Unit One: Global Issues and International Relations Theory
1.1 Identification of global issues examined in the course.
1.2 Theoretical perspectives: neo-realism, neo-liberalism, constructivism, and critical approaches including Marxism, neo-colonialism, feminism, and postmodernism.
Unit Two: Conflict and Conflict Management
2.1 Globalization and violence, ethnic conflict, and genocide.
2.2 Conflict management: The United Nations, regional organizations, and the International Criminal Court.
2.3 Humanitarian intervention.
Unit Three: The Global Economy: Trade, Monetary Relations, and Foreign Aid
3.1 Globalization, regionalization, inequality, and interdependence and dependence.
3.2 Issues in monetary relations, trade issues, economic development, debt, and foreign aid.
Unit Four: Human Security Issues and Human Rights:
4.1 The concept of human security.
4.2 Human security issues: hunger, population growth, disease, poverty, demographic shifts, migration, and refugees.
4.3 Concepts of human rights and the development and expansion of human rights agreements.
4.4 Democratization.
4.5 Economic globalization and human rights.
Unit Five: The Global Environment:
5.1 Perspectives on the environment.
5.2 Global environmental issues: the limits to growth, the greenhouse effect, the ozone layer, pollution, biodiversity, oceans, deforestation, desertification, and environmental scarcity (energy, raw materials and water resources).
5.3 Environmental regimes: greenhouse gases, ozone layer.
5.4 The relationship between the environment and conflict.