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POL2205H1S L0101
Undergraduate Course Code: POL486H1S L0101
Topics in International Politics I
The Emergence of Modern World Politics
Themes
This course deals with the emergence of world politics as a specific form of politics in the context of the transformation of modern society particularly during the 19th century, and the global spread of world politics during the 19th and 20th centuries. The first main course goal is to enable students to understand and critically assess the degree to which world politics is not a practice which somehow takes place as an exchange between pre-existing political units, but that changes in the form of these units the shape of the system of world politics are closely linked to each other; the second major goal is to introduce students to work systematically with resources from sociological theory and global history research in the study of international relations. The main course assignment is a 6000-word research paper. A core text used will be J. Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World (Princeton University Press 2014).
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POL 208Y
November 14, 2023
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April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...