POLS 184 (13204) Dr. Brandon Valeriano
Fall 2011 2LCC C006
Introduction to International Relations
(Blended)
Required Books
· Nau, Henry R., International Relations in Perspective: A Reader (ISBN 978-1-60426-993-2)
· Starkey, Brigid, Mark A. Boyer, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld, International Negotiation in a Complex World, Third Edition (ISBN 978-0-7425-6680-4)
(you also must register for the ICONS simulation, cost will be $15)
· All Quiet on the Western Front (any version)
Recommended:
· Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations Any Version
Course Readings and Assignment Dates
Aug 23: Distribute Syllabus
Where do you get your news and the news blog
Simulation Introduction
Aug 25 Lecture: What is International Relations?
Read: Slaughter, 15.2 (selections like this are from Nau)
Singer 1.6
Aug 30 L: The Just War Tradition
Read: Thomas Aquinas, On War
Sep 1 No Class, Blogging Time
Sep 6 L: Classical Realism
Read: Thucydides, “Melian Dialogue,”
Machiavelli, “The Prince”
Sep 8 L: Principles of Realism
Read: Morgenthau (Pg 26-30, Essentials)
Carr 1.1
Mearsheimer 6.3
Schroeder 2.1
Sept 13 L: National Interest and Its Critics
Morgenthau: National Interest (APSR)
Wolfers, “National Security as an Ambiguous Symbol
Sept 15 L: Idealism and Liberalism
Read: Wilson, “The Fourteen Points,”
Kant, "Perpetual Peace"
Doyle, “Liberalism and World Politics,”
Sep 20 L: Marxism/Radicalism
Tolstoy, “Patriotism and Government”
Zinn, “Just Cause, Not a Just War”
Kurki 1.4
Panitsch 1.5
Cardoso 13.2
Sep 22 No Class, Future Simulation Time
Sep 27 L: Individuals and War
Read Mead, “Warfare is Only an Invention”
Hobbes, “Of the Natural Condition of Mankind”
Sep 29 L: What is War/What is Terrorism
Read: Clausewitz, “War as an Instrument of Policy,”
Kydd and Walter, “Strategies of Terrorism”
Oct 4 L: Scientific Study of War
Stuart Bremer, “Dangerous Dyads”
Hedley Bull, “International
Theory: The Case for the Classical Approach”
Singer, Incompleat
Theorist
Oct 6 L: Clash of Civilizations
Read: Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations,” 6.2
Oct 11 Mid Term
Oct 13 Simulation Group Meetings, Pre-Negotiation Strategy Outlines
Oct 18 L: The Origins of Civil Conflict: Ethnic Fractionalization and Inequality or Insurgency and Economics?
Read: Fearon and Laitin (Online)
Oct 20
Simulation Starts, Meet in your sections to begin
Send Introduction Messages, No Normal Class
Oct 25 L: What Do Know About War?
No Reading
Oct 27 Simulation Prep, No Normal Class
Nov 1 Part III: Peace
L: What is peace and how do we measure it?
L: The Kantian Peace (Democratic Peace)
Russett and Oneal C.1
Nov 3
Diplomacy
Read: Morgenthau, Page 155-165, Ch 24-25
Nov 8 L: World Government
Read: Morgenthau Ch 22-23
Karns and Mingst 16.1
Nov 10 Simulation Time, No Class
Nov 15 L: Concerts and Collective Security
Morgenthau Ch 19
Nov 17 L: International Law
Read: Morgenthau Ch. 16
Forsythe, 15.2
Kissinger, “Pitfalls of Universal
Jurisdiction,” (Pg 265-269, Essentials)
Roth, “The Case for Universal Jurisdiction,”
(Pg 270-273, Essentials)
Nov 22 L: Balance of Power as a Path to Peace
Read: Morgenthau, Balance of Power
Nov 24 Thanksgiving
Nov 29 Deterrence and Weapons of Mass Destruction
L: Deterrence Theory
Read: Herman Kahn’s Doomsday
Machine
Online: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/frame2/articles/borg/kahn.html
Lebow 5.4
Dec 1 Dr Strangelove
Dec 2 Dr Strangelove Cont.
Finals