This course offers a broad introduction to international environmental politics, public policy, and law and related intranational phenomena; to their implications for the environmental sustainability of human societies globally; and to the political economy of sustainable development in less developed countries. The course places special emphasis on how features of the political system in which international environmental policies are made lead to predictable policy outcomes, and on principles and concepts that transcend particular environmental issues. Students spend the last third of the course playing and critiquing their own performance in Strategem, a computer-assisted simulation game used as a training tool for government and international aid officials around the world, in which players assume the roles of government ministers in a less developed country and attempt to chart a course of sustainable development for that country over a period of sixty years.