Supervised work on a thesis for Honors studentsPrerequisite: Enrollment in the Politics Honors Program

PhD-level course on theories and evidence in International Political Economy. Topics include international trade, foreign direct investment, global financial markets, international monetary policy, and international migration.

This class surveys interpretative approaches used to study the objects that comprise political theory's purview: treatises, historical events, cultural practices, and archival materials. Students will read canonical methodological statements, like those of contextualism and ethnographic thick description. They will also survey major figures of political thought, the better to train students to use these methods in their teaching.

This seminar will critically examine both classic and current scholarship in American Political Development (APD) -- a sub-field of American Politics that explores the historical roots of politics and government in the United States. 

Provides an in-depth survey of International Relations Theory from the point of view of security studies.  Focuses on the primary problem of cooperation between great powers; the causes of conflict and war; the role of psychology and domestic politics in conflicts; the role of institutions and trade in creating "zones of peace"; and the importance of signaling and diplomacy within environments of profound uncertainty.

This course begins with the relationship of political science to identity politics. Next, we study the shift in treating identity as a given to a process and consider four approaches to identity formation. We then turn to two pressing challenges: how to study identity and the interactions of identity groups with one another. The final section of the course addresses the consequences of identity politics, such a mobilization and voting.

International Political Economy of Finance and Migration

Special Topics in International Relations

Special Topics in Political Theory

Supervised Research I