| COURSE NUMBER: |
POLI 380 |
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| COURSE TITLE: |
World Politics |
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| NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: |
Dr John Hiemstra |
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| CREDIT WEIGHT AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: |
credits 3(hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0) |
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| COURSE DESCRIPTION: |
This course is an introduction to international politics, law
and organizations and focuses on major international issues of
conflict and cooperation related to war, economics, poverty,
and the environment.
Prerequisites: POLI 205 |
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| REQUIRED TEXTS: |
- Sens, Allen and Peter Stoett, Global Politics: Origins, Currents, and
Directions, 5th edition, Toronto:
ITP Nelson, 2014.
- Articles
assigned in class that are available either on Moodle or Library reserve.
- You are required daily to read a
major newspaper [paper or online versions] such as the Globe and Mail, National Post, or Edmonton Journal (available in the King's library) The Guardian (UK), or Washington Post (USA), for breaking
international stories.
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| MARK DISTRIBUTION IN PERCENT: |
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| Midterm exam | 25% |
| Major written assignment | 25% |
| Proposal for major written assignment | 5% | | Participation | 15% |
| Final Exam | 30% |
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| 100% |
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| COURSE OBJECTIVES: |
Students will…
- Understand the dynamics and structures of the international political system
- Be able to explain the inter-linkages between the political, economic, social and environmental dimensions of global politics
- Understand
the deeper worldviews shaping world politics, which also influence our
understanding and formation of theories about world politics.
- Explore Christian perspectives on, and options for, action and service in the various dimensions and fields of world politics.
- Learn to formulate and pose questions and write research or policy analysis papers on international politics.
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| COURSE TOPICS: |
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Introduction to World Politics
- Overlapping/integrated systems: Westphalian State system + International economic system + International legal/NGO systems
- 2. Introduction to key theories and history, or “Frameworks for understanding?”
- PART I: HISTORY & THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
- 3. History and theories of war and peace, up to WW II
- 4. War and diplomacy in the era of nuclear weapons
- 5. The International Political Economy: key theories and historical developments
- 6. The Int’l Organisation of Global politics: Institutions, organizations, international law, and theories
- PART II: KEY ISSUES IN TODAY’S WORLD POLITICS
- 7. Post-Cold War security issues - communal conflicts, weapons proliferation, terrorism and international crime
- 8. How we manage conflict in global politics today
- 9. Globalised economics, world-scale poverty
- 10. Human rights as “ethics” in the global village?
- PART III: EMERGING CONCERNS IN WORLD POLITICS
- 11. Global environmental politics
- 12. Population growth and movement
- 13. The global information revolution
- 14. New Directions in Theory and Practice
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