This course allows students to interrogate how identities - including national, caste, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, socio-economic, political and beyond - and their intersections shape global and foreign policy challenges and solutions. The course emphasizes the centrality of identity to making, implementing, evaluating and adapting policy across time and place. Examples are drawn from an array of national, trans-national and global policy issues, including policies designed to tackle global health challenges, climate change, national security concerns and more.

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Provides an overview of the key historical and contemporary forces and structures (e.g., the United Nations, decolonization, (de)globalization) defining the context within which global issues play out and foreign policy is conducted. Specific emphasis is placed on the legacy effects of prior policy choices, questions of which actor(s) have more or less influence in global and foreign policy decisions and why, and the importance of considering intended and unintended consequences of a given decision or initiative.

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Why are wars, crises and human catastrophes a regular feature of the global landscape? What can we as individuals, communities, states and societies do to make a difference? This course introduces students to core theories, concepts and debates within global and foreign policy, and the approaches used to analyze these issues. Equal emphasis is placed on both the causes of policy issues and the policymaking challenges of operating within a fragmented international system. The course will include an introduction to themes such as security, conflict and diplomacy; human security and migration; as well as development and sustainability.

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