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The problem is the imperial democracy or republic, the cases are Athens and Rome, the texts are Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War, Polybius’s Histories, Tacitus’s Agricola, Montesquieu’s The Grandeur of the Romans and Their Decline and Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. Emphasizing close reading and historical analysis, the course examines whether and to what extent these classic works retain their value as analyses of strategic behavior. (This is a cross-listed course offered by the Strategic Studies Program that also can fulfill a requirement for the Global Theory and History Program.) <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>