WELCOME TO POLI 140: CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
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FINAL EXAM (DUE MAY 28TH)
First Writing Assignment (DUE MARCH 21st!)
Second Writing Assignment (DUE MAY 15th!)
Midterm Review Guide (In-Class April 11th)
COURSE LECTURES
Lecture #1: The History of Everything, but not Quite
Lecture #4: Economic Structuralism and Social Constructivism
Lecture #5: International Organizations and Transnational Actors
Lecture #6: Bureaucracies, Groups, and Individuals
Lecture #7: the National Interest and Decision Making
Lecture #8: International Political Economy and Globalization
Lecture #9: More on Globalization
Lecture #10: International Insecurity and the Causes of War
READINGS FOR THE SECOND WRITING ASSIGNMENT
A Fall to Cheer – The Economist, March 3, 2012
Senseless in Seattle – Thomas Friedman
What Washington Means by Policy Reform – John Williamson
Globalization and its Challenges – Stanley Fischer
The Debate Over Globalization – Dani Rodrik
Jihad vs. McWorld – Benjamin Barber
The Collapse of Globalism – John Ralston Saul
Globalization and its Discontents – Joseph Stiglitz
The Globalization Wars: An Economist Reports from the Front Lines – Barry Eichengreen
READINGS FOR THE FIRST WRITING ASSIGNMENT
Realism & Liberalism
Clash of the Titans – John J. Mearsheimer and Zbigniew Brzezinski
Realism
The Melian Dialogue – Thucydides
Machiavelli, Still Shocking After 5 Centuries – Stewart Patrick
Why John J. Mearsheimer is Right – Robert D. Kaplan
Six Principles of Political Realism – Hans J. Morgenthau
What Would a Realist World Have Looked Like? – Stephen M. Walt
Liberalism
Perpetual Peace – Immanuel Kant
Liberalism and World Politics – Michael W. Doyle
Realism and Complex Interdependence – Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye
Robert Keohane: Political Theorist – Andrew Moravcsik
Power and Interdependence in the Information Age – Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye
COURSE MEDIA
The Commanding Heights, Episode 1
The Commanding Heights, Episode 2
The Commanding Heights, Episode 3
Bonus Readings
The Clash of Civilizations – Samuel Huntington
R. Allen Bolar, Ph.D. 