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Course ID: | INTL 8274. 3 hours. | Course Title: | International Nonproliferation Regimes | Course Description: | Examines the strengths and weaknesses of international regimes
and institutions designed to prevent the spread of weapons of
mass destruction and military goods. | Oasis Title: | INTL NONPRO REGIMES | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course Objectives: | This course explores the role that international
nonproliferation institutions and regimes play in combating the
spread of weapons.
The past several decades have seen a growth in participation by
states in formal and informal organizations and arrangements,
international treaties, and regional and bilateral arrangements
designed to prevent weapons proliferation, including the spread
of chemical, biological, nuclear weapons and means for their
delivery.
This course takes a critical look at these institutional
efforts to control nuclear, chemical, biological and
conventional weapons, as well as efforts to regulate trade in
dual-use items. Students will have a chance to think
critically about the effectiveness of these efforts and the
role that international nonproliferation organizations and
institutions play in addressing the problem of weapons
proliferation. Students will gain an appreciation for the
breadth of nonproliferation organizations and regimes while
developing expertise on a smaller number of organizations.
Students will learn about the common institutional challenges
that many international efforts to control the spread of
weaponry face. | Topical Outline: | I. Overview – The Role of Regimes and Organizations in
International Security
II. The Evolution of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
III. Challenges to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
IV. Strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
V. Controlling the Means of Delivery: The Missile Technology
Control Regime and the Hague Code of Conduct
VI. The Chemical Weapons Convention: Technological
Developments and Verification
VII. The Biological Weapons Convention: Verification and The
Dual-use Dilemma
VIII. Controlling CW/BW Trade: The Australia Group
IX. When Controls Fail: Interdiction and the Proliferation
Security Initiative
X. Conventional Weapons and Dual-use Technology
XI. UN 1540: Towards a Global Regime to Prevent WMD
Proliferation | |
Course ID: | INTL 8374. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Comparative Political Behavior |
Course Description: | The systematic, theoretical, and empirical study of political
behavior across countries, with a focus on democracies. Examples
include, but are not limited to, voter turnout, public opinion
and attitude formation, partisan identification, spatial models
of voting, war voting, economic voting, and parties’ vote
seeking strategies. |
Oasis Title: | Comparative Political Behavior |
Prerequisite: | INTL 6300 or permission of department |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | This course will cover a variety of topics in the realm of
comparative political behavior, including the formation and
consequences of partisan identification, the formation and
consequences of political attitudes and opinions, the causes
and consequences of voter turnout, spatial models of voting,
the influence of foreign policy and conflict on vote choice,
economic voting, and parties’ vote seeking strategies. The
readings will help to (re-)familiarize you with a variety of
methodological techniques that are commonly used to assess
theories of comparative political behavior. Our universe of
cases will generally be democratic countries, though we may
sometimes discuss non-democracies. Throughout the course we
will pay special attention to the interplay between
political institutions and context and behavioral outcomes.
In this course, countries are thought of as examples of a
certain political system with certain institutional features
operating in a certain context, and being embedded in a
particular country should influence an individual’s or party’s
behavior. By comparing across many countries (and often over
time as well), we can hopefully uncover systematic
relationships in the realm of comparative political behavior.
By the end of the course, students should be able to address
questions including, but not limited to, the following:
• Why do individuals participate at all in politics,
either by voting or by taking part in other activities?
• Why do people vote for certain parties?
o Relatedly, do institutional features and political
context moderate the relationship between personal
characteristics and the vote choice?
• How important is the economy to vote choice?
• How important is foreign policy and conflict to vote
choice?
• Do theories of political behavior, many of which were
originally developed in the United States, travel well across
borders, or do we need to formulate specific theories for
specific countries or regions?
Students will demonstrate their ability to answer such
questions through participation in class, mandatory analyses
and critiques of others’ work, and an original research paper. |
Topical Outline: | Public Opinion and Attitude Formation
Political Participation/Voter Turnout
The Formation and Consequences of Partisan Identification
Spatial Models of Vote Choice
Conditional Models of Vote Choice
Economic Voting
Performance Voting
Conditional Models of Economic Voting
Conditional Models of Performance Voting
Foreign Policy, Conflict, and Voting
Attitudes Toward Democracy
Parties’ Vote Seeking Strategies
Compulsory Voting |
Honor Code Reference: | As a University of Georgia student, you have agreed to abide by
the University’s academic honesty policy, “A Culture of
Honesty,” and the Student Honor Code. All academic work must
meet the standards described in “A Culture of Honesty”
found at: www.uga.edu/honesty. Lack of knowledge of the academic
honesty policy is not a reasonable explanation for a violation.
Questions related to course assignments and the academic honesty
policy should be directed to the instructor. |
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