2008-09 Gov Courses Cheat Sheet - Department of Government

2011-12 Gov Course Summaries: Spring 2012 Page 8
Course Meets Instructor Description
Gov 1358
Presidential Power in
the U.S.
M/W 11 Carlos Diaz Rosillo (lecturer) Analyzes the origins and evolution of presidential power in the United States. Studies
the powers of the President and how those powers translate into power. Examines and
evaluates the most prominent political science theories, scholarly debates, and public
controversies about presidential power. Explores the strategic choices available to
modern American presidents in their efforts to augment the power of the presidency and
provide active leadership to the political system.
Gov 1372
Political Psychology
Gov 1732
Origins of Modern
Wars
Gov 1780
International Political
Economy
Gov 1790
American Foreign
Policy
Tu/Th
10-
11:30
Ryan Enos
This course examines the psychological mechanisms behind political behaviors and
institutions. Topics covered will include voting behavior, campaigns and media,
partisanship, political violence, and racial attitudes. For these and other topics we will
not only ask what happens but examine how human psychology makes it happen.
1000-level Courses - IR
M/W 10 Stephen Walt (HKS) This course explores the causes of war. It examines the different theories that have been
devised to explain organized violence between states (or groups seeking to control a
state), and evaluates these competing theories by exploring several major conflicts of the
past 100 years: World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and
the recent wars in the Persian Gulf. The course also considers the phenomenon of ethnic
conflict, the implications of nuclear weapons and the question of whether large-scale
war is becoming "obsolescent."
M/W
2-3:30
Tu/Th
10-
11:30
Jeffry Frieden
Shawn Ling Ramirez (college fellow)
Analyzes the interaction of politics and economics in the international arena. Focuses on
international trade, investment, monetary, and financial relations. Includes discussion of
developed, developing, and formerly centrally-planned nations.
Examines and explains the international actions of the US Government. Explanations
drawn from history, international relations theory, and from the study of American
political and bureaucratic institutions. Emphasis is placed on the recent rise of the US to
a position of unprecedented military dominance, how this military power has been used,
and how other states, non-state actors, or global governance institutions have responded.