POL 631 International Relations Seminar

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1 Course Outline Spring Semester 2016 POL 631 International Relations Seminar Compulsory Course for the International Relations Concentration Track Course Convener: Dr. Sophie Richter-Devroe Credit Value: 3 Pre-requisites: SOSH 601; POL 611, POL 612 Co-requisites: SOSH 602; POL 632 Course Duration: 14 weeks; Semester 2 Total Student Study Time: 126 hours, including 42 contact hours of lectures and seminars. AIMS This course introduces students to the main theories, themes and debates in International Relations. In its first part the course familiarises students with the main theoretical schools of IR. In its second part it covers specific themes that dominate debates in International Relations. These theoretical schools and themes will be illustrated at the examples of specific case studies. INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOME 1) Subject-specific skills: - Understand and evaluate core concepts, debates and theories in international relations - Critically discuss and apply these theoretical concepts and debates to concrete case studies - Distinguish between theoretical and empirical; as well as between descriptive, analytical and normative lines of intellectual enquiry 2) Core academic skills: - Critically engage, assess and evaluate this specific body of knowledge - Access and make effective use of bibliographical and electronic sources of information - Be able to engage in comparative and critical analytical work - Convey information and ideas succinctly and effectively verbally (in seminars) and in writing 3) Personal and key skills: - Study independently and in teams - Communicate effectively in speech and writing - Research and critically evaluate information 4) Contribution to Program objectives: This is a core IR course, and is essential to ground students in the concepts, main themes and theoretical approaches of IR. The combination of skills and knowledge acquired in this course, in particular critical thinking, independent research, and mastery of the methodologies, theories and key concepts in IR, will contribute to a deeper understanding of Political Science

2 theories and methodologies. This will significantly contribute to the Institute s overall objective of producing competent academics and original researchers. LEARNING/TEACHING METHODS The course is based on weekly lectures (one hour) and seminars (two hours). Each week is assigned one topic. One-hour lectures: These one-hour lectures will be led by staff or guest speakers, and serve to introduce students with each week s theme. Students will be familiarised with different schools of thought in IR theory and theoretical concepts, and will be guided to apply these to analyse different political contexts and dynamics. Lecturers will rely on multimedia tools such as Power Point, short recordings and videos, notes, lecture handouts etc. which will be made available to students after the lecture on the online learning system. Two-hour seminars: Seminars will focus on assigned readings and serve to develop key discussions on the arguments presented in and significance of selected texts. The readings will be provided to the students before the start of the semester, uploaded to the online learning system. All students must read assigned key texts before the seminar and be prepared to discuss them. In the seminars students will give assessed presentations on the assigned texts and other sources of their choice related to the week s theme. They will also submit three assessed reaction papers on three weekly topics of their choice presenting their critical analysis of the assigned readings. Presentations and reaction papers will allow students to demonstrate their knowledge and ability to critically engage with different texts, theoretical schools and concepts, applying these to concrete case studies. Additionally to the assessed seminar presentation, seminars will also rely on group work, simulation exercises and discussions. ASSIGNMENTS (ASSESSED) 1) Final closed-book exam (3 hrs): 40% A three-hour closed-book exam will be conducted during the examination period assigned by DI administration. 2) Four reaction papers (each 500 words): 20% Students will be required to write four reaction papers to the readings assigned for four weekly topics, summarizing, discussing and critically analyzing the assigned texts. Reaction papers need to be ed to the instructor 2 days before the seminar takes place. Feedback and comments on the reaction paper will be given within one week after submitting the paper. 3) One essay (3000 words): 40% Students have to submit one essay of 3000 words. The topic of the paper should be approved by the instructor upfront. You will be given a question to anchor your essay around. 2

3 The amount of words should not exceed 5 % over or under the assigned word count. Penalties for short and excessive papers will be applied. Students MUST write their word count at the end of their papers. Date and time of submission: 25 May 2016 Feedback and comments on the essay will be given within two weeks after submitting the essay. ASSIGNMENTS (NON-ASSESSED) - Seminar presentation, class discussions, debates, simulation exercises. ASSESSMENT Grades are divided as follows: - Final closed-book exam (3 hrs) : 40% - One essay (3000 words): 40% - Four reaction papers (each 500 words) 20% SYLLABUS PLAN Week 1: Theory and Practice in IR Jill Steans and Lloyd Pettiford (2010) Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edition, (Pearson, Harlow), Introduction. Stephen M. Walt (1998) International Relations: One World, Many Theories Foreign Policy, No. 110, Special Edition: Frontiers of Knowledge, pp Steve Smith (2003) International Relations and international relations: The Links Between Theory and Practice in World Politics. Journal of International Relations & Development, Vol. 6 Issue 3. Martin Wight (1987), An Anatomy of International Thought, Review of International Studies 13(3): M. Nicholson (2000), What's the use of International Relations?, Review of International Studies 26, no. 2, pp John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owen, (2010) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press), Introduction. 3

4 Brian C. Schmidt (2002) Anarchy, World Politics and the Birth of a Discipline, International Relations 16(1): Barry Buzan and Richard Little (2002), Why International Relations Has Failed as an Intellectual Project and What to Do About It, Millennium 30(1): Robert Jackson and Georg Sørensen, International Relations: Theories and Approaches, Third Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), Chapter 1. Required Reading: Week 2: Liberalism Jill Steans and Lloyd Pettiford (2010) Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edition, (Pearson, Harlow), Chapter on Liberalism. Michael Doyle (1996) Kant, Liberal Legacies and Foreign Affairs in M Brown (ed) Debating the Democratic Peace. MIT Press. Bruce Buchan (2002) Explaining War and Peace: Kant and Liberal IR Theory, Alternatives 27(4): John Macmillan (2006) Immanuel Kant and the Democratic Peace in Steve Smith & Thomas Biersteker (eds) Classical Theory in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Recommended Reading: Edwin van de Haar (2009) Classical Liberalism and International Relations, Policy 25(1): John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owen, The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), Liberalism Doyle, Michael W. (1986) Liberalism and world politics, American Political Science Review, 80(4): Edwin van de Haar (2010) The Liberal Divide over Trade, Peace and War, International Relations 24(2): G. John Ikenberry (2009) Liberal Internationalism 3.0, Perspectives on Politics 7(1): G. John Ikenberry, Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). Robert O. Keohane (2012) Twenty Years of Institutional Liberalism, International Relations 26(2): Michael Doyle, Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism and Socialism (New York: Norton, 1997) 4

5 Week 3: Realism Required Reading: Jill Steans and Lloyd Pettiford (2010) Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edition, (Pearson, Harlow), Chapter on Realism. Morgenthau, H. (1948) Politics among nations: the struggle for power and Peace (New York: Knopf), Six Principles of Political Realism pp J. Ann Tickner (2000), Hans Morgenthau s Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation, in Andrew Linklater, ed., International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science (New York: Routledge), pp Kenneth Waltz (1979) Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power in Theory of International Politics. McGraw Hill. Jack Donnelly (2000), Realism and International Relations (Cambridge: CUP), Ch 1. John J Mearsheimer (2005) Hans Morgenthau and the Iraq War: Realism vs. neo-conservatism Open Democacy. Available from: Richard K Ashley (1986) The Poverty of Neo-Realism in Robert O Keohane (ed) Neorealism and its Critics. Columbia UP. John Mearsheimer (2010) Structural realism in Tim Dunne et al. (eds) International Relations Theory. OUP. Kenneth N Waltz (1979), Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw Hill), Chapters 5-9. Buzan, Barry (1996), The timeless wisdom of realism? in Steve Smith, Ken Booth and Marysia Zalewski (eds.) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge. University Press, pp Gellman, P. (1998) Hans J. Morgenthau and the Legacy of Political Realism, Review of International Studies, 14: Week 4: Structuralism, Marxism and Critical Theory Jill Steans and Lloyd Pettiford (2010) Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edition, (Pearson, Harlow), Chapters on Structuralism and Critical Theory Mark Rupert (2010) Marxism and Critical Theory in Tim Dunne et al. (eds) International Relations Theory. OUP. Robert Cox (1981) Social Forces, States and World Order, Millennium 10(2) 5

6 Stuart Hall (1996), The Problem of Ideology: Marxism Without Guarantees, in Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, ed. Stuart Hall (London: Routledge). Alex Callinicos (2004) Marxism and the International, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 6(3): David Harvey (2004) The New Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession, Socialist Register 40: J. MacLean (1987), 'Marxism and International Relations: A Strange Case of Mutual Neglect, Millennium, 17(2): James F Petras and Veltmeyer, Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century (Halifax, N.S.; New York: Fernwood Pub. ; Zed Books : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2001). Ch1 A. Linklater, Marxism in Burchill and Linklater eds., International Relations Theory (London: Macmillan 2nd edn, 2001). Galtung, J. (1971), A Structural Theory of Imperialism, Journal of Peace Research, 13, 2 Week 5: Critical Theory Robert Cox (1983) Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations : An Essay in Method, Millennium - Journal of International Studies 12, no. 2 (June 1, 1983): Murielle Cozette (2008) Reclaiming the critical dimension of realism, Review of International Studies 34(1): Diez, T. and Steans, J. (2005), Habermas and International Relations: A Useful Dialogue? Review of International Studies, 31, 1, January, pp Nancy Fraser (1985 ) What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender New German Critique, No. 35, Special Issue on Jurgen Habermas, Roach, S.C. (2009), Critical Theories and International Politics, London: Routledge. Hoffman, M. (1988), Conversations on critical international relations theory, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp Hoffman, M. (1988), Conversations on critical international relations theory, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp

7 Rengger, N.J. (1988), Going critical? A response to Hoffman, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp Week 6: Post-Structuralism and Constructivism Jill Steans and Lloyd Pettiford (2010) Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edition, (Pearson, Harlow), Chapters on Social Constructivism and Postmodernism Alexander Wendt (1992), Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics, International Organization 46(2). Aaron Beers Sampson: (2002) Tropical Anarchy: Waltz, Wendt and the way we imagine international politics, Alternatives 27: Ashley, R. K. (1988), Untying the sovereign state: a double reading of the anarchy problematique, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp Hedley Bull (2002), The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. (Basingstoke: Palgrave), Chapters 1-4. Nancy Love (1989) Foucault & Habermas on Discourse and Democracy Polity, Vol. 22, No.2 John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owen (2010), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press), ch. 9 Social Constructivism. Ted Hopf (1998), The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory, International Security, 23(1), pp Christian Reus-Smith (2005) Constructivism in Scott Burchill et al (eds) Theories of International Relations. Houndmills: Palgrave. Der Derian, J. and Shapiro, M. (eds) (1989), International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings ofworld Politics, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books Edkins, J. (1998), Poststructuralism & International Relations: Bringing the Political Back in (Critical Perspectives on World Politics), US: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc. Farrell, Theo (2002) Constructivist Security Studies: Portrait of a Research Program, International Studies Review 4(1): Onuf, N. (1989), World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. Wendt, A. (1999), Social Theory of International Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres. 7

8 Adler, Emanuel (1997) Seizing the middle ground: constructivism in world politics, EJIR, 3(3): David Lake (1996) Anarchy, Hierarchy, and the Variety of International Relations, International Organization, 50(1): 1-33 Week 7: Feminist International Relations Jill Steans and Lloyd Pettiford (2010) Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edition, (Pearson, Harlow), Chapter on Feminism V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan, (2010), Gendered Lenses on World Politics, in Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium 3rd ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview). Sjoberg, Laura and J. Ann Tickner, eds. (2011). Feminist International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future. New York: Routledge, Introduction Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Relations (2nd edition), Berkley, CA: University of California Press, Chapter 1 Gender Makes the World Go Round Tickner, A. (2001) Gendering World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press). Iris-Marion Young (2003) The logic of masculinist protection, Signs 29 (1), C. Sylvester (2002) Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) V. Spike Peterson (1992), Transgressing Boundaries: Theories of Knowledge, Gender and International Relations, Millennium - Journal of International Studies 21. Carol Cohn and Ruth Jacobson (2013), Women and Political Activism in the Face of War and Militarization, in Carol Cohn, ed. Women & Wars (Polity Press) Afshar, H (2000), Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace, Development in Practice, Vol.13, No. 2 & 3. Pankhurst, D. (2003) "The 'Sex War' and Other Wars: Towards a Feminist Approach to Peace Building", Development in Practice, Vol. 13. Carol Cohn, Women and Wars: Toward a Conceptual Framework, in W&W pp

9 Week 8: Globalization Held, David and Anthony McGrew (2003) The Great Globalization Debate: An Introduction. In The Global Transformations Reader, Second edition, (Polity Press) P Hirst and G Thompson (1996), Globalization, Governance and the Nation State in Globalization in Question. The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance (Polity Press), pp BJ Silver and G Arrighi (2000), Workers North and South in L Panitch and C Leys (eds), Socialist Register Working Classes, Global Realities (Merlin Press, 2000), pp Kenneth N. Waltz (1999), Globalization and Governance, Political Science and Politics, Vol. 32, No. 4. V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan, (2010), Gender and Global Political Economy, in Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium 3rd ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview). Nancy Scheper-Hughes (2005) Organs Without Borders, Foreign Policy, 146 James H. Mittelman (ed.) (2005), Globalization: Critical Reflections (London: Lynne Rienner), esp. Ch 1-2. William I Robinson, (2001) Social Theory and globalization: The rise of a transnational state. Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique in Social Theory. Vol. 30, No. 2, pp Kenneth N. Waltz (2000), Globalization and American Power, National Interest, Vol. 59 Spring, 2000 John Goodman and Louis Pauly (1993), The Obsolescence of Capital Controls? World Politics, Vol. 46, pp D Held, A McGrew, D Goldblatt and J Perraton (1999) Global Transformations. Politics, Economics and Culture (Polity) D. Held and A. McGrew (2002) Globalisation/AntiGlobalisation (Polity) G.Kitching (2001), Seeking Social Justice through Globalization. Escaping a Nationalist Perspective (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001) L. Sklair (2002) Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives (Oxford: Oxford University Press) K. Ohmae, (1990) The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the interlinked Economy (New York: Free Press). F. Schurmann, (2002) Introduction to Part I and The Nation-State, Emancipatory Spaces and Development Studies in a Global Era in F. Schuurmann (ed) Globalization and Development Studies (London: Sage). 9

10 Third World Quarterly, special issue on Globalisation 22(4) Week 9: Empire Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri (2001) Preface and World Order in Empire, Harvard UP. Available from: Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey (2002) Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations, Millennium 31(1): Martin Coward (2005) The Globalization of Enclosure, Third World Quarterly 26(6): Ikenberry, J. (2004) Liberalism and empire: logics of order in the American unipolar age, Review of International Studies 30, pp See other articles in special issue. Doug Stokes (2005) The Heart of Empire? Theorizing US Empire in an Era of Transnational Capitalism', Third World Quarterly 26(2): William Wohlforth and Stephen G. Brooks (2005) International Relations Theory and the Case Against Unilateralism, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 3, No. 3, September Richard Warner Van Alstyne (1974), The Rising American Empire (New York: Norton, 1974). Ch 1 Simon Bromley (2004), American Power and the Future of International Order in William Brown, Simon Bromley, Suma Athreye (eds.) Ordering the International: History, Change and Transformation. David Harvey (2004) The New Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession, Socialist Register 40: Week 10: Development Aram Ziai (2009), Development : Projects, Power and a Poststructuralist Perspective, Alternatives, 34(2), pp B Sutcliffe (1999) The Place of Development in Theories of Imperialism and Globalization, in R Munck and D O Hearn (eds), Critical Development Theory, London: Zed Books. Mushtaq Khan (1997) State Failure in Weak States: A Critique of New Institutionalist Explanations in John Harriss et al eds., The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development, London: Routledge, pp

11 N. Kabeer (1994), Same Realities, Different Windows: Structuralist Perspectives on Women and Development in Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, (London: Verso). Arturo Escobar (1984) "Discourse and Power in Development: Michel Foucault and the Relevance of His Work to the Third World," Alternatives, Vol. 10, No. 4. Arturo Escobar (1995) Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, Princeton University Press. Jon Pierre (ed), Debating governance: authority, steering, and democracy (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000). C. Jackson (1998) Rescuing gender from the poverty trap in C. Jackson and R. Pearson (eds.) Feminist Visions of Development (Routledge, 1998). Mushtaq Khan (2006), Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries: The Limits of Conventional Economic Analysis, in International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, ed. Susan Rose-Ackerman (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), E.M. Rathberger, (1990) ' WID, WAD, GAD : Trends in Research and Practice' The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 24, pp T. Allen and A. Thomas (2000) Poverty and Development Into the 21st Century (Oxford: OUP) H. Bernstein, B. Crow and H. Johnson, eds. (1992) Rural Livelihoods (OUP 1992) C. Smith (2003), Understanding Third World Politics: Theories of Political Change and Development (2nd edition), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp A.M. Goetz (1991), Feminism and the claim to know: contradictions in feminist approaches to women and development in Grant,R. & Newland, K. (eds.) Gender and International Relations, (Milton Keynes: Open University). N. Visvanathan et.al. (1997), The Women, Gender and Development Reader, (London: Zed Books). Week 11: Humanitarianism Mark Duffield (2014) The New Humanitarianism, Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security, London: Zed Books, 2md edition. Philip Cunliffe (2010), 'Dangerous Duties: Power, Paternalism and the Responsibility to Protect' Review of International Studies 36: SI, Madeleine Rees (2002) International Intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Cost of Ignoring Gender, in The Postwar Moment, (eds.) Cynthia Cockburn and Dubravka Zarkov, (Zed Books: London) pp

12 Michael Barnett (2005) Humanitarianism Transformed Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Dec., 2005), pp Roberto Belloni (2007) The Trouble with Humanitarianism Review of International Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp Nicholas J. Wheeler (1992) Pluralist or Solidarist Conceptions of International Society: Bull and Vincent on Humanitarian Intervention, Millennium 21(3): Lesley Abdela (2004) Kosovo: Missed Opportunities, Lessons for the Future in Development, Women and War: Feminist Perspectives, (Oxfam: Oxford) pp Jennifer Hyndman: Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender in Sites of Violence, (eds.) Jennifer Hyndman and Wenona Giles, University of California Press: Berkeley (2004) pp Philip Cunliffe (2011), Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect: Interrogating Theory and Practice (London: Routledge) The Responsibility to Protect. (Chapters 1-6) David Chandler (2005), From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond - New Edition: Human Rights and International Intervention (London: Pluto Books) Nicholas J. Wheeler (2002) Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Alex Bellamy (2008), Responsibility to Protect: the Global Effort to End Mass Atrocities (London: Polity Press). Week 12: Securitization Sjoberg, Laura and J. Ann Tickner, eds. (2011). Feminist International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future. New York: Routledge, Chapter 5 Williams, Michael C. (2003) Words, images, enemies: Securitization and international politics, ISQ, 47(4): Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey (2006) The Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies Review of International Studies, Apr 01, 2006; Vol. 32, No. 2 Brad Evans (2010) Foucault's Legacy: Security, War and Violence in the 21st Century Security Dialogue, 41:

13 Sjoberg, Laura (2011) Looking Forward: Conceptualizing Feminist Security Studies, Politics and Gender Vol. 7, no. 4. V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan, (2010), Gender and Global Security, in Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium 3rd ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview). Valerie M. Hudson (2008/9), The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States, International Security 33, 3, pp J. Ann Tickner (2001) Gendered Dimensions of War, Peace, and Security in Gendering World Politics. Columbia University Press, pp Cynthia Enloe (2000). Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women s Lives. University of California Press. Campbell, D. (1992), Writing Security (Manchester: Manchester University Press) Sjoberg, Laura and Sandra Via, eds. (2010), Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives. New York: Praeger Security International. Sjoberg, Laura (2009) Gender and International Security, London: Routledge, Duffield, Mark (2014) Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security. London: Zed Books, 2 nd edition. Duffield, Mark (2007) Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples. Cambridge: Polity. Week 13: Green Politics Jill Steans and Lloyd Pettiford 2010 Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edition, (Pearson, Harlow), Chapter on Green Perspectives Robyn Eckersley (2007) Ecological Intervention: Prospects and Limits, Ethics and International Affairs 21(3): Daniel Deudney (1990) The Case Against Linking Environmental Degradation and National Security, Millennium 19: Nicole Detraz, The Genders of Environmental Security, in Sjoberg, ed. Gender and International Security, pp Peter Dauvergne (2008), The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp

14 Connelly, J. and G. Smith, Politics and the Environment: From Theory To Practice,(London: Routledge, 2003) Andrew Dobson, Green Political Thought (4th edition), London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 1-9 and Jacqui True (2012), Who Suffers Most? Gendered Violence in Natural Disasters and their Aftermath, in The Political Economy of Violence Against Women (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp Week 14: Revision 14