States, Regimes & Contentious Politics

This introductory comparative politics course addresses the sources of order and disorder in modern states. In the first part of the course, students consider how political order is built and maintained in different ways through a variety of institutions, rules, and policies that serve to regulate conflict both among citizens of contemporary states, and between citizens and rulers. The second part of the course looks at challenges to state order, including non-violent protest, civil war, and revolution. A sample syllabus is available here.