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International Relations

In this section:

  • Introduction to International Relations: A standard introduction to the IR subfield of political science

  • International Relations in Theory and History: A critical look at the history of IR and of IR as a discipline

  • International Political Economy: The politics of international economic relations

  • International Relations in Disciplinary Perspective: An overview of different disciplinary approaches to International Relations

Comparative & International

In this section:

  • Politics of European Cooperation: The theory and practices of European integration

  • Human Rights and Humanitarianism: A survey of major humanitarian challenges today

Data Science

In this section:

  • Introduction to Data Science for the Social Sciences and Humanities: Overview of the most common tools and methods in computational text analysis

  • Data visualization: Data visualization techniques and practices, with an emphasis on social science applications

Other

In this section:

  • Darwinian evolution in politics and society: The diffusion and impact of the theory of evolution across society

  • Politics and Propaganda in Cartoons: The political uses of cartoons and caricatures, in theory and practice

Teaching

This page provides (non-exhaustive) information about courses I have taught.

Teaching philosophy

The illustrations on this page are all from old books (a hobby of mine). At the top of this sidebar: the ‘Secret Resolutions’ of the Dutch States-General, a history of Dutch diplomatic relations in the 16th-18th centuries; for the international relations section: the title page of Grotius' Laws of War and Peace; for the comparative/IR section: a cartographic depiction of Europe as a woman, from Münster’s Cosmographia; for the data science section: a chained binding, from Harvard’s Houghton Library; for the final section: the title page of Darwin’s Origin of Species.

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