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PSC783 Syllabus Fall 2008
Current as of 7 July 2008
Aug26 | Sep2 | Sep9 |
Sep16 | Sep23 | Sep30 |
Oct7
Oct14 | Oct21 |
Oct28
| Nov4 | Nov11 | Nov18 |
Nov25 | Dec2
- Aug26 Decision-Making in Foreign Policy: Rationality
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 (PowerPoint 126KB)
George, Alexander L. "The Importance of Beliefs and Images," Presidential Decision-Making in Foreign Policy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1981, pp. 55-80. [Blackboard | Documents]
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).
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."
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Sep2 World
Views: Realism and Neo-Realism in Foreign
Policy
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.
Practitioner Hour: The Missile Crisis
Allyn, Bruce J., James G. Blight, and David Welch (1989), "Essence of Revision," International Security, 14:136-172. [JSTOR]
The Missiles of October, Viacom Enterprises,1974 (video).
- Sep9 World Views: The Critique of Realism
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).
- Sep16 World Views: Liberal Pluralism
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
- Sep23 World Views: Globalism and Communitarianism
Resources:
Amitai Etzioni, From Empire to Community. A New Approach to International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Practitioner Hour: The Emergence of International Regimes
FishBanks, Ltd.: Results and Debriefing
Discussion of Policy Research Projects
- Sep30 World Views: Constructivism
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
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: The Middle East Media Institute
Practitioner's Journal (Part 1) is Due
- Oct7 Constructivism (Continued)
Resources:
"Matrix," Warner Brothers, 1999, The Real World [Chapter 12]
Post-Modern Constructivism: PPT | HTM
Seminar by Michael Shapiro: "A Look into
the Linguistic
Mirror"
Real |
WMA |Streamed
Post-Modern International Relations: A Seminar by
Nicholas Onuf.
Practitioner Hour: The World After 9/11
The 9/11 Commission Report. The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, 2004.
Group Exercise (continued)
Discussion of Policy Research Projects
Assignment for 25 March
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Oct14 Leadership and Foreign Policy
Decision-
Making
Leadership and Power
Contextual Intelligence
Good and Bad Leaders
Resources:
Joseph S. Nye Jr. The Powers to Lead. New York: Oxford,
2008. (Especially chapters 2-4)
Practitioner Hour: Crusade Against Evil
Bob Woodward. Plan of Attack. New
York: Simon and Schuster,
2004.
"The 'Axis of Evil'
Metaphor and the Restructuring of Iranian
Views toward the
US," (with Daniel Heradstveit):
Word |
PDF
PowerPoint
Informal Meetings: Consultations with the Policy Research Groups
9.
Oct21 Small Groups and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Resources:
Reeves,
Richard. President Kennedy.
Profile of Power.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993, pp. 76-106. [Blackboard
Documents]
Janis, Irving.
"Introduction: Why So Many Miscalculations?" and
"A Perfect Failure: The Bay
of Pigs," Groupthink, Dallas:
Houghton Mifflin, 1982, pp. 2-47.
[Blackboard
| Documents].
Resources:
Allison, Graham T.
"Conceptual Models and the Cuban
Missile
Crisis, [Blackboard
| Documents]
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.
Philip J. Zimbardo,
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Excerpt:
Guard "John Wayne" Responds (Quicktime)
Policy Options Paper is Due
10.
Oct28 Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy Decision-
Making
Resources:
"My
way" (audio) and "A
Quart of Strawberries," The Caine
Mutiny 1954
�1992
SGS Corporation.
Bob Woodward. State of Denial. New York: Simon and
Schuster,
2006.
Meetings with the Webmaster
Practitioner Hour:
The Case of Viet Nam: 1961
Discussion of the Viet Nam War and its relevance:
Comparison to
Iraq
Informal Meetings: Short Consultations
with the Policy
Research Groups
11.
Nov4
Dinner Meeting
Dinner at Professor Bonham's House
for Group A (326
Berkeley
Drive) 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
12. Nov11 World Views: Feminist Perspectives
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].
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. [Blackboard | Documents].
Sylvester,
Christine (1994). �Feminist Homesteadings of Security
and Cooperation,� Feminist Theory and International Relations
in a Postmodern Era.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[Blackboard | Documents].
Hooper,
Charlotte (2000) 'Masculinities in Transition: The Case of
Globalization. In
Marianne March and Anne Sisson Runyan (eds),
Gender and Global
Restructuring, pp. 59-73. London:
Routledge. [Blackboard
| To be added].
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.
13. Nov18 Dinner Meeting
Dinner at Professor Bonham's House for
Group B (326
Berkeley
Drive) 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
14. Nov25
Organizational Processes and Crisis ManagementResources:
David Halberstam,
The Best and the Brightest,
Random House,
1992.
WMA (1.05 MB)
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:
International Mexican Bank Ltd., and Royal Bank of Scotland
Ltd., 1985; Acorn Media Group Inc., 2006. Volume 2, Part 5,
Chapters 1-2.
Practitioner Hour:
Presentation Skills
(Global Collaboratory:
8:45 to 9:30 PM)
The Design and Presentation of PowerPoint
Practitioner's Journal (Part 2) is Due
15.
Dec2 Foreign Policy Research Project Presentations
(Eggers 060)
Note New Start Time: 6:00 PM
Assignment for Dec7 (Due at 5:00 PM):
Optional Final Examination (Take Home): Click Here
Course Evaluations
Wrap Up