INTL 489 - Senior Seminar: Paradigms of World Order

The end of the Cold War eliminated a large divide in international society. However, the initial astonishments of this event now give way to arguments about the nature and direction of transnational life. For some, the situation is seen as the disappearance of an aberration, and the return of the “natural” processes of Western modernization and progress, guaranteed by free markets and liberal democracy. Others read the changes as the unveiling of a deeper, more complicated divide, requiring fundamental rethinking as well as reconstitution of world order. Through various readings, this senior seminar interrogates these and other interpretations of the interregnum and their correlative visions. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)