3.00 Credits
Drawing on key theory and contemporary real-world case studies this course explores how environmental change and the competition for scarce resources (such as food, water, oil, gems, and timber) have increasingly been linked to violent interstate and intrastate conflict and how such conflicts might be addressed, managed, or resolved through international and national action. Dual listed with POLS 4385; cross listed with INST 5385. Prerequisite: 9 hours of POLS or INST, including POLS/INST 2310.