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17.42 Causes and Prevention of War, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
The causes and prevention of interstate war are the central topics of this course. The course goal is to discover and assess the means to prevent or control war. Hence we focus on manipulable or controllable war-causes. ...
17.950 Understanding Modern Military Operations, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
A proper understanding of modern military operations requires a prior understanding of both the material side of war, including especially weapon, sensor, communication, and information processing technologies, and the ...
17.418 Field Seminar in International Relations Theory, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
Provides an overview of the field of international relations and introduces two widely used typologies in the field. It then reviews the liberal, neo-liberal, realist, and neo-realist schools; the sociological literature ...
21F.040 A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
This course introduces students to Indian Culture through films, short-stories, novels, essays, and newspaper articles. The course examines some major social and political controversies of contemporary India through ...
17.908 Reading Seminar in Social Science: Intelligence and National Security, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
This course will examine the origins, structure and functions of the U.S. Intelligence Community and its relationship to national security policy. It will look in some detail at the key intelligence agencies and the functions ...
17.878 Qualitative Research: Design and Methods, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
This seminar explores the development and application of qualitative research designs and methods in political analysis. It considers a broad array of approaches, from exploratory narratives to focused-comparison case ...
17.959 Organizational Analysis, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
This reading course seeks to provide students with frameworks for understanding organizational behavior and research tools for studying them. It offers an overview of major theories and approaches, and an opportunity to ...
17.884J / 14.296J Collective Choice I, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
Examines political institutions from a rational choice perspective. The now burgeoning rational choice literature on legislatures, bureaucracies, courts, and elections constitutes the chief focus. Some focus on institutions ...
17.100J / 14.781J / 15.678J Political Economy I: Theories of the State and the Economy, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
Political Economy I explores the major social science paradigms for analyzing relations among state, economy, and society. Through readings, lectures and discussion of original texts in political liberalism and individualism, ...
21H.909 People and Other Animals, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
A historical survey of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, worship of animal gods, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of ...