92030 |
PS 109 Political
Economy |
Sanjib Baruah |
M W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 202 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
Environmental & Urban Studies; Global &
International Studies; Human Rights (PS core course) The term
Political Economy refers to the interrelationship between politics and
economics. However, political scientists and economists do not always use the
term in the same sense. Even within these two disciplines the term has multiple
meanings. The course will review the ideas of a few major thinkers such as Adam
Smith, Karl Marx, Karl Polanyi, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and John
Kenneth Galbraith, and will introduce students to two subfields in particular:
international political economy and the political economy of development. Among
the questions we would ask are: Why are some countries rich and others poor?
What is development? What are the prime movers of globalization? Is the
92033 |
PS 115 Intro to
Political Theory |
Kevin Duong |
T Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
HEG 201 |
SA D+J |
SSCI |
(PS core course) This course offers a survey
of Western political thought. We will examine themes like justice, freedom, and
equality by exploring the writings of thinkers stretching from Plato to Malcolm
X. In each case, we will attend to the particular crises these theorists
addressed in their work, like civil war, revolution, democracy, and capitalism.
We'll also learn how authors used their concepts and ideas to address the
problems of their day, and how we may draw on them in our own political
struggles.
Class size: 22
92036 |
PS 122 American
Politics: Issues and Institutions |
Simon Gilhooley |
T Th 8:30 am-9:50 am |
OLIN 203 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
American Studies
(PS core course
) This course introduces
students to the basic institutions and processes of American government. The
class is meant to provide students with a grasp of the fundamental dynamics of
American politics and the skills to be an effective participant in and critic
of the political process. During the semester, we will examine how the
government works, interpret current political developments and debates, and
consider how to influence the government at various levels. This course is part of the “Difficult Questions”
cluster of courses; students will be expected to attend parts of the Hannah
Arendt Center Conference “Real Talk: Difficult Questions about Race, Sex, and
Religion” on October 20-21. Class size:
22
92155 |
PS 124 Case Study:
International Policy in |
Walter Mead |
T 7:00 pm-9:20 pm (six classes, first class 9/13/16) |
OLIN 202 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Russian 1
credit
This course uses
92040 |
PS 142 The Political
Life of Mourning |
Samantha Hill |
M W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 305 |
MBV |
HUM |
There has been a swell of
interest around themes of loss, grief, and mourning within contemporary political
theory. This course is designed to explore and critically engage with some of
these questions. Can we transform moments of loss into an opportunity for
democratic politics? Are those losses already political? How are these
formative moments of loss—the death of a son, 9/11, the murder of Eric
Garner—constitutive of a collective politics?
The course will explore the
political life of mourning within the tradition of western political thought.
Drawing together texts from Sophocles, Freud, Butler, Derrida, Douglas, Du
Bois, Morrison, and Moten we will look at examples from contemporary historical
experience including the struggle for queer rights in Butler’s work on
melancholia, the question of precarity in the attacks of 9/11 and second war in
Iraq, and the tradition of mourning within the African American community from
W.E.B. Du Bois to the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement. This course
is part of the “Difficult Questions” cluster of courses; students will be
expected to attend parts of the Hannah Arendt Center Conference “Real Talk:
Difficult Questions about Race, Sex, and Religion” on October 20-21. Class
size: 18
92034 |
PS 145 Human Rights
in Global Politics |
Omar Encarnacion |
M W 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
OLIN 205 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
Global & International Studies; Human Rights (core
course) (PS core course) This course aims to familiarize
students with the main actors, debates, and explanations behind the rise
of human rights in global politics. The course is divided into three
core sections. The first explores the philosophical foundations of the notion
of human rights and its contested universality, and the historical developments
that propelled human rights to the forefront of international politics,
especially the atrocities of World War II committed by
92045 |
PS 207 Global
Citizenship |
Michelle Murray |
M W 8:30 am-9:50 am |
OLIN 204 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
Global & International Studies; Human Rights What does it mean to be a global citizen? This question
has gained increasing salience as the world has become more globalized. With
globalization new problems surface that cut across national borders and fall
outside the jurisdiction of individual nation-states. In response new forms of
political organization have emerged to address these problems, which challenge
the state as the primary locus of political authority and ultimate source of
individual rights. In particular, these individuals and groups have appealed to
a kind of global citizenship from below to call for action on and demand
redress for the harms created by globalization. This interdisciplinary course
critically examines the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the concept
of global citizenship and investigates how the idea might work in practice. We
begin by considering the conceptual, philosophical and historical debates about
citizenship. What does it mean to be a citizen of a particular state? What
obligations and responsibilities accompany citizenship? How have understandings
of citizenship changed and expanded over time? What is global citizenship and
how does it differ from national citizenship? Next we evaluate these ideas
about citizenship in the context of globalization and the new problems created
by an increasingly interdependent world. Topics covered may include: migration
and refugees; the environment and resources; (in)security and borders; health
and infectious disease; and development and inequality. We conclude by
assessing the role (if any) global citizenship can play in global governance
and consider how the international system might be transformed to better
address the challenges of globalization. This course will be taught
concurrently at Bard's international partner institutions. Students will
benefit from collaboration with peers at these institutions. Class
size: 22
92035 |
PS 222 |
Omar Encarnacion |
M W 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
OLIN 308 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
Global & International Studies; Human Rights;
LAIS This course examines
politics in contemporary
92150 |
PS 239 United
Nations and Model UN |
Jonathan Becker |
F 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 205 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Human Rights
1 credit* This is a year long
course which focuses on learning about international affairs through role
paying. The course emphasizes the study of international institutions,
including the United Nations, research, and public speaking through the conduct
of in-class simulations of international meetings. Students are regularly
assigned countries which they then research and “represent” in negotiations
over contemporary political issues. Students taking the course will be expected
to participate in a Model United Nations or related role-playing activity, such
as Model Arab League. Students wishing to enroll should e-mail [email protected]
with 1-2 paragraphs indicating why they would like to participate. Class
size: 22
92472 |
PS 261 voting and
elections |
Jonathan Becker |
T Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
PRE 110 |
SA |
|
Voting is an essential democratic right, yet
in the
92037 |
PS 265 Campaign 2016 |
Simon Gilhooley |
T Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 310 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
American Studies
This course is on the
manner in which modern American political campaigns are conducted. It will seek
to integrate actual experience of campaigns within a broad study of scholarly
discussions of the nature of democracy and the mechanisms of modern campaigns.
Topics to be explored will include the role of campaign finance, the idea of
“the permanent campaign,” the invisible primary, the role of media in
campaigns, and the potential for activist organization within the modern
political system. Alongside and integrated
into the discussions of scholarly materials will be active engagement in the
2016 electoral cycle which will reach its peak in the Fall. Students will be
required to design and undertake a collective project engaging the local
electoral campaign(s). This could be in the form of monitoring and reporting on
the local congressional race via a website and podcast or through the creation
of an issue campaign related to local politics. Students will define their aims
for participation in the first weeks of the course and then undertake an
assessment of their project after the elections in November. (This course is a part of the Engaged Liberal
Arts and Sciences (ELAS) series of the Center for Civic Engagement.) Class
size: 22
92041 |
PS 272 East Asian
Security |
Christopher McIntosh |
M W 10:10 am-11:30 am |
ASP 302 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
Asian Studies; Global
& International Studies
92046 |
PS 273 Diplomacy in
international Politics |
James Ketterer |
M W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 205 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
Global & International Studies; Human Rights The course explores
the history, complexity and changing nature of diplomacy and international
development. Students will gain an understanding of the basic goals,
constraints and structures of diplomacy: diplomatic corps, embassies,
consulates, aid missions, attaches, envoys and the use of non-traditional
diplomats. They will then examine the evolution of those components and
contexts to include public diplomacy, cyber diplomacy, diplomacy in combat
zones and the use of international development as a foreign policy tool.
Using selected diplomatic crises as case studies, students will analyze the
roles played by different government agencies, militaries, international &
regional organizations, the media, public interest groups, private foundations,
contractors, commercial interests, educational institutions, and law
enforcement officials. Students will explore how nations communicate with each
other in the 21st century (formally and informally) and will use in-class
simulations and videoconferences with students across the Bard international
network to explore the roles played by different actors in addressing immediate
crises and longer-term diplomatic issues. This course will enhance
students’ understanding of international relations, foreign policy formulation
and implementation, and diplomatic history.
Class size:
22
92031 |
PS 280 Nations,
States and Nationalism |
Sanjib Baruah |
M W 10:10 am-11:30 am |
OLIN 303 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Global &
International Studies;
Human Rights, Middle East The twentieth century was the century of nationalism and the century when
the nation-state as a form of political organization became universalized. But
the difficulties with the idealized model of the nation-state are quite
apparent for all to see. For instance,
various forms of ethno-national mobilization--based on solidarities both larger
and smaller than the nation-state—have challenged official state
nationalisms. The twenty first century
opened with talk of moving beyond the nation-state. But at that time in certain
parts of the world multi-national political spaces were getting reorganized
along national lines. This was also when
failing and collapsed states became top foreign policy concerns of major
powers, and a new form of international regimes of intervention came into
being. The course will examine the idea
of the nation -- its historical and contemporary competitors -- the emergence
of the nation-state system, and the challenges confronting this system. Our approach will be comparative and we will
draw on the experiences of all world regions.
Interested students should email Prof. Baruah prior to registration ([email protected]) with a short statement of
why they would like to take this class. Class size: 15
92032 |
PS 290 Totalitarianism |
Kevin Duong |
T Th 8:30 am-9:50 am |
OLIN 202 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Human
Rights “Totalitarianism” is a conceptual lodestar of twentieth
century politics. It is supposed to point to everything that contemporary
American and European political culture is not—terroristic, homogenous,
authoritarian, ideologically manipulative, and unfree. At the same time,
critics have used the concept to describe regimes as different as the Soviet
Union, Nazi Germany, Maoist China, ISIS, and occasionally even the
92042 |
PS 352 Terrorism |
Christopher McIntosh |
T 10:10 am-12:30 pm |
HDR 106 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Human Rights The September 2001 terrorist attacks
irrevocably changed US politics and foreign policy, giving rise to more than a
decade of war, expanded surveillance domestically and abroad, the use of
torture and indefinite detention and most recently a targeted killing policy
through the use of drone strikes around the globe. While only recently
coming to dominate the
92043 |
PS / BGIA 354 Anglo-American
Grand Strategy |
Walter Mead |
5:00 pm-7:20 pm |
|
SA |
SSCI |
The American world system that
exists today can be seen as version 2.0 of the liberal capitalist world system
first built by
92044 |
PS 369 Great Power
Politics |
Michelle Murray |
M 1:30 pm-3:50 pm |
OLIN 303 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies This advanced seminar
explores the military, economic and social sources of great power competition
in international politics. We begin by
examining how the major theoretical paradigms of international relations explain
patterns of cooperation and conflict among great powers and consider the
relative importance of material versus ideational variables in shaping great
power politics. We then evaluate these
perspectives in light of the historical record, to illustrate the varied
dynamics of interaction among great powers under different political
conditions. Historical cases covered
include: the unification of
92145 |
PS 378 The American
Presidency |
William Dixon |
M 10:10 am-12:30 pm |
OLIN 306 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: American
Studies; Historical Studies This course examines
the political and historical development of the
Courses cross-listed in Political Studies:
91999 |
EUS 325 Politics
& Power in Global Food Production |
Monique Segarra |
W 2:00 pm-4:20 pm |
HDR 101A |
SA |
SSCI |
92010 |
HIST 228 |
Sean McMeekin |
M W 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
RKC 102 |
HA |
HIST |
91759 |
LIT 318 Hannah
Arendt: Political Thinking and the plurality of languages |
Thomas Wild |
T 4:40 pm-7:00 pm |
HEG 308 |
MBV |
HUM |
92056 |
SOC 341 Capitalist
and Secular? |
Laura Ford |
M 4:40 pm-7:00 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
SA |
SSCI |
92114 |
THTR 342 Performing
Difficult Questions: RACE, SEX AND RELIGION ON CAMPUS |
Roger Berkowitz Jonathan Rosenberg |
T Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
FISHER PAC RESNICK |
MBV D+J |
HUM |