SAIS Summer Programs | 2012 Course Descriptions
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American Foreign Policy Since World War II
Course Number: SA.100.720
Covers the history of American foreign policy since World War II. Gives special attention to analyses and interpretations of the determining factors of continuing significance, including issues and trends in the international and domestic environment of U.S. policy.
Course Evaluations: Summer 11; Summer 10; Summer 09
Professor John Karaagac
T/TH 6 p.m. - 8 p.m
Behavioral Sociology of Conflict
Course Number: SA.860.784
Considers the importance of culture in the operationalization of modernity by assessing the role of religion, beliefs and identity in social behaviors. Challenges the rational assumption to emphasize the behavioral aspects of intercommunal and international relations. Draws from disciplines such as sociology, evolutionary psychology, and social and political psychology to examine identity-based conflict as well as the xenophobic responses to the emergence of a global, modern identity.
Course Evaluations: Summer 11; Summer 10; Summer 09
Professor Camille Pecastaing
T/TH 6 p.m. - 8 p.m
China's Energy Challenges in the 21st Century
Course Number: SA.680.769
This course uses energy as a window to look at how the Chinese political system tackles complex policy problems in the era of reform and globalization. It anatomizes the multiple dimensions of the energy challenges facing China, examines how its energy sectors respond to these challenges over time and how these sectors have evolved since the country launched opening up and economic reforms in 1978. It also explains the governing structures, institutions, and processes through which China governs its energy economy and makes its energy policies and decisions. Finally, it evaluates the system performance, system capacity, and system direction of the Chinese state by investigating how China confronts climate change and energy security challenges domestically and internationally.
(Elective for the Certificate in International Development.)
Course Evaluations: Fall 11; Spring 11
Professor Bo Kong
M/W 6p.m. - 8p.m.
China's Reform and Changing Role in the Global Economy
Course Number: SA.750.904
Reviews economic reforms since 1978 and the dramatic changes in international trade and investment patterns that are unfolding as China's economy grows and opens up. Analyzes the implications of China's WTO accession terms both for China and for its trading partners and reviews China's WTO compliance. Examines China's unfinished domestic economic reform agenda and factors underlying China's current international competitiveness.
Course Evaluations: Fall 10; Fall 11
Professor Peter Bottelier
T/TH 6 p.m. - 8 p.m
Comparative National Systems
Course Number: SA.100.750
Provides a graduate-level introduction to comparative politics, focusing on the major institutions of democratic political systems, such as electoral systems, presidentialism, federalism, and judicial and legal systems. Covers functional issues such as democratic transitions, governance and corruption, and the relationship between development and democracy.
(Required for the Certificate in International Development.)
Course Evaluations: Summer 11; Summer 10
Kevin Croke, David Fowkes
M/W 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Current Asian Security Issues
Course Number: SA.755.704
Analyzes the post-Cold War security dynamics among the great powers of Asia, together with emerging cross-regional security issues such as energy, drugs, terrorism and the related problem of failed states. Also considers the domestic political context of security policy, including support for a U.S. military presence, for innovations in defense technology and for the "global war on terrorism." Assesses the prospects for constraining nuclear and missile proliferation, with special reference to the Korean Peninsula and South Asia. Considers the implications of arms procurement and development plans for future security relations.
Course Evaluations: Summer 11; Summer 10
William Wise; Catherine Dalpino, Marvin Ott
M/W 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Economic Negotiations
Course Number: SA.640.748
Analyzes negotiations on economic subjects as a category of problem-solving and conflict-management processes. Examines multilateral negotiations under the aegis of the WTO; regional trade negotiations, including NAFTA and FTAA; bilateral trade and investment negotiations conducted by the United States; and negotiations aimed at solving specific economic disputes. Also explores emerging issues and players in economic negotiations.
Course Evaluations:
Professor Eliza Patterson
M/W 6p.m. - 8p.m.
Energy, Environment and Development in Developing Countries
Course Number: SA.680.714