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.
Athena Title
Global Simulation
Equivalent Courses
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)
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
Syllabus