printer friendly pagePOLISCI 22SC: The Face of Battle
Our understanding of warfare often derives from the lofty perspective of political leaders and generals: what were their objectives and what strategies were developed to meet them? This top-down perspective slights the experience of the actual combatants and non-combatants caught in the crossfire. This course focuses on the complexity of the process by which strategy is translated into tactical decisions by the officers and foot soldiers and on what actually occurs on the field of battle. We will visit Washington, DC, and meet with national security officials and members of non-government organizations there. In addition, we will spend a day visiting the battlefields of Gettysburg (July 1863) in Pennsylvania, and the Little Bighorn (June 1876) in Montana. The course's battlefield tours are based on the "staff rides" developed by the Prussian Army in the mid-1800s and employed by the U.S. Army since the early 1900s. While at Stanford, students will conduct extensive research on individu
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Our understanding of warfare often derives from the lofty perspective of political leaders and generals: what were their objectives and what strategies were developed to meet them? This top-down perspective slights the experience of the actual combatants and non-combatants caught in the crossfire. This course focuses on the complexity of the process by which strategy is translated into tactical decisions by the officers and foot soldiers and on what actually occurs on the field of battle. We will visit Washington, DC, and meet with national security officials and members of non-government organizations there. In addition, we will spend a day visiting the battlefields of Gettysburg (July 1863) in Pennsylvania, and the Little Bighorn (June 1876) in Montana. The course's battlefield tours are based on the "staff rides" developed by the Prussian Army in the mid-1800s and employed by the U.S. Army since the early 1900s. While at Stanford, students will conduct extensive research on individual participants at Gettysburg and Little Bighorn. Then, as we walk through the battlefield sites, students will brief the group on their subjects' experience of battle and on why they made the decisions they did. Why did Lt. General Longstreet oppose the Confederate attack on the Union Army at Gettysburg? What was the experience of a military surgeon, vivandiere, or nurse on a Civil War battlefield? What role did just war principles or law play in the treatment of enemy fighters and civilians? Why did Custer divide his 7th Cavalry troops as they approached the Little Bighorn River? What was the role of Lakota Sioux women after a battle? The final part of the class covers contemporary military conflicts discussing what the US public, political leaders, and military commanders have learned (and not learned) from the past. The course is open to students from a range of disciplines; an interest in the topic is the only prerequisite.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Sagan, S. (PI)
;
Weiner, A. (PI)
POLISCI 27SC: Policing, Violence and Migration in Latin America: Historical Origins and Contemporary Challenges
This course explores the origins of policing in Latin America and some of the contemporary challenges in the relationship between citizens, police forces and the state in the Western Hemisphere. By taking a long-term perspective, we seek to understand why highly unequal countries in Latin America (and the US) have faced such difficulties in effectively providing citizen security while ensuring the respect of fundamental human rights. We will connect such failures both to historical debates regarding the legacies of colonialism and contemporary debates regarding forced displacements and migratory flows. The provision of security in Latin America has often been plagued by torture, excessive use of force, military deployments and police brutality. During the colonial era, political order was often imposed using the coercive force of the State to police settlement patterns, repress indigenous rebellions, and chase runaway enslaved peoples. Police forces in Latin America are often unable to
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This course explores the origins of policing in Latin America and some of the contemporary challenges in the relationship between citizens, police forces and the state in the Western Hemisphere. By taking a long-term perspective, we seek to understand why highly unequal countries in Latin America (and the US) have faced such difficulties in effectively providing citizen security while ensuring the respect of fundamental human rights. We will connect such failures both to historical debates regarding the legacies of colonialism and contemporary debates regarding forced displacements and migratory flows. The provision of security in Latin America has often been plagued by torture, excessive use of force, military deployments and police brutality. During the colonial era, political order was often imposed using the coercive force of the State to police settlement patterns, repress indigenous rebellions, and chase runaway enslaved peoples. Police forces in Latin America are often unable to contain crime, while poor citizens in urban favelas or remote villages often need to resort to solutions that bypass or even challenge the State in its monopoly of the legitimate use of violence, or seek to escape their precarious conditions through migration. We will explore both the origins of these policing failures, and their effects in terms of migratory flows to both the US and Latin America today. Movie club and salon: Class sessions will be enriched with cinema screenings in the evenings of movies and documentaries that will bring to life some of the issues discussed in class. Those screenings will include a zoom segment to allow for a follow up discussion with directors, producers or a relevant expert. Field trips: We will seek to have three field trips. One will be a visit to libraries containing historical documents of the colonial era. A second one will be a visit to a California Mission. A third trip will be a visit to the Salinas Valley or Half Moon Bay, to learn about the challenges faced by undocumented indigenous migrants in agricultural areas of California. If possible, we will arrange a fourth trip visit police headquarters in Oakland, to learn about contemporary efforts at police reform in the US.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Diaz, A. (PI)
;
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI)
POLISCI 29SC: Coastal Resilience: Problems and Solutions to Extreme Weather Challenges on the West Coast
This course will explore the resilience challenges that coastal areas in the American West must deal with in the face of climate change. These include problems such as projected sea level rise, flooding, land subsidence, drought-stressed water supply, pollution, unsustainable fishing practices, wildfires, and erosion. Solutions to these problems - such as sea walls, levees, and grey infrastructure like dams and reservoirs - are often controversial and the politics over them happens at all levels of government. Some of this controversy occurs along partisan lines, but even in the politically bluest areas adjacent to the oceans and bays, many communities have been slow to take on the planning and actions needed to protect people and property from future extreme weather challenges. Traveling up and down the West coast, this course will combine classroom instruction with visits to the communities, facilities and agencies involved in coastal resilience from the Canadian to the Mexican borde
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This course will explore the resilience challenges that coastal areas in the American West must deal with in the face of climate change. These include problems such as projected sea level rise, flooding, land subsidence, drought-stressed water supply, pollution, unsustainable fishing practices, wildfires, and erosion. Solutions to these problems - such as sea walls, levees, and grey infrastructure like dams and reservoirs - are often controversial and the politics over them happens at all levels of government. Some of this controversy occurs along partisan lines, but even in the politically bluest areas adjacent to the oceans and bays, many communities have been slow to take on the planning and actions needed to protect people and property from future extreme weather challenges. Traveling up and down the West coast, this course will combine classroom instruction with visits to the communities, facilities and agencies involved in coastal resilience from the Canadian to the Mexican border. We will look at solutions like conventional desalination that have been debated and implemented for decades, but also novel possibilities such as wave-powered desalination. We will discuss the relative merits of creating more water storage through groundwater recharge and water recycling versus building more dams and reservoirs. And as we have done in the past with Bill Lane Center Sophomore Colleges, we will meet with relevant policy experts and public officials from governmental agencies, utilities, universities, and public interest groups. The course will conclude with group presentations by the students.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Cain, B. (PI)
POLISCI 101: Introduction to International Relations (INTNLREL 101)
Approaches to the study of conflict and cooperation in world affairs. Applications to war, trade policy, the environment, and world poverty. Debates about the ethics of war and the global distribution of wealth.
Terms: Aut, Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Fearon, J. (PI)
;
Tomz, M. (PI)
;
Kaufmann, J. (TA)
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Instructors:
Fearon, J. (PI)
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Tomz, M. (PI)
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Kaufmann, J. (TA)
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MacDonald, M. (TA)
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Park, P. (TA)
;
Peters, S. (TA)
;
Theophanous, P. (TA)
POLISCI 133: Ethics and Politics of Public Service (CSRE 178, ETHICSOC 133, PHIL 175A, PHIL 275A, PUBLPOL 103D, URBANST 122)
Public service is private action for the public good, work done by individuals and groups that aims at some vision of helping society or the world. This course examines some of the many ethical and political questions that arise in doing public service work, whether volunteering, service learning, humanitarian endeavors overseas, or public service professions such as medicine, teaching, or even "ethical investing" and "ethical entrepreneurship." What motives do people have to engage in public service work? Are self-interested motives troublesome? What is the connection between service work and justice? Should the government or schools require citizens or students to perform service work? Is mandatory service an oxymoron?
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ER
POLISCI 153: Strategy: Introduction to Game Theory (POLISCI 354)
This course provides an introduction to strategic reasoning. We discuss ideas such as the commitment problem, credibility in signaling, cheap talk, moral hazard and adverse selection. Concepts are developed through games played in class, and applied to politics, business and everyday life.
Terms: Spr, Sum
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR
POLISCI 209: Curricular Practical Training
Qualified Political Science students obtain employment in a relevant research or industrial activity to enhance their professional experience consistent with their degree programs. Meets the requirements for Curricular Practical Training for students on F-1 visas. The student is responsible for arranging their own internship/employment and gaining faculty sponsorship. Prior to enrolling, students must complete a petition form available on the Political Science website (
politicalscience.stanford.edu/undergraduate-program/forms). The petition is due no later the end of week one of the quarter in which the student intends to enroll. If the CPT is for Summer, the petition form is due by May 31. An offer letter will need to be submitted along with the petition. At the completion of the CPT quarter, a final report must be submitted to the faculty sponsor documenting the work done and its relevance to Political Science. This course be repeated for credit up to 3 times but will not count toward the Political Science major or minor requirements.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
Instructors:
Blaydes, L. (PI)
;
Davenport, L. (PI)
;
Grzymala-Busse, A. (PI)
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Instructors:
Blaydes, L. (PI)
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Davenport, L. (PI)
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Grzymala-Busse, A. (PI)
;
Milani, A. (PI)
;
Pan, J. (PI)
POLISCI 219: Directed Reading and Research in International Relations
For undergraduates. Directed reading in Political Science with a focus on international relations. To be considered for enrollment, interested students must complete the directed reading petition form available on the Political Science website before the end of week 1 of the quarter in which they'd like to enroll. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Acharya, A. (PI)
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Blaydes, L. (PI)
;
Cain, B. (PI)
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Instructors:
Acharya, A. (PI)
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Blaydes, L. (PI)
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Cain, B. (PI)
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Diamond, L. (PI)
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Fearon, J. (PI)
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Goldstein, J. (PI)
;
Hainmueller, J. (PI)
;
Kennard, A. (PI)
;
Krasner, S. (PI)
;
Lipscy, P. (PI)
;
Magen, A. (PI)
;
McFaul, M. (PI)
;
Rice, C. (PI)
;
Sagan, S. (PI)
;
Scheve, K. (PI)
;
Schultz, K. (PI)
;
Tomz, M. (PI)
;
Weinstein, J. (PI)
POLISCI 229: Directed Reading and Research in American Politics
For undergraduates. Directed reading in Political Science with a focus on American politics. To be considered for enrollment, interested students must complete the directed reading petition form available on the Political Science website before the end of week 1 of the quarter in which they'd like to enroll. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Bonica, A. (PI)
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Brady, D. (PI)
;
Cain, B. (PI)
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Instructors:
Bonica, A. (PI)
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Brady, D. (PI)
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Cain, B. (PI)
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Canes-Wrone, B. (PI)
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Cox, G. (PI)
;
Davenport, L. (PI)
;
Fiorina, M. (PI)
;
Grimmer, J. (PI)
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Hall, A. (PI)
;
Ho, D. (PI)
;
Iyengar, S. (PI)
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Jefferson, H. (PI)
;
Jusko, K. (PI)
;
Krosnick, J. (PI)
;
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI)
;
Moe, T. (PI)
;
Nall, C. (PI)
;
Rakove, J. (PI)
;
Rice, C. (PI)
;
Rivers, D. (PI)
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Sniderman, P. (PI)
;
Tomz, M. (PI)
;
Weingast, B. (PI)
POLISCI 239: Directed Reading and Research in Political Theory
For undergraduates. Directed reading in Political Science with a focus on political theory. To be considered for enrollment, interested students must complete the directed reading petition form available on the Political Science website before the end of week 1 of the quarter in which they'd like to enroll. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Cain, B. (PI)
;
Chapman, E. (PI)
;
Luo, S. (PI)
;
McFaul, M. (PI)
;
McQueen, A. (PI)
;
Ober, J. (PI)
;
Reich, R. (PI)
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