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Course Descriptions

INTA 620: GENDER AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

This course is structured to develop students’ capacity to understand the central place of gender in the international governance system. It opens with the discussion of the conceptual imperatives regarding gender and feminism and how they intersect with international relations. It further searches through some theoretical debates relating to feminist international relations theory, feminist security studies and feminist methodologies in research. It examines men and women’s experiences with the international governance apparatus.

INTA 622: CONFLICTS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

The course seeks to build students’ capacity to assess the varying perspectives that have shaped conflicts around the globe. It also sharpens their analytical skills to comprehend the nature and dynamics of the conflicts and their resolutions. The competing theories of conflicts and conflict resolution as well as the mechanisms for resolving conflicts are delineates and analysed. There is an exploration of the emerging theoretical strands such as human behaviour (agency) and social systems (structure) theories to explain the phenomenon of peaceful social change.

INTA 624: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

The course is intended to provide students with the tools to analyze comprehensively, the salient facets and dynamics of American foreign policy goals and practices. The course examines the evolution and the critical forces that have shaped the choices and decision-making processes of United Sates’ foreign policy as well as its dominant role in the international system. Furthermore, it analyzes the ‘isolationism’, ‘internationalism’ and ‘interventionism’ foreign policy agenda of the United States within specific historical contexts particularly, during the Cold War and aftermath.