| Course ID: | INTL 4265. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Global Simulation |
Course
Description: | Students create, implement, and evaluate various foreign and
domestic policy strategies by working as teams, managing
governments in a complex multiplayer computer simulation.
Throughout the course students will analyze the academic
literature on foreign policy and international relations and
analyze the degree to which this scholarship is useful to real-
world policymakers. |
| Oasis Title: | Global Simulation |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in INTL 4265E |
| Prerequisite: | INTL 3200 or INTL 3200E or INTL 3300 or INTL 3300E |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students will learn to craft foreign policy strategies and
conduct a policy analysis of outcomes. In addition, they will
critically evaluate the contemporary scholarship on foreign
policy. By the end of the course, students will have a solid
grounding in how foreign policy is formulated, the challenges to
effective foreign policy implementation, and a broad
understanding of the relationship between academic research and
the conduct of foreign policy. |
| Topical Outline: | 1) National Security Doctrines
2) Alliance Politics
3) Conflict Initiation and Termination
4) Negotiation and Cooperation
5) Deterrence Policy
6) Decision Making
7) Norms and Values in Foregoing Policy
8) Constructivist Politics |