Free online coursePower and politics

Conteúdo do Curso

• Video class: Lecture 1: Introduction to Power and Politics in Today’s World

  0h56m

• Exercise: _What is the main topic of the DeVane Lectures?

• Video class: Lecture 2: From Soviet Communism to Russian Gangster Capitalism

  1h10m

• Exercise: _What was the reason behind the coup d'etat that removed Mikhail Gorbachev from power in August of 1991?

• Video class: Lecture 3: Advent of a Unipolar World: NATO and EU Expansion

  1h13m

• Video class: Lecture 4: Fusing Capitalist Economics with Communist Politics: China and Vietnam

  1h12m

• Exercise: _What is the sequencing debate of political and economic reform in China?

• Video class: Lecture 5: The Resurgent Right in the West

  1h13m

• Exercise: _What was the postwar consensus that prevailed in most capitalist democracies since the 1950s?

• Video class: Lecture 6: Reorienting the Left: New Democrats, New Labour, and Europe’s Social Democrats

  1h10m

• Exercise: _According to Tony Benn, what is the main problem with the so-called entrepreneurial society in Britain?

• Video class: Lecture 7: Shifting Goalposts: The Anti-Tax Movement

  1h17m

• Video class: Lecture 8: Privatizing Government I: Utilities, Eminent Domain, and Local Government

  1h14m

• Video class: Lecture 9: Privatizing Government II: Prisons and the Military

  1h16m

• Exercise: _What is the central focus of the lecture on privatization of core government functions?

• Video class: Lecture 10: Money in Politics

  1h09m

• Exercise: _What was Barack Obama's concern about the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision?

• Video class: Lecture 11: Democracy’s Fourth Wave? South Africa, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East

  1h14m

• Exercise: _What is the concept of waves of democracy according to Samuel Huntington's book "The Third Wave"?

• Video class: Lecture 12: Business and Democratic Reform: A Case Study of South Africa

  1h11m

• Video class: Lecture 13: The International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect

  1h11m

• Exercise: _What event led to the development of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine?

• Video class: Lecture 14: 9/11 and the Global War on Terror

  1h11m

• Video class: Lecture 15: Demise of the Neoconservative Dream From Afghanistan to Iraq

  1h07m

• Video class: Lecture 16: Denouement of Humanitarian Intervention

  1h17m

• Exercise: _What is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and what are its notable features?

• Video class: Lecture 17: Filling the Void - China in Africa

  1h15m

• Exercise: _What is Christina Seyfried's dissertation about?

• Video class: Lecture 18: Political Limits of Business: The Israel-Palestine Case

  1h13m

• Video class: Lecture 19: Crisis, Crash, and Response

  1h16m

• Exercise: _What happened to Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch during the financial crisis of 2008?

• Video class: Lecture 20: Fallout: The Housing Crisis and its Aftermath

  1h16m

• Exercise: _What was President Clinton's stance on home ownership in 1995?