POLS 223 - Revolutions and Political Violence

3 Credit(s)

This course focuses on the general conceptions of contentious politics and political violence through an intensive concentration on specific types of political violence, such as social movements, protests, riots, revolutions, and civil wars. Moreover, this course illustrates the interconnectedness between these forms of political violence and how an event can evolve from a nonviolent nature into a violent, protracted civil war. In studying the broad topic of political violence, this class concentrates on issues such as motivation and participation in the varying forms of political violence (who and why); how state institutions respond to these forms of contentious politics; how civil conflicts end; the effects of civil conflict; and the post-civil war environment within the country itself, the surrounding region, and the international system.