The goal is to develop a rich understanding of the foundations of public opinion and political behavior. Or should feminists reject objectivity as a myth told by the powerful about their own knowledge-claims and develop an alternative approach to knowledge? Second, the tutorial will examine the past and ongoing uses and abuses of Orwell's legacy by scholars and analysts on both the political left and the right. but dictatorships in others? How did key leaders balance competing objectives and navigate difficult international circumstances? How does the mass media and campaigns influence public opinion? Case studies will include antislavery politics and the American Civil War; the global crises of the 1930s and 1940s; and the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. We will consider some of the complicated legacies of change. Economic inequality on a level not seen in over a century. Why has the U.S. adopted some approaches to reduce poverty but not others? Many argue that the presidency has been fundamentally altered by the tenure of Donald Trump. The first half is a historical survey of U.S.-Latin American foreign relations from the early Spanish American independence movements through the end of the Cold War and recent developments. With what limits and justifications? Assignments focus on crafting solutions to contemporary political challenges in the developing world. What is "objectivity" anyway, and how has this norm changed through history? Guided by a Black diasporic consciousness, students will explore the canon's structural and ideological accounts of slavery, colonialism, patriarchy, racial capitalism, Jim Crow, and state violence and, subsequently, critique and imagine visions of Black liberation. Illustrative cases to aid our inquiry will be drawn primarily from the USA and Canada, with additional examples from India, South Africa, and possibly European law. Among the questions that we will address: What is justice? What constitutes dangerous leadership, and what makes a leader dangerous? Second, the course will consider the prelude and official responses to the 2008-11 financial crisis. It goes back to the founding moments of an imagined white (at the beginning Christian) Europe and how the racialization of Muslim and Jewish bodies was central to this project, and how anti-Muslim racism continues to be relevant in our world today. For instance, do the claims of individual freedom conflict with those of community? [more], During and after the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson developed an approach to international relations that challenged the dominant assumptions of Realism. Most countries around the world have built elaborate institutions to ensure citizens' welfare by protecting some people from some risks, but not all people and not all risks. What enduring political conflicts have shaped the U.S. welfare state? 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. The third part focuses on religion in the USA. We will investigate the founding of Garveyism on the island of Jamaica, the evolution of Garveyism during the early twentieth century across the Americas and in Africa, Garveyism in Europe in the mid-twentieth century, and the contemporary branches of the Garvey movement in our own late modern times. All students read common secondary materials and engage in research design workshops; each will write (and rewrite) an independent research paper grounded in primary sources. Does freedom make us happy? Finally, what are the costs of change (and of continuity)--and who pays them? parties, social movements, organizations, or local communities--are just and legitimate agents of democratic change, and those most celebrated are those who have helped the country make progress toward its ideals. Second, was one side primarily responsible for the length and intensity of the Cold War in Europe? Should they, perhaps, abandon Europe altogether and re-constitute themselves elsewhere? Much of this work was inspired by his own experiences as a police officer in Burma, several years working and traveling with destitute workers in England and France, as well as his experiences fighting against fascism during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. 2) How do we identify democratic breakdown? Our time and Arendt's are similarly darkened by the shadows of racism, xenophobia, inequality, terror, the mass displacement of refugees, and the mass dissemination of lies. It is multilateral institutions ruling in peacetime that is relatively new. This seminar will address these questions with the aim of introducing students to important theoretical topics and key concepts that are relevant to the comparative and critical study of Asia. [more], It is hard to overstate the enduring influence of George Orwell on political discourse in the 20th century and beyond. The emphasis will be on the study of social attitudes concerning ethnic groups, gender/sexuality and class as they pertain to a "penal culture" in the United States. The bulk of the course deals with the major events in the history of great power politics, such as the causes and conduct of World War I and World War II; the origins and course of the Cold War; the nuclear revolution; and the post-Cold War period. This course explores the causes and consequences of democratic erosion through the lens of comparative politics. rise of totalitarianism, and the detonation of the first atomic bomb. How can it be established and secured? Do concerns about information security alter states' most basic political calculations? At the core of feminism lies the critique of inequitable power relations. With this preparation, we then look more closely at major contemporary figures and movements in Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Brazil, and other countries. [more], Nationalism is a major political issue in contemporary East Asia. And if the aim is not to provide a historically accurate account, what exactly is at stake in constructing or demythologizing theories of the origins of the state? Who decides? Can we get rid of politics in policy making or improve on it somehow? We will explore what the empirical literature on race in political science says about this debate and others. [more], Impeachments. that media convey). climate change) are organized and mobilized. Course readings focus on Locke, Hegel, Marx, and critical perspectives from feminist theory, critical theory, and critical legal studies (Cheryl Harris, Alexander Kluge, Oskar Negt, Carole Pateman, Rosalind Petchesky, and Dorothy Roberts, among others). We investigate three types of cases: UN Security Council threats and condemnations, international criminal prosecutions, and international election monitoring. The second half of the course will look at leaders in action, charting the efforts of politicians, intellectuals, and grassroots activists to shape the worlds in which they live. commitment, but he eventually sent over half a million men to Vietnam. We examine both traditional and revisionist explanations of the Cold War, as well as the new findings that have emerged from the partial opening of Soviet and Eastern European archives. [more], Conservatives in the United States are traditionally hostile to state power in general and the welfare state in particular. In investigating this theme, our cornerstone will be Max Weber's famous argument from. These failures have created space for a politics of populism, ethno-nationalism, and resentment--an "anti-leadership insurgency" which, paradoxically, has catapulted charismatic (their critics would say demagogic) leaders to the highest offices of some of the largest nations on earth. Insofar as it fits student interest, we will also explore the cave's considerable presence in visual culture, ranging from Renaissance painting through such recent and contemporary artists as Kelley, Demand, Hirschhorn, Kapoor, Sugimoto, and Walker, to films such as The Matrix. [more], The rise of gigantic tech firms--Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon--has sparked widespread worries about the role of business power in capitalist democracy. This course has four parts differing in content and format. Throughout the semester we interrogate four themes central to migration politics: rights, representation, access, and agency. white, male, elite). Yet Mexico enters this future with a very different past, a distinctive political system, important cultural differences, and mixed feelings about its neighbor to the north. Theorists we read will represent many kinds of feminist work that intersect with the legal field, including academic studies in political theory, philosophy, and cultural theory, along with contributions from community organizers engaged in anti-violence work and social justice advocacy. At a general level, it focuses on a set of core conceptual questions: How has the advent of cyberweapons changed how international politics works? [more], Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary Frantz Fanon was among the leading critical theorists and Africana thinkers of the twentieth century. For each subject, we will ask several key questions. Who loses? Methodologically interdisciplinary, the course shall examine written and audiovisual texts that explore Wynter's inquiries into the central seminar queries. We will carefully consider, for example, the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, continental expansion in the Manifest Destiny period, the Civil War, overseas expansion in the late nineteenth century, the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the "War on Terror." Its critics point to what they believe this position ignores or what it wrongly assumes, and hence, how it would make bad policy. This tutorial will examine his wide-ranging critique of American foreign policy over the last half century, focusing on his analysis of the role that he believes the media and academics have played in legitimizing imperialism and human rights abuses around the world. Many worry that the United States is threatened by anti-democratic actors intent on consolidating white nationalist power and corporate rule. Environmental Studies 307 analyzes the transformation of environmental law from fringe enterprise to fundamental feature of modern political, economic and social life. immigration, and the politics surrounding American immigration policy have intensified as a result. After examining general models of change and of leadership, we will consider specific case studies, such as civil rights for African-Americans, gender equality, labor advances, social conservatism, and populism. [more], This course explores racially-fashioned policing and incarceration from the Reconstruction era convict prison lease system to contemporary mass incarceration and "stop and frisk" policies of urban areas in the United States. Women and Girls in (Inter)National Politics. This seminar considers our relationship with our ocean and coastal environments and the foundational role our oceans and coasts play in our Nation's environmental and economic sustainability as well as ocean and coastal climate resiliency. protagonists, the neoliberal philosophy it opposes, and the arena of democratic politics it inhabits today. Possible texts include Hamilton, Madison, and Jay. Second, the tutorial will examine the past and ongoing uses and abuses of Orwell's legacy by scholars and analysts on both the political left and the right. The course neither requires nor teaches any computer science skills. Attention will focus largely on the modern, twentieth and twenty-first century, presidency, though older historical examples will also be used to help us gain perspective on these problems. [more], In theory, self-determination means that it is those who are ruled who decide who rules them and how. Critical race theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist/queer theory and the works of the incarcerated are studied. What kinds of violations and deprivations can be recognized as harms in need of redress? This seminar examines theory, politics, literature, film, and music produced from and linked to twentieth-century movements against capitalism, racism, colonialism, and imperial wars to think through how Black and Yellow Power have shaped solidarity to challenge white supremacy and racial capitalism. We will not only describe American involvement in various international issues but also seek to understand the reasons why the US perhaps should or should not be involved, and we will see why such careful reasoning only sometimes gains traction in actual US foreign policy debates. We cover the history, structures and functions of international organizations using case studies. As a final assignment, students will craft an 18-20-page research paper on a topic of their choice related to the themes of the course. Power may be used wisely or foolishly, rightly or cruelly, but it is always there; it cannot be wished away. What sparks political violence and how can countries emerge from conflict? We first read polemics from both sides, before stepping back to consider Latin American political economy, including the twentieth-century left, from a more historical and analytical perspective. How do resource gaps tied to inequalities in society (such as race, class, and gender) influence political behavior? Yet consider that while mineral abundance promises to give countries a platform for prosperity, equity, and political stability, it often produces poor economic performance, poor populations, weak authoritarian states, and widespread conflict. an accident, or find yourself plunged somehow into poverty. Class will be driven primarily by discussion. When government policy is decided by politics, does that mean the policy is necessarily bad? [more], Recent years have seen a resurgence of the political left in Latin America. [more], This course examines New York City's political history from the 1970s to the present-a period during which the city underwent staggering economic and social changes. We study structures, processes, key events, and primary actors that have shaped American political development. How do we distinguish truly dangerous leadership from the perception of dangerous leadership? attack! Acute observers have long seen the U.S. as a harbinger of the promise and peril of modern democracies. with a creative option = 50%; short response paper and GLOW posts = 10%; participation (attendance and class discussion) = 10% James' famous book, Black Jacobins, about the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). Are environmental protections compatible with political freedom? Why do people identify with political parties? and exegetical writing about, core texts of ancient Chinese philosophy in English translation. out that most Americans know very little about politics and lack coherent political views, are easily manipulated by media and campaigns, and are frequently ignored by public officials anyway. After familiarizing ourselves with what academic and policy literatures have to say about them, we then will read about the histories and contemporary politics in each society. For governance? In addition to addressing this important question about the health of American democracy, students will learn how the traditional media and social media influences Americans' political attitudes and behaviors. Students will learn to evaluate the decisions that US leaders have made on a wide range of difficult foreign policy issues, including: rising Chinese power; Russian moves in Ukraine; nuclear proliferation to Iran; terrorist threats; humanitarian disasters in Syria and Libya; and long-term challenges like climate change. How did we get to this point and what does the future hold? Or is it the reverse? This class considers analytic concepts central to the study of politics generally--the state, legitimacy, democracy, authoritarianism, clientelism, nationalism--to comprehend political processes and transformations in various parts of the world. The goal of this course is to assess American political change, or lack of, and to gain a sense of the role that political leaders have played in driving change. The second half of the course challenges students to apply this toolkit to the twenty-first century, focusing on attempts to transition from industrial manufacturing to services. What is the relationship between parties and presidents? Beliefs about music can serve as a barometer for a society's non-musical anxieties: Viennese fin-de-sicle critics worried that the sounds and stories of Strauss's operas were causing moral decline, an argument that should be familiar to anyone who reads criticism of American popular music. Is there a resource curse, or is it possible for mineral rich countries to escape the modern counterparts of Midas? This course will investigate this debate over parties by examining their nature and role in American political life, both past and present. The question, an important part of political theory at least since Socrates, has taken on renewed significance in recent years, as theorists have sought to rethink the political in response to twentieth century dictatorships and world wars; feminist, queer, anti-racist, post- and decolonial struggles; the transformations wrought by neoliberal globalization; the emergence of "algorithmic governance"; the recent resurgence of populist nationalism; and deepening recognition of climate crises. Third, how did the Cold War in Europe lead to events in other areas of the world, such as Cuba and Vietnam? Most readings will focus on contemporary political debates about the accumulation, concentration, and redistribution of wealth. We will focus on the role of political parties in democratization; the emergence of political dynasties; changes in the characteristics of the political elite; investigate claims of democratic deepening; and examine the effect of inter-state wars, land disputes, and insurgencies on democratic stability in the region. We will pay particular attention to the construction of "Jews" and "Judaism" in these arguments. 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. Class will be driven primarily by discussion, typically introduced by a brief lecture. 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. [more], Modern life has, in some ways, become less risky. Though midterm elections historically generate less involvement than presidential elections, much is at stake in the upcoming midterms, as control of Congress and statehouses will likely determine what, if anything, President Biden achieves in the remainder of his term. This course investigates the historical and contemporary relationship between culture and economics, religion and capitalism, in their most encompassing forms. It's a phenomenon we all love to hate. Which leaders developed coherent grand strategies? [more], Are human beings the only beings who belong in politics? What are the powers and obligations of citizenship? What constitutes dangerous leadership, and what makes a leader dangerous? Beginning with the evolution of the field, this course will equip students with the methodological tools to critically navigate their own specific regional, inter-regional, or interdisciplinary tracks in the Asian Studies concentration. What defines optimism, pessimism, enslavement, freedom, creativity, and being human? While our examples will be drawn mainly from family law, the regulation of sex/reproduction, and workplace discrimination, the main task of this course will be to deepen our understanding of how the subject of law is constituted. We will analyze texts and audio-visual works on the political economy of late colonial Jamaica, core Rastafari thinking, political theology, the role of reggae music, the notion of agency, and the influence of Rastafari on global politics. illegal migrants, refugees) have differential access to rights, services, and representation depending on how they are classified where they live (and where they are from). How do visions of politics without humans and humans without politics impact our thinking about longstanding questions of freedom, power, and right? How do resource gaps tied to inequalities in society (such as race, class, and gender) influence political behavior? In particular, this course examines the relationship between political and military objectives. This course focuses on questions about the public value of wealth and its accumulation, which have become more pressing now that the richest one percent of Americans own about 40 percent of privately held wealth. However, throughout the twentieth century, African/Asian solidarity and alliances existed in political movements and literary and cultural productions. Polarization. It looks at processes of racialization of Muslims within the Muslim community and between Muslim communities, while also considering which agencies Muslims take to determine their own future. Others, whose ambitions and initiatives arguably undermined progress toward American ideals, were not recognized as dangerous at the time. How people ground this concept--what they think its origin is--does matter, but evaluating those foundations is not our focus. Was his caution warranted? economics, and diplomacy, but the class is mostly concerned with ideas. Are these conflicts related, and if so, how? Beginning from the presumption that change often has proximate as well as latent causes, this tutorial focuses on events as critical junctures in American politics. countries' territorial waters, jurisdiction over ships, and so forth. We investigate these and related questions, primarily through active, project-based group research activities, guided by political theory and empirical research in the social sciences. modernity and of politics offered by such thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Mill, and Freud. Is partisanship good or bad for democracy? and analyze the principal structural and situational constraints--both foreign and domestic--that limit leaders' freedom of action, and which they must manage effectively to achieve their diplomatic and military goals. Can public policy reverse these trends? Do nuclear weapons have an essentially stabilizing or destabilizing effect? Admission to Tulsa Community College does not guarantee admission to the Physical Therapist Assistant Program. Throughout the semester we interrogate three themes central to migration politics (and political science): rights, access, and agency. As Louis Menand argues, "almost everything in the popular understanding of Orwell is a distortion of what he really thought and the kind of writer he was." [more], This tutorial focuses on the writings and autobiographies of women who have shaped national politics through social justice movements in the 20th-21st centuries. Do black lives matter? With each reading, our dual aim will be to confront pressing issues or controversies and to ask whether the works in question offer ways of thinking and writing that we should pursue ourselves. In addition to their distinguished careers in government, both men have published well regarded and popular scholarship on various aspects of American foreign policy, international relations, and nuclear weapons. 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. The course will consider these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective that combines political science concepts with an historical approach to the evidence. In this research seminar we revisit the debate on the relationship between mineral wealth and development, focusing on the factors and conditions that lead some resource rich countries to fail and others to succeed. We will focus on the role of political parties in democratization; the emergence of political dynasties; changes in the characteristics of the political elite; investigate claims of democratic deepening; and examine the effect of inter-state wars, land disputes, and insurgencies on democratic stability in the region. We will study figures and movements for black lives whose geopolitics frame the milieu of Wynter's work. States. In investigating these topics, we explore questions such as these: How is power allocated? Does it matter? The course extends over one semester and the winter study period. We will also explore the controversies and criticisms of his work from both the right and the left because of his political stance on issues ranging from the Arab-Israeli conflict to humanitarian intervention to free speech. Our focus is on structures of power -- the limits on congressional lawmaking, growth of presidential authority, establishment of judicial review, conflicts among the three branches of the federal government, and boundaries between the federal and state and local governments. As a background to understanding the reasons for and histories of these policies, this course will read several important books that deal with the Great Depression, the financial crisis a decade ago, and the risks of debt. What might we expect to come next? To answer these questions, we will examine immigration from a multidisciplinary lens, but with special attention to immigration politics and policy. The course places the US in conversation not only with European countries, but also (and especially) considerations of migration governance in destination countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. How does power relate to technology? This tutorial will intensively examine Wilson's efforts to recast the nature of the international system, the American rejection of his vision after the First World War, and the reshaping of Wilsonianism after the Second World War. [more], This course examines the political, economic, and cultural determinants of conflict and cooperation in East Asia. While a fairly obscure and struggling author for much of his life, Orwell achieved worldwide fame after the Second World War with the publication of Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949). Finally, we will also examine how Chomsky's views, largely considered to be radical for much of his life, have become far more mainstream over time. Among the questions that we will address: What is justice? Currently over 281 million international migrants live in a country different from where they were born, about 1 out of every 30 humans in the world and a population that has roughly doubled since 1990. They have led to, or expressed, political divisions, clashing loyalties, and persistent and sometimes consuming violence. In practice, not only do pervasive international, foreign and universal standards influence what type of government people believe to be acceptable and desirable, but international actors also rule directly on the legitimacy of a regime's policy or on the regime itself. Fortuitous events? Many worry that the United States is threatened by anti-democratic actors intent on consolidating white nationalist power and corporate rule. While we address current debates over migration governance in the United States, we situate US migration policy within the contemporary global context. [more], Although many people have described America as inclusive, political debates about belonging have often been contentious and hard-fought. [more], This is a course about international politics in the nuclear age. This capstone seminar will explore these and related questions through an examination of the life and work of Jamaican novelist, playwright, cultural critic, and philosopher Sylvia Wynter.

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