Maryland School of Public Policy
International Development (IDEV) Specialization
September 22, 2014
Expected Upcoming Courses
General: IDEV students are required to take PUAF698R-Development Challenges or PUAF699J-Pathways to Development, PUAF781-International Economic Policy, and PUAF782-International Development Economics, plus at least one IDEV elective. (All ISEP courses count as IDEV electives.) MPP students must also take PUAF790-Project Course in their last winter or spring semester.
WINTER 2015 IDEV ELECTIVES
PUAF688N Development Diplomacy & Leadership (Kapur). Provides an understanding of the underlying principles of international relations and the formulation and practice of foreign policy from the perspective of a practicing diplomat. Looks at tenets that guide nations’ diplomacy. Equips students with the knowledge and skill sets required to understand the complexities and diversities of diplomacy from the geo-political, strategic, economic, socio-cultural and historical perspectives, and to analyze possibilities of cooperation and conflict. Addresses questions such as how soft-power diplomacy has evolved over the centuries and how international development diplomacy can be conducted on a sustainable basis, paradigms of inspired leadership, and issues of cross-cultural sensitivities. Analyzes case studies, best practices and projects in the fields of health, education, energy, and infrastructure in bilateral, third country and multilateral frameworks. Draws extensively on instructor’s experiences as a practitioner of diplomacy, particularly in the South Asian and South East Asian context.
PUAF689IIndonesia: Social-Ecological Systems, Environmental Policy, and Sustainable Development in Indonesia
(Bali, North Sumatra, Pulau Weh, Aceh, West Java)
Course dates: December 29, 2014 - January 21, 2014.
Prof. Tom Hilde, Director.
Application deadline October 1, 2014 at MyEA: http://ter.ps/wtid.
https://myea.umd.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10272
For more information, contact Tom Hilde ()
PUAF790 India: Education and Project Engagement with Delhi’s NGOs
(India: Delhi, Agra, Varanasi)
Course dates: December 29, 2014 - January 18, 2015
Prof. Robert Grimm, Director.
Applications closed.
https://myea.umd.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=11100
For more information, contact Robert Grimm () or Arley Donovan ().
Fulfills IDEV Project Course Requirement.
PUAF798T/PUAF359: Morocco: Political and Social Development
(Ain Leuh, Casablanca, Fes, Marrakech, Meknes, Rabat, Volublis)
Course dates: December 28, 2014 - January 14, 2015.
Prof. Madiha Afzal, Director; Victoria Ryan, Assistant Director
Application deadline October 1, 2014 at MyEA: https://myea.umd.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10227.
For more information, contact Madiha Afzal () or Victoria Ryan ()
SPRING 2015 IDEV REQUIRED COURSES
PUAF698R: Development Challenges (TBA). Provides an overview of development issues (challenges). These challenges are of three kinds: global (e.g., global warming, global inequality), regional (e.g., transition from non-market to market economy, slow growth in Africa), and country-level (establishing the rule of law, combating corruption) though not unique to individual countries.
PUAF781: International Economic Policy (Swagel). Examines current issues and institutions affecting international economic relations. Topics include theories of the international economy and trade, international monetary policy and exchange rates, international development, investment and finance, and broader macroeconomic interdependence and policy coordination.
PUAF782: International Development Economics (TBA). Examines key current economic and policy issues for developing and transition economies. Topics include inflation stabilization, fiscal policy, selected trade issues, dealing with international capital flows, the role of multilateral organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and issues relating to saving, investment and growth.
PUAF790: IDEV Project Course (Crocker) Two options: (1) Students complete an analytic report on a current public policy problem, and present their findings and conclusions to IDEV faculty and student colleagues; (2) An instructor-led team project with a client or partner.
Or
PUAF790: Social Policy Project Course (Besharov, Call). A client-based workshop in which students integrate their prior course instruction with a real-world experience, grappling with current policy questions and the practical needs of policy makers and managers. Student projects include conducting needs assessments, planning and developing programs, designing and conducting process evaluations, identifying and developing process measures, planning summative evaluations, conducting policy analyses, and designing and conducting economic analysis.
SPRING 2015 IDEV ELECTIVES
PUAF689E: Program Evaluation and Cost-Benefit Analysis (Besharov). Provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to understand, describe, and critique program evaluations, and also to identify the policy implications of specific findings. Using examples from domestic policy and international development, the course covers (1) process and summative evaluation issues, including data collection, causal validity, and generalizability; (2) economic evaluations, including cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit studies; and (3) performance measurement of ongoing programs.
PUAF689V: Forecasting and Analyzing Political Violence (Jones). Examines the dynamics of political instability and political violence through a review of complex and emergent phenomena. Explores the analytical process of forecasting and risk analysis under constraints of information and time.
PUAF699K: Civil Conflict and Terrorism (Steinbruner). Reviews the analytical literature on civil violence, episodes of intervention, and challenges associated with post-conflict reconstruction. Explores the logic that justifies intervention in some cases, and the requirements for effective stabilization and reconstruction.
PUAF699Y: Globalization and Trade (Schwab, with William Reinsch). Addresses many of the contemporary questions and debates surrounding globalization, with particular focus on economic development, international trade and competitiveness. Emphasizes the issues, challenges, and policy choices faced by institutions — governments, the private sector, NGOs, etc. — and the leaders and policymakers who lead and/or challenge them, in the context of a globalized world. Although often grounded in U.S. policy and practitioner perspectives and choices, there will also be heavy emphasis on other G-20 nations, particularly key emerging and least developed economies.
PUAF720: International Security Policy (Gallagher). Reviews the organizing concepts, substantive content, and institutional arrangement of contemporary international security policy. Assesses the balance of interests from a variety of national perspectives and presents some of the major unresolved issues.
PUAF783: Ethics, Development, and Foreign Aid (Crocker). Addresses empirical, conceptual, and ethical dimensions of national and international development policies and of official (bilateral and multilateral) and NGO foreign aid. What is the present character of development in poor countries/regions? How should development be conceived? What development strategies are best? What is and should be the purpose of U.S. development assistance? Themes for Spring 2015: (1) development ethics, (2) agency-focused capability approach; (2) development and governance (3) development challenges in India; (4) development aid and democratization.
PUAF784: Disease, Disaster, and Development (Sprinkle). Evaluates development — cultural, agricultural, industrial, social, economic, and political — as a bringer of disease prevention and treatment andas a bringer of disease itself, from acute infections and poisonings to chronic conditions attributable to the "westernization" of diets. Assesses development’s uncertain resilience in disaster and the developed world’s uneven response to disasters of various sorts — political, economic, environmental, geophysical, meteorological, nutritional, epidemic, epizootic, epiphytotic — with particular attention paid to the performance of national agencies, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, institutions, charities, professions, and activists.
PUAF798T Peru: Sustainable Development, Environmental Policy, and Human Rights in Peru
(Madre de Dios, Amazon and Lima)
Course dates: March xx - xx, 2015.
Prof. Tom Hilde, Director.
Application deadline October 1, 2014 at MyEA: http://bit.ly/1cycd7N.
https://myea.umd.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10471
For more information, contact Tom Hilde ()
SUMMER 2015 IDEV ELECTIVE (Pending)
PUAF 688 W: The Policy and Politics of Economic Development in Africa.
(UMD Education Abroad Trip to Ethiopia)
Course dates: May 26- June 15, 2015.
Dr. David A. Crocker, Director; Eyob Tekalign Tolina, Assistant Director.
Pending Application deadline March 1, 2015.
Exposes students to the policy and politics of economic development in Africa and emphasizes Ethiopian history and development challenges. Evaluates political economy of development in Africa’s emerging economies as well as opportunities for doing business in Africa. Includes normative and ethical assessment of development theory, practice, and planning. For more information contact Dr. Crocker ().
FALL 2015 IDEV REQUIRED COURSES
PUAF699J Pathways to Development; (Schick)
Explores different pathways to socioeconomicdevelopment, with an emphasis on policies and institutions that promote or retard the wellbeing of a country and its citizens. Considers two contrasting perspectives: economic growth and social protection, along with the role of the state, democratic and informal institutions, and the impacts of development on the environment, communities and income distribution. Analyzes whether the political and economic policies and institutionsthat have spurred high growth in China and India are useful models for developing countries.
PUAF781: International Economic Policy (Swagel). Examines current issues and institutions affecting international economic relations. Topics include theories of the international economy and trade, international monetary policy and exchange rates, international development, investment and finance, and broader macroeconomic interdependence and policy coordination.
FALL 2015 IDEV ELECTIVES
PUAF698A Poverty Measurement and Alleviation (Besharov). Examines the extent and demographics of contemporary poverty, and what government can do about it. Begins by considering the U.S. poverty measure as well as those of other countries and international aid institutions, and their implications for public (and scholarly) views about the nature and causes of poverty (as well as for pending legislation to revise the official poverty measure). Explores efforts to alleviate poverty over the last fifty years, focusing on both income transfers and efforts to increase human and social capital (with a special focus on children, the elderly, and minorities).
PUAF698Q: Democracy and Democratization: Theory and Practice (Crocker) Critically considers various theories that seek to understand and defend democratic governance. What is the nature of democracy in contrast to other forms of government — such as bureaucratic elitism, theocracy, and authoritarianism — and can democracy be defended against these other governmental arrangements? What are the strengths and weaknesses of various forms of democratic theory and practice? Do democracies or autocracies do a better job in combating corruption and promoting economic and human development? Should democracy promotion be a part of development assistance and, if so, how? How should we assess the democratic potential of “the Arab Uprisings,” and how might democracy be best promoted?
PUAF700 U.S. Trade: Policy and Politics (Destler) Analyzes the interplay between government and private interests in shaping official actions that affect international trade; policy tools available to influence balance, magnitude, and composition of imports and exports; and the evolution of executive, congressional and quasi-judicial government institutions under increased U.S. international trade exposure and trade deficit.
PUAF720: International Security Policy (Steinbruner). Reviews the principal features of international security as currently practiced. Traces the evolution of contemporary policy, beginning with the initiation of nuclear weapons programs during World War II. Particularly emphasizes the experience of the United States and Russia, since the historical interaction between these two countries has disproportionately affected the international security conditions that all other countries now experience.
PUAF744: Environment and Development (Hilde). Analyzes sustainable development and its conflicting economic and political interpretations. Examines concepts of and relations between economic and environmental well-being and explores approaches to and systems of environmentally sound development, including discussions of socio-ecological management and resilience, climate change adaptation and vulnerability, resource conflict and food security.
PUAF798M: Arms Control and Nonproliferation Policy (Gallagher). Considers how the changing nature of global security affects long-standing issues on the arms control and nonproliferation agenda, as well as emerging challenges that cannot be effectively addressed using either traditional forms of arms control or purely unilateral means.
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