Course Description
Summary
The aim of this course is to use a political economic lens to explore the “inside-outside” connections between violence and struggle within the United States and beyond its borders. To do this, we will examine the political, economic, cultural, and militaristic reach of the United States in the global political economy. We will look at the political economic basis of the US’s invasions, covert interventions, and aid practices, and the internal reverberations of these practices within the US’s borders. Further, we will look to the international dimensions of the civil rights movement. As we undertake this study of theory and history, we can discover the possibilities and perhaps some of the limits of using political economy as a lens for understanding the global interconnectedness of conflict and struggle. The course will be taught as a Socratic seminar.
