Letters of recommendation. 

I am willing to write letters of recommendation, but you have to meet a few conditions first. You should at least have some sort of connection to me besides just attending a few classes and never raising your hand.  If I do not know who are or anything about you, how can I write a respectable letter?  I take these letters very seriously and you should be of sufficient moral character (i.e. don’t advocate genocide on facebook).  You should also have at least received a high A (above 94 percent) in my class.  

You also must give me at least three weeks notice before the letter of recommendation should be mailed.  Send a reminder email at least three days before the absolute due date of the letter.  Be aware that finals season is the worst time to ask for a letter.  If I seem busy and am slow to reply to emails, it is truly because I am busy.  I prefer to send letters online, so please ask if the letter can be sent directly to the organization through email or a website. 

Put together a file that includes your statement of interest for the program you are applying to, a resume or CV, transcript (you may cut and paste into a Word file), and any other supporting materials you think would be helpful.  Write me a short note and indicate anything I should know that might be important for the recommendation (skills, abilities, research).  Let me know if there is a particular feature of your background that you wish me to emphasize, or describe ways in which your work with me is relevant for whatever you are applying for. Attach a self addressed envelope for the letter.  I will rarely return a letter to a student for inclusion in an application package.  I know some application guidelines say that all materials must be in a common envelope but this requirement usually does not apply to letters of recommendation.

Please follow all instructions and this should be a relatively simple process.  Once I have written one letter for you it is much easier for me to do one a second time.  So do not hesitate to follow up and request other letters in the future, you still must follow the guidelines outlined here.

LSAT Scores: A new policy starts in 09.  I will not be writing letters of recommendation for any student receiving below a 155 in their LSAT unless there are special circumstances that would make your application viable (minority status, Eagle Scout, related to George Bush or Bill Clinton).

Independent/Research study.  I am happy to consider proposals for independent study.  My one condition is that you must have already taken a course with me and done well.  The independent study should not overlap any of my courses or courses taught by others in the Political Science Department.  It should also be related to my teaching and research interests (International Relations or Latino issues).  If your idea passes these hurdles, come talk to me about it.

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UIC Spring 2012

    International Relations Graduate Core Course (Ph.D.)

     Syllabus

     Readings:

     End of War

     Vasquez, Chapter 10, Power of Power Politics (Theory Appraisal)

     Is Anyone Still a Realist?

     Liberalism Foundations (Wilson, Kant)

     Sovereignty and the UFO

    Stuart Bremer, “Dangerous Dyads”

    Balance of Power, Vasquez and Elman

    Bremer, What Do We Know About War

    Vasquez, Probability of War

    Vasquez and Valeriano, Classification of War

    Vasquez and Valeriano, Territory as Source of Peace

    Chimps and Territory

     Valeriano, Becoming Rivals

    Thompson, Identifying Rivals

     Wallersteen

     Finnemore

     Ray, Democratic Peace

International Latino Politics (POLS 389)

International Latino Politics Syllabus

Readings:

Acuna: Deconstructing the 60s

International Politics of a New Latino America

Latino Assimilation, Divided Loyalties, World Cup

"The Politics of Being Alone" International Studies Perspectives

US-Mexico

Latin American Responses to the Bush Doctrine

Territory as a Source for Peace and War

Other:

Thies: Rivalry and State Building in Latin America

Morgenthau: National Interest (APSR)

Huntington: Hispanic Challenge

Supporter of Stability or Agent of Agitation? The Effect of US Foreign Policy on Coups in Latin America – Thyne and Powell

Territorial Disputes in the Americas (Appendix from Huth/Allee book)

Sports, Politics, and Ethnicity (Honors Short Course)

UIC Hon 201

Syllabus

Readings:

Online Readings:
 

Session 2:
World Cup Politics: The Vote and Peace
Read: NYTimes: “Back Scratching with a Global Reach”
Soccernet: “Qatar Payment”

WSJ: Peace Potential
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXbQOw7MOY

Session 3:
Reconciliation and Sports
Read: Conclusion of Playing the Enemy, John Carlin

Session 4:
Sports, Marketing and Politicians
Read: “Is Sports the Third Rail of American Society?” – Evan Wiener
Read: “Muy Bravo” or “El Loco?”--Spanish Jerseys in American Professional Sports Leagues” – Rick Jensen

Session 5:
Sports and War
Read: Long, David. Quidditch, Imperialism, and the Sports-War Intertext

Session 6:
Immigration, Sports, and War
Read: Valeriano, Interstate War and Migration

Session 9:
Assimilation, Diversity, and Sport
Read: Valeriano, Latino Cultural Assimilation, Divided Loyalties, and the World Cup

Session 12:
Baseball and Diversity
Read: “Slide, Kelly, Slide” The Irish in American Baseball, Richard Paterson
Unreconciled Strivings: Baseball in Jim Crow America, Jules Tygiel
 

UIC Fall 2011

Causes of War and Peace (Grad and Undergrad Mixed)

Syllabus

Readings

Introduction to International Relations - Blended 

(POLS 184)

Syllabus

Simulation Sign Up (old link)

Online Readings

Introduction to International Relations Lecture Notes

1. What is International Relations?
2. Morality and Killing (No Notes)
3. The Just War Tradition
4. Classical Realism
5. Principles of Realism
6. National Interest and Its Critics
7. Idealism and Radicalism Theory
8. Causes of War: Human Nature and Individual Level
9. What is War/What is Terrorism
10. Scientific Study of War
11. Realism as a Cause of War (Arms Races, Alliances, and Power Politics)
12. Offensive Realism and The Bush Doctrine
13. Clash of Civilizations
14. Origins of Civil-Ethnic Conflict
15. What Do Know About War
16. Peace (No Notes)
17. Democratic Security Committees
18. Deterrence Theory
19. World Government
20. International Organizations
21. International Law
22. International Political Economy as a Path to Peace
23. Balance of Power as a Path to Peace
24. Concerts and Collective Security
25. Diplomacy

UIC Summer 2011

Introduction to International Relations (Film Version)

Syllabus

Readings

UIC Spring 2011

Sports, Politics, and Ethnicity (Honors Short Course)

UIC Hon 201

Syllabus

Readings:

Online Readings:
Session 2:
World Cup Politics: The Vote and Peace
Read: NYTimes: “Back Scratching with a Global Reach”
Soccernet: “Qatar Payment”

WSJ: Peace Potential
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXbQOw7MOY

Session 3:
Reconciliation and Sports
Read: Conclusion of Playing the Enemy, John Carlin

Session 4:
Sports, Marketing and Politicians
Read: “Is Sports the Third Rail of American Society?” – Evan Wiener
Read: “Muy Bravo” or “El Loco?”--Spanish Jerseys in American Professional Sports Leagues” – Rick Jensen

Session 5:
Sports and War
Read: Long, David. Quidditch, Imperialism, and the Sports-War Intertext

Session 6:
Immigration, Sports, and War
Read: Valeriano, Interstate War and Migration

Session 9:
Assimilation, Diversity, and Sport
Read: Valeriano, Latino Cultural Assimilation, Divided Loyalties, and the World Cup

Session 12:
Baseball and Diversity
Read: “Slide, Kelly, Slide” The Irish in American Baseball, Richard Paterson
Unreconciled Strivings: Baseball in Jim Crow America, Jules Tygiel
 

International Conflict and Security

UIC Pols 284

Syllabus

Readings:

End of War

Notes:

1. What is War, Conflict, and Peace?
2. Sources of Conflict: Power Politics
3. Sources of Conflict: Issue based Perspective
4. The Steps to War
5. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
6. Diplomacy in Practice
7. Foreign Policy Decision Making
8. Peace, Norms, and the Concert of Europe
9. World War I Background and Rivalries
10. World War I Domestic Actors: Chronicle and Triple Alliance
11. World War I Domestic Actors: Triple Entente
12. World War II Europe: War Averted
13. World War II Europe: Road to War
14. World War II Europe: Russia and France
15. World War II Pacific: Japan-U.S. Rivalry
16. World War II Pacific: Pearl Harbor
17. Gulf War I
18. Gulf War I Aftermath and Rivalry
19. Gulf War II: Failure of Diplomacy
20. What is the Scientific Study of War?
21. What SSW: Theory
22. Causality and Falsification
23. Classification Systems
24. Who Fights Whom?
25. Sources of Conflict: Territoriality
26. The Steps to War: Alliances
27. The Steps to War: Arms Races
28. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
29. The Steps to War: Crisis Escalation
30. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Kantian Tripod
31. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Peace and Norms

Introduction to International Relations - Blended 

(POLS 184)

Syllabus

Simulation Sign Up

Online Readings

Readings
Jan 13 Read: Snyder (pg 2-9, Essentials)

Jan 18 Read:
Aquinas, On War

Jan 21 Topic: When can you fight?
Debate: Gareth Evans (pg 444-458, Essentials)

Jan 25 L: Classical Realism
Read: Thucydides, “Melian Dialogue,” (Pg. 10-12, Essentials)
Machiavelli, “The Prince”
Read Chapters 5, 15, 17, 18, 21

Jan 27 Morgenthau (Pg 26-30, Essentials)
Mearsheimer (Pg 31-49, Essentials, included in above)

Jan 28 Topic: Resources and Markets as Problems
Debate: Stiglitz (Pg 554-573, Essentials)
Humphreys, Sachs, and Stiglitz (Pg 542-553, Essentials)

Part 2   (Download all three files at once and print out in order)

Feb 1 L: National Interest and Its Critics
Read:

Morgenthau: National Interest (APSR)

Wolfers, “National Security as an Ambiguous Symbol

Read: Jervis, Cooperation Under the SD (Pg 335-348, Essentials)

Feb 3 Read: Wilson, “The Fourteen Points,” (Page 17-18, Essentials)
Kant, “To Perpetual Peace,” (pg 12-15 Essentials)
Doyle, “Liberalism and World Politics,” (pg 50-63 Essentials)

Feb 4 Topic: The Limits of Liberalism?
Power, Bystanders to Genocide (Pg 233-252 Essentials)
Keohane, After Hegemony (Pg 292-307 Essentials)

Feb 8 L: Marxism/Radicalism
Tolstoy, “Patriotism and Government”

Zinn, “Just Cause, Not a Just War”

Gandhi, “Passive Resistence”

“Of Means and Ends”

Feb 15

Read    Mead, “Warfare is Only an Invention”

Hobbes, “Of the Natural Condition of Mankind”

Feb 17 Read: Clausewitz, “War as an Instrument of Policy,” (Pg 322-325 Essentials)
Schelling, “The Diplomacy of Violence,” (Pg 326-334 Essentials)
Kydd and Walter, “Strategies of Terrorism” Part 2 (Pg 392-415, Essentials)
Clausewitz Full

Feb 18 Topic: Nuclear Iran
Posen (Pg 375-389, Essentials)

Feb 22 L: Scientific Study of War
Stuart Bremer, “Dangerous Dyads”

Hedley Bull, “International Theory: The Case for the Classical Approach”
Singer, Incompleat Theorist

Mar 3 Read: Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations,” (Pg 159-165, Essentials)

Mar 4 Tickner, Man, State and War (Pg 89-97, Essentials)

March 12 Topic: What are Human Rights?
Debate: Sen, “Universal Truths,” (Pg 592-595, Essentials)
Keck and Sikkink, Transnational Advocacy Networks (Pg 253-264, Essentials)

March 29 L: What is peace and how do we measure it?
L: The Democratic Peace
Read: Kant, “To Perpetual Peace,” (Page 12-15, Essentials)

April 1 Topic: Globalization and State Failure
Read: Krasner, Sharing Sovereignty Part 2 (Pgs 131-150, Essentials)
Naim, Five Wars of Globalization (Pg 151-158, Essentials)

April 5 Read: Morgenthau Ch 22-23
Bull, “Does Order Exist” (Pg 105-109, Essentials)

L: Concerts and Collective Security
Morgenthau Ch 19

April 8 Topic: Religion and IR
Juergensmeyer, Global Rebellion, Part 2 (Pg 166-190, Essentials)

April 12 Kissinger, “Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction,” (Pg 265-269, Essentials)
Roth, “The Case for Universal Jurisdiction,” (Pg 270-273, Essentials)

April 15 Topic: International Criminal Court
Rodam, Is Peace in the Interests of Justice? (Pg 274-291, Essentials)

April 19 Morgenthau, Balance of Power (Pg 99-104, Essentials)

April 22 Topic: Unipolarity
Ikenberry, Unipolarity (Pg 110-130 Essentials)

April 26 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
 

Simulation Power Point

 

Introduction to International Relations Lecture Notes

1. What is International Relations?
2. Morality and Killing (No Notes)
3. The Just War Tradition
4. Classical Realism
5. Principles of Realism
6. National Interest and Its Critics
7. Idealism and Radicalism Theory
8. Causes of War: Human Nature and Individual Level
9. What is War/What is Terrorism
10. Scientific Study of War
11. Realism as a Cause of War (Arms Races, Alliances, and Power Politics)
12. Offensive Realism and The Bush Doctrine
13. Clash of Civilizations
14. Origins of Civil-Ethnic Conflict
15. What Do Know About War
16. Peace (No Notes)
17. Democratic Security Committees
18. Deterrence Theory
19. World Government
20. International Organizations
21. International Law
22. International Political Economy as a Path to Peace
23. Balance of Power as a Path to Peace
24. Concerts and Collective Security
25. Diplomacy

UIC Fall 2010

International Conflict and Security

UIC Pols 284

Syllabus

Readings:

End of War

Notes:

1. What is War, Conflict, and Peace?
2. Sources of Conflict: Power Politics
3. Sources of Conflict: Issue based Perspective
4. The Steps to War
5. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
6. Diplomacy in Practice
7. Foreign Policy Decision Making
8. Peace, Norms, and the Concert of Europe
9. World War I Background and Rivalries
10. World War I Domestic Actors: Chronicle and Triple Alliance
11. World War I Domestic Actors: Triple Entente
12. World War II Europe: War Averted
13. World War II Europe: Road to War
14. World War II Europe: Russia and France
15. World War II Pacific: Japan-U.S. Rivalry
16. World War II Pacific: Pearl Harbor
17. Gulf War I
18. Gulf War I Aftermath and Rivalry
19. Gulf War II: Failure of Diplomacy
20. What is the Scientific Study of War?
21. What SSW: Theory
22. Causality and Falsification
23. Classification Systems
24. Who Fights Whom?
25. Sources of Conflict: Territoriality
26. The Steps to War: Alliances
27. The Steps to War: Arms Races
28. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
29. The Steps to War: Crisis Escalation
30. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Kantian Tripod
31. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Peace and Norms

International Relations Graduate Core Course (Ph.D.)

     Syllabus

     Readings:

Liberalism Foundations

UIC Spring 2010

International Conflict and Security

UIC Pols 284

Syllabus

1. What is War, Conflict, and Peace?
2. Sources of Conflict: Power Politics
3. Sources of Conflict: Issue based Perspective
4. The Steps to War
5. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
6. Diplomacy in Practice
7. Foreign Policy Decision Making
8. Peace, Norms, and the Concert of Europe
9. World War I Background and Rivalries
10. World War I Domestic Actors: Chronicle and Triple Alliance
11. World War I Domestic Actors: Triple Entente
12. World War II Europe: War Averted
13. World War II Europe: Road to War
14. World War II Europe: Russia and France
15. World War II Pacific: Japan-U.S. Rivalry
16. World War II Pacific: Pearl Harbor
17. Gulf War I
18. Gulf War I Aftermath and Rivalry
19. Gulf War II: Failure of Diplomacy
20. What is the Scientific Study of War?
21. What SSW: Theory
22. Causality and Falsification
23. Classification Systems
24. Who Fights Whom?
25. Sources of Conflict: Territoriality
26. The Steps to War: Alliances
27. The Steps to War: Arms Races
28. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
29. The Steps to War: Crisis Escalation
30. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Kantian Tripod
31. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Peace and Norms

Introduction to International Relations  (POLS 184)

Syllabus

Online Readings

Aquinas, On War

Machiavelli, “The Prince”

Morgenthau: National Interest (APSR)

Wolfers, “National Security as an Ambiguous Symbol

Tolstoy, “Patriotism and Government”

Zinn, “Just Cause, Not a Just War”

Gandhi, “Passive Resistence”

“Of Means and Ends”

Mead, “Warfare is Only an Invention”

Hobbes, “Of the Natural Condition of Mankind”

Clausewitz

Singer, Incompleat Theorist: Insight Without Evidence”

Hedley Bull, “International Theory: The Case for the Classical Approach”

Stuart Bremer, “Dangerous Dyads”

Introduction to International Relations Lecture Notes

1. What is International Relations?
2. Morality and Killing (No Notes)
3. The Just War Tradition
4. Classical Realism
5. Principles of Realism
6. National Interest and Its Critics
7. Idealism and Radicalism Theory
8. Causes of War: Human Nature and Individual Level
9. What is War/What is Terrorism
10. Scientific Study of War
11. Realism as a Cause of War (Arms Races, Alliances, and Power Politics)
12. Offensive Realism and The Bush Doctrine
13. Clash of Civilizations
14. Origins of Civil-Ethnic Conflict
15. What Do Know About War
16. Peace (No Notes)
17. Democratic Security Committees
18. Deterrence Theory
19. World Government
20. International Organizations
21. International Law
22. International Political Economy as a Path to Peace
23. Balance of Power as a Path to Peace
24. Concerts and Collective Security
25. Diplomacy

Seminar: International Rivalry

(POLS 389)

Syllabus

Dissertation

Weblink for Journal Articles for Download

The Rivals

Interstate Rivalry list and background file

Internal Rivalry list

Class Day Questions:

1. International relations theories
2. What is war/conflict?
3. What is Rivalry?
4. Who are the rivals?
5. How do they start?
6. How do they end?
7. Kantian tripod and rivalry
8. Power and rivalry
9. Arms races and rivalry
10. Alliances and rivalry
11. Rivalry linkages
12. Rivals and territory
13. Power politics and rivalry
14. Domestic politics and rivalry
15. Individual rivalries

UIC Fall 09

International Latino Politics (POLS 389)

International Latino Politics Syllabus

Valeriano Articles:

International Politics of a New Latino America

Latino Assimilation, Divided Loyalties, World Cup

"The Politics of Being Alone" International Studies Perspectives

US-Mexico

Latin American Responses to the Bush Doctrine

Territory as a Source for Peace and War

Other:

Thies: Rivalry and State Building in Latin America

Morgenthau: National Interest (APSR)

Huntington: Hispanic Challenge

Supporter of Stability or Agent of Agitation? The Effect of US Foreign Policy on Coups in Latin America – Thyne

Territorial Disputes in the Americas (Appendix from Huth/Allee book)

Steps to War: Conflict Processes in the International System (POLS 494)

Syllabus

Readings

Vasquez, John A. and Brandon Valeriano.  2008.  “Territory as a Source of Conflict and a Road to Peace” in Sage Handbook on Conflict Resolution edited by Jacob Bercovitch, Victor Kremenyuk, and I. William Zartman, pgs. 193-209.

 Sample – Arms Races

Gibler – Alliances 

 Valeriano, Brandon.  “The Steps to Rivalry: The Process of Rivalry Development”

 Valeriano, Brandon and Victor Marin.  “Causal Pathways to Interstate War: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the Steps to War Theory”

 Vasquez, John A. and Brandon Valeriano. 2010.  “Classification of Interstate War” Journal of Politics, Forthcoming   

 Valeriano, Brandon and John A. Vasquez. 2010. “Identifying and Classifying Complex Interstate Wars.” International Studies Quarterly, Forthcoming (June)

Valeriano and Vasquez, “Paths to Complex Wars”

Wallensteen, P. (1984). "Universalism vs. Particularism: On the Limits of Major Power Order." Journal of Peace Research 21(3): 243-57. 

Finnemore and Sikkink.  (1998)  International Norm Dynamics and Political Change.  International Organization

Rosecrance, Richard. (1992). “A New Concert of Powers” Spring, Foreign Affairs 

Valeriano and Leskiw. “Concerts of Action: IGOs and Peace”

Mueller, John (2009). “War Has Almost Ceased to Exist: An Assessment.” Political Science Quarterly.  124(2): 297-321

SROP (Summer 09) Info

UIC info

Application form

UIC Spring 09

International Conflict and Security

UIC Pols 284

Syllabus

Syllabus Update

1. What is War, Conflict, and Peace?
2. Sources of Conflict: Power Politics
3. Sources of Conflict: Issue based Perspective
4. The Steps to War
5. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
6. Diplomacy in Practice
7. Foreign Policy Decision Making
8. Peace, Norms, and the Concert of Europe
9. World War I Background and Rivalries
10. World War I Domestic Actors: Chronicle and Triple Alliance
11. World War I Domestic Actors: Triple Entente
12. World War II Europe: War Averted
13. World War II Europe: Road to War
14. World War II Europe: Russia and France
15. World War II Pacific: Japan-U.S. Rivalry
16. World War II Pacific: Pearl Harbor
17. Gulf War I
18. Gulf War I Aftermath and Rivalry
19. Gulf War II: Failure of Diplomacy
20. What is the Scientific Study of War?
21. What SSW: Theory
22. Causality and Falsification
23. Classification Systems
24. Who Fights Whom?
25. Sources of Conflict: Territoriality
26. The Steps to War: Alliances
27. The Steps to War: Arms Races
28. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
29. The Steps to War: Crisis Escalation
30. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Kantian Tripod
31. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Peace and Norms

Introduction to International Relations  (POLS 184)

Syllabus

Syllabus Update

Online Readings

Aquinas, On War

Machiavelli, “The Prince”

Morgenthau: National Interest (APSR)

Wolfers, “National Security as an Ambiguous Symbol

Tolstoy, “Patriotism and Government”

Zinn, “Just Cause, Not a Just War”

Gandhi, “Passive Resistence”

“Of Means and Ends”

Mead, “Warfare is Only an Invention”

Hobbes, “Of the Natural Condition of Mankind”

Clausewitz

Singer, Incompleat Theorist: Insight Without Evidence”

Hedley Bull, “International Theory: The Case for the Classical Approach”

Stuart Bremer, “Dangerous Dyads”

Introduction to International Relations Lecture Notes

1. What is International Relations?
2. Morality and Killing (No Notes)
3. The Just War Tradition
4. Classical Realism
5. Principles of Realism
6. National Interest and Its Critics
7. Idealism and Radicalism Theory
8. Causes of War: Human Nature and Individual Level
9. What is War/What is Terrorism
10. Scientific Study of War
11. Realism as a Cause of War (Arms Races, Alliances, and Power Politics)
12. Offensive Realism and The Bush Doctrine
13. Clash of Civilizations
14. Origins of Civil-Ethnic Conflict
15. What Do Know About War
16. Peace (No Notes)
17. Democratic Security Committees
18. Deterrence Theory
19. World Government
20. International Organizations
21. International Law
22. International Political Economy as a Path to Peace
23. Balance of Power as a Path to Peace
24. Concerts and Collective Security
25. Diplomacy

UIC Fall 08

International Latino Politics (POLS 389)

International Latino Politics Syllabus

Valeriano Articles:

International Politics of a New Latino America

Latino Assimilation, Divided Loyalties, World Cup

"The Politics of Being Alone" International Studies Perspectives

US-Mexico

Latin American Responses to the Bush Doctrine

Territory as a Source for Peace and War

Other:

Thies: Rivalry and State Building in Latin America

Morgenthau: National Interest (APSR)

Huntington: Hispanic Challenge

Territorial Disputes in the Americas (Appendix from Huth/Allee book)

Introduction to International Relations  (POLS 184)

Syllabus Update

Syllabus

Online Readings

Aquinas, On War

Machiavelli, “The Prince”

Morgenthau: National Interest (APSR)

Wolfers, “National Security as an Ambiguous Symbol

Tolstoy, “Patriotism and Government”

Zinn, “Just Cause, Not a Just War”

Gandhi, “Passive Resistence”

“Of Means and Ends”

Mead, “Warfare is Only an Invention”

Hobbes, “Of the Natural Condition of Mankind”

Clausewitz

Singer, Incompleat Theorist: Insight Without Evidence”

Hedley Bull, “International Theory: The Case for the Classical Approach”

Stuart Bremer, “Dangerous Dyads”

Introduction to International Relations Lecture Notes

1. What is International Relations?
2. Morality and Killing (No Notes)
3. The Just War Tradition
4. Classical Realism
5. Principles of Realism
6. National Interest and Its Critics
7. Idealism and Radicalism Theory
8. Causes of War: Human Nature and Individual Level
9. What is War/What is Terrorism
10. Scientific Study of War
11. Realism as a Cause of War (Arms Races, Alliances, and Power Politics)
12. Offensive Realism and The Bush Doctrine
13. Clash of Civilizations
14. Origins of Civil-Ethnic Conflict
15. What Do Know About War
16. Peace (No Notes)
17. Democratic Security Committees
18. Deterrence Theory
19. World Government
20. International Organizations
21. International Law
22. International Political Economy as a Path to Peace
23. Balance of Power as a Path to Peace
24. Concerts and Collective Security
25. Diplomacy

Whittier College Jan Term 08

 International Latino Politics Syllabus

Valeriano Articles:

International Politics of a New Latino America

Latino Assimilation, Divided Loyalties, World Cup

US-Mexico

Latin American Responses to the Bush Doctrine

Other:

Thies: Rivalry and State Building in Latin America

Morgenthau: National Interest (APSR)

Huntington: Hispanic Challenge

UIC Classes

Spring 2008

Sabbatical (Look for me at Cubs games)

Fall 2007

IR Core PHD

International Security

Summer 2007

International Politics and Film

Spring 2007

Seminar: International Rivalry

(POLS 389)

Syllabus

Dissertation

Weblink for Journal Articles for Download

The Rivals

Interstate Rivalry list and background file

Internal Rivalry list

Class Day Questions:

1. International relations theories
2. What is war/conflict?
3. What is Rivalry?
4. Who are the rivals?
5. How do they start?
6. How do they end?
7. Kantian tripod and rivalry
8. Power and rivalry
9. Arms races and rivalry
10. Alliances and rivalry
11. Rivalry linkages
12. Rivals and territory
13. Power politics and rivalry
14. Domestic politics and rivalry
15. Individual rivalries

Introduction to International Relations  (POLS 184)

Syllabus

Clash of Civilizations Reading

National Security Strategy Document: Preemptive War Doctrine

NSS 2006 Revision

Introduction to International Relations Lecture Notes

1. What is International Relations?
2. Morality and Killing (No Notes)
3. The Just War Tradition
4. Classical Realism
5. Principles of Realism
6. National Interest and Its Critics
7. Idealism and Radicalism Theory
8. Causes of War: Human Nature and Individual Level
9. What is War/What is Terrorism
10. Scientific Study of War
11. Realism as a Cause of War (Arms Races, Alliances, and Power Politics)
12. Offensive Realism and The Bush Doctrine
13. Clash of Civilizations
14. Origins of Civil-Ethnic Conflict
15. What Do Know About War
16. Peace (No Notes)
17. Democratic Security Committees
18. Deterrence Theory
19. World Government
20. International Organizations
21. International Law
22. International Political Economy as a Path to Peace
23. Balance of Power as a Path to Peace
24. Concerts and Collective Security
25. Diplomacy

International Conflict and Security

UIC Pols 284

Syllabus

1. What is War, Conflict, and Peace?
2. Sources of Conflict: Power Politics
3. Sources of Conflict: Issue based Perspective
4. The Steps to War
5. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
6. Diplomacy in Practice
7. Foreign Policy Decision Making
8. Peace, Norms, and the Concert of Europe
9. World War I Background and Rivalries
10. World War I Domestic Actors: Chronicle and Triple Alliance
11. World War I Domestic Actors: Triple Entente
12. World War II Europe: War Averted
13. World War II Europe: Road to War
14. World War II Europe: Russia and France
15. World War II Pacific: Japan-U.S. Rivalry
16. World War II Pacific: Pearl Harbor
17. Korean War Notes
18. Vietnam Notes
19. Palestine Wars
20. Gulf War I
21. Gulf War I Aftermath and Rivalry
22. Gulf War II: Failure of Diplomacy
23. What is the Scientific Study of War?
24. What SSW: Theory
25. Causality and Falsification
26. Classification Systems
27. Who Fights Whom?
28. Sources of Conflict: Territoriality
29. The Steps to War: Alliances
30. The Steps to War: Arms Races
31. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
32. The Steps to War: Crisis Escalation
33. Scope, Severity and Duration of War: Balance of Power
34. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Kantian Tripod
35. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Peace and Norms

Qualitative Methods - Ph.D. Level

UIC POLS 502

Syllabus

Texas State Classes

Spring 2004

Functions of American and Texas Government

International Political Economy

Fall 2004

International Conflict and Security

POSI 4367.001 (ID 272308)

Syllabus

Syllabus Update

Steps to War versus Steps to Rivalry Slide

Iraq in Transition

Korean War Notes

What to Do about Iran?

Vanderbilt Classes

International Politics and Film (Maymester)

Syllabus

Introduction to International Politics (PSCI 102)

Introduction to International Politics Syllabus (Summer 2004)

Next Stop to Baghdad Reading

National Security Strategy Document: Preemptive War Doctrine

Introduction to International Politics Lecture Notes

1. What is International Relations?
2. The Just War Tradition
3. Classical Realism
4. Principles of Realism
5. National Interest and Its Critics
6. Idealism and Radical Critique
7. Human Nature and Gender
8. What is War/What is Terrorism
9. Scientific Study of War
10. Realism as a Cause of War (Arms Races, Alliances, and Power Politics)
11. Offensive Realism and the Bush Doctrine
12. Clash of Civilizations
13. Ethnic (Civil) Conflict
14. What Do Know About War
15. Democratic Security Committees
16. World Government
17. International Organizations
18. International Law
19. International Political Economy as a Path to Peace
20. Balance of Power as a Path to Peace
21. Concerts and Collective Security
22. Diplomacy
23. Deterrence Theory

Causes of War (PSCI 221)

Spring 2004

Causes of War Syllabus

Leskiw Dissertation

Study Guide for Mid Term

Causes of War Lecture Notes

1. What is War and Conflict?
2. Introduction/Conceptualizing War
3. War Data Sets
4. What is the Scientific Study of War?
5. What SSW: Theory
6. Who Fights Whom?
7. Sources of Conflict: Power Politics
8. Sources of Conflict: Issue based Perspective
9. Sources of Conflict: Territoriality
10. The Steps to War
11. The Steps to War: Alliances
12. The Steps to War: Arms Races
13. Delineating the Steps to War
14. The Steps to War: Crisis Escalation
15. Rivalry and the Steps to War: Rivalry
16. Scope, Severity and Duration of War: Steps to World War
17. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Peace and Norms
18. Peace and the Global Institutional Context: Democratic Peace
19. Termination and Consequences of War:  Why War Outcomes are Important
20. Impact and Long Term Consequences of War: Political Effects
21. Scope, Severity and Duration of War: Balance of Power

Topics: Interstate Rivalry (PSCI 280)

Spring 2004

Syllabus

Valeriano Dissertation

Crisis Diplomacy (PSCI 220)

Fall 2003

Crisis Diplomacy Syllabus

Expert Questions

Italian Wars of Unification Outline

Eastern Crisis Outline

Crimean War Outline

Wars of German Unification Outline

Franco-Prussian War Outline

Russo-Japanese War Outline

Midterm Study Guide

After Midterm:

Agadir Outline

Rivalry and Steps to World War Notes

World War I Background and Rivalries

World War I Domestic Actors: Chronicle and Triple Alliance

World War I Domestic Actors: Triple Entente

World War II Europe: War Averted

World War II Europe: Road to War

World War II Europe: Russia and France

World War II Pacific: Japan-U.S. Rivalry

World War II Pacific: Pearl Harbor

Gulf War I

Gulf War I Aftermath and Rivalry

Gulf War II: Failure of Diplomacy

Final Study Guide

Rivalry Paper Sources

Scott Bennett's Rivalry Case Descriptions