POL 108 Global Networks (with Janice Stein) Pol108 Global Networks is an introduction to global politics, with a special focus on the emergence of networks as a new formation on the world political landscape. After reviewing major features and concepts of world politics, the course then analyzes the structure and function of global networks, ranging from transnational corporations to networks of terror and criminality. Throughout the course, we probe how networks challenge some of the traditional ways we think about international relations, including the nature of state sovereignty, global governance, citizenship, accountability and legitimacy.

POL 2240 The Geopolitics of Information and Communication Technologies The Geopolitics of ICTs course is an intensive examination of the ways in which states and non-state actors are contesting the newly evolving terrain of global digital-electronic-telecommunications. Topics covered include Internet censorship and surveillance, information warfare, computer network attacks, hacktivism, and governance of global communications. The course is organized as a series of intensive modules. One feature of the class will be a “hands-on” analysis of censorship circumvention and network interrogation techniques at the Citizen Lab.