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Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
School of Humanities and Social Inquiry
Subject Outline
MIST901 Politics of International Relations
Number of Credit Points: 8 cp
Autumn Session 2015 Wollongong, On-Campus Pre-requisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil
Teaching Staff Position Name Room Telephone Email Consultation Times
Subject Coordinator
Joakim Eidenfalk 19.1009 joakim@uow.edu.au
Monday 14.30-15.30 and Wednesday 14.30-15.30
Add your tutor details here
Discipline Leader Position Name Room Telephone Email Consultation Times Discipline Leader – Politics & International Studies
Susan Engel 19.1016 4221 3708 sengel@uow.edu.au TBA
LHA Central 19 | Location: 19.1050 Ph: (02) 4221 5328 | lha-enquiries@uow.edu.au
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Table of Contents Subject Information ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3
Subject Description ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3
Subject Objectives/Learning Outcomes ……………………………………………………………………………………… 3
Graduate Qualities …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Attendance ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3
Timetable ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3
Weekly Outline: Class Type (Lecture/Tutorial/Practical etc.) ………………………………………………….. 4
Assessment Information ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5
Assessment ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 5
Referencing …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy ………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Submission, Receipt & Collection of Assessment Tasks ………………………………………………………….. 6
Late Submission of Assessments …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7
Electronic Submission of Assessments ……………………………………………………………………………………… 8
Retention of Assessments ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8
Assessment 1: Critical Appraisal/Argumentative Paper ………………………………………………………. 8
Assessment 2: Research Essay ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 9
Assessment 3: Seminar Presentation ……………………………………………………………………………………… 9
Assessment 4: Class Participation …………………………………………………………………………………………… 9
Subject Resources and Materials ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 10
Set Texts ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 10
Recommended Reading / Viewing / Listening …………………………………………………………………………. 10
General Advice Guide …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 10
Tutorial Guide …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 11
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Subject Information
Subject Description
Major theoretical traditions examined include realism, liberalism, neo-realism and neo-liberalism, rationalism, Marxist and neo-Marxist variants, critical theory, post-modernism, constructivism, and feminism. The subject then examines the end of the Cold War, the demise of bipolarity, the emergence of unipolarism, and assesses the effectiveness of the United Nations, explores the North/South divide and ponders some of the causes of terrorism. It examines modern peacekeeping, so-called ‘rouge states’ and the prosecution of the ‘War on Terror’. Interspersed in the subject will be arguments over the alleged decline of the nation state, the structures and institutions that regulate the international economy, and some current opinions on hegemony.
Subject Objectives/Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to: 1. use the main theories of international relations and apply them to contemporary political interactions. 2. adopt an analytical framework appropriate for the purposes of the research essay. 3. be familiar with general concepts of international economic relations and international cooperation. 4. understand the difficulties of creating and maintaining world order.
Graduate Qualities
For further information on the Humanities and UOW Graduate qualities please refer to: http://lha.uow.edu.au/hsi/UOW162730.html
Attendance
This subject requires an 80% attendance at all classes unless this is unavoidable on medical or compassionate grounds and evidence of this is provided through SOLS. Attendance that falls below the 80% requirement, irrespective of the cause, may require you to complete additional written work to complete the subject. If in doubt, consult the Subject Coordinator.
Timetable
For current timetable information please refer to the online Subject Timetable on the Current Students webpage: http://www.uow.edu.au/student/timetables/index.html
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Weekly Outline: Class Type (Lecture/Tutorial/Practical etc.)
Week / Date Lecture Topic/Description Tutorial Task Due
Week 1 Commencing 2/3/2015
Introduction No tutorial
Week 2 Commencing 9/3/2015
The Cold War and After Introduction
Week 3 Commencing 16/3/2015
Realism and Neo-Realism The Cold War and After
Week 4 Commencing 23/3/2015
Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism Realism and Neo-Realism
Week 5 Commencing 30/3/2015
Marxism Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism
Critical Appraisal due Monday 30 March
6 – 10 April 2015 Mid-Session Recess – NO CLASSES
Week 6 13 – 17 April 2015 International Studies Research Week – NO CLASSES
Week 7 Commencing 20/4/2015
Social Constructivism and Feminism Marxism
Week 8 Commencing 27/4/2015
International Regimes Social Constructivism and Feminism
Week 9 Commencing 4/5/2015
Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect
International Regimes
Week 10 Commencing 11/5/2015
Security Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect
Week 11 Commencing 18/5/2015
Development Cooperation Security
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Week 12 Commencing 25/5/2015
Terrorism Development Cooperation
Week 13 Commencing 1/6/2015
Globalisation Terrorism and Globalisation
Research Essay due Friday 5 June by 16.00
8 – 12 June 2015 Study Recess
13 – 25 June 2015 Examination Period
* Public holidays for this session are:
• Good Friday: Friday 3 April • Easter Monday: Monday 6 April
Assessment Information
Assessment
The Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts reserves the right to scale marks in accordance with the University’s Assessment Guidelines – Scaling. Marks are not final until declared by the Faculty Assessment Committee.
Referencing
Referencing is an essential component of academic writing or presentation since it enables the reader to follow up the source of ideas and information presented in your work, and to examine the interpretation you place on the material discovered in your research. Reliable referencing clearly indicates where you have drawn your own conclusions from the evidence presented. Importantly, much of the material you will use is covered by copyright which means that you must acknowledge any source of information, including books, journals, newsprint, images and the internet. It is obligatory for students to reference all sources used in their written work including electronic material. Students should consult the University library website for a detailed explanation and examples of how to reference electronic material correctly: http://www.library.uow.edu.au/resourcesbytopic/UOW026621.html Different programs use different referencing styles to reflect the needs of their discipline. It is the student’s responsibility to check which referencing style is used. Clear examples of how to reference correctly, across a wide variety of source materials, can be found on the UOW Library website: • Library Resources – Referencing and Citing
http://www.library.uow.edu.au/resourcesbytopic/UOW026621.html
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Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy
The University’s Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy, Faculty Handbooks and subject guides clearly set out the University’s expectation that students submit only their own original work for assessment and avoid plagiarising the work of others or cheating. Re-using any of your own work (either in part or in full) which you have submitted previously for assessment is not permitted without appropriate acknowledgement. Plagiarism can be detected and has led to students being expelled from the University.
The use by students of any website that provides access to essays or other assessment items (sometimes marketed as ‘resources’), is extremely unwise. Students who provide an assessment item (or provide access to an assessment item) to others, either directly or indirectly (for example by uploading an assessment item to a website) are considered by the university to be intentionally or recklessly helping other students to cheat. This is considered academic misconduct and students place themselves at risk of being expelled from the University
Students should refer to: • Student Conduct Rules
http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058723.html • Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy
http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058648.html
Submission, Receipt & Collection of Assessment Tasks
Assessments are to be submitted on the due dates and via the submission method specified in each assessment task listed in this Subject Outline. Penalties apply for late submission. Submission of Assessment Tasks Unless otherwise indicated in this Subject Outline, written assessments must be submitted through LHA Central in building 19, room 1050, by 4pm on the due date. All assessments submitted must have attached an individualised cover sheet with a bar code. Instructions on how to create and submit the cover sheet can be found at the Faculty’s webpage: http://lha.uow.edu.au/current-students/UOW154553.html If an extension is not granted, any assessment lodged after 4pm on the due date will be considered late and will incur late penalties (see ‘late submission’ section below). Receipt of Assessment Tasks At LHA Central 19, assessments submitted with an individualised cover sheet and barcode will automatically receive an electronic receipt as evidence of submission; this receipt will be issued to your University email account. Please note that you will need to print the cover sheet on a laser printer (use the library or computer lab printers if necessary) because ink jet printers may not print to the quality needed to make the barcode readable by the scanners. It is the responsibility of the student to keep a copy of all work submitted for assessment to the Faculty. In the case where a student submits an assessment that does not incorporate an automated electronic receipt as evidence of submission, the student may request a paper receipt as proof. Assessment task submission via post, fax or e-mail Assessments submitted via post, fax or e-mail will only be accepted with the written prior approval from the subject’s coordinator. As a general rule, assessments will not be accepted or marked if submitted by fax except in special cases where the Subject Coordinator has given prior approval. Students that are given prior approval to submit an
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assessment via fax must have the relevant coversheet attached and clearly address the fax to the Subject Coordinator via fax number 02 4221 5341. Students that are given prior approval to submit an assessment via email must have the relevant coversheet attached with the assessment and email the Subject Coordinator directly and copy the LHA Central email lha- enquiries@uow.edu.au. Students that are given prior approval to submit an assessment, with the relevant coversheet attached, via Australia Post must use registered mail – this will ensure that there is an official receipt of mailing the assessment on the due date. Students must retain the evidence of posting the assessment. The envelope should be addressed to: The subject coordinator or tutor’s name, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, NSW 2522 Collection of Assessment The University’s Code of Practice Teaching and Assessment requires that at least one assessment be assessed and returned before Week 9 of session. Assessments submitted during session will be returned to you by your lecturer or tutor. LHA Central does not hold any assessments during session. Assessments submitted at the end of session will be held at LHA Central 19 up until the end of Week 3 of the following session. After this time, assessments will be returned to the respective Subject Coordinator.
Late Submission of Assessments
In the absence of an approved request for Academic Consideration (see the General Advice Guide for information about, and links to, the Academic Consideration Policy) in the form of an extension, assessment tasks must be submitted by 4pm (unless otherwise specified in the Assessment Task information) on the due date. Late work (i.e. any work required for assessment that has not been given an extension) will be subject to a 10% penalty per calendar day. The penalty is applied to the mark awarded. Work submitted after seven calendar days will not be marked and will be given a mark of 0. An assessment task that is submitted after 4pm on any day will be deemed to have been submitted on the next working day. Penalties accrue on each day that the assessment task is late, including Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. For assessments that are required to be submitted in hard copy via LHA Central in building 19, submission must be made by 4pm on weekdays to be recorded as submitted on that day. Only with the written prior approval from the subject’s coordinator, students may submit their assessment on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in electronic format via email to the Subject Coordinator’s email address. This is on the condition that they submit the hard copy of this assessment task by 4pm on the next working day with a completed statutory declaration (in the form available at http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@gov/documents/doc/uow060608.pdf) to the effect that they confirm that the electronic and hard copies of the assessment are identical in all material respects. Where this is done, the submission date will be deemed to be that of the electronic submission for purposes of calculation of the late penalty. In the absence of an extension having been granted pursuant to the Academic Consideration Policy, work submitted beyond seven (7) days of the due date will be accepted only if submission of that assessment is necessary to pass the subject but a mark of ‘zero’ will be recorded.
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Electronic Submission of Assessments
Where assessments must be submitted electronically (i.e. through an eLearning site) the procedures for doing so will be in accordance with the Code of Practice — Teaching and Assessment, and specified in each assessment task listed in this Subject Outline. It is important that students retain receipts of materials submitted electronically.
Retention of Assessments
Assessment work (with the exception of theses) will be retained at least until the end of the academic appeal period. The appeal period is 21 days after distribution of marks or release of final grades. For further information please refer to Academic Grievance Policy – Coursework & Honours Students on the UOW website. • Academic Grievance Policy – Coursework and Honours Students
http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058653.html Theses submitted or completed by students for the purposes of assessment or evaluation will be retained for a minimum of 3 years after date of submission. For further information please refer to Academic Grievance Policy (Higher Degree Research Students) on the UOW website. • Academic Grievance Policy (Higher Degree Research Students)
http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058652.html
Assessment 1: Critical Appraisal/Argumentative Paper
Marking: Marked out of 100 – Percentage of total subject mark 25 %
Description:
Students will select an article from a leading International Relations or IPE journal published within the last 2 years and write a 1500 word critical appraisal of the author’s main arguments and the evidence the author uses to support his or her main claims. This is an argumentative paper. Students will not be required to refer to other literature to write the paper, but papers that stand out will obviously do so. Citations of the original article and all other sources are a requirement. Journals include but are not limited to: The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Comparative Politics, European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Global Governance, International Affairs, International Journal, International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of International Affairs, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Refugee Studies, Monthly Review, New Left Review, New Political Economy, Review of IPE, Review of International Studies, Security Dialogue, Survival, Theory and Event, Third World Quarterly, World Development, Women’s Studies, International Forum, World Policy Journal, World Politics, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Review of International Studies
Due Date: Monday 30 March by 16.00
Graduate Quality developed: Informed, Independent learners, Effective communicators, Responsible
Format: Argumentative Essay
Assessment Criteria: A clearly written and well organised paper with a clear argument and evidence to support the assessment. Outside sources are not required but papers that earn distinction will likely use outside sources to bolster their arguments/critical appraisals
Submission Method: Submit via LHA Central
Submit a hard copy to LHA Central and a soft copy to Turnitin on Moodle
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Assessment 2: Research Essay
Marking: Marked out of 100 – Percentage of total subject mark 40 %
Description:
Students will select a research topic related to the course material. Students are advises to not only select a topic that interests them but also topics that are manageable within a 4000 word framework. A written statement of no more than 150 words including topic and aims of research is to be submitted in class on week 5. The final paper is due in class in week 13.
Due Date: Monday 30 March (week 5) and Friday 5 June (week 13) by 16.00
Graduate Quality developed: Informed, Independent learners, Effective communication, Responsible
Format: Argumentative Essay
Assessment Criteria:
A clearly written and well organised paper with a clear argument and evidence to support the argument. You will be assessed on the clarity of your position, the quality and range of your research, your analysis of the issue under consideration, and your ability to make cogent points clearly concerning your chosen issue.
Submission Method: Submit via LHA Central
Other Submission Method: Submit a hard copy to LHA Central and a soft copy to Turnitin on Moodle
Assessment 3: Seminar Presentation
Marking: Marked out of 100 – Percentage of total subject mark 25 %
Description: Oral presentation to be given in class on a topic to be allocated in week 2
Due Date: On the day of presentation – 10 minutes
Graduate Quality developed:
Informed, Independent learners, problem solvers, Effective communication, Responsible
Format: Oral presentation in tutorial
Assessment Criteria: The presentation will be assessed on clarity of argument, answering the question, involving the class in discussion
Submission Method: Submit in class
Assessment 4: Class Participation
Marking: Marked out of 100 – Percentage of total subject mark 10%
Description: Participation
Due Date: Ongoing
Graduate Quality developed: Problem solvers, Informed, Effective Communication, Responsible
Format: In class
Assessment Criteria: Active participation in tutorials, not mere attendance, is the aim of participation. Students who do not participate actively in discussion (or in asking pertinent, informed
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questions) cannot expect to gain a good participation mark. Students also need to submit a 200 word paper each week with an answer to a chosen tutorial question of the week, based on the readings and lecture of that week.
Submission Method: Submit in class
Supplementary Assessment Supplementary assessment may be offered to students whose performance in this subject is close to that required to pass the subject, and are identified as meriting an offer of a supplementary assessment. The precise form of supplementary assessment will be determined at the time the offer of a supplementary assessment is made. Students who satisfactorily complete a supplementary assessment will be awarded a grade of 50% (Pass Supplementary)
Subject Resources and Materials
Set Texts
Introduction to Global Politics, by Richard W. Mansbach and Kirsten L. Taylor, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2012. Students are strongly urged to purchase this textbook. The textbook can be purchased from the Unishop.
Recommended Reading / Viewing / Listening
These resources are recommended and are not intended to be exhaustive. Students are encouraged to use the Library catalogue and databases to locate additional resources and supplement the recommendations with resources you discover through your own research, both online and in hard copy. • UOW Library website
http://www.library.uow.edu.au/index.html Subject materials, such as Subject Readers and Textbooks, can be purchased through the UniShop.
General Advice Guide
Each session the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts produces a guide to Faculty and University policies, programs and resources. Students are encouraged to access a copy of the General Advice Guide at the start of each session. The General Advice Guide can be accessed from the website at lha.uow.edu.au/current- students/lhacentral/UOW061165
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Tutorial Guide
The questions listed below are intended to suggest possible lines of enquiry and argument in oral presentations, not to define or exhaust the issues relevant to the topics under consideration. The tutorial on each topic will be held in the next scheduled teaching week after the lecture. All students will be expected to have completed, at least, the Basic Reading in preparing for each tutorial. You are also strongly advised to consult at least some of the Recommended Reading and to conduct further research of your own. The lists of Recommended Readings are rather long in order to help students find titles of particular relevance to their interests and needs, and facilitate Library access by dispersing demand for individual titles. If in doubt, you are invited to consult your tutor in deciding what to choose from the lists below or in identifying other reading. No Tutorial in Week 1
Tutorial Week 2: Introduction
Tutorial Questions: What is a nation? What is a state? How are the two related? What are the implications for international relations? What is sovereignty? Are all states equal? Discussion Questions How would you characterise international relations? Are they really anarchic? Does it make sense to speak or write of international order? If so, what are its key features? How is it maintained or strengthened? What is meant by ‘balance of power’? On what is it based? Is it possible to predict how states will act? If so, on what basis? What relevance do scholarly studies have to the ways in which governments and diplomats think and act? Basic Reading: Mansbach, Richard W. and Taylor, Introduction to Global Politics, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Croydon, 2012, pp. xxi- xxix and 1-32 Further reading Acharya, Amitav and Buzan, Barry, ‘Why is there no non-Western international relations theory? An introduction’, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 7 (3), September 2007, pp. 287-312 Akzin, Benjamin, State and Nation, Hutchinson, London, 1964 Berdún, Guibernau i, Montserrat, M. Nationalisms: The nation-state and nationalism in the twentieth century, Polity Press, Cambridge MA.,1996 Birch, A. H., Nationalism and National Integration, Unwin Hyman, London, Boston, 1989 Brown Chris (with Kirsten Ainley) Understanding International Relations (3rd.ed.), Palgrave, Basingstoke and New York, 2005, Ch.4. Burchill, Scott, Devetak, Richard, et al., Theories of International Relations, 2nd Edition, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001 (Introduction) Burke, Victor Lee, The Clash of Civilizations: War-making and State Formation in Europe, Polity Press; Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge, UK, 1997 Cowie, H. R., The Modern State, Nationalism and Internationalism, Nelson, South Melbourne, 1992 Dahbour, Omar and Ishay, Micheline R. (eds), The Nationalism Reader, Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1995 Deutsch, Karl, Nationalism and Social Communication: an inquiry into the foundations of nationality, [1953 ], M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 2nd ed. 1969 Deutsch, Karl, The Analysis of International Relations, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1968 Gellner, Ernest, Culture, Identity, and Politics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1987 Gellner, Ernest, Encounters with Nationalism, Blackwell, Oxford [England]; Cambridge, Mass., 1994 Gellner, Ernest Nations and Nationalism, Blackwell, Oxford,1983
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Hobsbawm E. and Ranger, T. (eds), The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York, 1983, especially Eric Hobsbawm, ‘Mass Producing Traditions’. Hutchinson, John, Modern Nationalism, Fontana, London, 1994 Hutchinson, John and Smith, Anthony D. (eds), Nationalism, Oxford University Press, New York; Oxford, 1994 Ionescu, Ghita and Gellner, Ernest (eds), Populism: Its meaning and national characteristics, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969 reprinted 1970 Jackson, Robert and Sorenson, Georg, Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 1-58 James, Paul, Nation Formation: Towards a theory of abstract community, Sage, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif, 1996 Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy, Touchstone, New York, 1994, Chapters 3, 6 and 8. Mann, Michael, States, War and Capitalism: studies in political sociology, B. Blackwell, Oxford ; New York, 1988 Mc Williams Wayne C., & Piotrowski Harry, The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations, Lynne Reinner Pub., Boulder and London, 2005, Chs.1-10. Poggi, Gianfranco, The Development of the Modern State: a sociological introduction, Hutchinson, London, 1978 Poggi, Gianfranco, The State: its nature, development, and prospects, polity Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1990 Ringrose Marjorie and Lerner, Adam J. (eds), Reimagining the Nation, Open University Press, Buckingham; Philadelphia, 1993 Roe-Goddard C., Cronin Patrick & Dash Kishore C., (eds), International Political Economy: State – Market Relations in a Changing Global Order, 2nd.ed., Lynne Reiner Pub., Boulder and London, 2003, Chs 7, 8, 9, 10, 27 Schulze, Hagen, States, Nations and Nationalism: from the Middle Ages to the present, Blackwell, Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1996 Smith, Anthony, National Identity, Penguin, London ; New York, 1991 Smith, Anthony, Nationalism in the twentieth century, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1979 Smith, Anthony, The Ethnic Origins of Nations, B. Blackwell, Oxford, [England]; New York, N.Y., c.1986 Smith, Anthony, The Ethnic Revival, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York, 1981 Smith, Anthony, Theories of Nationalism, Holmes and Meier, New York, NY, 1983 Tilly, Charles, Coercion, Capital, and European states, AD 990-1990, B. Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1990 Tivey, Leonard (ed.), The Nation-state: The formation of modern politics, M.Robertson, Oxford, 1981 Watson Matthew, Foundations of International Political Economy, Palgrave, Basingstoke and New York, 2005, Chs. 1 & 8.
Tutorial Week 3: The Cold War and After
Tutorial Questions: What were the main factors behind the end of the Cold War? Discussion questions What was the Cold War? How did it come about? Why did it continue for so long? How, if at all, did it change? Why did it end? Is the world safer or more peaceful? Why / why not? Is Communism dead? What has happened in former Soviet-bloc countries? What effects has the opening up of their economies had on former Soviet-bloc countries? How would you characterise the main dimensions of international difference, tension and conflict following the end of the Cold War? In what ways is the world different since the Cold War ended? What role do religion and ethnicity play? How important are they in explaining contemporary international relations? What effect(s) has decolonisation had on the structure and character of international relations? Basic Reading: Mansbach, Richard W. and Taylor, Introduction to Global Politics, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Croydon, 2012, pp. 102-135 Further Reading Batkin, Leonard, Political Mirages. Russia at the Crossroads, Nova Science Publishers, Commack, 1996 Brands, HW, The Devil We Knew, Oxford University Press, 1993, the chapter, `Who Won the Cold War?’
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Michel Chossudovsky, The Globalisation of Poverty: Impacts of the IMF and World Bank Reforms, Pluto Press, Sydney Australia, 1998, Part V. Colton, Timothy (ed), After the Soviet Union. From Empire to Nations, WW Norton and Co., New York, 1992 Dallin, Alexander (ed), The Soviet System. From Crisis to Collapse, Westview Press, Boulder, 1995 Davies, Norman, Europe. A History, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996, the last chapter Dobbs, Michael, Down with Big Brother. The Fall of the Soviet Empire, A. A. Knopf: New York, 1997 Friedman, Herbert, What America Did Right, University Press of America, Lanham, 1996, pp. 33-99. Gaddis, John Lewis, The United States and the End of the Cold War, Oxford University Press, New York, 1992, the last sixty or so pages Haas, Mark L., ‘The United States and the End of the Cold War: Reactions to Shifts in Soviet Power, Policies, or Domestic Politics?’ International Organization, 61 (1), Winter 2007, pp. 145-179 Holmes, Leslie, Post-Communism: An Introduction, Polity Press, Oxford, 1997, Ch’s. 2 – 4. Hosking, Geoffrey, The Road to Post-Communism: independent political movements in the Soviet Union, 1985- 1991, Pinter Publishers, New York, 1992 Hough, Jerry, Russia and the West, New York, 1990 Huntington, Samuel, ‘The Clash of Civilisations?’ Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993, 72 (3), pp. 22-49. Huntington, Samuel, The Clash of Civilisations, Foreign Affairs, New York, 1996 Huntington, Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Touchstone Books, London, 1998 Ikenberry, G. John, ‘The Myth of Post-Cold War Chaos’, Foreign Affairs, 75 (3), May-June 1996, pp. 79-91 Kennedy, Paul, The rise and fall of the great powers : economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000, 1st ed., Random House, New York, N.Y., 1987, Ch.7, pp 357-413 plus Epilogue, pp 536-40 Kolko, G., The Politics of War: allied diplomacy and the world crisis of 1943-1945, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969 Kolko, Gabriel, Century of war : politics, conflicts, and society since 1914, New Press, New York, 1994 Leffler, Mervyn and David Painter, Origins of the Cold War: An International History, Routledge, London, 1994 Leffler, Mervyn, A Preponderance of Power: national security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1992 Le Sueur, James D. (ed.), The Decolonization Reader, Routledge, New York and London, 2003 Lowenhardt, John, The Reincarnation of Russia: Struggling with the Legacy of Communism, 1990-94, Longman, Harlow, 1995 Lupher, Mark, Power Restructuring in China and Russia, Westview Press, Boulder, 1996 Malia, Martin, The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991, New York Free Press, Toronto, 1994 Mc Williams, Wayne C., & Piotrowski, Harry, The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder and London, 2005, Chs.1-10. Moisi, D. ‘The Clash of Emotions’, Foreign Affairs, 86 (1), January-February 2007, pp. 8-12 Nove, Alec, An Economic History of the USSR, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1992 O’Brien, Robert and Williams, Marc, Global Political Economy, Palgrave, 2004, particularly chapter 4, ‘The Twentieth Century: World Wars and the Post-1945 Order’. Petrie, Ruth (ed), Fall of Communism and the Rise of Nationalism, Cassell, London, 1997 Ponton, Geoffrey, The Soviet Era. Soviet Politics from Lenin to Yeltsin, Blackwell, Oxford, 1994 Pryce-Jones, David, The War that Never Was, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, New York, 1995 Ragsdale, Hugh, The Russian Tragedy. The Burden of History, ME Sharpe, Armonk, 1996 Robinson, Neil, Ideology and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, E. Elgar, Aldershot, 1995 Roe-Goddard C., Cronin Patrick & Dash Kishore C., (eds), International Political Economy: State – Market Relations in a Changing Global Order, 2nd.ed., Lynne Reiner Publishers, Boulder and London, 2003, Chs 7, 8, 9, 10, 27 Rozman, Gilbert (ed), Dismantling Communism. Common Causes and Regional Variations, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1992 Rywkin, Michael, Moscow’s Lost Empire, ME Sharpe, Armonk, 1994 Sakwa, Richard, Russian Politics and Society, Routledge, London, 1993 Satter, David, Age of Delirium. The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union, A. A. Knopf, New York, 1996 Smith, Graham (ed), Nationalities Question in Post-Soviet States, Longman, New York, 1996 Steele, Johnathan, Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy, Faber and Faber, London, 1994 White, Stephen, Gorbachev in Power, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990
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Post-communism Dallin, A. & Lapidus, G. (eds), The Soviet System: From Crisis to Collapse, Westview Press, Boulder, 1995. Part 7 Gowan, Peter, “Neo-Liberal Theory and Practice for Eastern Europe” New Left Review No 213, Sept/ Oct. 1995 pp 3-62. Gowan, Peter, ‘Eastern Europe, Western Powers and Neo Liberalism,” in New Left Review 216 March / April 1996 pp. 129 –140. Holmes, Leslie, The End of Communist Power: Anti Corruption Campaigns and Legitimation Crisis, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1993 Lapidus, G. (ed.), The New Russia: Troubled Transformation, Westview Press, Boulder, 1995, Ch’s 1, 4, 6, 8. Lloyd, John, ‘Eastern Reformers and Neo Marxist Reviewers’ in New Left Review 216 March / April 1996 pp. 119 –1128. Nolan, Peter, China’s Rise, Russia’s Fall: Economics and Planning in the Transition from Stalinism, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1995 Steele, Jonathan, Eternal Russia, Yeltsin, Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy, Faber & Faber, London & Boston, 1995, Parts 1&2 White, Stephen, Pravda, Alex and Gitelman, Zvi (eds), Developments in Russian Politics (4th ed.), Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997 World Development Report, From Plan to Market, Oxford University Press, 1996. World Development Report, Workers in an Integrating World, Oxford University Press, 1995. For primary sources on decolonisation, and the international policies and activities of major coalitions of newly- independent states / less developed countries, see: United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation, online http://un.org/fourth/index.shtml. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), online http://www.nam.gov.za/index.html The Group of 77 at the United Nations, online http://www.g77.org/doc/
Tutorial Week 4: Realism and Neo-Realism
Tutorial Questions: How do realists view international relations? What are the basis and the main elements of their approach? What account do they take of moral / ethical issues? What are the main criticisms of both approaches? (Realism and Neo-Realism) Discussion questions How do realism differ from idealist approaches? Are there states whose approach towards international relations is essentially or completely realist or idealist? Are there states which are different? If so, can you explain the approach(es) they take? Are realism and neo – conservatism related? If so, how? Basic Reading Dunne, Tim and Schmidt, Brian C., ‘Realism’, in in Baylis, John, Smith, Steve and Owens, Patricia (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to international relations, 6h edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, pp. 99-112 Lamy, Steven L., ‘Contemporary mainstream approaches: neo-realism and neo-liberalism’ in in Baylis, John, Smith, Steve and Owens, Patricia (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to international relations, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, pp. 126-140 Further Reading Ahmed, Shamima, and Potter, David, NGOs in International Politics, Sterling, Virginia, 2006, Ch’s 1, 3 Art, Robert J. & Jarvis, Robert (eds), International Politics: Anarchy, Force, Political Economy, and Decision- Making. 2nd edition, Boston, 1985. (See especially Section 1: ‘The Meaning of Anarchy’ & Section 2: ‘The Escapes from Anarchy’). Ashley, Richard K., ‘The Poverty of Neorealism’, in Robert O. Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and its Critics, Columbia University Press, New York, 1986.
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Banks, Michael, ‘The Evolution of International Relations Theory’, in Michael Banks (ed.), Conflict and World Society: A New Perspective on International Relations, Harvester Press, Brighton, 1984. Bull, Hedley, ‘Society and Anarchy in International Relations’, in Herbert Butterfield & Martin Wight (eds), Diplomatic Investigations, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1966. Carr, Edward Hallett, The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations, MacMillan & Co Ltd, London, 1962, (see esp, Part One: ‘The Science of International Politics’ and Part Two: ‘The International Crisis’). Connolly, William E, The Ethos of Pluralisation. Borderlines, Vol. 1, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis,1995, Chapter 5: Democracy and Territoriality). Cox, Robert W, ‘Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory’, in Robert O Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and its Critics, Columbia University Press, New York, 1986. Der Derian, James, ‘The Boundaries of Knowledge and Power in International Relations’, in James Der Derian & Michael J Shapiro (eds), International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics. Lexington Books, Lexington, 1989. George, Jim, Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical (Re)Introduction to International Relations, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 1994, Chapter 4: ‘The Positivist Realist Phase’ and Chapter 5: ‘The Backward Discipline Revisited: The Closed World of Neo-Realism’. Gilpin, Robert G, ‘The Richness of the Tradition of Political Realism’, in Keohane, Robert O. (ed.), Neorealism and its Critics, Columbia University Press, New York, 1986. Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan, [1640], Any edition. Especially Chapters 13 and 17. Jackson, Robert and Sorenson, Georg, Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pages 59-96 Kegley, Charles W., and Wittkopf, Eugene R., World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 7th edn, Macmillan, London, 1999, pp. 462-501 Keohane, R.O., ‘Realism, Neorealism and the study of world politics’, in Keohane, R. O. (ed.), Neorealism and its Critics, Columbia University Press, New York, 1986, pp. 1-26. Machiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince, [1519], any edition. Mathews, ‘Power Shift’, Foreign Affairs, 76(1), January-February 1997, pp. 50-66 Morgenthau, Hans J, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, 6th edn, Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1985. Pettman, Ralph, International Politics: Balance of Power, Balance of Productivity, Balance of Ideologies, Longman Cheshire, London, 1991, esp, Section 1: ‘International Politics’ and Section 2: ‘The State and the State System’. Rothstein, Robert L, ‘On the Costs of Realism’, in Little, Richard & Smith, Michael (eds), Perspectives on World Politics: A Reader. 2nd edn, Routledge, London, 1991. Smith, Steve (ed.), International Relations: British and American Perspectives, Basil Blackwell in association with the British International Studies Association, Oxford, 1985. Stoessinger, John, ‘The Anatomy of the Nation-State and the Nature of Power’, in Michael Smith et al. (eds), Perspectives on World Politics: A Reader. 2nd ed, Routledge, London, 1991. Vasques, John A, The Power of Power Politics: A Critique, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1983. Waltz, Kenneth A, ‘Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory’. Journal of International Affairs, 44, (1990), pp 22-33. Waltz, Kenneth A, Man, the State and War, Columbia University Press, New York, [1959] any edition. Waltz, Kenneth A, Theory of International Politics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1979. Williams, Howard et al. (eds), A Reader in International Relations and Political Theory, Open University Press, Buckingham, 1993 (see the extract Keohane, Robert O. & Nye, Joseph S., Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition, 1977).
Tutorial Week 5: Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism
Tutorial Questions: What is liberalism? What are its core values? Is it really a theory of international relations? What is neo-liberalism? How, if at all, does it resemble / differ from liberalism? Why has it been influential? Discussion questions
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Is there a relationship between liberalism and capitalism? Is liberalism, as Fukuyama claims ‘the highest point of mankind’s ideological evolution’? What impact has neo-liberalism had on the conduct and character of international relations? In what ways is neo-liberalism being criticised, or challenged in other ways? Are neo-liberalism and neo–conservatism related? If so, how? Basic Reading Dunne, Tim, “Liberalism”, in Baylis, John, Smith, Steve and Owens, Patricia (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to international relations, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, pp. 113-125 Lamy, Steven L., ‘Contemporary mainstream approaches: neo-realism and neo-liberalism’ in in Baylis, John, Smith, Steve and Owens, Patricia (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to international relations, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, pp. 126-140 Further Reading Baldwin, D. (ed), Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate , Columbia University Press, New York, 1993 Brown, M. & Miller, S. (eds), Debating the Democratic Peace, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1998 Bull, H. (ed), Intervention in World Politics, Oxford University Press, London, 1984 Burchill, S., ‘Liberalism’, in Burchill, S., et al., Theories of International Relations, 2nd edition, Palgrave , 2001, pp. 29-69. Chomsky, N. Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and the Global Order, Seven Stories Press, Toronto, 1999 Dicken, P. Global Shift: The Internationalisation of Economic Activity, 2nd ed., Chapman and Hall, London, 1992 Doyle, M. ‘Liberalism and World Politics’, American Political Science Review, (80), no. 4 (1986), pp. 1151-1169 Doyle, M.W. ‘Liberalism and World Politics Revisited’ in C. Kegley, (ed), Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge, St Martins Press, New York, 1995 Dunne, T. & Wheeler, N. (eds), Human Rights in Global Politics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999 Ellis, Anthony (ed.), Ethics and International Relations, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1986 Forbes, I & Hoffman, M. (eds), Political Theory, International Relations and the Ethics of Intervention, Basingstoke, 1993 Fukuyama, F. ‘The End of History’, The National Interest, (16), 1989, pp. 3-16. Fukuyama, F. The End of History and the Last Man, Avon Books, New York, 1992 Gardner, R. ‘The Comeback of Liberal Internationalism’, The Washington Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, 1990 Gardels, N. ‘After the end of history: Global post-war economics and politics’ in New Perspectives Quarterly, v13 n4 , 1996 Gray. J. ‘The End of history – or of liberalism?’, National Review, v41 n20, October 27, 1989 Gray, J. False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, New York, 1998 Higgott, R. ‘International Political Economy’ in Groom, A. & Light, M. (eds) Contemporary International Relations Theory, Pinter, London, 1994 Hirst, P & Thompson, P., Globalisation in Question, polity, Cambridge, 1996 Hoffman, S. Duties Beyond Borders, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse,1981 Hoffman, S. ‘The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism’, Foreign Policy, (98), 1995, pp159-177 Horsman, M. & Marshall, A. After the Nation State, Harper Collins, London, 1994 Howard, M. War and the Liberal Conscience, Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 1978 Jackson, Robert and Sorenson, Georg, Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 97-128 Reiss, H. (ed), Kant’s Political Writings, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970 Keohane, R. ‘Co-operation and International Regimes’, in Little, R. & Smith, M. (eds); Perspectives on World Politics (2nd Ed.), Routledge, London, 1996 Keohane, R. & Nye, J. Power and Interdependence, Little Brown, Boston, 1977 Knutsen, T. L. The Rise and Fall of World Orders, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1999 Latham, R. The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of the Post-War International Order, Columbia University Press, New York, 1997 Linklater, A. ‘Liberal Democracy, Constitutionalism and the New World Order’, in Leaver, R. & Richardson, J. (eds), The Post- Cold War Order: Diagnoses and Prognoses, St Leonards, 1993 McGrew, A. Global Politics: Globalisation and the Nation-State, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1992 McIlwain, C. H., ‘The Reconstruction of Liberalism’, Foreign Affairs, 16 (1), October 1937, pp. 167-175 Nye, J. ‘Neorealism and Neoliberalism’, World Politics, (40), 1988, pp235- 251
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Nye, Joseph and Donahue, John, editors, Governance in a Globalizing World, Brookings, 2000 Ohmae, K. The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy, Collins, London, 1990 Ohmae, K. The End of the Nation State, Free Press, New York, 1996 Powell, R. ‘Anarchy in international relations theory: the neorealist/ neoliberal debate’, International Organisation, (48), 1994 Rawls, J. The Law of Peoples, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990 Strange, S. ‘New World Order: Conflict and Co-operation’, Marxism Today, January 1991, pp. 30-31. Strange, S. Mad Money, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1998 Strange, S. The Retreat of the State, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996 Vincent, J. Human Rights and International Relations, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986 Weiss, L. The Myth of the Powerless State: Governing the Economy in a Global Era, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999 Zacher, M. & Matthew, R. ‘Liberal International Theory: Common Threads and Divergent Strands’ in Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge, St Martins Press, New York, 1995
Tutorial Week 7: Marxism
Tutorial Questions: What does Marxism have to say about international relations? How does it resemble/ differ from neo-Marxist approaches? What light do neo-Marxists cast on international relations? How important is imperialism in contemporary international relations? How do (different) Marxist and neo- Marxist writers define it? How, if at all, is it related to colonialism? Discussion questions Are there countries pursuing imperialist and / or colonialist policies in the twenty-first century? If so, which? why? how? and to what effect(s)? What do Marxist and/or neo-Marxist theories have to say about the role of trans-national corporations? What relevance do Marxist and neo-Marxist approaches have to the analysis or actual conduct of international relations following the collapse of the Soviet Union and/or the absence of revolutions of the kind Marx predicted? Basic Reading Linklater, A. ‘Marx and Marxism’, in Burchill, S. et al. Theories of International Relations, 4th Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2009, pp. 111-135 Further Reading Almond, G., ‘Introduction: A Functional Approach to Comparative Politics’, in G. Almond and J. Coleman, The Politics of the Developing Areas, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1960 Bernstein, H. ‘Modernisation Theory and the Sociological Study of Development’, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1971 Brenner, R. ‘The Origins of Capitalist Development: a Critique of Neo-Smithian Marxism’, New Left Review, No. 104, 1977 Brewer, A, Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey, Routledge and Keegan Paul, London 1980, pp, 158-181. Cardoso, F. ‘The Consumption of Dependency Theory in the United States’, Latin American Research Review, Vol. XII, No. 3, 1977 Cardoso, F. and Faletto, E. Dependency and Development in Latin America, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979 Doner, R. ‘Limits of State Strength, Towards an Institutionalist View of Economic Development’, World Politics, Vol. 44, No. 3, April 1992 Dos Santos, T. ‘The Structure of Dependence”, American Economic Review, Vol. 60, May 1970 Dowse, R.E. ‘A Functionalist Logic’, World Politics, Vol. 18, No. 4
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Foster-Carter, A., ‘Neo-Marxist Approaches to Development and Underdevelopment’, in E. De Kadt, and G. Williams (eds), Sociology and Development, Tavistock, London, 1974 Frank, A. G. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1967 Frank, A. G. Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1969 Frank, A., `The Development of Underdevelopment’, Monthly Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, September 1966 Haggard, S. Pathways from the Periphery, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1990 Harris, N. The End of the Third World, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1986 Jackson, Robert and Sorenson, Georg, Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pages 1-58 Autumn Session 2013 18 Kitching, G. Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective, Routledge, London, 1989 Leftwich, A., ‘Bringing Politics Back In: Towards a Model of the Developmental State’, The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, Feb. 1995 Leftwich, Adrian, States of Development, Polity, 2000 Laclau, E., `Feudalism and Capitalism in Latin America’, New Left Review, No. 67, May-June 1971 Lall, S. ‘Is Dependence a Useful Concept in Analysing Underdevelopment’, World Development, Vol. 3, No. 11, November, 1975 Leys, C. ‘Underdevelopment and Dependency: Critical Notes’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.7, No.1, 1977 Lenin, V. I. Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, any edition. O’Brien, D.C., ‘Modernization, Order and the Erosion of a Democratic Ideal: American Political Science, 1960- 1970′, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1972 O’Brien, P., ‘A Critique of Latin American Theories of Dependency’, in I. Oxaal, T. Barnett and D. Booth, (eds.), Beyond the Sociology of Development, Economy and Society in Latin America and Africa, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1975 Ocampo. J. F. and Johnson, D.L., ‘The Concept of Political Development’, in J. Cockcroft, A.G. Frank and D.L Johnson, (eds.) Dependence and Underdevelopment, Anchor Books, New York, 1972 Palma, G., ‘Dependency and Development: A Critical Overview’, in D. Seers, (ed.), Dependency Theory: A Critical Reassessment, London, Francis Pinter, London, 1981 Rapley, John, Understanding Development, Rienner, 2002 Rapley, John, Globalization and Inequality, Rienner, 2004 Rhodes, R. ‘The Disguised Conservatism in Evolutionary Development Theory’, Science and Society, Vol.32, No.4, 1968 Skocpol, T., `Wallerstein’s World Capitalist System: A Theoretical and Historical Critique’, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 82, No. 5, 1977 von Albertini, R., ‘Colonialism and Underdevelopment: Critical Remarks on the Theory of Dependency’, in L. Blusse, H. Wesseling, and G. Winius, (eds.), History and Underdevelopment, Leiden Centre for the History of European Expansion, Leiden,1980 Wallerstein, I. and Hopkins, T. The Age of Transition, The Trajectory of the World-System 1945-2025, Pluto Press, London, 1996 Wallerstein, I., The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World- Economy in the Sixteenth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1974, pp. 67-129 and pp. 301-357 Wallerstein, I., The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World Economy 1600-1750, Academic Press, New York, 1980 Wallerstein, I., The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World Economy, Academic Press, New York, 1989 Wallerstein, I., ‘New revolts against the system’, New Left Review ,18, Nov/Dec 2002, pp. 29-39. Webster, A. Introduction to the Sociology of Development, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1984, pp. 41-93
Tutorial Week 8: Social Constructivism, Feminism, Critical Theory, Post-Structuralism, and Postcolonialism
Tutorial Questions: What role does feminism play in International Relations and how influential has it been?
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Social Constructivism is the “newcomer” in International Relations theory. What is its contribution(s) to our understanding of International Relations today? Discussion questions Should analysts simply describe or analyse the assumptions and behaviour of key actors in international relations? What role do ideas and / or imagination play? How relevant are moral judgments in explaining international relations? Do all theories of international relations embody values or political purpose(s)? What role does / should critical judgment play in analysing and explaining international relations? Do sex or gender really matter? and, if so, how? Why have the theories discussed in this tutorial arisen? How do they resemble / differ from other theories? What do they add to other approaches towards the study and understanding of international relations? Basic Reading Agius, C. ‘Social Constructivism’, in Collins, A., Contemporary Security Studies, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010, pp. 49-68 Whitworth, S. ‘Feminisms’, in (Ed.) Williams, P. D. Security Studies: An introduction, Routledge, New York, 2013, pp. 107-119 Further Reading Ahmad, Aijaz, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, Verso, London, 1992. Alexander, M. J. & Mohanty, Chandra, (eds), Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, Routledge, London, 1997. Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth, and Tiffin, Helen (eds), The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, Routledge, Oxford, (2nd edn) 2006 Beckman, Peter and D’Amico, Francine, (eds), Women, Gender, and World Politics: Perspectives, Policies and Prospects, Bergin & Garvey, Westport, 1994. Brewster, A., Literary Formations: Postcolonialism, Nationalism, Globalism. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1995. Butler, Judith & Scott, Joan W. (eds), Feminists Theorise the Political, Routledge, New York, 1992. Campbell, David, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1992, Intro and Ch’s 1, 2 and 3. Clark, A. et al., ‘The Sovereign limits of global civil society: a comparison of NGO participants in UN World Conferences on the environment, human rights and women’, World Politics, Vol. 51, October 1998, pp. 1-35. Cox, Wayne S. & Claire T. Sjolander, ‘Critical Reflections on International Relations’, in Sjolander, Claire T. & Cox, Wayne S. (eds), Beyond Positivism: Critical Reflections on International Relations, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 1994. Elshtain, J. B., ‘Reflections on War and Political Discourse: Realism, Just War and Feminism in a Nuclear Age’, Political Theory. 13, (1), 1986, pp. 39-57. Enloe, Cynthia, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense out of International Relations, Pandora, London, 1989. Ferguson, M. et al. (eds), Feminism and Postmodernism. Duke University Press, 1994. Flew, Fiona, et al., ‘Introduction: Local Feminisms, Global Futures’, Women’s Studies International Forum, 22 (4), pp. 393-403 George, Jim, Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical (Re)Introduction to International Relations, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 1994. George, Jim, ‘Some Thoughts on the Giveness of Everyday Life in Australian International Relations: Theory and Practice’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 27, 1992, pp 31-54. Graham, Gordon, Ethics and International Relations, Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Oxford, 1997, Section 1: ‘The International Order’& Section 2: ‘International Morality’. Hutchins, K., ‘Foucault and International Relations Theory’, in Lloyd, M. et al. (eds), The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and Humanities, Macmillan, Houndmills, 1997. Jackson, Robert and Sorenson, Georg, Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 161-177 Lennon, K. et al. (eds), Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology, Routledge, London, 1994. Marchand, M. H. et al. (eds), Feminism/Postmodernism/Development, Routledge, London, 1995.
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Mohanty, Chandra. ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’, Feminist Review, 39, 1988, pp 60-80. Peterson, V Spike. ‘Transgressing Boundaries: Theories of Knowledge, Gender and International Relations’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 21, (2), 1992, pp 183-206. Pettman, Jan Jindy, ‘Border Crossings/Shifting Identities: Minorities, Gender and the State in International Relations’, in Shapiro, Michael J. and Alker, Hayward R. (eds), Challenging Boundaries: Global Flows, Territorial Identities, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1996, pp 261-284. Pettman, Jan Jindy, ‘Gender issues’, John and Smith, Steve (eds), The Globalization of World Politics, 3rd. ed Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, pp. 670-687 Pettman, Jan Jindy, Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, 1996, esp. Chapter 1: ‘Women, Gender and the State’. Reynolds, A. ‘Women in the Legislatures and executives of the world: knocking at the highest glass ceiling’, World Politics, 51 (July 1999), pp. 547-72. Said, Edward W, Orientalism. Any edition Szczepanikova, Alice, ‘Gender Relations in a Refugee Camp: A Case f Chechens Seeking Asylum in the Czech Republic’, Journal of Refugee Studies, 18(3), September 2005, pp. 281-298 Ship, Susan J, ‘And What About Gender? Feminism and International Relations Theory’s Third Debate, in Sjolander, Claire T. & Cox, Wayne S. (eds), Beyond Positivism: Critical Reflections on International Relations, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 1994. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, Methuen, New York, 1987. Stoler, Ann Laura and Cooper, Frederick, ‘Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda’, in Cooper, Frederick and Stoler, Ann Laura (eds), Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997. Sylvester, Christine, Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994. Trinh, T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1989. Turner, Bryan S., Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism, Routledge, London, 1994 Walker, R. B. H., Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993. Walker, R. B. J., One World, Many Worlds: Struggles for a Just World Peace, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 1988. Whitworth, Sandra, Men, Militarism and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis, Lynne Rienner, Boulder, 2007 Willett, Susan, ‘Introduction: Security Council Resolution 1325: Assessing the Impact on Women, Peace and Security’, International Peacekeeping, 17(2), April 2010, pp. 142-158 Williams, Patrick and Chrisman, Laura, ‘Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: An Introduction’, in Williams, Patrick and Chrisman, Laura (eds), Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, 1993. Young, Crawford, ‘The End of the Post-Colonial State in Africa? Reflections on Changing African Political Dynamics, African Affairs, 2004, 103 (410), pp. 23-49
Tutorial Week 9: International Regimes
Tutorial Questions: What are the main functions of the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank? What have they achieved? What contribution, if any, do the United Nations and these other international organisations make to peace and human wellbeing? Discussion questions What is an ‘international regime’? How and why do international regimes arise / are they formed? Why was the League of Nations established? How and why did it fail?
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What are the origins of the United Nations? What is its mandate? How does it operate? How, if at all, has the United Nations changed following the end of the Cold War? What role does the United Nations Security Council play? What role(s) do different kinds of states (large and small, advanced industrial and less developed, allied and non-aligned, etc.) play at the United Nations? What influence do they have? What roles do regional and sub-regional regimes play in international relations? What difference(s) do they make to peace and human wellbeing in different parts of the world? Are there any which are outstandingly effective? Basic Reading Mansbach, Richard W. and Taylor, Introduction to Global Politics, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Croydon, 2012, pp. 309-347 Further Reading Bailey, S., How Wars End: The United Nations and the Termination of Armed Conflict, Oxford, 1982 Barnett, Michael N. and Finnemore, Martha, ‘The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations’, International Organization, 53 (4), Autumn 1999, pp. 699-732 Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, Agenda for Peace: Preventive Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peacekeeping, United Nations, New York, 1992 Chan, Gerald, ‘China and the WTO: the theory and practice of compliance’, International Relations of the Asia- Pacific, 4 (1), February 2004, pp. 47-72 Coglianese, Cary, ‘Globalization and the Design of International Institutions’, chapter thirteen (pp. 297-318) Joseph Nye and John Donahue, editors, Governance in a Globalizing World, Brookings, 2000 Goldstein, Joshua S. & Pevehouse, Jon C., International Relations: A Brief Third Edition, Pearson Longman, New York, 2004, Ch.6. Finkelstein, Lawrence S. (ed.), Politics in the United Nations System, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1988 Frank, Thomas M., Nation Against Nation: What Happened to the UN Dream and What the US Can Do About It, New York, 1985 Fromuth, Peter J., ‘The Making of a Security Community: The United Nations After the Cold War”, Journal of International Affairs, 46 (2), Winter 1993, pp. 341-366 Claude, Inis L., ‘The Management of Power in the Changing United Nations’, in Lanyi, George and McWilliams, William C. (eds), Crisis and Continuity in World Politics: Readings in International Relations, New York, 1966 Kegley, Charles W., and Wittkopf, Eugene R., World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 8th edn, Macmillan, London, 2002, pp. 171-186 Krasner, Stephen D., International Regimes, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1983 Lyons, Gene M., and Mastanduno, Michael, Beyond Westphalia: State Sovereignty and International Intervention, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1995 Mack, Andrew, The Human Security Report, United Nations, New York, 2005 Mertus, Julie A., The United Nations and Human Rights: A Guide For A New Era, Routledge, London & New York, 2005 Mingst, Karen A., and Karns, Margaret P., The United Nations in the Post-Cold War Era, Westview, Boulder, Colo., 1995 Murphy, John F., The United Nations and the Control of International Violence: A Legal and Political Analysis, Totowa, (N.J.), 1982 Peterson, M.J., The General Assembly in World Politics, Boston, 1986 Rapkin, David P. and Strand, Jonathan R., ‘Is East Asia under-represented in the International Monetary Fund?’, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 3 (1), February 2003, pp. 1-28 Riggs, Robert E., and Jack C. Plano, The United Nations: International Organisation and World Politics, 2nd edition, Wadsworth, Belmont, California, 1994 Roberts, Adam, and Benedict, Kingsbury (eds), United Nations, Divided World: The UN’s Roles in International Relations, 2nd edn, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993 Russett, B. and Sutterlin, James S., ‘The UN in a New World Order’, Foreign Affairs, Spring 1991, pp. 69-83 Sauvant, K P. The Group of 77: Evolution, Structure, Organisation, Oceana, New York, 1981, Part 1, especially pp. 1-24. Scholte, Jan Aart, ‘Civil Society and Democratically Accountable Global Governance’, in David Held and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, editors, Global Governance and Public Accountability, Blackwell, 2005 Taylor, Paul and Groom, A.J.R., (eds), Global Issues in the UN Framework, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1989
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Weiss, Thomas G., Forsythe, David P., and Coate, Roger A., The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Westview, Boulder, Co., 1997 The following Internet sites provide access to documents concerning some important regional organisations in the Asia-Pacific: Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC): http://www.apec.org Association of South-East Nations (ASEAN): http://www.aseansec.org Melanesian Spearhead Group: http://www.msgsec.info/ Pacific Islands Forum: http://www.forumsec.org
Tutorial Week 10: Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect
Tutorial Questions: What role does the United Nations play in protecting and promoting respect for human rights in different parts of the world? What effects has the developing norm of “Responsibility to Protect” had on International Relations? Discussion questions Are human rights universal or, in some way, culture-bound or limited to only certain (kinds of) societies? What does the international community do to ensure human rights are actually respected? How, if at all, has the situation changed following the end of the Cold War? Basic Reading Mansbach, Richard W. and Taylor, Introduction to Global Politics, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Croydon, 2012, pp. 348-384 Further Reading Brysk, Alison (ed.), Globalization and Human Rights, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002 Belgrade Circle (eds) The Politics of Human Rights, Verso, London, 1999 Downer, Nigel and Williams, John, (eds), Global Citizenship: A Critical Reader, Edinburgh University Press, 2002 Fortna, Virginia Page, ‘Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace? International Intervention and the Duration of Peace after Civil War’, International Studies Quarterly, 48, 2004, pp. 269-92 Fry, Greg and Kabutaulaka, Tarcisius Tara (eds), Intervention and state-building in the Pacific: the legitimacy of ‘co-operative intervention’, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2008 Gutmann, Amy (ed.), Michael Ignatieff Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, Princeton University Press, 2001 International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The responsibility to protect: report, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, 2001; available online at: www.iciss.ca/report-en.asp Mertus, Julie A., The United Nations and Human Rights: A Guide For A New Era, Routledge, London & New York, 2005 Robertson, Geoffrey, Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 2000, pp. 1-34. Recommended Reading Bauer, P.T., Equality, the Third World and Economic Delusion, London, 1981, pp. 86-137 Beck, Ulrich, What is Globalization?, Polity Press, Oxford, 2000, Ch’s 2 & 3. Blackburn, Susan, Practical Visionaries: A Study of Community Aid Abroad, Melbourne, 1993 Brownlie, Ian (ed.), Basic Documents on Human Rights, 3rd ed, Clarendon Press, Oxford, Oxford University Press, New York,1992 Chossudovsky, Michel, The Globalisation of Poverty: The Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, Pluto Press, Sydney, 1998 Doyle, M. W., Johnstone, I. and Orr, R. C. (eds), Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional UN Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. Gillies, David, Between Principle and Practice: human rights in north-south relations, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, c1996
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Gurtov, Mel, Global Politics in the Human Interest 3rd ed, Lynne Rienner Publishers, London, 1994 Hancock, Graham, Lords of Poverty, London, 1984. Harris, Nigel, The end of the Third World : newly industrializing countries and the decline of an ideology, Tauris, London, 1986 Hayter, Teresa, Aid as Imperialism, Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex,1971 Held, David, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance, Polity Press, London, 1995 Held, David, Models of Democracy, Polity Press, Oxford, Ch’s 8 &10. Held, David ( ed.), Political Theory Today, London; Polity Press, 1995, Chs 8-12. Held, David (ed.), Prospects for Democracy: North, South, East, West, Polity Press, London, 1993 Held, David, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt & Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations, Politics, Economics and Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1999 Hirst, Paul and Thompson, Graham, Globalization in Question, 2nd ed., Polity Press, Cambridge, 1999, Hutton, Will & Giddens, Anthony (eds), On the Edge: Living with Global Capitalism, Jonathan Cape, London, 2000 Jacoby, Stanford, (ed) The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy, Oxford University Press, 1995 Konrad, Ginther, Denters, Erik and de Waart, Paul J.I.M. (eds), Sustainable development and good governance, Dordrecht, Boston; Nijhoff, Norwell Ma (USA), c.1995 Krasner, Steven, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy, Princeton University Press, 1999 Lechner, Frank and Bolt, John (eds), The Globalization Reader, Blackwell, Oxford, 2000 Mander, Jerry & Goldsmith, Edward (eds), The Case Against the Global Economy: And For a Turn Toward the Local, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1996 Mann, Michael, ‘The Dark Side of Democracy: The Modern Tradition of Ethnic and Political Cleansing’, New Left Review, No. 235, May June 1999, pp 18-45. Martin, Hans Peter & Schuman, Harald, The Global Trap, Globalization and the Assault on Democracy and Prosperity, Pluto Press, 1997, esp. Ch’s 1 & 9. Michael, Simon, Setting Things Right: Ending Poverty By Achieving Basic Human Rights, Community Aid Abroad, Fitzroy, Vic., 1997 Milne, A. J. M., Human Rights and Human Diversity: An Essay in the Philosophy of Human Rights, State University Press, New York, 1986 Moody, Kim, Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy, Verso, London, 1997 Mosley, Paul, Foreign Aid, Its Defence and Reform, Lexington, Kentucky, 1987 Ojo, Bamidele A, Human Rights and the New World Order: Universality, Acceptability and Human Diversity, Nov Science Publishers, Commack, N.Y., c1997 Sassen, Saskia, Globalization and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money, New Press, New York, 1998 Schraeder, Peter, J., Hook, Steven W. and Taylor, Bruce, ‘Clarifying the Foreign Aid Puzzle’, World Politics, 50, January 1998, pp. 294-323. Smith, Alan G., Human Rights And Choice In Poverty: Food Insecurity, Dependency, And Human Rights-Based Development, Praeger, Westport, Conn., 1997 Smith, Thomas W., ‘Can Human Rights Build a Better War?’, Journal of Human Rights, 9 (1), 2010, pp. 24-44 Soros, George, The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, Little Brown, London, 1998 Strange, Susan, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. Waldron, Jeremy, ‘Nonsense upon stilts’: Bentham, Burke, and Marx on the rights of man, Methuen, London, New York, 1987 Webster, Andrew, Introduction to the Sociology of Development, Macmillan, London, 1984, pp.147-168 Weston, Burns H and Marks, Stephen P. (eds) The Future of International Human Rights, Transnational, Ardsley, NY, c1999 Wiseman, John, Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation, Cambridge University Press, 1998. Wolfers, Edward P., ‘International Peace Missions in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, 1990-2005: Host State Perspectives’, online http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/fadt_ctte/peacekeeping/submissions/sub39.pdf
Tutorial Week 11: Security
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Tutorial Questions: What role does security play in international relations? Is it primarily a national or international issue? Why has the concept of ‘human security’ been developed? What does it mean? What are the main threats to human security? How are they being met? Discussion questions How can security be threatened? Is security just or even primarily a matter of preventing or resisting armed attack? How do states resist, counter and / or overcome threats to their security? What role do international law, co-operation and diplomacy play in maintaining or strengthening security? Basic Reading Williams, P. D. ‘Security Studies: An Introduction’, in Williams, P. D. Security Studies: An Introduction, Routledge, New York, 2013, pp. 1-12 Mansbach, Richard W. and Taylor, Introduction to Global Politics, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Croydon, 2012, pp. 385-417 Further Reading Australian Government, Department of Defence, ‘Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030’, Defence White Paper 2009, available online at: http://www.defence.gov.au/whitepaper/docs/defence_white_paper_2009.pdf Barkawi, Tarak and Laffey, Mark, ‘The postcolonial moment in security studies’, Review of International Studies, 2006 32 (2), pp. 329-352 Collins, Alan, ‘Forming a security community: lessons from ASEAN’, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 7(2), May 2007, pp. 203-225 Hasegawa, Yuka, ‘Is a Human Security Approach Possible? Compatibility between the Strategies of Protection and Empowerment’, Journal of Refugee Studies, 20(1), March 2007, pp. 1-20 Human Security Report 2005, and other relevant documents produced by the Human Security Center, Canada, are available online at: www.humansecurityreport.info Hough, Peter, Understanding Global Security, Routledge, London, 2004 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, www.nato/int/cps/en/natoolive/index.htm Renner, Michael et al., State of the World 2005: Global security. A Worldwatch Institute report on progress towards a sustainable society, Earthscan, London, 2005 Rudd, Hon. Kevin, ‘The First National Security Statement to the Australian Parliament’, 4 December 2008; available online at: http://www.pm.gov.au/docs/20081204national_security_statement.pdf Thomas, Nicholas and William T. To, ‘The Utility of Human Security: Sovereignty and Humanitarian Intervention’, Security Dialogue, 33(2), 2002, pp. 177-92 United Nations, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, Report of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, 2004; available online at: ww.un.org.secureworld/ United Nations, In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All: Report of the Secretary-General, 2005: available online at: http://www.un.org/largerfreedom/ United Nations Development Programme, ‘New Dimensions of human security’, Human Development Report, 1994; available online at: //hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr1994/ Wolfers, Arnold, ‘“National Security” as an Ambiguous Symbol’, Political Science Quarterly, December 1952, pp. 481-502 Wolfers, Edward P., ‘Security, peace and development: Reflections on connections, based on experience in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea’, Development Bulletin, 70, April 2006, pp. 55-59; available online at: //devnet.anu.edu.au/db70.php
Tutorial Week 12: Development Co-operation
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Why do states engage in development co-operation? What are the stated objectives? Are there any unstated objectives? How is ‘foreign aid’ defined? What are the guiding principles for foreign aid? What difference does foreign aid make to people living in less developed countries? How, if at all, do ordinary people (outside government and other than elites) benefit? Discussion questions What proposals are there to change existing foreign aid policies and relations? What are the prospects for achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals? Would developing countries be better off without foreign aid? What is involved? What role does foreign aid play in the over-all conduct of donors’ and recipients’ foreign relations? Basic Reading Mansbach, Richard W. and Taylor, Introduction to Global Politics, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Croydon, 2012, pp. 136-171 and 390-397 Further Reading United Nations, Millennium Development Goals, and associated reports and other relevant documents are available online at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ Detailed information about major donor countries’ foreign aid policies and performances can be found on the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate website at: http://www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_33721_1_1_1_1_1,00.html Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, available online at: http://www.oecd.org.dataoecd/11/41/3442835.pdf Australian National Audit Office, AusAID’s Management of the Expanding Australian Aid Program, Audit Report No. 15 2009-10, Performance Audit; http: //www.amao.gov.au/uploads/documents/2009- 10_Audit_Report_15.pdf Detailed information about the Australian Government’s development assistance programme, including Australian Aid – Promoting Growth and Stability – White Paper on the Australian Government’s overseas aid program, 2006, can be found on the AusAID website at: http://www.ausaid.gov.au Moyo, D., Dead aid: why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2009 Recommended Reading Bauer, P.T., Equality, the Third World and Economic Delusion, London, 1981, pp. 86-137 Blackburn, Susan, Practical Visionaries: A Study of Community Aid Abroad, Melbourne, 1993 Garrett, L., ‘The Challenge of Global Health’, Foreign Affairs, 86 (1), January-February 2007, pp. 14-38 Brown, Chris (with Kirsten Ainley), Understanding International Relations, 3rd.ed., Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005, Ch’s 10 &11. Hancock, Graham, Lords of Poverty, London, 1984Hayter, Teresa., Aid as Imperialism, Penguin, Harmondsworth, Midlesex,1971 Leathers, Howard D. & Phillips Foster, The World Food Problem: Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World, Lynne Rienner, Boulder & London, 2004. Mosley, Paul, Foreign Aid, Its Defence and Reform, Lexington, Kentucky, 1987 Roe, C. Roe Goddard, Patrick Cronin & Dash, Kishore C., International Political Economy: State-Market Relations in a Changing Global Order, 2nd.ed., Lynne Rienner Publishers, London and Boulder, Pts 3 & 4. Schraeder, Peter, J., Steven W. Hook, and Bruce Taylor, `Clarifying the Foreign Aid Puzzle, World Politics, 50, January 1998, pps. 294-323 Tisch, Sarah J. and Wallace, Michael B. (eds), Dilemmas of Development Assistance: The What, Why, and Who of Foreign Aid, Westview Press, Boulder, 1994 Tulchin, Joseph & Bland, Gary (eds), Getting Globalization Right: The Dilemmas of Inequality, Lynne Reiner Publishers, Boulder and London, 2005. Webster, Andrew, Introduction to the Sociology of Development, Macmillan, London, 1984, pps.147-168 Wolfers, E.P., `The Australian Government’s Overseas Development Assistance Program: Ambiguity in a North- South Flow’, in Lucy, R. (ed.), The Pieces of Politics, 3rd. edn, South Melbourne, 1983, pp. 379-399
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Tutorial Week 13: Terrorism and Globalisation
Tutorial Questions: Is the phenomenon new, or the latest or speeded-up version of an older and longer process? Is globalisation really global? Is it possible to resist globalisation, slow it down, or control it in order to suit local circumstances? Why? and, if so, how? What is ‘terrorism’? Is it a new phenomenon? Who is involved? What are the main objectives of terrorism and people described as ‘terrorists’? What is distinctive about the ways in which terrorists organise and act? What is the relationship between their objectives and methods? Is it accurate to refer to a ‘war against terror(ism)’? Who and what is involved? How is the conflict it being pursued by the various participants? What do terror(ism) and contemporary conflicts involving terrorists have to do with globalisation?Discussion questions What is globalisation? Is it a single process? Do different commentators and policy-makers give the term different meanings, or emphasise different aspects? Is the term useful in explaining and promoting understanding of contemporary international relations? What role do information and communications technologies play? What role do economic policies and processes play? What role do nation-states play in relation to globalisation? Does globalisation hold out different prospects for different countries (more and less powerful, big and small, advanced industrial and less developed, etc.) and / or for different parts of society (public and private sectors; service, finance and manufacturing industries; employers and employees; rich and poor; etc.)? Basic Reading Mansbach, Richard W. and Taylor, Introduction to Global Politics, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Croydon, 2012, pp. 172-247 Further Reading Abdelal, R. and Segal, A., ‘Has Globalization Passed Its Peak?’, Foreign Affairs 86 (1), January-February 200, pp. 103-114 Archibugi, Daniele and Michie, Jonathan (eds), Technology, globalisation and economic performance, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1997 Boyer, R. and Drache, D. (eds), States against markets : the limits of globalization, Routledge, New York, 1996 Castells, M., The Informational City, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1991. Castles, Stephen, Global Workforce, New Racism and the Declining Nation State, Wollongong, N.S.W.: Centre for Multicultural Studies, University of Wollongong, 1990 Friedman, Thomas L., The World is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2006 Gills, Barry K., ‘The Return of Crisis in the Era of Globalization: One Crisis, or Many?’, Globalizations, 7(1-2), March-June 2010, pp. 3-8 Guéhenno, Jean-Marie, The end of the nation-state, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1995 Held, David and McGrew, Anthony, Globalization/Anti-Globalization, Polity Press, 2002 Hirst, P. and Thompson, G. Globalisation in Question, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1996, especially pp. 1-50. Holton, R. J. Globalization and the nation-state, Macmillan Press, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1998 Hoogvelt, Ankie, Globalisation and the Postcolonial World, London, Macmillan, 1997 Horsman, M. and Marshall, A. After the Nation State, London, Harper Collins, 1994 International Telecommunications Union, online http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/world/world.html Jameson, Fredric, ‘Globalization and Political Strategy’, New Left Review, No 4, July August 2000, pp. 41-68.
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Jamrozik, A., Boland, C., and Urquhart, R., Social Change and Cultural Transformation in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, Ch.5. Julius, D. Global Companies and Public Policy, Pinter, London, 1990 Kupchan, Charles A., ‘The Democratic Malaise: Globalization and the Threat to the West’, Foreign Affairs, 91(1), January-February 2012, pp. 62-67 McGrew, Anthony G., Global Politics: Globalization and the Nation-state, Polity Press, Oxford, 1992 Ohmae, K. The End of the Nation State, Free Press, New York, 1996 Sassen, S., The Global City, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1991 Suter, Keith D, Global Agenda : Economics, the Environment and the Nation-state, Albatross Books, Sutherland, N.S.W., 1995 Yeatman, Anna, ‘Women’s Citizenship Claims, Labour Market Policy and Globalisation’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 1992, 27(3): 453-460. Globalisation: the structures and institutions of International Political Economy (IPE) Kegley, Charles W., and Wittkopf, Eugene R., World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 8th edn, Macmillan, London, 2002, pp. 291-327. Further Reading Beck, Ulrich, What is Globalization? Polity Press, Oxford, 2000 Bonefeld, W. and Holloway, J. (eds), Global Capital, National State and the Politics of Money, Macmillan Press, Basingstoke; St. Martins Press, New York, 1995 Chossudovsky, Michel, The Globalisation of Poverty: The Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, Pluto Press, Sydney, 1998 Clark, Ian, Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press, 1997 Daly, Herman & Cobb jnr, John, For The Common Good: Redirecting the economy toward community and a sustainable future, Beacon Press, Boston, 1998 (1989, 1994) Dicken, D. Global Shift: the Internationalisation of Economic Activity, 2nd. ed., Chapman and Hall, London, 1992 Harris, Stuart, ‘The International Economy and Domestic Politics,’ in Marsh, I. (ed.), Governing in the Nineties, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1992. Held, David & Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt & Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations, Politics, Economics and Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1999 Higgott, Richard, ‘International Political Economy’, in Groom, A.J.R. and Light, Margot (eds), Contemporary International Relations Theory, Pinter, London, 1994: pp.161-66 Hirst, Paul and Thompson, Graham, Globalisation in Question, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1996, especially pp. 1-50 Hutton, Will & Giddens, Anthony (eds), On the Edge: Living with Global Capitalism, Jonathan Cape, London, 2000 Jacoby, Stanford (ed.), The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy, Oxford University Press, 1995 Korten, David, When Corporations Rule the World, Berrett-Koehler Pub. & Kumarian Pr., San Francisco and Hartford, Connecticut, 1996 Lechner, Frank and Bolt, John (eds), The Globalization Reader, Blackwell, Oxford, 2000 Mander, Jerry & Goldsmith, Edward (eds) The Case Against the Global Economy: And For a Turn Toward the Local, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1996 Martin, Hans Peter & Schuman, Harald, The Global Trap, Globalization and the Assault on Democracy and Prosperity, Pluto Press, Australia, 1997 Moody, Kim, Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy, Verso, London, 1997 Hirst, Paul and Thompson, Graham, Globalization in Question, 2nd ed., Polity Press, Cambridge, 1999 Ohmae, Kenichi, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy, Collins, London, 1990 Ohmae, Kenichi, The End of the Nation State, Free Press, New York, 1996 Probert, Belinda, ‘Globalisation, Economic Restructuring and the State’, in Bell, Stephen and Head, Brian (eds), State, Economy and Public Policy in Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994, pp. 98-116. Reich, R. The Work of Nations, Vintage, New York, 1992 Sassen, Saskia, Globalization and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money, New Press, New York, 1998 Soros, George, The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, Little Brown, London, 1998 Strange, Susan, Casino Capitalism, Manchester University Press, 1997 (1986) Strange, Susan, Mad Money, Manchester University Press,1998
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Strange, Susan, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. Weiss, Linda, The Myth of the Powerless State, Cambridge, Polity, 1998 Wiseman, John, Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation, Cambridge University Press, 1998.Ch’s1 –3. Globalisation and diplomacy Feigenbaum, Harvey, B., ‘Globalization and Cultural Diplomacy’, Center for Arts and Culture, available online at: www/culturalpolicy.org/pdf/globalization.pdf Neumann, Iver B., ‘Globalization and Diplomacy’, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Working Paper No. 724, 2007; available online at: //english.nupi.no/publikasjoner/notater/2007/globalisation_and_diplomacy Talbot, Strobe, ‘Globalization and Diplomacy: A Practitioner’s Perspective’, Foreign Policy, 108, Fall, 1997, pp. 68-83 United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Engagement: Public Diplomacy in a Globalised World, 2008; available online at: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/publications/publications/pd-publication/ What is ‘terrorism’? Is it a new phenomenon? Who is involved? What are the main objectives of terrorism and people described as ‘terrorists’? What is distinctive about the ways in which terrorists organise and act? What is the relationship between their objectives and methods? Discussion questions Is it accurate to refer to a ‘war against terror(ism)’? Who and what is involved? How is the conflict it being pursued by the various participants? What do terror(ism) and contemporary conflicts involving terrorists have to do with globalisation? Basic Reading Kiras, James D., ‘Terrorism and globalization’, in Baylis, John, Smith, Steve and Owens, Patricia (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to international relations, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, pp. 357-371 Background Reading Bowden, Brett, and Davis, Michael T. (eds), Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2008 Coogan, Tim Pat, The IRA (Rev & Expanded Ed.), Fontana, London, 1980 Cullen, Anne, ‘Regional Terrorism: The Bali Bombing, Australian and Indonesian Responses’, in Cullen, Anne and Murray, Stuart (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: Case Studies from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific, revised edition, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2008, pp. 81-83 Hermann, Philip, Terrorism and America, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 2000. Howard, Russell D. and Reid L. Sawyer, eds, Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment. Readings & Interpretations, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, Guilford (Conn.), 2004 Klare, Michael, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 2001. Klare, Michael, American Arms Supplement, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1985 Rapoport, David, “Fear and Trembling; Terrorism in Three Religious Traditions,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 78 no.3, 1984. Sprinzak, Ehud, ‘The Lone Gunman: The Global War on Terrorism Faces a new Brand of Enemy’, Foreign Policy, Nov-Dec. 2001. Williams, Wayne C. & Piotrowski, Harry, The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations, Lynne Reiner Publishers, London and Boston, 2005, Ch. 21. Theories of Terrorism Combs, Cindy, C., Terrorism in the Twenty First Century, (4 th. ed.), Pearson – Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2006, Pt.1 Dershowitz, Alan, Why Terrorism Works? Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002 Fanon, Franz, The Wretched of the Earth, any ed. Goodwin, Jeff, No Other Way Out States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945 – 1991, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. Hocking, Jenni, ‘Orthodox Theories of Terrorism; The Power of Politicised Terminology’, Politics 19, (2) 1984.
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Hoffman, Bruce, Inside Terrorism, Columbia University Press, New York, 1998. Hoffman, John and Graham, Paul, Introduction to Political Theory, Pearson, Harlow, Essex, 2006, Ch.20. Laqueur, Walter, Terrorism, Weidenfield & Nicolson, London, 1977. Laqueur, Walter & Alexander, Yonah, The Terrorism Reader: An Historical Anthology, (Rev Ed.), NAL Penguin, New York, 1987. Littlejohn, Garry (et al) Power and The State, Croom Helm, London, 1978. Marighela, Carlos, Mini Manual of The Urban Guerrilla, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1971. Melucci, Alberto, ‘New Movements, Terrorism and the Political System: Reflections on the Italian Case’, Socialist Review, 11 (2) 1981 pp. 97 –136. Reich, Walter, Origins of Terrorism, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1998. Schmid, Alex P. & Crelinson, Ronald P. (eds), Western Responses to Terrorism, Frank Cass, London, 1993 Snarr, Michael T. & Snarr, Neil (eds) Introducing Global Issues, 2nd.ed., Lynne Reiner Pub., Boulder and London, 2002. Ch’s 2,3,4,5 & 14. Waltzer, Michael, ‘The Problem of Dirty Hands’ in Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1973 Whittaker, David J. (ed.), The Terrorism Reader, (2nd.ed.), Routledge, London and New York, 2003.Pt1. Wilkinson, Paul, Terrorism and the Liberal State, (2nd ed.), New York University Press, 1986. Wilkinson, Paul, Terrorism Versus Democracy, The Liberal State Response, Frank Cass, London, 2000. AlQaeda Gunaratna, Rohan, Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror, Hurst & Co., London, 2002. Williams, Paul, Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror, Alpha, USA, 2002 Dealing With Terrorism Bruton, B., ‘In the Quicksands of Somalia’, Foreign Affairs, 88 (6), November – December 2009, pp. 79-94 Carr, Caleb, The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed, and Why It Will Fail Again, Little, Brown, London, 2002 Greer, Stephen, Supergrasses; A Study in Anti Terrorist Law Enforcement in Northern Ireland, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995. Hardt, Michael & Negri, Antonio, Empire, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., 2000. Hocking, Jenni, Beyond Terrorism: The Development of the Australian Security State, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1993. Hocking, Jenni, The State and Terror in the New Era, Arena Magazine, 56, 20001-2002, pp. 18-213 Kitson, Frank, Low Intensity Operations, Faber, London, 1971 Pillar, Paul, Terrorism and US Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution, Washington, 2001 Prados, John (ed.), America Confronts Terrorism: Understanding the Danger and How to Think About It, Ivan Dee, Chicago, 2002 Simpson, Jeffrey, The Terrorist Trap: America’s Experience with Terrorism, (2nd ed.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2001 Wardlaw, Grant, Political Terrorism, Theory, Tactic and Counter Measures, Cambridge University Press, 1982 Zinn, Howard, Terrorism and War, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2002
