How does the international community try to establish and maintain peace? This course explores the ways in which international actors try to establish and maintain peace. It focuses on peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and international intervention more broadly. Throughout the course we will cover topics in the peacekeeping and peacebuilding fields such as what peace is, how conceptions of peace differ at the international versus the local level, by which avenues the international community tries to maintain peace, the conditions under which international peacekeeping and peacebuilding are effective, and the unintended consequences of international action. We will explore militarized and non-militarized international interventions, their development since the conception of peacekeeping and policy critiques against and in favor of international intervention as a means of maintaining peace.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 25

Crosslisted Courses:

Prerequisites: POL3 221

Distribution Requirements: SBA - Social and Behavioral Analysis

Typical Periods Offered: Spring

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Not Offered

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