Students investigate contending views of the world system and consider the relative validity of competing theories to see how theory relates to practice. They do so by re-examining classic definitions of "realism" along with concepts of neo-realism (structural realism) and geopolitics, liberalism/international ethics, neo-liberalism, pluralism, the English school, Marxism, social constructivism, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, neo-conservatism, feminism, green theory, among others.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 | Q-704 |
Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 | Q-704 |
Topics vary by semester
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 09:00 | 11:55 | Q-609 |
Topics vary by semester
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 10:35 | 13:30 | Q-604 |
As the bridge-course for the major in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, this team-taught course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on key questions of political economy. First presenting the similarities and differences between philosophical, political and economic approaches to political and economic rationality, the course offers varied analyses of representation and government, the commons, security, inequality and debt. The overall purpose of the course is to engage students, at various levels of theoretical abstraction and empirical precision, with the fundamental issues lying between ethics, politics, and economics.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 16:55 | 19:50 | G-207 |
Thursday | 16:55 | 18:15 | G-207 |
This Politics Workshop fulfills the senior seminar capstone requirement for the International and Comparative Politics Major. This course is designed to be as individualized as possible, organized around the student's particular research interests with regular one-on-one sessions with the professor. This is also a course in the international and global politics in which students learn about the discipline and subdisciplines of political science.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-101 |
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-101 |
This course is a polyvalent simulation of a military intervention organized and operated by the French War College (École de Guerre), with civilian partners. After several months of preparation, AUP students join French War College officers for Exercise Coalition, a war games simulation where AUP students play the role of UN and NGO humanitarian workers on the ground in a conflict zone.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 09:00 | 10:20 | C-102 |
The module topics change each semester and are taught by working professionals in the fields of international affairs, conflict resolution and civil society development. Each semester four or more different modules are offered. May be taken twice for credit.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Saturday | 10:00 | 18:00 | Q-A101 |
Wednesday | 15:20 | 21:25 | Q-A101 |
Friday | 15:20 | 21:25 | Q-A101 |
The module topics change each semester and are taught by working professionals in the fields of international affairs, conflict resolution and civil society development. Each semester four or more different modules are offered. May be taken twice for credit.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Saturday | 10:00 | 18:00 | Q-A101 |
Wednesday | 15:20 | 21:25 | Q-A101 |
Friday | 15:20 | 21:25 | Q-A101 |
This course of offers graduate students a comprehensive conceptual and factual treatment of historical globalization, from the Industrial Revolution in the late-modern period to the universalization of capitalism and the ICT revolution in the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-505 |
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-505 |
“Civil society” is one of the more elusive entries in the social science lexicon, and not a few have argued that we could do well without it. In a critical but appreciative spirit, this seminar introduces to the various meanings and uses that have been attributed to, or made of, civil society across time and national contexts. A constant in its various meanings is the reference to an elementary capacity of social self-organization beyond states and markets. This has made civil society an attractive alternative to diminished states and unfettered markets in the era of globalization, interestingly for the political left and right alike.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 | PL-4 |
Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 | PL-4 |