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The Dialectics of World Orders (E602)

Course Organization

Thursdays, 10h15 – 12h00

Professor:
Thomas J. Biersteker
Office 315, Voie Creuse 16
Office hours: Weds 14h -16h
Tel. +41 (0)22 908 5807
bierstek@hei.unige.ch

Teaching Assistant:
Jonas Hagmann
Office R37, Pavillon Rigot
Office hours: Weds 16h -18h
Tel. +41 (0)22 908 5947
jonas.hagmann@graduateinstitute.ch

 

Course Description

This seminar course will explore different conceptions of order in contemporary international relations, and a dialectical approach for comprehending the emergence of different types of contradictory tendencies in international relations will be articulated. The goal of this seminar (and the forthcoming, multi-authored book on which it is based, a manuscript that will be read during the course in draft form) is to develop a genuinely global approach to international relations. The multinational authors engaged in the project are trying to produce an approach to understanding international relations that is sensitive to fundamentally different cultural traditions and is able to accommodate contradictory understandings, rather than attempt to force them into a single explanatory framework. Global debates about security, political economy, political community, and ecology will be surveyed, with special attention to how they are perceived from different national or regional vantage points.

The course will begin with an analysis of the different meanings of world order and articulate a conception of order that treats world orders as ideational structures that co-exist with one other and interpenetrate different national societies around the globe. Next, we will examine dialectical approaches to understanding world order and disorder, contrasting them with conventional, analytical approaches in the social sciences.

The second section of the course will review global debates about international political security over the course of the last century. It will begin with an assessment of the recurring dialectic between balance of power and a variety of different forms of collective security, debates that were first articulated at the beginning of the century. Next, we will consider debates in the middle part of the century between those who articulated the logic of Cold War deterrence and those who confronted it with people's wars and insurgencies. Finally, we will examine debates that dominated the century's conclusion, with an analysis of the expansion of UN humanitarian intervention and the subsequent emergence of doctrines of unipolarity and the articulation of ideas about “coalitions of the willing.”

The third section of the course will examine global debates about international political economy. It will begin with a review of the imperialism debates that began the century. Next, the mid-century crisis of capitalism and articulation of alternative economic systems (socialism and fascism) will be explored. The section will conclude with an analysis of globalization and its discontents.

The fourth section will assess global debates about political community, beginning with debates about the importance and normative utility of nationalism at the beginning of the century, along with efforts to transcend it in the form of supra-national community building following the Second World War. The section will conclude with an analysis of the more recent debate between those who see the future in terms of a clash of civilizations and those who see the potential emergence of global society.

The fifth section of the course will explore global political ecology debates, beginning with an analysis of classical geopolitical arguments and examining how they were transformed into efforts to control nature itself (from geopolitics to biopolitics). The section will conclude with an assessment of “nature's revenge,” reassessing debates about the limits to growth and the emergence of a consensus about the challenges of global climate change.

The concluding week of the course will be devoted to developing syntheses and conclusions across these four different issue domains. Students will work together in different groups to prepare presentations in the final class session that suggest both recurring patterns and transformational syntheses.

Course requirements will consist of active participation in the seminar discussions, taking the lead (along with one or two other students) of a portion of the discussion of one week's readings (posing questions for class discussion), and the completion of two (15-20 page) papers, the first analyzing aspects, or recurring themes, in the readings in the course, and the second expanding or commenting critically upon the group presentation given in the final session. The papers will be due on April 10 and June 5. Further details about the papers will be provided in class.

 

Course Packets: Available at Imprimerie Minute .

 

 

Seminar sessions

 

21 February: Introduction to the course

No reading assignment

 

 

28 February: Meanings of World Order

  • Hedley Bull , The Anarchical Society , Chapters 1-2, pp. 3-52, 1977.
  • Robert W. Cox , "Towards a post-hegemonic conceptualization of world order: reflections on the relevancy of Ibn Khaldun" in James N. Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Czempiel (eds.) Governance without government: order and change in world politics . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , 1991.
  • Johan Galtung , “Social Cosmology and the Concept of Peace,” Part II of Ch. 15, pp. 415-436 in his Essays in Peace Research , vol. 5, Ejlers, Copenhagen , 1980.
  • Richard Falk, "Contending Approaches to World Order," in Journal of
    International Affairs, 31:2 (1977). Stable URL
    http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=3&hid=103&sid= bb0a70f0-b556-486b-8a42-bdef1d7470f6%40sessionmgr106
  • Richard Falk , "Contending Approaches to World Order," in his The End of World Order: Essays on Normative international Relations , Holmes & Meier
  • Hayward Alker, Tahir Amin, Thomas Biersteker, and Takashi Inoguchi , “Defining the Post Cold War World Order,” Chapter One of The Dialectics of World Orders (draft manuscript)

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • Jongwoo Han and L. H. M. Ling, “ Masculine State , Feminine Society: A Feminist-Postcolonial Interpretation of East Asia's Capitalist Developmental State ,” forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly .
  • Rosenau and Czempiel (eds.), Governance without Government.
  • Fernand Braudel, Civilisation matérielle, économie, et capitalisme, Xve-XVIIIe siècle, 3 vols. Armand Colin, Paris, 1979.
  • Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History , Somerville abridgment, Readers Union.
  • Quincy Wright, The Study of International Relations Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1955, especially Chapter 12, 30, and 31.
  • Johan Galtung, Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization , PRIO, Sage, London , 1996, pp. 211-222.
  • J. Galtung, Erik Rudeng & Tore Heiestad, “On the Last 2,500 Years in Western History and Some Remarks on the Coming 500,” pp. 318-361 in Peter Burke, ed., New Cambridge Modern History, Companion Volume, Vol. XIII, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979.
  • Wolfgang Fikentscher, Modes of Thought: A Study in the Anthropology of Law and Religion , J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tubingen , 1995.

 

 

6 March: Dialectical Approaches to World Order and Disorder

  • Martin Hollis and Steve Smith , Explaining and Understanding International Relations , Chapter 9, pp. 196-216.
  • Paul M. Kennedy , "The Decline Nationalistic History in the West, 1900-1970," Journal of Contemporary History , Vol. 8, No. 1 (January 1973). Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0094%28197301%298%3A1%3C77 %3ATDONHI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
  • Mao Zedong , "On Contradiction," Four Essays on Philosophy ( Beijing : Foreign language Press, 1937
  • Johan Galtung , “Positivism and Dialectics: A Comparison” Chapter 8 in his Methodology and Ideology ( Copenhagen : Christian Ejlers, 1977 (pp. 214-229).
  • Kosuke Shimizu , "The Dialectics of Globalization: Whose Globalization Is It Anyway?" Mershon International Studies Review , 40 (1996). Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1079-1760%28199610%2940%3A2%3 C266%3ATDOGWG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
  • Rodney B. Hall , Unpublished paper, first presented at the ECPR General Conference, Turin Italy , September 2007.
  • Hayward Alker, Tahir Amin, Thomas Biersteker, and Takashi Inoguchi , “Theorizing World Order(s): An Historical, Hermeneutic, and Dialectical Approach,” Chapter Two of The Dialectics of World Orders (draft manuscript).

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • Hayward R. Alker, Jr., “Dialectical Foundations of Global Disparities,” International Studies Quarterly , 1981
  • Hayward R. Alker, "The Dialectical Logic of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue," Chapter 1 of his Rediscoveries and Reformulations: Humanistic Methodologies for International Studies, Cambridge University Press, New York , 1996.
  • Hayward R. Alker, Jr. and Thomas J. Biersteker, “The Dialectics of World Order: Notes for an Archeologist on International Savoir-faire” International Studies Quarterly , 28(2), Spring 1984, pp. 121-142
  • Scott Warren, The Emergence of Dialectical Theory: Philosophy and Political Inquiry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), especially Chapter Two, pp. 28-61
  • John R. Searle, The Construction of Social Reality ,, Free Press, New York , 1995
  • Gerda Lerner, Why History Matters: Life and Thought , New York : Oxford University Press, 1997
  • Geoffrey Barraclough, "The Search for Meaning in History: National History, Comparative History, and 'Meta-history'," Chapter 5 of his Main Trends in History , Holmes & Meier , New York and London , 1979
  • Donald J. Moon, “The Logic of Political Inquiry,” in the Handbook of Political Science
  • Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences , edited by John Thompson, .... See also Ricoeur's Time and Narrative , 3 vols., University of Chicago Press , Chicago, 1984-1988
  • Frederick Olafson, The Dialectics of Action: A Philosophical Interpretation of History and the Humanities ( Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1979
  • Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 198?)
  • Herbert Marcuse, Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity , translated and introduced by Sheila Ben-Habib (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987)

 

 

13 March: Global Security Debates I: From Balance of Power to Collective Security

  • Inis Claude , Power and International Relations , Chapters 2 and 4, (pp. 11-39 and 94-149).
  • Ernst Haas, “The Balance of Power: Prescription, Concept, or Propaganda?” World Politics , V, (July 1953), pp. 442-477. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-8871%28195307%295%3A4% 3C442%3ATBOPPC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
  • Paul Schroeder , “The nineteenth century system: balance of power or political equilibrium?” Review of International Studies , V. 15, N. 2, April 1989, pp. 135-154
  • Morton Kaplan , System and Process in International Relations , Chapter 2, pp. 21-53
  • John A. Hobson , Towards International Government , Chapter 1, pp. 11-27
  • Woodrow Wilson , “The Fourteen Points Speech,” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918wilson.html

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • Norman Angell, The Great Illusion , Chapters II and III, pp. 15-48, 1910.
  • Henry Noel Brailsford, The War of Steel and Gold , Chapter 1, pp. 9-46, 1916. http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment/Brailsford/AP01.htm
  • G. Lowes Dickenson, The International Anarchy, 1904-1914 , Chapter 1, pp. 3-12
  • Sir Halford Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and Reality , Chapter 6, pp. 148-181, 1919
  • H.G. Wells, “The Idea of a League of Nations ,” Parts I and II, Atlantic Monthly , January/February 1919. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/interwar.htm
  • John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace , Chapters I, III, and IV, 1920. http://historicaltextarchive.com/keynes/
  • Georges Clemenceau, Grandeur and Misery of Victory , Chapters XI and XVI, pp. 170-192 and 277-285, 1930
  • Arnold J. Toynbee, "Things Not Foreseen at Paris ," Foreign Affairs , V. 12, N. 3, pp. 472-482, April 1934
  • Alfred Zimmern, The League of Nations and the Rule of Law , Part III, Chapter IV, pp. 480-496, 1936
  • Arnold Wolfers, Britain and France between the Two Wars , Introduction and Conclusion, pp. 3-8 and 380-390

 

 

20 March: Global Security Debates II: From Cold War Deterrence to People's Wars

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars , “Guerilla War,” Chapter 11, pp. 176-196, 1977
  • E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939 , Chapters Four and Five, “The Harmony of Interests” and “The Realist Critique” 1939. Available at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/carr.htm
  • Hans Morgenthau, Politics among Nations , Chapters 28 and 29, pp. 459-499, 1966 edition
  • Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation, Chapter 76, “Summing Up,” pp. 725-737
  • John Ikenberry, After Victory , Chapters 1 and 6
  • Robert Jervis, “Cooperation under the Security Dilemma,” World Politics, Vol. 30 (2), 1978, pp. 167-214. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-8871%28197801%2930% 3A2%3C167%3ACUTSD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
  • Stephen Walt, The Origins of Alliances , 1987, Chapters 1-2, 8
  • Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics , Chapters 1 and 6, pp. 9-49 and 211-244, 1981.
  • Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers , Chapter 8, (pp. 514-540), 1987
  • Susan Strange, States and Markets , Chapter 2, 1988
  • Henry Nau, The Myth of Americas's Decline , Chapter 1, pp. 3-14

 

 

3 April: Global Security Debates III: From Humanitarian Intervention to Unilateralism

  • Nicholas Wheeler , Saving Strangers , Conclusion, pp. 285-310
  • Roland Paris , At War's End , Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 13-51
  • G. John Ikenberry and Anne Marie Slaughter (eds.), Forging a World of Liberty under Law: US National Security in the 21 st Century, Princeton Project report, available as a PDF file at http://www.wws.princeton.edu/ppns/report/FinalReport.pdf , pages 6-32 and 58-61.
  • John Bolton , “Should We Take Global Governance Seriously?" Chicago Journal of lnternationa1 Law (Fa11, 2001). Available on http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/922574-1.html
  • Takashi Inoguchi , “Twentieth Century World Order Debates: Balance of Power, Collective Security and Unilateralism,” Chapter Three of The Dialectics of World Orders (draft manuscript).

 

Optional and Additional readings:

 

 

10 April: Global Political Economy I: From Imperialism to Decolonization

  • Optional and Additional readings:
  • Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man's Burden,” 1899 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
  • Ho Chi Minh, “The Path Which Led me to Leninism,” Problems of the East, April 1960. Quoted in Ho Chi Minh, On Revolution ( New York : Frederick A. Praeger, 1967.): 5
  • Anthony Brewer, Marxist Theories of Imperialism

 

 

17 April: Global Political Economy II: From a Crisis of Capitalism to Alternative Economic Systems

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • Lionel Robbins, The Great Depression , Chapters III and IX, pp. 30-54 and 195-200, 1934
  • Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation , Chapter 20, pp. 237-248, 1944. (Course packet)
  • Harold Lasswell, “The Garrison State ,” American Journal of Sociology , pp. 455-468, 1940
  • Nikolai Kondratieff, “Long Waves of Economic Activity” 1928
  • Peter Hall, The Political Power of Economic Ideas (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987)
  • Robert Cox, Production, Power, and World Order , (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1987)
  • Mihail Manoilescu, The Century of Corporatism , 1930
  • Philippe Schmitter, “Still the Century of Corporatism?” Review of Politics , 36(1), 1974

 

 

24 April: Global Political Economy III: From Globalization to its Discontents

  • John G. Ruggie , International Regimes, 1982. “Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic System,” International Organization 36(2), pp. 379-415. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8183%28198221%2936% 3A2%3C379%3AIRTACE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
  • Walt W. Rostow , The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto , 1960, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-16.
  • Robert Gilpin , U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation, Chapter 1, pp. 20-43.
  • Theotonio Dos Santos , “The Structure of Dependence,” American Economic Review , pp. 231-236, May 1970. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8282%28197005%2960% 3A2%3C231%3ATSOD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
  • F.H. Cardoso and Enzo Faletto , Dependency and Development in Latin America , Preface to the English Edition, pp. vii-xxv.
  • Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson , Globalization in Question (Malden: Polity Press 1999), chapter 1, pp. 1-18
  • Rafael Kaplinsky , “Is Globalization All It Is Cracked Up to Be?” Review of International Political Economy , 8, 1 (Spring 2001) 45-65. Available at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rrip/ 2001/00000008/00000001/art00003
  • Thomas Biersteker , “Twentieth Century World Order Debates: From the Age of Imperialism to the Era of Globalization,” Chapter Four of The Dialectics of World Orders (draft manuscript).

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • 0'Brien, Richard, Global Financial Integration: The End of Geography (London: Pinter, 1992)
  • Bergsten, Horst, and Moran, 1978.
  • Thomas J. Biersteker, “The Triumph of Liberal Economic Thinking” in Barbara Stallings (ed.) Global Change, Regional Response (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
  • Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History” 1989
  • Harry Johnson, Trade and the Less Developed Countries
  • Eric Helleiner, States and the Re-emergence of Global Finance , Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-50, 1994
  • Mauro F. Guillén, “Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive or Feeble? A Critique of Five Key Debates in the Social Science Literature” Annual Review of Sociology , 2001 27:235-60
  • Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization , 2004
  • Johan Galtung, “A Structural Theory of Imperialism,” Journal of Peace Research, 1971
  • Gabriel Palma, World Development 1978
  • Peter Evans, Dependent Development (Princeton University Press, 1979).
  • Khieu Samphan , Cambodia 's Economy and Industrial Development , Cornell monographs in Southeast Asian Studies
  • Richard N. Cooper, review of Bhagwati, Foreign Affairs , January/February 2004.
  • Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State , Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Gary Gereffi, “Global production systems and third world development” in Barbara Stallings (ed.) Global Change, Regional Response (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
  • Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century ( New York : Strauss & Giroux, 2005).
  • Grahame Thompson and Paul Hirst, Globalization in Question , Polity Press, 1994
  • Lawrence Broz, International Organization article
  • Linda Weiss, “Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State” New Left Review , No. 225 (September/October 1997) 3-27.
  • Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums” New Left Review , No. 226, (2004) 5-34
  • Ronaldo Munck, Globalization and Social Exclusion , Kumarian Press, 2005.
  • John Gray, False Dawn , London : Granta Publications, 1998.
  • V. Spike Peterson, “Rewriting (Global) Political Economy as reproductive, productive, and Virtual (Foucaultian) Economies” International Feminist Journal of Politics , Volume 4, Number 1, April 2002 (1-30).
  • Dani Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Washington : Institute for International Economics, 1997.
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents , ( New York : W.W. Norton Press, 2003).
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz with Andrew Charlton, Fair Trade for All ( Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005).
  • David Held, Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus , Cambridge : Polity Press, 2004.
  • Ngaire Woods, “Order, Globalization, and Inequality in World Politics” in Andrew Hurrell and Ngaire Woods (eds.) Globalization and World Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
  • Stephen Krasner, International Regimes , pp. 1-21, 1981.
  • Robert Keohane, After Hegemony , Chapters 4-6, pp. 49-109, 1984

 

 

1 May: Global Political Community I: From the Age of Nationalism to Supra-Nationalism

  • E. Renan “What is a Nation”, in H.R.Bhaba, (ed.) Nation and Narration ( London : Routledge,1990
  • Allan Lynch , “Woodrow Wilson and national self-determination” Review of International Studies , Vol.28, No.2, (April 2002) pp419-436. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-049X%28198208%29126 %3A4%3C243%3AWWANSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7
  • Benedict Anderson , Imagined Communities , (London: Verso 1991), Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 11-40
  • Imam Khomeini , Islam and Revolution translated by Hamid Algar (Berkeley: Mizan Press 1981), Section 3, The Form of Islamic Government, selections to be assigned
  • Karl Deutsch et. al., "Political Community and the North Atlantic Area," in International Political Communities , pp. 1-24, 1957.
  • Philippe C. Schmitter, “Imagining the Future of the Euro-Polity with the Help of New Concepts” in Gary Marks, Fritz Scharpf, Philippe Schmitter and Wolfgang Streeck (eds.) Governance in the European Union (London: Sage Publishers, 1996)

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • Hans Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism (New York: Macmillan,1948) P.21
  • Walker Connor , The National Question in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Strategy ( Princeton : Princeton University Press) p.29
  • Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community ( Cambridge : Polity Press,1998
  • Rupert Emerson, From Empire to Nation: The Rise to Self-Assertion of Asian and African Peoples ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press,1960
  • James Mayall, Nationalism and International Society , (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
  • Fred Halliday, “Nationalism” in The Globalization of World Politics ed. by John Baylis and Steve Smith, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp 359-373
  • C.A.Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914 ( Oxford : Blackwell,2004)
  • Wolfgang Mommsen, “The Varieties of the Nation-State in Modern History: Liberal Imperialist, Fascist and Contemporary notions of Nation and Nationality”in M.Mann (ed.) The Rise and Decline of the Nation-State , (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990)
  • Partha Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse (London: Zed book, 1993)
  • Sharif al-Mujahid, “Pan-Islamism”in A History of the Freedom Movement ( Delhi : Renaissance Publishing House, 1984
  • Prasenjit Dura, Rescuing History From the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995)
  • Nikki R.Keddie, An Islamic Response to Imperialism: Political and Religious Writings of Sayyid Jamal al Din Al –Afghani (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983)
  • K.W.Deutsch, Nationalism and its Alternatives (N.Y: Afred A.Knopf, 1969)
  • Ernest B. Haas, The Uniting of Europe ( Stanford: Stanford University Press,1958); E.B. Haas, Beyond the Nation-State (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964)
  • Ernst B. Haas, Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress Vol.1, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997) and Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress Vol.2, ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000)
  • Walker Connor, “Nation-Building or Nation-Destroying” World Politics (April 1982
  • Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press 1983
  • A.D.Smith, Theories of Nationalism (N.Y: Holmer & Meier Publishers 1983
  • Peter D.Phillips and Immanuel Wallerstein, “National and World Identities and the Interstate System” Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Summer 1985
  • Tom Nairn, “The Modern Janus” New Left Review (Nov-Dec.1985
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser, The Philosophy of Revolution ( Cairo : Minitry of National Guidance, n.d.)
  • Sayyed Abul Ala Mawdudi, Political Theory of Islam ( Lahore : 1960
  • Sayyed Qutb, Social Justice in Islam ( Cairo : n.d.)
  • David Mitrany, "The Functional Approach to World Organization," International Affairs , July 1948. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-5850%28194807%2924% 3A3%3C350%3ATFATWO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
  • Ernst B. Haas, The Uniting of Europe , Chapter 1, pp. 3-31, 1958.

 

 

8 May Global Political Community II: From Clash of Civilizations to Global Society

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History” The National Interest (Summer 1989) pp 3-18 ; ----- The End of History and the Last Man (N.Y: Free Press, 1992)
  • Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizaions and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996)
  • Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community: Ethical Foundations of the Post-Westphalian Era (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998)
  • Mohamed Khatami, “Dialogue among Civilizations” Mahjuba Vol.20, no.1 (Jan.2001)
  • Ali A.Mazrui, “Racial Conflict or Clash of Civilizations ? Rival Paradigms for Emerging Faultlines” in The Clash of Civilizations ? Asian Responses , ed. by Salim Rashid, (Karachi:Oxford University Press, 1997) pp. 27-39
  • Andei Tsygankov and Pavel Tsygankov, ‘Pluralism or Islolations of Civilizations? Russia's Foreign Policy Discourse and the Reception of Huntington's Paradigm of the Post-Cold War World' School of International Relations,' USS and Department of Sociology , Moscow State University (January 1998)
  • Chandra Muzaffar, “The Clash of Civilizations or Camouflaging Dominance” in The Clash of Civilizations ? Asian Responses , ed. by Salim Rashid, (Karachi:Oxford University Press, 1997) pp.99-108
  • Donald Puchala, Piece on Civilizations
  • Hayward Alker critique of Huntington
  • Hedley Bull and Adam Watson, The Evolution of International Society , Chapters 1 and 25.
  • Geoffrey Barraclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History , Chapter 6, “The Revolt against the West” pp. 153-198, 1966.
  • Christian Reus-Smit, "The Constitutional Structure of International Society and the Nature of Fundamental Institutions" International Organization 51, no. 4 (1997), pp. 555-89. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8183%28199723%2951% 3A4%3C555%3ATCSOIS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1
  • Andrew Hurrell, On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society , Chapter 1 (forthcoming 2008).
  • Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Cornell, 1998) Chapter 1.
  • Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, International Norm Dynamics and Political Change , International Organization, 1998, 52:4. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8183%28199823%2952% 3A4%3C887%3AINDAPC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
  • Neta Crawford, Argument and Change in World Politics , Chapter 1, pp. 11-81.
  • Anne Marie Slaughter, A New World Order, Chapter 1, pp. 1-64, 2006.
  • John Gerard Ruggie, “Reconsituting the Global Public Domain: Issues, Actors, and Practices” A Working Paper of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard University . Available at; http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/CSRI/publications/ workingpaper_6_ruggie.pdf
  • Claire Cutler, Virginia Hauffler, and Tony Porter, Private Authority and International Affairs , Chapter 1
  • Rodney Hall and Thomas Biersteker, The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance , Chapters 1 and 10.

 

 

15 May: Global Political Ecology I: From Geopolitics to Biopolitics

  • Paul Kennedy , “Mahan Versus Mackinder,” Strategy and Diplomacy 1870-1945 , Allen & Unwin, London , 1983, pp. 41-85
  • Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , Introduction to Geopolitics , Edítorial André Bello, Santigago de Chile, 1981, Chapters 1 and 2 pp19-36
  • Friedrich Ratzel , “The Laws of Spatial Growth of States,” in R. E. Kasperson & J. V. Minghi, eds., The Structure of Political Geography , Aldine, Chicago, 1969
  • Mike Hawkins , Social Darwinism in European and American Thought 1860-1945 , Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge , 1997, Chapter 11, pp. 272-291
  • Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer Sovereign Power and Bare Life , Stanford University Press, 1998, Introduction and Part III, pp. 7-14 and 69-105

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • Barry R. Posen, “Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony,” International Security , Vol. 28, No.1 (Summer 2003), pp. 5-46.
  • Ramesh Dutta Dikshit, Political Geography: A Contemporary Perspective , New Delhi , Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing, 1982;
  • Geoffrey Parker, Western Geopolitical Thought in the Twentieth Century , St. Martin's Press, New York , 1985
  • Peter J. Taylor, ed., Political Geography of the Twentieth Century: A Global Analysis , Belhaven Press, London , 1993;
  • John Agnew, Geopolitics: Re-visioning World Politics , Routledge, London and New York , 1998
  • Jacques Lévy, ed., From Geopolitics to Global Politics: A French Connection , Frank Cass, London , 2001, originally a special issue of Geopolitics , vol 5, no. 2 (Autumn 2000)
  • B. L. Turner et al., eds., The Earth as Transformed by Human Action , Cambridge University Press, New York , 1990, which reverentially takes its title from George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action , originally published in 1864 by Charles Scribner, New York , and reissued in 1965
  • Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought , Beacon Press, Boston , 1992
  • Geoffrey Sloan, “Sir Harold J. Mackinder: The Heartland Theory Then and Now,” in Colin S. Gray and Geoffrey Sloan, eds., Geopolitics: Geography and Strategy , Frank Cass, London and Portland , OR , 1999, at pp.15-18
  • Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence , Verso, London and New York , 2004.
  • Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended ,” Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 Translated by David Macey, Picador, New York , 2003
  • Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide , Harper Collins, New York , 2003.
  • John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II , W. W. Norton, New York , 1999.
  • Yasushi Yamanouchi, J. Victor Koschmann, & Ryuichi Narita, eds., Total War and ‘Modernization , Cornell University East Asian Program, Ithaca , 1998
  • Captain A. T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History , Chapter VII, pp. 254-280, 1895.
  • Sir Halford Mackinder, "The Geographical Pivot of History," The Geographical Journal , pp. 421-444, 1904

 

 

22 May: Global Political Ecology II: From Limits to Growth to Global Climate Change

  • Ian Miles, “Worldviews and Scenarios,” Chapter 8 in Christopher Freeman and Marie Jahoda, eds., World Futures: the Great Debate , Martin Robertson, London , 1978, pp. 233-278
  • Hayward R. Alker, Jr., and Peter M. Haas , "The Rise of Global Ecopolitics," in Nazli Choucri, ed., Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses , MIT Press, Cambridge , MA , 1993
  • Francisco R. Sagasti and Michael E. Colby , “Eco-Development Perspectives on Global change from Developing Countries,” also in Choucri, ed., op. cit., pp. 175-204
  • Hayward R. Alker, Jr., “Twentieth Century World Order Debates: From Geopolitics to Ecopolitics and Biopolitics,” Chapter Six of The Dialectics of World Orders (draft manuscript).

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • Harold and Margaret Sprout, The Ecological Perspective on Human Affairs, with Special reference to International Politics , Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton , 1965
  • D. H. Meadows, D. L. Meadows, J. Randers, W.W. Behrens III, The Limits to Growth , Potomac Associates, New York, 1972, Chapters 2 and 3, pp. 53-134
  • Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, eds., Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Kyoto , 2 nd edition, Westview Press, Boulder , 1998
  • Sam Cole, Global Models and the International Economic Order , Pergamon Press for UNITAR, Oxford and New York , 1977; and
  • Donella Meadows, John Richardson, Gerard Bruckmann, Groping in the Dark: The First Decade of Global Modeling , John Wiley & Sons, New York , 1982.
  • Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future , Chelsea Green Publishing Co., Post Mills, Vt., 1992
  • Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Ingenuity Gap: Can we solve the problems of the future? Vintage Canada , Toronto , 2000

 

 

29 May: Syntheses and Conclusions

No reading assignment

 

Optional and Additional readings:

  • Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the biotechnology revolution , Farrar, Straus & Giroux , New York , 2002
  • Bernard Nietschmann, “The Foruth World: Nations Versus States,' Ch. 13, pp. 225-242 of George J. Demko and William B. Wood, eds., Reordering the World: Gepolitical Perspectives on the 21 st Century , Westview Press, Boulder , 1994
  • Jürgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature , Polity, Cambridge , 2003

 

 

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