88-414 International and Subnational Security
9 units, Carnegie Mellon University
The course explores various international and domestic security challenges that contemporary states face. Specifically, the course will survey the most recent research in political science that addresses the questions of why states choose to enter violent conflicts as opposed to settling disputes peacefully, how states may improve their security in the international arena, and how states may improve their security in the domestic environment. We will focus in depth on the bargaining explanations for war, democratic/regime similarity/capitalist peace, deterrence, interdependence, insurgency, and terrorism. The course draws heavily upon research that employs game theoretic and computational models to develop logical arguments about political events and statistical analysis to test whether empirical reality follows the outlined theoretical predictions. The course will provide solid training in graphical literacy. Students will evaluate table-form output from statistical analysis, interpret graphical output, and receive a notion of game theoretic and computational models.
Prerequisites: none listed
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