G53.200: International Organizations:   Functions, operation, structure, and accomplishments of the United Nations and the specialized organizations. Emphasis on international organization as an approach to peace.

V50.0273: International Cooperation and the Environment:   Since the end of the Cold War much of the attention of political scientists and economists has shifted from the study of conflict of the study of cooperation and the multilateral institutions that states create in order to implement it.   This course looks at multilateral cooperation in the context of environmental regulation.   Topics include a history of the evolution of several major environmental problems in the 20 th century; the analytic components of what is commonly called the political economy approach to cooperation; the role of domestic politics; the nature and limits of various enforcement strategies; the role of developing and developed states; the determinants of regulatory effectiveness; and the difference between the scientific/environmentalist and economic perspectives on the regulation of the global commons, as revealed in the current debate over Bjorn Lomborg's controversial new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist .

G53.3700: Seminar in International Politics: Required of all Ph.D. candidates majoring in international relations.   General seminar in international politics. The specific topic of the seminar varies, but this is an advanced course requiring extensive background.

V28.0104.001 Collegiate Seminar: The Politics of Human Rights:   This course offers an introduction to the political history of the current international human rights regime, the major sources of prominent contemporary human rights problems, the extent to which major human rights problems are being successfully addressed by the international system and its institutions, and the strategies that are currently being advocated to more effectively reduce the high level of human rights violations. A major emphasis of the course will be on analyzing the political inspirations behind the creation of the human rights regime, the role that politics plays in generating human rights crises, and the political forces that operate to limit the effectiveness of international and regional institutions in addressing human rights problems and the suffering that they create.