JSIS B 450 DEEPLY DIVIDED SOCIETIES (I&S)
15707 A 5
MW 4:30-6: 20 PM
ART 317
Chirot, Daniel
There are many ways in which a society may be deeply divided. Some divisions lead to civil wars, while others result in endless low-level problems.
Four deeply divided societies will be studied: the United States, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. In the first, there is now no civil war, but there are very bitter political and cultural divisions, some of them still a legacy of America’s own civil war. In the others, there have been or continue to be wars, but even when they have ended, deep divisions remain. In all the United States played a big role. We will see if any lessons about how to moderate divisions can be drawn from these cases, or why certain kinds of political actions can make things worse.