Week | Topic | Content and Reading Assignment | Teaching Activities and Homework | 1 | Course introduction | No assigned reading | | 2 | What Shaped Our World? A Historical Introduction | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 1 | | 3 | Understanding Interests, Interactions, and Institutions | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 2 | | 4 | Why Are There Wars? | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 3 | | 5 | Domestic Politics and War | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 4 | | 6 | International Institutions and War | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 5 | | 7 | Violence by Nonstate Actors: Civil War and Terrorism | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 6 | | 8 | Mid-term exam | No assigned readings | | 9 | International Trade | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 7 | | 10 | International Financial Relations | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 8 | | 11 | International Monetary Relations | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 9 | | 12 | Development: Causes of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 10 | | 13 | International Law and Norms | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 11 | | 14 | The Global Environment | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 13 | | 15 | Challenges to the Global Order | Frieden, Jeffrey A., David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Shultz (2019) World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (New York : W.W. Norton & Company), Chapter 14 | | 16 | Final project presentation | No assigned readings | |
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