printer friendly pageINTNLREL 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
Instructors:
Patenaude, B. (PI)
INTNLREL 47SI: Bridging The Divide: Analyzing Indo-Pak Bilateral Relations
Bridging the Divide - Analyzing Indo-Pak Bilateral Relations will explore India and Pakistan's intricate and evolving relationship. Each week, distinguished guest speakers, including professors, human rights lawyers, and special guest speakers, discuss various topics shaping bilateral relations. These topics include human rights, nuclear security, the historical impact of partition, and the strategies and approaches of India and Pakistan, amongst other topics. The course will comprehensively analyze the historical and contemporary factors influencing the relationship between India and Pakistan. A special emphasis will be placed on examining the differences and challenges historically shaping India-Pakistan relations. Speakers will provide critical insights into each government's divergent policies and strategic approaches. Moreover, the lectures will explore potential partnerships and collaborative efforts, highlighting past and ongoing initiatives and potential avenues for future coll
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Bridging the Divide - Analyzing Indo-Pak Bilateral Relations will explore India and Pakistan's intricate and evolving relationship. Each week, distinguished guest speakers, including professors, human rights lawyers, and special guest speakers, discuss various topics shaping bilateral relations. These topics include human rights, nuclear security, the historical impact of partition, and the strategies and approaches of India and Pakistan, amongst other topics. The course will comprehensively analyze the historical and contemporary factors influencing the relationship between India and Pakistan. A special emphasis will be placed on examining the differences and challenges historically shaping India-Pakistan relations. Speakers will provide critical insights into each government's divergent policies and strategic approaches. Moreover, the lectures will explore potential partnerships and collaborative efforts, highlighting past and ongoing initiatives and potential avenues for future collaboration. By the end of the course, students will have a nuanced understanding of both the obstacles and opportunities in India-Pakistan relations, equipping them with the knowledge to envision and advocate for innovative solutions for regional peace and cooperation. To apply for enrollment, please complete this brief application form:
https://forms.gle/ywv75y74k9RDSfqJA. If selected, you will be sent an enrollment permission code.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
Tarapore, A. (PI)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Naylor, R. (PI)
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Stedman, S. (PI)
INTNLREL 65Q: Soft Power and Geopolitics: The Art of Influence
How do countries convince each other to cooperate? What are the nonviolent ways that nation states engage in political and social change? What is Soft Power and how have countries wielded it over time? Joseph Nye famously stated that "the best propaganda is not propaganda." This class defines the different aspects of Power, demonstrating the role of culture in shaping policy and public opinion. Analyzing cases from antiquity, to the Cold War, and through the modern era - this course delves into the myriad of ways countries engage in diplomacy, in everyday life. Class activities range from analyzing Soviet propaganda posters, to reading Japanese Manga, to tracing the impact of Ethiopian Orthodoxy. Students will gain an interdisciplinary understanding of critical geopolitics through the lenses of education, public health, social policy, and the arts. This class will also take field trips within the Bay Area, including a visit to the Silicon Valley African Film Festival.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
Instructors:
McCoy, H. (PI)
INTNLREL 74: Public Service and Social Impact: Pathways to Purposeful Careers (CSRE 190A, ENGLISH 180, POLISCI 74B, PUBLPOL 75B, SOC 190A, SYMSYS 193, URBANST 190A)
How do I translate my interests and skills into a career in public service and social impact? This course will introduce you to a wide range of roles that help shape public policy and civic life, including government, education, nonprofits, social enterprises, and arts/media. It can be taken for one or two units. For one unit, you participate in a weekly, interactive speaker series designed to give you a sense for what different public service careers are like. Each week, guests describe their organizations and roles, highlight key intellectual issues and policy challenges, discuss their career paths, and describe skills crucial for the job. For a second unit, you participate in a hands-on weekly session designed to help you translate this knowledge into action. You will identify roles and organizations that might be a good match for you, build your network through informational interviewing, receive career coaching, and acquire the tools you need to launch your job or internship searc
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How do I translate my interests and skills into a career in public service and social impact? This course will introduce you to a wide range of roles that help shape public policy and civic life, including government, education, nonprofits, social enterprises, and arts/media. It can be taken for one or two units. For one unit, you participate in a weekly, interactive speaker series designed to give you a sense for what different public service careers are like. Each week, guests describe their organizations and roles, highlight key intellectual issues and policy challenges, discuss their career paths, and describe skills crucial for the job. For a second unit, you participate in a hands-on weekly session designed to help you translate this knowledge into action. You will identify roles and organizations that might be a good match for you, build your network through informational interviewing, receive career coaching, and acquire the tools you need to launch your job or internship search. This course is intended for all students and all majors. Course content will be relevant to students soon entering the job market as well as those facing choices about courses of study and internships. Class sessions will be 60 minutes. This course is co-sponsored by the Haas Center for Public Service, the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Stanford in Government. Students taking the course for one unit (Tuesday lecture) must enroll in the -01 course option, and students taking the course for two units (Tuesday lecture and Thursday seminar) must enroll in the -02 course option. IR approved.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
INTNLREL 101: Introduction to International Relations (POLISCI 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
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Fearon, J. (PI)
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MacDonald, M. (TA)
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Rhodes, A. (TA)
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Instructors:
Fearon, J. (PI)
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MacDonald, M. (TA)
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Rhodes, A. (TA)
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Ruggiero, J. (TA)
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Yeager, J. (TA)
INTNLREL 103F: Introduction to Modern Military History
This course will introduce students to the basic concepts of modern warfare, its evolution, and some of the immeasurable ways by which it shaped our history as well as our world today. How have strategy, operations and tactics been transformed by the modern state; the industrial revolution; and the accelerated pace of technological change? What is the meaning of total war, conventional war, and asymmetric war, and how were these different types of war fought in the 20th and 21st centuries? From the Napoleonic wars to the war in Ukraine, how do wars reflect, and shape, our politics, economics, culture, and technology? No prior knowledge of military history (or technology) is required. Students satisfying the WiM requirement for the major in International Relations must enroll in
INTNLREL 103F course listing. Please note that the version of this course offered in 2023-24 and later does not fulfill a "pre-1700" requirement for the history major. Cannot take for credit if you have taken
HISTORY 3F or 103F.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Vardi, G. (PI)
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Pushel, L. (TA)
INTNLREL 114D: Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (INTLPOL 230, POLISCI 114D, POLISCI 314D, REES 230)
This course explores the different dimensions of development - economic, social, and political - as well as the way that modern institutions (the state, market systems, the rule of law, and democratic accountability) developed and interacted with other factors across different societies around the world. The class will feature additional special guest lectures by Francis Fukuyama, Larry Diamond, Michael McFaul, Anna Grzymala-Busse, and other faculty and researchers affiliated with the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Undergraduate students should enroll in this course for 5 units. Graduate students should enroll for 3.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Sallam, H. (PI)
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Stoner, K. (PI)
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Kutlu Karasu, R. (TA)
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Instructors:
Sallam, H. (PI)
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Stoner, K. (PI)
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Kutlu Karasu, R. (TA)
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Pan, X. (TA)
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Pumerantz, A. (TA)
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Scott, E. (TA)
INTNLREL 115: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (AMSTUD 115S, POLISCI 115, PUBLPOL 114)
This course examines the past, present, and future of American espionage. Targeted at first years and sophomores, the class surveys key issues in the development of the U.S. Intelligence Community since World War II. Topics include covert action, intelligence successes and failures, the changing motives and methods of traitors, congressional oversight, and ethical dilemmas. The course pays particular attention to how emerging technologies are transforming intelligence today. We examine cyber threats, the growing use of AI for both insight and deception, and the 'open-source' intelligence revolution online. Classes include guest lectures by former senior U.S. intelligence officials, policymakers, and open-source intelligence leaders. Course requirements include an all-day crisis simulation with former senior officials designed to give students a hands-on feel for the uncertainties, coordination challenges, time pressures, and policy frictions of intelligence in the American foreign policy process.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
INTNLREL 140C: The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War (HISTORY 201C)
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. *International Relations majors taking this course to fulfill the WiM requirement should enroll in
INTNLREL 140C for 5 units.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Patenaude, B. (PI)
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