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 6800: Conceptual Foundations Introduction: Issues and Ideas
September 11 Contending Theories and Policy Choice
How does theory influence the formulation of policy?
Stephen Walt, "International
Relations: One World, Many Theories," Foreign Policy., Spring
1998, p.29-46. (Available Online)
Thomas Friedman., The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization.,
New York 1999., ch. 2 (p.25-37), ch.6 (p.93-122), ch.8 (p.141-164).
(course pack)
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 Online)
Suggested Reading:
William Robinson., Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention,
and Hegemony., Cambridge 1996., p.1-72, 317-385. (Course Pack)
September 18 Theories of Social Structure, Power and
Conflict
What is the affinity between bureaucratic organization and capitalism?
What are the principle characteristics of a modern bureaucracy in terms
of 1) the nature of the official 2) the procedural aspects of how it
actually operates 3) the criteria and general principles by which it
treats its subjects? How have theorists explained social change? In
what ways if any has Marx’s prophesies about the future impact
of capitalism been realized? How have theorists explained social change?
In what ways are social movements a catalyst for change?
Lecturer: Dean Lisa Anderson
Assignment: Op-Ed is due in section
Karl Marx, "Preface to a Critique of Political Economy," and "The
Communist Manifesto." (Available Online)
Max Weber, "Bureaucracy" In From Max Weber: Essays In Sociology (p.196-245
1946) (Course Pack)
Tarrow, Sidney G. Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action,
and Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. p. 1-27.
Callaghy, Thomas. "The State and the Development of Capitalism in Africa:
Theoretical, Historical, and Comparative Reflections," in Donald Rothschild,
The Precarious Balance. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press: 1988. p.
67-99. (Course Pack)
Suggested Reading:
Peter Bachrach and Morton S. Baratz, "The
Two Faces of Power," American Political Science Review, 56 (1962),
pp. 947-52. (Available Online)
September 25 Pluralism and Liberalism
What does the liberal tradition have to offer societies that
do not share the same cultural, social, economic imperatives? What are
the prerequisites for a liberal government? Does each country have to
take the same developmental path as European countries in order to transform
its government, institutions, laws, and culture into a liberal one,
or can each society develop its own version of a liberal government?
Is liberal theory aimed at organizing state-society relations or state-individual
relations? Is there any space to admit communal rights into the mix?
Is Fareed Zakaria�s pessimism vis a vis the democratic potential of
"illiberal" democracies justified?
Lecturer: Professor Ira Katznelson
John Locke, A
Letter Concerning Toleration. (entire) (Available Online)
John Locke, Second
Treatise, 1-9, in Two Treatises of Government. edited by
Peter Laslett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. (Available
Online)
John Stuart Mill, On
Liberty, chapters 1-3. (Available Online)
John Ruggie, "International
Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar
Economic Order," International Organization, 36 (Spring 1982).
(Available Online)
Marc F. Plattner, "From Liberalism to Liberal Democracy," Journal
of Democracy July 1999., vol. 10 #3 p.121-135 (Course Pack)
Fareed Zakaria, "The
Rise of Illiberal Democracy," Foreign Affairs (November/December
1997) (Available Online)
Robert Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (1971) p.1-16.
(Course Pack)
Suggested Reading:
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1971, chapter 1, sections 1-4; chapter 2, section 11. (Lehman Library
Reserve Desk)
War and Peace
October 2 Overview: Theories of War and Peace
What are the causes of war and peace? Are states' decisions to fight
or Not fight primarily driven by domestic or international imperatives?
Has the world become more peaceful because of the spread of democracy
and economic interdependence or should we instead expect increased conflict
after the end of the Cold War? Does gender bias vitiate Realist theorizing
about international relations and the prospects for cooperation in the
international system?
Professor: Professor Richard Betts
Kenneth Waltz, "The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory," in Robert
Rotberg and Theodore Rabb, eds., The Origin and Prevention of Major
Wars, (NY: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989), p.39-52. (Course Pack)
Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder, "Democratization
and War," Foreign Affairs (May/June 1995) (Available Online)
J. Ann Tickner, "Hans Morgenthau's Principles of Political Realism:
A Feminist Reformulation," in Rebecca Grant and Kathleen Newland, eds.,Gender
and International Relations (Bloomington: Univ of Indiana Press,
1991), pp. 27-40. (Course Pack)
John Mearsheimer, "Why
We Will Soon Miss the Cold War," The Atlantic Monthly, August
1990. (Available Online)
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Michael Howard and Peter Paret,
eds. (NY:Knopf, 1993), pp. 75-99, 148-50, 177-87, 578-81, 604-11. (Course
Pack)
Michael Doyle, "Kant,
Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs, Part I," Philosophy and
Public Affairs, 12, no. 3, 1983, pp. 205-35. (Available Online)
Suggested Reading:
Hans Morgenthau, with Kenneth W. Thompson, Politics among nations:
The Struggle for Power and Peace, Brief Ed. (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1993),
chapters 1 and 2, p.3-26. (Lehman Library Reserve Desk)
Richard Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State (NY: Basic Books,
1986), preface and pp. 22-63. (Library Reserve Desk)
October 9 Issue Areas: Nuclear Proliferation and the Morality
of Killing
Does the spread of nuclear weapons worldwide threaten global security?
What conditions justify war?
Professor: Professor Richard Betts
Assignment: 5 page paper
Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: a
Debate(NY: W.W. Norton, 1995) (Available at Columbia Bookstore)
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical
Illustrations (NY: Basic Books, 1977), pp. 251-68. (Course Pack)
Paul Fussel, "Thank God for the Atom Bomb," Walzer's Rebuttal and Fussel'ssurrebuttal,
in Fussel, ed., Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays(NY:
Summit Books, 1988), pp. 13-45. (Course Pack)
International Political Economy
October 16 Introduction to Theories of International
Political Economy
Why do nations respond differently to common international economic
challenges? How do institutions matter in shaping the paths between
internationalization and domestic politics? Does increased global economic
liberalization lead to greater convergence among the political systems
of the world? Is globalization all that it’s cracked up to be?
Lecturer: Professor Arvid Lukauskas
Assignment: Paper due
Peter Katzenstein, "Domestic Structures and Strategies of Foreign Economic
Policy" in Katzenstein’s Between Power and Plenty (1978)
p.295-337. (Course Pack)
Robert Keohane and Helen Milner, "Internationalization and Domestic
Politics: An Introduction," in Keohane and Milner eds., Internationalization
and Domestic Politics (1996) p.3-24. (Course Pack)
Robert Wade, "Globalization and Its Limits: Reports of the Death of
the National Economy Are Greatly Exaggerated," in Berger and Dore, eds.,
National Diversity and Global Capitalism (1996) p.60-89. (Course Pack)
Kitschelt, Lange, Marks, and Stephens, "Conclusion: Convergence and
Divergence in Advanced Capitalist Democracies" in Kitschelt, Lange,
Marks, and Stephens, eds., Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism
(1999) p.427-461. (Course Pack)
Andrews, David, "Capital
Mobility and State Autonomy" International Studies Quarterly
38 (1994) p193-218. (Available Online)
From the Economist (Oct. 7, 19995): "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 Online)
October 23 Theory and Practice in International Political
Economy
Does third world growth hurt first world prosperity?
Professor: Jagdish Bhagwati
Jagdish Bhagwati, "The Global Age: From a Skeptical South to a Fearful
North," "Preferential Trade Agreements: The Wrong Road," and "Threats
to the World Trading System: Income Distribution and the Selfish Hegemon,"
in A Stream of Windows. (1998), p.29-71. (Course Pack)
Paul Krugman, "Trade,
Jobs and Wages" and "Does Third World Growth Hurt First World Prosperity"
in Pop Internationalism (1996) p.35-69. (Course Pack)
Jagdish Bhagwati, "The
Capital Myth: The Difference Between Trade in Widgets and Dollars,"
Foreign Affairs., (May/June 1998). P7-12. (Available Online)
Lawrence, Robert, "Emerging Regional Arrangements." In International
Political Economy : Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth by Jeffry
A. Frieden, David A. Lake. (1995) p.407-415. (Course Pack)
Schott, Jeffrey, "Setting the Course," in Schott, ed., The World
Trading System: Challenges Ahead," Institute for International Economics.
(1996) p.281-309. (Course Pack)
Dani Rodrik, "Sense
and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate," Foreign Policy Summer
1997, 19-36. (Available Online)
RELATED MEDIA
Video of Professor
Bhagwati speaking on Free Trade - off the WTOWatch.org web site.
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to and viewing this video>>
Lecture - Free Trade: Principles
and Problems Today
The lecture will deal with the ways in which the "conceptual foundations"
or principles of the theory of commercial policy (i.e. the theory of
free trade, in common parlance) can be applied to the important policy
questions before us today.
Readings:
Go to Professor Bhagwati's website:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jb38
and click on my articles. Then, download and read:
- "Free Trade in the 21st Century: Managing Viruses,
Phobias and Social Agendas"
- "Free Trade: Why AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club and Congressman
Gephardt Should Like It"
- "Moral Obligations and Trade"
In addition, there are several op.eds, Lectures, Letters, Book Reviews
and essays on these themes reprinted in:
Bhagwati, A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration
and Democracy, MIT Press, 1998; paperback; if anyone wants to buy it,
my office (Room 828, SIPA Building) has some copies left over from last
year’s course at a special price of $15.00. Yulia Popova who is
my student-secretary should help; her times are posted on the door.
Bhagwati, The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization,
MIT Press: December 2000.
Outline of the Lecture
- Why Free Trade is good for GNP
- What about Growth Rate?
- Conventional Arguments against Free Trade:
Two Principles:
1. Under Market Failure, Freer trade and (and given degree of protection)
cannot be necessarily ranked; and
2. If you fix the Market Failure, then Free Trade become OK
Alternative Way of understanding the two principles: You cannot kill
2 birds with 1 stone
Illustrate with respect to: Keynes and the Great Depression; and
Domestic Externalities
- New Arguments against Free Trade:
- Income Distribution: Trade and wages (Rich Countries); Trade
and Poverty (Poor Countries)
- Environment
- Social Agendas
States, Regimes and Rights
October 30 State Formation and Citizenship
What are the origins of the international state system? What relationship
does war have to the formation of states? What’s the relationship
between public legality and democracy? Under what conditions if any
can states make positive contributions to economic development? How
do institutions influence state-formation?
Lecturer: Dean Lisa Anderson
Assignment: 5 page paper
Charles Tilly, "War-making and state-making as organized crime,"In
Evans, Rueschemeyer, Skocpol eds., Bringing the state back in (1985)
p.169-191. (Course Pack)
Ziya Onis, "The Logic
of the Developmental State," Comparative Politics., October 1991
p.109-126. (Available Online)
O'Donnell, Guillermo. "On the State, Democratization and Some Conceptual
Problems: A Latin American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries,
" pp. 1355-1359 (World Development, 21:8, 1993) (Course Pack)
Peter Evans, "The
Eclipse of the State: Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization,"
World Politics., October 1997 p.62-87 (Available Online)
November 6 NO CLASS
November 13 Human Rights
What is the role of the UN and other non-state actors in implementing
and monitoring human rights? Are rights universal? How do value systems
inform the production of rights?
Panelists: Professor Jack Snyder and Reed Brody, Advocacy Director
of Human Rights Watch
Video: Seeking Justice(8min)
Assignment: Paper due
The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Available Online)
David Forsythe, "Human
Rights Fifty Years After the Universal Declaration" and Jack Donnely,
"Unfinished
Business," In PS: Political Science and Politics (September
1998) (Available Online)
V. Spike Peterson, "Whose
Rights? A Critique of the "Givens" In Human Rights Discourse" Alternatives
Vol. XV 1990 p.303-344. (Available Online)
Kathryn Sikkink, "Human
Rights, Principled Issue-Networks, and Sovereignty In Latin America,"
International Organization., Summer 1993 p.411-441. (Available
Online)
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, New York1999., intro.,
ch.1, ch.2 (p.3-53), ch.10 (p.227-248). (Course Pack)
Jack Snyder, From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist
Conflict., W.W. Norton and Company, NY : ch.1 (p.15-43), ch.6 (p.265-269),
(300-306), ch.7(p.321-340). (Course Pack)
Cultures and Identities
November 20 Culture, Nationalism, and Identity Formation
What’s the difference between a state and a nation? What is
nationalism? Is nationalism a product of industrialization? How is racial
identity constructed by state policies? How is nationalism a political
principle? Will a "clash of civilizations" be the defining characteristic
of the post-Cold War world?
Assignment: Debate questions distributed
Craig Calhoun, "Nationalism
and Ethnicity," Annual Review of Sociology, 1993, 19: 211-39.
(Available Online)
Hall, John A. 1993. "Nationalisms:
Classified and Explained," Daedalus, vol. 122, no. 3, pp.
1-28. (Available Online)
Anthony Marx, "Race-making
and the Nation-state," World Politics v. 48 January 1996
p.180-208. (Available Online)
Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities, 1991, London: Verso,
pp. 83-111. (course pack)
Samuel Huntington, "The
Clash of Civilizations," Foreign Affairs Summer 1993, p22-49.
(Available Online)
November 27 Issue Areas: Gender, Colonialism, etc.
What are the political legacies of colonialism? Why have most post-colonial
African social and political reform movements failed? How does indirect
rule differ from direct rule? How is the idea of the "individual" central
to liberalism?
Lecturer: Professor Mahmood Mamdani
Assignment: Debate to be held in section
Bhikhu Parekh, "The Cultural Peculiarity of Liberal Democracy," in
David Held, Prospects for Democracy (1993) p.156-175. (Course
Pack)
Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the
Legacy of Colonialism., Princeton 1996., p.3-61. (Course Pack)
Charles Taylor, "Modes of Civil Society," Public Culture vol
3. No. 1, Fall 1990 p.95-118. (Course Pack)
Partha Chatterjee, "A Response to Charles Taylor’ "Modes of Civil
Society," Public Culture vol.3 No.1, Fall 1990 p.119-132. (Course
Pack)
December 4 International Politics: Conceptual Foundations and
Changing Realities
Lecturer: Professor John Ruggie
Assignment: Continuation of Debate
December 11 (Last Day of Classes)
Forum (Participants to be announced later)