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POLSC 110 - The United States in World Affairs


Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Political Science Core Concentration
Explores United States involvement in the world since the end of World War II. Focuses on key ideas which have shaped this involvement as well as its forms and consequences. Topics include: The general theory of realism; NATO and the US-Japanese security treaty; the Viet Nam War; the end of the Cold War; recent developments in the Middle East, Europe, Russia, China and Japan; globalization; terrorism; current hot spots around the world and US policy options. Prerequisite for the International Relations major and for several courses in the International Relations/Comparative Politics subfield of Political Science.

3 credits
Fall, Spring



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