DWA 420 Peoples, States, and Wars: Revolutionary Readings

This course will address enduring challenges in global politics in the political, economic, and social spheres. These challenges will be contextualized through three prisms: (1) evolving norms of international society and justice, (2) histories of peoples and states, (3) key intellectual works that have both been informed by and helped construct collective understandings of these norms and histories. The challenges of war, nationalism/ethnic conflict, economic underdevelopment, and international justice will be addressed through seminal texts, both classic and contemporary. In order to expand the scope of traditional international relations inquiry, these texts will extend into related intellectual traditions.