Six lectures · Twelve course weeks
Lectures
Each page identifies the lecture's main problem and follows the argument from readings to classroom inquiry. It closes with conclusions students should be able to defend.
- Foundation block
- Weeks 2–4
- Society and futures
- Weeks 10–12
- Lecture format
- Monday · 11:15–13:00
Foundations
The first block introduces the main theoretical traditions and applies them to nuclear proliferation. It then asks whose histories became the discipline's default evidence.
Power, Institutions, and Ideas
Traditional IR theories and the different worlds their assumptions make visible.
Security Dilemmas and Nuclear Proliferation
Deterrence, the NPT, Sagan's three models, and the North Korean case.
Non-Western IR Theory
Universality, Eurocentrism, Asian historical experience, and theory-building beyond the West.
Society and futures
The second block shifts the level of analysis away from states and systems. It examines membership and social dislocation before asking how imagined futures shape politics in the present.
Nation, Race, and Gender
National identity as a political construction whose boundaries can exclude, flatten, or be renegotiated.
Society in a Global Age
Global interconnectedness, political discontent, and economic versus cultural explanations of populism.
Global Politics and the Anthropocene
Ecological politics, technological power, and the distribution of possible futures.