Pol1025-RevisedSyllabu-33449.pdf

POLITICAL SCIENCE 1025: GLOBAL POLITICS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
FALL 2006

Instructor: Teaching Assistants:
David Pak Yue Leon Moira Lynch
Office hours: Wed. 4 to 6 pm, or by appt. Tue. 9:30 to 11:30 am, or by appt.
Office: 1214a Social Sciences Building 1214a Social Sciences Building
leon0210 ***@ lynch218 ***@
(612) 624-5057

Course Website & Info.: Veronica Michel
/courses/fall2006/1025/002/ Fri. 11 am to 1 pm, or by appt.
Pol 1025, Sec. 002, 4 credits 1282 Social Sciences Building
Wed. 6:20 to 8:50 pm miche169 ***@
Blegen Hall Auditorium 10


Course Description
e to Political Science 1025: Global Politics. This course will introduce you to some of the
most salient issues and processes in world politics, as well as the major theoretical perspectives
used by scholars to interpret and make sense of these political phenomena. In the first half of the
course, we will survey relevant historical developments anizing principles of the modern
international system. We will then examine the basic concepts, assumptions, prescriptions,
arguments, and relevance of various theories of international politics, namely: Realism,
Institutionalism, Liberalism, Constructivism, Marxism and Feminism. The second half of the
course will be devoted to a number of major international issues confronting humankind today,
including terro