Visual World Politics

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Prompted by the visual turn in the discipline of International Relations, this course explores how the realm of world politics is visually constructed and how pictures, films, graffiti, sculptures, monuments, and digital images all shape public perception (and the views of decision-makers). It offers a supplement to traditional disciplinary accounts of the theory and practice of international affairs, which principally focus on the main schools of world politics as well as the dominant actors, structures and institutions of international relations.