POHI 322 Civil Wars
This seminar explores the origins, course, and consequences of modern internecine conflicts and includes analyses of the political ideologies and social dynamics that drove these civil wars. In addition to studying such classic struggles as the American, Russian, and Chinese Civil Wars, we will also consider contemporary civil wars in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Topics include the different categories of civil conflict (coups, peasant insurrections, guerrilla wars), the class, ethnic or ideological rivalries that drive civil wars and the philosophical, legal and political theories that attempt to make sense of intra-state conflict. Non-European field. Seminar. Prerequisites: WRIT 313, Advanced Academic Writing: LSCI 105, Information Theory and Practice, or LSCI 106, Information Sources for Architecture and Interior Design, or LSCI 205, Information in the Disciplines MDST 120, Public Speaking