Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos – Part IIA, 2015-2016
POL 5: Conceptual Issues in Politics and International Relations
Course organiser:
Dr Iza Hussin
ih298@cam.ac.uk
Department of Politics and International Studies
This paper consists of two long essays on topics chosen to pursue your particular
interests in politics and international relations. The aim of this paper is to enable
students to further develop their skills in diverse areas of research in the fields of
politics and international studies, in critical engagement with key texts in these
fields, and in the presentation of arguments and writing on varied topics related to
conceptual debates in politics and international studies.
As the list below shows, your approach to these topics may be primarily theoretical
or empirical. Many of the questions are generally phrased in order to allow you, in
discussion with your supervisor, to decide to answer them in a general way or to
concentrate on particular aspects or examples of the issue at hand. In doing so, you
should consider conceptual issues, although not to the exclusion of relevant facts or
specific arguments.
Some of the questions relate to and cover similar issues as material covered in your
other papers this year. You may use this paper to extend your work for another
paper in Part IIA or prepare the ground for papers or a dissertation in Part IIB. In
choosing a topic and preparing the essays, a balance should be struck between
extending work done for other papers, and taking care that there is not too much
overlap between your essay and an exam answer in your other papers. This may be
avoided by referring to different examples and readings than in other papers or
exams; if in doubt, your supervisors will be able to advise further.
Lecture
There is one introductory lecture in the first week of Michaelmas term (by Dr Iza
Hussin). This lecture will outline approaches to research, reading and writing for the
long essay, and offer opportunities to ask questions about the paper.
Supervisions
The paper is primarily taught by supervision, three for each essay. The first
supervision will consider the nature and scope of the question and your approach to
it; the second will discuss progress normally on the basis of a written outline; the
third will review a first draft. Supervisors will not read more than one draft of the
essay, and will not offer more than three supervisions. You are expected to work for
the essay during term time and supervisors will expect to give you each of the three
supervisions during term time. Other than in exceptional circumstances where your
Director of Studies has provided evidence that you have been unable to work for
some period of the term, supervisors can, and often will, refuse to read drafts during
the vacation.
Essay selection process
At the start of Michaelmas term, students will be asked for their essay choices (a first
choice, and a reserve choice.) These choices will be due before the second Friday of
term. You will then be informed of the outcome of the selection process, and your
supervisor, and schedule supervisions for the essay as soon as possible. At the end
of Michaelmas term, this process will be repeated for Lent. While it is a priority that
you will write essays on your chosen topics, you may be asked to write on one of
your reserve questions, if this is required to make sure that all students receive
adequate supervision. Students who miss the deadline for essay choices may be
asked to wait until the first selection process is over.
Writing
Essays must answer the question and they must make an argument in doing so. The
examiners expect an argument in answer to the question, evidence of having read
the important literature, and independent thinking. They have no fixed expectations
for the nature, direction or conclusion of answers to any of the questions set, and
with the general questions you are free to approach them in a way that particularly
interests you. More is needed than a straightforward review of the literature;
assertion and rhetorical flourishes cannot substitute for arguments. Polemical
writing will be penalised by the examiners. Many essays will use detailed examples
from past or contemporary politics and international relations, or theoretical
arguments or texts, through which to make their argument. If you do use a
particular example or theoretical argument, or set of examples or theoretical
arguments, to answer a general question, you need, at the beginning of the essay, to
explain why these examples or arguments are pertinent to the question. When you
make arguments, you need to explain your judgements, and you need to engage
with counter-arguments to the arguments you are making. Argue against the
strongest claims of counter-arguments, not their weakest points. You also should
avoid grand generalisations. These almost always fail to stand up to empirical or
theoretical scrutiny and do not advance arguments.
The examiners’ reports from previous long essay papers contain specific comments
about the respects in which essays submitted in that year did, or did not, approach
the questions in suitable ways. Relevant excerpts from reports in recent years are
provided at the end of this paper guide, and may contain useful advice for this
year’s cohort.
All students should make sure they are familiar with the Department’s policy on
what constitutes plagiarism, within the Polis Guide to Long Essays:
http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/Undergrad/Current/Part2a.
Presentation and length
Developing your ability to write in an accurate, focused and compelling way is an
important part of this paper. You are expected to write clearly, to punctuate
carefully, and to proof read your essays before submitting them.
All essays must be double-spaced and have page numbers. All quotations must be
referenced with page numbers, and the essay must include a full bibliography. The
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word limit is 5,000 words including references, titles, tables, and all other material
submitted in the essay, except for the bibliography. Essays that do not conform to
these guidelines or which exceed the word limit to any degree will be penalised.
Casualness in presentation of essays and syntactical and grammatical confusion will
be penalised by the examiners. Essays in which there are a significant number of
typographical errors and syntactical and grammatical mistakes cannot receive a
mark higher than a lower second.
Layout, references and bibliographies
Please refer to: http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/Undergrad/Current/ug-guide-tolong-essays
Submission of essays and deadlines
The deadline for your first essay is Monday 18 January, 2016 (at noon). The deadline
for your second essay is Monday 25 April 2016 (at noon). Essays need to be
submitted in two ways: firstly, two hard copies in the POLIS office (room 140) in the
Alison Richard Building, AND secondly, an emailed copy. Instructions for
submission can be found at:
http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/Undergrad/Current/ug-guide-to-long-essays
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Questions
You will write one essay in Michaelmas, and one in Lent term, choosing from the
questions below:
1. Either (a) Must revolutions fail?
Or (b) Are revolutions inherently unpredictable?
2. Either (a) Do free elections make governments legitimate?
Or (b) Why do authoritarian regimes hold elections?
3. Is the shari’ah incompatible with the modern nation state?
4. Is there such a thing as ‘Muslim politics’?
5. To what extent was the Ebola crisis the result of a failure of international
cooperation?
6. Can a peace process be inclusive?
7. Is American politics exceptional?
8. Either (a) Is the euro-zone compatible with democracy?
Or (b) Would greater politicisation at the supranational level solve the European
Union's democratic deficit?
9. Is inter-state war largely a thing of the past?
10. Can governments significantly decrease the chances of disastrous intelligence
failures?
11. Either (a) Can democracy centralise violence? Or (b) How is violence governed in the age of the internet? 12. Either (a) When is transparency a danger to democracy?
Or (b) Are coups good for democracy?
13. Either (a) Can the international community ever effectively tackle climate
change?
Or (b) Do global environmental problems require local solutions?
14. Is consociational democracy a viable means of ethnic conflict management in
deeply divided societies?
15. Should military leaders actively contribute to democratic will-formation and
ultimate decision making on the international use of force?
16. What are the political implications of transhumanism?
17. Should political theory encompass architecture?
18. How are gender issues conceptualised in developing countries?
19. Why have there been so few interstate wars in independent Africa?
20. Do "men make war and war makes men"?
21. How do memories shape political identities?
22. Are there any limits to political secularism?
23. Either (a) Why is the British party system in crisis?
Or (b) Does the British Labour party have a viable future?
24. What explains the apparent rise in sub-state nationalism in Europe?
25. How do developmental states reconcile industrial policies with liberal trade
agreements? Compare the experience of post-war European and East Asian
countries with the current strategies of BRICs.
26. Can politics be a vehicle for the advancement of progressive values?
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27. How frequently should elections be held?
28. Which inequalities matter?
29. Is human rights a form of politics?
30. Is contemporary international law a product of colonialism?
31. Do European welfare states have a future?
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Reading
For this paper, you are expected to learn how to use bibliographical searches, if you
have not done so already, and not to rely solely upon your supervisor to provide a
full reading list. It will also be useful to familiarise yourself with the University
Library, as it is likely that some of the sources for your essay will only be available
there (and not in the SPS library).
Many of the most useful databases are listed in the faculty library guide to research
in Politics:
http://mws.hsps.cam.ac.uk/sps-library/lib_research_polguide.html.
Three of the most useful databases are: ProQuest (access via the link to IBSS on the
library guide); http://www.jstor.org/; and, for a broader range,
http://scholar.google.co.uk/.
Below are initial ideas on where to start with reading for each question:
1. Either (a) Must revolutions fail?
Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia
and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
John Dunn, Modern Revolutions: An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political
Phenomenon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Said Arjomand, Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1988.
Or (b) Are revolutions inherently unpredictable?
John Dunn, Modern Revolutions: An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political
Phenomenon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
John Lewis Gaddis, ‘International relations theory and the end of the Cold War’,
International Security, Vol. 17/3 (1992/3), pp. 5-58.
Fawaz Gerges, ed., The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, Part I.
2. Either (a) Do free elections make governments legitimate?
Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010.
John Dunn, Breaking Democracy's Spell. New Haven: Yale University Press 2014.
David Runciman, The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War
I to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2013.
Or (b) Why do authoritarian regimes hold elections?
Jennifer Gandhi and Ellen Lust-Okar, ‘Elections under Authoritarianism’, Annual
Review of Political Science 12 (2009): 403-422.
Jason Brownlee, ‘Executive Elections in the Arab World: When and How Do They
Matter?’, Comparative Political Studies 44, 7 (2011): 807-828.
Henry Hale, Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), Chapter 4.
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3. Is the shari’ah incompatible with the modern nation state?
Wael Hallaq, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament.
New York: Columbia University Press 2012.
Abdullahi An-Naim, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2010.
Noah Feldman, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State. Princeton: Princeton University
Press 2008.
4. Is there such a thing as ‘Muslim politics’?
Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori, Muslim Politics. Princeton: Princeton University
Press 2004.
Robert Hefner, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia
. Princeton:
Princeton University Press 2000.
Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton:
Princeton University Press 2011.
5. To what extent was the Ebola crisis the result of a failure of international
cooperation?
Adia Bento and Kim Yi Dionne, ‘International Political Economy and the 2014 West
African Ebola Outbreak’, African Studies Review, Vol. 58, Issue 1, April 2015.
Annie Wilkinson and Melissa Leach, ‘Ebola-myths, realities and structural violence’
African Affairs, Vol. 114, 454, 2015.
Jeremy Youde, Global Health Governance, Cambridge: Polity, 2013, Introduction.
6. Can a peace process be inclusive?
Sarah C. White, “Depoliticizing Development: The Uses and Abuses of
Participation” Development in Practice, 6, 1, 1996.
Desirée Nilsson, “Anchoring the Peace: Civil Society Actors in Peace Accords and
Durable Peace”, International Interactions, 38, 2, 2012, pp. 243-266.
Stephen Stedman, ‘Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes’, International Security, 22:2,
1997.
7. Is American politics exceptional?
Seymour Lipset, American exceptionalism: a double-edged sword. New York: W. W.
Norton & Company, 1997.
Byron Shafer, Is America different?: a new look at American exceptionalism. Oxford:
Oxford, University Press, 1991.
Godfrey Hodgson, The myth of American exceptionalism. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2010.
8. Either (a) Is the euro-zone compatible with democracy?
Wolfgang Streeck, Buying time: the delayed crisis of democratic capitalism, chs 3-4.
B. Crum, (2013), ‘Saving the Euro at the Cost of Democracy?’, Journal of Common
Market Studies, 51 (2), pp. 614-30.
K. Dyson, (2013), ‘Sworn to Grim Necessity? Imperfections of European Economic
Governance, Normative Political Theory, and Supreme Emergency’, Journal of
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European Integration, 35 (3), pp. 207-22.
(b) Would greater politicisation at the supranational level solve the European
Union's democratic deficit?
Simon Hix, What’s Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It? (Polity, 2008)
Jurgen Habermas, The Lure of Technocracy (Polity, 2015) chapter 7
Wolfgang Streeck (2014) ‘Small state nostalgia? The Currency Union, Germany and
Europe: A Reply to Jürgen Habermas’, Constellations, 21:2, pp. 213-221
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.12083/epdf
9. Is inter-state war largely a thing of the past?
John Mueller, The Remnants of War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Joshua Goldstein, Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide.
New York: Penguin, 2011.
Jack Levy and William Thomspon, The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and
Transformation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Tanisha M. Fazal. “Dead Wrong? Battle Deaths, Military Medicine, and Exaggerated
Reports of War's Demise,” International Security 39, no. 1 (2014): 95-125.
10. Can governments significantly decrease the chances of disastrous intelligence
failures?
Richard K. Betts, “Analysis, War and Decision: Why Intelligence Failures Are
Inevitable,” World Politics 31, no. 1 (1978): 61-89.
Michael I. Handel, The Diplomacy of Surprise: Hitler, Nixon, Sadat. Center for
International Affairs/Harvard University Press, 1981.
Amy B. Zegart, Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11. Princeton :
Princeton University Press, 2007.
Keren Yarhi-Milo, Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of
Intentions in International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
11. Either (a) Can democracy centralise violence? Bateson, Regina. 2012. "Crime Victimization and Political Participation." American
Political Science Review, 106(3), 570-587. Denyer Willis, Graham. The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime and the
Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2015. Tilly, Charles. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In: Evans, P. B.,
Rueschemeyer, D., & Skocpol, T. (Eds.). Bringing the state back in. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1985.
(b) How is violence governed in the age of the internet? Al-Ghazzi, Omar. ‘"Citizen Journalism" in the Syrian Uprising: Problematizing
Western Narratives in a Local Context.’ Communication Theory 24.4 2014: 435-454.
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Antony, Mary and Thomas, Ryan. 'This is citizen journalism at its finest': YouTube
and the public sphere in the Oscar Grant shooting incident. New Media & Society,
12(8) 2010,1280-1296. Pyrooz, David, Scott Decker, and Richard Moule. ‘Criminal and routine activities in
online settings: Gangs, offenders, and the Internet.’ Justice Quarterly, 32(3) 2013, 471499.
12. Either (a) When is transparency a danger to democracy?
Fung, Archon, "Infotopia: Unleashing the Democratic Power of Transparency".
Politics & Society, 2013, 41(2): 183-212. O'Neill, Onora, A Question of Trust (CUP,
2002), esp. ch.4, "Trust and transparency,"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2002/lecture4.shtml Thompson, Dennis F.,
‘Democratic Secrecy,’ Political Science Quarterly (114, 1999), 181-193.
Eggers, Dave, The Circle (Random House, 2013)
Or (b) Are coups good for democracy?
Powell, Jonathan M. "An assessment of the 'democratic coup' theory: Democratic
trajectories in Africa, 1952-2012." African Security Review 23(3) 2014: 213-224.
Encarnación, Omar G. "Even good coups are bad." Foreign Affairs, 29 July 2013.
Connors, Michael K & Kevin Hewison. "Introduction: Thailand and the 'good coup'."
Journal of Contemporary Asia 38(1) 2008: 1-10.
13. Either (a) Can the international community ever effectively tackle climate
change?
Battig and Bernauer, ‘National institutions and global public goods: are
democracies more cooperative in climate change policy?,’ International
Organization, 2009.
R. Eckersley, The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty. MIT Press, 2004.
A. Giddens, The Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009.
P. G. Harris, What's wrong with climate politics and how to fix it. Cambridge: Polity
Press, 2013.
Q. Li & Reuveny, R. ‘Democracy and environmental degradation,’ International
Studies Quarterly 50(4) 2006: 935-956.
Arend Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy: government forms and performance in
36 countries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
Eric Neumayer, 'Do Democracies exhibit stronger International environmental
commitment? A cross country analysis', Journal of Peace Research, Volume 39,
Number 2, 2002, pp. 139-164.
R. C. Paehlke, Democracy's Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity and Global Economy.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.
D. Shearman and J.W. Smith, The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure
of Democracy. Santa Barbara: Praegar, 2007.
H. Ward, 'Liberal democracy and sustainability', Environmental politics
Volume 17, no. 3, June 2008: pp 386-409
Or b.) Do global environmental problems require local solutions?
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H. Bulkeley, et al, Transnational climate change governance. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2014.
V. Castan-Broto and Bulkeley, H. ‘Survey of urban climate change
experiments in 100 cities,’ In Global Environmental Change, Vol. 23, issue
1, 2013, pp. 92-102.
P. Dauvergne, ed, Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Various chapters.
Cheltenham: Elgar, 2012.
R. Keohane and D. Victor, ‘The Regime complex for climate change.’ Discussion
Paper 2010-33. Cambridge: Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements,
January 2010.
J.M, Pacheco, V.V. Vasconcelos, and F.C. Santos, ‘Climate change governance,
cooperation and self-organization,’ in Physics of Life Reviews, Vol. 11, issue 4 2014, pp.
573-586.
D. Victor, Global Warming Gridlock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Yamin, F. and Depledge, J. (2004). The international climate change regime: A guide to
rules, institutions and procedures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004,
Introductory chapters.
14. What makes military intervention legitimate?
Gareth Evans and Mohamed Sahnoun, ‘The Responsibility to Protect’, Foreign Affairs
81: 6 (November/December 2002), pp. 99-110.
Tom Farer, ‘A Paradigm of Legitimate Intervention’, in Lori Fisler Damrosch, ed.,
Enforcing Restraint. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1993.
Martha Finnemore, ‘Changing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention’, in Finnemore,
The Purpose of Intervention. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Lawrence Freedman, ‘The Age of Liberal Wars’, Review of International Studies 31,
supplement S1 (2005): 93–107.
15. Why did the United States and Britain invade Iraq?
Robert Jervis, 'Explaining the Iraq War', in Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall, eds.,
Why did the United States invade Iraq? London: Routledge, 2012.
Melvyn Leffler, 'The Foreign Policies of the George W. Bush Administration:
Memoirs, History, Legacy,' Diplomatic History 23 (2013), pp. 1-27.
James Cockayne and David Malone, ‘Iraq, 1990-1991 and 2002-2003’, in V. Lowe, A.
Roberts, J. Welsh and D. Zaum, eds, The UN Security Council and War. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 384-340.
Michael C. Desch, ‘America’s Liberal Illiberalism: The Ideological Origins of
Overreaction in U.S. Foreign Policy’, International Security 32:3 (Winter 2007/08), pp.
7-43.
16. What are the political implications of transhumanism?
Francis Fukuyama, “The World’s Most Dangerous Ideas: Transhumanism,” Foreign
Policy, 144: (2004), 42-43.
Sandra Harding, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism
in the Late Twentieth Century" in Harding, Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The
Reinvention of Nature. London: Routledge, 1991.
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Nick Bostrom, “A History of Transhumanist Thought,” Journal of Evolution and
Technology, 14 (2005).
James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg: why democratic societies must respond to the redesigned
human of the future. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004.
Max More and Natasha Vita-More (eds.), The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and
Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future
Oxford: Blackwell, 2013.
“The Transhumanist Declaration” (2012):
http://humanityplus.org/philosophy/transhumanist-declaration/
17. Should political theory encompass architecture?
Susan S. Fainstein, The Just City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.
Paul Hirst, Space and Power: Politics, War and Architecture. Cambridge: Polity, 2005.
Langdon Winner, ‘Do Artefacts have Politics,’ Daedalus, 109 (1980).
Dan Webb, 'Urban Common Property - Notes Towards a Political Theory of the
City,' Radical Philosophy Review 2014.
Jürgen Habermas, "Modern and Postmodern Architecture" in John Forester ed.,
Critical Theory and Public Life. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.
Ronald Beiner, ‘Our Relationship to Architecture as a Mode of Shared Citizenship:
Some Arendtian Thoughts,’ Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 11/1
(2007).
18. How are gender issues conceptualised in developing countries?
N. Kabeer, Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought. London:
Verso, 1995.
C. Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke
University Press, 2003.
R .Connell, Masculinities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
19. Why have there been so few interstate wars in independent Africa?
Jackson, Robert and Carl Rosberg. 1982. ‘Why Africa’s Weak States Persist: The
Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood’, World Politics, 35:1-24
Clapham, Christopher. 2001. ‘Rethinking African States’, African Security Review,
10:6-16
Herbst, Jeffrey. 1990. 'War and the State in Africa.' International Security. 117-139.
20. Do "men make war and war makes men"?
Joshua Goldstein, War and Gender, Cambridge University Press, 2001
Laura Sjoberg, Gender, War and Conflict, Polity Press, 2014
Charlotte Hooper, Manly States: Masculinities, International Relations, and
Gender Politics. Columbia University Press, 2001
21. How do memories shape political identities?
Jeffrey Olick (2007) The Politics of Regret. London: Routledge.
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Paul Connerton (1989) How Societies Remember. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Aleida Assmann and Linda Shortt (eds) (2011) Memory and Political Change.
Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Jeffrey Olick, Vered Vinitzky, D. Levy (eds) (2011) The Collective Memory Reader. New
York: Oxford University Press
22. Are there any limits to political secularism?
Talal Asad (2003) Formations of the Secular. Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford:
Stanford University Press.
Hent de Vries and Lawrence Sullivan (eds) (2006) Political Theologies in a Post-Secular
Age. New York: Fordham University Press.
Olivier Roy (2010) Holy Ignorance. When Religion and Culture Part Ways.
New York: Columbia University Press.
23. Either (a) Why is the British party system in crisis?
Peter Mair, Wolfgang C. Müller and Fritz Plaser, eds. Political Parties and Electoral
Change. London: Sage, 2004.
James Mitchell, The Scottish Question. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Robert Ford and Matthew J. Goodwin, Revolt on the Right. London: Routledge, 2014.
Michael Keating, ed. The Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2013.
(b) Does the British Labour party have a viable future?
Diamond, P., Liddle, R. and Richards, D., ‘Labouring in the shadow of the British
political tradition: the dilemma of ‘One Nation’ politics in an age of disunification’,
Political Quarterly (2015, 86), 52-61Bale, Tim, ‘Concede and move on? One Nation
Labour and the welfare state’, Political Quarterly (2013, 84), 1-11Geary, I. & Pabst, A.,
Blue Labour: Forging a New Politics (I.B. Tauris, 2015)Blair, Tony, A Journey
(Hutchinson, 2010), esp. ‘Postscript’
24. What explains the apparent rise in sub-state nationalism in Europe?
Michael Keating, ‘Thirty Years of Territorial Politics’, West European Politics 31, 1-2
(2008): 60-81.
Michael Keating, ‘European Integration and the Nationalities Question’, Politics and
Society 32, 3 (2004): 367-388.
Paolo Dardanelli and James Mitchell, ‘An Independent Scotland? The Scottish
National Party’s Bid for Independence and its Prospects’, International Spectator 49, 3
(2014): 88-105.
Julius Friend, Stateless Nations: Western European Regional Nationalisms and the Old
Nations. London: Palgrave, 2012)
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25. How do developmental states reconcile industrial policies with liberal
trade agreements? Compare the experience of post-war European and East Asian
countries with the current strategies of BRICs.
Narcís Serra and Joseph E. Stiglitz, ed., The Washington Consensus Reconsidered :
Towards a New Global Governance (Oxford UP 2008), Chapters 2, 4, 7, 10-11.
Peter Gourevitch and David Lake, ed., Politics in the New Hard Times:
the great recession in comparative perspective (Cornell 2013).
Robert Wade, "What strategies are viable for developing countries today?
The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of ‘development space’", Review
of International Political Economy Volume 10, Issue 4, 2003
Robert Wade, "After the Crisis: Industrial Policy and the Developmental State in
Low-Income Countries," Global Policy 1(2) May 2010. Available
at:
http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/development-inequality-andpoverty/after-crisis-industrial-policy-and-developmental-state-l
26. Can politics be a vehicle for the advancement of progressive values?
Massimo L. Salvadori, Progress: Can We Do Without It? London: Zed, 2008.
Christopher Lasch, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics. New York: WW
Norton, 1991.
Louise Amoore and Paul Langley, ‘Ambiguities of global civil society’, Review of
International Studies, Vol. 30 (2004), pp. 89-110.
27. How frequently should elections be held?
Some Reasons for An Annual Parliament: As the Best Security for English
Rights. Together with the Qualifications Requir'd in a Good Member of
Parliament. Offer'd to the Consideration of All Electors of Parliament-Men.’
(1702) [available online]Geoffrey Wheatcroft, ‘Now more than ever, Britain needs the
last Chartist
Reform’, The Guardian, 19 October 2009.
28. Which inequalities matter?
Anne Phillips, Which Inequalities Matter? Polity, 1999.Amartya Sen, "Equality of
What?", Tanner Lecture, 1979.
29. Is human rights a form of politics?
Hannah Arendt, “The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man,”
in The Origins of Totalitarianism: Imperialism. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company,
1968.
Issa Shivji, The Concept of Human Rights in Africa. Dakar: CODESRIA, 1989.
Michael Ignatieff, “Human Rights as Politics,” in Human Rights as Politics and
Idolatry. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Harvard University Press,
2012.
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30. Is contemporary international law a product of colonialism?
Carl Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum
Europaeum. New York: Telos Press, 2003.
Balakrishnan Rajogopal, International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements
and Third World Resistance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Antony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International
Law 1870-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
31. Do European welfare states have a future?
Paul Pierson, ed. The New Politics of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2001.
Peter Taylor-Gooby, ed. New Risks, New Welfare, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2004.
Francis G. Castles, The Future of the Welfare State, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2004.
Giuliano Bonoli and David Natali, eds. The Politics of the New Welfare State. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2012.
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