Course syllabus for BA Program in International Relations
Prof. Maxim Bratersky
Moscow 2015

Course Description
This course focuses on major issues of international conflict management (mediation, conflict prevention, implementation of peace agreements) peacekeeping (peace enforcement, humanitarian intervention) and peacebuilding (statebuiding, security sector reform). This course will combine the study of theories of conflict resolution as part of international relations and some studies of recent conflicts, including Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Ukraine, Cambodia.
In this course the students will learn about major approaches to peacebuilding, understand alternatives facing the policymakers, and discuss issues underlying certain political decisions and approaches.
This course becomes particularly important today when predominant ideas on peacekeeping developed in the 1990s are challenged by the evolving international environment with more demands concentrated on non-interference and state sovereignty.
This course will combine traditional lecturing in class with students’ active participation in seminars where they will be required to present on particular topics central to the course.
To successfully complete this course student will be expected to 1) sit in lectures; 2) know the reading materials; 3) participate at the seminars and prepare their presentations on assigned topics.
Examination. In the middle of the course completing the theoretic part there will be a midterm paper.
The final exam will be done at the entire course in the form of a research paper (essay).
Marks . Participation (15%): Students are expected to attend regularly, read diligently, and participate actively in class discussions.
Presentations (25%): Student will present art least once in class on topics I will prompt one week before they are due
Midterm Exam (20%): One 3-4 page take-home essay
Final Exam (40%): One 5-6 page take-home essay
ClASS 1 - Introduction and Overview

ClASS 2 - Trends in Global Conflict and Civil War
Readings:
Marshall, Monty and Gurr, Ted Robert (2005) Peace and Conflict 2005 (College
Park: Center for International Development and Conflict Management) http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/peace_and_conflict.asp
Read only pp.1-2, 11-15
Tilly, Charles (2002) “Violence, Terror, and Politics as Usual.” Boston Review Summer 21-4 http://bostonreview.net/BR27.3/tilly.html
CLASS 3- Types of Civil War
Readings:
John Mueller, “The Banality of ‘Ethnic War’,” International Security, Summer 2000, pp. 42-70
Fearon, James (2007) “Iraq's Civil War” Foreign Affairs 86, 2 (March/April), pp.2-16
Sambanis, Nicholas (2004) “What Is Civil War?” Journal of Conflict Resolution 48
(6) pp.814-858.
CLASS 4 - Violent Conflict and its Management in the Post-Cold War World
Readings:
Doyle, Michael W. (2001) "War Making and Peace making: The United Nations' Post-Cold War Record."
Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds. Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of
Managing International Conflict. Washington: United States Institute of Peace, pp. 529-560.
Brown, Michael E. (2001) "Ethnic and Internal Conflicts." Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and
Pamela Aall, eds. Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict. Washington:
United States Institute of Peace, pp. 209-226.
CLASS 5 – Prevention

Readings:
Stedman, Stephen J. (1995) "Alchemy for a New World Order." Foreign Affairs 75(3), pp. 14-20.
Jentleson, Bruce W. (2001) "Preventive Statecraft: A Realist Strategy for the Post-Cold War Era." Chester
A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds. Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing
International Conflict. Washington: United States Institute of Peace, pp. 249-264.
CLASS 6 – Mediation
Readings:
Kleiboer, M.A. (1996) "Understanding Success and Failure of International Mediation." Journal of
Conflict Resolution 40(2), pp. 360-389.
CLASS 7 - Peace Implementation
Readings:
Stedman, Stephen J. (2002) "Introduction." Stephen J. Stedman, Donald Rothchild, and Elzabeth M.
Cousens, eds. Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements. Boulder: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, Inc., pp. 1-40.
Downs, George and Stephen J. Stedman. (2002) "Evaluation Issues in Peace Implementation." Stephen J.
Stedman, Donald Rothchild, and Elizabeth M. Cousens, eds. Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of
Peace Agreements. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., pp. 43-69.
CLASS 8 - Spoilers in Peace Processes
Readings:
Stedman, Stephen J. (1997) "Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes." International Security 22(2), pp. 5-
53.
CLASS 9 - Humanitarian Intervention and the Issue of Sovereignty
Readings:
Luttwak, Edward N. (2001) "The Curse of Inconclusive Intervention." Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler
Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds. Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict.
Washington: United States Institute of Peace, pp. 265-272.
Hoffmann, Stanley. (2001) "The Debate About Intervention." Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds. Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict. Washington:
United States Institute of Peace, pp. 273-283.

CLASS 10- 11 – Peacebuilding and Security Sector Reform
Readings:
Short, C. 1999.Security sector reform and the elimination of poverty. A speech held at the Centre for
Defense Studies, King’s College in
London.http://www.clareshort.co.uk/speeches/DFID/9%20March%201999.pdf
Eriksen, S.S. 2009. The liberal peace is neither: peacebuilding, statebuilding and the reproduction of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. /Liden K.,MacGinty R., Richmond O. [Eds.], Liberal
Peacekeeping Reconstructed. /International Peacekeeping Special Issue, 16 [5]
Paris, R., 2010, Saving Liberal Peacebuilding. // Review of International Studies, Vol. 36, pp. 337-365
Pugh, M. 2004. Peacekeeping and critical theory.//International Peacekeeping, 11 [1], pp. 39-58.
Kritz, Neil J. (2001) "The Rule of Law in the Postconflict Phase: Building a Stable Peace." Chester A.
Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds. Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing
International Conflict. Washington: United States Institute of Peace, pp. 801-820.
Putnam, Tonya L. (2002) "Human Rights and Sustainable Peace." Stephen J. Stedman, Donald Rothchild, and Elizabeth M. Cousens, eds. Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements. Boulder:
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., pp. 237-271.
CLASS 12 - MIDTERM EXAMINATION
CLASS 13 – Mediation cases Bosnia (Dayton) and Kosovo (Rambouillet)
Readings:
Srebrenica Report: Report of the Secretary General Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 53/35
(1998).
Report of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, Chapters 2,3,4,6, and 7.
Greenberg, Melanie and Margaret McGuinness. (2000) "From Lisbon to Dayton: International Mediation and the Bosnia Crisis." Melanie C. Greenberg, John H. Barton, and Margaret E. McGuinness, eds. Words
Over War. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 33-75.
CLASS 14 – Spoilers cases Ukraine (Minsk)
Readings: TBA
CLASS 15 – Implementation cases - Cambodia

Readings:
Peou, Sorpong. (2002) "Implementing Cambodia's Peace Agreement." Stephen J. Stedman, Donald
Rothchild, and Elizabeth M. Cousens, eds. Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements.
Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., pp. 499-530.
CLASS 16 – intervention cases – Rwanda and Lybia
Readings:
Power, Samantha. (2001) "Bystanders to Genocide." Atlantic Monthly 288(2), pp. 84-108.
Kuperman, Alan. (2000) "Rwanda in Retrospect." Foreign Affairs 79(1), pp. 94-118.
Kuperman, Alan. A Model Humanitarian Intervention? Reassessing NATO's Libya Campaign.
International Security, volume 38, issue 1, pages 105-136, Summer 2013