere "in between." Refugee politics prompt a consideration of the cause of refugee movements; persecution, flight, asylum, and resettlement dynamics; the international response to humanitarian crises; and the "position" of refugees in the international system.

What role do international organizations play in world politics, and what role should they play? Do international organizations represent humanity's higher aspirations, or are they simply tools of the wealthy and powerful? This course explores the problems and processes of international organizations by drawing on theoretical, historical, and contemporary sources and perspectives. We focus on three contemporary organizations: the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the European Union. Prerequisite: 241 or permission of the instructor. Not open to first-year students.

In this course we ask and answer the following questions: Just what is "United States foreign policy?" By what processes does the U.S. define its interests in the global arena? What instruments does the U.S. possess to further those interests? Finally, what specific foreign policy questions are generating debate today? Prerequisite: 241 or permission of the instructor.

An introduction to the theoretical and empirical analysis of the interactions of states in the international system. Emphasis is given to the historical evolution of the international system, security politics, the role of international norms in shaping behavior, and the influence of the world economy on international relations. Not a course in current events. Enrollment limited to 70.

Treatment of traditional and transitional China, followed by analysis of the political system of the People's Republic of China. Discussion centers on such topics as problems of economic and social change, policy formulation, and patterns of party and state power.

Same as EAS 228 An introductory survey and analysis of the development of postwar Japanese politics. Emphasis on Japanese political culture and on formal and informal political institutions and processes, including political parties, the bureaucracy, interest groups and electoral and factional politics.