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International Relations -II

Course Description: This course provides students with an advanced introduction to theoretical approaches and contemporary issues within the study of International Relations. The first part of the course examines explanatory theories of IR and approaches to foreign policy and global governance. The second part of the course examines ongoing issues in IR through the lens of current cases. Specific topics examined in the course include: the evolution of IR theory; IR's fourth debate; the integration of IR and comparative theories, realist and neoconservative visions of foreign policy and global governance; liberal visions of foreign policy and global governance; theories of international political economy; basic economics and the great recession; climate change; covert operations in IR; foreign policy tools and rogue states; humanitarian intervention and the R2P; and the Middle East conflict. Course Structure: The course meets weekly on Tuesday afternoons from 12:30-2:30 and will consist of 13 sessions of approximately 2 hours each. Seminars will be comprised of group and class discussions focused around the readings assigned for each week as well as 15 minute mini-lectures at the start of each class.