This course provides focused attention on a new topic each semester. Students will be provided with information regarding the topic of the course for the semester prior to the registration period.

This course addresses the reasons for outbreaks in violent intra-state conflicts and the effect of the state’s weakness on these conflicts. It then examines the impact of conflicts on the strength and cohesion of states, the subsequent call for external intervention under the banner of humanitarian assistance or international security, and the political and legal problems posed by such interventions.

This course explores the most critical political and societal developments in the Arab Gulf region beginning with the era of British dominance to the present period. The course focuses on enhancing critical thinking by engaging with academic and intellectual debates in the Arab Gulf.

This course covers theories of international organizations and discuss their roles in promoting peace, security, financial prosperity, human rights, and environmental protection. The course will also highlight various international actors including (but not limited to) the IMF and World Bank, the UN, the EU, NATO, and the WTO, as well as transnational network communities.

This course provides a broad overview of research methodologies in political science and is delivered through a series of lectures, seminars and programming sessions on qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.

This is an English-language course that teaches critical reading and is designed for the study of terminology, texts, concepts, and theories that relate to dominant topics in political science and international relations.

This course addresses Arab contributions to adopting, developing and criticizing modern schools of political thought. It presents some of the major debates examined by Arab scholars in the field.

This seminar addresses the major theories and debates in comparative politics, including studying political systems, revolutions and the process of democratic transition and political development.

This seminar examines the leading theories in international relations and the theoretical debates pertaining to the foundations and transformations of the international system, and the applications of these theories to empirical observations.

This course revisits the core themes of the comparative politics and international relations seminars, relating them to the Arab world and the Middle East as a whole, and adopts a critical approach towards the main theories and their practical application to the region.

This course focuses on democracy and democratic governance as a field of academic and research inquiry. It introduces students to key concepts, debates, and theories of democratic governance and helps them to critically examine the structural, institutional, and ideational factors that explain why and how the democratization process emerges and consolidates.

This course surveys a selection of major works in political theory, placing them in critical conversation with thinkers and social currents in the Middle East and North Africa to facilitate and encourage theoretical connections.

This course focuses on theoretical approaches in analyzing foreign policy. It covers the major theories, concepts, and debates related to foreign policy. It also addresses the processes, dynamics, and strategies of making foreign policy.