Fall 2021  |  POL 1025 Section 001: Global Politics (19046)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Walter F. Mondale Hall 20
Enrollment Status:
Open (83 of 85 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Global politics is complex, fast-paced, and often confusing. Seeking to reveal the deeper processes at work in the international system, this introductory course explores both the enduring challenges of international politics as well as more recent transformative trends? What has changed and what has stayed the same. It introduces theoretical traditions, but the course's focus is on making sense of real-world problems, both today and in the past. Why and when do states go to war and use military force? Why do they sign international agreements and treaties, on matters from arms control to investment? What effect does international trade have on the distribution of global wealth, and why do barriers to trade arise? Why has human rights emerged as a central problem in world politics? Why has our world become an increasingly legalized and regulated space? And what difference does it make? What good are nuclear weapons? Why do some turn to terrorism to advance their political agenda? Does foreign aid make the world a better place? How can we reduce global inequality? What are the prospects for international cooperation to address climate change? These are among the pressing real-world questions that this course in Global Politics will address? And that it will give you the tools to answer, though particular instructors will naturally choose to emphasize different topics and questions. But the course will also highlight how our answers to these questions are changing along with the deep power structures of global politics-as US dominance wanes and others, most notably China, rise; as core ideas and discourses underpinning the international system, such as sovereignty, come under assault; and as institutions, such as those governing international law, thicken. Global Politics is an essential guide to our increasingly globalized world.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?rkrebs+POL1025+Fall2021
Class Description:
Americans hardly need to be told that international politics matters. US forces are still deployed around the globe, and economic uncertainty has barely abated. Knowing that international politics matters is one thing, making sense of it is another. This course will give students the tools they need to begin to understand patterns and trends in global politics. Students will be introduced to international relations' theoretical traditions, but the course will focus primarily on explaining and understanding historical and especially current problems in world politics. It will explore, among other issues, the causes of war and peace, the limited use of force, humanitarian intervention, nuclear proliferation, nationalist conflict, international ethics, the politics of international trade and finance, foreign aid, globalization, the prospects for environmental cooperation and human rights norms, migration, terrorism, and the future of world politics. By the end of the course, students should be familiar with all these issues and others, should have developed their own views on these much-debated questions, and should be able to apply basic analytical frameworks to answer them.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
40% Final Exam
20% Essay, Quizzes
15% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Identifications; short paragraphs; essays; reading quizzes
Class Format:
80% Lecture
20% Discussion
Workload:
50-75 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19046/1219
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
27 October 2015

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