IDS 312: WAR & SOCIETY

From an interdisciplinary perspective this course will cover Stalin’s destruction of his own generals, a Jewish boy’s attempt to survive in Russia and Germany, the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in WWII, American in Viet Nam, British-Irish relations in the 1970’s, the 1993 conflict in Somalia, the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa, the ethnic and religious strains in Yugoslavia, and the war in Iraq. We will examine these events in social, economic, cultural, and military contexts.