Social Science Postgraduate Degrees

...students practice reading work critically, and thinking through the difficulties of social science research, in preparation for individual research projects... Learn about: Social Science, American Politics...

...ways of studying congressional behavior? This course focuses on both the internal processes of the House and Senate, and on the place of Congress in...

...political parties, relations with other branches of the Federal government, and elections. Graduate students are expected to pursue the subject in greater...

...First is the nature and extent of class discussion and participation (40% of final grade). Second is a choice of: Decision to be made by week 3 and no later than week...

...To explore these important questions in China's international relations, this seminar examines the evolution of Chinese strategic thought, in primary sources... Learn about: International Relations, Crisis Management, Foreign Policy...

...2 hours / session The permission of the instructor is required to take this seminar. This graduate seminar examines the main theoretical and methodological... Learn about: International Relations, Foreign Policy...

...and on the implications of flows of goods and services across national boundaries – with special attention to the issue of migration, on the assumption... Learn about: International Relations...

...further study in the department's more specialized offerings in international relations. Seminars: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session MIT master's students... Learn about: International Relations...

...It also presents a discussion of connections between theories of international relations and major changes in international relations. Lectures... Learn about: International Relations...

...and dilemmas shaped by the macro-level consequences of micro-level behavior, and by micro-level adjustments to macro-level influences. Lectures...

...to identify the welfare effects, distributional consequences, and security implication of foreign economic policy decisions, and to use the tools of political... Learn about: Political Science, International Relations, Political Parties...

..."how could they be tested?" Basic social scientific inference - what are theories? What are good theories? How should theories be framed and tested?...

...sources of conflict and cooperation in both periods, assessing competing explanations for key events in East Asia's international relations... Learn about: International Relations, Political Science, World Politics...

...the causes and consequences of American foreign policy since 1898. Course readings cover both substantive and methods topics. Four substantive topics are covered... Learn about: Foreign Policy...

...This course will examine why territorial conflicts arise in the first place, why some of these conflicts escalate to high levels of violence and why other... Learn about: Political Science, Political Geography, International Relations...

...Theories examined include realism and neorealism, institutionalism and liberalism, constructivism, and systems theory and lateral pressure. The course... Learn about: International Relations...

...concerns to incorporate "nature". Two general thrusts of climate-politics connections are pursued, namely those related to (a) conflict – focusing on threats... Learn about: International Politics, Climate Change...

...Topics include legacies of the 20th-century creation of cyberspace, changes to the international system structure, and new modes of conflict and cooperation... Learn about: International Relations...

...The class stresses development of new theory. Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session This joint seminar elaborates upon classical organizational...

...Three, it uses the empirical study of military innovations as a way to examine the strength and credibility of hypotheses that organization theorists...