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In the spring of 1981 I designed and taught what I considered, at the time, a "high risk" seminar for seventeen junior and senior political science majors. There were to be no textbooks, no lectures, no examinations and no term papers, those hallmarks of the traditional college course. Nevertheless, when the thirteen week course was over, the students were exhausted and claimed that they had never worked so hard in their college careers.The adventure that my students (and I) undertook was a semester long simulation of the United States National Security Council (NSC), dealing with actual global events as they happened. As Washington dealt with a problem, we dealt with the same problem. The simulation was initially offered during the deteriorating situation in Iran and instability in the Gulf region.

Part 1. Rules of the game -- Games politicians play -- Politics and choice -- Political science : components, tasks, and controversies -- The physical, social, and cultural environment of politics -- Part II. Political philosophy and ideology -- The quest for the good political life -- Liberal democracy -- Democratic socialism and communism : ideologies of the Left -- Part III. American, comparative, and world politics -- Key dilemmas : political form, culture, and values -- American politics and government -- Comparative politics -- International politics and the global community -- Part IV. Political judgement and public policy -- War and peace in the modern age -- The battle on behalf of human rights -- The struggle for economic well-being -- The imperative of ecological health.