Peace and Conflict

This track examines the origins of international and civil armed conflict and persistent dilemmas in international cooperation. Students gain the historical background and analytic tools necessary to understand global events. Course offerings span the topics of war, foreign policy, and international organizations, as well as emerging problems in human security such as terrorism and transnational migration.

  • PSCI/INTR 102 Introduction to International Political Economy
  • PSCI/INTR 106 Introduction to International Relations
  • PSCI/INTR 108 War in Our Time
  • INTR 221 Nationalism, Central Europe, and the Russia-Ukraine War
  • INTR 227 War and Memory in Eastern Europe
  • INTR 228 Gender, War, and Militarism
  • INTR 231 Cold War
  • INTR 233 International Relations in East Asia
  • INTR 241 Polish Foreign Policy After Communism, 1989-2019
  • INTR 246 Religious Nationalism
  • INTR 247 Zionism and Its Discontents
  • INTR 249 Israel/Palestine
  • PSCI/INTR 252 Ethnic Politics and Ethnic Conflict
  • PSCI/INTR 254 The U.S. in the Middle East
  • PSCI/INTR 256 Theories of Comparative Politics
  • PSCI/INTR 259 Order, Violence, and the State
  • PSCI/INTR 265 Civil War and the International System
  • PSCI/INTR 268 International Organization
  • PSCI/INTR 269 Migration, Economic Change, and Conflict
  • PSCI/INTR 270 Mechanisms of International Relations
  • PSCI/INTR 272 Theories of International Relations
  • PSCI/INTR 273 The Politics of Terrorism
  • PSCI/INTR 275 European Integration (and Disintegration?)
  • PSCI/INTR 276 The Politics of Insurgency
  • PSCI/INTR 278 Foundations of Modern International Politics
  • PSCI/INTR 279 War and the Nation State
  • PSCI/INTR 373 Territory and Group Conflict
  • ANTH 230 War, Genocide, and Justice
  • ANTH 256 American Empire
  • ANTH 264 Islam and Global Politics (RELC 248)
  • CLTR 160 The New Europe: Formations and Transformations
  • HIST 103 The West and the World since 1492
  • HIST 128 Postwar Europe
  • HIST 174 American Military History
  • HIST 193 European Civil War
  • HIST 198 Stalin and His Legacy in Eastern Europe, 1939-1991
  • HIST 204 History of International and Global Health
  • HIST 205 Islam and the Third World (RELC 247)
  • HIST 208 Comparative Modern Revolutions: France, Japan, Mexico, Russia
  • HIST 225 Europe and the Great War, 1914-1918
  • HIST 228 North Africa and the Middle East since 1838
  • HIST 232 Modern France
  • HIST 245 Tibet: History and Myth
  • HIST 247 The Korean War
  • HIST 303 International Human Rights
  • HIST 337 George Orwell and the Twentieth Century
  • HIST 361 America and the World since 1865
  • RELC 126 Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism
  • RELC 229 Religion and Violence