Today’s Totalitarian Trends

Undergraduate

This course examines political trends around the world that have been variously described as fascist, authoritarian, majoritarian, autocratic, etc. These appear in countries in both the so-called Global South and Global North. The course seeks to understand these trends, on the one hand, as case studies unique to a particular country or world region, and, on the other hand, as an effect of the globalization of such modernist phenomena as colonialism, nationalism, racism, class distinction, “progress”, and “freedom”. It will compare these cases in the light of twentieth century totalitarianism to better understand similarities and differences over the last one hundred years. (May be offered as a cross- career course with POLS-8910)