DESCRIPTION: The course is designed to provide a strong theoretical survey of the literature in international politics for graduate students, with wide ranging topical and empirical illustrations. Major theoretical schools of international relations developed in the course include Classical and Structural Realism, Neoliberal Institutionalism, Gramscian and World Systems Theoretic Marxism, Grotian perspectives and the English School, and Constructivism are analytical schools of thought that will be explored in detail. The course focuses topically on three major sub-disciplines of international relations: international organization / global governance, international political economy, and international security studies,