Communicating and Negotiating in a Global Context (COMM E-140)

NOT OFFERED 2011-2012
FALL and SPRING
Instructor:
Marya Dantzer

To communicate effectively in global or multicultural business settings, managers or negotiators must interpret not only words but also worldviews. Students in this course learn to recognize the important, yet often implicit, assumptions that govern business dealings in a variety of countries … Read More 

Seminar on Peace Operations (ILO L224)
FLETCHER SCHOOL

FALL 2012
Instructor:
Ian Johnstone
Fletcher School
617-627-4172
ian.johnstone@tufts.edu

Enthusiasm for peacekeeping has waxed and waned in recent years, from exuberance in the early 1990s to disappointment and disinterest in the mid-90s, back to cautious enthusiasm at the end of the decade, to what is now almost universal recognition that peace operations are an important … Read More 

Seminar on International Mediation (DHP D 221)
FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY

NOT OFFERED FALL 2012
Eileen Babbitt
Fletcher School
617-627-3796

This seminar focuses on the role and functions provided by mediators in the international arena. Mediation is located within the broader family of international intervention approaches, as practiced by individuals, international and transnational organizations, small and large states, and … Read More 

Seminar on Crisis Management and Complex Emergencies (P 245)
FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY

FALL 2012
Instructor:
Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
Fletcher School
617-627-2738

Consideration of crisis management in theory and practice, drawing from the period since World War II and selected earlier crises as well as the post-9/11 world; attacks of September 11, 2001; theories of crisis prevention, escalation, management, … Read More 

Processes of International Negotiation (DHP D 220)
FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY

FALL 2012

Instructors:
Eileen Babbitt (Sec. A)
617-627-3796
Diana Chigas (Sec. B)
(617) 627-5870
Nadim Rouhana (Sec. C)
(617) 627-5451
Jeswald Salacuse (Sec. D)
(617) 627-3633

This course explores the processes, rather than specific substantive issues, of international negotiation. Using exercises and simulations, it examines the nature of conflict in the international arena; the … Read More 

Politics and Processes of Reconciliation: Transitional Justice and Multicultural Citizenships (DHP D229)

FLETCHER SCHOOL

SPRING

Instructor:
Nadim Rouhana

[Description not yet available] (Tuesday 5:30-7:30 p.m.)
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International Treaty Behavior: A Perspective on Globalization (ILO L209)
FLETCHER SCHOOL

FALL
Instructor:
Antonia Handler Chayes
617-627-3582

This seminar examines treaty behavior over a broad spectrum of subject areas—including security, environment, trade and human rights. Approaches to international agreements affect economic, security and foreign policy in this interdependent world. The seminar examines IL and IR theories of … Read More 

International Relations: Theory and Practice (DHP P 200)
FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY

FALL 2012

Instructor:
Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
Fletcher School
Tufts University
617-627-2738

Traditional, behavioral, and post-behavioral theories of international relations, and the nature of theory in international relations; the role of normative theory; levels of analysis, structure-agent relationships, and concepts of foreign policy behavior and decision making; utopian/neo-liberal and … Read More 

International Environmental Negotiations
FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY (DHP P231)
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (DUSP 11.364)

NOT OFFERED 2012-2013

Global environmental policy concerns (e.g., climate change, ozone depletion, deforestation, acid rain, ocean dumping, desertification, fisheries decline, biodiversity, and forest loss) have become increasingly important in international relations. This seminar looks at the problems of achieving development while maintaining … Read More 

Humanitarian Action in Complex Emergencies (DHP D230)
FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY

FALL 2012
Instructor:
Daniel Maxwell
617-627-3410

This course examines the evolution of the humanitarian action in relation to changes in the operating environment and changes in the international system. This multi-disciplinary course will cover a broad range of subjects, and addresses a number of topics:
• A historical perspective on … Read More