War and Society in World Politics
Term:
Spring 2012
Subject Code:
GPOL
Course Number:
6460
Violent conflict is a generative force
in world politics. Warfare shapes, and is shaped by, the societies, cultures
and polities that populate world politics. Accordingly, this course considers
the co-constitutive relations between war and politics; war and society; and
war and culture. It conceives the ‘international’ as a ‘thick’ space of social
interaction and transnational relations, and locates violent conflict and its
generative powers amid these flows. The course will consist primarily of
seminar discussions of a set of book length texts to include theoretic,
historical and sociological approaches to war and society. It will range from
the ancient world to the contemporary moment, and will focus largely but not
entirely on warfare between the ‘strong’ and the ‘weak’, or ‘small war’.
This course will be taught by Tarak Barkawi
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