Dialectics of World Orders
Professor Thomas Biersteker
Georg von Kalckreuth Course Description
This course explores different conceptions of order in contemporary international relations. A dialectical approach for comprehending the emergence of different types of contradictory tendencies in international relations will be articulated. The goal of this seminar is to develop a genuinely global approach to international relations. The multinational authors engaged in the project on which this course is based 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, regional, or conceptual vantage points. Course Requirements These 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 page) papers, the first applying a dialectical analysis to an historical event or theoretical development, and the second expanding or commenting critically upon the group presentation given in the final session. The papers will be due on April 9 and June 5. Further details about the papers will be provided in class. A course packet ("polycopié") will be available at Imprimerie Minute. Please note that this will contain only those readings that are not available online. Syllabus See box on the right.
Seminar sessions: 19 February: Introduction to the course No reading assignment. 26 February: Meanings of World Order Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society, Chapter 1, 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. Johan Galtung, “Social Cosmology and the Concept of Peace,” Part II of Richard Falk, "Contending Approaches to World Order," in his The End of World Order: Essays on Normative International Relations, Holmes & Meier, 1983. 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, “ James N. Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Czempiel (eds.), Governance without Government: order and change in world politics. Fernand Braudel, Civilisation matérielle, économie, et capitalisme, Xve-XVIIIe siècle, 3 vols. Armand Colin, Paris, 1979. Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, 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, 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), Tübingen, 1995. 5 March: Dialectical Approaches to World Order and Disorder Note: this session will take place on 12 March and all further sessions until the Easter break will be pushed back one week. The last session before Easter (April 9) will be cancelled and be rescheduled after the break. Martin Hollis and Steve Smith, Explaining and Understanding International Relations, Chapter 9, pp. 196-216. Hayward R. Alker, Jr. and Thomas J. Biersteker, “The Dialectics of World Order: Notes for a Future Archeologist of International Savoir Faire”, International Studies Quarterly, 28 (2), Spring 1984, pp. 121-142, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2600692 Geoffrey Barraclough, "The Search for Meaning in History: National History, Comparative History, and 'Meta-history'," Chapter 5 of his Main Trends in History, 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 ( 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: Kosuke Shimizu, "The Dialectics of Globalization: Whose Globalization Is It Anyway?" Mershon International Studies Review, 40 (1996) Rodney B. Hall, “Dialectics as Constitutive Process in Historical International Systems: From Concrete Totality to Context Sensitivity”, unpublished paper, first presented at the ECPR General Conference, Paul M. Kennedy, "The Decline of Nationalistic History in the West, 1900-1970," Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 8, No. 1 (January 1973) 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, Gerda Lerner, Why History Matters: Life and Thought, Donald J. Moon, “The Logic of Political Inquiry,” in the Handbook of Political Science [I’ll get a reference] Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences, edited by John B. Thompson. See also: Paul Ricoeur Time and Narrative, 3 vols., Frederick Olafson, The Dialectics of Action: A Philosophical Interpretation of History and the Humanities (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1979) Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) Herbert Marcuse, Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity, translated and introduced by Sheila Benhabib (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987) 12 March: Global Security Debates I: From Balance of Power to Collective Security Note: this session will take place on 19 March Ernst Haas, “The Balance of Power: Prescription, Concept, or Propaganda?” World Politics, Vol. 5, No. 4 (July 1953), pp. 442-477, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2009179 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 Inis Claude, Power and International Relations, Chapters 2 and 4, (pp. 11-39 and 94-149). John A. Hobson, Towards International Government, 1915; Chapter 1, pp. 11-27 Woodrow Wilson, “The Fourteen Points Speech,” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918wilson.html Optional and Additional readings: Morton Kaplan, System and Process in International Relations, Chapter 2, pp. 21-53 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 John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapters I, III, and IV, 1920. http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?op=viewbook&bookid=12 Georges Clemenceau, Grandeur and Misery of Victory, Chapters XI and XVI, pp. 170-192 and 277-285, 1930 French original: Georges Clemenceau, Grandeurs et misères d'une victoire, Alfred Zimmern, The 19 March: Global Security Debates II: From Cold War Deterrence to People’s Wars Note: this session will take place on 26 March George F. Kennan, “X,” “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign Affairs, July 1947. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar/x.htm Franz Schurmann, The Logic of World Power, Chapter 1, pp. 91-113 Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, Chapters 1 and 3, pp. 3-20 and 53-80 John Lewis Gaddis, “The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System,” International Security, V. 10, N. 4 (Spring 1986), pp. 99-142, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2538951 Mao Tse-tung, “On Guerilla Warfare,” Chapters 1, 5, and 6, 1937 http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/index.htm Che Guevara, “Message to the Tricontinental,” 1967 http://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm Michael Shafer, Deadly Paradigms, Chapter 5, pp. 104-132 Optional and Additional readings: Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars, Chapter 11 “Guerilla War”, 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. 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. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2009958 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 America’s Decline, Chapter 1, pp. 3-14 26 March: Global Security Debates III: From Humanitarian Intervention to Unilateralism Note: this session will take place on 2 April 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 21st Century, Princeton Project report, available as a PDF file at http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/report/FinalReport.pdf, pages 6-32 and 58-61. John Bolton, “Should We Take Global Governance Seriously?" 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: James Lindsay and David Rapoport, “The Four Waves of Modern Terrorism,” in Audrey Cronin and James Ludes (eds.) Attacking Terrorism, 2004 Audrey Kurth-Cronin, “How Terrorism Ends,” International Security, 2006 Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire ( Roland Paris, “Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism” International Security, 22(2), 1997, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2539367 Deborah Avant, The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Peter W. Singer, “Outsourcing War,” Foreign Affairs, March 1, 2005. URL http://www.brookings.edu/views/articles/fellows/singer20050301.htm 2 April: Global Political Economy I: From Imperialism to Decolonization
Jules Ferry, Speech to the French Chamber of Deputies, 1885 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1884ferry.html John A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study, Introductory and Chapter VI, pp. 1-13 and 76-99, 1902. http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=127&Itemid=28 M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and Indian Home Rule, Chapters VI, VIII, XVII and XX, 1909. http://www.mkgandhi.org/swarajya/coverpage.htm V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, Introduction and Chapters 1-7, 1916. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1916lenin-imperialism.html Joseph Schumpeter, “The Sociology of Imperialisms,” in Imperialism and Social Classes, pp. 3-7 and 64-98, 1919 Geoffrey Barraclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History, Chapter 6 (The Revolt against the West) Optional and Additional readings: Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man's Burden,” 1899 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html Cecil Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes: His Political Life and Speeches: 1881-1900, pp. 298-320, 1900 Ho Chi Minh, “The Path Which Led me to Leninism,” Problems of the East, April 1960. Quoted in Ho Chi Minh, On Revolution ( Anthony Brewer, Marxist Theories of Imperialism, Note: this session is envisioned to take place on Wednesday 29 April Sir Arthur Salter, “The Future of Economic Nationalism,” Foreign Affairs, V. 11, N. 1, pp. 8-20, October 1932 John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, Chapters 1, 2, and 24, pp. 3-22 and 372-384, 1936 http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/general-theory/ F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, Chapter 7, pp. 97-111, 1944 Maurice Dobb, Russian Economic Development Since the Revolution, Chapters One and Twelve, pp. 5-24 and 373-400, 1928 Benito Mussolini, “What is Fascism?” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html Albert Hirschman, “Foreign Trade as an Instrument of National Power,” National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade, Chapter II, pp. 13-40 Optional and Additional readings: Charles P. Kindleberger, The World in Depression, Chapter 14, pp. 291-308, 1973 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. Harold Lasswell, “The Nikolai D. Kondratieff (tr. W. F. Stolper), “The Long Waves in Economic Life”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 17, No. 6 (Nov., 1935), pp. 105-115, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1928486 Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed, Appendix, 1936. http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1936-rev/index.htm 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 23 April: Global Political Economy III: From Globalization to its Discontents
Note: this session is envisioned to take place on 30 April
John G. Ruggie, “International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order”, International Organization 36(2), pp. 379-415, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2706527 Walt W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto, 1960, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-16. Robert Theotonio Dos Santos, “The Structure of Dependence,” American Economic Review, pp. 231-236, May 1970, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1815811 Robert Wade, “Globalization and Its Limits: Reports of the death of the national economy are greatly exaggerated” in Suzanne Berger and Ronald Dore (eds.) National Diversity and Global Capitalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996). 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: F.H. Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Rafael Kaplinsky, “Is Globalization All It Is Cracked Up to Be?” Review of International Political Economy, 8, 1 (Spring 2001) 45-65. Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, Chapter 2, pp. 44-86. O'Brien, Richard, Global Financial Integration: The End of Geography (London: Pinter, 1992) 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 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). Richard N. Cooper, review of Bhagwati, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2004. Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State, 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 ( Grahame Thompson and Paul Hirst, Globalization in Question, Polity Press, 1994 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, 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? Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, ( David Held, Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the 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) 30 April: Global Political Community I: From the Age of Nationalism to Supra-Nationalism
Note: this session is envisioned to take place on 7 May
E.Renan “What is a Nation?”, http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/core/hss3/e_renan.html Allan Lynch, “Woodrow Wilson and national self-determination” Review of International Studies, Vol.28, No.2, (April 2002) pp. 419-436, http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=5BVA174PQ64BGXY8AKUA Imam Khomeini, Islam and Revolution, translated by Hamid Algar (Berkeley: Mizan Press 1981), Section 3, The Form of Islamic Government [selections to be assigned] Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, (London: Verso 1991), Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 11-40 Karl Deutsch et al., "Political Community and the 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 ( Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community ( Rupert Emerson, From Empire to Nation: The Rise to Self-Assertion of Asian and African Peoples ( James Mayall, Nationalism and International Society, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) p.6Ibid p.26 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 ( 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 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969) p. 190 Ernest B. Haas, The Uniting of Ernst B. Haas, Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress Vol.1, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997) and Nationalism, Liberalism and Progress Vol.2, ( 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 ( Sayyed Abul Sayyed Qutb, Social Justice in Islam ( David Mitrany, "The Functional Approach to World Organization," International Affairs, July 1948. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3018652 Ernst B. Haas, The Uniting of
Note: this session is envisioned to take place on 14 May
Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations”, Foreign Affairs, Vo.72, No. 3 (Summer 1993) Wang Jisi, “Civilizations: Clash or Fusion” Beijing Review (Jan. 15-21, 1996), http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ipe/beijrev.htm Robert W. Cox, “Civilizations in World Political Economy” New Political Economy Vol.1, no.2 (1996) pp.141-156 Amitai Etzioni, From Empire to Community ( Anthony Appiah, “Ethics in a World of Strangers: W. E. B. Dubois and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism” The Berlin Journal, Number 11, Fall 2005, pp. 23-26, http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/media/BerlinJournal_11.pdf Tahir Amin, “Twentieth Century World Order Debates: From Nationalism to Global Society?” Chapter Five of The Dialectics of World Orders (draft manuscript). Optional and Additional readings: Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History” The National Interest (Summer 1989) pp 3-18 Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (N.Y: Free Press, 1992) Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations 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 Andrei 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 Salim Rashid (1997) pp.99-108 Donald Puchala, “International encounters of another kind”, Global Society, Vol. 11 , No. 1, 1997, pp. 5-29 Hayward Alker, “If not 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, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2703499 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, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2601361 Neta Crawford, Argument and Change in World Politics, Chapter 1, pp. 11-81. Anne Marie Slaughter, A John Gerard Ruggie, “Reconstituting the Global Public Domain: Issues, Actors, and Practices” A Working Paper of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, 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. 14 May: Global Political Ecology I: From Geopolitics to Biopolitics
Note: this session will take place on Monday 18 May, 1615-1800, in S3 Villa Barton. It will cover a selection from the material for both sessions on Global Political Ecology.
Paul Kennedy, “Mahan Versus Mackinder,” Strategy and Diplomacy 1870-1945, Allen & Unwin, 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 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Introduction to Geopolitics, Edítorial André Bello, Santiago de Chile, 1981, Chapters 1 and 2 pp19-36 Mike Hawkins, Social Darwinism in European and American Thought 1860-1945, Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Optional and Additional readings: Barry R. Posen, “Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of Ramesh Dutta Dikshit, Political Geography: A Contemporary Perspective, 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, John Agnew, Geopolitics: Re-visioning World Politics, Routledge, Jacques Lévy, ed., From Geopolitics to Global Politics: A French Connection, Frank Cass, 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 Karl Haushofer, writings on geopolitics Ramesh Dutta Dikshit, Political geography: a contemporary perspective. Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought, Beacon Press, 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, Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, Verso, Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended,” Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 Translated by David Macey, Picador, Samantha Power, “A Problem from Hell”: John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: 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 21 May: Global Political Ecology II: From Limits to Growth to Global Climate Change
Note: the material of this session is envisioned to be covered in the session on Monday 18 May
Ian Miles, “Worldviews and Scenarios,” Chapter 8 in Christopher Freeman and Marie Jahoda, eds., World Futures: the Great Debate, Martin Robertson, 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, 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 Sam Cole, Global Models and the International Economic Order, Pergamon Press for UNITAR, Donella Meadows, John Richardson, Gerard Bruckmann, Groping in the Dark: The First Decade of Global Modeling, John Wiley & Sons, 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 28 May: Syntheses and Conclusions
Envisioned to take place as scheduled No reading assignment Optional and Additional readings:
Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, Farrar, Bernard Nietschmann, “The Fourth World: Nations Versus States,’ Jürgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature, Polity,
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