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What can fiction teach us about international relations? Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" invites readers to consider issues of foreign policy and their global consequences. Set in 1956, an English butler reminisces on his pre-war devotion to aristocratic German sympathizers. These reflections provide a framework for dialectical discussions on core IR theories such as idealism, realism and nationalism. Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 "All Quiet on the Western Front" is a visceral depiction of the horror of WWI and a scathing critique of nationalism as an ideology used to galvanize a nation's populace. Combining these two intricate novels with E.H. Carr's authoritative study on the collapse of the international system, "The Twenty Years' Crisis" this course will provide a framework for understanding the complexity of global events and enhance a discussion on the past, present and future world order.

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Online registration deadline: Sep 19, 5 PM CT

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