Monica Toft Teaching
Books ::
Articles ::
Working Papers ::
Other ::
Awards ::
Teaching ::
Profile Home
Course
International Security and Political Economy
(ISP-150Y)
This seminar serves as a vehicle for an individual
policy analysis exercise (PAE) on an approved
topic in the fields of international security and
political economy. Topics include: U.S. national
security policy and management; international
political economy and organization; international
relations, history, and methods; transnational
issues; negotiation, mediation, and conflict
resolution; and regional affairs. Each participant
must prepare and present an original paper and
provide constructive criticism of the work of the
other participants. Each PAE is written under the
supervision of a faculty member who meets with the
individual student, or with a small group of
students, outside of the seminar. Meetings of the
seminar as a whole are devoted to explaining the
PAE process and providing group advice and
criticism.
SYLLABUS (pdf)
Civil Wars: Theory and Policy (ISP-409)
This course introduces students to the analytical
and comparative study of civil wars. Historical
and contemporary civil wars will be analyzed from
a variety of perspectives, and prominent cases
(e.g. Chechnya, Sudan, Yugoslavia, and Zimbabwe)
will be discussed in depth. The course will
address the role of nationalism, interstate
dimensions - including refugee flows and
repatriation - external intervention, and conflict
management and resolution. The course aims to
provide students with solid theoretical and
historical foundations, and to highlight the
difficult policy dilemmas associated with civil
wars, such as the tension between states’ rights
and human rights and whether to intervene. By the
end of the course, students will be well prepared
to think through policy options in the prevention
and resolution of civil wars. Additionally, each
student will choose one civil war at the beginning
of the course and be the class expert on that war.
SYLLABUS (pdf)
Intervention and Peacekeeping (ISP-410)
This course examines interventions and
peacekeeping in civil wars and violence. It
addresses the international legal basis for
intervention outside parties, as well as state
interests and capacity. Multilateral and
unilateral intervention is considered including
the role of the United Nations, regional
organizations, and NGOs. The cases discussed
included Haiti, Somalia, and Rwanda. As part of
the course requirements, students participate in
group exercise to come up with policy alternatives
to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
SYLLABUS (pdf)
Sex and War
This course examines the biological and social
aspects of being male or female and their
implications on aggression, violence and war. Each
week students will be introduced to a variety of
subjects including humans and violence, women in
combat, homosexuals in the military, discourse,
attitudes towards war, as well as rape and female
and male roles in the conduct of war. The course
aims to provide students with solid theoretical
and historical foundations of sex and war, and to
highlight the policy implications.
SYLLABUS (pdf)
|
 |
