International and Global Affairs IGA-100

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1 Spring 2014 The Harvard Kennedy School International and Global Affairs IGA-100 Class Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:40pm 4:00pm (Littauer 280) Review Session: Friday, 11:40pm-1 pm (Littauer 230) The first day of class is Tuesday, January 28. Course Leader: Steven E. Miller Littauer 378 Office Hours: Monday, 1:00-3:00 Faculty Assistant: Tamara Tiska (Updated 04/17/2014) Objectives: This course is a wide-ranging introduction to some of the core principles of international affairs and foreign policy analysis. Introductory sessions will cover key concepts and theories of international relations and basic principles of policy analysis. Subsequent weeks will apply these ideas to a diverse set of contemporary policy problems, with individual IGA faculty covering topics drawn from their own research and policy interests. The course emphasizes skill development, through an array of written and oral exercises and team assignments. Course Organization and Requirements: The course will be conducted through a combination of lectures, in-class discussions, and written and/or oral assignments (some individual and some done in teams). Students are expected to complete all of the required reading prior to each class and to come to class prepared to participate fully in the discussion. Grades will be based on class participation (10%) written/oral assignments (40%) and a final take-home examination (50%). Course Materials: Readings for the course will be available on the course webpage. Textbooks: 1) Baylis, Smith & Owens, Globalization of World Politics. We will be reading several chapters of this book and have made it available for purchase at the Coop. Copies will also be available on reserve in the HKS library and the specific chapters will be on the course page. 2) Weston, Anthony, A Rulebook for Arguments, 4 th edition. This book is available for purchase at the Coop and on reserve in the library. Who should take this course? IGA-100 is a required first year course for all MPP1 students considering a concentration in IGA. Entry to the course is restricted to those students. The goal of the course is to provide a common, and unique, introduction for IGA concentrators to the core principles of international affairs and foreign policy 1

2 analysis and how those principles can be applied to the design of practical solutions to problems that arise in today s globally interconnected world. There are no exemptions from this course. Students who enter the MPP Program in the Fall semester of the 2012/13 academic year must enroll in IGA-100 during the Spring 2013 semester in order to become IGA concentrators. Second-year MPP candidates are not permitted to enroll in IGA-100 or to switch to the IGA concentration. It is not open to MPA, MPA/ID, or MC-MPA students. Class Schedule and Assignments PART I: ANALYZING INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS Tuesday, January 28: Introduction: Why Does it Matter? [Miller] War or Peace? and What Were They Thinking? Hopes, Fears, Ideas, and Unspoken Assumptions, in MacMillan, Margaret, The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, pp. xxi-xxxv & pp Thursday, January 30: What World? Understanding a Complex International System [Miller] Walt, Stephen M., The Relationship between Theory and Policy in International Relations, Annual Review of Political Science (2005), Weston, Anthony, A Rulebook for Arguments, 4 th edition. [Available for purchase at the Coop and in the library course reserves]. Note: students with little or no prior background in the field should also read Baylis, Smith & Owens, Globalization of World Politics, pp Tuesday, February 4: Theoretical Traditions: Realism, Liberalism, and Social Constructivism [Miller] Walt, Stephen M. International Relations: One World, Many Theories, Foreign Policy, No. 110 (Spring 1998). Mearsheimer, John J., The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (W.W. Norton, 2001), chap. 2. Dunne, Timothy. Liberalism, in Baylis, Smith and Owens, Globalization of World Politics, Barnett, Michael Social Constructivism, in Baylis, Smith and Owens, Globalization of World Politics, pp Thursday, February 6: Why is There Conflict in World Politics? [Miller] Levy, J.S. The Causes of War and Conditions of Peace, Annual Review of Political Science 1 (1998), pp Kahneman, D. and J. Renshon. Why Hawks Win, Foreign Policy 154 (Jan. 2007), Van Evera, Stephen, Why States Believe Foolish Ideas, (draft ms. MIT, 2002). Tuesday, February 11: Meeting the Challenge of Global Governance [Ruggie]. Ruggie, John. Reconstituting the Global Domain: Issues, Actors, and Practices, European Journal of International Relations 10, no. 4 (2004). 2

3 Abbott K. & Snidal, D. Values and Interests: International Legalization in the Fight Against Corruption, Journal of Legal Studies, 31 (S1, January 2002); Xue, H. Chinese Observations on International Law, Chinese Journal of International Law 6, no. 1 (2007). Falkner et al, International Climate Policy after Copenhagen: Towards a Building Blocks Approach, Global Policy, 1 (October 2010). Thursday, February 13: Why and When Do States Cooperate? [Miller] Stein, A. Why Nations Cooperate: Circumstance and Choice in International Relations (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1990, pp Oye, K. Explaining Cooperation under Anarchy: Hypotheses and Strategies, World Politics 38, no. 1 (October 1985). Tuesday, February 18: Policy Analysis in International Affairs [Miller] Bardach, E. A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis, pp Kugler, R. Policy Analysis in National Security Affairs: New Methods for a New Era (NDU Press, 2006), chaps 1 and 2. Hajer, M. Policy without Polity?: Policy Analysis and the Institutional Void, Policy Sciences ), pp A One-Page Memo on Writing Policy Memos (class handout) Thursday, February 20: Assessing Foreign Policies [Walt] Walt, Stephen M., Making the Grade: Is There a Way to Judge if a Foreign Policy is Successful?, Foreign Policy, January 6, Tuesday, February 25: The Future of Diplomacy [Burns] J.F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963 H. Kissinger, Diplomacy (Simon & Schuster, 1994), chap. 1. D. Ross, Cases of Statecraft, from Statecraft (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), chap. 3 R. Holbrooke, To End A War (Random House, 1998), pps. xv-xvii, 21-33, , , , , Thursday, February 27: International Ethics and Human Rights [Hehir] Brown, Chris. Human Rights in Baylis and Smith, eds., The Globalization of World Politics, pp Ignatieff, Michael. The Attack on Human Rights ; Foreign Affairs 80 (Dec. 2001) pp Donnelly, Jack. Human Rights, Humanitarian Crisis and Humanitarian Intervention, International Journal 48 (Autumn 1993) pp Tuesday, March 4: Realities of Making Foreign Policy [Samore] David E. Sanger. Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, Chapters 6, 7, 8, & 9, pp Robert D. Putnam, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games, International Organization, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Summer, 1988), pp Richard K. Betts, Paranoids, Pygmies, Pariahs & Nonproliferation, Foreign Policy, No. 26 (Spring, 1977), pp

4 PART II: ISSUE AREAS: Thursday, March 6: Managing a Living Planet [Clark] Clark, William C Environmental Globalization, in Nye, J.S. and Donahue, J.D., eds., Visions of Governance for the 21st Century; (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., pp Andonova, L.B., and Mitchell, R. The rescaling of global environmental politics, Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 35, no. 1 (2010), read pp ) Victor, D. et al The Geoengineering Option" Foreign Affairs. 88, no. 2 (2011), pp Tuesday, March 11: The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons [Bunn] International Panel on Fissile Materials, Appendix: Fissile Materials and Nuclear Weapons, in Global Fissile Materials Report 2011: Nuclear Weapon and Fissile Material Stockpiles and Production (Princeton, N.J.: IPFM, 2011), pp G. Bunn, The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime and Its History, in Bunn and C. Chyba, eds., U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: Confronting Today s Threats (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2006). Mohammed ElBaradei, Nuclear Energy: The Need for a New Framework, Matthew Bunn, "Options for Limiting the Security Risks from a Negotiated Settlement with Iran" Thursday, March 13: Policy Analysis in International Affairs, cont. [Miller] (These readings are the same readings for Feb. 19) Bardach, E. A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis, pp Kugler, R. Policy Analysis in National Security Affairs: New Methods for a New Era (NDU Press, 2006), chaps 1 and 2. Hajer, M. Policy without Polity?: Policy Analysis and the Institutional Void, Policy Sciences, ), pp A One-Page Memo on Writing Policy Memos Tuesday, March 25: Nuclear Power and Global Order (Miller) Steven E. Miller & Scott D. Sagan, Nuclear Power without Nuclear Proliferation? Daedalus, v. 138, no. 4 (Fall 2009), pp Steven E. Miller & Scott D. Sagan, Alternative Nuclear Futures, Daedalus, v. 139, no. 1 (Winter 2010), pp Sharon Squassoni, New Nuclear Suppliers, Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 2013, 5 pp. D. Birch, RJ Smith, & J. Adelstein, Plutonium Fever Blossoms in Japan, Center for Public Integrity, March 12, 2014, 10 pp. Nuclear Power in the United Arab Emirates, World Nuclear Association, January 2014, 5 pp. Nuclear Power in Vietnam, World Nuclear Association, February 2014, 5 pp. Togzhan Kassenova, Brazil s Nuclear Kaleidoscope: An Evolving Identity, Carnegie Endowment Brief, March 2014, 1 pp. Mark Hibbs, Indonesia s Fires and Fukushima s Warning, The Diplomat, July 4, 2013, 3 pp. 4

5 Thursday, March 27: Iran, Interests, and Empathy (Miller) Steven E. Miller & Matthew Bunn, Interpreting the Implacable Foe: American Perceptions of Iran, in Abbas Maleki and John Tirman, eds., US-Iran Misperceptions: A Dialogue, (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), pp Ali Vaez & Karim Sajadpour, Iran s Nuclear Odyssey: Costs and Risks, (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 2013), pp Amos Yadlin & Avner Golov, If Attacked, How Would Iran Respond? Strategic Assessment, v.16, no. 3 (October 2013), pp Ali Vaez, Iran s Nuclear Program and the Sanctions Siege, Arms Control Today, May 2013 IAEA, Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran, GOV/2014/10, February 20, 2014, 18 pp. Implementation of the Joint Plan of Action At a Glance, Arms Control Association, March 2014, 1 pp. Tuesday, April 1 and Thursday, April 3 (Miller) Miller, Steven E, Proliferation Gamesmanship: Iran and the Politics of Nuclear Confrontation, Syracuse Law Review, v. 57, pp (Belfer Center's extremely useful Iran website, including weekly review of news & reporting) (Extensive coverage of Iran can be found on the website of the Carnegie nuclear policy group particularly Perkovich, Hibbs, Chubin, Levite.) (Official site of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Reports on Iran and Iran's responses latter under "Member State Communications.") (Iranian perspectives; critics of Western policy) (The Arms Control Association's magazine offers regular coverage of the Iran nuclear issue.) (For Israeli views, the journal Strategic Assessment has frequent coverage of Iran.) Tuesday, April 8: Energy and World Politics (O Sullivan) International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2011, OECD, 2012, Executive Summary. Luft, Gal and Anne Korin (eds), Energy Security Challenges for the 21 st Century (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International), 2009, pp. 1-17, 44-65, Yergin, Daniel. America s New Energy Security. The Wall Street Journal, 12 December Thursday, April 10: Energy and World Politics (Rosecrance) Rosecrance, Richard, The Resurgence of the West (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), 2013, Chapters 5 & 7, pp , Rosecrance, Richard, Allies, Overbalance, and War: 1914 and Now. Nye, Joseph S., Jr, Inevitability and War. Tuesday, April 15: Intervention: Responsibility to Protect, Iraq and Crimea (Ignatieff) The Responsibility to Protect in Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, (Ottawa, 2001), pp.11-18, Blair, Tony, Speech to the House of Commons, March 18, 2003 Putin, Vladamir, Speech on Crimea March 18,