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• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/10
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• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
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• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
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• Instructor: Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
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• Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
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• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
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• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
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• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
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• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Weaver, Vesla Mae
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Shilliam, Robbie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
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• Instructor: Han, Hahrie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
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• Instructor: Simon, Josh David
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Teele, Dawn Langan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Amat Matus, Consuelo
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
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• Instructor: Valdez, Inés
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

What do the process philosophies of Bergson, Whitehead and Daoism have to say to political manifestos advanced by writers such as Marx and Engels, Naomi Klein, Hardt and Negri, Dziga Vertov, Haitian and French revolutionaries, Folco Portinari. How, in turn, can the latter illuminate, deform, or inform them? The readings in this seminar bounce back and forth between the cosmic politics of process philosophy and a variety of short manifestos designed to speak to the vicissitudes of today.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane; Connolly, William E
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This class explores the ideas and legal doctrines that define the freedom of speech. We will examine the free speech jurispurdence of the U.S. in comparison to that of other system, particularly the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Canada.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen; Zackin, Emily
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course offers a graduate-level introduction to the field of comparative politics, focusing on the substantive questions that drive contemporary research. Issues will include: state formation and state capacity; regime typology, democratization, and democratic backsliding; party systems and political behavior; political economy and economic development; racial, ethnic, and religious politics; and revolutions and political violence. Readings include both classic and recent works, selected to help students both prepare for major or minor comprehensive exams and frame their own research projects.

• Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Teele, Dawn Langan
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/10
• PosTag(s): POLI-CP

This course is designed to help graduate students in political science craft an original piece of high-quality writing. This class is open to students in their first, second, or third years of the graduate program. We will work on developing the skill of academic writing step by step, focusing first on the question of how to identify and articulate a good question, second on the skill of literature review, third on the art of theoretical engagement, and fourth on the presentation of evidence. During the semester, students may choose to turn a set of interests and questions into a prospectus draft. Alternatively, they may decide to use the class to turn a seminar paper into a dissertation chapter, or a revise a dissertation chapter into an article manuscript. Special sessions will bring other faculty to the class to talk about writing a dissertation and the peer-review process.

• Days/Times: W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Amat Matus, Consuelo; Simon, Josh David
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Over the past ten years the urban has become an increasingly important space with which to understand politics, whether examined through the subfields of international politics, comparative politics, political theory, or American politics. In this course we will examine the role the urban plays in producing politics at various scales, and simultaneously consider the urban as a particular byproduct of politics at various scales. How might we understand contemporary shifts in political economy through the urban? How does the urban become a particularly important site of racialization? Why have movements from Occupy Wall Street to Arab Spring begun in cities? What are the opportunities and challenges involved in comparing cities across national contexts? How have scholars used the city to theorize about politics more broadly? We will tackle these and other related questions in this course.

• Days/Times: T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR

Humanitarianism has become a pervasive form of moral and political action in world politics. Over the course of the twentieth century and beyond, humanitarian logics infused the conduct of war and informed global governance in many areas—from refugee relief and post-conflict reconstruction, to peacekeeping and development, to migration, ecological security, and recovery from natural disasters. And yet, while often celebrated as an achievement, humanitarianism involves ambiguities, contradictions, and pathologies demanding critical scrutiny. This seminar aims, first, to interrogate critically the history of humanitarian practices and, second, to refine and revise concepts used to study and evaluate those practices. We pursue these aims in part with an eye to understanding mutations of humanitarian politics accompanying contemporary challenges to the post-WWII liberal international order. Topics include: (1) the invention of “humanity” as an idea/ideal; (2)humanitarianism, war and empire; (3) varities of humanitarianism; (4) humanitarian violence; (5) humanitarian expertise and institutions; (6) humanitarianism, media, and technology;

• Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim; Ross, Andrew
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/9
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will survey the history of geopolitics and green industrial from China’s wind and solar push in the 1990s to the Inflation Reduction Act and beyond. We will seek to understand the determinants of industrial policy, best practices for industrial policy, and the effects of industrial policy on climate politics. The lens of geopolitics and industrial policy provides a unique avenue to understand world order. Through this lens, we will see how energy systems and technology competition animate and structure global politics.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR

This graduate seminar in political theory will explore “political economy” conceptually. This is an advanced course in capitalist economics that takes up the study of economic forces as themselves relations of power/knowledge.

• Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is a survey of modern political thought for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students. Its purpose is to (1) introduce some of the most significant texts in early modern European political theory, (2) survey a selection of the most important recent scholarly studies of these sources, and (3) develop theoretical and methodological skills at analyzing and interpreting the texts and the scholarship they have inspired.

• Days/Times: Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Valdez, Inés
• Room: Macaulay 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/10
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
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• Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Instructor: Amat Matus, Consuelo
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
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• Instructor: Shilliam, Robbie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Valdez, Inés
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
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• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
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• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
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• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Valdez, Inés
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Shilliam, Robbie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Han, Hahrie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Simon, Josh David
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Teele, Dawn Langan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Amat Matus, Consuelo
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This graduate seminar will examine a range of Indigenous political theorists and critics of settler colonialism. In so doing, we will interrogate the role of liberal Anglo-centrism in contested theories and practices of sovereignty, property rights, freedom, equality, race, sexuality and nature. Likewise, we will investigate the contention that settler colonialism is acquisitive of territory in perpetuity, as opposed to being a moment in history, in order to assess the enduring political and theoretical impact of colonial legacies. Importantly, we shall explore how the relays between Indigenous cosmologies and temporalities shape theories and practices of resistance, reason, identity and political imagination.

• Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 6:30PM
• Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
• Room: Gilman 119
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): POLI-PT

The graduate seminar examines the waxing and waning power of the administrative state in a comparative context (including the United States). The course considers the forging of bureaucratic authority, the rise of independent regulators, and the emergence of private-public partnerships, and how the current moment of globalization, populism, and slow growth has placed these arrangements under enormous pressure. Regulatory capture, procedural fetishism, cronyism, turf wars, and agency collapse will feature prominently. The second part of the course will bring in guests (section chiefs, program directors, and political appointees) from various government departments to provide their own perspectives on governance from the ground-up.

• Days/Times: T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course explores institutional development in American national politics, from the Founding until the present. It traces parties, Congress, the presidency, bureaucracy, and courts, and also examines how those institutions have interacted with one another across American history. Throughout the course, we will consider how ideas, interests, procedures, and sequence together shape institutions as they collide and abrade over time. Finally, although it hardly covers the entire corpus across the subfield, the course is also designed to prepare students to sit for comprehensive examinations in American politics.

• Days/Times: Th 9:30AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel; Sheingate, Adam
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

We are used to thinking of sovereignty, the state, and war as fairly self-evident concepts and as the bedrock of so much work, not only in academic international relations, but also in policy discourse. It seems straightforward that sovereign states wage war, and war in turn may make or break states. Under conditions of rapidly advancing globalization, however, the relationship of these concepts is anything but straightforward. This class builds on historical investigations into state formation, the relationship of the military instrument to the state, the progressive globalization of the defense industrial base, the rapidly changing practices of security under technical innovation, and related phenomena to question notions of state and security and to better understand the past and present fault lines of conflict. This is a graduate course that welcomes advanced undergraduates with previous international relations coursework at instructor’s discretion.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR

The power to coin money was historically central to the formation of sovereign states. Yet the relationship between money and sovereignty has considerably evolved over time. First, the emergence of nation-states and of popular sovereignty meant that money was no longer primarily a state and elite concern, but also increasingly a matter of everyday life and mass politics. Second, the increasing integration and financialization of the world economy produced new challenges for sovereignty. We will discuss historical and social science scholarship that address these historical trends and the politics of money and sovereignty today. Topics will include: capitalism, public budgets and debts, central banks, populism, democracy, financialization, international integration.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Maryland 104
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

With the tools of geopolitics, course explores political debates over globalization of machine civilization and changes in scope and pace, space and place, and role of nature in human affairs

• Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

As a field, Law and Politics has evolved from the study of constitutional law and judicial politics to the political behavior of judges and their associates to the study of law and society, the operation of law and courts “on the ground” in the international arena as well as in the United States, historical institutionalism, and the carceral state. In this graduate course, we will review some of the classic texts in the field, with a focus on the tension between legal institutions and democratic politics. In particular, we will examine how that tension is manifest in the foundations of the American political system and in critical reflection on contemporary practices of American democracy. Students will turn in response papers every week on the reading. In addition, there will be two 10-20 page papers due during the semester. Graduate Students Only.

• Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Contact with criminal justice has become a primary way that many Americans see and experience government, particularly those from race-class subjugated communities. Yet, our field has been slow to appreciate the development of the carceral state or to consider its manifold impacts for citizenship. In this graduate seminar, we will survey key debates around punishment, state violence, and surveillance, with a particular focus on research that takes institutional development, history, and racial orders seriously. Why did the carceral state expand in “fits and starts” and with what consequence for state-building? We explore its (racialized and gendered) relationship to other key systems: foster care, social provision, labor relations and the labor market, and immigration enforcement. A core preoccupation of this course will be to understand the ways in which the criminal justice system “makes race” and how debates about crime and punishment were often debates about black inclusion and equality. How does exposure to criminal justice interventions shape political learning, democratic habits, and racial lifeworlds? In addition to policy, political discourse, and racial politics, we will employ works from a range of fields – history, sociology, law, and criminology – and a range of methods (ethnography, historical analysis, quantitative and qualitative). Required books include: Khalil Muhammad’s Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Elizabeth Hinton’s From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, David Oshinsky’s Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, Bruce Western’s Punishment and Inequality in America, and Michael Fortner’s Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment.

• Days/Times: W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Weaver, Vesla Mae
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Intended for IR PhD students, this course will assist students in conceptualizing and writing a dissertation prospectus. The course will help you develop your core idea; formulate a research question; and come up with a plan for researching it, including sources, methods and chapterization. The course will help you turn your dissertation idea or question into a dissertation project. The capstone of the course will be a workshop with external faculty where you will present your draft project, scheduled for mid-May 2025. The course will be most helpful to PhD students entering their second or third year and does not satisfy or replace the formal prospectus requirement for your PhD.

• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR

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• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
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• Instructor: Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Weaver, Vesla Mae
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Kocher, Matthew Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Shilliam, Robbie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Teele, Dawn Langan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Valdez, Inés
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Mason, Lily Hall
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Amat Matus, Consuelo
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Weaver, Vesla Mae
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kocher, Matthew Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Shilliam, Robbie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Simon, Josh David
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Han, Hahrie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

We will gain experience with data-analysis geared towards understanding the social world. Our scope ranges from simple descriptions and predictions under strong assumptions to intervention analyses that provide a more trustworthy foundation for quantifying causal effects. The course will be offered in a hybrid modality and will have a heavy focus on computation. We will alternate between discussion sessions devoted to fundamental concepts, and lab sessions devoted to a combination of web- and instructor-led data-analyses. Whenever possible, examples using both R and Stata and using a range of national and cross-national data-sources relevant to the study of democracy will be provided.

• Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Corrigan, Bryce
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

We will gain experience with data-analysis geared towards understanding the social world. Our scope ranges from simple descriptions and predictions under strong assumptions to intervention analyses that provide a more trustworthy foundation for quantifying causal effects. The course will be offered in a hybrid modality and will have a heavy focus on computation. We will alternate between discussion sessions devoted to fundamental concepts, and lab sessions devoted to a combination of web- and instructor-led data-analyses. Whenever possible, examples using both R and Stata and using a range of national and cross-national data-sources relevant to the study of democracy will be provided.

• Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Corrigan, Bryce
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a