Schedule

Unit 1: Studying International Order

Topic 1. Introductory

Class 1: Introduction and Overview (Tue 8 Sept)

  • Read Course Site
  • Carefully Read Course Policies
  • Ikenberry, G. John. After Victory. Ch 1: “The Problem of Order.” (18 pp)

Topic 2. Defining Our Terms: “International” and “Order”

Class 2: Almighty Sovereignty: States as our Actors (Thur 10 Sept)

  • Bodin, Jean. “On Sovereignty.” In Six Books of the Commonwealth. [1576] Para. 345-363. (12 pp)
  • Hobbes, Thomas. “On the Natural Condition of Mankind,” Part I, Chapter XIII of Leviathan [1651]. (6 pp) Available via: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/h68l/chapter13.html
  • Hedley Bull, “Hobbes and the International Anarchy,” Social Research 48, no. 4 (Winter 1981): 720-22, 725-29, 736-37 only. (7 pp)
  • Weber, Max. “Politics as a Vocation.” In Essays in Sociology. [1919] pp 77-87. (10 pp) Available via: http://www.archive.org/details/frommaxweberessa00webe
  • Waltz, Kenneth Neal. Theory of International Politics. Reading: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1979. Ch 6: Part I (pp 102-116). (14 pp)

Class 3: Rethinking Sovereignty: The Emperors Have no Robes (Tue 15 Sept)

  • Krasner, Stephen D. “Westphalia and All That.” In Ideas & Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change, edited by Judith Goldstein and Robert O. Keohane, 235- 64. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. (29 pp)
  • Krasner, Stephen D. Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Ch 1: “Sovereignty and its Discontents.” (40 pp)
  • Recommended: Lake, David. Hierarchy in International Relations. Ithaca N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009.

Class 4: Challenging the Domestic/International Distinction (Thur 17 Sept)

  • Ikenberry, G. John. After Victory. Ch 2: “Varieties of Order: Balance of Power, Hegemonic, and Constitutional.” (30 pp)
  • Lake, D.A. “The new sovereignty in international relations.” International Studies Review 5, 3 (2003): 303-23. (20 pp)
  • Strange, Susan. “States, Firms and Diplomacy.” In International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth, edited by Jeffry Frieden & David Lake, 19-37. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000. pp 60-67. (7 pp)
  • Fieldhouse, David. “A New Imperial System? The Role of the Multinational Corporation Reconsidered.” In Frieden & Lake, 167-179. (8 pp)

Class 5: Universalism: An Alternative Framework of International Organization (Tue 22 Sept)

  • Burke, Edmund. “First Letter on a Regicide Peace.” 1796. Para. 3.1.1-3.1.20; and Note 60. (11 pp) Available via:  http://www.econlib.org/Library/LFBooks/Burke/brkSWv3c1.html
  • Kipling, Rudyard. “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands.” [1899] Available (with useful background) via:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Man%27s_Burden
  • Pease, Kelly Kate, and David P. Forsythe. “Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, and World Politics.” Human Rights Quarterly 15, no. 2 (1993): 290-314. Skim: Just be sure to get the main thesis. (24 pp)
  • Virginia Page Fortna, “Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace?” International Studies Quarterly 48, no. 2 (June 2004): 269-76 and 288 only. (8 pp)
  • Recommended: Regan, P.M. “Choosing to intervene: outside interventions in internal conflicts.” Journal
    of Politics 60, 3 (1998): 754-79. (25 pp)

Topic 3. Theories of the Causes of Order & Disorder

Class 6: Distribution of Power Determines Level of Order (“Realism”) (Thur 24 Sept)

  • Morgenthau, Hans Joachim. Politics among nations; The Struggle for Power and Peace. 5th ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Ch 3: “Political Power.” (12 pp)
  • Waltz, Kenneth Neal. Theory of International Politics. Reading: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1979. Ch 6: Parts II-III (pp 116-128). (12 pp)
  • Mearsheimer, John J. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001.  Ch 1: “Introduction.” (29 pp)
  • Gowa, Joanne S. Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. Ch 1. (8 pp) Ch 3 Recommended.

-Monday, 28 Sept: Jeffrey Williamson Talk–

Class 7: International Regimes Can Substitute for Hegemony (“Liberalism”) (Tue 29 Sept)

  • Keohane, Robert O. After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Ch 4. Ch 5 Recommended. (16 pp)
  • Robert Axelrod and Robert O. Keohane, “Achieving Cooperation under Anarchy: Strategies and Institutions,” World Politics 38:1 (Oct. 1985), pp. 226-254. (28 pp)
  • Kenneth Abbott et al., “The Concept of Legalization,” International Organization 54, 3 (Summer 2000), pp. 401-419. (18 pp)
  • Recommended: Mearsheimer, John J. “The False Promise of International Institutions.” International Security, no. 19 (1994): 5-49.

Class 8: Anarchy is What States Make of It (“Constructivism”) (Thur 1 Oct)

  • James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, “The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders,” International Organization 52, 4 (Autumn 1998), pp. 943, 948-958. (11 pp)
  • Wendt, Alexander. “Anarchy is what States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics.” International Organization 46, no. 2 (1992): 391-425. (34 pp)
  • Katzenstein, Peter J. “Introduction: Alternative Perspectives on National Security.” In The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, 1-32. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. (31 pp)
  • Recommended: Finnemore, Martha, and Kathryn Sikkink. “International Norm Dynamics and Political  Change.” International Organization 52, no. 4 (1998): 887-917. (30 pp)

Unit 2: 1900-1950, A Story of Disorder?

Topic 4. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire

Class 9: The First Era of Globalization (Tue 6 Oct)

  • Eichengreen, Barry J. Globalizing Capital. Chs 1-2. (42 pp)
  • Keynes, JM. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. [1919] Chs 1-2. (16 pp) Available via: http://books.google.com/
  • Recommended: Ikenberry, G. John. After Victory. Ch 4: “The Settlement of 1815.” (37 pp)
  • Recommended: O’Rourke, Kevin H., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. Chs 1-2. (28 pp)

-10:30 PM, Wednesday, 7 October: Essay 1 Due-

Class 10: Pax Britannica (Thur 8 Oct)

  • Angell, Norman. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909. Ch 3: “The Great Illusion.” (20 pp) Available via: Google Books.
  • Krasner, Stephen D. “State Power and the Structure of International Trade.” [1976] In Frieden & Lake, 19-37. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000. (18 pp)
  • Recommended: Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783. [1890] Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1918. Ch 1: “Introductory.” (25 pp) Available via: http://books.google.com/

-Thursday, 8 October: Dani Rodrik Talk–

-Friday, 9 October: Peter Andreas Talk-

-Tuesday, 13 October: Fall Break-

Class 11: The War to End all Wars (Thur 15 Oct)

  • Brooke, Rupert. “1914.” In Collected Poems. [1915]. Sonnets, I-V (pp 107-11). Available via: Google Books.
  • Kennan, George. American Diplomacy. Pt I, Ch 4: “World War I.” (19 pp)
  • Stephen Van Evera, “The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War,” International Security 9:1 (Summer 1984), pp. 58-107. (49 pp) Skim: just get outline of major arguments.
  • Sagan, Scott D. “1914 Revisited: Allies, Offense, and Instability.” International Security 11, no. 2 (1986): 151-75. (24 pp)

Class 12: Attempts to Restore Order (Tue 20 Oct)

  • Ikenberry, G. John. After Victory. Ch 5: “The Settlement of 1919.” (46 pp)
  • Wilson, Woodrow. The Fourteen Points. January 8, 1918. (5 pp) Available via: http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/President_Wilson%27s_Fourteen_Points
  • Keynes, JM. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. [1919] Ch 3. (28 pp) Chs 4-6 Recommended.

Topic 5. The Twenty Years’ Crisis: Interwar Implosion

Class 13: Dissolution and Collapse of the Global Economy (Thur 22 Oct)

  • Eichengreen, Barry J. Globalizing Capital. Ch 3, pp 45-50. (5 pp)
  • Eichengreen. Barry J. “The Political Economy of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.” In Frieden & Lake, 37-47. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000. (10 pp)
  • Eichengreen, Barry J. “Keynes and Protection.” Journal of Economic History 44, no. 2 (1984): 363-73. (10 pp)
  • Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. [1936] Ch 23, Sections I-V. (20 pp)
  • Recommended: Lecture on The Balance of Payments Slides
  • Recommended: Lecture on The Interwar Gold Standard  Slides

Class 14: Nationalism over Idealism (Tue 27 Oct)

  • Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political. [1932] Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Chs 1, 5-6. (20 pp)
  • Carr, Edward Hallett. The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. [1939] 2nd ed. London: Macmillan & Co., 1946. Preface to Second Edition; Chs 5-6. (32 pp)

Topic 6. World War II: Clash of Competing Visions of International Organization

Class 15: National Socialism & State Shinto (Thur 29 Oct)

  • Hitler, Adolph. First Speech as German Chancellor, with introduction by Joseph Goebbels, delivered February 10, 1933. Available via: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMeGOYVqZ4
  • Hitler, Adolph. Three Years’ Struggle for Peace. Parts of speeches given by Hitler assembled by the Nazi party. Released September 9, 1935. Available via: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2qvN0iyvr8
  • Hitler, Adolph. “On National Socialism and World Relations.” A speech delivered in the German Reichstag, January 30, 1937. (30 pp)
  • Hitler, Adolph. Speech delivered at the Berlin Sports Palace, January 30, 1941. Available via: http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/timeline/410130awp.html
  • Goebbels, Joseph. “Nation: Rise up and Let the Storm Break Loose.” A speech delivered February 18, 1943. Audio Full Text (Recommended)
  • Memoranda from Japanese Imperial Conference, September 1941. (7 pp)
  • Sagan, Scott D. “The Origins of the Pacific War,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. XVIII, No. 4 (Spring 1988), pp. 893-922. (29 pp) Skim: just get outline of major arguments.

Class 16: The Allied Response: Idealism or Realism? (Tue 3 Nov)

  • Chamberlain, Neville. Speech after Munich Conference. September 30, 1938. Available via:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZHpprf6HSM
  • Churchill, Winston. “The Munich Agreement.” Speech before the House of Commons, delivered October 5, 1938. Available via: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill
  • Chamberlain, Neville. Radio broadcast announcing state of war with Germany. September 3, 1939. Available via:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtrOJnpmz6s
  • Churchill, Winston. “War Speech.” Speech before the House of Commons, delivered September 3, 1939. Available via:
    http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill
  • Churchill, Winston. “Their Finest Hour.” Speech before the House of Commons, delivered June 18, 1940. Abridged audio available via: http://www.fiftiesweb.com/usa/churchill-finest-hour.mp3 Text recommended: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D. “Pearl Harbor Speech.” Address given to the United States Congress, December 8, 1941. Available via: http://www.usswestvirginia.org/fdr_pearl_speech.htm
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D. “Order of the Day.” Statement given to Allied invading troops on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Available via: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowerorderofdday.htm
  • Carr, Edward Hallett. The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. [1939] 2nd ed. London: Macmillan & Co., 1946. Ch 14. (15 pp.)
  • Kennan, George. American Diplomacy. Pt I, Ch 5: “World War II.” (17 pp)
  • Recommended: Churchill, Winston. “Air Parity Lost.” Speech before the House of Commons, delivered May 2, 1935. Available via: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1193

Unit 3: After the War: A “New World Order”?

Topic 7. Post-War Reorganization

Class 17: The Organization of the Global Economy (The Broad Story) (Thur 5 Nov)

  • Ikenberry, G. John. After Victory. Ch 6: “The Settlement of 1945.” (52 pp)
  • Goldstein, Judith and Joanne Gowa. “US National Power and the Post-War Trading Regime.” World Trade Review 1, no. 2 (2002): 153-70. (17 pp)
  • Recommended: Irwin, Douglas A., Petros C. Mavroidis, and Alan O. Sykes. The Genesis of the GATT. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Introduction, 1.1-1.3, 1.7-1.8, 1.12.

Class 18: The Organization of the Global Economy (The Case of Money) (Tue 10 Nov)

  • Ikenberry, G. John. “Creating Yesterday’s New World Order: Keynesian ‘New Thinking’ and the Anglo-American Postwar Settlement.” In Ideas & Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change, edited by Judith Goldstein and Robert O. Keohane, 57-86. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. (29 pp)
  • Keynes, JM. “Proposals for an International Currency Union.” 2nd Draft. November 18, 1941. (19 pp)
  • Keynes, JM. “Easter Holidays Note on the Stabilisation Fund.” April 27, 1943. (3 pp)
  • Keynes, JM. “The Synthesis of C.U. and S.F.” June, 1943. (5 pp)
  • Joint statement by Experts of United and Associated Nations on the Establishment of an International Stabilisation Fund. April, 1944. (10 pp)

Class 19: The Organization of Global Politics (Thur 12 Nov)

  • Kennan, George. American Diplomacy. Pt I, Ch 6: “Diplomacy in the Modern World.” (12 pp)
  • The Atlantic Charter. August 14, 1941. (1 p) Available via: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/atlantic.htm
  • The Charter of the United Nations. June 26, 1945. (Just skim this document.) Available via: http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/index.html
  • The United Nations. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. December 10, 1948. http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
  • Gandhi, Mohandas K. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule. [1909] Read all but Chs 2-3, 9, 15, and appendices. Text available via: http://www.forget-me.net/en/Gandhi/hind-swaraj.pdf (50 pp)
  • Churchill, Winston. “Our Duty in India.” Speech given at Albert Hall, March 18, 1931. Available via: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1191
  • Recommended: Re-read EH Carr, “Preface to the 2nd Edition.”
  • Recommended: Declaration by the United Nations subscribing to the Principles of The Atlantic Charter.
    January 1, 1942. Available via: http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420101a.html

Topic 8. The Durability of the Post-War Plans

Class 20: The Cold War (Tue 17 Nov)

  • Kennan, George. American Diplomacy. Part II. (40 pp)
  • Churchill, Winston. “Sinews of Peace (Iron Curtain).” Commencement address given at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946. Available via: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=429
  • Rowe, Edward T. “The United States, the United Nations, and the Cold War.” International Organization 25, no. 1 (1971): 59-78. (19 pp)
  • Recommended: Weber, Steve. “Shaping the Postwar Balance of Power: Multilateralism in NATO.” International Organization 46, no. 3 (1992): 633-80. Read Introduction & Conclusion; skim remainder. (20 pp)

Class 21: Economic Change: The Fall of Bretton Woods and the Transformation of the Trade Regime (Thur 19 Nov)

  • Nixon, Richard. Speech Closing the Gold Window, August 15, 1971. Available via: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRzr1QU6K1o
  • Gowa, Joanne S. Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983. “Introduction.” (20 pp)
  • Barton, et al. The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Ch 1. “Political Analysis of the Trade Regime.” (26 pp)
  • Recommended: Leeson, Robert. Ideology and the International Economy: The Decline and Fall of Bretton Boods: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Chs 6-8, 10-12. (30 pp)

Topic 9. After the Cold War

Class 22: The Cold War’s Abrupt End and Some Attempts to Organize Post-Cold War Security (Tue 24 Nov)

  • Ikenberry, G. John. After Victory. Ch 7: “After the Cold War.” (42 pp)
  • Gorbachev, Mikhail, Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, Francois Mitterrand, Brian Mulroney, and Fidel Castro. “What Did We End the Cold War For?” New Perspectives Quarterly 13, no. 1 (1996): 18-28. (10 pp)
  • Frederking, Brian. “Constructing Post-Cold War Collective Security.” The American Political Science Review 97, no. 3 (2003): 363-78. (15 pp)
  • Luttwack, Edward. “Give War a Chance.” Foreign Affairs (1999).
  • Shultz, George P., William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn. “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons.” Hoover Digest 1 (2007). Available via: http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/6731276.html
  • Stanger, Allison. “Foreign Policy, Privatized” (with Omnivore), New York Times, October 5, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/opinion/05stanger.html?th&emc=th
  • Recommended: Chinkin, Christine M. “Kosovo: A “Good” or “Bad” War?” The American Journal of International Law 93, no. 4 (1999): 841-47. (6 pp)
  • Recommended: Hagen, William. “The Balkans’ Lethal Nationalism.” Foreign Affairs (1999): 52-64. (12
    pp)

-Thursday, 26 Nov: Thanksgiving-

Class 23: The Wars in Iraq: From With Us to “With Us or Against Us” (Tue 1 Dec)

  • Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, “Why Saddam Hussein Invaded Kuwait,” Survival, Vol. 33, No. 1 (January/February 1991), pp. 18-30. (12 pp)
  • Bush, George W. Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, September 20, 2001. Available via:
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html
  • Bush, George W. “National Security Strategy of the United States of America,” 17 September 2002. (Skip Ch 9.) (30 pp) Available via:
  • Kenneth M. Pollack, “Next Stop Baghdad?” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 81, No. 2 (March/April 2002), pp. 32-47. (15 pp)
  • John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, “An Unnecessary War,” Foreign Policy, (January/February 2003), pp. 51-59. (8 pp)
  • Recommended: Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh, “How Kuwait Was Won: Strategy in the Gulf
    War,” International Security, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 1991), pp. 5-41. (36 pp)

Unit 4: Conclusion

Topic 10. International Order Today and Tomorrow

Class 24: The End of International Order? (Thur 3 Dec)

  • Grieco & Ikenberry. State Power and World Markets. New York: WW Norton, 2003. Ch 9:  “Mechanisms for Governance, Reform, and Expansion of the World Political Economy.” (39 pp)
  • Stiglitz, Joseph E. “How to Fix the Global Economy.” The New York Times, October 3, 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/opinion/03stiglitz.html.
  • Brooks, Stephen G., and William C. Wohlforth. “Reshaping the World Order.” Foreign Affairs (April 2009). http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/64652/stephen-g-brooks-and-william-c-wohlforth/reshaping-the-world-order. 
  • Ban Ki-moon. “Reforming the United Nations.” 2008. (Skim this report.) Available via: http://www.un.org/reform/
  • The International Monetary Fund. “Reform of IMF Quotas and Voice: Responding to Changes in the Global Economy.” April, 2008. Available via: http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2008/040108.htm

-10:30 PM, Monday, 7 December: Essay 2 Due-