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Amherst College Political Science for 2011-12
101 Political Identities
[CP, GP] The assertion of group identities, based on language, region, religion, race, gender, sexuality, and class, among other variables, has increasingly animated politics cross-nationally. However, the extent to which identities become politicized varies enormously across time and place. We will explore what it means to describe an identity as political. This exercise entails assessing the conditions under which states, civil societies, and political societies recognize certain identities while ignoring or repressing others. In other words, it entails analyzing the ways in which political processes make and remake identities. What do groups gain and lose from identity-based movements? And what are the broader implications of identity-based movements for democratic politics?
Limited to 30 students. Fall semester. Professor Basu.2015-16: Offered in Fall 2015
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014
103 Secrets and Lies
[AP] Politics seems almost unimaginable without secrecy and lying. From the noble lie of Plato's Republic to Oliver North's claim that he lied to Congress in the name of a higher good, from the need to preserve secrets in the name of national security to the endless spinning of political campaigns, from President Kennedy's behavior during the Cuban missile crisis to current controversies concerning lies by the tobacco industry, from Freud's efforts to decode the secrets beneath civilized life to contemporary exposés of the private lives of politicians, politics and deception seem to go hand-in-hand. This course investigates how the practices of politics are informed by the keeping and telling of secrets, and the telling and exposing of lies. We will address such questions as: When, if ever, is it right to lie or to breach confidences? When is it right to expose secrets and lies? Is it necessary to be prepared to lie in order to advance the cause of justice? Or, must we do justice justly? When is secrecy really necessary and when is it merely a pretext for Machiavellian manipulation? Are secrecy and deceit more prevalent in some kinds of regimes than in others? As we explore those questions we will discuss the place of candor and civility in politics; the relationship between the claims of privacy (e.g., the closeting of sexual desire) and secrecy and deception in public arenas; conspiracy theories as they are applied to politics; and the importance of secrecy in resistance and revolutionary movements. We will examine the treatment of secrecy and lying in political theory as well as their appearance in literature and popular culture, for example, King Lear, Wag the Dog, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Year of Living Dangerously, and Quiz Show
Limited to 30 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Dumm.2015-16: Not offered
104 The State
[CP, IR] Most humans live in territories that are controlled by a state. Why do different nations have different types of states? Why are some states more repressive than others, more war-prone than others, better promoters of development than others, more inclusive than others? How can we make sense of the varied reactions to state domination, ranging from active support to negotiated limits to apathy to vigorous contestation? Does globalization make states more or less democratic, more or less efficient, more or less able to promote development?
This course goes to the heart of current debates on the "state of the state." How significant is the state in an era in which its sovereignty is increasingly challenged both by global and domestic forces? What ought to be the proper role of the state in the twenty-first century? These questions are central to the current debates taking place--in the U.S. and abroad--on the extent to which countries should open up their economies, privatize social services, incorporate minorities and immigrants, recognize gay marriages, counterbalance U.S. pop culture, accommodate religious fundamentalism, etc. We will explore these questions by studying political theorists and empirical cases from around the world.
Limited to 30 students. Spring semester. Professor Corrales.2015-16: Offered in Spring 2016
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Fall 2010, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2014
105 Politics, Statecraft, and the Art of Ruling
[AP, IR, PT] In the teaching of the classic philosophers, the central questions of politics are questions of justice: What are the grounds of our judgment on the things that are just or unjust, right or wrong? What is the nature of the just, or the best, political order? What measures would we be "justified" in imposing with the force of "law"? What is the nature of that regime we would seek to preserve in this country--or, on the other hand, what are the regimes that we would be justified in resisting in other places, even with the force of arms? The problem of judgment must point to the principles, or the standards, of judgment, and to an understanding that is distinctly philosophic. But political men and women also need a certain sense of the ways of the world: the things that hold people in alliance or impart a movement to events; the ways in which the character of politics is affected by the presence of bureaucracies or elections; the arts of persuasion; the strains of rendering judgments. And the knowledge of these things must depend on experience. In this style of introduction to political science, a central place will be given over to the study of statesmen and politicians: Lincoln, Churchill, Eisenhower, but also Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan. The course will draw us back to Aristotle and Plato, to Machiavelli and the American Founders, but then it will also encompass the study of voting and campaigns, and the more recent politics of race and gender.
Limited to 30 students. Omitted 2011-2012. Professor Arkes.2015-16: Not offered
107 Leadership, Citizens and Democracy
[AP, CP] The paradox of American democracy, or of any democracy, is that effective self-government requires a perpetual struggle between the people and their leaders. Citizens must be active yet wary; governments must be effective yet accountable. The result is that democracy is frustrating and self-contradictory, even while it is the best, or the least bad system of government. In the world order, America's claim to an international leadership role is also based on a contradiction. The U.S. is simultaneously a Liberal Democracy and a Great Power, caught inevitably between democratic instincts and the responsibilities and temptations of having so much power.
Limited to 25 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Tiersky.2015-16: Not offered
110 An Introduction to Political Theory
[PT] This course is an introduction to political theory, examining the assumptions that allow the various forms of politics to operate as they do. It is divided into three parts: The first investigates the problems of foundations--what politics is and where we can find its limits; the second explores the politics in our ordinary lives--the politics that determine how we interact with our families and friends, and how we choose to live in our private lives; the third deals with the costs that may come from sharing our world. Throughout, we will use a variety of resources--philosophic, literary, cultural, cinematic, and historical--to develop ways of engaging our political world, unraveling those very assumptions we choose to live by.
Fall semester. Visiting Professor Poe.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012
200 Introduction to American National Politics
[AP] This course focuses on the study of American national institutions of governance, including the presidency, the Congress, the courts, as well as political parties, some of the key concepts of American federalism, and the politics of governance, including the study of legislative processes, campaigns, political media, socio-economic elites and their influence on policymaking, and populist movements.
Spring semester. Professor Dumm.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012
203 From Petrograd to Petrostate: Power and Public in Post-Communist Russia
Russia emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union a budding democracy with aggressively contested elections on the federal and local level. Twenty years later, it is an authoritarian state in which opposition is persecuted and the electorate divorced from any policy-making. This course will examine the dynamics of Russian politics from the anti-Communist revolution of 1991 to the present, attempting to answer the question why this happened. First, we will revisit the legacy of the Soviet era pertinent to "new" Russia – centralism and political repression but also social welfare systems, feminism, and communality. Second, we will look at the socio-economic factors of Russia's metamorphosis, the products of the Russian version of a free market economy (among others: the emergence of a new dominant minority, the "oligarchs," and the gap between the rich and the poor). Third, we will examine the concepts of democracy and human rights prevalent in Russia over the past twenty years and ask how different they are from Western concepts of democracy and human rights. Fourth, we will try determining the role of individuals in Russian politics. How did Vladimir Putin dismantle the democratic institutions of Russia so quickly? What was the voters' reaction to that? What made his victory over the "oligarchs" possible? Was this a case of a leader going against the grain or did he fit the profile of an ideal leader the majority of Russians wanted? Is it Putin's Russia or Russia's very own Putin?
Fall semester. Visiting Professor/Karl Loewenstein Fellow Pleshakov.
2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011
204 Kremlin Rising: Russian Foreign Policy from Yeltsin to Medvedev
This course will examine the foreign policy of the Russian Federation throughout the past twenty years, from the disintegration of the Soviet Union to the present. We will start with the Soviet legacy – tensions and conflicts coming from Stalin's territorial expansion and the concepts of world revolution, superpower, and empire. Second, we will examine Russia as a successor state that has inherited both the Soviet Union's clout (nuclear arms, permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council) and Soviet debts – monetary, psychological, and historical. Third, we will explore the foreign policy resources Russia has – economic, human, and political. Fourth, we will attempt to track the dynamics of Russia's foreign policy from Yeltsin to Putin and Medvedev. What are the conceptual foundations of Russian diplomacy? Can we deconstruct Russian nationalism so as to examine its different trends and their impact on foreign policy? Do Russian exports of oil and gas define Russian diplomacy, as it is often claimed? Is there any pattern in the struggle over resources and their export routes in continental Eurasia? What is the foreign policy-making mechanism in Russia today, and do Russian oligarchs have any say in it? At the end of the semester, we will address several scenarios for the future of Russia's relations with other post-Soviet countries, Europe, the United States, and, last but not least, China.
Spring semester. Visiting Professor/Karl Loewenstein Fellow Pleshakov.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012
207 The Home and the World: Women and Gender in South Asia
This course will study South Asian women and gender through key texts in film, literature, history and politics. How did colonialism and nationalism challenge the distinctions between the "home" and the "world" and bring about partitions which splintered once shared cultural practices? What consequences did this have for postcolonial politics? How do ethnic conflicts, religious nationalisms and state repression challenge conceptions of "home"? How have migrations, globalization and diasporas complicated relations between the home and the world? Texts will include Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown, Ram Gopal Varma's epic film Sarkar and Partha Chatterjee's The Nation and Its Fragments.
Fall semester. Professors Basu and Shandilya.2015-16: Offered in Spring 2016
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015
212 Political Obligations
[PT] The mark of the polity, or the political order, has always been the presence of "law"--the capacity to make decisions that are binding, or obligatory, for everyone within the territory. The roots of obligation and law are the same: "ligare," to bind. When the law imposes a decision, it restricts personal freedom and displaces "private choice" in favor of a public obligation, an obligation applied uniformly or universally. The law may commit us then on matters that run counter even to our own convictions, strongly held, about the things that are right or wrong, and even on matters of our private lives. The law may forbid people to discriminate on grounds of race even in their private businesses; the law may forbid abortions or, on the other hand, the law may compel the funding of abortions even by people who find them abhorrent. This state of affairs, this logic of the law, has always called out for justification, and in facing that question, we are led back to the original understanding of the connection between morality and law. The law can justify itself only if it can establish, as its ground, propositions about the things that are in principle right or wrong, just or unjust-which is to say, right or wrong, just or unjust, for others as well as ourselves. The questions of law and obligation then must point to the questions at the root of moral philosophy: What is the nature of the good or the just, and the grounds on which we may claim to "know" moral truths?
The course will proceed through a series of cases after it returns to the beginning of political philosophy and lays the groundwork for the argument. We will begin with Aristotle on the polis, and the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas on "natural rights." We will draw on Kant and Hume, on Thomas Reid and Bertrand Russell, as we seek to set the groundwork in place. The argument of the course will then be unfolded further, and tested, through a train of cases and problems: conscientious objection, the war in Vietnam, the obligation to rescue, the claims of privacy. And the culmination will come on the issues of abortion, euthanasia, and assisted suicide.
Fall semester. Professor Arkes.2015-16: Offered in Fall 2015
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2014
213 World Politics
[IR] This is an introductory course which examines the interaction of military, political, economic, social and cultural forces in present-day world politics. Close attention is paid to the complex relationship between two central components of this system: great power relations and global capitalist dynamics. Among the topics covered are hegemonic stability and the rise and fall of the great powers, the changing role of state sovereignty, the strengths and weaknesses of international civil society, as well as the role of justice and international/transnational legal institutions in world politics. Other issues to be discussed include the relations of the world's sole superpower (the United States) vis-à-vis the newly emerging geopolitical centers of power, namely the European Union, China, India and Russia, as well as such regions as the Middle East and Latin America. The course does not rely on a single theoretical framework; instead, we will follow in the path of such world classics as Kautylia, Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Clausewitz, Locke, Kant, and Karl Marx.
Limited to 30 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Machala.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Fall 2012, Spring 2014
217 Domestic Politics
This course will explore the domestic sphere as a site of politics. We will define the domestic sphere broadly, including politics in the home, private life, indigenous culture, and internal versus foreign affairs. The principle questions addressed will include: How does the boundary defining the private sphere shift over time and what are the forces driving these changes? How is the domestic sphere seen as a site of safety versus danger? What are the consequences of the intervention of state power and policing into private life? How are power relations within the private sphere interconnected with privilege and status in the public domain? Our attention will be focused on the social construction of gender, race and ethnic identities, and local/grassroots activities. A wide range of issues will be covered regarding the social organization of families, domestic violence, local/urban politics, the deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities, disadvantaged communities, policing, political activism, and domestic and "homeland" security. The course will examine these issues primarily in the context of American politics and society.
Fall semester. Professor Bumiller.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015
218 The Social Organization of Law
(Offered as LJST 101 and POSC 218 [LP].) Law in the United State is everywhere, ordering the most minute details of daily life while at the same time making life and death judgments. Our law is many things at once--majestic and ordinary, monstrous and merciful, concerned with morality yet often righteously indifferent to moral argument. Powerful and important in social life, the law remains elusive and mysterious. This power and mystery is reflected in, and made possible by, a complex bureaucratic apparatus which translates words into deeds and rhetorical gestures into social practices.
This course will examine that apparatus. It will describe how the problems and possibilities of social organization shape law as well as how the social organization of law responds to persons of different classes, races and genders. We will attend to the peculiar way the American legal system deals with human suffering--with examples ranging from the legal treatment of persons living in poverty to the treatments of victims of sexual assault. How is law organized to cope with their pain? How are the actions of persons who inflict inquiries on others defined in legal terms? Here we will examine cases on self defense and capital punishment. Throughout, attention will be given to the practices of police, prosecutors, judges, and those who administer law's complex bureaucratic apparatus.
Limited to 100 students. Fall semester. Professor Sarat.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012
222 Political Rhetoric
(Offered as POSC 222 [PT] and CLAS 222) Rhetoric is the art of persuasion, of using language--both written and oral--to convince others of one's point of view. Yet many perceive such convincing as dangerous, especially to democracies where individual voice matters so much to politics. The line between persuasion and manipulation is not always clear, and the effects of crossing it can be incredibly corrosive. This course investigates the history and theory of political rhetoric. How and when should we be rhetorically persuasive? Which rhetorical techniques are persuasive and how do they operate? To what extent do rhetoric and persuasion determine our understanding of politics? When might persuasion prove dangerous to politics? This course revisits classical debates on the use and function of rhetoric in politics, as well as modern reflections on this tradition. The first section of the course addresses the thought of the three central figures in this debate--Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. In close engagement with key texts of the rhetorical tradition, our task will be to uncover precisely how ancient conceptions of rhetoric developed, exploring how rhetoric was viewed as both dangerous and necessary to successful governance. Building on these models, the course will then examine more recent theoretical discussions, reflecting on the development of attitudes and ideas about the rhetorical craft in modern and contemporary political thought. These investigations allow us to discover the risks and rewards of persuasion for our own political lives.
Fall semester. Visiting Professor Poe and Professor van den Berg.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011
227 Women and Politics in Africa
(Offered as POSC 227 [GS, CP] and WAGS 261.) This course will explore the genesis and effects of political activism by women in Africa, which some believe represents a new African feminism, and its implications for state/civil society relations in contemporary Africa. Topics will include the historical effects of colonialism on the economic, social, and political roles of African women, the nature of urban/rural distinctions, and the diverse responses by women to the economic and political crises of post-colonial African policies. This course will also explore case studies of specific African countries, with readings of novels and women's life histories as well as analysis by social scientists.
Omitted 2011-12.2015-16: Not offered
232 Political Economy of Development
[CP, IR] This course surveys some of the principal themes in the political economy of lower-income countries. Questions will cover a broad terrain. What are the key characteristics of poor economies? Why did these countries fail to catch up economically with the West in the 20th century? Who are the key political actors? What are their beliefs, ideologies and motivations? What are their political constraints, locally, nationally and globally? We will review definitions of development, explanations for the wealth and poverty of nations, the role of ideas, positive and dysfunctional links between the state and business groups, the role of non-state actors, the causes and consequences of poverty, inequality, disease and corruption, the impact of financial globalization and trade opening, the role of the IMF and the World Bank, and the arguments of anti-developmentalists. We will look at the connection between regime type and development. (Are democracies at a disadvantage in promoting development?) We will also devote a couple of weeks to education in developing countries. We know education is a human good, but is it also an economic good? Does education stimulate economic growth? What are the obstacles to education expansion? We will not focus on a given region, but rather on themes. Familiarity with the politics or economics of some developing country is helpful but not necessary.
Limited to 25 students. Spring semester. Professor Corrales.2015-16: Offered in Fall 2015
Other years: Offered in Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Fall 2013
237 The American Founding
[PT, AP] Lincoln famously said at Gettysburg that the nation had been brought forth "four score and seven years" earlier. Counting back 87 years from Gettysburg brought the beginning of the republic to 1776, not 1789. The American Founding included the ingenious crafting of the Constitution, but the Founding, and the Union, did not begin with the Constitution. It began with the Declaration of Independence and the articulation of that "proposition" as Lincoln called it, which marked the character of the regime: "all men are created equal." From that proposition sprang the principle for government by consent, and as Lincoln and the Founders understood, the case in principle against slavery. Lincoln thought it a stroke of genius on the part of Jefferson that, on the occasion of a revolution, he inserted in the Declaration an "abstract truth applicable to all men and all times." And yet, now, that truth of the Declaration has become controversial; it is often denied on both sides of the political divide, by conservatives as well as liberals. But the claim for the Founders remains: if that central moral "truth" of the Declaration is not true, it may not be possible to give a coherent account of the American regime and the rights it was meant to secure.
The course will explore the writings and work of that uncommon generation that made the case for the American revolution and framed a "new order for the ages." The topics will include the political philosophy of "natural rights"; the debates during the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and during the contest over ratification; the Federalist and Anti-federalist papers; the political economy of the new Constitution; the jurisprudence of Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and John Marshall; and some of the leading cases in the founding period of the Supreme Court.
Omitted 2011-2012. Professor Arkes.2015-16: Not offered
241 The American Constitution I: The Structure of Rights
[LP, AP] This course will focus on the questions arising from the relations of the three main institutions that define the structure of the national government under the Constitution. We will begin, at all times, with cases, but the cases will draw us back to the "first principles" of constitutional government, and to the logic that was built into the American Constitution. The topics will include: the standing of the President and Congress as interpreters of the Constitution; the authority of the Congress to counter the judgments--and alter the jurisdiction--of the federal courts on matters such as abortion and busing; the logic of "rights" and the regulation of "speech" (including such "symbolic expression" as the burning of crosses); and the original warning of the Federalists about the effect of the Bill of Rights in narrowing the range of our rights.
Omitted 2011-12. Professor Arkes.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2014
242 The American Constitution II: Federalism, Privacy, and the "Equal Protection of the Laws"
[LP, AP] In applying the Constitution to particular cases, it becomes necessary to appeal to certain "principles of law" that were antecedent to the Constitution--principles that existed before the Constitution, and which did not depend, for their authority, on the text of the Constitution. But in some cases it is necessary to appeal to principles that were peculiar to the government that was established in the "decision of 1787"; the decisions that framed a new government under a new Constitution. This course will try to illuminate that problem by considering the grounds on which the national government claims to vindicate certain rights by overriding the authority of the States and private institutions. Is the federal government obliged to act as a government of "second resort" after it becomes clear that the State and local governments will not act? Or may the federal government act in the first instance, for example, to bar discriminations based on race, and may it reach, with its authority, to private businesses, private clubs, even private households? The course will pursue these questions as it deals with a number of issues arising from the "equal protection of the laws"--most notably, with the problem of discriminations based on race and sex, with racial quotas and "reverse discrimination." In addition, the course will deal with such topics as: self-incrimination, the exclusionary rule, the regulation of "vices," and censorship over literature and the arts. (This course may be taken independently of POSC 241, The American Constitution I.)
Fall semester. Professor Arkes.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Fall 2011, Fall 2013
244 Global Women's Activism
(Offered as WAGS 244 and POSC 244.) Globally as well as locally, women are claiming a new voice in civil society by spearheading both egalitarian movements for social change and reactionary movements which would restore them to putatively traditional roles. They are prominent in local level community-based struggles but also in women's movements, perhaps the most international movements in the world today. This course will explore the varied expressions of women's activism at the grass roots, national and transnational levels. How is it influenced by the intervention of the state and international agencies? How is it affected by globalization? Among the issues and movements which we will address are struggles to redefine women's rights as human rights, women's activism in religious nationalism, the international gay-lesbian movement, welfare rights activism, responses to state regulation, and campaigns around domestic violence. Our understanding of women's activism is informed by a richly comparative perspective and attention to cases from diverse regions of the world.
Omitted 2011-12. Professor Basu.2015-16: Not offered
248 Cuba: The Politics of Extremism
[CP, IR] The study of Cuba's politics presents opportunities to address issues of universal concern to social scientists and humanists in general, not just Latin Americanists. When is it rational to be radical? Why has Cuban politics forced so many individuals to adopt extreme positions? What are the causes of radical revolutions? Is pre-revolutionary Cuba a case of too little development, uneven development or too rapid development? What is the role of leaders: Do they make history, are they the product of history, or are they the makers of unintended histories? Was the revolution inevitable? Was it necessary? How are new (radical) states constructed? What is the role of foreign actors, existing political institutions, ethnicity, nationalism, religion and sexuality in this process? How does a small nation manage to become influential in world affairs, even altering the behavior of superpowers? What are the conditions that account for the survival of authoritarianism? To what extent is the revolution capable of self-reform? Is the current intention of state leaders of pursuing closed politics with open economics viable? What are the most effective mechanisms to change the regime? Why does the embargo survive? Why did Cubans (at home and abroad) care about Elián González? Although the readings will be mostly from social scientists, the course also includes selections from primary sources, literary works and films (of Cuban and non-Cuban origin). As with almost everything in politics, there are more than just two sides to the issue of Cuba. One aim of the course is to expose the students to as many different sides as possible.
Limited to 30 students. Fall semester. Professor Corrales.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Spring 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2015
300 Impact of War: A Case Study of Russia
Sometimes the object of aggression, sometimes itself the aggressor, Russia has been party to all the major military conflicts of the 19thand 20thcenturies – Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, World War I, and World War II. The Russian army also fought in numerous regional wars, notably in Afghanistan in 1979-1989 and recently in Chechnya and Georgia. We will study perceptions of war in modern Russian society. First, on the basis of primary sources (memoirs, interviews, speeches) we will address war-related nationalist stereotypes present in Russia today. Second, we will look at the origins of these myths; to do that we will study in depth the impacts of past wars, primarily World War II, Afghan War of 1979-1989, and the Chechnya War. What generated support for the government? How does the notion of "acceptable losses" change over time? How did wars of the past sixty years affect social structures and gender roles in Russia? What is the current Russian definition of "just wars"? The war in Chechnya occurred in post-Soviet, "capitalist" Russia with its new class divisions, rampant corruption and consumerism; did these changes cause society to perceive the war in a new way? In the last section of the course we will discuss the "new" Russians' willingness to support regional wars that the Kremlin will possibly choose to wage against other Soviet successor states and their likely attitude to another Cold War with the West.
Limited to 20 students. Fall semester. Visiting Professor/Karl Loewenstein Fellow Pleshakov.
2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011
301 Terrorism and Revolution: A Case Study of Russia
Russia was among the first nations in the world to face political terrorism when in the 1870s the leftist People's Will group launched the hunt for Tsar Alexander II. The terrorist trend continued into the twentieth century; in 1918, the Socialist Revolutionary Party attempted to assassinate Lenin. Eradicated by Stalin, terrorism resurfaced in the 1990s, when Russia found itself under attack of Chechen separatists. Legitimacy of political terrorism as the last refuge of the oppressed has been actively debated in Russia for more than a century, and the fact that terrorist groups in question ranged from proto-Marxists to the pseudo-Islamic has made Russian discourse on terrorism uncommonly rich. We will be using a variety of primary sources, such as terrorists' manifestos and memoirs, as well as conceptual critiques of terror, starting with Dostoyevsky's novel Demons. First, we will wrestle with the definition of "terrorism" as opposed to "terror." Second, we will explore the place of terrorism in a revolutionary movement and war. Third, we will look at the counter-terrorism measures applied by the Russian government in the past and now. A case study of terrorism in Russia will hopefully help us to answer a number of questions that are highly relevant today.
Limited to 20 students. Spring semester. Visiting Professor/Karl Loewenstein Fellow Pleshakov.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012
303 Latin America in the World
[CP, IR] This course goes beyond the usual study of hemispheric affairs. Latin America is the focus. We begin by putting hemispheric relations into historical perspective to study the way in which the nations of Latin America deal with international affairs, particularly their relations with the United States, and how this has changed over time. We will study how Latin American nations define their national interests and how those national interests mesh with or diverge from the national interests of the United States.
We will concentrate on the last twenty years because of the transition to democracy throughout the region. Democracy presumes an active citizenry who express their opinions on matters of concern to them. It also presumes institutions that provide structure and legitimacy for the process of formulating public policies. The underlying concept in the course is agency: how nations become conscious of their ability to play a role in world affairs; how they determine what that role will be; and how they understand their capacity for international action.
Limited to 20 students. Spring semester. Professor Tulchin.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012
307 Gender and the Environment
(Offered as WAGS 307 and POSC 307 [GP]). This seminar will compare relationships between gender and the environment in a developed country, the U.S., and a developing country, India. We will look at the history of gender constructions of nature and natural resources and their relationship to environmental practices. We will examine the disproportionate impact of environmental destruction on women and children, particularly from poor and minority communities, as well as rapidly changing ideas and practices about environmental degradation and climate change. Among the topics we will consider are gender constructions in the history of each country's agricultural policies and their effects on attitudes and practices toward the land and other resources like minerals, water, and forests. We will analyze gender, land tenure, and the law as it affects resource control and allocation in India. We will look at related questions concerning the control of natural resources in the U.S. like the disputed ownership of the water of Lake Erie in an impoverished suburb of Detroit. We will explore women's roles in environmental struggles in both countries.
Scholars and aid workers have long observed that environmental destruction has differential impacts on men and women. Women are the major victims of natural disasters, like the Tsunami of 2002 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Environmental destruction affects women's health and reproduction in unique and dangerous ways. Pesticides and nuclear wastes cause birth defects, complications in labor, and toxic concentrations in women's breast milk. The growing field of environmental justice has drawn attention to the significance of race in the location of hazardous waste facilities and the disproportionate number of people of color and women who are affected by workplace hazards. Following the earthquake in Haiti, after years of demands by women's activist groups, the U.N. decided for the first time to deliver aid directly to women because it recognized this was the most effective way of reaching the children who need it.
Omitted 2011-12. Professors Basu and Saxton.2015-16: Not offered
310 American Politics/Foreign Policy
[AP, IR] The attacks of September 11, the continuing war in Iraq and America's growing relative industrial decline, have cast a long shadow over current U.S. foreign policy. But while these events dominate much of the news, the purpose of this course will not be to analyze any specific foreign policies, but, instead, to examine how foreign policy is made in the United States. We will explore the domestic political, socio-economic and cultural forces which have historically shaped major foreign policy debates as well as the grand strategies which have sustained America's role in world affairs. After familiarizing ourselves with the four main foreign policy ideological traditions (Jeffersonian, Hamiltonian, Jacksonian and Wilsonian), which typically compete for political dominance, we will scrutinize how the rules set in the Constitution structure the foreign policy making process. Special attention will be paid to the shifting and evolving power of the Presidency, Congress, the mass media, public opinion, elections, think-tanks, ethnic, religious and class-based lobbies and grass roots social movements. The course will also examine the rise of the power elite and the national security state, the role of the military and intelligence agencies, the power of secrecy and deception, and the significance of the political psychology of presidents and their key advisors, as well as the function of gender in the making of foreign policy.
Limited to 70 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Machala.2015-16: Not offered
311 Case Studies in American Diplomacy
(Offered as HIST 256 [US] and POSC 311[AP, IR].) This course will combine the methods of diplomatic history and political science in examining critical moments and themes in American diplomacy. Our overall aim is to better understand the evolving position of the United States in world politics as well as domestic controversies over the character of America's global role. Specifically, we will assess the combined influence of racism and ethnicity as well as of religious and secular values and class interest on American diplomacy. We shall also investigate the major domestic political, social, economic and intellectual trends and impulses, (e.g., manifest destiny, isolationism and counter-isolationism, and containment) that have shaped American diplomacy; analyze competing visions for territorial conquests and interventions as advocated by various American elites; examine the methods used to extend the nation's borders, foreign trade and international influence and leadership; and seek to understand the impact of key foreign policy involvements and controversies on the character of the Presidency, Congress and party politics. Among the topics to be considered are the Federalist/Anti-Federalist debates over the scope of constitutional constraints on foreign policy, the Monroe Doctrine, the Mexican War, the imperialist/anti-imperialist debate, the great power diplomacies of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and FDR, as well as key moments of American diplomacy during the Cold War (e.g., the origins of the Cold War, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the end of the Cold War. One class meeting per week.
Limited to 35 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professors G. Levin and Machala.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2012
312 Post-Cold War American Diplomacy
(Offered as POSC 312 and HIST 257 [US].) A 1992 still-classified Pentagon Defense Policy Guidance draft asserts that America's political and military mission in the post-cold war era will be to ensure that no rival superpower be allowed to emerge in world politics. This course will examine American foreign relations from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present. We will study the similarities and differences in the styles of statecraft of all post-cold war U.S. administrations in producing, managing and sustaining America's unrivaled international position, which emerged in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. While examining the debates between liberals and neoconservatives about America's role in the world both preceding and following the 9-11 attack, we will also discuss the extent to which these debates not only have shaped American foreign policy but also how they have influenced our domestic politics and vice versa. Among the other main themes to be examined: the strategic, tactical and humanitarian uses of military and other forms of power by each administration (e.g., towards Somalia, the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan); U.S. policy towards NATO and towards the world economy; U.S. policy towards Russia, China, the Middle East and Latin America; human, economic and political costs and benefits of American leadership in this period.
Preference given to students who have taken one of the following courses: P0SC 213, 310, 311, 410; HIST 256. Limited to 30 students. Not open to first-year students. Omitted 2011-12. Professors G. Levin andMachala.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
320 Rethinking Post-Colonial Nationalism
[CP] Nationalist fervor seemed likely to diminish once so-called Third World nations achieved independence. However, the past few years have witnessed the resurgence and transformation of nationalism in the post-colonial world. Where anti-colonial nationalist movements appeared to be progressive forces of social change, many contemporary forms of nationalism appear to be reactionary. Did nationalist leaders and theoreticians fail to identify the exclusionary qualities of earlier incarnations of nationalism? Were they blind to its chauvinism? Or has nationalism become increasingly intolerant? Was the first wave of nationalist movements excessively marked by European liberal influences? Or was it insufficiently committed to universal principles? We will explore expressions of nationalism in democratic, revolutionary, religious nationalist, and ethnic separatist movements in the post-colonial world.
Spring semester. Professor Basu.2015-16: Offered in Spring 2016
Other years: Offered in Fall 2009, Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
332 Human Rights Activism
(Offered as WAGS 332 and POSC 332 [CP, GP].) This course is intended to give students a sense of the challenges and satisfactions involved in the practice of human rights work as well as a critical sense of how the discourses calling it forth developed and continue to evolve. We intend to provide specific historical and cultural context to selected areas in which human rights abuses of women and men have occurred, and to explore how differing traditions facilitate and inhibit activism within these areas. The semester will begin by exploring the historical growth of human rights discourse in Europe and the United States, culminating in the emergence of the post-World War II Universal Declaration. We will then turn to the proliferation of these discourses since the 1970s, including the growing importance of non-governmental organizations, many of them internationally based, the use of human rights discourse by a wide range of groups, and expanding meanings of human rights including new conceptions of women's human rights. The third part of the course will explore criticisms of human rights discourses, particularly the charge that for all their claims to universalism, these discourses reflect the values of European Enlightenment traditions which are inimical to conceptions of rights and justice that are grounded in culture and religion. Throughout the course, rights' workers will discuss their own experiences, abroad and in the U.S., and reflect on the relationship between their work and formal human rights discourse.
Omitted 2011-12. Professors Basu and Saxton.2015-16: Not offered
334 American Political Thought
[AP, PT] This course is a study of aspects of the canon of American political thought. While examining the roots of American thought in Puritanism and Quakerism, the primary focus will be on American transcendentalism and its impact on subsequent thought. Among those whose works we are likely to consider are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman, W.E.B. DuBois, William James, Jane Addams, John Dewey, Martin Luther King, Hannah Arendt, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Cavell.
Not open to first-year students. Fall semester. Professor Dumm.2015-16: Offered in Spring 2016
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Spring 2014
335 Modern Political Thought
[PT] This course surveys the development of key political concepts in modern Western thought. These include new conceptions of political rationality and affect (how we think and feel about our politics), as well as reconceptualizations of equality and liberty in a world of rapidly changing economic conditions and social mobility. The course begins with recent and contrasting views (Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss) on what constitutes the basis for political action in the modern world: whether tradition is the only legitimate measure of political action, or if there are preferable standards by which to justify politics. Then, as a means to explain this problematic, the course will examine critical philosophical engagements on the historical appearance of modern political concepts. We will trace these paradigmatic shifts as they begin to surface in late 18th- and 19th-century European thought (evidenced in the writings of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche amongst others), on through to the consequent political outcomes of such transformations in 20th-century politics. Through close textual readings and contextual analysis we will engage in a systematic comparison of our assumptions about politics with those expressed in these philosophical debates. And, in so doing, we will attempt to further our understanding of contemporary politics and the political problems requisite to our own political practices.
Limited to 35 students. Spring semester. Visiting Professor Poe.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015
345 Contemporary Europe
Offered as POSC 345 [CP, IR] and EUST 345.) Decline and renewal of Europe. An analysis of Europe's role in the world order and the European Union (EU). What are Europe's strengths and weaknesses as an international power? Does Europe meet its responsibilities or is it content to be a free rider on the ambitions and policies of other countries? What is the European Union and what are its successes and failures? What is the relationship between various European countries and the EU, between national sovereignty and European integration? Is more European integration still the future of Europe or is there now "enough Europe"?
Limited to 25 students. Not open to first-year students. Fall semester. Professor Tiersky.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
351 The Political Economy of Petro States: Venezuela Compared
[CP, IR] This is a modified version of POSC 232, The Political Economy of Development. The first half of the course is identical to 232, but the second half will have a different focus: the political economy of oil. This section will explore the extent to which oil is a "resource curse," the neo-structuralist notion that an abundance of a natural resource, in this case oil, is detrimental for development because it distorts economic incentives (away from diversification) and distorts politics (by facilitating corruption, raising the stakes of power-holding, increasing the chance for abuse of state power, and weakening society's capacity to hold the state accountable). We will examine these hypotheses by focusing on Venezuela, one of the world's leading oil producers. Until the 1980s, Venezuela was considered an example of democratization. In the 1990s, Venezuela became instead a paradigmatic case of policy incoherence. In the early 2000s, under the Hugo Chávez administration, Venezuela became a case of political polarization, and some argue, rising authoritarianism. The second half of this course will assess whether the resource-curse theory provides the best account of Venezuela's politics since the 1980s. To address this question, we will: (1) compare the resource-curse argument with other competing theories of development that might account for Venezuelan politics; and (2) compare the Venezuelan case with other cases in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. This course fulfills requirements for the Five College Certificates in Latin American Studies and International Relations.
Not open to students who have taken POSC 232. Limited to 35 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Corrales.2015-16: Not offered
354 The Political Theory of Home
Home is supposed to be a refuge, the place where they have to take you in, as Frost once put it, but as he also knew, it is a place of conflict and death as much as comfort and birth. We are hidden from the world in our homes, but we also take pride in our homes, however modest, or even in their modesty. Home is a place of personal remembrance where we do not fight the battles of immortality, but instead follow another way through life, a parallel imagining of where and how we may be in the world, and away from the world. It is the most private of places, and a site of privation because of that. It is the oikos, (the household, where economy began) not the polis (the public place of political argument). And yet home is of political significance paradoxically, because it is supposed to be a refuge from the storms of politics--hence, for instance, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security as a reassurance to the American people following the terrorist attack of 9/11. In this course, we will explore the idea of home and its political significance in Western thought. Among the authors we will study will be Homer, Virgil, Books of Genesis, Exodus, and Ruth, Fustel de Coulanges, Vico, Shakespeare, Heidegger, Said, Winthrop, Thoreau, Jefferson, Addams, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Pogue Harrison.
Requisite: One introductory Political Science course or its equivalent. Limited to 20 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Dumm.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2010, Fall 2012
356 Regulating Citizenship
[AP, PT] This course considers a fundamental issue that faces all democratic societies: How do we decide when and whether to include or exclude individuals from the rights and privileges of citizenship? In the context of immigration policy, this is an issue of state power to control boundaries and preserve national identity. The state also exercises penal power that justifies segregating and/or denying privileges to individuals faced with criminal sanctions. Citizenship is regulated not only through the direct exercise of force by the state, but also by educational systems, social norms, and private organizations. Exclusion is also the result of poverty, disability, and discrimination based on gender, race, age, and ethnic identity. This course will describe and examine the many forms of exclusion and inclusion that occur in contemporary democracies and raise questions about the purpose and justice of these processes. We will also explore models of social change that would promote more inclusive societies. This course will be conducted inside a correctional facility and enroll an equal number of Amherst students and residents of the facility. Permission to enroll will be granted on the basis of a questionnaire and personal interview with the instructor.
Admission with consent of the instructor. Limited to 12 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Bumiller.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
359 The Politics of Moral Reasoning
[GP, PT] This course is an exploration of the connections between the experience of ordinary life and the judgments humans and citizens make concerning good and bad, and competing goods. We will use as the core text Stanley Cavell's Cities of Words, which organizes themes concerning moral reasoning around a series of thinkers--Emerson, Aristotle, Plato, Rawls, Nietzsche, Locke, Mill and others--and couples each thinker with a movie from the classic age of American cinema. While we will be relying on Cavell's study as a primary source, students will also be reading essays by the thinkers Cavell identifies. Each week we will discuss the reading in the first class exclusively, and then screen the film prior to the second class meeting, when we will broaden the discussion.
Not open to first-year students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Dumm.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2014
360 Punishment, Politics, and Culture
[AP, LP] Other than war, punishment is the most dramatic manifestation of state power. Whom a society punishes and how it punishes are key political questions as well as indicators of its character and the character of the people in whose name it acts. This course will explore the connections between punishment and politics with particular reference to the contemporary American situation. We will consider the ways crime and punishment have been politicized in recent national elections as well as the racialization of punishment in the United States. We will ask whether we punish too much and too severely, or too little and too leniently. We will examine particular modalities of punishment, e.g., maximum security prisons, torture, the death penalty, and inquire about the character of those charged with imposing those punishments, e.g., prison guards, executioners, etc. Among the questions we will discuss are: Does punishment express our noblest aspirations for justice or our basest desires for vengeance? Can it ever be an adequate expression of, or response to, the pain of victims of crime? When is it appropriate to forgive rather than punish? We will consider these questions in the context of arguments about the right way to deal with juvenile offenders, drug offenders, sexual predators ("Megan's Law"), rapists, and murderers. We will, in addition, discuss the meaning of punishment by examining its treatment in literature and popular culture. Readings may include selections from The Book of Job, Greek tragedy, Kafka, Nietzsche, Freud, George Herbert Mead, and contemporary treatments of punishment such as Foucault's Discipline and Punish, Butterfield's All God's Children, Scarry's Body in Pain, Garland's Punishment in Modern Society, Hart's Punishment and Reasonability, and Mailer's Executioner's Song. Films may include The Shawshank Redemption, Dead Man Walking, Mrs. Soffel, Minority Report, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Limited to 15 students. Spring semester. Professor Sarat.2015-16: Offered in Spring 2016
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015
372 Culture and Politics in 20th-Century Europe
(Offered as POSC 372 [CP, IR] and EUST 372.) This seminar discusses political ideas, ideologies and political culture in 20th-century Europe. Some themes are Nationalism; Marxism, Socialism and Communism; Fascism; anti-Semitism; Existentialism; the "Century of Total War"; the year 1968; Pope John Paul II; Soccer Hooliganism; "The Idea of Europe," and the question of whether there is a "European identity." Throughout the course, ideas are connected to historical context. The syllabus is a mix of books and films.
Preference to Political Science and European Studies majors, and juniors and seniors. Limited to 20 students. Omitted 2011-2012. Professor Tiersky.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
387 Political Thought and Statecraft of Abraham Lincoln
[LP, PT] This seminar will study the statesmanship of Lincoln, and it will weave together two strands, which accord with different parts in the understanding of the statesman. First, there is the understanding of the ends of political life and the grounds of moral judgment. Here, we would consider Lincoln's reflection on the character of the American republic, the principles that mark a lawful regime, and the crisis of principle posed in "the house divided." But second, there is the understanding drawn from the actual experience of politics, the understanding that informs the prudence of the political man as he seeks to gain his ends, or apply his principles, in a party. The main materials will be supplied by the writings of Lincoln: the speeches, the extended debates with Stephen Douglas, the presidential messages and papers of State. The problem of his statesmanship will be carried over then to his exercise of the war powers, his direction of the military, and his conduct of diplomacy. This course fulfills the requirement of an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Requisite: One of the POSC 212, 218, 241, 242. Limited to 25 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Arkes.2015-16: Not offered
410 International Relations and Foreign-Policy Theories
There is an extremely wide variety of ways to study a subject as diverse, complex and fascinating as the U.S. foreign policy. The scope of the subject is vast and the literature is enormous. Although the current trend in the academy is towards the erosion of methodological boundaries both between subfields of political science and political science as a whole and other social science disciplines, the dominant foreign policy theories still tend to concentrate primarily on state-to-state relations and/or on the ability of statesmen and decision-making elites to understand the exigencies of international relations. The main objective of this course is to critically examine the strength and weakness of these dominant foreign policy theories by exposing them to the trends in the relevant areas of contemporary social science.
Admission with consent of the instructor. Not open to first-year students. Limited to 15 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Machala.2015-16: Not offered
413 The Political Theory of Globalization
[IR, PT] "Globalization" can mean many things. To some, it means equal integration of individual societies into worldwide political, economic and cultural processes. To others it means accentuated uneven economic development, accompanied by cultural imperialism, which merely exaggerates the political dependence of "peripheral" on "core" societies. For still others, globalization is shorthand for the social and cultural changes that follow when societies become linked with and, in an escalating way, dependent upon the world capitalist market. The idea that underlies these multiple meanings of globalization is the radical intensification of worldwide social relations and the lifting of social activities out of local and national conditions. The course will examine the major theoretical discourses raised by this idea, such as (1) the effect of globalizing material production on the formation of post-liberal democracy, (2) the nexus between globalizing cultural production and the politics of cosmopolitanism and "otherness," (3) the impact of globalizing communication technologies and mass consumerism on the formation of transnational "gated class communities," and (4) the relationship between the globalization of transnational class conflicts/interests/identities and transnational governance. We will also explore the connection between "late global capitalism" and liberal arts education in legitimizing the current global class dynamics. This course fulfills the requirement of an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Requisite: Two courses--one from each cluster or their equivalent: (a) POSC 213, 232, 244, 312, 320, 332, 345, 468, and 489. Limited to 20 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Machala2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2009, Spring 2013
415 Taking Marx Seriously
[PT] Should Marx be given yet another chance? Is there anything left to gain by returning to texts whose earnest exegesis has occupied countless interpreters, both friendly and hostile, for generations? Has Marx's credibility survived the global debacle of those regimes and movements which drew inspiration from his work, however poorly they understood it? Or, conversely, have we entered a new era in which post-Marxism has joined a host of other "post-"phenomena? This seminar will deal with these and related questions in the context of a close and critical reading of Marx's texts. The main themes we will discuss include Marx's conception of capitalist modernity, material and intellectual production, power, class conflicts and social consciousness, and his critique of alienation, bourgeois freedom and representative democracy. We will also examine Marx's theories of historical progress, capitalist exploitation, globalization and human emancipation. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Requisite: Two of POSC 213, 413, 480. Limited to 15 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Machala.2015-16: Offered in Fall 2015
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2013
468 Globalization, Social Movements and Human Rights
(Offered as POSC 468 [CP, IR] and WAGS 468.) This seminar will explore the changing trajectories of social movements amidst economic, political and cultural globalization. Social movements have organized in opposition to the environmental destruction, increased class inequalities and diminished accountability of nation states that have often accompanied the global spread of capitalism. Globalization from above has given rise to globalization from below as activists have organized transnationally, employing new technologies of communication and appealing to universal human rights. However, in organizing transnationally and appealing to universal principles, activists may find their energies displaced from local to transnational arenas, from substantive to procedural inequalities, and from grass roots activism to routinized activity within the judicial process. We will consider the extent to which globalization heightens divisions between universalistic and particularistic movements or contributes to the creation of a global civil society which can protect and extend human rights. We will examine women's movements, environmental movements, and democracy movements in several regions of the world. This course fulfills the requirement of an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Requisite: One of POSC 213, 320, 311, 248, 413, or 474. Limited to 25 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Basu.2015-16: Not offered
474 Norms, Rights, and Social Justice: Feminists, Disability Rights Activists and the Poor at the Boundaries of the Law
(Offered as POSC 474 [GP, LP] and LJST 374.) This seminar explores how the civil rights movement began a process of social change and identity-based activism. We evaluate the successes and failures of "excluded" groups' efforts to use the law. We primarily focus on the recent scholarship of theorists, legal professionals, and activists to define "post-identity politics" strategies and to counteract the social processes that "normalize" persons on the basis of gender, sexuality, disability, and class. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Requisite: One introductory Political Science course or its equivalent. Limited to 15 students. Fall semester. Professor Bumiller.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
475 Problems of International Politics
[CP, IR] The topic until further notice will be "Gorbachev, the End of the Cold War and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." When Mikhail Gorbachev became its leader in 1985, the Soviet Union, while plagued by internal and external troubles, was still one of the world's two superpowers. By 1991, the cold war was over, and on the day he left the Kremlin for the last time, December 25, 1991, the USSR ceased to exist. Of course, Gorbachev was not solely responsible for this upheaval. Developments in the USSR and the world prepared the way. But he set decisive change in motion, and no one else in the Soviet leadership would have done so. This course is therefore a case study of the impact of personality on politics, but also of the limits of that impact, and of the importance of other causes (economic, political, social, ideological, international) of events that changed the world. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Admission with consent of the instructor. Limited to 20 students. Spring semester. Professor Taubman.2015-16: Offered in Spring 2016
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015
479 Seminar on War and Peace
[IR, PT] A conceptual and theoretical study of war and peace. The course is not a history of war or a policy study of wars today. The seminar considers a variety of cases across time and space to examine the causes and consequences of war and the possibilities of peace. Readings range from classical sources to contemporary debates, including Euripides, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Kant, Clausewitz, Sun Tsu, Margaret Mead, Gandhi; K. Waltz, Michael Walzer, and the Geneva Conventions. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Requisite: Students should have some relevant background in the study of international relations, moral aspects of political life and/or international law. Limited to 15 students. Not open to first-year students. Omitted 2011-2012. Professor Tiersky.2015-16: Not offered
480 Contemporary Political Theory
[PT] A consideration of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Western political theory. Topics to be considered include the fate of modernity, identity and difference, power, representation, freedom, and the state. This year's readings may include works by the following authors: Freud, Weber, Benjamin, Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida, Foucault, Berlin, Butler, Connolly, and Agamben. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Limited to 20 students. Spring semester. Professor Dumm.2015-16: Offered in Spring 2016
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013
482 United States Foreign Policy: Democracy and Human Rights
[IR, AP] Is the United States committed to promoting democracy and human rights abroad or just advancing its own strategic and domestic corporate interests? What influence does the United States have on the development of democracy around the world and the emergence of--and compliance with--international human rights conventions, protocols and laws? This seminar begins with an historical overview of American democracy and human rights rhetoric and policies and seeks to uncover the range of political, economic, cultural and geostrategic motivations underlying U.S. behavior. We will then examine American foreign policy responses to a broad range of contemporary human rights and democracy issues with special attention given to analyzing and comparing the post-Cold War state-building efforts in the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Previous course work relating to international relations, American politics or foreign policy, or political theory required. This course fulfills the requirement for advanced seminar in Political Science.
Admission with consent of the instructor. Omitted 2011-12.2015-16: Offered in Fall 2015
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Spring 2011, Fall 2012
484 Seminar on International Politics: Global Resource Politics
[IR] An intensive investigation of new and emerging problems in international peace and security affairs. We will examine such issues as: international terrorism; global resource competition; the security implications of globalization; international migrations; transboundary environmental problems; illegal trafficking in guns, drugs, and people. Participants in the seminar will be required to choose a particular problem for in-depth investigation, entailing a study of the nature and evolution of the problem, the existing international response to it, and proposals for its solution. Students will prepare a major paper on the topic and give an oral presentation to the class on their findings. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Limited to 25 students. Omitted 2011-12.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2010, Spring 2013
485 States of Poverty
(Offered as POSC 485 [AP, GP] and WAGS 485.) In this course the students will examine the role of the modern welfare state in people's everyday lives. We will study the historical growth and retrenchment of the modern welfare state in the United States and other Western democracies. The course will critically examine the ideologies of "dependency" and the role of the state as an agent of social control. In particular, we will study the ways in which state action has implications for gender identities. In this course we will analyze the construction of social problems linked to states of poverty, including hunger, homelessness, health care, disability, discrimination, and violence. We will ask how these conditions disproportionately affect the lives of women and children. We will take a broad view of the interventions of the welfare state by considering not only the impact of public assistance and social service programs, but the role of the police, family courts, therapeutic professionals, and schools in creating and responding to the conditions of impoverishment. The work of the seminar will culminate in the production of a research paper and students will be given the option of incorporating field work into the independent project. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Requisite: Some previous exposure to background material. Admission with consent of the instructor. Limited to 20 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Bumiller.2015-16: Not offered
486 U.S.-Latin American Relations
[CP, IR] Can small and non-powerful nations ever profit from a relationship with a more powerful hegemon? Who gains and who loses in this type of asymmetrical relationship? This seminar attempts to answer these questions by looking at the relations between the U.S. and Latin American nations. The seminar begins by presenting different ways in which intellectuals have tried to conceptualize and analyze the relations between the U.S. and Latin America. These approaches are then applied to different dimensions of the relationship: (1) intra-hemispheric relations prior to World War II (the sources of U.S. interventionism and the response of Latin America); (2) political and security issues after World War II (the role of the Cold War in the hemisphere and U.S. reaction to instability in the region, with special emphasis on Cuba in the early 1960s, Peru in the late 1960s, Chile in the early 1970s, The Falklands War and Nicaragua in the 1980s); and (3) economic and business issues (the politics of foreign direct investment and trade, and the debt crisis in the 1980s). Finally, we examine contemporary trends: the emerging hemispheric convergence, economic integration, drug trade, immigration, the defense of democracy regime, and the re-emergence of multilateral interventionism. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in political science.
Requisite: POSC 213 or its equivalent. Admission with consent of the instructor. Limited to 15 students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Corrales.2015-16: Offered in Fall 2015
Other years: Offered in Spring 2011, Fall 2013
489 Markets and Democracy in Latin America
[CP, IR] In the 1980s an unprecedented process of change began in Latin America: nations turned toward democracy and the market. This seminar explores the literature on regime and economic change and, at the same time, encourages students to think about ways to study the post-reform period. The seminar begins by looking at the situation prior to the transition: the sources of Latin America's over expanded state, economic decay, political instability, and democratic deficit. The seminar then focuses directly on the processes of transition, paying particular attention to the challenges encountered. It explores, theoretically and empirically, the extent to which democracy and markets are compatible. The seminar then places Latin America's process of change in a global context: comparisons will be drawn with Asian and post-Socialist European cases. The seminar concludes with an overview of current shortcomings of the transition: Latin America's remaining international vulnerability (the Tequila Crisis of 1995 and the Asian Flu of 1997), the rise of crime, drug trade, and neopopulism, the cleavage between nationalists and internationalists, the prospects for further deepening of reforms and the political backlash against reforms in the 2000s. This course fulfills the requirements of an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Requisite: Some background in the economics and politics of developing areas. Limited to 15 students. Not open to first- and second-year students. Omitted 2011-12. Professor Corrales.2015-16: Offered in Spring 2016
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Fall 2010, Spring 2014
490 Special Topics
Fall and spring semesters.2015-16: Offered in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015
498D, 499 Senior Departmental Honors
Totaling three full courses, usually a double course in the fall and one regular course in the spring.
Open to seniors who have satisfied the necessary requirements. Fall semester. The Department.2015-16: Offered in Fall 2015
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
Departmental Courses
106 The State and Violence
This course explores two concepts that conventional political thought conceives as polar and co-constituted limit conditions: state and violence. We will take up two core issues about the state-violence nexus. First, we will engage normative debates over the state as defeating or overcoming violence (liberalism) versus the state as normalizing and deepening violence (anarchism, Marxism, post-structuralism). Second, we will take up empirical trajectories of state practices, especially current discussions about a transition from sovereign to post-sovereign modes of identity, power, and subjectivity. The course combines the comparative and political theory subfields, emphasizing short readings read and discussed closely and critically. This class is introductory but challenging, working generally from nineteenth-century to twenty-first-century authors, including Marx, Mill, Weber, Nietzsche, Elias, Foucault, Habermas, Deleuze, Balibar, Zizek, Mbembe, and others. Requirements include class presence and three critical essays, with an option for one long essay with instructor permission.
Limited to 30 students. Spring semester. Visiting Professor Rudy.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012
401 Fanaticism
[PT] Many perceive a dangerous rise in radically Utopian politics, often described as "fanaticism." Against the backdrop of increased ethnic and nationalist violence, authoritarianism, and declining safeguards for human rights, fanaticism is considered a fundamental impediment to well-functioning democratic politics. Yet, if such a concept is to have the theoretical force policy makers and theorists would like, more clarity is needed regarding what fanaticism is and how it operates. This course examines the history of fanaticism as a political concept. In particular, we will explore theoretical critiques of fanaticism, especially as the concept developed in relation to the history of liberal democracy. The first half of the course explores the emergence of fanaticism as a political--not merely as a religious--idea. Engaging Enlightenment debates on civil society, toleration, and public passions, this section of the course should highlight how fanaticism came to be re-conceived in modern political thought. Here we will explore the traditionally perceived dangers of fanaticism to democratic politics. The second half of the course questions the conceptual costs of this redefinition. Who are political fanatics? What are the political (and psychological) consequences to us in labeling others as fanatics? How might we distinguish between fundamentalism and fanaticism? Is fanaticism necessary to define the extant parameters of toleration or civil society? Is fanaticism always dangerous to democratic politics? Ultimately, this inquiry into the genealogy of fanaticism is designed to test our assumptions about what fanaticism is as a political idea and how it operates in contemporary political thought.
Limited to 25 students. Spring semester. Visiting Professor Poe.2015-16: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015
Related Courses
LJST-120 Murder (Course not offered this year.)


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Soil & Groundwater Companies in Slovenia
ETS (Worldwide) Ltd
based in Helensburgh, UNITED KINGDOM
The provision to the public and private sectors of particulate and fluid tracer monitoring, analysis, associated scientific data collection and project management. We service industrial, marine, wastewater, potable water and environmental clients. ETS Ltd is an independent scientific service provider, specializing in the use of our unique patented Particle Tracing System.
Splainex Ecosystems Ltd
based in Rijswijk, NETHERLANDS
Splainex: industrial implementation of the efficient pyrolysis technology. Multiple references of commercial plants, some of them in operations for more than 20 years. The systems operating on industrial scale convert waste materials (plastics, tyres, municipal solid waste, etc) back into useful and lucrative products without adverse emissions, discharges, or negative ...
HK Instrument Systems
based in Pittsburgh, PENNSYLVANIA (USA)
We are experts in the field of process measurement techniques. We provide the development and manufacturing of progressive and advanced instruments at a state of the art level. High performance, high accuracy, high manufacturing quality and easy availability of the measurement equipment have made us the leader in the supply of process measurement technology.
Burnham Environmental Services Ltd.
based in Burnham on Sea., UNITED KINGDOM
Designers and manufacturers of environmentally-friendly sewage treatment plants to modern standards, for all applications where no mains drainage is available. Single Houses, Small Settlements, Rural Industrial Units, Pubs and Hotels, Golf Clubs, Offices, Residential Homes and Caravan Sites. A modern replacement of the traditional septic tank. Air is blown into the ...
Environmental Source Samplers, Inc.
based in Wilmington, NORTH CAROLINA (USA)
Environmental Source Samplers, Inc. (ESS) has a long and proven track record. We have been providing air quality related services since 1979. Headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, ESS has provided stack testing services in most of the fifty states and internationally. ESS serves clients in many industries including: Aluminum, Asphalt, Automobile, Carbon, ...
Fazzini Meccanica
based in Pedemonte, ITALY
Company dedicated to special machines design and production in the waste treatment sector. Bag openers, sorting equipment, shredders and compactors.
Robotics Design Inc.
based in Montreal, QUEBEC (CANADA)
Robotics Design Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of industrial modular robots. Since our founding in 1997, Robotics Design Inc. has been devoted to provide innovative products of the highest quality that help our clients perform their work faster, better, and at a lower cost. Our products for the HVAC cleaning and inspection industry include: the ANATROLLER ARI-100 ...
Energy Recovery Associates
based in Avon, CONNECTICUT (USA)
The Energy Recovery Associates team, (ERA), designs, manufactures, installs, and operates solutions that convert waste gases in to profits. PurGest, our Trademarked, Patent Pending gas conditioning system, economically cleans Hydrogen Sulfide, and Siloxanes from fuel gases including digester gas, landfill gas, and other waste gases. These PurGest Systems can be provided ...
based in Cagliari, ITALY
Environmental remediation using Geochemical Engineering with mineral reagents
fibrisTerre GmbH
based in Berlin, GERMANY
fibrisTerre monitoring systems aims to detect pipe leaks first when it happens, thereby allowing pipeline operators to response promptly. Though continuously monitoring temperature and strain along entire pipelines, the system can detect even small pipeline leakage and narrow the leakage location down to as accurate as one meter.

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Why is everyone going to the moon?Tim Radford: Because it's there, because it could answer questions about Earth history, because it represents unfinished business for Nasa, the US space agency, and because it could be a rehearsal for a manned mission to Mars.
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Too much to bear
Joanne Coombs apparently killed herself just a few weeks after the death of her only child, 17-year-old Natasha. Barbara Anderson, who also lost a young daughter, knows all about the guilt and fury.
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A bitter pill for slimmers?
A new American over-the-counter slimming pill is selling fast, despite some unpleasant side-effects that include bloating, gas and 'leakage'. Deborah Cohen asks if we should be looking forward to its arrival over here.
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The online workout
Fitness questions are sometimes embarrassing and you can't always find the answers in books. So what's on the internet? Andy Darling investigates.
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Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
"I guess you must be in the mafia," Rick whispered. "Er, no." "But this is a John Grisham book and we're in Italy." "I see what you mean," Sam smiled. "But it's not that type of story. He's writing something homier and cuter this time."
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Mawkish masterpieces
Millais' lurid colours and trite rhetoric have been despised by critics for years. But underneath all that, says Jonathan Jones, lies a startling emotional truth.


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Neo4j Fundamentals – Seattle
- Science & Technology
- 10604 Ne 38th Place, Suite 118, Kirkland, Washington, 98033
Graph Data Modeling with Neo4j - Austin
Friday, February 14, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CST)
Course Name: Graph Data Modeling with Neo4j
Duration: 8-hours/1 day
Skill Level: Intermediate
Delivery Type: Classroom delivery with instructor
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Course Description
This course teaches how to design and implement a graph data model and associated queries. With a mixture of instruction and hands-on practice sessions, you'll learn how to apply the property graph model to solve common modeling problems. You'll also learn how to evolve an existing graph in a controlled manner to support new or changed requirements.
Course Outline
Technical requirements
You will need your own laptop. Please arrive early to quickly install the product and labs used in the class.
Kenny Bastani, Neo Technology
Kenny Bastani is an accomplished software development consultant and entrepreneur, offering 10+ years of industry experience as a front-end and back-end engineer with demonstrated leadership in designing and developing enterprise-grade web applications for high-volume, high-availability environments. As both an entrepreneur and software designer based in the SF Bay Area, Kenny has gained valuable experience leading teams in both product design and software architecture, in addition to filling multiple development roles when delivering cutting-edge custom web applications to fortune 500 clients.
What should I bring to the event?
Please bring a laptop and power cord; we will supply coffee and lunch.
Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
For any questions about the event, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
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Roquefort Cheese Pate With Celeriac
|1⁄2 Pound, peeled and sliced (225 Gram)
|Cream cheese
|4 Ounce (100 Gram)
|Roquefort cheese
|1⁄2 Pound (225 Gram)
|1 1⁄2 Pinch, grated (Good Pinch)
|Celery seeds
|1 1⁄2 Pinch, grated (Good Pinch)
|Black pepper
|To Taste, freshly ground
|Sea salt
|1 Teaspoon
|Parsley/Coriander leaves
|1 Tablespoon, freshly chopped
|Ruby port
|3 Fluid Ounce (90 Milliliter)
1. Prepare a large pot and fill it with water. Set on the boil
2. Boil the celeriac in the pot for 10 minutes or till just soft
3. Drain the celeriac
4. Set a sieve over a bowl and pass the celeriac through the sieve till you have a smooth paste
5. In a large bowl, mix the hot puree with the cream cheese and the Roquefort.
6. Reheat to bubbling point
7. Pass the mixture through a sieve again for a smooth paste
8. Let it cool
9. Season the mixture with salt and pepper
10. Blend in the chopped parsley.
11. Add the port and mix well
12. Serve in individual ramekins or bowls.
13. Garnish with celery and serve with hot wholemeal toast.
Instead of repeated sieving, the potatoes and cream cheese can be blended in a food processor.


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Bio: Born in the high desert country of New Mexico, Florence loved exploring the wilderness on foot and horseback. Those grandiose landscapes formed her sensibility. Hidden pockets of unexpected greenery tucked away near springs in folds of barren mountainsides spoke to her of gentleness and beauty in an otherwise harsh world. She published her first poem in a children's magazine shortly after she learned to read at age four; wrote her first 'novel' at age six, entitled Ywain, King of All Cats. She illustrated the 'book' herself.
Before settling in San Antonio, Texas, she traveled extensively as an army brat during World War II. With her husband the brilliant scholar and teacher, Kurt Weinberg, she worked and traveled in Canada, Germany, France, and Spain. After earning her PhD, she taught for twenty- two years at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY, and for ten at Trinity University in San Antonio. She published four scholarly books, many articles and book reviews, doing research in the U.S. and abroad.
When, after retiring in 1999, she was freed from academe to devote herself to writing fiction, she produced eight novels, ranging from fantasy to historical romance and mystery. Three are in print as well as one in press: a historical romance about the French Renaissance, published in France in French translation, and two historical mysteries, starring the eighteenth-century Jesuit missionary Fr. Ignaz (Ygnacio) Pfefferkorn, two set in the Sonora Desert and one in an ancient monastery in Spain.
Her favorite animals are horses?an intense love affair over many years?and cats, her constant companions. She enjoys music, traveling, hiking, biking, gardening, and swimming.


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I am not sure if anybody can fix this, surely I can not be the only one having this issue.?
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Isa 2006 server with Remote Backup Exec 12 agent intalled is not visible in Console
All the latest frimware,software and patches are installed.
I have tried the following: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/556069 but it is not working yet. Any ideas?
1. Media Server must be configured to use Dynamic Port Range from 10000 - 10025
2. Create Ports and Protocol using ISA Protocol tab in right pane. ISA Server must be configured to allow traffic from ISA to Media Server for the aforementioned Port Range.
3. Firewall Client Installation must be enabled on ISA Server.
4. Kill any duplicate process if it is running in the Process Tab of Task Manager.
What happens if you stop the firewall service on the ISA machine. Does the console see the agent then? That will confirm a firewall rule being the problem.
You could create a rule which allows all protocol access to and from the ISA server to the backup server (probably not the most secure solution)
One other thing, installing the firewall client on the ISA server will not help, infact will probably cause all sorts of problems. Installing the firewall client on the backupserver should not be required.
Also use the monitoring tab within the ISA server console while using the Backupexec console. You will probably see what traffic is being blocked from the backupserver


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Learn more about JBL Tempo High-Performance Earbud Headphones (Black) - 2 PACK:
This bundle is a 2 pack containing 2 sets of JBL Tempo In-Ear Ear Buds.
High-performance drivers
From the in-ear 9mm to the ear bud 15mm and onto the on-ear 40mm, Tempo headphone drivers generate an outstanding frequency range of 20Hz to 20kHz. The resulting response is clear, powerful JBL sound with exceptional bass and smooth vocals.
Foam cushions
A pair of foam cushions are included with the JBL Tempo ear buds. These cushions enhance comfort, which can let you listen longer without fatigue.
JBL carrying pouch
Award-winning sound is worth protecting. All JBL Tempo headphones come with protective carrying pouches, which can also keep foam cushions from getting lost.
Customer Reviews of JBL Tempo High-Performance Earbud Headphones (Black) - 2 PACK
Good buds for the price12/27/2012
Since purchasing a pair of JBL L100s for my stereo in 1978, I have always trusted JBL speakers for performance and quality, even little ones. These are no exception. For inexpensive earbuds, they have a great, well-balanced, solid sound, and I listen to classic rock (Led Zeppelin, Stones, etc.). The music quality, high and lows, sound great, and there's no muddiness. Very good bang for the buck. I hope they hold up like my L100s have.
Excellent earbuds for the price12/27/2012
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Order came on time and was exactly as promised.
JBL Ear Buds12/27/2012
These ear buds sound great. I use the to play the mp3's stored on my phone. The cord is just the right length for the phone being in your pocket or on a waist holder.


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Watch Out Flakka, DEA Says Heroin Is Making Comeback
The synthetic drug flakka has dominated headlines in South Florida. From mother abandoning her baby to a man impaled on a fence, all you hear about is flakka, flakka, flakka. But a well-known drug is making a comeback and the Drug Enforcement Agency is worried.
Fla. Men Accused Of Forcing Female Prisoners Into Prostitution
A central Florida man and his two associates allegedly recruited women inmates and used them as prostitutes once they were released from prison.
Focus on South Florida: Heroin Epidemic
The sudden death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has put the spotlight back on what some say is a growing heroin epidemic in this country. Michele focuses on that with a local substance abuse counselor.
NY Police: Hoffman's Heroin Didn't Have Additive Linked To Overdose Deaths
Heroin recovered at Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's New York City apartment after he was found there dead with a syringe in his arm has tested negative for the powerful additive fentanyl.
Heroin Use On The Rise In South Florida
When renowned actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York apartment Sunday, he reportedly had a syringe in his arm and dozens of envelopes of what is believed to be heroin in his home.
Glee Star Died Of Heroin & Alcohol Overdose
A coroner says 'Glee' actor Cory Monteith died of an overdose of heroin and alcohol.
Focus on South Florida: The New Addicts
Heroin addictions and deaths are on the rise in Florida, the unintended consequence of the government crackdown on pill mills. Michele discusses the problem with a former heroin addict and the community liaison for "Acceptance House", a detox and rehab facility in South Florida.
Dangerous Drug Creating New Addicts
There is a new epidemic of people who have been addicted to opium pills switching over to another dangerous drug which has gotten easier and cheaper to acquire.
Wealthy SoBe Hotelier & Lohan Pal Busted For Drugs At FLL
A multimillionaire South Beach hotelier and close friend of Lindsay Lohan was arrested at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport on Tuesday.
Fla. Officials: Pill Mills Fleeing For Ga., So We're Winning
The state's crackdown on pill mill operations has led to the same types of clinics popping up in Georgia. The presence of painkillers and prescription drugs in the deceased declined in Florida last year, prompting state officials to declare victory.


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New Vision (Kampala)
Government-owned daily and Sunday newspaper
Website: http://www.newvision.co.ug/
October 14, 2013
Uganda: IGAD Ministers Arrive for Karamoja Meet
Ministers from Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan are in Kampala for a high-level meeting on Karamoja to be held today Monday. Read more »
October 03, 2013
Uganda: Uganda to Deport Ethiopian Over Illegal Entry
Court in Gulu has preferred a charge of illegal entry into the county against an Ethiopian national, who was arrested from Gulu last week. Read more »
August 20, 2013
Africa: Several African Leaders in Addis for Zenawi Memorial
Several African leaders and high-level delegations from Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Kenya, South Africa, South Sudan and Djibouti are also expected this morning in the... Read more »
July 03, 2013
Uganda: VP Ssekandi in Addis Ababa for Hunger Summit
The Vice-President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi has urged African leaders to work towards a unified concerted approach against hunger on the continent saying a hunger free Africa is... Read more »
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Special Broadcast: IBM Notes and Domino Social Edition Preview and Announcement, November 13
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Calling all IBM Lotus Notes and Domino customers, Business Partners and developers! Join IBM on November 13 at 10am Eastern Time US for an important series of announcements and previews.
IBM Business Partners, this call is for you and your clients. Together you can learn how your clients' investments in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino today position them better than any other platform for creating a smarter workforce.
We will have an important announcement for our new beta program and hear about updated product roadmaps for IBM Notes and Domino Social Edition and beyond that demonstrate IBM's strong commitment to the Lotus Notes and Domino platform.
Speakers include Ed Brill, Director for Social Business and Collaboration Solutions, IBM; Scott Souder, Program Director for Notes, iNotes and IBM Connections Mail; and Daniel Lieber, Innovative Ideas Unlimited Inc.. Following this call will be a special edition of the IBM Collaboration Solutions monthly community call to discuss what you just heard in more detail. Register for both calls today.
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Ladies, I could use some advice please.
I have a very stressful job, self-employed own/manage a restaurant. While I've found a way around the physical demands of the job, I need some help managing the stress level.
I had some supplier issues this morning and I LOST IT on the ladies, seriously. Normally, I would have been upset, but emotions are much higher and lower for me since pregnant. DH says to just not care so much about things. I have no idea how that is supposed to happen. But I know I need to chill out for the sake of our peanut.
I can't have a glass of wine or go for a bike ride or sit in the hot tub. I just sit here, fuming, and making myself more nauseous.
Any helpful thoughts?