POL669

040474

This course aims at exposing graduate students to the state-of-the-art research on political and organized criminal violence. To do so, the course has a deliberate interdisciplinary approach integrating scholarship on conflict, economics, geography, political psychology, and criminology to disentangle the micro-dynamics of political violence and organized crime. The micro-dynamic approach of this course will largely depart from country-year unit of analysis and dive into the subnational or individual level of analysis. At the course, we will engage in a collective intellectual endeavor to analyze each assigned reading in depth. The discussions will pay particular attention on the theoretical and conceptual contributions and debates, as well as on the empirical innovations and identification strategies in the field. These discussions will help graduate students to identify gaps in the literature as well as emerging niches that might motivate their own research agenda.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate