Week 1
Session 1—Welcome: Making Sense of a Global Pandemic
Session 2—Foundations: Frameworks for Understanding International Relations
Week 2
Session 3—Foundations: Forgotten History of the International Relations Discipline
Session 4—Foundations: Interests, Interactions, and Institutions
- In class: Introduce Policy Memo Assignment Schedule
Week 3
Recitations start this week
Session 5—Foundations: Institutions and Cooperation
Session 6—Foundations: International Institutions, Law, and Norms
Assignment due: Policy Memo 1
Week 4
Session 7—Foundations: History of the International System
Session 8—Applications: Bargaining Model of War
Week 5
Session 9—Applications: Domestic Interests and War
Session 10—Applications: Regime Type and War
Assignment due: Policy Memo 2
Week 6
Session 11—Applications: Psychology and War
Session 12—Applications: Civil War and Terrorism
Week 7
Session 13
- Midterm Exam
Week 8
Spring Break
Week 9
Session 14—Applications: Trade (1)
Session 15—Applications: Trade (2)
Week 10
Session 16—Applications: Development (1)
Session 17—Applications: Development (2)
Assignment due: Policy Memo 3
Week 11
No recitations this week
No classes
Assignment due: Long Policy Memo first draft
Week 12
Policy Memo oral presentations in section
Session 18—Applications: The Environment (1)
Session 19—Applications: The Environment (2)
Week 13
Policy Memo oral presentations in section
Session 20—Applications: Human Rights
Session 21—Applications: Nuclear Weapons (1)
Week 14
Policy Memo oral presentations in section (if necessary)
Session 22—Applications: Nuclear Weapons (2)
- In-class screening: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Color, 94 min. 1964.
Session 23—Applications: Nuclear Weapons (3)
- In-class screening: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Color, 94 min. 1964.
Assignment due: Long Policy Memo
Week 15
Session 24
- In-class discussion: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Color, 94 min. 1964.
Session 25
- Final Exam
