| Day |
Date
|
Topic
|
Readings |
Assignments/ Notes |
| M |
Aug 25 |
Introduction/
Background |
Snyder, Jack (2004). "One World,
Rival Theories," Foreign Policy, November/ December: 53-62.
Karns and Mingst (2004). "Chapter
2: The Theoretical Foundations of Global Governance,"
International Organizations, Boulder: Lynn Reiner: 35-60.
|
|
| W |
Aug 27 |
The Problem of the Modern International
System
|
Movie:
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy |
Background |
| F |
Aug 29 |
No Class -
Research Day |
|
|
| M |
Sep 1 |
No Class - Labor
Day Holiday |
|
|
| W |
Sep 3 |
Theoretical
Background: Evolutionary Views |
Hodgson, Geoffey (2004). "Chapter 2: Agency and Structure,"
The Evolution of Institutional Economics, New York:
Routledge: 12-40.
|
Homework Due |
| F |
Sep 5 |
Cont. |
|
|
| M |
Sep 8 |
Evolution
and Institutional Change |
Lewis,
Orion, and Steinmo, Sven (2008). "Evolutionary Theory and
Institutional Change," APSA Annual Meeting |
|
| W |
Sep 10 |
Evolutionary Views in IR |
Thayer, Bradley A.
(2000). "Bringing in Darwin," International Security,
25(2): 124-151.
Bell, Duncan S.A.,
and MacDonald, Paul A. (2001). "Correspondence: Start the
Evolution Without Us," International Security, 26(1):
187-198. |
|
| F |
Sep 12 |
Cont. |
|
|
| M |
Sep 15 |
Historical
Background: The City-State System |
Thucydides "The Melian Dialogue,"
Chapter XVII, History of the
Peloponnesian War.
Machiavelli, Niccolo, "Chapter 5-20,"
The Prince. |
Historical Foundations |
| W |
Sep 17 |
Historical
Background: The Pre-modern International System |
Tilly, Charles
(1985). "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime," in
Evans et al, eds., Bringing the State Back In, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. |
|
| F |
Sep 19 |
19th and 20th Century Structures |
Karns and Mingst
(2004). "Chapter 3: Foundations of the Pieces of Global
Governance,"
International Organizations, Boulder: Lynn Reiner: 63-96。 |
|
| M |
Sep 22 |
The Age of
Globalization |
Friedman, Thomas L. (2005).
"Chapter 1: While I was Sleeping," The World is
Flat, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Hanson, Elizabeth C.
(2008). "Chapter 1: The Information Revolution," The
Information Revolution and World Politics, Lanham: Rowman
and Littlefield. |
Recent Trends |
| W |
Sep 24 |
Information
Globalization |
Hanson, Elizabeth C.
(2008). "Chapter 3: The Globalization of Communication,"
The Information Revolution and World Politics, Lanham:
Rowman and Littlefield. |
|
| F |
Sep 26 |
War in the
Information Age |
Hanson, Elizabeth C.
(2008). "Chapter 4: War and Peace in the Information Age"
The Information Revolution and World Politics, Lanham:
Rowman and Littlefield. |
|
| M |
Sep 29 |
|
Miller-Adams, Michelle (1999). "Chapter 6: Effecting Change: The
Challenges of Organizational Transformation." in The World
Bank, London: Routledge. |
Changes in IGOs |
| W |
Oct 1 |
|
Stiglitz, Joseph E. (2003).
Globalization and its Discontents, New York: Norton. |
|
| F |
Oct
3 |
|
Finnemore, Martha, and Sikkink,
Kathern (2005). "International Norm Dynamics and Political
Change," International Organization, 52(4).
|
|
| M |
Oct 6 |
Political Networks |
Slaughter, Anne-Marie
(2004). A New World Order,
Princeton: Princeton University Press. |
Changes in States |
| W |
Oct 8 |
cont. |
|
|
| F |
Oct 10 |
How Economics Re-shapes State
Interests. |
Friedman, Thomas L. (2005).
"Chapter 12: The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention," The World is
Flat, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
|
| M |
Oct 13 |
Transfer of international political norms.
|
Movie:
Our Brand is Chaos |
|
| W |
Oct 15 |
Midterm Exam |
|
|
| F |
Oct 17 |
|
Wapner, Paul, (1995). "Politics Beyond the State:
Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics,"
World Politics,
47(3). |
Changes in Society |
| M |
Oct 20 |
|
Karns and Mingst
(2004). "Chapter 6: Nonstate Actors: NGOs, Networks and
Social Movements,"
International Organizations, Boulder: Lynn Reiner: 211-49 |
|
| W |
Oct 22 |
|
Rosenman, Nils, (2005). "The Privatization of
Human Rights Violations - Business' Impunity or Corporate Responsibility? The
Case of Human Rights Abuses and Torture in Iraq," Non-State Actors
and International Law, 5. |
|
| F |
Oct 24 |
|
|
Regional Cases: |
| M |
Oct 27 |
|
|
Europe |
| W |
Oct 29 |
|
Braun, Marcel (2008). "The
Evolution of Emissions Trading in the European Union,"
Accounting Organizations and Society,
|
|
| F |
Oct 31 |
|
Phillips, David L. (2004).
"Turkey's Hopes for Accession," Foreign Affairs,
Sept/Oct.
|
|
| M |
Nov 3 |
|
Salem, Paul (2008). "The
Middle East: Evolution of a Broken Regional Order," Carnegie
Papers. |
Middle East |
| W |
Nov 5 |
|
Haas, Richard N. (2006). "The
New Middle East," Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec. |
|
| F |
Nov 7 |
|
|
|
| M |
Nov 10 |
The Current Problem of East Asian
Security |
Shambaugh, David (2006). "Asia in
Transition: The Evolving Regional Order," Current History,
April.
|
East Asia |
| W |
Nov 12 |
|
Ikenberry, John G. (2005).
"America's Postwar World Order in Transition, " International
Relations of the Asia Pacific, v5. |
|
| F |
Nov 14 |
|
|
|
| M |
Nov 17 |
|
Miles, S.F. ed (2007).
Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations
Transformed, Boulder: Lynn-Reiner. |
Africa |
| W |
Nov 19 |
|
Traub, James (2006). "China's African
Adventure," New York Times Magazine, November 19, p74. |
|
| F |
Nov 21 |
|
|
|
| M |
Nov 24 |
No class -
Fall Break |
|
|
| W |
Nov 26 |
No class -
Fall Break |
|
|
| F |
Nov 28 |
No class -
Fall Break |
|
|
| M |
Dec 1 |
New International Frameworks? |
TBA. |
|
| W |
Dec 3 |
Presentations and Discussion |
|
|
| F |
Dec 5 |
Presentations and Discussion |
|
|
| M |
Dec 8 |
Presentations and Discussion |
|
|
| W |
Dec 10 |
Presentations and Discussion |
|
|
| F |
Dec 12 |
Final Exam |
|
Policy Brief
Due |
