Courses
LaW 544A/B-JSIS444/544-AA 490/590-ESS 488/584 Space law and policy
This course exposes students to the law and policy foundations of outer space activities. It covers the essential origins, sources, and role of space law, as well as the key organizations, forums, and forces shaping the contemporary governance of space activities. It provides a thorough grounding in the U.N. treaties, principles, resolutions, regulations, as well as international and national space laws and policies.
JSIS b 310 Data ethnography and qualitative methods
Big data is transforming state-society relations, affecting how we create knowledge, do work, participate in politics, and connect with others. This course exposes students to qualitative methods that address critical problems of transparency, ethics, bias, equity, and replicability (TEBER) in work involving the generation, analysis, and use of big data. Using an ethnographic approach, students build skills to interrogate the social context of data through a variety of qualitative methods and techniques, such as participant observation, focus groups, interviewing, case studies, discourse analysis, document analysis, process tracing, and fieldwork. Students will apply their knowledge in a capstone project focused on technology and international security, engage with industry and academic speakers, and carry out a variety of practicums through a required lab on qualitative data software (ATLAS.ti).
JSIS A 437/537 POL s 424 International Relations of Japan
Comprehensive examination of Japan’s international relations. Covers issues such as trade, security, environment, aid, and human rights. Investigates Japan’s participation in international organizations, including the UN, World Bank, IMF, and WTO. Examines Japan’s relations with the United States, the European Union, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and other regions.
JSIS A 548 National Security of Japan
Focuses on the changing landscape of Japan’s national security concerns-the actors, institutions, and circumstances that have brought issues of defense and rivalry to the center stage of Japanese politics. Topics include nationalism, militarization, pacifism, United States-Japan security alliance, Sino-Japanese competition, constitutional revision, collective defense, and spy satellites.
JSIS 595 Research tutorial
The Research Tutorial, open only to first-year doctoral students at the Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS), the School of Law, and the Near and Middle Eastern Studies (NMES) units at the University of Washington (UW), is spread over one full academic year. It is an intensive doctoral-level training approach that exposes students to the approaches, issues, controversies, concepts, and techniques in social science research methodology. The goal of the course is to help orient students to research design and methods issues that go on to inform and advance their own research agendas. This course is a major component of Ph.D. training for students to become informed consumers of knowledge and skilled producers of knowledge.
JSIS 495 D Taskforce: Space hub seattle
Washington State is poised to launch as a space hub in the global newspace business. Local companies such as Blue Origin, Stratolaunch, Spaceflight, Tethers Unlimited and Planetary Resources are advantaged by a pioneering culture, access to software, big data, and capital. But the fierce global competition poses unique challenges for policymakers as they race to position their localities, states, and countries in a projected $600 billion global space economy by the 2030s. These include the dual-use nature of the technology that cuts across commercial and military realities, and the weakness of legal and regulatory frameworks. This Task Force will pinpoint the nature of the challenges, and recommend how Washington State, Seattle, and local actors can create the right policies to succeed.
LAW E 549 International Investment Law and Practice
Examines the rise of international investment law and practice, including topics such as Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), standards of treatment, investor-state arbitrations, and social and political controversies related to the governance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developed and developing countries.
JSIS 594 International and Area Studies
Exposes students to the four-fold thematic intellectual rubric of the school, and to the wide range of teaching and research agendas represented in the Jackson School. Required common course for all first-year graduate and doctoral students.
