September 10: Contending Theories and Policy Choice

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.

Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding

Globalization New York : Farrar, Straus, Giraux 1999, ch. 2

(p.25-37),

ch. 6 (p.93-119), ch. 8 (p.141-164)

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

John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know, Rethinking Cold War History.

Introduction Oxford: Clarendon Press, New York p.1-25 1997

Ernest May, American Imperialism: A Speculative Essay p.3-17

Chicago: Imprint Publications 1968

E. H. Carr, What Is History? New York: Knopf p.70-143

**Graham T. Allison, "Conceptual Models and the Cuban

Missile

Crisis," The American Political Science Review., vol. 63

Issue 3 1969

p.689-718 (available thru JSTOR)

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)

**Max Weber, "The Types of Legitimate Domination."

Economy and

Society edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittick p.217-271

(on-line?)

Patrick Heller, The Labor of Development., p.1-50 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. Boulder: Westview Press 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 New

Haven:

Yale University Press p.1-16 1971 (coursepack)

*Fareed Zakaria, "The Rise of Illiberal Democracy"

and "Responses

to Zakaria." (November/December 1997) (both selections

should be

available on-line)

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 Cambridge University Press 1989 p.39-52 (coursepack)

**Kenneth Waltz, "Globalization and American

Power," The

National Interest Spring 2000 p.46-57 (available on-line?)

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 Bloomington:

Indiana

University Press p.27-40 1991. (coursepack)

Bruce Russett, Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for

A

Post-Cold War World p.3-42 Princeton University Press

(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 New York: Basic Books 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 NY: Ballantine Books 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. Princeton

University

Press(coursepack)

**Richard Betts, "Is Strategy an Illusion?"

International

Security 25:2 4 2000 p.5-50.

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 Princeton University Press (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

Cornell

University Press (coursepack)

**Robert Wade, "The Asian Debt-and-development Crisi of

1997-?"

World Development Vol. 26 No. 8 p.1535-1553 1998

*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: Paul Krugman or Patrick Heller

Jagdish Bhagwati, "The Global Age: From a Skeptical

South to a

Fearful North," in A Stream of Windows 1998 p.29-71 MIT

Press(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

MIT Press (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

T.H. Marshall Class, Citizenship and Social Development

Chicago

1977

Charles Tilly, "War-making and State-making as Organized

Crime,"

in Evans et al., Bringing the State Back In 1985 p.169-191 NY:

Cambridge University Press(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 (available on-line)

**Robert Wade, East Asia's Economic Success: Conflicting

Perspectives, Partial Insights and Shaky Evidence." World

Politics 1992.

(available on-line)

November 19: Human Rights

Panelists: Jack Snyder and Reed Brody

**The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (available

on-line)

Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999 intro., ch. 1, ch.

2

(p.3-53), ch. 10 (p.227-248) Oxford University Press

Bhikhu Parekh, "The Cultural Peculiarity of Liberal

Democracy,"

in David Held, Prospects for Democracy 1993 p.156-175 Cambridge:

Polity

(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) Norton (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)

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 Bloomington: Indiana University

Press

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 (available on-line?)

*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 (reference? available on-line?)

December 10: International Politics: Conceptual Foundations and

Changing

Realities

Saskia Sassen, Globalization and Its Discontents p.1-23,

194-218 New York: The New Press 1999