Guy Schvitz: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2020 |
Name | Dr. Guy Schvitz |
Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
Relationship | Lecturer |
Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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857-0006-00L | Political Order and Conflict Number of participants limited to 15. MA Comparative and International Studies are given priority. Registration required: lcederman@ethz.ch. | 8 credits | 2S | L.‑E. Cederman, G. Schvitz | |
Abstract | This seminar builds on the MACIS seminar on political violence and covers primarily the quantitative literature on civil and regional wars, especially with respect to the effect of economic and ethnic factors, political institutions and the geographic and international context. The students will develop an original research question to be dealt with in a research paper. | ||||
Learning objective | This seminar covers ethnic violence, political-economy perspectives on war, the role of political institutions, and the international dimensions of civil conflict. The goal of the seminar is to expose the students to these topics by allowing them to discuss them in class and to write a term paper addressing an original research question. |