Introduction to International Relations

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1 Introduction to International Relations Department of Political Science University of Miami POL 203 Fall 2016 Prof. Costantino Pischedda Monday/Wednesday/Friday room TBD Office Hours: TBD Description: This course provides tools for understanding and formulating policy prescriptions on international cooperation, conflict, and war. The first half of the course introduces students to the leading schools of International Relations theory Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism. The second part surveys a broad set of central topics in contemporary international politics including economic globalization, international law and human rights, environmental issues, terrorism and political violence, the current dominance of the United States in world politics, the rise of China, and the future of international relations. Students are taught how to apply the concepts and theories presented in the first part so as to understand current events and formulate appropriate policy prescriptions. Pre-requisites: There is no pre-requisite for this class. Requirements: The requirements are: a in class mid-term examination (October 26), and a three-hour, closed-book final examination (in December, date to be determined). Students are expected to do all the readings before the lecture for which they are assigned class to facilitate discussion. For all the requirements, students are expected to demonstrate familiarity with the assigned literature, not just with their class notes. Both the midterm and the final examinations will consist of responses to identification and essay questions. All information covered during the term is fair game for the final examination. Thoughtful class participation is strongly encouraged. There is no formal grade assigned to it, but in cases of exceptionally high-quality participation a student s grade in between two grades could will be bumped up (e.g., a grade between B+ and A- would become an A-). Grading: The course grade will be calculated according to the following formula: Mid-Term Exam 35% Final Exam 65% Grades will be curved to a B average. 1

2 Assignments submitted late will be penalized. Readings: The course requires reading and pondering about 100 pages of political science literature per week. All book readings are on reserve, unless they are feely available online (in which case the syllabus reports a URL). All articles are available online through UM s library website ( If you have trouble locating a reading, first try to find it on the Internet. If that does not work, then contact Richter reserves. Failing that, please contact me ASAP. The following texts are recommended (bot not required) for purchase, as the bulk of the assigned readings are excerpts from them. Earlier and later editions would contain most, but not all, of the readings assigned from the editions indicated: Robert Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, 13 th edn. (New York: Person Longman, 2016). Karen Mingst and Jack Snyder, eds., Essential Readings in World Politics, 5 th edn. (New York: Norton, 2014). Richard Betts, ed., Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments of the Causes of War and Peace, 4 th edn. (New York: Person Longman, 2013). Students are encouraged to read the world news section of a major daily e.g. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, etc. or their online equivalents. Rules and procedures: Don t cheat. The standard caveats about academic honesty obtain. Collaboration is encouraged, but cheating will result in the matter being turned over immediately to the Dean s office. Follow the golden rule. Students are free to do anything that does not compromise the learning environment of others. Computers are distracting; I encourage you not to use them in class. But if you do use them, please sit in the back. Don t miss exams. Written permissions from doctors, deans, and coaches may excuse absences, as would prior consent of the instructor. Appeals. If you wish to appeal a grade, please come see me at least two days after you received the grade. We will exchange views and consider the other person s perspective. If we both remain unconvinced, please write a petition (2 pages maximum) outlining your reasoning, and resubmit your work. It will then be marked with fresh eyes and receive a final grade, which may go up, go down, or remain unaltered. 2

3 INTRODUCTION Lecture 1: Social Science Basics (I) (August 22) 31 pages of readings Thomas Kuhn, Progress through Revolutions in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), chap. 13 (14. Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (NY: Random House, 1979), pp (17 Lecture 2: Social Science Basics (II) (August 24) 31 pages of readings Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba, The Science in Social Science in Designing Social Inquiry (Princeton: Princeton University Press), chap. 1 (31. Lecture 3: Levels of Analysis (I) (August 26) 30 pages of readings Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State and War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959), pp. 1-15, (30 Lecture 4: Levels of Analysis (II) (August 29) 28 pages of readings Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976) (19 Jack Snyder, One World, Rival Theories Foreign Policy, Nov./Dec. 2004) also in Karen Mingst and Jack Snyder, eds., Essential Readings in World Politics (New York: Norton, 2014). (9 REALISM Lecture 5: Classical Realism (August 31) 32 pages of readings Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue, in Richard Betts, ed., Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace (Boston: Pearson, 2013). (5 Niccolo Machiavelli, Doing Evil in Order to Do Good, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War, pp (5 Thomas Hobbes, The State of Nature and the State of War, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War (4 Edward Hallett Carr, Realism and Idealism, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War (18. 3

4 Lecture 6: Classical Realism (continued) and Neo-realism (September 2) 31 pages of readings Hans Morgenthau, Six Principles of Political Realism, in Robert Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics (New York: Pearson, 2016). (9 Hans Morgenthau, The Balance of Power, Different Methods of the Balance of Power, and Evaluation of the Balance of Power, in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (7 John Mearsheimer, Anarchy and the Struggle for Power, in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (15 Lecture 7: Neo-realism (continued) (September 7) 29 pages of readings Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1979), pp and (29 Lecture 8: Rationality, Miscalculation, and Nukes I (September 9) 28 pages of readings Thomas Schelling, The Diplomacy of Violence, in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (8 Geoffrey Blainey, Power, Culprits, and Arms, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (14 Graham Allison, The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50, Foreign Affairs (July/August), (6 Lecture 9: Rationality, Miscalculation, and Nukes II (September 12) 28 pages of readings Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War, pp (11 Robert Jervis, Losing Control in Crises, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (4 Scott Sagan, Why Nuclear Spread is Dangerous, in Robert Art and Kenneth Waltz, The Use of Force (Oxford: Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999). (13 Lecture 10: Psychology, Perception, and the Security Dilemma I (September 14) 27 pages of readings Stephen M. Walt, "Alliances: Balancing and Bandwagoning, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (9. Robert Jervis, Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (18 4

5 Lecture 11: Psychology, Perception, and the Security Dilemma II (September 16) 29 pages of readings Robert Jervis, War and Misperception, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (17 Irving Janis, Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes, 2 nd edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982), pp (12 Lecture 12: Realism and Change: Power Cycles, Great Power Transitions, and Preventive War I (September 19) 33 pages of readings A.F.K Organski, Power Transition, in Colin Elman and Michael Jensen, Realism Reader (New York: Routledge, 2014). (5 Robert Gilpin, Hegemonic War and International Change, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War, pp (14 Karl Mueller et al. Striking First: Preemptive and Preventive Attack in U.S. National Security Policy (Santa Monica: RAND, 2006), pp (chapter 1) (available at (14 Lecture 13: Realism and Change: Power Cycles, Great Power Transitions, and Preventive War II (September 21) 31 pages of readings Dale Copeland, The Origins of Major War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), pp and (24. (full text available through library s website) Jonathan Dicicco and Jack Levy, The Power Transition Research Program, Elman and Jensen, Realism Reader. (7 LIBERALISM Lecture 14: Classical Liberalism and Interdependence I (September 21) 25 pages of readings Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (8 Normal Angell, The Great Illusion, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (3 Woodrow Wilson, Community of Power vs. Balance of Power, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (4 Joseph Schumpeter, Imperialism and Capitalism, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (9 Lecture 15: Classical Liberalism and Interdependence II (September 23) 32 pages of readings Geoffrey Blainey, Paradise is a Bazar, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (9 Dale Copeland, Economic Interdependence and War, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (8 5

6 Richard Rosecrance, Trade and Power, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (15 Lecture 16: Neo-Liberalism, Rational Cooperation, Institutions, and Regimes I (September 26) 39 pages of readings Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), pp. 1-22, 33-36, 46-52, (available at (39 Lecture 17: Neo-Liberalism, Rational Cooperation, Institutions, and Regimes II (September 28) 39 pages of readings Kenneth A. Oye, Explaining Cooperation Under Anarchy: Hypotheses and Strategies, in Kenneth A. Oye, ed., Cooperation Under Anarchy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), pp (24 Robert Keohane, From After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Economy, in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (15 Lecture 18: Neo-Liberalism, Rational Cooperation, Institutions, and Regimes III (September 30) 26 pages of readings Charles P. Kindleberger, The World in Depression: (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), Chapter 14, An Explanation of the 1929 Depression, pp (available at (18 Robert Keohane, International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work? in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (pages 8) Lecture 19: Neo-Liberalism, Rational Cooperation, Institutions, and Regimes IV (October 3) 32 pages of readings Page Fortna, From Does Peacekeeping Work? in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (9 Bruce Wilson, Compliance by WTO Members with Adverse WTO Dispute Settlement Rulings: The Record to Date, Journal of International Economic Law 10 (2), (7 Stephen D. Krasner, Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto Frontier, World Politics 43 (3), 1991, pp and only.(16 Lecture 20: Democracy, Democratization, and Peace I (October 5) 38 pages of readings 6

7 Michael Doyle, Liberalism and World Politics, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (16 Fareed Zakaria, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy, Foreign Affairs (November/December), (22 Lecture 21: Democracy, Democratization, and Peace (II) (October 7) 37 pages of readings John Oneal and Bruce Russett, The Classical Liberals Were Right: Democracy, Interdependence, and Conflict, , International Studies Quarterly 41(2), (23 Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, "Democratization And War," in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (14 Lecture 22: Democracy, Democratization, and Peace (II) (October 10) 34 pages of readings Thomas Carothers, The Backlash Against Democracy Promotion, Foreign Affairs (March/April), (9 Valentino, Benjamin A., Paul K. Huth, and Sarah E. Croco, "Bear Any Burden? How Democracies Minimize the Costs of War." The Journal of Politics 72 (2), (16 Alexander Downes, To the Shores of Tripoli? Regime Change and its Consequences, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (9 CONSTRUCTIVISM Lecture 23: Norms, Ideas, Identity, and International Society (I) (October 12) 25 pages of readings Hedley Bull, "Society and Anarchy in International Relations," in Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight, eds., Diplomatic Investigations (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966), pp (16 Alexander Wendt, "Anarchy Is What States Make of It," in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (9 Ann Tickner, A Critique of Morgenthau s Principles of Political Realism, Art and Jervis, International Politics. (13 Lecture 24 November 2 Norms, Ideas, Identity, and International Society (II) (October 14) 47 pages of readings Tanisha Fazal, State Death in the International System, International Organization 58:2, (34 John E. Mueller, The Obsolescence of Major War, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (13 7

8 Lecture 25 November 2 Norms, Ideas, Identity, and International Society (III) (October 17) 36 pages of readings Jeffrey Checkel, Why Comply? Social Learning and European Identity Change, International Organization 55 (3), (36 In-class Mid-term Exam (October 19) INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Lecture 26: Globalization, the World Economy, and International Economic Institutions (I) (October 24) 33 pages of readings Robert Gilpin, The Nature of Political Economy, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (17 Jeffrey Frankel, Globalization and the Economy, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (16 Lecture 27: Globalization, the World Economy, and International Economic Institutions (II) (October 26) 34 pages of readings Daniel Drezner, The Irony of Global Economic Governance: The System Worked, in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (17 Helen Milner, Globalization, Development, and International Institutions: Normative and Positive Perspectives, in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (17 Lecture 28: Globalization, the World Economy, and International Economic Institutions (III) (October 28) 30 pages of readings Dani Rodrik, A Sane Globalization, in Robert Art and Robert Jervis, International Politics. (10 Yotam Margalit, Lost in Globalization: International Economic Integration and the Sources of Popular Discontent, Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (20 8

9 SPECIAL TOPICS Lecture 29: International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention (I) (October 31) 35 pages of readings Stanley Hoffmann, The Uses and Limits of International Law, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (5 Rhoda Howard and Jack Donnelly, Human Rights in World Politics, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (14 Adam Roberts and Dominik Zaum, The U.N. Security Council, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (8 Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Transnational Activist Networks, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (8 Lecture 30 International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention (II) (November 2) 33 pages Steven Ratner, International Law: The Trials of Global Norms, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (6 Emilie Hafner-Burton and Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Justice Lost! in in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (16 Alan Kuperman, Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect, Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, 10 (1) (11 Lecture 31 International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention (III) (November 2) 34 pages of readings Chaim Kaufmann and Robert Pape, Explaining Costly international Moral Action: Britain s Sixty Year Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade, International Organization 53 (4), (34. Lecture 32: Transnational issues the Environment and Terrorism I (November 4) 29 pages of readings Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (6 Robert Keohane and David Victor, The Regime Complex for Climate Change, in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (19 How to understand the results of the climate change summit: Conference of Parties21 (COP21) Paris 2015, Journal of Public Health Policy, Jan (4 (available at 9

10 Lecture 33: Transnational issues the Environment and Terrorism II (November 7) 32 pages Indra de Soysa, Ecoviolence, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (12 Alan Dupont, The Strategic Implications of Climate Change, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (9 Bruce Hoffman, What is Terrorism? in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (11 Lecture 34: Transnational issues the Environment and Terrorism III (November 9) 36 pages Andrew Kydd and Barbara Walter, The Strategies of Terrorism, in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (21 Mark Juergensmeyer, Religious Radicalism and Political Violence, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (17 Lecture 35: Oil and International Politics (November 11) 23 pages of readings Michael Ross, Oil, Economic Growth, and Political Institutions, in Mingst and Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics. (23 Lecture 36: Oil and International Politics (November 14) (November 14) Jeff D. Colgan, Fueling the Fire Pathways from Oil to War, International Security 38 (2), (34 Lecture 37: State Formation and Internal Strife (1) November pages of readings Charles Tilly, "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime," in Peter B. Evans, et al., eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp (23 Miguel Centeno, Limited War and Limited States, in Diane E. Davis and Anthony W. Pereira, eds., Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp (14 Lecture 38: State Formation and Internal Strife (1I) November pages of readings Lars-Erik Cedermana, Andreas Wimmera and Brian Min, Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis, World Politics 62 (10), (33 Lecture 39: Unipolarity Short lived or Here to Stay? (I) (November 21) 22 pages 10

11 Christopher Layne, This Time It s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana, International Studies Quarterly 56 (1), (11 Jonathan Krishner, Dollar Diminution and U.S. Power, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (11. Lecture 40: Unipolarity Short lived or Here to Stay? (II) (November 23) 38 pages of readings Michael Beckley. China s Century? Why America s Edge Will Endure, International Security 36 (3), 2011/12. (38 Lecture 41: The Rise of China (I) (November 25) 35 pages of readings John Mearsheimer, Can China Rise Peacefully? The National Interest (available at (20 John Ikenberry, The Rise of China and the Future of the West, Foreign Affairs (January/February), (15 Lecture 42: The Rise of China (II) (November 28) 23 pages of readings Richard Betts and Thomas Christensen, China: Can the Next Superpower Rise Without War, in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (14 Barry Posen, Emerging Multipolarity: Why Should We Care?, in Art and Jervis, International Politics. (9. Lecture 43: The Future of International Politics I (November 30) 33 pages of readings Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History," in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (13 Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations," in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War. (20 Lecture 44: The Future of International Politics II (December 2) Paul MacDonald and Joseph Parent. "Graceful Decline? The Surprising Success of Great Power Retrenchment." International Security 35 (4), (38. Lecture 45: In-class review session (December 5) 15 pages of readings Robert Jervis, The Era of Leading Power Peace, in Robert Art and Robert Jervis, International Politics. (15 11