GLOBALST 741 / Theories of Political Community and Statehood

3 unit(s)

C. Frost (cross-listed as POL SCI 757)

This course is organized around key themes of political communities, including: founding (who are “the people,”? how is a polity founded? can the political community be broken and/or re-constituted?), membership (who is a citizen? how do you become a citizen? can citizenship be reconstituted?), and solidarity (what keeps the political project together? how should difference be managed? what