Fall/Winter Timetable
POL487H1F L0101
Topics in International Politics II
Psychology of International Security
Themes
This course provides an in-depth engagement with the political psychology of international security. We first take up fundamental political questions – like "what is power?" and "what is war?" – and engage the diverse answers that psychological international relations scholarship currently provides. Noting that war is the most destructive invention in human history, we then use these lenses to engage the value-add of psychological explanations for why states fight. The final third of the course uses all of this theoretical and empirical knowledge to examine security and war in our lifetime, beginning with the emergence of "terrorism" as a security issue in the post-Cold War era and looking forward to questions like China’s reemergence.
Texts
No books are required for purchase. All readings will be made available online.
Format and Requirements
One two-hour seminar per week. Course requirements TBA.
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June 3, 2021
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May 21, 2020
Congratulations to undergraduate student Cheryl Cheung who has received a University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA). Going into her third year majoring in political science, with minors in visual studies...
January 29, 2020
Congratulations to all our amazing undergraduate students who picked up one the department’s twenty-three awards and scholarships at our annual undergraduate awards ceremony. In attendance were Dean of Arts &...