This course analyzes the conditions and causes of poverty within the United States and the variety of economic, social, and political responses to...

This is the first of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or separately. Recent topics have included the determinants of the...

This is the second of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or...

The course topic will change every new term. This seminar looks at the relationship between the changing nature of knowledge and policies for controlling access and use, principally through intellectual property protection and...

This part of the course introduces students to continuity and change in China's foreign policy, focusing on the reform...

China’s reform and opening-up has been a great event in the world in the past more than two...

What goes on in city government is in many ways more important to our lives than what happens in Washington. This course goes beyond the structure and theory of municipal government to look at how things really happen at the local...

This course will examine the politics of health care in the U.S. at the state and national...

Spectacular and theatrical displays of terror, such as suicide bombings, are now banner actions for a thoroughly modern global diaspora that is religious in inspiration, and which claims the role of vanguard for a massive, transnational political...

This course concentrates on the foreign policy aspects of U.S. National Security. We will study the Cold War preface to current policy as well as broad issues of substance and process affecting national security...