CAPS-IA 5000 Process and Design of Research

This course introduces students in the International Affairs Program to research design and methods and to the relationship of theory to research in the Social Sciences, with the aim of preparing students for writing research papers. Areas to be explored include overall research design, case selection, and literature reviews. The importance of theory is stressed.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Summer 4, Summer 3, Summer 2, Summer 1, Summer, Spring, Fall

CAPS-IA 5006 Why Were We in Vietnam?

Until the Afghan War, the American war in Vietnam was the United States' longest and most costly war in blood and treasure. This course will investigate the origins and ideological context of this war more than 45 years after its end. How and why did the American commitment begin? How did the conflict unfold? How did it end, and at what price? How did the American effort affect U.S. national security and American interests in Asia?

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall

CAPS-IA 5007 The Mexico-U.S. Paradigm: The Southern Neighbor and the Scenes of Contemporary International Affairs

Since the foundation of both republics and up to the present, the relationship between Mexico and the United States has played a central role in defining a variety of paradigms in international affairs. In addition, Mexico's unique approach to diplomacy is at the core of various economic and diplomatic doctrines influential across the Global South. This course explores the ways in which this relationship helps us think about questions of development, international security, immigration and political intervention. The first part of the course looks at the relationship historically, focusing on the complex relationship between the two countries in the Cold War as well as Mexico's role as a negotiator with Cuba and the Soviet Union. The historical section will also discuss the role that Mexico played in the creation of developmental paradigms from the 1930s onward. The second part of the course looks at the three hot-button issues between the two countries: trade, immigration, and the Drug War. It will discuss the ways in which Mexico is an essential laboratory for policies related to security and commerce in the United States. The course will allow students to rethink ideas about economics, security, and other questions in international affairs from a unique yet fundamental point of view.

Credit 3 units. UColl: CD

Typical periods offered: Spring

CAPS-IA 5015 Writing Papers for International Affairs

In this course, students will develop skills necessary for effective written communication in international affairs. Students will consider how best to position their writing for a variety of audiences, including the government, the public, and academics. Students will review writing examples in each genre and learn the format, style, and conventions used in each of the genres. In addition, students will learn and practice the necessary skills to focus, organize, write, and revise their own work for each of these audiences.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Summer

CAPS-IA 5023 International Organizations

This course examines the role of major international organizations in the modern world--the UN, EU, NATO, IMF, WTO, MERCOSUR, and others. We explore the background for the creation of these organizations, the purposes they serve, and those whose interests they promote. We also consider how they adapt and evolve over time. Our survey centers on three broad areas of investigation: first, we examine how international organizations promote and maintain international security. Second, we consider organizations designed to regulate and promote economic growth and development. This entails a focus upon the process of globalization and the challenges presented in an era of heightened economic interdependence. Finally, we examine growing efforts at regional cooperation though the emergence of organizations such as NAFTA, the EU, and MERCOSUR.

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC

Typical periods offered: Fall, Summer

CAPS-IA 5030 Levels of Analysis: Thinking Theoretically

A theory is a set of propositions and concepts that combine to explain phenomena by specifying the relationships among the propositions. Theory's ultimate goal is to predict phenomena. Good theory can explain events across space and time (e.g., it works just as well in Iran as in Columbia; and just as well today as in the Peloponnesian War). Theories provide a framework through which to understand everyday events in international relations, and to answer the basic foundational questions in the field-how can human nature be characterized? What's the relationship between the individual and society? What are the characteristics and role of the state? How's the international system organized? Theories abound in international relations: classical realism, structural realism, liberalism, constructivism, Critical Theory, Feminism, English School, post-structuralism, post-modernism, to name some of the more prominent ones. These different theoretical approaches help us see international relations from different viewpoints. No single approach can capture all the complexity of contemporary world politics. The list of possible explanations a theory provides can be usefully organized according to three levels of analysis-individual, state, international. Dividing the analysis of international politics into levels helps orient our questions and suggests the appropriate type of evidence to explore. Each level privileges certain variables, while abstracting others. This workshop explores the value of thinking theoretically in international relations; highlights what we gain (and lose) with theory; and analyzes the utility of each level of analysis for what it illuminates (and what it neglects). The written assignment will involve applying the three levels of analysis to a contemporary event.

Credit 1 unit.

CAPS-IA 5050 U.S. Law and International Relations

This course examines how law and politics interact to define the limits on government authority in foreign policy. Separation of powers is a key tenet of the U.S. political system, and nowhere is this principle challenged more than in the realm of foreign policy. All three branches of our government struggle with the inherent tension between the need for decisive action and secrecy on the one hand and the desire for democratic deliberation and accountability on the other. These tensions have been with us since the beginning of the nation, but they have become even more prominent with recent changes in technology, new international threats, and increased globalization.

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC

Typical periods offered: Summer

CAPS-IA 5054 Cultural Policy and the Politics of Culture in Latin America

This course will examine cultural policy making in Latin America, which has developed from the close relationship between the state and a nation's writers, intellectuals, and artists. Focusing on case studies from Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, we will explore ways in which the arts have connected with civil society and the public sphere, in turn becoming engines of economic development, political mobilization, and social intervention. We also will examine the evolution of Latin American media and the manner in which public intellectuals have shaped public opinion in the region. Authors include Mary Coffey, George Yudice, Néstor García Canclini, Nicola Miller, and Anne-Marie Stock, among others.

Credit 3 units. UColl: CD

Typical periods offered: Spring

CAPS-IA 5055 Politics of the European Union

This course provides a political overview of the European Union and its 27 member states. Attention is paid to the emergence of European supranational governance in the 1950s and its trajectory to the present day. We also consider the interplay of geographical, economic, and cultural factors, together with an assessment of the EU and its place in the larger global political sphere.

Credit 3 units. UColl: PSC, PSI

Typical periods offered: Spring

CAPS-IA 5060 The United Nations and International Security

The aim of this course is to gain a deeper understanding of the United Nations (UN) and its role in world politics. Beginning with an examination of the history of the UN and its precursors, we will discuss the UN's structure and its three-part mission as outlined in the UN Preamble: international peace and security; human rights; and development. We will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the UN and its agencies in these three substantive areas, within the context of a rapidly shifting geopolitical climate. Attention will be paid to the ongoing debate among proponents and detractors of the UN, and the unique role played by the US in this debate.

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC, PSI

Typical periods offered: Spring

CAPS-IA 5065 Statistics and Research Design in Nonprofit Management

This course emphasizes the application of basic behavioral and social science research methods in the evaluation and management of nonprofit programs. Students learn the tools available to evaluate and report the effectiveness of programs and organizations, including program evaluation, survey design, and qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5071 International Law and Human Rights

This course takes a critical perspective of international law and human rights, by examining the foundational codes and conventions, and asking how relevant they are today in light of a changing society. It will consider how paradigms have shifted regarding who is deserving of human rights, as well as the problems of enforcement when state governments are themselves perpetrators of human rights violations. Readings, films, and interactive data sets will focus on human rights as embedded in intersectionalities of class, caste, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability. Topics will include issues like: How was Facebook implicated in the genocide of Rohingya in Burma? Why has the Chinese government confined millions of ethnic minority Uighurs in concentration camps? What are food deserts and food apartheid? Have transnational agribusinesses solved world hunger, or have their pesticides and genetically-modified seeds compromised the global ecosystem? Why is the legal system making so little progress on labor and sex trafficking?

Credit 3 units. UColl: CD, IAC, ML

Typical periods offered: Summer 4, Summer 3, Summer 2, Summer 1, Summer, Spring, Fall

CAPS-IA 5075 New Cold War, 1991-2018

Credit 3 units. UColl: HTR, HUS

CAPS-IA 5085 International Trade and Globalization

This course will explore globalization in the context of international trade and cross-border investments. Course topics include: forces driving globalization; economic consequences; trends in international trade and investment; effects of protectionism; government's role in world trade; international institutions such as World Trade Organization, European Union, and International Monetary Fund. In each of these areas we will consider how current global events and questions impact the international business environment.

Credit 3 units. UColl: CD

CAPS-IA 5123 Humanitarian Intervention in International Society

One of the more striking features of post-Cold War international society has been the development of a theory and practice of humanitarian intervention. This course explores the background, causes, nature, and limits of these changes. The course is interdisciplinary in nature, combining legal, moral, and political analysis, with an emphasis on the legal question of whether today there is so-called legal right of humanitarian intervention. The course does not assume prior background in international relations. We therefore also spend time introducing a few central concepts and issues in international relations, in order to provide a theoretical framework for our substantive inquiries into humanitarian intervention.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Summer

CAPS-IA 5155 International Growth and Development, Inequality, and Transitional Justice

This course will explore contemporary trends in transnational inequality, and the strategies proposed to address them. We'll look at the expanding wealth divide between global north and south countries, and inquire about the sources. Why is there a rising number of billionaires (who can end global poverty seven times over), and what are the policies that enable them to park and hide their wealth internationally? Do lending institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund help rectify these problems, or make them worse? Will small dose micro-credit loans help women and their families out of poverty? How have population programs derailed women's reproductive power, and supported heteronormative conceptions of the family? We will critically examine why development continues to be the main model for international aid programs. In addition, we'll ask about the alternatives, and how can we move from development to social and economic justice.

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC

Typical periods offered: Summer

CAPS-IA 5182 International Economics

This course provides an analysis of the international economy, the economic theories that help explain it, and analysis of important current issues of international economic policy. When David Ricardo proposed his famous theory of comparative advantage in 1821, he set out to explain why England exported cloth to and imported wine from Portugal. Today, international trade is much more complex. Apple devices are designed in Silicon Valley while their most expensive component, the hard drive, is manufactured by Toshiba in Philippines before it is finally assembled in China. Can Ricardo's theory explain today's patterns of international production and trade? Today, the number of these currencies has been reduced through the formation of the European Union. What are the cost and benefits of currency unions?

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC

Typical periods offered: Summer

CAPS-IA 5224 Latin American History and Culture

A survey of Latin American history and culture from the time of the European conquest to the present. A focus on specific periods and events, including the conquest, the wars of independence, the emergence of authoritarianism, the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions, and the struggle to establish democratic institutions. Designed to acquaint students with the evolution of Latin American culture within an historical framework. Course materials include historical texts and essays, fictional literature, and videos. (Same as U85 IA 475).

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5233 The Law of the Sea: Governing the Oceans and Marine Resources

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5234 Portraits of Indigenous People in Latin American Culture and Literature

Credit 3 units. UColl: CD, HUM

CAPS-IA 5243 Data Analysis for International Affairs

This course is an introduction to the concepts, tools, and procedures for quantitative analysis that is specifically tailored for application in International Affairs. Students will learn to locate, collect, clean, and store quantitative data relevant to international affairs; download, install, and perform basic tasks using the statistical software R; use descriptive statistics to visualize data for a variety of professional formats including oral presentations, written memos, and public websites; and understand the basic principles of statistical analysis to fit models of data using ordinary least squares and generalized linear models. The course is designed for adult learners and addresses the fear of math that prevents them from developing these important skills. It serves as an optional Part II for the mandatory Process and Design of Research course, preparing students for their directed research projects and developing their competency in a high-demand skill that will broaden their employment opportunities after graduation.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Spring

CAPS-IA 5265 Environmental Ethics

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5274 Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

This course examines the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Topics include: Palestine in the late Ottoman period; the development of modern Zionism; British colonialism and the establishment of the Palestine Mandate; Arab-Jewish relations during the Mandate; the growth of Palestinian nationalism and resistance; the establishment of the state of Israel and the dispersion of the Palestinians in 1948; the Arab-Israeli wars; both Palestinian uprisings; and the peace process.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5276 Diplomacy

Students in this course will delve into the world of US diplomacy and the role it plays in international affairs. They'll be introduced to the diplomatic profession through  readings, simulations and frequent interaction with professionals in and around the US government. Through multi-party negotiations, case studies, press briefings and cable writing, students will emulate the work of those building relationships to address  complex issues and advance American interests in a dynamic world.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Spring

CAPS-IA 5277 National Security Decision-Making

This course will both simulate and seek ways to improve our national security decision-making process. Students will embody the various perspectives and priorities of strategic decision-makers, gaining an appreciation for the interagency process and the challenges of making foreign policy in a complex and fast-paced environment. Students will hone professional writing, oral presentation, negotiation and collaboration skills as we explore complicated challenges in cyber, climate and human security. We will explore both traditional and newer, more diverse voices in the international relations realm, in an effort to broaden both our concept of national security and the ranks of those who are making decisions about it.

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

CAPS-IA 5300 Modern Middle East

This course will explore the rapidly changing role of the media in Arab and Muslim societies in reporting about revolts and conflicts, the 'Arab Spring,' and the chronic impasse between Israel and the Palestinians. We will study the impact of social media, which have afforded greater access to 'real-time' images of the Syrian civil war than was possible with previous conflicts. We will investigate the formation of public opinion in the Arab and Muslim worlds-- in particular, the role of state-supported media operations such as Al Jazeera. We will compare the style and substance of Israeli and Arab media sources and the role of professional versus citizen journalists in covering newsworthy events.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall

CAPS-IA 5311 American Foreign Policy

This course begins with a survey of the historical foundations of American foreign policy. Having established a broad understanding of the issues that have confronted the nation, we closely examine the current political climate and the challenges that the United States faces in terms of its economic and physical security. Finally, we consider strategies for dealing with the threats and challenges that beset this nation.

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC

Typical periods offered: Spring

CAPS-IA 5353 Post-Conflict Reconstruction and International Coordination

This is an intensive, two-day seminar examining the practice and theory of post-conflict reconstruction and nation-building. The centerpiece of the seminar is a simulation centered on the case of Afghanistan circa 2002 in which students will play the roles of various international and local actors. Prior to the seminar, students will complete readings from academic and policy sources covering the primary elements of reconstruction and background information specific to the case of Afghanistan. Students also will be provided with materials on their specific role and will submit a position paper prior to the simulation. Day one is a full-day simulation. Students will play their roles to coordinate on major issues in reconstruction including conflict resolution, constitutional design, electoral systems, rule of law, security issues, human rights, and economic development. Day two is a seminar and debrief. Students will analyze their decisions in light of the academic and policy literature and compare their decisions to those made in the real world. Following the seminar, students will submit a final reflection essay drawing on the reading, the simulation, and the seminar to communicate lessons learned and make policy recommendations for future post-conflict reconstruction issues.

Credit 1 unit.

CAPS-IA 5355 NGOs in the International System

Over the past several decades, NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have become an integral part of international politics, addressing crucial problems pertaining to environmental degradation, human rights, immigration, poverty, disease, and so forth. This course will explore ways in which NGOs influence the shaping and execution of policy in international affairs. We will first consider the rise of NGOs and the rationale for their emergence, then examine - through case studies in Africa, Asian, South America, and the former Soviet Union - how they have approached their mission and whether they have succeeded.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Summer

CAPS-IA 5375 The Global Village in the 21st Century

More than 50 years ago, McLuhan predicted that humans across the globe would become part of a global village linked by various forms of communications. With the internet and telecommunications, that day has arrived. This online course will explore how global communications systems have evolved, how they work, and how they affect vital policies of nation-states as well as central banks, political leaders, and ordinary citizens. We will explore the ways in which hackers can penetrate secure systems (e.g., elections) and create misleading images and impressions as well as how to counteract those actions. A research paper is required.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Summer

CAPS-IA 5380 Alternative Analytic Techniques for International Affairs

This course instills analytic rigor and imagination into the consideration of our most pressing national security issues. Based on structured analytic techniques employed in the Intelligence Community, students in this course will hone critical thinking skills, consider overlooked ideas and develop unique perspectives. Students will be given the tools to recognize and overcome biases, mental shortcuts and unstated assumptions, and challenge conventional wisdom, through analysis of US foreign and counter-terrorism policy and current events in the Middle East, China and North Korea.

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

CAPS-IA 5383 Introduction to Public Policy

In this course students will learn the structures, processes, and actors comprising policy making in the United States at the national and state level. Using various models of the policy process students will gain understanding of policies in a variety of policy arenas. The core project of the course will help students develop their analytic and writing skills by applying the models learned in class to a specific policy debate within one of the areas discussed in the course.

Credit 3 units. UColl: PSA

CAPS-IA 5395 Indian Barbie, Asian Tigers, and IT Dreams: Politics of Globalization and Development in South Asia

This course will explore how South Asia is at the heart of current debates about globalization, development, empire, gender, sexuality, and ethnic identity. We'll ask how changes in technology, medicine, and the economy correspond with those in society and human rights. Topics include the growth of markets, religious fundamentalism, bio-piracy and water wars, farmer suicides, consumerism, and reproductive technology. Readings, films, and discussions will take us to countries of Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India. Assignments include weekly written critiques of the readings, and several short papers.

Credit 3 units. UColl: CD

CAPS-IA 5415 Drones, Surveillance, and Biometrics: Global Cyberwar in the 21st Century

This course examines how the practice of militarism is changing worldwide through the development of new technologies. How are governments reshaping the practice of war and diplomacy with the use of unmanned drones to fight wars, biometric eye and finger scanners to patrol borders and immigration, wiretapping on civilian populations to conduct surveillance of foreign terrorists, etc.? How are civilians and nonstate actors engaging in cyberwar, as in the network attacks from China on major corporations like Google? What does it mean that anyone (from militants to humanitarian groups) can now buy drones on the market from private firms? How has a former judge in Montana posed online as an Iraqi cyberspy for the US government? We will assess theories and implications of these developments in readings from sociology, international relations, and science and technology studies. Guest speakers will be invited from institutions around the St. Louis region, such as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Boeing, legal specialists, and privacy advocates.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall

CAPS-IA 5483 International Environmental and Resource Management

Interdisciplinary seminar on prudent management of global environment and resources. Strategy and policy issues and options. Corporate environmentalism; economic globalization and environment. Problems and potential of international treaties; the role of U.N. agencies; resource wars. Population, resources, and environment. Common property resource management. Climate change and energy futures; transboundary pollution; ocean and coastal resource degradation; global deforestation and land degredation; fresh water scarcity. Food security, genetic resources, and species diversity. (Same as U85 IA 445).

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5485 Current Issues in International Affairs: China and Its Changing Role in Asia

Topic varies from semester to semester.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Spring

CAPS-IA 5512 Social Entrepreneurship

This course links the passion of a social mission with the discipline and skills of successful business performance to explore the issues, concepts, and processes associated with social entrepreneurship. Students learn to design an economically sustainable business model that also addresses an existing social problem. In learning to apply skills and strategies that produce a successful bottom line, both financially and socially, each student develops a business plan for a social entrepreneurial venture or evaluates the business model of an existing social entrepreneurial business venture.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5524 Planetary Problems: International Competition and Cooperation in Outer Space

This course will explore the crucial role of outer space in global affairs and the challenge of confronting potentially dire consequences of an increasingly crowded orbital environment. We will study three key decisions that shaped the American manned space program: Kennedy's Apollo program; Nixon's space shuttle; and Reagan's space station. We will also examine the role of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). Most broadly, we will consider the growing importance of space to humanity at large and the attendant challenges that confront the international community.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5554 Geopolitics in the 21st Century

In this course we undertake a conceptual history of geopolitics. The term geopolitics emerged near the end of the 19th century in relation to new forms of nationalism and imperialist competition in Europe and beyond. During the Cold War, geopolitics was used to denote a global struggle between the capitalist Western bloc and the Soviet Eastern bloc, which finally ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today, geopolitics is more relevant than ever as new global power struggles characterize the post-post-Cold War world. The realm of geopolitics has expanded in the 21st century to include issues and questions previously ignored during the Cold War: civilizational clashes, global warming, social movement struggles, global finance, and transnational communication networks. Geopolitics now implicates global environmental degradation and ethnonationalism. We will examine the history, concepts, policies, and practices of geopolitics from the late 19th century to the present. We will also critically investigate the new geopolitics of an emerging multipolarity, the return to Great Power politics, and the renewed interest in geopolitical narratives of the 21st century.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall

CAPS-IA 5556 Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector

Students will examine leadership in the nonprofit sector and develop their own leadership style. Students will study traditional leadership styles including authoritarian, participative, and delegative; examine the differences in leadership in the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors; and explore the distinctive roles of nonprofit leaders, including the relationship between the nonprofit executive director and the board of directors, and the relationship between nonprofit leaders, volunteers, and staff. In addition to readings, student research will include interviews and discussions with real-world nonprofit leaders.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5560 Politics of Global Finance

Global finance has undergone stunning transformations over the past 40 years. These changes contribute to interdependence, challenge national sovereignty, alter state-society relations, affect economic development, and influence the distribution of wealth and power in the global political economy. This seminar examines the political economy of monetary relations, the globalization of capital markets, and their effects upon domestic and international affairs.

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC

CAPS-IA 5562 Tropical Field Biology and Primatology

Credit 0 units.

CAPS-IA 5582 Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making

This course examines U.S. foreign policy from the perspective of domestic politics, with the aim of understanding how our political institutions affect foreign policy outcomes. The first section of the course provides an overview of the paradigms that have been used to understand foreign policy decision-making and examines the electoral and interest group pressures that influence decisions. The second section studies the chief political branches of government (executive, legislative, judicial) and their role in foreign policy. The final section covers the major bureaucratic agencies involved in foreign policy decisions.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5595 Inside the Intelligence Community

This class will provide an in-depth look at the United States Intelligence Community (IC) - the different agencies of which the IC is composed, and their varying missions, priorities and resources - and how intelligence informs national security decision-making. Students will analyze long-term national security issues on which the government would like to focus, and the short-term crisis issues on which the government must focus. We will write strategic analytical products and simulate inter-agency coordination and testimony before Congress.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Summer 4, Summer 3, Summer 2, Summer 1, Summer, Spring, Fall

CAPS-IA 5600 The Nativist Dimension in Modern Japanese Culture

This course will explore the domain of nativist expression in modern Japan. Through a wide-ranging survey of cultural artifacts and texts that promote the notion of Japanese uniqueness, we will consider the question of Japanese identity and the key role of invented traditions in its construction. Our study will take into account the evolving historical context within which the discourse on nativism was played out. We will also consider the manner in which foreigners have contributed to this uniqueness discourse over the past 150 years.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5625 Globalism and Neoliberalism in Latin American Culture

This course examines the ways in which Latin American culture has engaged with new global realities and the neoliberal policies of the 1990s. We will use political, economic and cultural theory to assess various artistic explorations of newly globalized Latin America cultural identities from the Caribbean to Argentina. The course will include extensive theoretical readings and a series of novels and films that create productive dialogues with that theory. Authors to be considered include, among others, Fredric Jameson, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Ricardo Piglia, Junot Díaz, and Alberto Fuguet.

Credit 3 units. UColl: CD

CAPS-IA 5644 The Indochina Wars

The Vietnam wars of the twentieth century were more accurately Indochinese wars. They were intimately intertwined with broader Indochinese anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, civil wars, and socialist and communist revolutions. This course will probe deeply into the causes, processes, and outcomes of the Indochina wars and will highlight the roles of regional states (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand) and non-state actors (e.g. social, cultural, and anti-imperialist networks and movements). It will elucidate the influence of imperial powers (France, Japan, US, China) while prioritizing the agency, experience, perceptions, and understandings of Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, and Thai peoples. The articulation of ethnic, gender, class, religious, and national identities, the Cambodian genocide, and the postwar development of Southeast Asia in the 21st century will also receive analytical treatment.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

CAPS-IA 5653 Korea: History, Culture, and People

This course will provide a comprehensive overview of Korea-- its long history, its cultural heritage, its people-- and the complexity of Korea's place within East Asia and in the larger global context. Topics will include: the Korean War and its aftermath, the fraught North-South relationship, national and cultural identity, the gender question, collective memory, and the tension between tradition and modernization/globalization.

Credit 3 units. UColl: CD

CAPS-IA 5665 International Relations

Globalization, the accelerating rate of interaction between people of different countries, creates a qualitative shift in the relationship between nation-states and national economies. Conflict and war is one form of international interaction. Movement of capital, goods, services, production, information, disease, environmental degradation, and people across national boundaries are other forms of international interactions. This course introduces major approaches, questions, and controversies in the study of international relations. In a small group seminar we will examine the building blocks of world politics, the sources of international conflict and cooperation, and the globalization of material and social relations.

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC

Typical periods offered: Fall

CAPS-IA 5700 Global Leadership

This course will study leadership issues in various global and multicultural settings. We will focus on developing an understanding of global leadership skills and the means of fostering such skills. Attention will be paid to practices that advance ethical awareness, diversity, and effective conflict management. We will discuss exemplary leaders such as Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and Nelson Mandela. The course will feature an in-depth coverage of relevant theories and research on leadership in global and multicultural organizations. We will discuss team leadership and team collaboration skills within a culturally diverse world, as well as current events relating to global leadership.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5701 Topics in Politics: The United States of Europe?

Credit 3 units. UColl: PSC

CAPS-IA 5773 State Failure, State Success and Development

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining the role governments play in development and economic outcomes. We will look at some of the competing arguments about governments in failed and successful states and compare those arguments to the empirical world, or data. In so doing we will recognize that how governments affect development and economic outcomes in society is neither straightforward nor consistent with any of the ideological screeds that often dominate public discourse.

Credit 3 units. UColl: IAC

CAPS-IA 5800 Modern Russia and the International Community: New Cold War

The Cold War supposedly ended in the late 1980s, yet the United States and Russian Federation are on the brink of another period of escalating tensions. In a recent press conference the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, issued a dire warning to the United States and its NATO allies. He said the forward deployment of U.S. Aegis Ashore missiles in Romania posed an offensive threat to Russia, and for this reason the world is in great danger. This course examines how this new era of strained relations between nuclear powers came to pass with special emphasis on U.S.-Russian relations from 1989 to 2016. Ancillary topics include the Ukraine crisis and Erdogan's volte-face with Moscow.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5851 Topics in Jimes: Israeli Politics in an Era of Polarization

This course is an introduction to Israeli politics, set within the tension between a Jewish, liberal, and democratic nation-state and serving as a case study for politics in polarized and divided societies. Following an introduction to the Jewish and democratic state, the course will include three main sections: a theoretical introduction to Israeli society, an overview of the Israeli political system, and a focus on several policies illuminating challenges within polarized and divided societies. Throughout the course, we will analyze various policy drivers, mechanisms, and implications and discuss their relevance for other democratic states with divided societies. Together, we will try to make sense of real-time news coming from Israel as we deepen our knowledge of polarization, politics, and Israel and gain skills to participate in political conversations. Please note: L75 385 is intended for Undergraduate students; L75 585A is the section for Graduate Students.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

CAPS-IA 5863 Virtual Money Makes the World Go Round: Paypal, Bitcoin, and the Global Politics of Demonetization

Markets are shifting from paper to virtual currencies, but are the benefits experienced evenly around the world? This course will examine the transformation to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and mobile payment systems like Paypal. It will ask how state governments and policymakers are responding and the impact for communities of the poor, ethnic minorities, and women in the global south. Can mobile money circumvent broadscale governmental corruption, or does it solidify the power of elites? Are farmers in Kenya able to use their phones to get better prices for their harvests, or do mobile payment apps submerge them in debt to financial institutions? Why does the demonetization program in India, which removed lower-currency paper bills from circulation, rob rural women of their life savings? Who are the hidden workers of these new industries, like villagers in outsourcing centers who process financial data for the global north? What is the impact on the environment, as Bitcoin servers around the world collectively consume as much energy as the country of Denmark? What does it mean that widespread cryptocurrencies are operating completely outside of state regulations and oversight? We will bring in financial and international development experts and explore local debates in St. Louis, such as the role of our tech hub in designing mobile payment apps and the activist campaigns against payday lenders.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Summer

CAPS-IA 5882 Against Development: International Affairs Otherwise

One of the key tenets of 20th-century geopolitics -- from various models of modernization theory to contemporary understandings of neoclassical and neoliberal theory -- has been the ideal of development as a key goal to address economic and political inequalities in the world system. This course focuses on different lines of thinking that challenge this worldview. We examine the work of both global north dissident thinkers and global south traditions of thinking, such as dependency theory, decolonialism, and liberation philosophy. The course will depart from critiques of the idea of development as an extension of colonialism and imperialism by authors like John Patrick Leary and Arturo Escobar. It will continue to discuss critiques of the contemporary geopolitical and geo-economic orders from the perspective of global south countries through concepts such as necropolitics (Achille Mbembe), gore capitalism (Sayak Valencia) and slow violence (Rob Nixon). The course will conclude with the study of theories that propose postdevelopmental and counterdevelopmental models of economic organization and political engagement, including decolonialism (Macarena Gómez Barris and others), Epistemologies of the South (Boaventure de Sousa Santos) and Neoliberalism from Below (Verónica Gago).

Credit 3 units. UColl: CD

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

CAPS-IA 5883 Israel and the Middle East

Places Israeli political issues and events within the context of existing political theories. Discusses the politics and ideology of pre-state Israel and the foundation of the state. The creation of modern Israel political institutions, elections, and government coalitions. Also, Israeli foreign policy and international involvement. This is a fully online course. Only University College students may receive credit for online courses.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5990 Directed Research Project in International Affairs

An independent research project under the direction of a member of the faculty in the International Affairs program. Approved proposal must be presented at the time of registration. Required for M.A. degree. Open only to students admitted to International Affairs Program.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Summer 4, Summer 3, Summer 2, Summer 1, Summer, Spring, Fall

CAPS-IA 5991 Masters Thesis

An independent research project under the direction of a member of the faculty in the International Affairs program. Approved proposal must be presented at the time of registration. Open only to students admitted to International Affairs Program. Prerequisite: U85-502.

Credit 3 units.

CAPS-IA 5994 Internship in International Affairs

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

CAPS-IA 5999 Independent Study in International Affairs

An independent research project under the supervision of a member of the faculty of the International Affairs program Approved proposal must be presented at the time of registration.

Credit 1-3 units.

Typical periods offered: Summer 4, Summer 3, Summer 2, Summer 1, Summer, Spring, Fall

CAPS-IA 6000 Continuing Masters Research

Required for Master of Arts Students with incomplete work. Must be taken as Audit.

Credit 0 units.

Typical periods offered: Summer 4, Summer 3, Summer 2, Summer 1, Summer, Spring, Fall