April 29 Intro to the Class
May 1 Anarchy Waltz, “the Anarchic Structure of World Politics” (AJ)
Mearsheimer,  “Anarchy and the Struggle for Power” (AJ)
VanEvera 7-30
May 6 notes Fearon, “Rationalist Explanations for War” (internet)
Wendt, “Anarchy is What States Make of It” (AJ)
Oye, “the Conditions for Cooperation in World Politics” (AJ)
Van Evera 30-48
May 8 Power Art, “The Four Functions of Force” (AJ)
Mearsheimer, “Back to the Future” (B)
Walt, “Alliances: Balancing and Bandwagoning” (AJ)
May 13 notes Jervis, “Offense, Defense, and the Security Dilemma” (AJ)
Van Evera, “Offense, Defense, and the Causes of War” (B)
Sagan, “Nuclear instability in South Asia” (AJ)
Waltz, “Nuclear stability in South Asia” (AJ)

May 15

 Bargaining Reiter, “Exploring the Bargaining Model of War” 
Schelling, “The Diplomacy of Violence” (AJ)
Pape, “The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism” (AJ)
May 20 MID-TERM

Van Evera 49-88

May 22 

Democratic Peace

Owen, "How liberalism produces the democratic peace"  (B)

Layne, "Kant or Cant: the myth of the democratic peace" (B)
Mansfield and Snyder, "Democratization and the Danger of War" (B)

May 27

 Interdependence and Institutions Copeland, “Economic Interdependence and War,” 464-500.  (B)
Keohane, “International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work” (AJ)
Roberts, “The United Nations and International Security” (AJ)

May 29

 Culture and Identity

Huntington, “The Clash of Civilzations?” (AJ)

Lake and Rothchild, “Containing Fear: the Origin and Management of Ethnic Conflict”  (B)

Fearon and Laitin, “Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity.” (internet)

Kaufmann, “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars” (AJ)

Fearon, “Iraq’s Civil War” (internet)

June 3

 Civil Wars Collier, “What Fuels Civil Wars?” (internet)
Sambanis, "Do Ethnic and Non-ethnic Civil Wars Have the Same Causes?" (internet)
Collier and Hoeffler, "On Economic Causes of Civil War" (internet)
Kalyvas, "New and Old Civil Wars" (internet)
June 5 US Policy
POLICY PAPER DUE		 Jervis, “”Explaining the Bush Doctrine” (AJ)
Gause, “Can Democracy Stop Terrorism?” (AJ)
Dobbins, “Nation Building: The UN Surpasses the US on Learning Curve” (AJ)
Payne, “Deconstructing Nation Building” (AJ)

June 10

 Environmental Scarcity Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons”  (AJ)
Homer-Dixon, “Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict” (B)
Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy” (internet)

June 12

 Looking Ahead Kaysen, “Is War Obsolete?” (B)
Mueller, “The Essential Irrelevance of Nuclear Weapons” (internet)
Betts and Christensen, “The Rise of China: Getting the Questions Right” (AJ)
June 18 FINAL EXAM / RESEARCH DESIGN DUE