I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the International Relations Program at The College of Wooster. I teach a range of international relations and comparative politics courses (see below) and and serve as advisor to Wooster's Model United Nations team. My scholarly interests include international relations, international organization, political leadership, transnational actors and relations, peace studies, active learning, and nationalism.
My home page is designed to provide access to the following
information:
INTERACTIVE
VITA
My curriculum vitae provides a full description of my research and teaching interests and experience. It includes links to relevant organizations, programs, schools, and abstracts.
Key recent highlights include:
Publication of The UN
Secretary-General and Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in
International Leadership (Georgetown University Press, 2007)
* Press
release from The College of Wooster
* ACUNS
Featured Book
Publication of From
Manager to Visionary: The
Secretary-General of the United Nations (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006)
* Press
release from The College of Wooster
* ACUNS
Featured Book
* See a review of the book at UNSG.org
Workshops on
Active Teaching and Learning in International Relations
SPRING 2009 COURSE LINKS:
I am off-campus on a research
sabbatical for fall 2008 semester. I will be back on on campus in
January 2009 and will be teaching the following three courses for
spring 2009 semester. For further information about how these
courses were taught previously see the class links below.
Political
Science 120: Introduction to International Relations
This introductory course is designed to help students gain a better
understanding of international relations by exposing them to a wide
range of factors that are shaping global events while also providing
them with concepts to make the relations between these factors more
clearly identifiable. Topics will include the following:
your place in international relations, the structure of the
international system, what interests are important to international
politics and how these interests are met, traditional and continuing
concerns of international relations (such as war, security, and
economic relations) along with other important issues now facing the
global populace (such as population, human rights and the environment)
and what can be done to cope with these problems.
Political Science 228:
Nationalism and Interdependence
This course explores the contrasting trends of fragmentation and
integration occurring across the globe. Students are exposed to a
range of possibilities that challenge the predominance of sovereign
states in international affairs, including nations, regional and
universal governmental organizations, non governmental organizations,
and the broad trends of economic and cultural interdependence. Students
should leave the class having developed their own informed perspective
on how international relations will be organized in the future.
Political Science 246:
Peace Studies
This course encourages students to explore the numerous dimensions of
violence present in the world today and to devise innovative approaches
for overcoming these elements of peacelessness between and within
countries. The primary focus of the course is on exploring the
variety of “peace tools” available and evaluating the usefulness of
these tools. Thus, the first part of the course is geared toward
providing students with an understanding of both “negative” and
“positive” peace and the types of peace tools that can be employed. In
the second part of the course, students will work with one another to
research, discuss, and present the potential uses of these peace tools
in relation to a particular country.
CLASS LINKS
These are direct links for the classes that I am currently teaching or recently taught at The College of Wooster:
Political
Science 120: Introduction to International Relations (last taught
Spring 2008)
Political
Science 222: Problems of the Global Community (last taught
Spring
2006)
Political
Science 225: The United Nations System (last taught Spring
2008)
Political
Science 227: Theories of International Relations (last taught Fall
2001)
Political
Science 228: Nationalism and Interdependence (last taught
Spring
2007)
Political
Science 246: Peace Studies (last taught Fall 2007)
First
Year
Seminar: Who Am I, Who Are You? Who Are We, Who Are They?
(last taught Fall 2005)
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kkille@wooster.edu
Last updated: July 14, 2008