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Globalization, Migration, and International Relations
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Tracing the evolution of international interactions, this course examines the dimensions of globalization in terms of scale and scope. It is divided into three parts; together they are intended to provide theoretical, empirical, and policy perspectives on source and consequences of globalization, focusing on emergent structures and processes, and on the implications of flows of goods and services across national boundaries – with special attention to the issue of migration, on the assumption that people matter and matter a lot. An important concern addressed pertains to the dilemmas of international policies that are shaped by the macro-level consequences of micro-level behavior. 17.411 fulfills undergraduate public policy requirement in the major and minor. Graduate students are expected to explore the subject in greater depth through reading and individual research.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Economics
Political Science
Social Science
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Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Choucri, Nazli
Date Added:
02/01/2006
Globalization, Migration, and International Relations, Spring 2006
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Tracing the evolution of international interactions, this course examines the dimensions of globalization in terms of scale and scope. It is divided into three parts; together they are intended to provide theoretical, empirical, and policy perspectives on source and consequences of globalization, focusing on emergent structures and processes, and on the implications of flows of goods and services across national boundaries -- with special attention to the issue of migration, on the assumption that people matter and matter a lot. An important concern addressed pertains to the dilemmas of international policies that are shaped by the macro-level consequences of micro-level behavior. 17.411 fulfills undergraduate public policy requirement in the major and minor. Graduate students are expected to explore the subject in greater depth through reading and individual research.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Choucri, Nazli
Date Added:
01/01/2006
Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between
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This subject examines the paradoxes of contemporary globalization. Through lectures, discussions and student presentations, we will study the cultural, linguistic, social and political impact of globalization across broad international borders.

We will pay attention to the subtle interplay of history, geography, language and cultural norms that gave rise to specific ways of life. The materials for the course include fiction, nonfiction, audio pieces, maps and visual materials.

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Political Science
Social Science
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Author:
Dr Joaqu N Terrones
Prof Margery Resnick
Resnick Margery
Terrones Joaqu N
Date Added:
02/03/2022
Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between
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This subject examines the paradoxes of contemporary globalization. Through lectures, discussions and student presentations, we will study the cultural, linguistic, social and political impact of globalization across broad international borders.
We will pay attention to the subtle interplay of history, geography, language and cultural norms that gave rise to specific ways of life. The materials for the course include fiction, nonfiction, audio pieces, maps and visual materials.

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Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Cultural Geography
Economics
History
Languages
Literature
Philosophy
Political Science
Social Science
World History
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Full Course
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MIT
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Author:
Resnick, Margery
Terrones, Joaquín
Date Added:
09/01/2016
Government Powers and Limitations
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This volume focuses on constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of government powers and limitations. It includes excerpts of landmark cases related to the judiciary and executive, contracts and takings clauses, and due process. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to government powers and limitations with other questions of law and dicta omitted.

Subject:
General Law
Law
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Oregon State University
Author:
Collected Works
Rorie Spill Solberg
Date Added:
02/12/2024
Graduate Seminar in American Politics II
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This is the second in a sequence of two field seminars in American politics intended for graduate students in political science, in preparation for taking the general examination in American politics. The material covered in this semester focuses on American political institutions. The readings covered here are not comprehensive, but it is sufficiently broad to give students an introduction to major empirical questions and theoretical approaches that guide the study of American political institutions these days.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Stewart, Charles
Date Added:
02/01/2010
Graduate Seminar in American Politics I: Political Behavior
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This graduate-level course focuses on mass political behavior within the American political system. The goal of this course is to give an introduction to some of the major questions in the study of American political behavior, and how people have gone about answering them. The background goal is to help students practice reading work critically, and thinking through the difficulties of social science research, in preparation for individual research projects. The course examines political ideology, public opinion, voting behavior, media effects, racial attitudes, mass-elite relations, and opinion-policy linkages.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
White, Ariel
Date Added:
09/01/2016
Great Power Military Intervention
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This course examines systematically, and comparatively, great and middle power military interventions, and candidate military interventions, into civil wars from the 1990s to the present. These civil wars did not easily fit into the traditional category of vital interest. These interventions may therefore tell us something about broad trends in international politics including the nature of unipolarity, the erosion of sovereignty, the security implications of globalization, and the nature of modern western military power.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Petersen, Roger
Posen, Barry
Date Added:
09/01/2013
Green Supply Chain Management
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The half-semester Graduate / Professional course in Green Supply Chain Management will focus on the fundamental strategies, tools and techniques required to analyze and design environmentally sustainable supply chain systems. Topics covered include: Closed-loop supply chains, reverse logistics systems, carbon footprinting, life-cycle analysis and supply chain sustainability strategy. Class sessions will combine presentations, case discussions and guest speakers. All students will work on a course-long team project that critically evaluates the environmental supply chain strategy of an industry or a publicly traded company. Grades will be based on class participation, case study assignments and the team project.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Environmental Science
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Date Added:
07/14/2022
Green Supply Chain Management
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The half-semester graduate course in Green Supply Chain Management will focus on the fundamental strategies, tools and techniques required to analyze and design environmentally sustainable supply chain systems. Topics covered include: Closed-loop supply chains, reverse logistics systems, carbon footprinting, life-cycle analysis and supply chain sustainability strategy.
Class sessions will combine presentations, case discussions and guest speakers. All students will work on a course-long team project that critically evaluates the environmental supply chain strategy of an industry or a publicly traded company. Grades will be based on class participation, case study assignments and the team project.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Environmental Studies
Management
Physical Science
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Bateman, Alexis
Blanco, Edgar
Craig, Anthony
Date Added:
02/01/2014
The Growth and Spatial Structure of Cities
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This course examines the economic, political, social, and spatial dynamics of urban growth and decline in cities and their key component areas (downtown, suburbs, etc.). Topics include impacts of industrialization, technology, politics, and social practices on cities. Students will examine the role of public and private sector activities, ranging from zoning and subsidies to infrastructure development and real estate investment, in affecting urban growth and decline. Readings are both theoretical and empirical, with considerable thought paid to comparative and historical differences.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Davis, Diane
Date Added:
09/01/2005
Halbzeit im Kampf gegen den Mammon
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Ein Buch für VordenkerInnen, MeinungsmacherInnen und Feuerherzen der stillen Revolution

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Mit seinem neuesten Werk: “Halbzeit im Kampf gegen den Mammon” zieht der ehemalige Diplomat im Dienste Österreichs nachdenklich Bilanz über eine aus den Fugen geratenen Welt, die Geld wie einen Götzen anbetet und in der Größenwahn Systeme schafft die weder überschaubar noch beherrschbar sind. Sein neuestes Buch ist an VordenkerInnen, MeinungsmacherInnen und Feuerherzen einer bereits stattfindenden “stillen” Revolution, gerichtet. Aber auch an alle kritischen BürgerInnen, die sich eine solidarischere und menschlichere Gesellschaft wünschen und schon heute an den Umbauarbeiten beteiligt sind. In seiner digitalen Form folgt das Buch den Creative Commons (CC) und ist daher kostenlos.

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Was Paracelsus > für die Medizin gesagt hat, gilt auch bei großen Ideen: „Alles ist Gift, entscheidend ist die Dosis“ (Leopold Kohr)

Die Aufklärung hat vergessen, der linearen Vernunft mit dem Menschlichen Maß ihre Grenzen zu setzen, und so sind nun viele „große Ideen“ ins Unmaß geraten. Die Bündelung dieser Exzesse im Zeichen der Gier ist der „Mammon“ unserer Zeit; er hat einen Neo-Feudalismus entstehen lassen, der nun in Politik-Management und Hoch-Finanz den Ton angibt. Es ist das ein Neo-Feudalismus, der sich hinter einem Panzer der Komplexität versteckt, und zu dem es angeblich keine Alternative gibt.

Diesen Panzer durchbricht man mit einem Weltbild, das sich auf Überschaubarkeit und die Kooperation der Zivilgesellschaft stützt, und das dem Resilienz-Denken folgt. In Weiterentwicklung der Ideen Leopold Kohrs, E.F. Schumachers, Martin Nowaks und Charles Eisensteins entwirft der Autor eine solche Sicht. So zeigt seine „Drei-Schritt-Methode“, wo jeweils das Menschliche Maß liegt; und wie mit strikter Regionalisierung sowie einer Reform der Geld- und Zinspolitik der Weg von alternativlosem Frust zu gelungenem Leben gelingen kann. Es ist das eine stille Revolution „von unten“, die – noch immer außerhalb medialer Aufmerksamkeit – schon weit fortgeschritten ist, und die nach vielen erfolgreichen Pilotprojekten nun vor dem Durchbruch steht. Man muss sich nur trauen, also Du, ich und unsere Nachbarn …

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Arts and Humanities
Philosophy
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Eigenverlag
Date Added:
05/15/2015
Healthy Cities: Assessing Health Impacts of Policies and Plans
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This class examines the built, psychosocial, economic, and natural environment factors that affect health behaviors and outcomes. Students will be introduced to tools designed to integrate public health considerations into policy making and planning, and will be given hands-on training on the application of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) methodology. This class is designed to prepare graduate students from planning and policy fields to interface with public health organizations, agencies, or advocacy groups in professional contexts.

Subject:
Applied Science
Career and Technical Education
Environmental Studies
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Arcaya, Mariana
Date Added:
02/01/2016
The High Frontier
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A Patrick and Alison Light Mystery

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Settling into the routines and demands of adult life following graduation, two cousins living in downtown Ottawa have their easy and conventional lives shaken by anti-communist hysteria and the launch of Sputnik. Will ties of family and friendship survive heightened RCMP scrutiny and surveillance? Are friends what they seem? Is jazz or rock 'n' roll the coolest?

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Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Political Science
Reading Literature
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
07/07/2019
History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective
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Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues.

The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South America, Africa and Polynesia. The second part discusses the ways in which these international systems were brought into contact with each other through the agency of Mongols in Central Asia, Arabs in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, Indic and Sinic societies in South East Asia, and the Europeans through their travels and colonial expansion. The concluding section concerns contemporary issues: the processes of decolonization, neo-colonialism and globalization – and their consequences on contemporary society.

History of International Relations provides a unique textbook for undergraduate and graduate students of international relations, and anybody interested in international relations theory, history, and contemporary politics.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Open Book Publishers
Author:
Erik Ringmar
Date Added:
07/01/2019
Homeland Security: Safeguarding the U.S. Against Domestic Catastrophic Destruction
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What is homeland security and why do we need it? What was unique about the 9/11 attacks that prompted the largest reorganization of the Federal government since the end of World War II? What is the difference between homeland security and national security? Why is critical infrastructure protection so critical? Why is emergency management an essential mission area within homeland security? What is the relationship between homeland security and DoD, National Guard, FBI, and State and Local law enforcement? Explore these questions and the events that made homeland security what it is today. Find out why homeland security is an unprecedented historical challenge requiring an unprecedented government response. Review the homeland security mission areas and understand not only what is being done but also why. Discover “who’s who and what do they do” within the Department of Homeland Security and the greater Homeland Security Enterprise. This book provides the most comprehensive overview and most concise resource for understanding homeland security today. Within these pages you will find insight to the most pressing challenges of the 21st century confronting the nation, your community, and you.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Criminal Justice
History
Law
Management
Political Science
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
06/13/2019
Housing and Human Services
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This class focuses on how the housing and human service systems interact: how networks and social capital can build between elements of the two systems. It explores ways in which the differing world views, professional perspectives, and institutional needs of the two systems play out operationally. Part I establishes the nature of the action frames of these two systems. Part II applies these insights to particular vulnerable groups: "at risk" households in transitional housing, the chronically mentally ill, and the frail elderly.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Keyes, Langley
Rein, Martin
Date Added:
02/01/2005
Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions
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A truly inter-disciplinary course, Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions reviews how law, economics, sociology, political science, and planning conceptualize urban land and property rights and uses cases to discuss what these different lenses illuminate and obscure. It also looks at how the social sciences might be informed by how design, cartography, and visual studies conceptualize space's physicality. This year's topics include land trusts for affordable housing, mixed-use in public space, and critical cartography.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Kim, Annette
Date Added:
09/01/2011
How to FOIA
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A guide to filing Freedom of Information Act requests

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This document is a guide to accompany a training workshop “How to File a FOIA” to celebrate the University of Washington Center for Human Rights’ 10th Anniversary Celebration in May 2019. The guide includes information on researching, writing, submission, and tracking of FOIA requests, and was created by UWCHR graduate research fellow, Emily Willard in May 2019 based on previous drafts of training manuals for UWCHR interns. This training guide for anyone who is interested in filing a FOIA related to public interest.

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Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Computer Science
Law
Philosophy
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
11/01/2019
Human Rights: At Home and Abroad
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This course provides a rigorous and critical introduction to the foundation, structure and operation of the international human rights movement, as it has evolved through the years and as it impacts the United States. The course introduces students to the key theoretical debates in the field including the historical origin and character of the modern idea of human rights, the debate between universality and cultural relativism, between civil and human rights, between individual and community, and the historically contentious relationship between the West and the Rest in matters of sovereignty and human rights, drawing on real life examples from current affairs.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Philosophy
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan
Date Added:
09/01/2015