HIST137 - INTERNAT'L SOCIETY 20C

Status
X
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
HIST137 - INTERNAT'L SOCIETY 20C
Term
2017C
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
001
Section ID
HIST137001
Meeting times
CANCELED
Instructors
OGLE, VANESSA
Description
Is the world evolving toward a global civil society, and perhaps toward global government? The course explores this question across the 20th century, focusing on the origins and evolution of transnational organizations and movements. We will analyze a variety of actors above and below the level of the nation-state, from the League of Nations to Amnesty International. At the same time we will pay careful attention to the many countervailing forces that have resisted the process of globalization: various forms of nationalism, local ethnic and religious movements in places as far-flung as Central Africa and Northern Ireland, and struggles over territories and border control from Arizona to Kashmir. We will look at the long history of contention between these opposing trajectories, exploring such topics as Wilsonianism and its reception in Europe and beyond, transnational human rights norms, the environmentalist movement, institutions designed to deal with global threats such as the World Health Organization or the International Atomic Energy Agency, European integration, political Islam, and the War on Terror.
Course number only
137
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false