Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Winter Quarter 2013

Scott B. Radnitz
SIS 490
Seattle Campus

Special Topics

Content varies from quarter to quarter.

Class description

This course deals with concepts and theories of state weakness, collapse, and failure. Students will discuss and debate whether state failure is a valid concept, why some states fail and others survive, how order can emerge within anarchy, and how external actors can prevent or reverse state failure. Cases will include Afghanistan, Somalia, and Central Africa, among others.

Student learning goals

General method of instruction

Recommended preparation

Class assignments and grading

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Modified:January 16, 2013