Foreign Politics

The foreign politics program allows students to examine issues and institutions that shape the global political landscape.

Students can target courses that interest them most, from global political economy to human rights. Special studies in the politics of Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America are offered. Roanoke's students have been accepted to top-ranked graduate and law schools, such as Duke University, Yale University, the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago. Graduates currently work as lobbyists, lawyers, judges, professors and political advisors.

We offer a minor in Foreign Politics.

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After Roanoke, James Owusu hopes to take his expertise back to Ghana to help protect that country’s natural resources.

Roanoke's special arrangement with international study programs gives our students the opportunity to study at universities across the globe—including Japan, South Korea, the Czech Republic, China, Romania, Morocco, India, Denmark, Israel and more.

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Our grads have been accepted to top level graduate programs.

Logos of graduate schools attended by Roanoke alumni: Duke, University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University, University of Chicago, Georgetown University

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Roanoke represents Oman at the Model U.N.

Roanoke represented the state of Oman at the National Model United Nations annual conference in New York.

Teach-In sheds light on conflict, refugees to Israel, Palestine

A March 29 Teach-In featured a panel of three Roanoke professors and an engaged audience of students, faculty and staff.

POLI 224: Comparative Political Systems: Africa
POLI 231: International Politics
POLI 247: Theory in International Relations

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Political Religions

Students at a large building in Slovakia holding a Roanoke College banner

Students sitting on a rock ledge in Slovakia

Roanoke students traveled to central Europe to study how Fascism, Marxism and Nazism in the 20^th century harnessed human passions in "political religions," leading to totalitarian, murderous regimes.

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When Dr. Joshua Rubongoya was on sabbatical in his native Uganda, one of his talks there was covered by the leading English TV news channel, NTV. In this story from NTV, Roanoke's professor of political science, discusses the need for term limits in Uganda and the limitations of the current political system in Uganda.