Week 1
Tuesday: Introduction
Thursday: Using verbal and visual sources
Week 2
Tuesday: Global politics, globalization, global governance
Reading: Textbook, chapter 1 and 2
Thursday: Realism
Reading: Textbook, chapter 9
Friday (Make-up day for Thursday, November 23) Liberalism
Reading: Textbook, chapter 7
Week 3
Tuesday: Marxism
Reading: Textbook, chapter 8
Thursday: Constructivism
Reading: Textbook, chapter 13
Week 4
Tuesday: Postcolonialism and decolonialism
Reading: Textbook, chapter 11
Thursday: Poststructuralism
Reading: Textbook, chapter 12
Week 5
Tuesday: Visual culture studies
Reading: Bleiker, Visual Global Politics, Introduction
Thursday: No class (make-up class TBC)
Week 6
Tuesday: FAO visit
Thursday: International history of the twentieth century
Reading: Textbook, chapter 4
Week 7
Tuesday: the 1990s
Reading: Textbook, chapter 5
Thursday: Rising powers
Reading: Textbook, chapter 6
Week 8
Tuesday: review
Thursday: midterm
Week 9
Tuesday: IGOs
Reading: Textbook, chapter 20
Thursday: UN
Reading: Textbook, chapter 21
Week 10
Tuesday: Regionalism
Reading: Textbook, chapter 23
Thursday: EU
Reading: CRS (2023) The European Union: Questions and Answers
Week 11
Tuesday: OP
Thursday: OP
Week 12
Tuesday: Nonstate actors
Reading: Textbook, chapter 22
Thursday: Thanksgiving Holiday (make-up day Friday, Sept. 15)
Week 13
Tuesday: HRs
Reading: Textbook, chapter 32
Thursday: Development
Reading: Textbook, chapter 16
Week 14
Tuesday: Security
Reading: Textbook, chapter 15, 33
Thursday: Concluding reflections and review