This course aims to develop students' critical appreciation of some of the different competing approaches to public management and public administration. Emphasis will be placed on the following areas: Themes and Empirical Material, Analytical Skills and Other Transferable Skills.

GT60B: Leading Issues in Development Management

This course aims to develop students' understanding of issues from a public administration perspective. Emphasis is placed on institutional analysis and understanding the role of governmental and non-governmental institutions (both domestic and international), as well as on political and managerial perspectives on development.

This course aims to introduce students to the analysis of some of the recurrent issues in state-owned enterprise performance. The scope of the course is both international and interdisciplinary, and students will confront a wide range of literature documenting experiences across a number of developed and developing countries, with particular emphasis on political science, legal and institutional and economic perspectives.

Much of the focus of the course will be conceptual and theoretical. Students will be expected to analyse and discuss various problems in the context of the various conceptual frameworks with which they will become familiar.

GT61C: Supervised Research Project in Public Enterprise Management (6 credits)

GT61D: Supervised Research Project in Public and Development Management (6 credits)

GT61E: Regulation and Regulatory Reform

This course aims to introduce students to the academic study of public policy towards the utilities and financial sectors in a post-privatisation era. For most of the topics to be examined, this course adopts a comparative perspective, and will draw on evidence from a number of countries, although emphasis will be placed on developments in Jamaica, the United Kingdom and North America. The approach taken to the case studies examined is self-consciously interdisciplinary, and students will be required to handle sources drawn from a range of disciplines drawn from political science, law, and institutional economics. Much of the focus of the course will be conceptual and theoretical, but the students will be expected to apply the relevant concepts and theories to the different cases examined during the course.

GT62A: Theories and Issues in Contemporary International Relations

This course engages students in a detailed survey of the principal theories and approaches to International Relations and the prevailing theoretical debates in the field at the beginning of the 21st century. It also encourages students to critically evaluate International Relations theories from the perspective of developing states and their peoples, to question the extent to which these theories focus on development issues and the positions of developing countries in the international system.

GT62B: Selected Issues in International Law [Click Here For Course Page]

This course examines the extent to which Public International Law contributes to international order and development in a number of contexts. It is concerned with the ways in which Public International Law has influenced approaches to the Use of Force, foreign investment, and the promotion and protection of human rights. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of international organisation in the formulation of legal regimes for international order and in fostering international development. At the same time, attention will also be focused on the precise operation of legal rule at the international level.

GT62C: The Politics and Law of the Sea

This course will examine the rules of international law pertaining to the sea. Emphasis will be placed on the development of the law of the sea in the post-World War II period, and, in particular on the new rules on the law of the sea which have emerged out of negotiations at the first and second Geneva Conference on Law of the Sea. Although attention will be paid to technical rules in areas such as access to natural resources and navigational rights for States, the focus will be placed on the different political and economic interests which underpin current rules and principles. The course will also examine the interplay between issues of development, hegemony, geography and geopolitics in the evolution of the prevailing legal rules. The relationship between the various Law of the Sea treaties and customary international law shall also be emphasised.

GT62E: Government and Politics of Selected Regions: Latin America

The general focus of this course is on the political development and the international relations of Latin America. However, this is a large and complex area and we are obliged to be selective in our coverage. The course therefore specialises in the Hispanic countries of the Caribbean Basin sub-region of Latin America, namely Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba and the Dominica Republic. The subject headings and readings provide a basic introduction to the history, political and institutional development of these countries, their regional and international relations. In addition to gaining a deeper knowledge of a part of Latin America, one of the main objectives of the course is to better appreciate where the Caribbean fits into this wider region, and to analyse the forces of change which are shaping new directions in Caribbean-Latin American relationships.

GT62F: Supervised Research Paper in International Law, International Organisation, or International Politics (6 credits)

GT62G - The World Trading System

The course will first examine the legal institutional/constitutional structure of the WTO. This will be followed by an examination of the basic theory of trade liberalisation, and the related core obligations of the two most important WTO Agreements regulating trade in goods and services - the GATT and GATS respectively. The main objectives of this course are to demonstrate an understanding of the constitutional/philosophical underpinnings of the international system of international trade regulations; identify/outline the main rules/principles of the system; determine the extent to which the system is representative of the interests of developing countries; understand the relevance of WTO; understand the relevance of WTO-compatability re: the relationship between regional/preferential trade arrangements and the WTO; appreciate the relationship between globalisation and the movement towards the inclusion of new/emerging issues (especially labour and the environment) and their significance for the continued participation of developing countries in the system and demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of the dispute settlement.

GT62H: Regionalism in a Globalized Age

This course will explore the several dimensions of regionalism in the current era of economic globalisation and compare the evolution of regional co-operation in a number of studies. The case studies for this year will be European Union, the Common Market of the Southern Core (MERCOSUR) and the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA).

GT62I: International Investment Law

GT62J: International Political Economy

This course will introduce students to the main theories of political economy, with particular reference to their role in international relations theory. It will also take these theories into consideration in studies of various issues in contemporary international political economy.

GT62K: International Economic Law

This course emphasises the importance of legal prescription/regulations in achieving 'global economic coherence'. It will focus primarily on the operations and influence of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, as the principal international organizations responsible for the determination of legal regimes governing the achievement of economic liberalization and development. Throughout, the role of politics and the influence of the more powerful (State and Private) players in the prescription of appropriate economic policies to correct structural imbalances will be highlighted. However, the course focuses on the increasing reference to the legality of state conduct and the importance of monitoring and compliance as two distinct legal outcomes with implications for developing countries. It considers the role of law in the governance of the international economic order, and the possible legal recourse (if any) open to recipient state - both of which will be analysed in the wider context of the need for reform of existing structures and processes of these institutions.

GT62L: International Trade and the Environment

This course provides a systematic analysis of the factors informing the inclusion of this matter in the WTO trade negotiating process. While much emphasis will be placed on the WTO, the course includes a comparative examination/analysis of NAFTA, EU, the FTAA and international law principles, as well as reference to economic and political considerations related to the topic. It seeks to examine, in detail, the role of environmental concerns in the formulation of trade policy initiatives/measures, the issue of extraterritoriality, implications for the sustainability of the WTO as an international regulatory institution and more importantly, the possible legal and policy implications of this for the market access opportunities of developing countries.

GT63A: Caribbean Political Systems I

The plantation systems generated a peculiar political culture. Core elements of this plantation political culture are extracted from their groundations in concrete historical circumstances and process. Its overall impact on sustainable democratisation is closely analysed.

GT63B: Caribbean Political Systems II

Major concepts and theories on personality development and political leadership are explored and conceptualised within the socio-culture and political dynamics of class, race and ethnicity, ideology, democracy, symbolic manipulation and development. The "psycho-cultural" and "psycho-historical" approaches inform the Freudian perspectives, which inspire the whole exercise. The grand objective is a fuller understanding of the crucial linkages between power and personality, as manifested in the context of Caribbean civilisation.

GT63C: Caribbean Political Systems III - Research Paper (6 credits)

GT64A: Democracy I

The aim of this course is to develop a deeper understanding of modern democracy and democratisation in the contemporary world.

GT64B: Democracy II

The aim of this course is to examine theoretical discussions and empirical data concerning the role of institutions in political life. In the first part of the course the lecturer will introduce students to central debates within political science and to global experience concerning the institutional dynamics of different models of democracy: legislative-executive relations, electoral systems, electoral reform, processes of direct democracy, anti-corruption regimes, global governance reform etc.

GT64C: Democracy III - Research Project on one of the main issues in Caribbean Political and Constitutional Reform (6 credits)

GT65A: Political Theory I - Methodology and Critical Concepts [Click Here For Course Page]

This course will be concerned with the above sub-fields of political science. We will be discussing some major conceptual and methodological issues in Western political theory. The course requires a great deal of intensive reading and attention to conceptual formation, analysis and methodological issues.

GT65B: Political Theory II - Radical and Critical Theories in Modern Political Thought
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GT65C: Political Theory III - Research Project (6 credits)

GT66A: Quantitative Research Methods

This course is a weekly seminar in research methods with emphasis on bivariate and multivariate techniques for analysing quantitative social science data. The seminar is intended to help graduate students develop a sophisticated understanding of the conceptual foundations of research design, measurement strategies, and bivariate/multivariate statistical Analysis of data in the social policy sciences. Primary emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the logic of inquiry and appropriate research strategies rather than on extensive manipulation on mathematical formulas. A basis competence in algebra should be sufficient to grasp the mathematical aspects of the course. The theoretical sophistication, research skills, and statistical knowledge acquired from this should enable the student to better comprehend technical literatures in professional journals and will help with basic tools with which to design and execute research projects.

GT66B: Qualitative Research Methods

A complement to GT66A, this course provides training in philosophies and methods of qualitative inquiry in the social sciences, with particular emphasis on techniques employed by political scientists in studying the historical, cultural, textual, subjective, symbolic, meditated, propagandistic, and rhetorical aspects of political life. Weekly lectures, student projects, lab exercise in computerised text/content analysis, and assigned reading are used to explore the major theoretical paradigms of qualitative political research, and common methods for collecting and interpreting qualitative materials.