Syllabus Bank
How does climate change affect politics in the developing world? How do domestic and international actors confront the challenges of a warming world? What explains different strategies for mitigating climate change? This upper-level political science course equips students to answer these questions by introducing key concepts in climate politics and development discourse.
While the industrialized world is responsible for the vast majority of historical emissions, the developing world is disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This class will seek to understand the historic disparities in emissions and income that separate the Global North and Global South. We will explore the unique aspects of politics in developing states that explain differences in climate policy and the impacts of climate change.