This class examines the strategy and politics of warfare, focusing on the way actors plan military campaigns and the factors that are likely to lead to victory and defeat. The course readings center in particular on the factors driving changes in warfare and civil-military relations. The course will cover a wide range of topics from theories of war-fighting to historical military campaigns to insurgency warfare, terrorism, and the future of war.

This class examines the strategy and politics of warfare, focusing on the way actors plan military campaigns and the factors that are likely to lead to victory and defeat. The course readings center in particular on the factors driving changes in warfare and civil-military relations. The course will cover a wide range of topics from theories of war-fighting to historical military campaigns to insurgency warfare, terrorism, and the future of war.

Are ordinary Americans polarized? What about political elites? Is there any connection between mass and elite polarization? What do we even mean when we say some group is "polarized"? This class will explore these questions in some detail, and try to sort out all of the discussions about polarizations, red states and blue states, and the like.

This course provides a comparison of politics in the fifty states, examines changing federal-state relations, and provides students with an understanding of theories of federalism.

This course provides a comparison of politics in the fifty states, examines changing federal-state relations, and provides students with an understanding of theories of federalism.

This course provides a comparison of politics in the fifty states, examines changing federal-state relations, and provides students with an understanding of theories of federalism.

This course provides a comparison of politics in the fifty states, examines changing federal-state relations, and provides students with an understanding of theories of federalism.

This course provides a comparison of politics in the fifty states, examines changing federal-state relations, and provides students with an understanding of theories of federalism.

This course provides a comparison of politics in the fifty states, examines changing federal-state relations, and provides students with an understanding of theories of federalism.