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JSIS B 100 Issues in International Studies (5, max. 15) SSc
Offers an introduction to some contemporary salient issues in international and global affairs, focusing on one or two major developments or questions.
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JSIS B 103 Society and the Oceans (5) NSc/SSc, DIV
Explores the social, justice, and policy dimensions of the ocean environment and ocean management policy. Pays attention to how human values, institutions, culture, and history shape environmental issues and policy responses. Examines case studies and influential frameworks, such as the ocean as "tragedy of the commons." Offered: jointly with ENVIR 103/SMEA 103; Sp.
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JSIS B 120 Perspectives on Contemporary Public Policy Issues (3) SSc
Lecture series on contemporary domestic and international public policy issues. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: jointly with POL S 120.
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JSIS B 180 Introduction to Global Health: Disparities, Determinants, Policies, and Outcomes (5) SSc
Provides an introduction to global health, including: the burden and distribution of disease and mortality; the determinants of global health disparities; the making of global health policies; and the outcomes of global health interventions. Course equivalent to: T HLTH 285. Course overlaps with: B HLTH 201. Offered: jointly with G H 101/GEOG 180; AWSp.
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JSIS B 200 Sports and Diplomacy (5) SSc
Covers how, globally throughout history, sports (such as ping pong, Olympic hockey, and soccer's World Cup) have been a tool for negotiating political relationships. Examines the link between international games and international relations. Explores how sport matters in the practice of diplomacy by presenting fundamental concepts in diplomatic theory and case studies in sports diplomacy from diverse historical, political, and cultural contexts. Course overlaps with: BIS 284.
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JSIS B 212 Global Environmental Justice (5) SSc, DIV
Examines why environmental disasters (such as floods, fires, and oil spills) hit some countries harder than others. Explores global environmental justice, examining how political, economic, and social systems distribute environmental harm unevenly. Uses tools and frameworks to challenge these inequalities and explores recent events like heatwaves and wildfires through an environmental justice lens. Course overlaps with: HSTAA 208. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 212.
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JSIS B 216 Science and Society (5) NSc/SSc
Investigation of the relationship between science, technology, and society. Nuclear physics and molecular biology serve as concrete examples of fields with significant impact on society. Offered: jointly with PHYS 216; Sp.
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JSIS B 220 Diplomacy, Strategy, and United States Foreign Policy (5) SSc
Explores key theories and approaches that shape U.S. foreign policy, with a focus on history and political science. Covers diplomacy, strategy, and U.S. foreign relations, including military, economic, and cultural aspects. Includes how domestic, international, and transnational processes shape these policies and their global impact. Provides a well-rounded understanding of U.S. foreign affairs.
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JSIS B 255 Technology and International Studies (5) SSc
Technological advancements have profoundly shaped the international system throughout history. Covers major recent technological developments and their impact on the global system, including weapons of mass destruction, information and communication technology, cybersecurity, energy, and emerging technology such as artificial intelligence. Course overlaps with: BIS 421.
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JSIS B 264 Violence, Race, and Memory (5) SSc/A&H, DIV
Explores how images and ideas of power, race, violence, and global modernity circulate in memories and discourses about US relations with Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Topics include foundations myths, colonial and postcolonial encounters, historiography and narrative, and nationalist and ethnic identity formations. Offered: jointly with HSTAS 264; Sp.
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JSIS B 301 War (5) SSc
Origins and conduct of war; readings from anthropology, political science, economics, and history, as well as novels and some recent works on the arms-control controversy. Modern forms of warfare, including guerrilla war, world war, and nuclear war. Course overlaps with: TPOL S 322. Offered: jointly with SOC 306.
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JSIS B 303 Global Literature: Contemporary Novels Around the World (5) A&H
Approaches contemporary literary fiction as an essential requirement for understanding today's world. Focuses on novels from authors of diverse backgrounds, countries, and languages that address pressing issues of our time: legacies of colonialism, refugee crises and global migration, environmental/climate catastrophe, and questions of gender, class, and racial identities. Readings in English.
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JSIS B 307 Digital Storytelling and Global Citizenship (5) SSc
Teaches students the meaning of global citizenship while developing their skills to effectively communicate, through digital storytelling, the power of social change. Working in teams students use their knowledge and experiences to produce a short video highlighting efforts or strategies to address a specific global issue.
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JSIS B 308 The Role of Zoos in International Relations (5) SSc
Surveys zoos, exploring how they have changed over time and across different places. Examines the people who work in zoos, the animals housed in them, the visitors they attract, and the critics who challenge their existence. Questions ideas of human and animal power, culture, and development by examining zoos' roles locally, nationally, and globally.
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JSIS B 310 State-Society Relations in Third World Countries (5) SSc, DIV
Relationships among political, social, and economic changes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Problems of economic and political development, revolution and reform, state-society relations, imperialism and dependency. Offered: jointly with POL S 320.
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JSIS B 311 Myth of War (5) SSc
Explores war as a concept in international political economy. Examines interpretations of war as put forth by proponents of the key theoretical constructs of mercantilism, liberalism, and Marxism. Explores contemporary challenges to the prevailing, dominant theories of war.
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JSIS B 312 Money, Love and Marriage in Europe and America (5) SSc
Provides an cross-cultural and interdisciplinary discussion of romantic and economic issues related to marriage by drawing on seminal texts in the fields of history, anthropology, feminist literary criticism and cultural studies.
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JSIS B 315 Law, State, and Society (5) SSc
Examination of both state law and non-state law (rules and ways of ordering behavior such as customary law, religious law, and social conventions). Focuses on the ways non-state law interacts with and affects state law and is affected by state law.
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JSIS B 316 War, Peace, and Survival (5) SSc
War, peace, and how people live in situations of war. Trends and theories of war and of peacemaking. Also focuses on individuals and families and how gender, race and ethnicity, and other factors influence what people experience, do, think, and how they fare during situations of organized violence. Applies this to understanding the specific conflicts in Nepal and Kashmir. Course overlaps with: SOC 218.
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JSIS B 320 Yoga: History, Health and Practice (5) A&H/SSc
Examines history, practice, literature, and health effects of yoga from ancient to modern. Explores essential texts and ideas, issues of health and wellness, and contemporary legal debates about yoga.
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JSIS B 321 United States National Security (5) SSc
Examines the history of United States national security policies from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing on ideas, relationships, and events that impacted the decision makers who created these polices.
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JSIS B 324 Immigration (5) SSc, DIV
Introduces key theoretical debates in international migration. Examines immigrants' political, economic, religious, and social integration into host societies, and continued ties to homelands. Experiences of voluntary and involuntary immigrants, of the second generation, and of incorporation into America and Europe. Designed around interdisciplinary texts and fieldwork in Seattle.
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JSIS B 329 Introduction to Capitalism (5) SSc
Defines and differentiates between capital and capitalism. Examines the evolution of the global capitalist system and the framework shaping our world today. Analyzes historical and contemporary links between capitalism's development and social and political processes. Covers events from the late nineteenth century to the present, emphasizing perspectives from history, economics, sociology, anthropology, and literature. Course overlaps with: BIS 330. Offered: jointly with CHID 329/LABOR 329.
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JSIS B 330 International Political Economy (5) SSc
Establishment, maintenance, and decay of the post-1945 international economic order. Political economy of international trade, monetary relations, inflation, and North-South relations. Prerequisite: JSIS 201 which may be taken concurrently; either ECON 201, GEOG 123 or JSIS 123 any of which may be taken concurrently.
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JSIS B 331 Political Economy of Development (5) SSc
Growth, income distribution, and economic development in less-developed countries today. Policies concerning trade, industrialization, the agricultural sector, human resources, and financing of development. Prerequisite: either ECON 201, GEOG 123 or JSIS 123, any of which may be taken concurrently.
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JSIS B 332 Political Economy of International Trade and Finance (5) SSc
Theoretical and historical analysis to explore the causes and effects of the rise and decline of four major international trade and monetary regimes. Foundations and emerging features of the new international trade and monetary regime and its implications for the world economy.
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JSIS B 333 Gender and Globalization: Theory and Process (5) SSc, DIV
Theoretical, historical, and empirical analysis of how current processes of globalization are transforming the actual conditions of women's lives, labor, gender ideologies, and politics in complex and contradictory ways. Topics include feminist exploration of colonialism, capitalism, economic restructuring policies, resistance in consumer and environmental movements. Offered: jointly with GWSS 333.
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JSIS B 335 Geography of the Developing World (5) SSc
Characteristics and causes, external and internal, of Third World development and obstacles to that development. Special attention to demographic and agricultural patterns, resource development, industrialization and urbanization, drawing on specific case studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Offered: jointly with GEOG 335.
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JSIS B 336 Political Violence (5) SSc
Examines the causes and consequences of the use of violence in the context of armed conflict and contentious politics, with a focus on the targeting of civilians. Investigates the dynamics influencing both state and non-state armed actors in their resort to various forms of violence across a range of conflicts. Offered: jointly with POL S 336.
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JSIS B 337 Collective Violence and the State (5) SSc, DIV
Comparative study of how and why genocides have occurred in modern times. Examines how ethnic, religious, and nationalist conflicts have sometimes led to violent conflict, and how political leaders and governments have mitigated or exacerbated them, sometimes engaging in state sponsored mass killing. Course overlaps with: TPOL S 360. Offered: jointly with POL S 337.
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JSIS B 338 Biosecurity (5) SSc
Examines relations between life and safety as a new focus of study in the human sciences. Pays attention to the reframing of international health, food security, environmental change, migration, etc., in security terms. Focuses on both present practical issues of biosecurity and the concept of "security" itself.
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JSIS B 340 The Cold War: Realities, Myths, Legacies (5) SSc
Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Cold War (1947-1991), a global conflict, with political, cultural, and military tensions, between the two post-World War II superpowers: the USA and its "Western" allies, and the USSR and its "Eastern" allies. Attention given to diplomatic, military, and cultural ramifications. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 340.
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JSIS B 344 Migration in the Global Economy (5) SSc
Analyzes the relationship between human mobility in the late twentieth century and changes in the global economy. Allows students to gain familiarity with scholarly research on international migration from a diversity of approaches and methods. Offered: jointly with GEOG 344.
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JSIS B 345 Women and International Economic Development (5) SSc, DIV
Questions how women are affected by economic development in the Third World and celebrates redefinitions of what development means. Introduces theoretical perspectives and methods to interrogate gender and development policies. Assesses current processes of globalization and potential for changing gender and economic inequalities. Offered: jointly with ANTH 345/GWSS 345.
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JSIS B 346 Disability in Global and Comparative Perspective (5) SSc, DIV
Examines the meaning, politics, and experience of disability globally and locally in order to understand what is universal and what is particular to the disability experience in a diverse world. Human rights, inclusive development, and social movements approaches addressing the marginalization of disabled persons explored throughout. Offered: jointly with DIS ST 346/LSJ 346.
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JSIS B 347 Comparative Geographies of Youth (5) SSc
Examines how three key global processes - rising levels of formal education, changing health regimes , and environmental transformation - are shaping youth in the US and South Asia. Examines ways young people rework broader structures, paying particular attention to their economic livelihoods, cultural practices, and political engagements. Offered: jointly with GEOG 343; A.
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JSIS B 350 Environmental Norms in International Politics (5) SSc
Surveys development of international environmental consciousness from 1960s to present. Models of "green development"; ways in which norms for resource use have entered global politics. Patterns of state compliance with international environmental agreements, and why states fall short of meeting their international obligations. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 360/SCAND 350.
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JSIS B 351 The Global Environment (5) SSc
Explores the environment in international perspective emphasizing the social implications of living in an economically globalized and environmentally interconnected world. Examines these implications through examples of toxics and the human body, biodiversity conservation, climate change, disease, and environmental problems.
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JSIS B 352 Sustainability and Global Business: Leading in a Changing World (5) SSc
Course explores the relationships between business, sustainability and social responsibility, asking three core questions: Why should business care about sustainability and social responsibility? What can businesses do to help address these problems? How do we re-invent the traditional consumer-based business model of "make things, sell things, buy things"?
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JSIS B 353 Disinformation, Propaganda, and Conspiracy Theories (5) SSc
Familiarizes students with propaganda, disinformation, and conspiracy theories within international relations and global politics. Employs a multi-disciplinary approach integrating communication, psychology, political science, and history. Includes case studies from around the world focusing on countries challenging the international order.
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JSIS B 355 Cybersecurity and International Studies (5) SSc
Addresses the major international agreements, organizations, and infrastructures shaping cybersecurity. Covers basic technical terminology and legal frameworks related to cybersecurity.
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JSIS B 356 Cybersecurity and Society (5) SSc, DIV
Focuses on how security risk is framed and the implications of that framing for different demographic groups; how global inequality plays out in the area of cybersecurity; privacy and the differential impacts of big data on different populations; the implications of the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity; and feminist approaches and other critical approaches to cybersecurity. Course overlaps with: CSS 211.
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JSIS B 357 The Geopolitics of Energy (5) SSc
Provides an Introduction to energy studies focusing on geopolitics. Topics explored include global energy resources, trends, and technologies; energy supply, demand, and consumption; economic issues; the changing role of OPEC; concepts of energy sustainability; energy and climate change.
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JSIS B 358 International Cybercrime (5) SSc
Addresses the issue of cybercrime as an international and political phenomenon. Discusses hackers and hacking culture, hacktivists, types of cybercrime, cybercrime networks, the relationship between cybercrime and governments, what makes a country vulnerable to cybercrime, and the impact of cybercrime on geopolitics. Course overlaps with: CSS 315.
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JSIS B 360 The United States in the World (5) SSc
Examines the history of the United States' relations with the world over the twentieth century. Combines and overview of broad trends in the projection and contestation of United States power abroad with specific case studies grounded in particular geographic regions of the globe. Offered: Sp.
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JSIS B 361 The Rise of a Global Language (5) SSc
Explores the reality and status of English as a global language, implications for international relations, relationship to globalization, and effects in areas of national identity, modernization, science and technology, and the future of human communication.
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JSIS B 365 World Cities (5) SSc
Factors that have propelled New York, London, and Tokyo into key positions in the organization of the late twentieth century international system. Asks historical and comparative questions and discusses the reasons behind the diminished position of cities such as Venice, Vienna, and Istanbul in that system.
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JSIS B 366 Comparative Law and Legal Cultures (5) SSc
Explores global issues of comparative law, societies, politics, courts, and cultures. Introduces theories and methods of comparing legal settings internationally and understating diverse responses to law. Covers what is comparative law; families of law; history of comparative law; judicial review; legal cultures; rights consciousness; and regulation. Offered: jointly with LSJ 366.
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JSIS B 370 Privacy (5) SSc
Explores how individuals, corporations, and governments respond to privacy challenges in the digital age. Examines evolution of the idea of privacy using case studies of actual privacy policies, legal cases, and real-world situations. Covers legal, political, and social facets of this fundamental human issue. Offered: jointly with LSJ 370/POL S 370; Sp.
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JSIS B 371 Global Crime and Corruption (5) SSc
We examine sources & outcomes of illicit behavior within firms, governments, and organizations at local, national, & international levels; investigating the psychological, cultural, political, and economic sources of crime/corruption; and explore these dynamics within businesses, bureaucracies, gangs, mafias, cults, and pirates. Case studies include India, US-Mexico drug trade, piracy, doomsday cults, Sicilian mafias, Nazi drug abuse, & Dark Web. Recommended: POL S 203, POL S 204, or POL S 270; or JSIS 123, JSIS 200, JSIS 201, or JSIS 222; or equivalent. Offered: jointly with POL S 371.
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JSIS B 375 Geopolitics (5) SSc, DIV
An introduction to both political geography and geopolitics, addressing the fundamental links between power and space. Topics covered include: theories of power, space, and modernity; the formation of modern states; international geopolitics in the aftermath of the Cold War; the post-colonial nation-state; and the geopolitics of resistance. Offered: jointly with GEOG 375.
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JSIS B 380 Immigration and Cultural Memory in the Pacific Northwest: The Role of Film and Cinema (5) SSc
Explores immigration and culture through the development of the film industry in relation to the immigrant flows into Seattle at the turn of the 20th century. The rise of cinema helped immigrants to assimilate into mainstream society. In turn, immigrants turned films into a major American industry.
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JSIS B 385 Industry and the State (5) SSc
Builds on states and markets approach of 200 and 201 through specific examination of effects of industry and industrial structure on political outcomes and roles of state. Emphasis on late-developing and newly developing economies. Prerequisite: JSIS 200; JSIS 201.
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JSIS B 386 Law and Politics of International Trade (5) SSc
Survey of global trade politics in the context of the World trade Organization (WTO), with attention to positive and negative aspects of its governance. Examines the impact of the WTO legal framework on trade relations among developed and developing countries. Covers topics such as dispute settlement, development, safeguards, antidumping, intellectual property, and regionalism.
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JSIS B 388 Political Economy of Industrialized Nations (5) SSc
Theoretical bases of various political economic systems of industrialized nations. Several major issues these political economies currently face; usefulness and limits of economic analyses within broader perspective of political economy. Prerequisite: either ECON 201, GEOG 123 or JSIS 123 any of which may be taken concurrently.
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JSIS B 391 Climate Change - An International Perspective: Science, Art, and Activism (5) SSc/A&H
Explores climate change science in the context of geographic, social, and political constraints, considering the role of art, activism, and Arctic indigenous peoples in communicating impacts and mitigation. Students gain knowledge in key atmospheric and ocean science principles along with the role of science in society Offered: jointly with ARCTIC 391; Sp.
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JSIS B 393 LGBTI Rights in International Affairs (5) SSc, DIV
Introduction to LGBTI and human rights issues impact in contemporary international relations.; NGOs and civil society advocacy that leads to foreign policy reform; Difference strategies uses by LGBTI activists in Europe, Scandinavia, and the U.S.; Debates in the UN on global rights; LGBTI rights diplomacy; conditioning international aid according to LGBT rights; Human rights issues in the context of broader global sociopolitical relations.
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JSIS B 405 Fossil Fuels in the Middle East (5) SSc
Covers how coal, oil, and gas have shaped the world and the damage they've caused. Explores the Middle East's reliance on fossil fuels and imagines its future without them. Examines how Western imperialism influenced these issues and dives into literature that uncovers the political, economic, and social impacts of fossil fuels. Sharpens student critical thinking skills by evaluating and reviewing various academic works. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 405.
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JSIS B 406 Political Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism (5) SSc
Study of resurgence, since mid-1970s, of political Islam and what has come to be called Islamic fundamentalism, especially in the Middle East. Topics include the nature and variety of political Islam today, causes and implications of the current resurgence, and comparison with previous resurgences. Offered: jointly with POL S 432.
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JSIS B 407 Political Islam and Contemporary Islamist Movements (5) SSc
Examines Islamist movements (which seek to reform Muslim society through the capture and the modern state and the establishment of Islamic law) to understand how they impact regional politic and global political Islam. Prerequisite: either HIST 161, NEAR E 211, NEAR E 212, JSIS C 211, JSIS C 212, JSIS B 406/POL S 432, JSIS A 215, or JSIS A 402, any of which may be taken concurrently. Offered: Sp.
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JSIS B 408 Topics in the History of Capitalism (5, max. 10) SSc
Selected topics in the history of capitalism in a global, multi-century perspective. Recommended: either JSIS 200, or equivalent courses in global history. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 408.
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JSIS B 410 Readings in U.S. in the World (5) SSc
Explores how numerous factors - political, economic, social, racial, intellectual, technological, and others - shaped the ways in which the United States has interacted with the world since the late-nineteenth century.
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JSIS B 416 Putting the World on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and International Studies (5) SSc/A&H
Explores the relation of trauma to memory and cultural production, focusing on historical, literary, and filmic treatments of hysteria and repression, shell shock, and the effects of war, terrorism, and psychic trauma. Uses psychoanalytical theory to analyze the commentary on international issues that lies in texts, films, and other cultural phenomena.
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JSIS B 417 Enter the Dragon: Seminar on World Cultures through the Asian Martial Arts (5) SSc
Examines how the martial arts have preserved religious, cultural, and philosophical aspects of the world areas of their origin, as well as the new cultures and international communities that have adopted and reinvented their practices and philosophies, including India, China, Japan, Korea, Brazil, and Euro-America. Offered: jointly with CHID 417.
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JSIS B 419 Comparative Media Systems (5) SSc
Provides students an understanding of policies that shape national communication processes and systems. Uses comparative analysis to identify both similarities and differences among media structures of nations at different levels of development. Primary emphasis on broadcast media. Offered: jointly with COM 420/POL S 468.
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JSIS B 420 Failed States (5) SSc
Critically examines the causes and consequences of state failure. Analyzes theories about the rise of the modern state and the precondition for "successful" states to form and endure, then examines theories and case studies of modern failed state.
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JSIS B 422 International Trade and Security (5) SSc
Examines international trade's potential threat to national security. Covers basic elements and limitations of export controls used to protect national security and international stability. Focuses on export controls to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and to limit other governments' ability to develop capabilities that jeopardize regional or international stability.
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JSIS B 423 Practicing American Foreign Policy (5) SSc
Develops familiarity with tools available to promote international objectives of the United States. International case studies selected to illustrate the diverse considerations inherent in the policy process and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the national institutions involved. Prerequisite: JSIS 201.
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JSIS B 424 The Politics of International Nuclear Security: Weapons, Energy and Environment (5) SSc
Nation state choices and military alliance choices in Eurasia on nuclear weapons arsenals, nuclear energy, arms control treaties plus survey of global and regional Eurasian non-proliferation regimes. Eurasian military-political conflicts; Cold War nuclear arms race; Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; Nuclear Weapons Free Zones. Comparisons of fissile and fossil fuels, climate change, economic development, energy security, and terrorist threats.
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JSIS B 425 Crafting and Influencing United States Foreign Policy (5) SSc
Explores the inner-workings of the United States government and the complexity inherent in United States foreign policy decision-making. Includes an overview of foreign affairs agencies and the interagency process, executive-legislative relations, foreign assistance and the budget process, and the impact of external stakeholders on the policy-making system. Offered: Sp.
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JSIS B 426 World Politics (5) SSc
The nation-state system and its alternatives, world distributions of preferences and power, structure of international authority, historical world societies and their politics. Course equivalent to: TPOL S 426. Offered: jointly with POL S 426.
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JSIS B 427 Weapons of Mass Destruction: Development, Deployment, and Detection (5) SSc
Practical understanding of the development of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons plus missile delivery systems. Proliferation detection technology and its limitations. Case studies of past and current arms control agreements and non-proliferation programs.
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JSIS B 429 Nuclear Nonproliferation and International Safeguards (5) SSc
Examines the technologies of nuclear energy, the institutions that have been deployed to address the security threats related to peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and the issues and challenges confronting those institutions today.
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JSIS B 430 Late Industrialization and Social Change (5) SSc
Deals with distinct patterns of social change under late industrialization in nations such as Japan, South Korea, Germany and the Soviet Union. Analyzes the social and institutional implications of economic policies by looking at the interactions between the state, traditions, and economic actors.
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JSIS B 431 International Negotiation Simulation (5) SSc
Research and writing in small groups to prepare policy documents on a current international issue, followed by simulated negotiations with students representing different nations, following instructions from and reporting to national leaders.
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JSIS B 433 Environmental Degradation in the Tropics (5) SSc/NSc
Considers theories and controversies of environmental degradation in the tropics, ecological and social case studies of Central American rain forests and Southeast Asian coral reefs, and implications of environmental management techniques. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 433/SMEA 433.
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JSIS B 435 Climate Justice at Universities (5) SSc, DIV
Explores the role and responsibility of universities in struggles for climate justice. Examines how universities were influenced by racialized and gendered oppression, environmental exploitation, and colonial intervention. Focuses on three areas of university life: the campus, student body, and research. Topics include divestment from fossil fuels, campus infrastructure, and social movements. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 435.
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JSIS B 436 Ethnic Politics and Nationalism in Multi-Ethnic Societies (5) SSc
Provides a broad theoretical base, both descriptive and analytical, for the comparative study of ethnicity and nationalism. Examples drawn from ethnic movements in different societies. Some previous exposure either to introductory courses in political science or to courses in ethnicity in other departments is desirable. Offered: jointly with POL S 436.
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JSIS B 437 Global Diasporas (5) SSc
Explores dispersal of people from homelands to different world regions, the creation of communities, transnational relations, and identities based on the histories and consequences of their migration. Topics addressed include diasporas in world history; diaspora theories; literature, food, film of diasporas; role of diasporas in politics, conflict, war and reconciliation, in economic development and homeland tourism. Course overlaps with: T HIST 376.
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JSIS B 440 The Communist Experience Around the World (5) SSc
Communism from its origins in Bolshevik faction of Russian social democracy to the present, treating the development of the ideology, the various communist parties, and the communist states. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 440.
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JSIS B 441 Forced Migrations (5) SSc, DIV
Provides an interdisciplinary understanding of the causes, characteristics, and consequences of forced migration experiences across the global system. Explores how international policy makers, humanitarian workers, and scholars have constructed forced migration as a problem for analysis and action, including some of the ethical dilemmas involved. Course overlaps with: T HIST 376.
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JSIS B 444 Space Law and Policy (5) SSc
Law and policy foundations of outer space activities. Essential origins, sources, and role of space law, as well as key institutions, forums, and forces shaping the contemporary governance of space activities. Provides a thorough grounding in U.N. treaties, principles, resolutions, regulations, and private international and national space laws and policies. Offered: jointly with A A 490/ESS 488.
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JSIS B 446 History, Memory, and Justice (5) SSc
Focuses on the complex interactions between history and historical representation, remembrance and commemoration, memory and identity, and notions of justice and reconciliation. Addresses these issues on methodological, theoretical, and practical grounds, drawing on examples from various genres, periods, and world regions. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 446.
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JSIS B 449 Political Economy of Digital Technology (5) SSc
Explores the economic and social implications of cutting-edge developments in digital technologies, such as e-commerce, digital marketing, financial technology, social media, and artificial intelligence. Examines how digital technologies may shape the economy and society, and how they can be harnessed to promote economic development and social justice. Course overlaps with: BIS 332.
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JSIS B 450 Deeply Divided Societies (5) SSc
Ethnic conflict seen from two perspectives: 1. the study of theoretical approaches as a means of understanding deeply divided societies; 2. a focus on one or more specific conflicts.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 450
JSIS B 451 Political Parties in Democratic Systems (5) SSc
Examines political parties in three different and interrelated aspects: party organizations; party in the electorate; and the party in government. How parties aggregate and represent interests. Parties at different points in time and in different states around the world. Offered: jointly with POL S 450; W.
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JSIS B 454 Advanced Cybersecurity Research (5) SSc
Students brainstorm, propose, and pursue unique cybersecurity research topics of their choosing in a small seminar course focused on international cybersecurity issues. Students present their original research to each other and engage in active learning exercises intended to teach key cybersecurity concepts. Students engage in a drafting process, receiving mentorship in research and writing.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 454
JSIS B 455 International Environmental Policy (5) SSc
Examines the economics of international environmental policy from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. Focus is on environmental policy in China, the U.S. and Europe and on the challenges combining economic growth and development with environmental stewardship and responsible resource use.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 455
JSIS B 456 Geopolitics of Data (5) SSc
Examines international data structures, including how data is housed, privacy regulation, geopolitical struggles over data and data infrastructure (e.g., undersea cables, data storage, management), and data and data infrastructure inequity between the Global North and South. Course overlaps with: GEOG 327 and TPOL S 371.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 456
JSIS B 457 Food, Ethnicity, and Identity in Hispanic Culture (5) SSc/A&H
Explores food, ethnicity, and identity in the Hispanic World, including Sephardic, Muslim, Native American, Basque, and Catalan groups. Taught in English. Prerequisite: Either SPAN 303 or SPAN 316; SPAN 322. Offered: jointly with SPAN 457; Sp.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 457
JSIS B 467 Nations and States in the Modern World (5) SSc
Development of national consciousness in the "old nations" of Europe before the French Revolution. Replacement by new nationalism, spreading into East Central Europe, Russia, Ibero-America, Asia, and Africa. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 467.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 467
JSIS B 468 Theatre as a Site of History and Memory (5) A&H/SSc
Explores Asian theatre traditions as sites of memory, testimony, and archive using ethnographic and historiographical approaches. Includes service-learning components and collaborative performance projects. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 468.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 468
JSIS B 469 Law and Rights in Authoritarian Regimes (5) SSc
Explores role of law and courts and nature of rights in authoritarian regimes. Questions addressed include why authoritarian regimes promote "rule-of-law", who is empowered by law, and the political consequences of "rule-of-law' promotion. Offered: jointly with LSJ 469/POL S 469.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 469
JSIS B 472 Electoral Systems (5) SSc
Explores a fundamental link between citizens and political representation: how electoral systems shape party systems, what kinds of people become candidates, how parties work, representation, and policy. Covers effects and mechanics of the various voting systems. Offered: jointly with POL S 472.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 472
JSIS B 476 Comparative International Political Economy (5) SSc
Comparative analysis of four major approaches to international political economy: mercantilism, Marxism, liberalism, and evolutionary approach. Focus on international cooperation, social change, and economic institutions. Theoretical analysis of the four paradigms and applications to historic and current issues in international political economy: hegemonic cycle, post-communist transition, and cross-national income inequality.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 476
JSIS B 480 Fundamentals of Global Cybersecurity (5) SSc
Area and international studies approach to investigating nation-state cybersecurity strategy and regional dynamics. Addresses the cybersecurity strategies of major international actors, regional dynamics, famous cyberattacks, and the state of international cybersecurity. Structured geographically. Involves instruction by guest experts. Offered: A.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 480
JSIS B 508 Topics in the History of Capitalism (5, max. 10)
Selected topics in the history of capitalism in a global, multi-century perspective. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 508.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 508
JSIS B 510 Readings in U.S. in the World (5)
Explores how numerous factors - political, economic, social, racial, intellectual, technological, and others - shaped the ways in which the United States has interacted with the world since the late-nineteenth century.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 510
JSIS B 520 Failed States (5)
Critically examines the causes and consequences of state failure. Analyzes theories about the rise of the modern state and the precondition for "successful" states to form and endure, then examines theories and case studies of modern failed state.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 520
JSIS B 522 International Trade and Security (5)
Examines international trade's potential threat to national security. Covers basic elements and limitations of export controls used to protect national security and international stability. Focuses on export controls to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and to limit other governments' ability to develop capabilities that jeopardize regional or international stability.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 522
JSIS B 523 Seminar on Religious and Political Violence (5)
Employs ethnographic studies and anthropological theory to examine the relationships between culture and power in the analysis of religious and political violence. Topics include modernity; secularisms and fundamentalisms; ritual, sacrifice, and martyrdom; law, rights, and subject-making. Offered: jointly with ANTH 523.
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JSIS B 524 International Law and Arms Control (5)
Surveys the political, legal, and technological history of twentieth century arms control agreements with emphasis on the treaties which ended the Cold War. Examines current issues of law, politics, military strategy, and technology in regard to weapons of mass destruction and related topics in international security.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 524
JSIS B 525 Special Topics in Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (5, max. 10)
Topics vary, but focus on the politics of race, ethnicity, and nationalism viewed from a broad, comparative, interdisciplinary perspective. Emphasizes cross-cultural, and the geographical coverage may be regional or global.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 525
JSIS B 526 Political Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism (3/5)
Examines political Islam as a modern phenomenon produced at the intersections between localized and globalized political cultures and between political, religious, and social authority. Focuses on anthropological studies to examine how Islamic publics produce moral judgments about political practices. Offered: jointly with ANTH 526.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 526
JSIS B 527 Weapons of Mass Destruction: Development, Deployment, and Detection (5)
Practical understanding of the development of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons plus missile delivery systems. Proliferation detection technology and its limitations. Case studies of past and current arms control agreements and non-proliferation programs.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 527
JSIS B 529 Nuclear Nonproliferation and International Safeguards (5)
Examines the technologies of nuclear energy, the institutions that have been deployed to address the security threats related to peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and the issues and challenges confronting those institutions today.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 529
JSIS B 530 Late Industrialization and Social Change (5)
Deals with distinct patterns of social change under late industrialization in nations such as Japan, South Korea, Germany and the Soviet Union. Analyzes the social and institutional implications of economic policies by looking at the interactions between the state, traditions, and economic actors.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 530
JSIS B 531 International Negotiation Simulation (5)
Examines international trade's potential threat to national security. Covers basic elements and limitations of export controls used to protect national security and international stability. Focuses on export controls to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and to limit other governments' ability to develop capabilities that jeopardize regional or international stability.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 531
JSIS B 536 Analysis, Information, and the Politics Shaping American Foreign Policy (5)
Explores competing interests and sources of information in the making of American foreign policy. Examines the origins of the national security state after World War II; decision making during the Cold War and Viet Nam War; the crisis of 9/11; and current strategies for analyzing information and handling foreign policy crises.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 536
JSIS B 537 Global Diasporas (5) SSc
Explores dispersal of people from homelands to different world regions, the creation of communities, transnational relations, and identities based on the histories and consequences of their migration. Topics addressed include diasporas in world history; diaspora theories; literature, food, film of diasporas; role of diasporas in politics, conflict, war and reconciliation, in economic development and homeland tourism.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 537
JSIS B 541 Forced Migrations (5)
Provides an interdisciplinary understanding of the causes, characteristics, and consequences of forced migration experiences across the global system. Explores how international policy makers, humanitarian workers, and scholars have constructed forced migrations as a problem for analysis and actions, including some of the ethical dilemmas involved.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 541
JSIS B 542 Seminar: State and Society (5)
Examines the mutually conditioning relationship between states and the societies they seek to govern. Studies states as large, complex organizations and their interactions with society on different levels. Shows that interactions on any level affect the nature of the state on other levels as well. Offered: jointly with POL S 542.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 542
JSIS B 544 Space Law and Policy (5)
Law and policy foundations of outer space activities. Essential origins, sources, and role of space law, as well as key institutions, forums, and forces shaping the contemporary governance of space activities. Provides a thorough grounding in U.N. treaties, principles, resolutions, regulations, and private international and national space laws and policies. Offered: jointly with A A 590/ESS 584; Sp.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 544
JSIS B 549 International Investment Law and Practice (4/5)
Examines the rise of international investment law and practice, including topics such as Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), standards of treatment, investor-state arbitrations, and social and political controversies related to the governance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developed and developing countries. Offered: jointly with LAW E 549.
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JSIS B 553 Environment and Health in the World Trade Organization (5)
Conflicts between global environmental and public health on the one hand and international trade expansion on the other in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Focuses on the state of GAITT/WTO jurisprudence and its interaction with sovereign laws and regulations. Cases include asbestos, reformulated gasoline, beef hormones, shrimp-turtle, and genetically modified organisms.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 553
JSIS B 555 Cybersecurity and International Studies (5)
Addresses the major international agreements, organizations, and infrastructures shaping cybersecurity. Covers basic technical terminology and legal frameworks related to cybersecurity.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 555
JSIS B 556 International Human Rights Clinic ([1-12]-, max. 12)
Interdisciplinary clinical training in international human rights. Includes seminar component on legal issues, practice skills, and reflections on human rights projects. Fieldwork on human rights projects tests, develops, and enhances skills training through real-world human rights practice with cross-campus, U.S., and international partnerships. Credit/no-credit only.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 556
JSIS B 557 The Geopolitics of Energy (5)
Introduction to energy studies focusing on geopolitics. Topics include global energy resources, trends, and technologies; energy supply, demand, and consumption; economic issues; the changing role of OPEC; concepts of energy sustainability; energy and climate change.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 557
JSIS B 569 Law and Rights in Authoritative Regimes (5)
Explores role of law and courts and the nature of rights in authoritarian regimes. Questions addressed include why authoritarian regimes promote "rule-of-law", who is empowered by law, and the political consequences of "rule-of-law promotion. Offered: jointly with POL S 569.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 569
JSIS B 572 Electoral Systems (5)
Explores a fundamental link between citizens and political representation: how electoral systems shape party systems, what kinds of people become candidates, how parties work, representation, and policy. Covers effects and mechanics of the various voting systems. Offered: jointly with POL S 572.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 572
JSIS B 575 Advanced Political Geography (5, max. 10)
Provides resources for theorizing how politics shapes and is shaped by geographical relationships. Examines how politics are situated in complex material and discursive geographies that are partly reproduced through political negotiations. Examines interrelationships of contemporary capitalism with other complex systems of social and political power relations. Offered: jointly with GEOG 575.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 575
JSIS B 581 Fundamentals of Global Cybersecurity (5)
Area and international studies approach to investigating nation-state cybersecurity strategy and regional dynamics. Addresses the cybersecurity strategies of major international actors, regional dynamics, famous cyberattacks, and the state of international cybersecurity. Structured geographically. Involves instruction by guest experts.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 581
JSIS B 586 Law and Politics of International Trade (5)
Survey of global trade politics in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO), with attention to positive and negative aspects of its governance. Examines the impact of the WTO legal framework on trade relations among developed and developing countries. Covers topics such as dispute settlement, development, safeguards, antidumping, intellectual property, and regionalism.
View course details in MyPlan: JSIS B 586
