Hybrid Wars, State of Exception, and Necropolitics

(4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course will study the role of hybrid wars (especially as engineered by the US) in producing regime change and how citizens resist foreign and domestic oppression; necropolitics, or the politics of who lives and dies and how certain population's rights and value are disregarded; and the state of exception, or how constitutional/human rights can be suspended during times of emergency by authoritarian governments.