While best known for their environmental politics, Greens are interested in considerably more than just dolphin-safe tuna and renewable energy. Their political agenda includes reorienting global trade, reducing the power of transnational corporations, even advancing alternative models for the organization of the international system. Greens in Europe, North America and around the world are offering an increasingly distinctive critique of globalization rooted not so much in the evils of capitalism as in the size of human institutions. In short, they contend that the destruction of not only the natural environment but of political democracy and even human society is an outgrowth of the largeness of our states and our economies. This course examines contemporary global trends-including expanding international trade and investment, the growth of international political authority, the industrialization of food production, global climate change-from a Green perspective and critically engages the fundamental Green strategy of subsidiarity and localization. We will read some classic texts of Green decentralist thinking (including Leopold Kohr's The Overdeveloped Nations and E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful), assess what globalization is, evaluate the Green critique of it, study the successes (and failures) of Green parties in Europe, and debate the feasibility of Green alternatives to the liberal new world order. Format: lecture/discussion. Requirements: three short papers, final exam, class participation. No prerequisites. Expected enrollment: 50-60.