Adv. Studies - Inter. Rel.

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This seminar will center around the discussion of the most fundamentally critical notion in the study of International Relations: state sovereignty. Within the context of state sovereignty, we will discuss how sovereignty has changed or has been challenged over the years. Some of the challenges to state sovereignty that we will discuss will include human rights issues, interstate military interventions and United Nations backed interventions (or lack thereof); in doing so we will focus on specific cases. We will discuss how these developments have challenged state sovereignty and discuss the larger implications of such a challenge for international stability.