Course Description

This is a basic international relations course that explores the primary causes that maintain or destroy international peace and cooperation.

Required Textbooks:

• Jeffry Frieden, David Lake, and Kenneth Schultz. 2012. 3rd Edition. World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions. ISBN: 0393912388. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Daniel, Drezner. Theories of International Politics and Zombies. ISBN: 9780691147833. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. ISBN 978-0-307-71922-5