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INTNLREL 5C: Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (CSRE 5C, FEMGEN 5C, HISTORY 5C)

(Same as History 105C. 5C is 3 units; 105C is 5 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusing on human rights violations and remedies. Provides a historical context for the development and spread of human trafficking. Analyzes the current international and domestic legal and policy frameworks to combat trafficking and evaluates their practical implementation. Examines the medical, psychological, and public health issues involved. Uses problem-based learning. Required weekly 50-min. discussion section, time TBD. Students interested in service learning should consult with the instructor and will enroll in an additional course.
Last offered: Autumn 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI

INTNLREL 25: War, Revolution, and Peace: The View from Hoover Tower

The collections of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives document the wars, revolutions, political and social movements, and the struggles for peace around the globe in the 20th and 21st centuries. The course will introduce students to the origins and evolution of this unique institution, highlight its rare collections, and reveal how it collects, preserves, and makes available to researchers an enormous and ever-expanding array of primary-source material, including personal archives, photographs and film, posters, rare books and periodicals, artworks, and digital records. Students will gain insight into the operations of a special collections research center, including the role of conservation, the digitizing of collections, and how public exhibitions make the history that emerges from the collections available to a broader public. Speakers will include Hoover's curators and members of the Research Services, Digital Services, Preservation, Exhibitions, and Research and Education teams. Historian, Hoover Research Fellow, and IR Lecturer Bertrand Patenaude (Stanford MA '79, PhD '87), will introduce the course and coordinate the individual sessions.
Terms: Win | Units: 1

INTNLREL 33SI: Myths and Realities of U.S.-China Relations

This course introduces students to the U.S.-China relationship through a weekly speaker series followed by student-led discussions. Speakers from academia and industry will explore topics such as the business environment of China, the politics of the Sino-American dynamic, and technological growth in China. The purpose of the course is to tackle the myths and misconceptions surrounding U.S.-China relations, and build in students a strong foundational understanding of the multiple facets of the bilateral relationship. Students will be exposed to a variety of issues and those who take the course for 2 units will be able to explore a topic of interest through a capstone presentation at the end of the course. To apply for enrollment, please fill out this brief application form: https://forms.gle/cJGJkkr3PDbC4dS48. If selected, you will receive an enrollment permission code.
Terms: Win | Units: 1-2 | Repeatable 4 times (up to 8 units total)
Instructors: Rozelle, S. (PI)

INTNLREL 35SI: Frontiers of International Security: Policy, Research, and Innovation

This 1-unit, student-initiated course will provide undergraduate students the opportunity to engage with faculty from across the university conducting research relating to international security. Students will have the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research taking place at Stanford and be exposed to topics and subfields they may otherwise not have access to as undergraduates. The class will be framed around four subfields within international security studies: emerging technologies and intelligence; insurgent organizations and non-state actors; great power competition and the future of conflict; and nuclear weapons and arms control negotiation. To apply for enrollment, please complete this brief interest form: https://forms.gle/Ax3Jsinuwk3mBWww5
Terms: Spr | Units: 1
Instructors: Schultz, K. (PI)

INTNLREL 37SI: The South China Sea

The South China Sea (SCS) is a vitally important region for the entire world. More than half of the world's fishing vessels are in the SCS. Hundreds of millions depend on these waters for their food, while billions more rely on the shipping trade that criss-crosses the region. The SCS is also ecologically important, replete with rapidly deteriorating coral reefs in urgent need of protection. Yet despite the socio-political institutions built to maintain order, the SCS has been militarized in recent decades, especially as a rising People's Republic of China (PRC) asserts and enforces territorial claims while contravening international norms and laws. With today's new era of Great Power Competition as a backdrop, we will explore the history of the SCS and how international maritime law has evolved there. We will learn why the nations surrounding this region value it so much, and how the PRC has used "gray zone" tactics to expand its claims of jurisdiction. We will evaluate how regional a more »
The South China Sea (SCS) is a vitally important region for the entire world. More than half of the world's fishing vessels are in the SCS. Hundreds of millions depend on these waters for their food, while billions more rely on the shipping trade that criss-crosses the region. The SCS is also ecologically important, replete with rapidly deteriorating coral reefs in urgent need of protection. Yet despite the socio-political institutions built to maintain order, the SCS has been militarized in recent decades, especially as a rising People's Republic of China (PRC) asserts and enforces territorial claims while contravening international norms and laws. With today's new era of Great Power Competition as a backdrop, we will explore the history of the SCS and how international maritime law has evolved there. We will learn why the nations surrounding this region value it so much, and how the PRC has used "gray zone" tactics to expand its claims of jurisdiction. We will evaluate how regional and global bodies such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United Nations are responding to repeated violations of the so-called "rules-based order," and what the future of the SCS might look like. Supported by the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation and its wealth of resources and experts, we will evaluate the conflicts of the SCS through the lens of international security. Each meeting will begin with a "SCS in the news," followed by a guest speaker and student-discussion. To apply for enrollment, please fill out this brief application form: https://forms.gle/SobRfbicgdmEKVRB7. If selected, you will receive an enrollment permission code.
Terms: Win | Units: 1
Instructors: Felter, J. (PI)

INTNLREL 39SI: Women in National Security

Women continue to be significantly underrepresented across all sectors of the contemporary national security landscape. This course addresses this disparity by providing students the opportunity to engage deeply with women engaged in prominent national security roles across a range of expertise areas and disciplines. Weekly speakers will share their personal stories and experiences and offer perspectives on addressing pressing national security issues of our time, ranging from great power competition to cybersecurity to refugees and migration. Speakers will also discuss the intersection of women's rights and security and the challenges of achieving enduring peace when rights and liberties are not afforded equally to women. This course is an initiative of WINS (Women in National Security) at Stanford's Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1
Instructors: Felter, J. (PI)

INTNLREL 45Q: Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention

The seminar traces the history of genocide since the beginning of the 20th century. It examines the role of humanitarian intervention to prevent or stop it and the use of international law to punish it. The discussion begins with the Armenian genocide during the First World War and includes the Holocaust, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, and the Kurds in Iraq in the 1980s. Coverage starting in the 1990s includes the cases of Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, and Darfur and the more recent discussions of the appropriateness of the term genocide to describe the fate of the Yazidis in Syria, the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Uighurs in China, and the people of Ukraine.Students will learn about the origins of the word "genocide," which was coined during the Second World War, and about the legal definition of genocide as spelled out in the 1948 Genocide Convention. A chief focus of the course is the response of the United States, both in words and deeds, to alleged cases of genocide from Armenia in 1915 to Ukraine in 2023.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI

INTNLREL 60Q: United Nations Peacekeeping (PEDS 60Q)

Focus is on an examination of United Nations peacekeeping, from its inception in 1956 in the wake of the Suez Crisis, to its increasingly important role as an enforcer of political stability in sub-Saharan Africa. Examines the practice of "classic" peacekeeping as it developed during the Cold War, the rise and fall of "second-generation" peacekeeping, and the reemergence of a muscular form of peacekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa more recently. Topics include the basic history of the United Nations since 1945, he fundamentals of the United Nations Charter, and the historical trajectory of U.N. peaeckeeping and the evolving arguments of its proponents and critics over the years.
Last offered: Winter 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP

INTNLREL 61Q: Food and security (EARTHSYS 61Q, ESS 61Q)

The course will provide a broad overview of key policy issues concerning agricultural development and food security, and will assess how global governance is addressing the problem of food security. At the same time the course will provide an overview of the field of international security, and examine how governments and international institutions are beginning to include food in discussions of security.
Last offered: Autumn 2020

INTNLREL 62Q: Mass Atrocities: Reckoning and Reconciliation

Imagine you live in a country in which a delusional dictator imprisons untold masses in labor and concentration camps, and kills millions of them. Imagine you live in another country, in which one ethnic group slaughters the other. Imagine you live in yet another country in which a racial white minority terrorizes and violently discriminates against a huge majority of black population. Or, imagine you live in a country in which members of one group engage in an "ethnic cleansing" of their former neighbors.Now imagine this: Some big political change comes to each of these societies, and the perpetrators lose their power and are finally stopped from committing any more crimes and atrocities. Now comes the time to decide how to bring about justice for the past wrongs. It is also a question of how to come to terms with the terrible past. How to remember it? How to confront it? How to judge the perpetrators? How to identify them? How to punish them appropriately if at all? Also, is it possi more »
Imagine you live in a country in which a delusional dictator imprisons untold masses in labor and concentration camps, and kills millions of them. Imagine you live in another country, in which one ethnic group slaughters the other. Imagine you live in yet another country in which a racial white minority terrorizes and violently discriminates against a huge majority of black population. Or, imagine you live in a country in which members of one group engage in an "ethnic cleansing" of their former neighbors.Now imagine this: Some big political change comes to each of these societies, and the perpetrators lose their power and are finally stopped from committing any more crimes and atrocities. Now comes the time to decide how to bring about justice for the past wrongs. It is also a question of how to come to terms with the terrible past. How to remember it? How to confront it? How to judge the perpetrators? How to identify them? How to punish them appropriately if at all? Also, is it possible to ever reconcile with the former oppressors and enemies? Maybe even to forgive them? If so, under what circumstances? What is necessary for such reconciliation? What if some of the victims were also perpetrators?The scenarios mentioned above are real ones¿they happened in Germany, Rwanda, South Africa, Bosnia, and elsewhere. In this IntroSem we will explore the social, political, and legal arrangements societies debated about, negotiated, and used to deal with the atrocities of the past. We will assess their utility in the process of ¿transitional justice.¿ We will scrutinize crimes tribunals and truth commissions, and inquire whether they enabled the victims to gain a sense of justice and fairness. Likewise, we will consider under what conditions those victims might ever be capable of a genuine reconciliation.
Last offered: Winter 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-ER, WAY-SI
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