Introduction to International Relations | Download syllabus (PDF) 
This course provides an introduction to the study of international relations (IR). It covers several theoretical approaches to and empirical issues in the field of IR. The course is divided into six parts: (I) Fundamentals; (II) Theories (realism, liberalism, and constructivism); (III) International History (especially the World Wars and Cold War); (IV) International Security (weapons of mass destruction, ethnic conflict, and terrorism); (V) International Political Economy (trade, finance, and globalization); (VI) International Law, Human Rights, and the Environment. The course concludes by discussing the future of international relations in the twenty-first century.

On War | Download syllabus (PDF) 
This course is about the causes and conduct of war. It is divided into two parts. Part I reviews structural, state-level, and individual theories of the causes of war. Part II analyses the conduct of war, focusing on the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.

Realism and Its Critics | Download syllabus (PDF) 
This course provides an examination of the realist paradigm of international relations. The first part of the course is devoted to an analysis of several variants of realism with an emphasis on identifying and criticizing their central assumptions and causal logics. The second part of the course focuses on a number of critiques of realism as well as realist counterarguments to them. The final part of the course applies realism’s insights to the contemporary international system.

Theories of International Relations | Download syllabus (PDF) 
This course provides an overview of some of the major theories of international relations. The first half is devoted to exploring three major approaches to the study of international politics (realism, liberalism, and constructivism) with a particular emphasis on identifying and criticizing their central assumptions and causal logics. The focus in the second half of the course is on using these theories to understand the contemporary international system.