IAFS 1000: Global Issues and International Affairs

Summer A 2007: The Fate of the State

Class Meetings: MTWRF 1245-1450, CHEM 145

http://sobek.colorado.edu/~jupille/200702/200702-IAFS1000/

 

Professor: Joseph Jupille                                                                        jupille@colorado.edu

Office: Ketchum 103                                                                             TEL (303) 492-5445

Office Hours: TR 1500-1600 & by app’t                                               FAX (303) 492-0978

 

OVERHEADS

 

DATE

DOW

WK

MTG

TOPIC

LINKS

Part I. The State

20070604

M

1

1

Welcome and Course Introduction

Music: Horace Silver, “A, P or P” (Pori, Finland, 4/14/73)

20070605

T

1

2

Definitions and Concepts:

States and Sovereignty

OH#02

Music: Parliament Funkadelic, “Cosmic Slop” (Denver, 1976)

20070606

W

1

3

Rise of the Modern "Westphalian" State

OH#03

Music: Jefferson Airplane, “The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil” (Sweeping up the Spotlight: Live at the Fillmore East 1969)

20070607

R

1

4

Success and Diffusion of the Westphalian State

OH#04

Music: Miles Davis, “Inamorata” (The Cellar Door Sessions 1970, disc 1)

20070608

F

1

5

Framing the Problem:

Challenges and Continuity

OH#05

Part II. Challenges

20070611

M

2

6

Economic Transformations and the State

PBS site

OH#06

20070612

T

2

7

Natural Challenges

OH#07

Music: John Coltrane, “Brasilia” (The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Sessions, disc 2)

20070613

W

2

8

Security Challenges

OH#08

20070614

R

2

9

Ethnic Conflict and Genocide

PBS site

20070615

F

2

10

Summary and Discussion

n/a

Part III. Continuities

20070619

T

3

12

Westphalia:

Enduring Myth or Continuing Meaning?

OH#12

Music I: Reconstruction, “Another Star” (Palo Alto, CA, 7/7/79);

Music II: Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two, “Folsom Prison Blues” (Country Style USA radio broadcast, 1958)

20070620

W

3

13

States and Markets

OH#13

Music: Elizabeth Cotten, “Freight Train” (Portland, OR, 2/19/75)

20070621

R

3

14

Communications and State Power

OH#14

20070622

F

3

15

International Law and Institutions

Challenge (old)

Continuity (old)

20070625

M

4

16

States, Media and Conflict

n/a

20070626

T

4

17

Summary and Discussion

OH#17

Part IV. Issues

20070628

R

4

19

Free Trade or Fair?

n/a

20070629

F

4

20

Davids vs. Goliaths

n/a

20070702

M

5

21

Clash of Civilizations

 

20070703

T

5

22

Global Governance

 

20070705

R

5

23

Conclusions and Discussion