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PART I: Foundations of International Politics
Week #1 January 6-10
Paradigms for the Study of International Relations
Kegley, Charles and Wittkopf, Eugene. World
Politics: Trend and Transformation, Chapters: 1
and 2.
Week #2 January 13-17
Levels of Analysis: Individual and Societal
Kegley, Charles and Wittkopf, Eugene. World
Politics: Trend and Transformation, Chapters:
3 and 7.
Sigmund Freud, “Why War?”, in
Leon Bramson and George Goethals (eds.) War: Studies from
Psychology, Sociology,
and Anthropology,
pp. 71-80.
Robert Jervis, “War and Misperception”, in
Robert Rotberg and Theodore Rabb (eds.), The Origin and Prevention
of Major Wars, pp.
101-126.
Gordon Allport, The Nature of Prejudice, ch. 3.
Week #3 January 20-24
The Systemic Level of Analysis
(note: no class Monday, Jan. 20, Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
Kegley, Charles and Wittkopf, Eugene. World
Politics: Trend and Transformation, Chapter: 4.
Kenneth Waltz, “The Stability of the Bipolar World”,
Daedalus, 1964. (Summer), pp. 881-909.
John Mearsheimer, “Why We will Soon Miss the Cold
War”,
Atlantic, August 1990.
PART II: War and Peace
Week #4 January 27-31 War and Force
First Exam, Wed. January 29
Kegley, Charles and Wittkopf, Eugene. World
Politics: Trend and Transformation, Chapters: 12, 13 and 14.
Edward Luttwak, "Give War a Chance", Foreign
Affairs July/August
1999.
Week #5 February 3-7 Terrorism and the Future of World Politics
Stephen Flynn, "America
the Vulnerable", Foreign
Affairs, Jan/Feb
2002, pp. 60-74.
Eliot Cohen, "A Strange War", The National Interest, Thanksgiving
2001, pp.11-22.
Stephen Walt, "Beyond Bin Laden"
Week #6 February 10-14 Liberal Approaches to Peace: International Institutions
and Collective Security
Kegley, Charles and Wittkopf, Eugene. World
Politics: Trend and Transformation, Chapters: 6 and 16.
Bruce Russett, "Why
Democratic Peace?" in Russett, Grasping
the Democratic Peace, pp. 24-42.
Bruce Russett, “If
All the World Were Democratic”, in
Bruce Russett, Controlling the Sword.
"Democracies and War: The Politics of Peace", Economist,
pp. 17-18.
Week #7 February 17-21 International Law, Norms, and Morality
(note: no class Monday February 17, Presidents' Day)
Joseph Nye, "How to Judge Moral Reasoning", in Nuclear
Ethics, pp. 14-26.
Kegley, Charles and Wittkopf, Eugene. World
Politics: Trend and Transformation, Pages: 595-618.
PART III: Global Political Economy
Week #8 February 24-28 Overview of the Global Political Economy, North-South
Relations
(Second Exam, Monday February 24)
Readings
Kegley, Charles and Wittkopf, Eugene. World
Politics: Trend and Transformation, Chapters: 5, 9, and 10.
(2) Jeff Sachs, "Helping the World's Poorest ", The Economist,
pp. 17-20.
Week #9 March 3-7 Interdependence, Regionalism, the European Union,
and NAFTA
Readings
Kegley, Charles and Wittkopf, Eugene. World
Politics: Trend and Transformation, Chapters: 8.
Wayne Sandholtz and John Zysman, “Recasting the European
Bargain”,
World Politics, October 1989.
Week #10 March 10-14 Globalization and Its Discontents
Charles Wilber, "Globalization and Democracy", in G.
Scott et al.(ed.), 21 Debated: Issues in World Politics, pp. 3-9.
Subcommandante Marcos, "Our Word is Our Weapon", in R.
Broad (ed.) Global Backlash, pp. 258-261.
Jagdish Bhagwati, "Coping with Antiglobalization", Foreign
Affairs, Jan/Feb. 2002, pp. 2-7.
Thomas Friedman, "The Backlash", The
Lexus and the Olive Tree, pp. 327-347.
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