International Politics

International Politics [A] is currently being taught in a style of trying to teach a little about everything including Hunger, Genocide, and Information Security. Note that the current course (2005) has a pacifist point of view.

Extremely pacifist. At Saratoga Session 2 2005, Donald Rumsfeld was put on mock trial for war crimes. He was found not guilty.

At Carlisle session 2, 2005, there were large general complaints about the fact that half the course was spent completing pointless geography sheets that required looking up large amounts of useless statistics. The other half was spent writing poetry. Good times.

At Carlisle, 05.1, it was much the same (minus the poetry, that must have been interesting). I guess you poor creatures had Betsy as well. That's what happens when you get a geographer to teach International Politics. She disagreed with our mostly unpacifist, mostly Republican (on non-social justice issues) class.

International Politics B is currently taught at Carlisle by Dan Mumford and his TA (in '07), Taku Chakravarti. POLY B idolized Taku and, to a less creepy extent, Dan. Taku Appreciation was a second activity period activity on the last day of CAR.2.07. Dan, meanwhile, was in the Peace Corps in Africa and has mighty good stories to tell, and also was an actor in an acclaimed WoW movie series. Dan is often skeptical about the ability of intervention by Western powers to make things better. The book he uses, The New World of International Relations, has a neoconservative viewpoint, just to mix things up.