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This Student-Initiated Course focuses on the main issues and themes surrounding international responses to mass atrocities and genocide. We will explore the events and international norms that led to the creation of "The Responsibility to Protect" Doctrine, the main thematic dilemmas surrounding international action, and a brief history of international responses to past genocides. The objective of this course is to give each student a better idea of what the realistic possibilities are for international action on grave human rights violations of this kind.

Links among the establishment of democracy, economic growth, and the rule of law. How democratic, economically developed states arise. How the rule of law can be established where it has been historically absent. Variations in how such systems function and the consequences of institutional forms and choices. How democratic systems have arisen in different parts of the world. Available policy instruments used in international democracy, rule of law, and development promotion efforts.

EU institutions, the legislative process, policies, relations with the U.S., and enlargement and the future of the EU. History and theories of EU integration. Democratic accountability of the institutions, and the emerging party system. Principal policies in agriculture, regional development, the internal market, single currency, and competition. Emphasis is on policies that affect the relations with the U.S. including trade and security. Results of the EU's constitutional convention.

Global and sociological perspectives on science and technology expansion, comparing nations and regions. Social features such as gender equity; and social impact economic development strategies such as tech incubators, the triple helix model, and UN initiatives. Democratization, human rights, welfare of local populations, and national security. Policy issues, the digital divide, development debates, commodification of the public good, and notions of social change.

Recent work in political theory on global justice. Topics include global poverty, human rights, fair trade, immigration, climate change. Do developed countries have a duty to aid developing countries? Do rich countries have the right to close their borders to economic immigrants? When is humanitarian intervention justified? Readings include Charles Beitz, Thomas Pogge, John Rawls.

What is the character of international legal rules? Do they matter in international politics, and if so, to what degree? The foundational theories, principles, and sources of public international law. Prominent theories of international relations and how they address the role of law in international politics. Practical problems such as human rights, humanitarian intervention, and enforcement of criminal law. International law as a dynamic set of rules, at times influenced by power, at other times constraining it, but always essential to studying international relations.

The involvement of U.S. and the UN in major wars and international interventions since the 1991 Gulf War. The UN Charter's provisions on the use of force, the origins and evolution of peacekeeping, the reasons for the breakthrough to peacemaking and peace enforcement in the 90s, and the ongoing debates over the legality and wisdom of humanitarian intervention. Case studies include Croatia and Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Kosovo, East Timor, and Afghanistan.

Rarely screened documentary films, focusing on global problems, human rights issues, and aesthetic challenges in making documentaries on international topics. Meetings with filmmakers.

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Chile. Post-WW II political economy developments and political relations. Impacts of military rule from the 60s into the 80s. Regional and international political developments that led to MERCOSUR in 1991, and subsequent expansion.

Current attempts at economic integration throughout the Western Hemisphere, including the Andean Community, the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM), the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), MERCOSUR, the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), and the Central American Integration System (SICA). Emphasis is on practical applications of integration efforts and nuts-and-bolts issues of how integration efforts function.

The historical development of the multilateral trade system, the current agenda of the World Trade Organization, and prospects for trade liberalization. Emphasis is on the economic rationale for multilateral trade rules, the political problems facing countries in supporting further liberalization, and the challenges to the legitimacy of WTO procedures and practices. Issues include the greater participation of developing countries, the impact of new members, and the relationship between the WTO and other multilateral bodies. Guest speakers; student research paper presentations.

Globalization is associated with a downward spiral of human rights. Yet, paradoxically, more countries now subscribe to human rights treaties than ever before. The class discusses different aspects of globalization drawing on theoriesnnfrom sociology, political science, cultural anthropology and law. In nnexamining the economic, political and cultural aspects of globalization,nnthe class shows the tensions within globalization and their paradoxicalnneffects on human rights. The course outlines different global governance mechanism aimed at improving human rights. These include governmental treaties, international NGOs advocacy work and corporate Codes of Conduct and their effects on human rights. The effects of the United Nations International Labour Organization on labor related human rights, such as child labor and discrimination, serve as examples. Integrating social sciences theories with empirical research, this course provides an overview of the debates surrounding the causes and effects of globalization.

The seminar provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the technology, economics, and international politics of energy and climate. We investigate specific energy technologies and discuss their impact on geopolitics, the environment and mitigating the effects of climate change.What is the role of energy in national security? What will climate change mean for our energy mix? How do developing countries view energy and climate change? What is the proper balance between regulation and free market operation in energy markets?

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Open only to declared International Relations majors with approved senior thesis proposals.

Restricted to students in the CDDRL option of the International Relations honors program. Goal is to prepare students to do research and/or fieldwork to complete their thesis research. Main currents in democracy and development literature concerning how economic growth and democratization are related; how the rule of law supports these processes in countries undergoing change. Student presentations of thesis questions; student groups develop research problems and designs. May be repeated for credit.

For juniors planning to write an honors thesis during senior year. Initial steps to prepare for independent research. Professional tools for conceptualizing a research agenda and developing a research strategy. Preparation for field research through skills such as data management and statistics, references and library searches, and fellowship and grant writing. Creating a work schedule for the summer break and first steps in writing. Prerequisite: acceptance to IR honors program.

Second of two-part sequence. For seniors working on their honors theses. Professional tools, analysis of research findings, and initial steps in writing of thesis. How to write a literature review, formulate a chapter structure, and set a timeline and work schedule for the senior year. Skills such as data analysis and presentation, and writing strategies. Prerequisites: acceptance to IR honors program, and 199 or 200A.

This one-unit seminar will comprise 10 international and domestic human rights scholars, judges and activists who have made significant contributions to international justice, women and children¿s rights, environmental rights and indigenous rights. It is open to all Stanford undergraduate and graduate students. Students in the seminar will be encouraged to present their ongoing research and to develop new research projects (individually and collaboratively). Students wishing to do significant research and reading in the context of the seminar may, in consultation with one of the instructors, sign up for independent study. Law students are first required to be enrolled in an International Human Rights in the law school in order to participate. Course requirements are attendance, participation, and assignments.

1) Study of socio-economic trends from independence up to the present time in South Asia.2) The complex interactions between development, and political governance, national identity and socio-economic institutions. 3) Case studies of exemplary outcomes: the Kerala development experience experience, India's IT industry. Bangladesh's microfinance initiative and education in Sri Lanka. 4) Student assessment will be based on class presentation and paper.

Current political dynamics in major western hemisphere fossil fuel producers in N. America, the Andean region, the Southern Cone of S. America, and Trinidad and Tobago. The potential for developing sustainable alternative energy resources in the western hemisphere for export particularly biofuels, and its impact on agricultural policy, environmental protection, and food prices. The feasibility of creating regional energy security rings such as the proposed N. American Energy Security and Prosperity Partnership.

Seminar. Focus is on 1985 to the present. The policies of Gorbachev toward the Muslim populace of the Soviet Union; how post-communist Russia under Yeltsin and Putin has dealt with its Muslim minorities; and the relationship of Russia to the newly independent states of Central Asia and the South Caucasus after the breakup of the USSR in 1991. The two major wars which Russia has fought with the secessionist Russian autonomous republic of Chechnya.

The Palestinian national movement and its role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The roots of the movement in the Ottoman Empire, its growth through the British Mandate, the 1948 and1967 wars, the Intifada, and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Emphasis is on components which contributed to or delayed the growth of a distinct Palestinian identity, including Zionism.

The staying power of tribal identities and values in the Middle East. Examples include the Iraqi Sunni tribal insurgency against the U.S. The role of tribes in the formation of Middle Eastern states and how tribal values continue to impact social, political, and economic issues today.