Fall/Winter Timetable

POL417Y1Y L5101

Global South in International Politics

Themes

This course endeavors to increase participants’ understanding of a group of nations classified as the “Third World” and their prospects and challenges in contemporary international politics. It will examine the domestic/internal politics of the Third World states affecting their development, foreign policies as well as the role of emerging countries in international relations. In the first term, the course will analyze the nature of North-South relations and South-South cooperation including dependency and interdependence, foreign aid and investment, international trade, globalization and the debt crisis as well as specific regimes such as human rights, environmental politics, world health/ infectious disease and the UN system, etc., around which these relations revolve. In the second term, it will address Third World (in) security by studying the root causes and implications of numerous civil wars and the role of foreign powers in preventing, mitigating, managing or exacerbating them, and the process of conflict resolution and peace-building.

Texts

TBA

Format and Requirements

One two-hour seminar per week. Course requirements TBA.

Prerequisites

POL201Y1 or (POLB90H3, POLB91H3) or POL208Y1 or POL208Y5 or (POLB80H3, POLB81H3) or POL215Y1