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For Purchase at Columbia Bookstore 116th/Broadway:
Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate
For Purchase at Columbia Copiers 4th floor
International Affairs Building:
Course
pack "U6800: Conceptual Foundations of International Politics"
Note: Readings that are "Available On-line" can be accessed
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September 10: Contending
Theories and Policy Choice
How does theory influence the formulation
of policy?
Lecturer: Lisa Anderson
Assignment: Op-ed
Stephen Walt, "International
Relations: One World, Many Theories," Foreign Policy, Spring
1998 p.29-46 (available on-line)
Charles William Maynes, "Contending
Schools," The National Interest Spring 2001 p.49-58. (coursepack)
Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
New York 1999, ch. 2 p.25-37, ch. 6 p.93-119, ch. 8 p.141-164 (coursepack)
September 17: The
Cold War Revisited: Competing Explanations of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Screening: CNN's "The Cold War."
Lecturer: Robert Legvold
Robert Jervis, "Was
the Cold War a Security Dilemma?" Journal of Cold War Studies,
Vol. 3, No. 1 (Winter 2001), pp. 36-60. (available on-line)
John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, New York p.1-25 1997 (coursepack)
Ernest May, American Imperialism: A Speculative Essay p.3-17 Chicago:
Imprint Publications 1968 (coursepack)
E. H. Carr, What Is History? New York: Knopf p.70-143 (coursepack)
Graham T. Allison, "Conceptual
Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis," The American Political
Science Review., vol. 63 Issue 3 1969 p.689-718 (available on-line)
September 24: Theories of Social Structure, Power
and Conflict
Lecturer: Lisa Anderson
Karl Marx, "Preface
to a Critique of Political Economy," and "The
Communist Manifesto." (Available On-line) "The
Communist Manifesto." (PDF)
Max Weber, "The Types of Legitimate Domination" Economy
and Society ed. Roth and Wittich p.217-271 (coursepack)
Patrick Heller, The Labor of Development., p.1-150 Cornell University
Press 1999 (coursepack)
Thomas Callaghy, "The State and Development of Capitalism in
Africa: Theoretical, Historical and Comparative Reflections,"
in Donald Rothschild, The Precarious Balance. 1988 p.67-99 (coursepack)
Peter Bachrach and Morton S. Baratz, "The
Two Faces of Power," American Political Science Review 56
p.947-952., 1962 (available on-line)
October 1: Pluralism
and Liberalism
Lecturer: Ira Katznelson
John Locke, A
Letter Concerning Toleration (available on-line)
John Stuart Mill, On
Liberty chapters. 1-3 (available on-line)
Robert Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition p.1-16 1971
(coursepack)
Fareed Zakaria, "The
Rise of Illiberal Democracy" Foreign Affairs (November/December
1997); "Responses to Zakaria," Foreign Affairs March/April
and May/June 1998 (coursepack)
War and Peace:
October 8: Theories
of War and Peace
Lecturer: Richard Betts
Kenneth Waltz, "The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory."
in Robert Rothberg and Theodore Rabb, eds., The Origin and Prevention
of Major Wars 1989 p.39-52 (coursepack)
Kenneth Waltz, "Globalization
and American Power," The National Interest Spring 2000 p.46-57
(coursepack)
Richard Rosencrance, The Rise of the Trading State preface and p.22-63
1986 (Lehman Reserve Desk)
Hans Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power
and Peace 1993 p.3-26 (Lehman Reserve Desk)
J. Ann Tickner, "Hans Morgenthau's Principles of Political Realism:
A Feminist Reformulation," in Rebecca Grant and Kathleen Newland,
eds. Gender and International Relations p.27-40 1991. (coursepack)
Bruce Russett, Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for A Post-Cold
War World p.3-42. (coursepack)
October 15: Nuclear
Proliferation and the Morality of Killing
Lecturer: Richard Betts
Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A
Debate 1995 (available at Columbia University Bookstore)
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical
Illustrations 1977 p.251-68 (coursepack)
Paul Fussel, "Thank God for the Atom Bomb," Walzer's Rebuttal
and Fussel's surrebuttal in Fussel, ed., Thank God for the Atom Bomb
and Other Essays 1988 p.13-45 (coursepack)
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Michael Howard and Peter Paret, eds.
p.75-99, 148-50, 177-187, 578-81, 604-11. (coursepack)
Richard Betts, "Is
Strategy an Illusion?" International Security 25:2 4 2000
p.5-50 (coursepack)
International Political Economy
October 22: Introduction
to Theories of International Political Economy
Lecturer: Arvid Lukauskus
Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations p.8-64
1987 (coursepack)
Robert Wade, "Globalization and Its Limits: Report of the Death
of the National Economy Are Greatly Exaggerated," in Berger and
Dore, eds., National Diversity and Global Capitalism 1996 p.60-89
(coursepack)
Robert Wade, "Wheels Within Wheels: Rethinking the Asian Crisis
and the Asian Model," Annual Review of Political Science 3:85-115
2000(coursepack)
The Economist, Survey October 7 1995: "Who's
in the Driving Seat?"; "Peering
through the Monetary Mist;" "Fiscal
Flab;" "Not
So Divine Intervention;" and "Governments
that Live in Glass Houses." (available on-line)
October 29: Globalization
and Its Critics
Lecturer: Joseph Stiglitz
Jagdish Bhagwati, "The Global Age: From a Skeptical South to
a Fearful North," in A Stream of Windows 1998 p.29-71 (coursepack)
Jagdish Bhagwati, "The
Capital Myth: The Difference between Trade in Widgets and Dollars,"
Foreign Affairs May/June 1998 p.7-12 (available on-line)
Paul Krugman, "Trade, Jobs and Wages" and "Does Third
World Growth Hurt First World Prosperity" in Pop Internationalism
1996 p.35-69. (coursepack)
Dani Rodrik, "Sense
and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate," Foreign Policy
Summer 1997 19-36 (available on-line)
Bruce Cumings, "The
American Ascendancy: Imposing A New World Order" in Special
Issue of The Nation We Are Not the World: A New Vision for Foreign
Policy." May 8, 2000 (available on-line)
Reread Friedman
November 5: No class
States, Regimes and Rights
November 12: State
Formation and Citizenship
Lecturer: Consuelo Cruz
Somers, Margaret, "Citizenship
and the place of the public sphere: law, community, and political culture
in the transition to democracy" in American Sociological Review,
Oct. 1993 v.58 no. 5 p.587 (34). (available on-line)
T.H. Marshall, Class, Citizenship and Social Development p.65-123
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1977) (coursepack)
Charles Tilly, "War-making and State-making as Organized Crime,"
in Evans et al., Bringing the State Back In 1985 p.169-191 (coursepack)
Guillermo O'Donnell, "On the State, Democratization and Some
Conceptual Problems: A Latin American View with Glances at Some PostCommunist
Countries., World Development, 21:8 1993 (coursepack)
Peter Evans, "The
Eclipse of the State: Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization,"
World Politics October 1997 p.62-87 (coursepack)
Robert Wade, "East
Asia's Economic Success: Conflicting Perspectives, Partial Insights
and Shaky Evidence." World Politics 1992. (on-line)
Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg, "Why
Africa's Weak States Persist," World Politics vol 35 no. 1.,
October 1982 p.1-24. (on-line)
November 19: Human
Rights
Lecturer: Jack Snyder
The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (available on-line)
new! Columbia's
UDHR Study Environment
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999 intro., ch. 1, ch. 2 (p.3-53),
ch. 10 (p.227-248)
Bhikhu Parekh, "The Cultural Peculiarity of Liberal Democracy,"
in David Held, Prospects for Democracy 1993 p.156-175 (course-pack)
Spike Peterson, "Whose Rights? A Critique of the "Givens"
in Human Rights Discourse" Alternatives vol. XV 1990 p.303-344
(coursepack)
Jack Snyder, From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist
Conflict., ch.1 (p.15-43); ch. 6 (p.265-269); (300-306); ch. 7 (p.321
-340). (coursepack)
Culture and Identity:
November 26: Nationalism,
Culture, and Identity Formation
Screening: The Battle of Algiers
No Lecture
Assignment: Debate questions distributed
Craig Calhoun, "Nationalism
and Ethnicity," Annual Review of Sociology 1993 19 p.211-239
(available on-line)
Anthony Marx, "Race-making
and the Nation-state," World Politics v. 48 January 1996
p.180-208 (available on-line)
Engendering Development: Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources
and Voice A World Bank Policy Research Report p.1-29 2001
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Cartographies of Struggle: Third World
Women and the Politics of Feminism," in Third World Women and the
Politics of Feminism., ed., Mohanty 1991 p.1-47
James Fearon and David Laitin, "Violence and the Social Construction
of Ethnic Identity." International Organization 54 4 Autumn
2000 p.854-877 (course-pack)
Samuel Huntington, "The
Clash of Civilizations," Foreign Affairs Summer 1993 p.22-49
(available on-line)
December 3: Colonial
Legacies, Identity and Conflict
Lecturer: Mahmood Mamdani
Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers ch. 1-3 Princeton University
Press 2001
Karl Mueller, "The
Banality of Ethnic War,' International Security 2000 (available
on-line)
December 10: International
Politics: Conceptual Foundations and Changing Realities
Lecturer: Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen, Globalization and Its Discontents p.5-30, p.194-218
1999
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