Department of Government Field Seminars
Course for the Department of Government research students to submit field seminar assessed essays
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GV4A5 International Migration and Immigration Management
The aim of the course is to provide a critical understanding of the phenomenon of international...
GV4A8 - Nationalist Conflict, Political Violence and Terrorism
How can we distinguish legitimate resistance and political violence from terrorism? What is the...
GV4A8 - Nationalist Conflict, Political Violence and Terrorism_2019-20
How can we distinguish legitimate political violence from terrorism? What is the relationship...
GV4B6 - Kant's Political Philosophy_2019-20
An introduction to and critical appraisal of Immanual Kant's political philosophy.
Despite...
GV4B7 - The Idea of Freedom
The concept of freedom is often invoked in political life. Many policies and broader political...
GV4B8 - Civil Wars: Concepts and Cases
The course examines social science explanations of the origins, intractability and outcomes of...
GV4B9 - The Second Europe
The course explores the problems of delayed modernisation, problematic democratisation,...
GV4C8 - Game Theory for Political Science
GV4C8 - Game Theory for Political Science_2019-20
Game theory provides a scientific approach to the study of social interactions which focusses...
GV4C9 - Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia
GV4C9 focuses on the five most important countries in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Myanmar, the...
GV4D3 - Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization and Decentralization
This course focuses on the conditions and processes enabling the entrenchment of diverse forms...
GV4D3 - Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization and Decentralization_2019-20
Over the course of the past few decades, the inter-related processes of globalization,...
GV4D4 - Politics of Inequality and Redistribution
This course provides an overview of contemporary redistributive politics in the rich...
GV4D7 - Dilemmas of Equality
The course starts with the general question of why (or if) equality matters. It then introduces...
GV4E1 - Comparative Democratisation in a Global Age
To introduce students to the fundamental political science debates about the phenomenon of...
GV4E1 - Comparative Democratization in a Global Age_2019-20
To introduce students to the fundamental political science debates about the phenomenon of...
GV4E2 - Capitalism and Democracy
Compatibility and incompatibility of capitalism and democracy; Constitutional restraints on...
GV4E3 - Democratisation, Conflict and State Building
This course provides a theoretically informed assessment and critique of the debates on the...