Political Science 490
Honours Seminar
Selected Great Questions and Great Works in Political Science
Global Challenges and Fragmented Politics
WINTER 2008 – University of British Columbia
Course Schedule: Wednesday 2-5pm
Location: Liu Center, Board Room
Instructor:
Yves Tiberghien
Email: yvestibe@interchange.ubc.ca
Office: Buchanan C 416
Office Phone: 822-4358
Office Hours: Tuesday, 1-2pm AND Wednesday, 11-12am
(or by appointment)
Course Description:
In this seminar, we explore together some of the great debates in political science
and some of the greatest works in the field. This first course focuses on foundational
works in the subfields of international relations and comparative politics. We start off by
asking big questions on the nature and meaning of politics. We spend a couple of weeks
focusing on the origins and nature of the state, in its international and domestic aspects.
The next section of the seminar focuses on great problems of political economy in the
context of fragmented politics: managing a global economy, dealing with cycles and
crashes, facilitating development, and the challenge for national democracy. We also
explore the great methodological debate that lies at the core of all political science
research. The last four weeks of the seminar are devoted to applied debates which lie at
the intersection between international politics and domestic politics: the global battle over
the governance of genetically engineered food, the politics of climate change, the
challenge of building an alternative international system, and reflecting on the big picture
ahead.
This seminar aims to expose students not just to key questions and issues, but also
to the diversity of approaches that exist in political science. We will strive to give voice
to alternative views and to contrast the whole range of available theories, from realism to
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post-modernism and feminist approaches. Furthermore, the seminar attempts to apply the
key debates to all continents and to contrast purely Western views of the world to Asian,
African, Latin American and Aboriginal views. In particular, the first couple of weeks
contrasts the classic Western approaches to politics and to the state with classic Chinese
approaches.
In the end, this demanding seminar gives significant exposure to the contents and
process of political science. As a student-run seminar, it also aims at creating long-term
relationships among honours students.
Prerequisites:
Enrolment is restricted to fourth year honours students.
Course Format:
The format of the course is one seminar per week. Although short lectures may be
included in the course, the bulk of the seminar will be devoted to debates and discussions.
For that reason, it is critical that all students COME PREPARED.
In order to enable students to run the seminar and so as to give maximum space
for discussion, the seminar follows these key rules:
1. Every week, all students read the common readings. These readings offer the
necessary background information to review the books and to start an informed
discussion.
2. In addition, students are asked to read an entire book and to write a 3-page book
review roughly every second week. Books are divided among students during the first
seminar to ensure that almost all books are covered.
3. Book reviews (Word Format) are emailed to the whole class list by Monday
evening (midnight) before the seminar. This collection of book reviews will constitute
a long-term database that all of you should find useful over the long-term.
4. All students read all book reviews on Tuesday and can prepare their positions for
the seminar.
5. At each seminar, 1 or 2 students are taking charge (one-time duty). The students in
charge make a 10-15 mn presentation at the beginning of the seminar to introduce the
debate of the week and propose a few opening questions to the class. Your
presentation is based upon the common articles of the week and the book reviews
from other classmates. The format is free (use of powerpoint etc…). The aim of the
presentation is to refresh other students’ minds by summarizing the key questions and
arguments in this week’s readings and to open the discussion with a couple of their
favorite questions.
6. The second part of the seminar is run by the instructor.
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Required Texts:
1. READING PACKAGE with all common readings. This package is a valuable
collection of key articles. It is something to keep for the long-term as a great
reference.
2. WEEKLY BOOK REVIEWS, written by fellow students
3. EMAILS AND WEBLINKS, as sent by the instructor.
Course Assignments, Due Dates, and Grading:
5 Book Reviews – due Monday Evening (11:59pm)
Class Presentation
Class Participation (2 points per week – 10 weeks)
Final Essay (12-15 pages)- due Dec 18
40%
10%
20%
30%
Rationale of the Assignments:
Given the nature of this honours seminar, readings are heavier than for an average
Poli Sci course. As a counterpart, no additional personal research is required. The
assignments encourage you to take time to do the readings, think about the
lectures, and develop a personal interpretation. At times, the seminar will appear
difficult. But it will prove extremely gratifying and useful.
In addition, no exam is scheduled in this class. The emphasis will be entirely on
student responsibility. This gives you a great level of freedom in planning the
timing and contents of your assignments.
Both readings and class discussions are crucial components of the course and are
interrelated. It will be impossible to achieve a good course grade without
completing the assigned readings AND attending seminars.
Email List:
An email list has been set up for the purpose of the class. I plan to use it
occasionally to pass important announcements or to send relevant articles from
newspapers such as the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Nikkei
Shimbun, or the Economist. If any of you, for whatever reason, would prefer not
to be included in this email list, please contact me by email or talk to me directly.
I also warmly encourage you to email me for comments, questions, or feedback.
For example, if some lecture presentation or some reading did not seem clear to
you, chances are that they were not clear for anybody. Do not hesitate to email
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me. I will be happy to prepare an additional handout or to make an additional
explanation in class.
Class Participation
In a seminar, participation is the top priority. I will moderate discussions
to ensure that everyone has a chance to participate. Participation grades will be
given both on quantity and quality of interventions (but mostly quality).
I will encourage lively debates and confrontations of ideas.
Each week, you will have a participation grade between 0 and 2. These
grades will add up week after week.
Feel free at any time to request (by email) the level of your participation
grade up to the last seminar.
Student Ownership of the Course:
Maximizing the learning chances for the maximum of students is the
primary goal of this course. It is well-known that learning will be maximized only
if students are involved in as many elements of the course as possible. Therefore,
I encourage any possible student involvement and any proposal.
Final Essay: 12-15 pages
The final essay has 2 major goals: first to develop a personal interpretation
of a key debate in political science by presenting your own argument and
defending it in a few pages; second, to demonstrate your mastery of the readings
and facts presented in lectures. The questions are given by the instructor (pick one
from a choice of 5).
Your paper should be an essay. Specifically, the paper must do the following
three things:
1. Present an analytical argument that is a clear answer to the question
2. Address some of the literature related to the question (possible answers)
3. Offer some compelling evidence to support your argument (taken from
readings, lectures, and class web links)
Specific formal requirements:
1. Papers must be typed
2. You must footnote all references (quotes, use of evidence, etc…)
3. You must include a final bibliography
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4. The essay must adhere to standard rules of English concerning spelling,
grammar, and vocabulary
5. Length: 12 pages minimum, 15 pages maximum, not including notes
and bibliography
6. Font: 12 points (no 10 point allowed)
7. Margins: one-inch margins
8. Spacing: double-spaced
9. All written work submitted by students must be original. Work
submitted for evaluation must not be (or have been) submitted in other
courses.
Critical Book Reviews:
LENGTH: 3 pages, double-spaced
CONTENTS: the book review MUST HAVE 3 PARTS:
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Part 1: Summary of the research question, the argument, and framework of the
book
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Part 2: Internal critical evaluation of the book:
• type of evidence used, quality of the evidence
• case selection
• how well does the evidence support the argument?
• strengths of the book and glaring weaknesses, how to improve it
- Part 3: A discussion of the contribution of the book to the larger debates of
Political Science (contrasting with the week’s common readings):
• what is the larger debate that is being addressed by this book?
• what is its main contribution?
• what are alternative views? With whom does the author agree and disagree?
• what is your personal view on the better side of the debate
• any larger thoughts that can be taken out of this book
Grading Criteria for the Final Essay:
GRADING CRITERIA:
1. Is the question answered?
2. Is there a personal argument presented in the first 10 lines and defended
throughout the essay ?
3. Clarity, Organization, Structure (good outline, good transitions)
4. Integration of class material, facts, and readings to back up the argument
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TYPICAL PITFALLS OBSERVED IN PAST CLASSES:
A large number of papers tended not to present a personal causal argument in
response to a clearly identified question. The argument should be clearly stated
within the first 2 paragraphs of the introduction, on page 1. It should be engaging
and original (personal). It should present an explanation to a puzzling question.
• The introduction of many papers did not fulfill the stated requirements. Within
one page, a strong introduction should introduce the question upfront, present the
argument, and give a roadmap for the paper.
• Many papers were written in a descriptive way, going through a historical
analysis of key phenomena. Rather, political science papers should be
argumentative and clearly organized. It is important to fight against alternative
explanations and to defend your position in forceful ways. Each of the clearly
indicated 3 or 4 sections should be there to back up the argument. After
presenting facts and evidence, it is important to extract concluding statements,
stating what the facts show and how they prove your point.
• Political science is always concerned with understanding general relationships
and processes that are hidden behind messy events. This is where the focus of
research papers must be.
• Many papers did not integrate enough political processes and did not extract
larger political lessons.
GRADING SCALE (based on Faculty of Arts recommendations, see web site:
http://www.arts.ubc.ca/FOA/doa/GradingGL.htm)(as edited by Professor Max
Cameron)
80% to 100% (A- to A+)
This grade is reserved for exceptional papers. An exceptional paper must
demonstrate strong evidence of original thinking around a clearly articulated
thesis; the paper should have a good structure and be well organized; the paper
should demonstrate a capacity to analyze and synthesize; it should also
demonstrate superior grasp of the subject matter with sound critical evaluations;
evidence of extensive knowledge base is expected; clear and effective writing
style and appropriate referencing format are also expected.
68% to 79% (B- to B+)
Grades in this range are given for competent papers. A competent paper will
have a clear if not original thesis statement and develop the thesis with sound
argumentation; a reasonably coherent structure and organization of the material is
expected; the paper will show evidence of a good grasp of subject matter; some
evidence of critical capacity and analytic ability is expected as well as a
reasonable understanding of relevant issues; although a substantial research effort
may not have been made, there should be evidence of familiarity with the most
relevant literature.
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50% to 67% (D to C+)
An adequate paper will be awarded a grade in this range. Such a paper lacks or
does not develop a coherent or clear thesis statement, but some effort is made to
structure the paper around an argument; nevertheless, there is little attempt to
develop or sustain a coherent argument throughout the paper; the paper should
demonstrate an understanding of the subject matter; it should also show an ability
to develop solutions to simple problems in the material; normally, a paper in this
range will reflect acceptable but uninspired work; it will not be seriously faulty
but will lack style and vigour (especially in argumentation).
00% to 49% (F)
Inadequate paper. This grade is reserved for papers with little or no evidence of
understanding of the subject matter; no thesis statement is made; there are
weaknesses in critical and analytic stills; major errors are made in discussions of
the subject matter; the literature used is limited or irrelevant; or the subject is not
on list of paper topics or has not received prior approval by the instructor.
Penalties for Late Papers:
VERY IMPORTANT!
• Book Reviews are due Monday evening before the seminar (email attachments,
Word files). Under exceptional circumstances, extensions will be granted until the
week-end. But the seminar depends on everybody having the time to read the
book reviews ahead of time.
• The final essays are due December 14 or before
• Penalties for late papers: 1% per late day, starting the first morning after the due
date, and including week-end days.
• NOTE: regarding the book reviews and class presentation, delays are totally
discouraged. The whole seminar depends on your timeliness in this assignment. It
should be the assignment with the highest priority in your schedule.
Other Course Formalities: Students with Disability, Academic Honesty
There is no final exam.
The University accommodates students with disabilities who have registered with
the Disability Resource Centre. The University accommodates students whose
religious obligations conflict with attendance, submitting assignments, or
completing scheduled tests and examinations. Please let your instructor know in
advance, preferably in the first week of class, if you will require any
accommodation on these grounds. Students who plan to be absent for varsity
athletics, family obligations, or other similar commitments, cannot assume they
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will be accommodated, and should discuss their commitments with the instructor
before the drop date.
Academic Dishonesty: Please review the UBC Calendar “Academic regulations”
for the university policy on cheating, plagiarism, and other forms of academic
dishonesty. Also visit www.arts.ubc.ca and go to the students’ section for useful
information on avoiding plagiarism and on correct documentation.
Students should retain a copy of all submitted assignments (in case of loss) and
should also retain all their marked assignments in case they wish to apply for a
Review of Assigned Standings. Students have the right to view their marked
examinations with their instructor, providing they apply to do so within a month
of receiving their final grades. This review is for pedagogic purposes. The
examination remains the property of the university.
Turn It In: Required for the final essay, not for book reviews.
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READING LIST:
PART 1: POLITICS, the STATE, and the INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
Week 1 (Sept 3) : Seminar Organization, Assignments, Discussion
Week 2 (Sept 10): Rethinking the Nature of Politics and Long-term Political
Trajectories
Questions:
• Can we extract some common goals and modes of politics across cultures and historical
periods?
Common Readings:
• Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation, 1919, in H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds,
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, 1958, pp. 77-128 –
Selective Focus on pp
• Confucean Thought, Excerpts from Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi (circa 500 BC,
written circa 300 BC), in Patricia Buckley Ebrey, ed., Chinese Civilization, pp.17-26
Emperor Taizong, Advice on Effective Government (648 AD), pp.112-115
Books for Reviews:
Machiavelli, The Prince (Il Principe). 1513
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Discours sur l’Origine de
l’Inegalite), 1755
John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, 1690
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Mencius, Mencius. Around 350 BC
Week 3 (Sept 17) : European Imperialism – Debates about the Legacy of
Colonialism – Contrast with Chinese World Order
Question: How was the modern international system created and spread after the initial
Westphalian moment in Europe? What are the legacies of this birth?
Common Reading:
David Abernethy, The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires
1415-1980, 2000. Chapters 16 (“Legacies”), 17 (“the Moral Evaluation of
Colonialism”), and Appendix (total pp. 361-416)
Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 1955 (focus on first half)
Gerald Segal, 1990. Rethinking the Pacific, Chapters 1 & 2
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Books for Review:
Ferguson, Niall, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the
Lessons for Global Power, 2004
Joel Mokyr, The Levers of Riches, especially Chapter 9, 1990
David Abernethy, The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires
1415-1980, 2000
Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism
Edward Said, Orientalism, 1987
Ali Mazrui, The African Condition, 1980
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, 1974
Albert Memmi, Colonizer and Colonized
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Pierre Vallieres, White Niggers of America: the Precocious Autobiography of a Quebec
Terrorist, 1971
Lewis Gann and Peter Duignan, Burden of Empire, 1967
Burns, In Defense of Colonies
Perham, The Colonial Reckoning: the End of Imperial Rule in Africa in Light of British
Experience.
Ascherson, Neal. 1963 (reprint 1999). The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and
the Congo. London: Granta Books (1999 ed.).
Douglass North, Understanding the Process of Economic Change, 2005
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel, 1999?
Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, 1992
John King Fairbank, The Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign Relations,
1973
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PART II – THE GREAT PUZZLES OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL
ECONOMY
Week 4 (Sept 24): The Creation of the Global Economy and the Chronic Puzzle of
its Political Management
Questions:
• How was the global economy created?
• How can it be managed and what are the stakes?
Common Readings:
• Norman Angell, The Great Illusion, 1912, Introduction
• Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985)
- Chapter 1 (the Hundred Years' Peace)
- Chapter 2 (Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties)
pp.3-30
- Chapter 6 (The Self-Regulating Market)
pp.68-76
- Chapters 12 and 13 (Birth of the Liberal Creed)
pp.135-162
- Chapter 21 (Freedom in a Complex Society)
pp.249-258
• Carr, Edward Hallett. 1939. The Twenty Years’Crisis, 1919-1939. New York: Harper
and Row. - read: Chapter 4 (41-62) "The Harmony of Interests"
Books for Review:
** Norman Angell, The Great Illusion, 1912
E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years’ Crisis: 1919-1939, 1940
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 1944 (focus on Chapters 1,2,6,12,13,21)
Charles Kindleberger, The World in Depression: 1929-1939, 1986 (particularly 288-305)
Susan Strange, Mad Money, 1998
Peter Gourevitch, Politics in Hard Time, 1986
Robert Keohane, After Hegemony, 1984
Week 5 (Oct 1): Cycles and Crashes – The Great Recurrent Fear of a Global
Meltdown
Common Readings:
• Charles Kindleberger, Manias, Panics, and Crashes, updated 1999, Chapters 1 and 2
• Tett, Gillian: “Doomed to repeat it?: a crash history lession in crashes from Wall
Street”, The Financial Times, August 27, 2007
Books for Review [many more available from instructor upon request]:
Lowenstein, Roger. 2000. When Genius Failed: the Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital
Management
Casteneda, Jorge. 1995. The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the US.
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Kindleberger, Charles. 2000. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial
Crises. 4th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Bruner, Robert and Sean Carr. 2007. The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the
Market’s Perfect Storm
Eatwell, John and Lance Taylor. 2000. Global Finance at Risk: The Case for
International Regulations.
Pempel, T.J. ed. 1999. The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press
Helleiner, Eric. 1994. States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: from Bretton
Woods to the 1990s. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press
Goldstein, Morris. 1998. The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Cures, and Systemic
Implications. Washingon, DC: Institute for International Economics, pp1-22, and 65-72
Haggard, Stephen. 2000. The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis.
Washington: Institute for International Economics
Noble, Gregory and John Ravenhill. 2000. The Asian Financial Crisis and the
Architecture of Global Finance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Harold James. 2001. The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression
Krugman, Paul. 1995. Currencies and Crises. Cambridge: MIT Press
Krugman, Paul. 1999. The Return of Depression Economics. New York: Norton and
Company
Lamfalussy, Alexander. 2000. Financial Crises in Emerging Markets. New Haven: Yale
University Press
Soros, George. 1998. The Crisis of Global Capitalism. New York: Public Affairs
Blustein, Paul. 2001. The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial
System and Humbled the IMF. New York: Public Affairs
Drysdale, Peter. 2000. Reform and Recovery in East Asia: the Role of the State and
Economic Enterprise. London: Routledge
Week 6 (Oct 8): Globalization and National Democracy: Focus on Europe and East
Asia
Question:
Is globalization undermining national democracy?
Common Readings:
Dani Rodrik, “Sense and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate”, Foreign Policy.
Summer 1997
Garrett, Geoffrey. 1998a. “Global Markets and National Politics: Collision Course or
Virtuous Cycle?”, International Organization, 52:4 (only some pages).
Kapstein, Ethan. 1996. “Workers and the World Economy”, Foreign Affairs, May/June
Tiberghien, Yves, 2007. Entrepreneurial States; Reforming Corporate Governance in
France, Japan, and Korea. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Chapter 1.
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Books for Review:
Tiberghien, Yves, 2007. Entrepreneurial States; Reforming Corporate Governance in
France, Japan, and Korea. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Robert Reich, The Work of Nations, 1991
Dani Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone Too Far?, 1997
Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights, 1998
Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and The Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, 1999
Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a
Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy, 2000
William Tabb, The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in
the Twenty-First Century, 2001
Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, 2002
Raguhuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales, 2003. Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists:
Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity
Scharpf, Fritz. 1991. Crisis and choice in European Social Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press
Gray, John. 1998. False Dawn. The New Press.
Patomaki, Heikki. 2001. Democratizing Globalization: The Leverage of the Tobin Tax.
Clarkson, Stephen. 2002. Uncle Sam and the Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism, and
the Canadian State.
Week 7 (Oct 15): Globalization and the Challenge of Development
Question:
Is globalization hindering or facilitating development?
Common Readings:
• Jeffry Frieden. Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. 2006.
Read only Chapters 4 (Failures of Development, 80-103), 13 (Decolonization and
Development, 301-320), and Chapters 18-19 (Countries Catch Up, Countries Fall Behind,
pp. 413-456)
• Rodrik, Dani. 1999. The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making
Openness Work. Washington DC: Overseas Development Council. Chapter 1 and
Conclusion: pp. 1-22 and 135-153
• Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, 2002. Chapter 3: “Freedom to
Choose?”, pp 53-88
Books for Review:
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999
Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective, 1962
Peter Evans, Dependent Development: the Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local
Capital in Brazil, 1979
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World Economy, 1979
Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, 1984
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Robert Wade, Governing the Market, 1990
Stephen Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery: the Politics of Growth in the Newly
Industrialized Countries, 1997
Robert Bates, Open-Economic Politics, 1997
Terry Karl, The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States, 1997
Dani Rodrik, The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness
Work
Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, 2002.
Martha Nussbaum, Woman and Human Development: the Capabilities Approach, 2000
Week 8 (Oct 22): China and Globalization – Great Embrace or Great Puzzle?
Common Readings:
Naughton, Barry. 1999. “China: Domestic Restructuring and a New Role in Asia”. In
Pempel, T.J. ed. The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press.
Garrett, Banning. 2001. “China faces, debates the contradictions of globalization” Asian
Survey. 41:3, pp. 409-427
Lardy, Nicholas. 2002. Integrating China into the Global Economy. Chapter 1 and
Conclusion.
+ One updated article to be sent over email
Optional Book Reviews: [many more available upon request, especially brand new
books]
Cai, Yongshun. 2006. State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China : The Silence and
Collective Action of the Retrenched. London ; New York: Routledge.
O’Brien, Kevin and Lianjiang Li. 2006. Rightful Resistance in Rural China. Cambridge
University Press.
Dickson, Bruce J. 2003. Red Capitalists in China : The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and
Prospects for Political Change. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University
Press.
Gallagher, Mary Elizabeth. 2005. Contagious Capitalism : Globalization and the Politics
of Labor in China. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Huang, Yasheng. 2003. Selling China : Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform
Era. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Shi, Fayong and Yongshun Cai. 2006. Disaggregating the State: Networks and Collective
Resistance in Shanghai. China Quarterly:314-32.
Oi, Jean. 1999. Rural China Takes off. Berkeley: University of California Press
Rosen, Daniel. 1999. Behind Closed Doors: Foreign Enterprises in the Chinese
Marketplace. Washington, DC: IIE
Wong, John. China’s Economy and the Asian Financial Crisis. Singapore Occasional
Paper
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Week 9 (Oct 29) The Great Methodology Debate in Political Science [YVES]
Common Readings: Selection of Key Articles
**John Stuart Mill, “Two Methods of Comparison”, in A System of Logic, excerpted in
Amitai Etzioni and F. Dubow, eds, Comparative Perspectives: Theories and Methods,
1970, pp. 205-13
William Riker, “Political Science and Rational Choice” in Alt and Shepsle, Perspectives
on Positive Political Economy, pp 163-181
Chalmers Johnson, and E.B. Keehn. "A Disaster in the Making: Rational Choice and
Asian Studies", The National Interest. No. 36, Summer 1994, p. 14.
** Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sydney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry, 1994
Books for Review:
**Barbara Geddes, Paradigms and Sand Castles: Theory-Building and Research Design
in Comparative Politics, 2003
Adam Przeworski and Henry Teune, The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry, 1970
** Charles Ragin, The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and
Quantitative Strategies, 1987
John Holland, Keith Holyoak, Richard Nisbett, and Paul Thagart, Induction: Processes of
Inference, Learning, and Discovery, 1989
Daniel Little, Understanding Peasant China: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Social
Science, 1989
Donald Green and Ian Shapiro, Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory, 1994
Jeffrey Friedman, The Rational Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics
Reconsidered, 1996
** Robert Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry
Weingast, Analytical Narratives, 1998
Week 10 (Nov 5) : The Great Battle over the Governance of Genetically-Modifed
Food (GMOs)
Question:
What explains the divergence in the paths taken by key countries on the issue of GMOs?
Common Readings:
Excerpts from Michael Ruse and David Castle. 2002. Genetically Modified Foods:
Debating Biotechnology. Prometheus Books.
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Tiberghien, Yves. 2006. “The Battle for the Global Governance of Genetically Modified
Organisms: the Roles of the European Union, Japan, Korea, and China in a Comparative
Context, Les Etudes du CERI, Number 124 (April), Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris.
Bernauer, Thomas and Erika Meins. 2003. “Technological Revolution Meets Policy and
the Market: Explaining Cross-National Differences in Agricultural Biotechnology
Regulation. European Journal of Political Research. 42 (5): 643-683
Chapters 1 and 2 in Taylor, Ian. 2007. Genetically-Engineered Crops: Interim Policies,
Uncertain Legislation. Hawthorn Food and Agricultural Products Press
Jasanoff, Sheila. 2005. Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the
United States. Princeton U P. Chapter 1
WEBSITE: www.gmopolitics.com
Books for Review: [more available upon request]
Bernauer, Thomas. 2003. Genes, Trade, and Regulation: the Seeds of Conflict in Food
Biotechnology
Falkner, Robert. 2007. The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food:
Diplomacy, Trade, and law. Palgrave McMillan.
Pawlick, Thomas. 2006. The End of Food: how the Food Industry is Destroying our Food
Supply- and what you can do about it. Greystone.
Miller, Henry and Gregory Conko. 2004. The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and
Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution
Sunstein, Cass. 2005. Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle. Cambridge UP
Jasanoff, Sheila. 2005. Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the
United States. Princeton U P.
Latour, Bruno. 2004. Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy.
Vogel, David and Christopher Ansell. 2006. What’s the Beef?: the Contested Governance
of European Food Safety.
Cook, Guy. 2004. Genetically Modified Language: The Discourse of Arguments for GM
Crops and Food. Routledge.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Week 11 (Nov 12): The Great Battle over Climate Change
Common Readings:
Special Issue from Global Environmental Politics, November 2008 – Intro+ 3 articles
Books for Review: [to be updated][many more available]
Fisher, Dana. 2004. National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime.
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Flannery, Tim F. 2005. The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and
What It Means for Life on Earth. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
Mintzer, Irving M., J. Amber Leonard and Stockholm Environment Institute. 1994.
Negotiating Climate Change : The inside Story of the Rio Convention. Cambridge ; New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Oberthür, Sebastian and Hermann Ott. 1999. The Kyoto Protocol : International Climate
Policy for the 21st Century. New York: Springer.
Schröder, Heike. 2001. Negotiating the Kyoto Protocol : An Analysis of the Negotiation
Dynamics in International Negotiations. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Vogler, John and Charlotte Bretherton. 2006. The European Union as a Protagonist to the
United States on Climate Change. International Studies Perspectives 7:1-22.
Hot Air (on Canadian Kyoto policy)
Week 12 (Nov 19) - A New Minervian Approach to World Politics
Common Readings:
Introduction and Key Chapters from;
Dierkes Julian and Yves Tiberghien, Minerva’s Rule: Canadian, European, and
Japanese Leadership in Global Institution-Building. Under Review with Palgrave
McMillan
Walt, Stephen M. 2005. Taming American Power : The Global Response to U.S.
Primacy. New York: W. W. Norton. Introduction, pp 13-28
+2 articles on Russia and the war in Georgia
Selected Books for Review (many more available):
Byers, Michael. 2007. What is Canada for? Intent for a Nation. Douglas and McIntyre.
Broomhall, Bruce. 2003. International Justice and the International Criminal Court :
Between Sovereignty and the Rule of Law. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Chapnick, Adam. 2005. The Middle Power Project : Canada and the Founding of the
United Nations. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Glasius, Marlies. 2006. The International Criminal Court : A Global Civil Society
Achievement. London ; New York: Routledge.
Haass, Richard. 2005. The Opportunity : America's Moment to Alter History's Course.
New York: PublicAffairs.
Hughes, Christopher W. 2004. Japan's Re-Emergence as a 'Normal' Military Power.
Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Kagan, Robert. 2003. Of Paradise and Power : America and Europe in the New World
Order. New York: Alfred A. Knopf ; Distributed by Random House.
Laidi, Zaki. 2007. La Norme sans la Force. Presses de Science Po.
Malone, David and Yuen Foong Khong. 2003. Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy :
International Perspectives. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Reid, T. R. 2004. The United States of Europe : The New Superpower and the End of
American Supremacy. New York: Penguin Press.
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Rifkin, Jeremy. 2004. The European Dream : How Europe's Vision of the Future Is
Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin.
Thakur, Ramesh. 2006. The United Nations, Peace and Security. Cambridge University
Press
Walt, Stephen M. 2005. Taming American Power : The Global Response to U.S.
Primacy. New York: W. W. Norton.
Week 13 (Nov 26) Conclusion. Meeting Global Challenges: Global Institutions vs
Classic Balance-of-Power
Common Readings:
Ignatieff, Michael. August 2007. “Getting Iraq Wrong.” New York Times Magazine.
Stephen Walt, “International Relations: One World, Many Theories”, Spring 1998
Fukuyama, Francis. 2004. State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st
Century. Cornell University Press. Chapter 1, pp 1-42
Ferguson, Niall. 2006. “The Next War of the World”. Foreign Affairs 85-5 (Sept-Oct),
pp. 61-74
Kennedy, Paul. 2006. The Parliament of Man. Introduction
Books for Review:
Barnett, Michael N. and Martha Finnemore. 2004. Rules for the World : International
Organizations in Global Politics. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Finnemore, Martha. 2003. The Purpose of Intervention : Changing Beliefs About the Use
of Force. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Fukuyama, Francis. 2004. State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st
Century. Cornell University Press.
Ikenberry, G. John. 2002. America Unrivaled : The Future of the Balance of Power.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Mearsheimer, John J. 2001. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: Norton.
Kennedy, Paul. 2006. The Parliament of Man.
Other classics:
Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics, 1981
Robert Keohane, Power and Interdependence, 1977
Martha Finnemore, National Interests and International Society, 1996
Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations, 1998
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man
Robert Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy, 2000
Ann Tickner, Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving
Global Security, 1992
Cynthia Enloe, The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War, 1993
ONE CONCLUDING POTLUCK DINNER - to be decided together
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