PSCI 420
Senior Seminar in International Relations: Law and Rights in International Politics
Last Offered Spring 2009
Division II
Cross-listed
This course is not offered in the current catalog

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The subject of law and rights in international politics raises fundamental questions about the nature of the international system, about what law means in the absence of an enforcing sovereign, about whether persons can have rights independent of the government. It also raises dramatic and salient questions about how these concepts get used to increase or wrest power-how, for example, a claim to human rights might affect a regime, or why admitting a policy of torture seems difficult when its consequences are so minimal. It has room for philosophy and for politics. We will start examining these questions by drawing on classic international relations theory, and then complicate this theory as we move through the semester.
The Class: Format: tutorial
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 3591
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: five papers and five critiques; final paper
Prerequisites: senior standing, Political Science major with two courses in international relations
Enrollment Preferences: senior Political Science majors with a concentration in International Relations
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
PSCI 420 Division II
Attributes: LGST Interdepartmental Electives
PSCI International Relations Courses

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