POL 359 - The Nation-State and Global Order

2010-2011 Catalog Year

This course introduces students to the historical, conceptual, and institutional sources of the modern political world. It emphasizes the historical formation of the nation-state, its development into a global system of states, the alternative forms it has taken in both the developed and under-developed worlds, and the global forms of political and economic organization that currently challenge the nation-state as the primary focus of political power and identity.

PREREQ: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
OFFERED: Fall
CREDIT: 3

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