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This course provides a set of generic concepts and skills for negotiation and resolving interpersonal and inter-group conflicts. Students work with theory, skills, and processes of negotiation relevant to a wide range of contexts (including commercial, organizational, political, legal, and industrial relations). This course provides an analytical understanding of negotiations including negotiation planning, strategy, and tactics, as well as develops practical skills necessary for implementation of this knowledge. Students gain these practical skills through negotiation role play exercises, which develop in complexity as the course progresses.

This course focuses on the politics and government of the contemporary Russian Federation. The format of the course varies each year but follows the following general outline. It first analyses the nature of a Soviet "legacy." It then looks in detail at Russian state and institution-building. Foci generally include party systems, civil society, nationalism and social movements, comparative post-Soviet government, and the international relations of the post-Soviet space.

Recent years have seen a debate about the waning of war, though for millions of people around the world, wars and violence are part of their everyday lives, with implications far beyond the war-torn states’ borders. This course explores major trends in warfare (types of wars, the actors engaged in wars, targets in wars, funding of warfare, technology of warfare), theories explaining these trends, the relationship between warfare and state-building, and ethical questions concerning how wars are fought.