POST 198B PZ -Senior Seminar: Logics Pol Auth

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Senior Seminar: Logics of Political Authority How do people govern themselves; how did they; how might they? Hesitantly straddling the subfields of comparative and international politics, this course explores different logics of political authority through an examination of empires, territorial states, tribute systems, and tribal and other non-territorial forms of political organization. Questions include: What is the logic of state authority; of imperial authority? Whither the state? How have empires spread historically - and how do they spread today? Are corporations sovereign? Is Internet governance different (than what)? Is it easier not to be governed if you live on a hill? Under what logics of authority are we governed in our everyday lives?