On completion of this course students will:
- Have been introduced to the political history of the region and its relations with the other parts of the world
- Have analysed state-building efforts and competing development models
- Examined various historical and contemporary movements towards regionalization, including regional governance, and assess the obstacles encountered by these efforts
- Gained an understanding of the occurrence of military dictatorships and the wave of the democratization in the 1990s.
- Have been introduced the new politics of ethnicity and indigenous autonomy projects