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    Power and Politics in Today’s World - Office Hours

    Power and Politics in Today’s World - Office Hours

    Power and Politics in Today's world, taught by professor Ian Shapiro, provides answers to the questions: How did we get from the huge euphoria that followed the fall of communism in the early 1990s to our present politics of fear and resentment, and what are the prospects going forward? In this playlist, Shapiro and the course's designated teaching fellow discuss recurring and/or interesting questions raised by students in the course.

    Subjects:
    Political Science
    Keywords:
    International relations Power (Social sciences) Political science
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    Lecture 1: Introduction to Power and Politics in Today’s World

    Lecture 1: Introduction to Power and Politics in Today’s World

    Professor Ian Shapiro introduces the class “Power and Politics in Today’s World.” This course provides an examination of political dynamics and institutions over this past tumultuous quarter century, and the implications of these changes for what comes next. Among the topics covered are the decline of trade unions and enlarged role of business as political forces, changing attitudes towards parties and other political institutions amidst the growth of inequality and middle-class insecurity, the emergence of new forms of authoritarianism, and the character and durability of the unipolar international order that replaced the Cold War.

    Course related:
    APSS1B31 Introduction to Politics
    Subjects:
    Political Science
    Keywords:
    Power (Social sciences) Political science
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    2D Material Workshop 2017: Nanophotonics

    2D Material Workshop 2017: Nanophotonics

    This video introduces the 2D materials; photonics & plasmonics in metallic graphene; semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with large bandgap; and bridging the gap black phosphorus for nanophotonics.

    Course related:
    AP618 Science and Technology of Micro- and Nano- systems
    Subjects:
    Nanotechnology
    Keywords:
    Nanophotonics Two-dimensional materials
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    Game Theory with Ben Polak

    Game Theory with Ben Polak

    This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics and Economics
    Keywords:
    Game theory
    Resource Type:
    Video