Women studied include: Mamie Till Mobley, Anne Moody, Ella Baker, Gloria Steinem, Angela Davis, Bettina Aptheker, Assata Shakur, Yuri Kochiyama, Denise Oliver, Domitilia Chungara. It will not only survey the history of the nuclear age--and of individual countries' nuclear development--but also grapple with important contemporary policy dilemmas in the nuclear realm. In ways often obscure to users, they structure communication or conduct in social media, education, healthcare, shopping, entertainment, dating, urban planning, policing, criminal sentencing, political campaigns, government regulation, and war. Cohabitation has skyrocketed but marriage is disappearing, and the country's birth rate is at an all-time low. At the same time that it was facing a more difficult military challenge than anticipated, the United States got bogged down in the process of nation-building, as well as efforts at social reform. The first part of the course focuses primarily on the Middle East's impact on the international system throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while the second part of the course examines contemporary issues. social media. The course is designed to teach political science majors the nuts, and maybe also the bolts, of social science research. [more], This seminar focuses on the entwined histories of liberation movements against racism, enslavement, and imperialism in the US, Cuba and Africa. Critics argue that today's media is shallow and uninformative, a vector of misinformation, and a promoter of extremism and violence. Where did Democratic and Republican foreign policy elites agree and disagree and what happened to proposals that were outside the elite consensus? The course investigates family models in historical and comparative context; the family and the welfare state; the economics of sex, gender, marriage, and class inequality; the dramatic value and behavioral changes of Gen Z around sex, cohabitation, and parenthood; and state policies to encourage partnership/marriage and childbearing in both left-wing (Scandinavia) and right-wing (Central Europe) variants. seemed incapable of representing citizens and addressing problems. How do various algorithms influence political partisanship and beliefs and intersect with existing hierarchies of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Political theory addresses questions such as these as it investigates the fundamental problems of how people can, do, and ought to live together. The course surveys the electoral politics of low and middle-income democracies in the developing world, investigating its similarities and differences with the historical and contemporary politics of developed democracies. Assessing leadership in the moment is complicated because leaders press against the bounds of political convention--as do ideologues, malcontents, and lunatics. Through these explorations, which will consider a wide variety of visual artifacts and practices (from 17th century paintings to the optical systems of military drones and contemporary forms of surveillance), we will also take up fundamental theoretical questions about the place of the senses in political life. Students will have the opportunity to apply course readings to real-world contexts through guest speakers from global organizations at the frontlines of migration policy (UNHCR, Doctors without Borders), and filmmakers documenting border crossing around the world. It also creates status for other actors, such as international organizations, soldiers, national liberation movements, refugees, terrorists, transnational air and sea shipping companies, and multinational corporations. [more], In theory, self-determination means that it is those who are ruled who decide who rules them and how. Political Science How has "human rights" been deployed in international politics, and by whom? Contemporary Africana Social and Political Philosophy. Can we get rid of politics in policy making or improve on it somehow? Why do people vote or engage in other types of political action? While the course will focus primarily on the United States, our conceptual framework will be global; though our main interest will be contemporary, we will also examine previous eras in which democratic leadership has come under great pressure. Asking how algorithms are political and what that tells us about politics today (particularly in the U.S.), we will consider how their design expresses forms of power and their deployment shapes ways of living. International Relations of the Middle East. How are national security concerns balanced with the protection of civil rights and liberties? Is solidarity possible only in utopia, or can we realize it in the world as well? What constitutes dangerous leadership, and what makes a leader dangerous? Topics may include neoliberalism and democracy; sovereignty and biopower; pluralism, individuality, and justice; technology and the specter of ecological catastrophe; the problem of evil in politics; white supremacy; and contemporary struggles over gender and sexuality. What kinds of violations and deprivations can be recognized as harms in need of redress? This course will examine how New Yorkers have contested core issues of capitalism and democracy-how those contests have played out as the city itself has changed and how they have shaped contemporary New York. Our primary questions will be these: Why does transformative leadership seem so difficult today? [more], We all want to be free--at least most of us say we do. This course begins with an examination of the general phenomena of nationalism and national identity and their historical development in East Asia. The readings will address the politics, policies, and composition of the African National Congress (ANC), the growth of black economic elites and the black middle class, the persistence of poverty and extreme inequality, expanding corruption, and why the ANC continues to prevail politically and electorally in spite of on-going poverty and worsening inequality, governmental failures, and corruption. Visionaries, Pragmatists, and Demagogues: An Introduction to Leadership Studies. From there, the course will cover a number of important topics and case studies, such as Stuxnet, NotPetya, cyber espionage, intellectual property theft, threats to critical infrastructure, misinformation, propaganda, election interference, the potential implications of quantum computing, and the prospects for the establishment of an international cyber arms control regime. Should college dorms be named for John C. Calhoun and Woodrow Wilson? The third emphasizes research design, allowing students to finalize their own project while bringing in primary sources such as original documents, debates, and data. Among other issues, we will consider the points of conflict and consensus among different racial groups, how Americans of different racial backgrounds think about other groups, and the implications of demographic change (including the growth of the Latino and Asian-American populations and the shrinking white share of the electorate) for future elections. Exploration of these and other questions will lead us to examine topics such as presidential selection, the bases of presidential power, character and leadership, congressional-executive interactions, social movement and interest group relations, and media interactions. This research seminar examines the intent, process, meaning and consequence of these new practices, particularly in terms of national constitutions, international law, and principles of justice. How does Congress act as an institution and not just a platform for 535 individuals? Thinkers we will engage include Judith Butler, Audre Lorde, Catherine MacKinnon, Hannah Arendt, and Patricia Hill Collins. and an unscientific, patriarchal worldview. But what role can the welfare state play in the twenty-first century? Where does it apply? and politics from the Founding to the present. Africanist Project to Black Consciousness. How is political power generated and exercised? Four class debates will focus general concepts on a specific topic: the global implications of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Our task in the seminar is to uncover and interrogate those visions. The course will be divided into three parts. This course explores the theme of meritocracy--rule by the intelligent--in comparative perspective. What is our individual and collective responsibility for creating and disposing of waste? How should we decide what constitutes a good policy? the Silicon Valley model and other countries' attempts to emulate it. Lyndon Johnson also feared the consequences of a massive American commitment, but he eventually sent over half a million men to Vietnam. Should Harriet Tubman's portrait replace Andrew Jackson's on the $20 bill? However, there is increasing recognition that International Relations in all forms, including theory, research, and policy, continue to be structured by traditional paradigms of power (e.g. Finally, we will look at arguments that America has been "exceptional"--or, unlike other countries--as well as critiques of these arguments, to help us gain an understanding of future prospects for political transformation. PSCI 493 - 01 (F) SEM Sen Thesis: Political Science Division II. It covers domestic and international factors that lead to democratization and democratic backsliding. This course studies the politics of business by centering analysis on the firm. We will take notice of the erasure of waste in traditional political theory and work together to fill these gaps. We will touch on classic philosophical accounts of power and causation, but focus our attention on more recent developments in philosophy of science, political theory, and other fields. Drawing on Freud, and challenged by his philosophical exchanges with Angela Davis, Marcuse came to the view that these movements were addressing not only material deprivations such as poverty and structural oppression, but also the effects of social alienation and a damaged psychic life. Can public policy reverse these trends? Contested elections, Supreme Court decisions, and constitutional amendments. They contend that it legitimates a view of the status quo, in which such terrible things are bound to happen without real cause. Dangerous Leadership in American Politics. The course is based on the literature of multidisciplinary studies by leading scholars in the field, drawing from anthropology, gender studies, history, political science, religious studies, postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, and sociology. Class will be primarily driven by discussion, often preceded by brief lectures. Why do we end up with some policies but not others? It deals with some of the most foundational questions that concern scholars of security studies: What accounts for great power conflict and cooperation? Or is it, rather, the activity through which citizens pursue justice and the good life? We investigate who refugees are, in international law and popular understanding; read refugee stories; examine international and national laws distinguishing refugees from other categories of migrants; evaluate international organizations' roles in managing population displacement; look at the way that images convey stereotypes and direct a type of aid; consider refugee camps in theory and example; and reflect on what exclusion, integration, and assimilation mean to newcomers and host populations. On what basis? This tutorial unsettles that framing, first by situating the black radical tradition as a species of black politics, and second through expanding the boundaries of black politics beyond the United States. Complicating things further, the nature of democratic competition is such that those vying for power have incentive to portray the opposition's leadership as dangerous. The course first briefly reviews Venezuelan post-Independence history, with an emphasis on the post-1958 democratic settlement. international system of sovereign states--the core foundation of international relations--presumes the process of dismantling systems of domination, extraction, and exclusion ended long ago. Then, we will look at some important factors that shape how followers approach would-be leaders: inequality and economic precarity; identity and group consciousness; notions of membership, community, and hierarchy; and declining local institutions. What is the relationship between leadership and morality-can the ends justify the means? Optimists counter that, even if individuals are often ignorant and/or confused about politics, in the aggregate, the public sends a coherent signal to public officials, who usually carry out the public's general wishes. This tutorial unsettles that framing, first by situating the black radical tradition as a species of black politics, and second through expanding the boundaries of black politics beyond the United States.
williams college political science course catalog
