DePauw University
Department of Political Science
Conflict and Cooperation in the Post-September 11th World
POLS 450B
Spring 2014
Wednesday 12:30-2:20
Asbury 110
Sunil K. Sahu sahus@depauw.edu
Asbury 108A
Hours: M 2:00-4:30, T 3:00-400 and by appointment
Web site: http://fs6.depauw.edu:50080/~sahus/
SYLLABUS
A Short Description
This seminar will explore the nature of cooperation and conflict in the post-9/11 world by focusing on selected
topics in three broad areas: security, economic, and institutional and transnational issues. In the security area, which
is referred to as "high politics" in the literature and has traditionally been the main focus in the field, the end of the
Cold War has removed the threat of nuclear war between two leading nuclear powers. But the 9/11 attack has
brought to the fore the salience of security issues in foreign policy and international politics. The threat of future
terrorist acts, which might include the use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, has changed the security
landscape for ever. The seminar will thoroughly explore the implications of a war against terrorism and of nuclear
proliferation in the emerging world order.
International economic relations, referred to as "low politics," which has assumed greater importance since the
1970s, will be the second theme of the seminar. The focus will be on the growing interdependence–or globalization–
among industrialized nations, and between them and developing nations, in the areas of trade and international
finance. In particular, the seminar will focus on the current globalization and antiglobalization debate, and the issues
of growth, poverty, trade, foreign debt, and technology transfer in the global South.
The seminar will examine certain transnational and institutional issues such as the prospect of democratic peace and
the future of UN collective security, peacekeeping, and humanitarian efforts. Finally, we will analyze how America,
which leads the world in all dimensions of power–military, economic, cultural, and scientific–is reshaping the world
at the beginning of the 21st century.
Format and Requirements of the Seminar
The seminar will meet once a week, 12:30-3:20 on Wednesday. I will assume your familiarity with the
basics of international relations since you have taken POLS 270 and other 200- and 300-level courses in political
science. However, I may refresh your memory, if needed, about basic concepts and history of international relations
since World War II.
Prepared class participation is expected of all of you. I will expect you to come to the class prepared,
having finished all the required readings and with your critical thoughts on the readings for class discussion.
Usually I will introduce the topic and provide a broad framework for class discussion, which will be followed by
one or more student presentations on the assigned readings. In your presentation you are expected to provide a
critical evaluation of the major points/arguments in the readings. I will keep class discussion focused on the topic of
the day and clarify the readings where necessary. Toward the end of the class I will restate the major points arising
out of the readings and discussion, and their significance for the seminar.
You are expected to attend all class meetings during the semester. Your absence from class--even once-will affect your grade unless there is an emergency. Since all the members of this class are seniors, I expect you to
be responsible and self-motivated.
There will be no exams in this class. You are expected to write a 25 page research paper, due on May 8,
the last day of classes. The topic of your paper must be chosen, in consultation with the instructor, before February
18. Your paper outline (title, main argument and important sources) will be due on February19 and the detailed
outline (5 pages) on April 1. You will present the findings of your preliminary research in class during the last 3
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weeks of the semester. (More about this in the January 29 organizational meeting.) Also, you will be responsible for
leading class discussions at least two times during the semester and write two reading response essays. The reading
response essays will provide a critical analysis (not a simple summary) of the readings and will be due one week
after the oral presentation. Please note that you are required to write only two response essays regardless of the
number of class presentations you might give.
The term paper will carry 40% (30% final paper and 10% detailed outline) and the reading response essays
20% toward your final grade. The remaining 40% of your grade will be based on (i) presentation of required
readings (20%), (ii) class participation (10%), (iii) presentation of research paper (5%), and (iv) short outline of the
paper (5%).
Course Requirements
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Seminar Paper
Detailed Outline
Short Outline
Reading Response Essay 1
Reading Response Essay 2
Presentation of Required Readings 1
Presentation of Required Readings 2
Presentation of Research Paper
Overall Class Participation
30%
10%
5%
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Total:
100%
Important Dates
February 18
February 19
April 1
One week after class presentation
One week after class presentation
May 8
Paper topic approval deadline
Paper outline (short) due
Detailed outline due
Reading Response Essay 1 due in class
Reading Response Essay 2 due in class
Seminar Paper due in my office at 10:00 a.m.
Academic Integrity. I will follow the university policy on academic integrity and plagiarism, as stated in the
Student Handbook.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity refers to the ethical standards and policies that govern how people work and interact in
the academic enterprise at a college or university. These standards and policies attempt to do more than
define and condemn what is wrong or unethical; they also attempt to provide a foundation for the mutual
trust and individual responsibility necessary in a healthy academic community.
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Both faculty members and students have the responsibility of upholding the principles of academic
integrity. Faculty and staff members should create an environment in which honesty is encouraged,
dishonesty discouraged and integrity is openly discussed .
Plagiarism
Using the words or ideas of another writer without attribution, so that they seem as if they are your own.
Plagiarism ranges from copying someone else’s work word for word, to rewriting someone else’s work
with only minor word changes (mosaic plagiarism), to summarizing work without acknowledging the
source.
Books and Other Required Readings
The three books required for this course can be purchased at the University Bookstore.
1. Sumit Ganguly, Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947, Columbia University Press, 2002.
2. Dan Caldwell and Robert Williams, Seeking Security n an Insecure World, Rowman and Littlefield, 2nd edition,
2011.
3. Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, Owl Books, 2004.
4. You may take a semester subscription to The New York Times.
5. Other required readings will be available on Moodle.
Schedule and Assignments
January 29
Organizational meeting and discussion of
Zuhdi Jasser, Americanism vs. Islamism: A Personal Perspective (12th Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and
World Affairs)
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200801.jasser.americanismislamism.html
Recommended Readings:
Mitt Romney, “Rising to a New Generation of Global Challenges,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007.
Joseph Nye, “US Power and Strategy After Iraq,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003.
Stanley Hoffmann, “America Goes Backward,” New York Review, June 12, 2003.
Baker-Hamilton Commission, The Iraq Study Group Report available at
http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps76748/iraq_study_group_report.pdf
February 5
1. Post-9/11 World
The post-Cold War era, according to some observers, ended on September 11, 2001 when the terrorists attacked the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The U.S. responded by declaring a war on terrorism, which is being fought
by many means--diplomatic, military, financial, intelligence, investigative, and other. The war on terrorism is
similar to the policy of countering the threat of communism during the Cold War. Our discussion in this unit of the
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course will focus on a critical analysis of the military and other response of the U.S. to the 9/11 attacks. We will
compare President Obama’s approach to the war on terror with that of President Bush.
Required Readings:
Anne Marie Slaughter Adapting, US Policy in a changing international system
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/09/adapting--‐us--‐policy--‐
in--‐a--‐changing--‐international--‐system/245307/
Dan Caldwell and Williams, Seeking Security in an Insecure World, Chs. 1, 9, 10-13
Discussion Leaders: ------------------------------------------------------
Recommended Readings:
Charles Kupchan and Peter Trubowitz, “Grand Strategy for a Divided America,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007.
Stephen Biddle, “Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006.
John Mueller, “Is There Still a Terrorist Threat: The Myth of the Omnipresent Enemy,” Foreign Affairs,
September/October 2006.
Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, Ch. 6.
Michael Scott Doran, “Somebody Else’s Civil War,” Foreign Affairs, January/Feb. 2002.
Grenville Byford, “The Wrong War,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2002.
Michael Howard, “What’s in a Name?: How to Fight Terrorism,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002.
Sebastian Mallaby, The Reluctant Imperialist: Terrorism, Failed States, and the Case for American Empire,”
Foreign Affairs, March/April 2002.
Barack Obama, “Renewing American Leadership, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007.
Sean Kay, Global Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace, Rowman and
Littlefield, 2nd edition, 2012.
Joseph S. Nye Jr., Understanding International Conflict: An Introduction to Theory and History, Pearson, 2005.
Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, Simon and
Schuster, 2007.
Thomas Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Penguin, 2007.
February 12
2. America’s Primacy in Perspective
After the cold war America emerged as the lone superpower; it is leading the world on all dimensions of power–
military, economic, and cultural. Some believe that America has the unique opportunity and, after the terrorist
attacks, the determination to reshape the world. Others maintain that the world’s only superpower can’t go it alone.
In other words it must work with its allies. Yet others argue that America’s power is likely to decline in the 21 st
century. We will examine the pros and cons of each position in this unit of the course.
Required Readings:
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1. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power, pp. 7-120 (available on Moodle)
2. Joseph Nye, The Paradox of American Power, Chapters 1, 2 and 4 (available on Moodle)
Discussion Leaders:
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Philip H. Gordon, “The End of the Bush Revolution,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2006.
Immanuel Wallerstein, “The Eagle Has Crash Landed,” Foreign Policy, July/August 2002.
Stephen E. Flynn, “America the Vulnerable,” Foreign Affairs, January/Feb. 2002.
Paul Kennedy, “Maintaining American Power: From Injury to Recovery,” in The Age of Terror: America
and the World After September 11, edited by Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda, 2001.
Neil Ferguson, “Clashing Civilizations Or Mad Mullah: The United States Between Informal and Formal Empire,”
in The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11.
John B. Judis, “History Lesson: What Woodrow Wilson can teach today’s imperialists,” New Republic, June 9,
2003.
Flynn has a new book titled The Edge of Disaster (Random House, 2007). Please listen to the recent radio interview he gave to
the National Public Radio. Here is the link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7463514&ft=1&f=1003
John Meirsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, W.W. Norton, 2001.
Richard Rosecrance, “War and Peace,” World Politics, October 2002.
Neil Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, Basic
Books: 2003.
Barry M. Lando, Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George
W. Bush , Other Press, 2007.
February 19
3. Religious Fundamentalism, Oil and International Politics
There has been a resurgence of religious, especially Islamic, fundamentalism since the end of the cold war. Some
scholars have argued that Islamic fundamentalism is a reaction against globalization and due to the absence of
democracy and the existence of extreme poverty in many Muslim countries. Others have argued that after the cold
war the new international conflict will not be ideological but rather cultural and civilizational, especially between
the Western and the Islamic civilizations. Yet others believe that the civilizational conflict argument ignores the
underlying cause of conflict between the West and the Muslim world––that the West (read America) has supported
and maintained undemocratic regimes in power in the Middle East in order to have access to and control over the
vast reserve of oil in the region. These three positions about the causes of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the
prevailing anti-Americanism in much of the Islamic world will be analyzed in this unit of the seminar.
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Required Readings:
1. Klare (Moodle)
2. Thomas Friedman, “The First Law of Petropolitics,” Foreign Policy, May/June 2006. (Moodle)
3. Oil: The Long Goodbye (Moodle)
4. Doran (Moodle)
5. Howard (Moodle)
6. Caldwell, Ch. 5 (The Terrorist Threat)
Video: Islam and the West (BP 173.5.I83 1996) “Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, turmoil in the Islamic
world has continually generated foreign policy challenges for the West. Will the conflict between the Islamic world
and the West replace the Cold War as the fundamental political problem of our time? Is the Islamic world a
monolith, or will Islamic nations increasingly act in their own self-interest? Can the Islamic revolution spread to
more countries or will Western-style democracies take hold? Eminent scholars, including Milton Viorst of the
Middle East Institute, and Fouad Adjami of Johns Hopkins University, discuss these issues with Ben Wattenberg.”
(27minutes) 1993.
Web Links
www.incore.ulst.ac.uk The initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity (INCORE) is a joint project of the United
Nations University and the University of Ulster. The Web site contains research and resources into economic
conflicts around the world.
www.ceifo.su.se The Center for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the University of
Stockholm has a Web site detailing its research into migration, nationalism and ethnic relations
www.lamp.ac.uk/cis/pathways The Department of Theology, Religion and Islamic Studies at the University of
Wales in Lampeter has an extensive list of Internet links related to the study of Islam.
www.irna.com The Islamic Republic News Agency posts news, features and photographs on contemporary life and
politics in Iran.
Discussion Leaders:
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Recommended Readings:
Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, 1993.
Fouad Ajami, “The Summoning: 'But They Said, We Will Not Hearken',” Foreign Affairs, 1994.
Edward Said, “Impossible Histories: Why the Many Islams cannot be Simplified,” Harper’s Magazine, July 2002.
Ahmad Omar Sayed Sheikh, “Diary of a Terrorist,” From the thirty-five-page handwritten prison diary of Ahmad
Omar Sayed Sheikh, the main suspect in the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
http://www.harpers.org/online/diary_of_a_terrorist/
Jill Shankleman, Oil, Profits, and Peace: Does business Have a Role in Peacemaking?, USIP press, 2007.
Thomas Powers, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda, New York Review of Books,
2003.
Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future, W.W. Norton, 2007.
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4. Radical Islam and Terrorism
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks Islam has become synonymous, at least in public perception in the U.S., with
violence and terror. In this section, we will go beyond the headlines and examine the factors that led to the
emergence of radical Islam. We will trace the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism beginning in 1979 in the
Iranian Revolution and enquire whether Islamic fundamentalism is a response to the superpower politics in the
1980s and 1990s.
Required Readings:
1. Ahmed Rashid, “Challenging Islam: The New Style Fundamentalism of the Taliban,” “A Vanished Gender:
Women, Children and Taliban Culture,” and “Global Jihad: The Arab Afghans and Osama bin Laden,” in
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Chapters 6, 8, and 10, Yale University
Press, 2001.
2. John L. Esposito, “The Making of a Modern Terrorist,” in Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, Chapter, 1,
Columbia University Press, 2002.
3. Schmitt and Shanker, Counter Strike, Ch. 11.
4. Mamdani, Whither Political Islam? Understanding the Modern Jihad, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2005.
Discussion Leaders:
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Recommended Readings:
Simon Reeve, “Militant Islam,” in The New Jackals: Ramji Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism,
Chapter 11, Northeastern University Press, 1999.
Graham Fuller, “The Future of Political Islam,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2002.
Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Vintage, 2007.
C. Christine Fair, The Madrassah Challenge: Militancy and Religious Education in Pakistan, USIP Press, 2006.
Roy Gutman, How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan, USIP
Press, 2008.
Mohammad M. Hafez, Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom, USIP Press, 2007.
Daniel Bergner, “Where the Enemy Is Everywhere and Nowhere,” The New York Times Magazine, July 20, 2003
Barry Bearak, “Warlordistan,” The New York Times Magazine, June 1, 2003.
C. Christine Fir and Peter Chalk, Fortifying Pakistan: The Role of US Internal Security Assistance, USIP Press,
2006.
George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, Atlantic
Monthly Press, 2003. (The book is the unbelievable yet true story of the covert CIA operation to support the Afghan rebels who
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so courageously resisted Soviet occupation in the 1980's. It is also the story of two extraordinary men, Congressman Charles Wilson
and CIA operative Gust Avrokotos, whose guile, determination, and utter disregard for the rules made this quixotic undertaking a
reality.) Also, a 2007 major motion picture with Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Amy Adams.
March 5
5. Flashpoints at the Beginning of the 21st Century:
There are two most dangerous regions in the world today--the Middle East and South Asia. Both are susceptible to
the outbreak of armed conflict and war at any time. An outbreak of war in the Middle East will seriously affect
America’s vital strategic and economic interests. On the other hand, a conventional war between India and Pakistan
in South Asia is expected to escalate into a nuclear war that will kill millions of people. In this unit we will
thoroughly examine the sources of conflict in the two regions and consider possible solutions to the Palestinian and
the Kashmiri conflicts.
A. The Palestinian Conflict
Required Readings:
1. NPR 7-part story on the Palestinian Conflict
2. White, pp. 306-325
3. Snow, Irreversible Conflict
4. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby, London Review of Books, March 23, 2006.
5. Carter, Jimmy Carter, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Ch. 16 and 17, Simon Schuster, 2006.
(All readings are available on Moodle.)
Listen to the following NPR stories:
A. A key critic’s problem with Jimmy Carter’s book
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7022490
B. Jimmy Carter defends Peace Not Apartheid
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7004473
C. Middle East: A Century of Conflict (Audio and Transcript)
NPR ran a seven-part series in 2002 on the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The program provides a comprehensive and
simple history of the conflict. You must listen to the program and/or read the transcript by clicking on the links provided below.
A Century of Conflict: Part 1
NPR's Mike Shuster begins his Morning Edition series with a look at Theodor Herzl, who in the late 19th century set the goal for
a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1150843
A Century of Conflict: Part II
Profile: From the Balfour Declaration to the End of World War II Violence has Simmered in the Middle East
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/transcripts/2002/oct/021001.shuster.html
A Century of Conflict: Part III
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1150960
A Century of Conflict: Part IV
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1151006
A Century of Conflict: Part V
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1151090
A Century of Conflict: Part VI
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1151219
A Century of Conflict: Part VII
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1151276
Discussion Leaders:
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Recommended:
Gal Luft, The Palestinian H-Bomb: Terror’s Winning Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2002.
Eric Rouleau, “Trouble in the Kingdom,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2002.
Fouad Ajami, “The Sentry’s Solitude” Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 2001.Kenneth D. Wald, “The Religious Dimensions of Israeli Political Life,” in Religion and Politics in Comparative
Perspective, edited by Ted Jelen and Clide Wilcox, Ch. 5.
“America and the Arabs: A Survey of the Gulf,” The Economist, March 23, 2002
Mohammad M. Hafez, Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers, USIP Press,
2006.
March 12: Library Research Day
March 19
B. The Kashmiri Conflict
Required Readings:
Sumit Ganguly, Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947, Columbia University Press, 2002,
Chapters 1, 2, 5 and 6.
Ganguly, Epiolgue
Salman Rushdie, “The Most Dangerous Place in the World,” The New York Times, May 30, 2002.
Indurthy and Haque, The Kashmir Conflict
Schaffer, The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir, Ch. 7 (The Most Dangerous Place in the World)
Discussion Leaders:
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Recommended:
Anatol Lieven, “The Pressure on Pakistan,” Foreign Affairs, January/Feb. 2002.
Sahu, Religion and Politics in India: The Rise of Hindu Nationalism and the Bharatiya Janata Party,” in Religion
and Politics in Comparative Perspective, Chapter 11.
Sunil Sahu, “U.S.-South Asia Relations,” Asian American Encyclopedia.
Dennis Kux, “India’s Fine Balance,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2002.
Wajahat Habibullah, My Kashmir: Conflict and Prospects for Enduring Peace, USIP Press, 2008.
Dennis Kux, India-Pakistan Negotiations: Is Past Still Prologue? USIP Press, 2006.
Week of March 24: Spring Recess
April 2
6. Globalization and Antiglobalization
The 1990s witnessed globalization of the world economy. Globalization was expected to bring positive economic
results to both rich and poor nations. Yet the benefits of globalization have gone disproportionately to the rich
industrialized nations, especially the U.S., and to a tiny privileged class in the developing world. As a result there
has been a backlash against globalization, beginning with the Seattle protests in 1999. In this unit we will examine
the merit of the argument in favor of and against globalization.
Required Readings:
Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work, Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7
Sunil K. Sahu, “Globalization, WTO and the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry,” Paper presented at the 21 st Congress
of International Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile, July 2009.
Web Links:
www.csgr.org Website of the Center for the study of Globalization and Regionalization at the University of
Warwick, the main research center on globalization and the (UK) Economic and Social Research Council.
www.focusweb.org Website of Focus on the Global South, a regional institute of research and advocacy on
globalization from a Southern perspective.
www.weforum.org Website of the world Economic Forum, a leading source of reports and comments on
globalization from a business perspective.
Discussion Leaders: --------------------------------------------------------------------
Recommended:
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6-9.
Jagdish Bhagwati, “Coping with Antiglobalization: A Trilogy of Discontents,” Foreign Affairs, January/February
2002.
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Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works, Ch. 2, Yale University Press, 2004.
Niall Ferguson, “Sinking Globalization,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2005.
David Dollar and Aart Kraay, “Spreading the Wealth,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002.
Stanley Hoffmann, “The Clash of Globalizations,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2002.
“The New Wave of Globalization and Its Economic Effects,” in Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an
Inclusive World Economy, World Bank, 2002.
Joseph S. Nye Jr., The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone, Chapter
3.
Kenneth Scheve and Matthew Slaughter, “A New Deal for Globalization,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007.
Noreena Hertz, The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy, Free Press, 2002.
Jean Francois Rischard, High Noon: Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them, Basic Books, 2002.
Benjamin M. Friedman, “Globalization: Stiglitz’s Case,” The New York Review of Books.
Ian Taylor and Philip Neil, “New Africa, Globalization and the Confines of Elite Reformism: Getting the Rhetoric
Right, Getting the Strategy Wrong,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1, January 2002.
April 9
7. Dynamics of Security after 9/11: Weapons of Mass Destruction
The stockpile of nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Russia has been drastically reduced since the end of the Cold War.
The real threat to world security since the 1990s is the effort by a number of rogue states to acquire weapons of mass
destruction. The acquisition of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan in 1998 added a new dimension to the issue
of nuclear security. What have been the records of the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations in thwarting the
development of the weapons of mass destruction by states like Iraq, and how has the U.S. responded to the nuclear
threats posed by India and Pakistan? These questions will be answered in this portion of the seminar.
Required Readings:
1. Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, Chapters. 1-5
2. Allison, Nuclear Terrorism, Chapters, 6-8, Conclusion and Afterword
3. Dirty War (video clip)
4. How Nuclear Threat Tops Summit Agenda (NPR story)
5. How Do Nuclear Terrorists Get a Hold of Nuclear Material?
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Discussion Leaders:
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Recommended
Keith Leiber and Daryl Press, “The Rise of US Nuclear Primacy,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006.
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Leon Fuerth, “Return of the Nuclear Debate,” The Washington Quarterly, Autumn 2001 (in AA, WP).
Michael Klare, “The Ambivalent Crusade: Washington’s War Against Proliferation,” in Rogue States and Nuclear
Outlaws: America’s Search for a New Foreign Policy, Hill and Wang, 1995.
Stephen P. Cohen, Why Did India Go Nuclear? In India’s Nuclear Security, edited by Raju G. C. Thomas and
Amit Gupta, Vistaar Publications, 2000.
John Meirsheimer, “India Needs The Bomb,” The New York Times, March 24, 2000.
Sumit Ganguly, “Behind India’s Bomb: The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Doctrine,” Foreign Affairs,
September/October 2001.
Bill Keller, “The Second Nuclear Age,” New York Times Magazine, May 4, 2003.
Raymond A. Zilinskas, “Rethinking Bioterrorism,” Current History, December 2001 (in AE, WP).
Scott Ritter, Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America, Context Books,
2003.
Bill Keller, “Nuclear Nightmares,” The New York Times Magazine, May 26, 2002.
April 16
8. Emerging Powers
A. China: the New Superpower (?)
The size of the Chinese economy (GDP[PPP]), which is about half that of the U.S., is projected to overtake
America’s in the next ten to fifteen years. China is now a member of the World Trade Organization and its economy
has experienced high rates of growth for more than a decade. China’s defense spending is the third largest in the
world. Judged by the traditional attributes of power, China is a great power, but it has ambitions to become a
superpower. Can China become the next superpower and become a rival to the U.S.? Does China pose a security
threat to the U.S., especially in relation to Taiwan and Japan? These and many other questions will be answered in
this session of the seminar.
Required Readings:
1. Prestowitz, Ch. 4
2. Shahid Yusuf, Nabeshima, and Perkins, “China and India Reshape Global Industrial Geography,” in Alan Winters
and Shahid Yusuf (eds.), Dancing with Giants: China, India and the Global Economy, The World Bank,
2007.
3. Christopher Lane, “China’s Challenge to US Hegemony,” Current History, January 2008.
4. John Pomfret, “China Is Rising,” Washington Post National Weekly Edition, Oct. 29-Nov. 4, 2001 (in AA, WP).
5. China and India Reshaping Global Industrial Strategy
Discussion Leader: -----------------------------------------------Recommended:
Morton Abramowitz and Stephen Bosworth, “Adjusting to the New Asia,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003.
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Clyde Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East, Basic Books,
2005, Ch. 4 and 5
Peter Hays Gries, “Forecasting US-China Relations, 2015,” Asian Security, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2006.
James Fallows, “The $1.4 Trillion Question,” Atlantic Monthly, January/February 2008.
Gerald Segal, “Does China Matter?,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 1999 (in AA, WP).
Charlene Barshefsky, “Enter China: WTO Membership Has Important Potential,” Washington Post, November 9,
2001 (in AA, WP).
James Brooke, “Tokyo Fears China May Put an End to ‘Made in Japan’,” New York Times, November 20, 2001 (in
AA, WP).
B. India as an Emerging Power
Required Readings:
China and India Reshaping Global Industrial Strategy
Prestowitz, Ch. 5
The Next Asian Miracle
Next Knowledge Superpower
Toward the Knowledge Superpower?
India: What's All the Hype About (video)
Kaushik Basu, “Brand India’s Image Issue,” BBC, December 25, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6125940.stm
BBC, “Key Facts: India Rising”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6257057.stm
Special Debate (4 February 2007)
Special guests include: Kees Ten Nijenhuis, a European senior vice president at Wipro; Phanish Puranam, PhD, Assistant
Professor of Strategic & International Management & Co-Director; Aditya V. Birla, India Research Centre; Rashmee Roshan
Lall, Foreign Editor, The Times of India; Lord Karan Bilimoria, Cobra Beer; Samir Sayeed, JPMorgan, Dr Harren Jhoti, Founder
and Chief Scientific Officer, Astex Therapeutics in Cambridge.
Listen to Part One (26 mins)
Listen to Part Two (26 mins)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1620_india/page3.shtml
India Vs. India, India Poised Anthem (Amitabh Bachchan)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ffem8YhMOHU
Video: The Great Decisions 2006
Discussion Leader: ------------------------------------------------Recommended
C. RajMohan, “India and the Balance of Power, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2006.
"Outsourcing Jobs: U.S. Dilemma" by Bruce Stokes
Pranab Bardhan, “China, India SuperPower? Not So Fast!” Yale Global On Line, 25 October 2005.
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=6407
Robert Samuelson, “US Should Not Fear Rise of China, India,” YaleGlobal On Line, May 26, 2005.
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5762
Thomas Friedman, The world Is Flat, Farrar, Staus and Grouk, 2005, Ch. 1
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April 23: Presentation of Research Papers:
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April 30 Presentation of Research Papers:
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May 7
9. "American Empire": Will America (read Obama) Reshape the World?
America has the capability and, since the September 11 attacks, the motivation to reshape the world. Will President
Obama take the lead in setting new rules that govern international relations? Is it possible that America would
continue to operate outside those rules if it does not like those rules applied to itself? Is the world moving toward an
American empire at the beginning of the 21st century? These and many other questions will be debated in the
concluding week of the semester.
Required Readings:
1. Caldwell and Williams, Seeking Security in an Insecure World. Ch. 14
2. Myth Of Decline: U.S. Is Stronger and Faster Than Anywhere Else in the World (Newsweek, May 7, 2012)
3. Charles Kupchen, No One's World (listen to the audio file)
Recommended
Bill Richardson, “A New Realism: A Realistic and Principled Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs, January/February
2008.
Michael Huckabee, “America’s Priorities in the War on Terror: Islamists, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan,” Foreign Affairs,
January/February 2008.
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John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, W. W. Norton, 2001, Chapter 10.
Bill Ammott, “The Acceptability of American Power,” “New Friends, New Opportunities,” “Saddam and His Sort,”
“Building Countries, Feeling Generous,” “Our Law, Your Law,” “Imperial Overstretch?,” “New World
Ahead,” in Present at the Creation: A Survey of America’s World Role,” The Economist, June 29, 2002.
Maxine Singer, “The Challenge to Science: How to Mobilize American Ingenuity,” in The Age of Terror.
Paul Bracken, “Rethinking the Unthinkable: New Priorities for New National Security, in The Age of Terror.
Joseph S. Nye Jr., The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone, Chapter
5.
Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen, The Next American Century: How the US Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise,
Simon and Schuster, 2008.
Chester Crocker, Hampson, and Pamela Aall (eds.), Leasing the Dogs of War: Conflict management in a Divided
World, USIP Press, 2007.
Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the post-9/11 World, Metropolitan Books, 2005.
Pinar Bilgin and Adam David Morton, “Historicizing Representations of ‘Failed States’: Beyond the Cold-War
Annexation of the Social Sciences?” Third World Quarterly, Vol 23, No. 1, January 2002.
May 8: Seminar Paper Due in my office at 9:00 a.m.
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