printer friendly pageINTNLREL 54SI: The Taste of Thailand: Introduction to Thai Culture and History
Presentations, discussions, and hands-on activities. Course is integrated with Stanford-Thai Exchange Program through which six Thai college students come to work on projects at Stanford. Cultural immersion, Thai culinary arts, and discussions with Thai exchange students.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Emmerson, D. (PI)
INTNLREL 114D: Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (IPS 230, POLISCI 114D, POLISCI 314D)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
McFaul, M. (PI)
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Stoner, K. (PI)
INTNLREL 122A: The Political Economy of the European Union
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Crombez, C. (PI)
INTNLREL 136R: Introduction to Global Justice (ETHICSOC 136R, PHIL 76, POLISCI 136R, POLISCI 336)
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-ER
Instructors:
Pasternak, A. (PI)
INTNLREL 140A: International Law and International Relations
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Lutomski, P. (PI)
INTNLREL 140B: Theories of International Law (IPS 241A)
Competing theories of international law, including approaches based on natural law, positivism, the Grotian tradition, realism, rational institutionalism, liberalism, social construction, and critical theory; evaluations based upon explanatory power, parsimony, and prescriptive implications. How international leval arguments are made through each theoretical perspective. Primary and secondary materials by international law theorists and political scientists. Term paper.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Steinberg, R. (PI)
INTNLREL 140C: The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Patenaude, B. (PI)
INTNLREL 141A: Camera as Witness: International Human Rights Documentaries
Rarely screened documentary films, focusing on global problems, human rights issues, and aesthetic challenges in making documentaries on international topics. Meetings with filmmakers.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Bojic, J. (PI)
INTNLREL 147: The Political Economy of the Southern Cone of South America
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
O'Keefe, T. (PI)
INTNLREL 148: Economic Integration of the Americas
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
O'Keefe, T. (PI)
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