University of Hartford
Spring, 2007
Politics 230
Phone: 768-4284
Instructor:  Michael Clancy
Office: 123C Hillyer
Office Hours: M/W 1:30-2:30; 
By Appointment
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 Main
 Requirements
 Schedule
 Case Learning
 Links
 
  Readings

    All readings are from assigned books or cases, from the Web, or are available on Blackboard. To access Blackboard click here.
 
 
 
 

Schedule 

 I. Introduction

January 24: Introduction

   No Reading

January 29:    The World in 2007

    Current History, "Global Progress Report, 2007"
     Robert Kaplan, "The Coming Anarchy,"(M&R, p. 137)

 

 II. Perspectives on World Politics

January 31:  Roots of Classical Realism

Case #1:
     "The Melian Dialogue"

February 5:  Modern Realism

      Goldstein, pp. 45-7, 51-6, 59-67
      *Hans Morgenthau, " A Realist Theory of International Politics" and "Political Power"
      Stephen Krasner, "Sovereignty," (M&R, p. 13)          
 

 February 7: Liberalism

    Goldstein, pp. 77-84
    *Michael Doyle "Liberalism and World Politics" (M&S p. 73)

        Case 1 Write-up due

 February 12:  Globalism

   Goldstein, pp. 288-96
   Andre Gunder Frank, "The Development of Underdevelopment"
  
 

February 14:  Feminism/Constructivism/Theory Review

   Goldstein, pp. 102-110
   Frank Wilmer, "Women, the State, and War: Feminist Incursions into World Politics," (M&R, p. 413)
   Rick Weiss, "No Daughters Need Apply," (M&R, p. 424)
   Goldstein, pp. 110-14
   *Stephen M. Walt, "International Relations: One World, Many Theories"


 

 III. States, Security and Conflict

February 19: Nation-States, Power, and Security

    Goldstein, pp. 6-10, 18-32, 47-51
    James Roseneau, "Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Continuity and Change," (M&R, p. 20)

Policy paper topics due

February 21:   War and Discord

    Goldstein, pp. 121-33, 35-43, 148-60
    Bill Berkeley, "The Longest War in the World" (M&R, p. 52)
    John Lewis Gaddis, "The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System" (M&S p. 33)


February 26:   Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era
  Case #2
           Dickert: "Twisting in the Wind? Ambassador Glaspie and the Persian Gulf Crisis" Read first two parts only!

    Film: Failsafe

February 28:  Weapons of Mass Destruction

     Goldstein, pp. 160-71
     Richard Betts, "The New Threat of Mass Destruction," (M&R p. 74)
     Buill Keller, "The Thinkable," (M&R, p. 82)

    Film: Failsafe, remainder

March 5:   Terrorism

    Goldstein, pp. 145-7, review
     Robert I. Rotberg, "Failed States in a World of Terror," (M&R p. 131)
     Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism," (M&R p. 367)
     Cindy Combs, ""An Idea Whose Time has Come," (M&R, p. 59)

     Film: Hunting Bin Laden

Case Write-up 2 due

March 7: Midterm Exam

March 10-18: Spring Break: No Class  

March 19: The Iraq War

    Project for a New American Century, "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century,"
                September, 2000, pp. i-v.

March 21: Rebuilding Post-war Iraq

    George Packer, "War after the War: What Washington Doesn't See in Iraq," The New Yorker
 

March 26: Alleviating Conflict I: Humanitarian Intervention

Case #3
           Coll: "Operation Restore Hope"

March 28: Alleviating Conflict II: The United Nations

    Goldstein, 231-50
      Thomas Weiss, et al., "The United Nations and Changing World Politics," (M&R, p 167)
      The Economist, "The UN's Missions Impossible," (M&R, p. 180)
      Secretary General Kofi Annan, Farewell Speech

Policy paper outline and bibliography due


IV. International Political Economy


April 2: Introduction to IPE:

    Goldstein, pp. 174-7
     Robert Gilpin, "The Challenge of Global Capitalism" (M&R p. 289)
     Stephen Perlstein, "The New Politics of Globalization," (M&R, p. 296)


 

 Case Write-up 3 due

April 4: International  Finance and Trade

    Goldstein, pp. 178-221
     Peter Dombrowski, "The ABCs of Global Money and Finance" (M&R, p. 302)
     Michael Phillips, "IMF Makes a Push for Good Government," (M&R, p. 184)
     John Pomfret, "Poised to Reshape the Future," (M&R, p. 188)
   

April 9: Globalization, MNCs and Labor

Case #4
           Clancy,"Sweating the Swoosh: Nike, the Globlalization of Sneakers, and the Question of Sweatshop
                        Labor" Read Part A only!
       Goldstein, pp. 221-7


April 11: North-South Relations and Development

    Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place, entire

 
April 16: Poverty

     Goldstein, 284-8
      John Michaels, et al., "Haiti Faces Long Odds of Escaping "Sad Story," (M&R, p. 147)
      Samantha Power, "How to Kill a Country," (M&R, p. 150)  
      Karen DeYoung, "Who Helps the World," (M&R, p. 325)

Case Write-up 4 due


IV. Contemporary Global Challenges

April 18: The Environment I: The Global Commons

    Goldstein, pp. 350-3, 364-70
     Thomas Homer-Dixon: "On the Threshold: Environmental Changes and Causes of Acute Conflict,"
                (M&R, p. 361)  

April 23: The Environment II: Resources

  Case #5
          Desombre and Barkin, "Turbot Wars"
 

April 25: The Environment III: The Atmosphere and Population

    Goldstein, pp. 353-7, 361-4, 296-306
    Readings on Kyoto and Montreal, TBA

Policy Papers Due
 

April 30: Human Rights

   Goldstein, pp. 271-7
   Thomas Frank, "Are Human Rights Universal?" (M&R, p. 235)
   The Economist, "Taming Leviathan," (M&R, p. 243)
   Henry Kissinger, "The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction," (M&R, p. 249)

Case Write-up 5 due

May 2: Borders: Migration and Illicit Narcotics

    Goldstein, pp. 312-4
     The Economist, "The Longest Journey," (M&R, p. 276)
     Moshin Hamid, "International Relations," (M&R, p. 25)
     International Institute for Strategic Studies, "US Anti-Narcotics Strategy: At War with Reality?"
             (M&R, p. 272)

May 7: Course Wrap-up

     Franklin  Foer, "Soccer vs. McWorld," (M&R, p. 461)
    

 Take-home Final Exam Distributed