Students will study the international system, its actors, and the global community deals with day-to-day business, and extraordinary events. The course will begin with an in-depth investigation of the State as an international actor. The course will then move to international organizations, then non-governmental organizations. Finally with a firm understanding of all of the actors on the international stage, the course will examine how the international community deals with war, trade, humanitarian disasters, development, population migration, the environment, and crime/terrorism. After learning a concept, the course will rely on case studies that students will select in order to get a wide variety of examples from all around the globe. The course will draw heavily from modern history, law, and economics in order to better understand the world that we are living in.