PSCI 24400 - Politics in Developing Countries

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0

(GLIS, LAST)
POLITICS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES This course examines the main problems confronting developing countries, the political tools and strategies used for addressing them, and their relative success and failure given the constraints of the international economic and political order. The problems of developing countries are examined in the light of modernization, dependency, world system, political-cultural, and institutional theories and approaches, and cases from all the main parts of the developing world. Alternate Years. [C, HSS]