POL 642 French Liberal Thought and Politics
In a land famous for monarchs and radical republicans, French political ideas and institutions are surprisingly liberal. We will seek to understand modern France and its influence as the "other" exceptionalist Western nation by considering the insights and impact of early French liberals such as Tocqueville and Constant, the tumultuous decades of the Second Empire and the Third Republic, and the 20th-Century quest for personal dignity, individual freedom, and political stability through the traumas of war, colonialism, and recovery.
Cross Listed Courses
POL 442 & POL 642