Provides an opportunity for students to evaluate experiences and ideas gained abroad during the International Studies overseas study program in the light of recent scholarship in the field of International Studies. Particular attention will be given to debates over whether international change can be best understood through paradigms which emphasise the primacy of the state and interstate dynamics, or as evidence of newly transforming processes often labelled as 'globalisation'. Explores these competing forces and the responses to them of governments, institutions and peoples.