<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">17.905 / 17.951</P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center">Seminar on</P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center">INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE</P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center">Fall 2007</P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center">Tuesday 1-3 pm E51-393</P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center">Professor Nazli Choucri</P><P class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P class="MsoNormal">This course examines the interconnections of international politics and climate change. Beginning with an analysis of the strategic and environmental legacies of the 20th Century, it explores the politicization of the natural environment, the role of science in this process, and the gradual shifts in political concerns to incorporate “nature”. Following a brief review of international environmental law the course then focuses on the politics of specific international treaties that have contributed to the consolidation of global accord in response to evidence of climate change. The course concludes by addressing the question of: “What Next?”</P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"> </P><P class="MsoNormal">___________________________________</P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Nazli Choucri<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Professor of Political Science - MIT<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><A href="http://web.mit.edu/polisci/www/">http://web.mit.edu/polisci/www/</A><O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"> <O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Director,GSSD Global Knowledge e-Networking<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><A href="http://gssd.mit.edu">http://gssd.mit.edu</A>/<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"> <O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Associate Director,<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Technology & Development Program<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><A href="http://www-tdp.mit.edu">http://www-tdp.mit.edu</A>/<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"> <O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P class="MsoNormal"> </P><P class="MsoNormal"> </P></DIV></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>