POL 8460 is also offered in Fall 2024
POL 8460 is also offered in Spring 2024
POL 8460 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2018 | POL 8460 Section 001: Topics in International Relations -- Comparative Foreign Policy (52215)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1383
- Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Readings and research in advanced topics or problems. Recent topics: global environmental issues, morality in world politics, and norms and institutions in world politics.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?msbell+POL8460+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- Ph.D students in international relations end up writing dissertations that focus on a particular geographical region and/or a single state or a small number of states. Having taken required courses in IR theory they then go about applying some range of theoretical approaches to empirical puzzles in the area or region. Very often they run into questions of the applicability of abstract IR theories to concrete behaviors of specific states or non-state actors. Invariably this work raises questions about the portability of IR theory to specific areas or regions, and the portability of generalizations from these regions back to IR theory. This course is designed to provide an introduction to the analysis of comparative foreign policy. The overarching theme throughout is how to apply theories from international relations and comparative foreign policy analysis to the study of state behavior.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52215/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 October 2017
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2018 Political Science Classes