Richard D. Hughes California State University, Sacramento College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies Department of Government

• GOVT 35, Section 5 - World Politics. TuTh 1:30-2:45 p.m. (Alpine Hall 212)
  • Section 5 Syllabus
    
• GOVT 35, Section 6 - World Politics. MW 3:00-4:15 p.m. (Amador Hall 260)
  • Section 6 Syllabus
• Office Hours: M, 2-3 p.m.; T, 3-4 p.m.

• Class houndouts for both sections
  • Basic definitions in the study of government
  • A Thermodynamic Interpretation of Politics, R. Hughes
  • 20th Century Science and Politics, R. Hughes
  • Study Questions for Midterm
  • Questions to Guide Your Reading of Khalidi, R. Hughes (note: questions for chapters 2 and 3 were uploaded at noon, April 27, 2008; questions for chapter 4 were uploaded by 8 p.m. on April 30. Sorry for delay. Questions for chapter 5 were uploaded by 3:30 p.m. on May 3.)
  • The history buffs among you might want to review a short, patriotic, speech by John Quincy Adams July 4, 1821, on how to spread democracy and why we should not do it by force of arms.
  • Study Questions for Final were posted by 9 p.m., May 9, 2008.
    

With Ken Debow, Relearning Politics: Survival in the Next Century. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993.
Review of Welles Hangen, The Muted Revolution, in Social Education, March, 1967.
Review of Robert Wesson, Soviet Foreign Policy in Perspective, in Western Political Quarterly, 1970.
Review of John H. Backer, The Decision to Divide Germany; American Foreign Policy in Transition, in American Political Science Review, June, 1979.
Review of Cristoph Bertram, ed., Prospects of Soviet Power in the 1980's, in American Political Science Review, September, 1981.
"Is Defense Buildup Really Necessary?," Forum Section, Sacramento Bee, December 13, 1981.
With Peter Feeley, "Why Nuclear Arms Have Made the Powers Less Powerful," Forum Section, Sacramento Bee, August 21, 1983.

B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A. (Political Science), Colgate University; Ph.D. (Government), Claremont Graduate University

Government and Politics of the Former Soviet Union, American Foreign Policy, International Politics, Comparative Government, Fluid Mechanics

Application of complexity theory to the study of politics
Web-based instruction