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PSC 651 Syllabus Fall 2005
AUG30 | SEP6 | SEP13 | SEP20 | SEP27 | OCT4 | OCT11 | OCT18 OCT25 | NOV1 | NOV8 | NOV 15 | NOV22 | NOV29 | DEC6
Resources:
President Bush Defines "Sovereignty" [QuickTime].
Waever, Ole. "The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline: American and European Developments in International Relations." International Organization, 52.4: 687-727. [JSTOR].
Kahler, Miles. "Rationality in International Relations," International Organization, 52.4: 919-941. [JSTOR].
Lecture Notes: Rational Calculations for Hostage Crisis (MSPowerPoint 126KB)
George, Alexander L. "The Importance of Beliefs and Images," Presidential Decision-Making in Foreign Policy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1981, pp. 55-80. [Course Reader]
Optional: James E. Dougherty and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Contending Theories of International Relations. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2001, 5th Edition, Chapters 1 , pp. 1-62.
Practitioner Hour: The Cold War
Berlin Wall in 1963 (click to enlarge)
Excerpts from The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Paramount Pictures, 1965 (video).
McNamara, Robert S., “The Early Years: January 19, 1961-August 23, 1963,” In Retrospect. New York: Times Books, 1995. [Course Reader].
Assignments for Next Week
1. Forum: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Blackboard | Communication | Discussion Board
2. A Piece of Text
Please bring a piece of text to class that reflects a realist perspective. The text should be from a practitioner or journalist, rather than an academic person. Here is an example from a speech by Representative Lee Hamilton, "A New US Policy for China," which was given on 15 May 1993 and reprinted in Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. LIX, No. 14, pp. 450-453:
"From these mixed signals we can conclude that in the future China has a choice: To move toward adherence to intentional norms of behavior--whether the issue is trade, non-proliferation, or human rights--and to be a force for stability in East Asia. Or to become the hegemonic power in East Asia, enforcing its will with military threats and playing a dangerous balance of power game in South Asia, the Persian Gulf, and the Middle East."
Resources:
Jervis, Robert. "Realism in the Study of World Politics," International Organization, 52.4: 919-941. [JSTOR].
Waltz, Kenneth N. (1990). "Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory," Journal of International Affairs, 44.1: 21-37. [PDF]
John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Powers. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.
Optional: James E. Dougherty and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Contending Theories of International Relations. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2001, 5th Edition, Chapter 2, pp. 63-103.
Practitioner Hour: The Missile Crisis
Allyn, Bruce J., James G. Blight, and David Welch (1989), "Essence of Revision," International Security, 14:136-172. [Course Reader]
The Missiles of October, Viacom Enterprises,1974 (video).
Practitioner Hour: The Missile Crisis (continued)
The Digitized Recordings of the Missiles Crisis (John F. Kennedy Library.
The Missiles of October, Viacom Enterprises, 1974 (video).
Resources:
Wapner, Paul (1995). "Politics Beyond the State. Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics," World Politics, 47:311-340. [JSTOR]
Keohane, Robert O. (1997). "Problematic Lucidity: Stephen Krasner's 'State Power and the Structure of International Trade,” World Politics, 50.1:150-170. [Project Muse]
PowerPoint on Liberal Pluralism and Globalism (PPT)
Practitioner Hour: The Sustainable Management of Renewable Resources
Dennis L. Meadows and Thomas Fiddaman, Fish Banks, Ltd., 2001 (role-playing simulation): Briefing PowerPoint
Fish Banks, Ltd.: Role Description
Optional: James E. Dougherty and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Contending Theories of International Relations. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2001, 5th Edition, Chapter 10, pp. 505-552.
Resources:
Amitai Etzioni (Blog), From Empire to Community. A New Approach to International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Optional: James E. Dougherty and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Contending Theories of International Relations. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2001, 5th Edition, Chapter 9, pp. 416-504.
Practitioner Hour: The Emergence of International Regimes
FishBanks, Ltd.: Results1-4 and Debriefing
Resources:
Constructivist Dialogues
Ruggie, John Gerard. "Make the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge," International Organization, 52.4: 855-885. [JSTOR].
A. Liberal-Cultural
Checkel, Jeffrey T. (1998). "The Constructivist Turn in International Relations Theory," World Politics, 50:324-348. [Project Muse]
B. Ideological
Locher, Birgit and Elisabeth Prugl (2001). "Feminism and Constructivism: Worlds Apart or Sharing the Middle Ground?" International Studies Quarterly, 45:111-130. [Blackwell-Synergy PDF].
C. Literary-Rhetorical
Seminar by Michael Shapiro: "A Look into the Linguistic Mirror."
Shapiro, Michael J. "Textualizing Global Politics," pp. 11-22; and "Representing World Politics: The Sport/War Intertext," pp. 69-96. In J. Der Derian and M. J. Shapiro (eds.) International/ Intertextual Relations. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1989. [Course Reader]
Continental Semiotics: Lines of Communication (Listen or read the comments of Donald Chandler) Donald Chandler, The Analysis of Media Texts.
D. Post-Modern Constructivism
Resources:
Derrida, Jacques, "Deconstruction," Derrida, Zeitgeist Films Ltd. 2003. WMV (10.9MB)
Practitioner Hour: The Networked World
Richard Clarke. Against All Enemies. New York: The Free Press, 2004.
Wright, Lawrence. "The Terror Web," The New Yorker, August 2, 2004, pp. 40-47. [Course Resources].
Group Exercise: Create A Portrait of a Terrorist Organization (This exercise is due next week)
Terrorist Networks: Group Assignments
Resources: Search for International Terrorist Entities and The Middle East Media Institute
Practitioner's Journal (Part 1) is Due
Assignment for 11 October
Course Evaluation: The First Five Weeks
Resources:
Post-Modern Constructivism: PPT | HTM
Derrida, Jacques, "The Myth of Echo and
Narcissus," Derrida,
Zeitgeist Films Ltd. 2003.
WMV (13.0MB
Post-Modern International Relations: A Seminar by Nicholas Onuf.
Practitioner Hour: The World After 9/11
Group Exercise (continued)
The 9/11 Commission Report. The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, 2004.
Policy Options Paper is Due
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Oct18 Cognitive Dynamics
Resources:
Bonham, G. Matthew, Victor Sergeev, and Pavel Parshin, "The
Limited Test-Ban Agreement: Emergence of New Knowledge
Structures in International Negotiation," International Studies
Quarterly, 41.2: 215-240 [JSTOR].
Practitioner Hour: Crusade Against Evil
Bob Woodward. Plan of Attack. New
York: Simon and Schuster,
2004.
Informal Meetings: Consultations with the Policy Research Groups
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Oct25 No Class (Student Recruiting Trip)
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Nov1 Small Groups
Resources:Reeves, Richard. President Kennedy. Profile of Power.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993, pp. 76-106. [Course
Reader].Janis, Irving. "Introduction: Why So Many Miscalculations?" and
't Hart, Paul. Groupthink in Government. Rockland,
"A Perfect Failure: The Bay of Pigs," Groupthink, Dallas:
Houghton Mifflin, 1982, pp. 2-47. [Course Reader].
MA/Berwyn, PA: Swets and Zeitlinger, 1990, pp. 195-271.
[Course Reader].Resources:
Allison, Graham T. "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis," [Course Resources].
Practitioner Hour: Abu Ghraib
US Army Report on Prisoner Abuse
Stanley Milgram, Obedience (video). Stanley Milgram's classic research on obedience to authority, based on candid footage shot at Yale University. Subjects are told to administer electric shocks of increasing severity to another person. Both obedient and defiant reactions are shown, and subjects explain their actions after the experiment. This is the only authentic film footage of Milgram's famous experiment. © 1965, renewed 1993 A Milgram.
Philip J. Zimbardo, The Stanford Prison Experiment
Excerpt: Guard "John Wayne" Responds (Quicktime)
- Nov8 No Class (Student Recruiting Trip)
- Nov8 No Class (Student Recruiting Trip)
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Note: Nov14 and Nov 16 Dinner at Professor Bonham's House to View The Quiet American, Miramax, 2002, video. Based on the novel by Graham Greene (1955). "There has been no novel of any political scope about Vietnam since Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American." -- Harper's
Resources:
David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest,Copyright1992, Random House
3.418
MB "My way" (audio) and "A Quart of Strawberries," The Caine Mutiny 1954 ©1992 SGS Corporation.
Practitioner Hour: Surviving in a Bureaucratic World
Errol Morris (Director) et al., The Fog of War--Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, 2004 (video). Lessons 1,2,7,8,9, and 10.
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Nov22 World
Views: Feminist IR
Resources:
Agathangelou, Anna M. and Lily Ling (2004). "Power, Borders, Security, Wealth: Lessons of Violence and Desire from September 11", International Studies Quarterly, 48.3 :517-538. [Blackwell Synergy PDF].
Lisle, Debbie (1999). "Gender at a Distance. Identity, Performance and Contemporary Travel Writing," International Feminist Journal of Politics 1:66-88.[Course Reader].
Tickner, J. Ann (1992). "Engendered Insecurities," pp. 1-26, and "Man, the State and War: Gendered Perspectives on National Security, pp. 27-66. Gender in International Relations. Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security. New York: Columbia University Press. [Course Reader].
Sylvester, Christine (1994). “Feminist Homesteadings of Security and Cooperation,” Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Course Reader].
Ling, L.H.M. (1996). "Feminist International Relations: From Critique to Reconstruction," The Journal of International Communication, 3:26-41. [Course Reader].
Scott, Catherine V. (1995). Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory. Boulder: Lynn Riener, Chapters 2. [Course Reader].
Hooper, Charlotte (2000) 'Masculinities in Transition: The Case of Globalization. In Marianne March and and Anne Sisson Runyan (eds), Gender and Global Restructuring, pp. 59-73. London: Routledge. [Reserve].
Practitioner Hour: Collaboration Technology Special Guest: Derrick Cogburn, IST, Syracuse University
- Nov29
Organizational Processes and
Crisis Management
Resources:
The 9/11 Commission Report. The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, 2004, Chapters 11-13.
Practitioner Hour: Presentation Skills (Global Collaboratory: 8:30 to 9:30 PM)
The Design and Presentation of PowerPoint
Practitioner's Journal (Part 2) is Due
- Dec6 Policy Research Project Presentations
(Eggers
060) Note New Start Time: 6:00 PMAssignment for 16 December (Due at 5:00 PM):
Final Examination (Take Home): Click Here
Course Evaluations
Wrap Up