1 POSC 206: Core Seminar in International Politics Monday: 4:00 6:30 Room: Lalumiere 296 H.R. Friman Office: WW 454 Fall 2007 Hours MWF 2 4 or by appt (8 5991) H.R.Friman@Marquette.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION: This core seminar provides an overview of the field of International Politics. Students will explore and be able to demonstrate a working understanding of: substantive issues in the field; major theoretical questions, perspectives and debates; and issues of methodology and interpretation of empirical findings. COURSE REQUIREMENTS: The workload for this course is extensive. Regular attendance and participation are expected. Students will complete the assigned readings before class and come prepared to discuss the readings. Preparation includes not only being able to identify and explain the main points of a given article but to have thought about the author s arguments, the relationships between the week s readings, and the relationships with earlier readings in the course. Additional requirements are as follows: 1. Critical reviews (30%). Students will prepare 6 7 page critical reviews, each focusing on a specific week's required reading. The weeks and numbers of papers will be assigned by the instructor the first day of class. Papers must be submitted by email to the instructor (as an attached file in Word format) by the Sunday before class. Reviews must be written in paragraph form and for each article: briefly discuss each author's puzzle/paradox, main argument, and briefly discuss two major strengths and two major weaknesses. Strengths and weaknesses should explore the following: the nature and importance of the puzzle/paradox; logical consistency of the author s assumptions/hypotheses/argument; appropriateness of illustration/test of argument, findings and the author s interpretations of findings and the broader ramifications of the article for the field. 2. Papers (60%). Each student will write two 10 12 page papers, one due at mid semester and one at the end of the semester. Topics will be handed out two weeks in advance. The papers will require no outside research and will require students to draw linkages across the different weeks of the course. Papers can be submitted in hard copy or as email attachments (Word format). No late papers will be accepted. 3. Class Participation (10%). In addition to contributions to class discussions, students will also be assigned to present the arguments of selected authors each week.
2 READINGS: There are no books required for purchase for the course. Instead of book purchases you will be spending time/funds on printing and photocopying. All required course readings are available through the MU library. Those students with no undergraduate background in international relations coursework are strongly encouraged to purchase an undergraduate IR text (such as that used for POSC 060) for basic background reading Books are at the reserve desk on two hour reserve (look under POSC 206). As a courtesy to your fellow students please check out the book and photocopy the relevant sections and return the book as soon as possible. Articles are available electronically. To find journal articles go to the MU web page, click on libraries, click on Raynor Memorial Libraries which will take you to the MARQCAT page. Search by title in the journal database. Once you find the journal in the MU catalogue there will be different listings/links for how to connect electronically by date range of the specific issue you are looking for. Some of these links will take you to EBSCO or MUSE which will have the journals accessible by year, volume and issue number. Others will take you to JSTOR which will take you to the journal but will require you to search the entire journal database for the specific article. The best way to do this is to type in the article title in the JSTOR the exact phrase search box. This will lead you to the article listing. Click on this and you should arrive at the article. Once you have arrived at the specific article you have a choice to make. You can read the article on line or print the article (for JSTOR look at the top of the page for information on how to print the article; for MUSE and EBSCO sometimes you can just hit your normal print button). In some cases it may be possible to download the article in PDF format to your computer. COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS: Week 1: August 27: Introduction and Overview E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis (London: Macmillan, 1939, 1946, 1954), 1 21. On Reserve Quincy Wright, The Study of International Relations (New York: Appleton Centu ry Crofts, 1955), Chapters 1 5 (pp. 3 43). On Reserve. J. David Singer, The Leve l of Analysis Problem in International Relations, World Politics, 14, 1 (1961): 77 92. Peter Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, Stephen D. Krasner, International Organization and the Study of World Politics, International Organization, 52, 4 (Autumn 1998): 645 87. Robert Jervis, Rea lism in the Study of World Politics, International Organization, 52, 4 (Autumn 1998): 971 92. September 3: Labor Day, no class Week 2 September 10: Realism, the Interstate System and War Hans Morgenthau, Politics among Nations (New York: Alfred Knopf, any edition), Chapter 1 (pp. 3 15). On Reserve Kenneth Waltz, Poli tical Structures, and Anar chic Orders and Balances of Power, i n Neorealism and its Critics, Robert O. Keohane, ed., (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), Chapter 4 (pp. 70 97), Chapter 5 (98 130). On Reserve. Michael Haas, In ternational Subsystems: Stability and Polarity, American Political Science Review, 64 (March 1970): 98 123. A.F.K. Organski and Jacek Kugler, The War Ledger (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), Chapter 1 (pp. 13 63). On Reserve
3 Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), Chapter 5 (pp. 186 210) On Reserve Stephen Walt, T esting Theories of Alliance Formation: The Case of Southwest Asia, International Organization 42, 2 (Spring 1988): 275 316. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Contribution of Expected Utility Theory to the Study of International Conflict, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 18, 4 (1988): 629 52. Week 3: September 17: Security Dilemmas, Deterrence and Rationality Thomas Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), Chapter 1 (pp. 1 34). On Reserve. Robert Jervis, Cooperation under the Security Dilemma, World Politics, 30, 2 (1978): 167 214. Paul Huth and Bruce Russett, T esting Deterrence Theory: Rigor Makes a Difference, World Politics, 42, 4 (July 1990): 466 501. Steven Van Evera, Of fense, Defense and the Causes of War, International Security, 22, 4 (1998): 5 43. Charles Glaser, Th e Security Dilemma Revisited, World Politics, 50, 1 (October 1997): 171 201. James Fearon, Rat ionalist Explanations for War, International Organization, 49, 3 (Summer 1995): 379 414. Week 4: September 24: Realism and the End of the Cold War William Wohlforth, Rea lism and the End of the Cold War, International Security 19, 3 (Winter 1994/95): 91 129 Stephen G. Brooks, Dueling Realisms, International Organization 51, 3 (Summer 1997), 445 77. John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: WW Norton, 2001), Chapters 1 2 (1 54). On Reserve. Kenneth Waltz, Struc tural Realism after the Cold War, International Security, 25, 1 (Summer 2000): 5 41. Robert Pape, Sof t Balancing Against the United States, International Security, 30, 1 (Summer 2005): 7 45. Robert Trager and Dessislava Zagorcheva, De terring Terrorism: It Can Be Done, International Security, 30, 3 (2005/2006): 87 123. Week 5: October 1: Regimes, Institutions and (Constructed) Order Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), Chapters 1 2 (pages 1 52). On Reserve Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, Power and Interdependence (GlenView: Scott, Foresman, 1977/1989), Chapters 1 2 (3 37). On Reserve Stephen Krasner (ed.), International Regimes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983), Introduction and Conclusion [check chaps]. On Reserve. Also available in International Organization 36, 2 (Spring 1982): 185 205, 497 510 Barry Buzan, From International System to International Society: Structural Realism and Regime Theory Meet the English School, International Organization 47, 3 (Summer 1993): 327 52. Alexander Wendt, Ana rchy is what States Make of It: The Social Construction of State Politics, International Organization 46, 2 (Spring 1992): 391 425. Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, In ternational Norm Dynamics and Political Change, International Organization, 54, 4 (Autumn 1998): 887 917.
4 Week 6: October 8: Liberalism and Democratic Peace Michael Doyle, Libe ralism and World Politics, The American Political Science Review, 80, 4 (December 1986): 1151 69. John Owen, How Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace, International Security, 19, 2 (Fall 1994): 50 86. Sebastian Rosato, The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory, American Political Science Review, 97, 4 (November 2003): 585 602. John Mearsheimer, Th e False Promise of International Institutions, International Security, 19, 3 (Winter 1994 95): 5 49. Andrew Moravcsik, Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics, International Organization, 51, 4 (Autumn 1997): 512 53. Edward Mansfield and Jack L. Snyder, Democ ratic Transitions, Institutional Strength and War, International Organization, 56, 2 (Spring 2002): 297 337. Week 7: October 15: Transnational Relations, Economics and the State Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, eds., Transnational Relations and World Politics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971), Introduction and Conclusion (pp. ix xxix, 371 98). On Reserve. Also available as a special issue of International Organization, 25, 3 (Summer 1971): 329 49, 721 48. Edward Morse, Transnational Economic Processes, in Transnational Relations and World Politics, Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, eds., (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971, pp. 23 47. On Reserve Robert Gilpin, The Pol itics of Transnational Relations, i n Transnational Relations and World Politics, Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, eds., (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971, pp. 48 69. On Reserve Thomas Risse Kappen, Bring ing Transnational Relations Back In, in Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Non State Actors, domestic Structures and International Institutions, Thomas Risse Kappen, ed., (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), Chapter 1 (pp. 3 36). On Reserve Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Chapters 4 5 (pp. 44 87). On Reserve John Ruggie, Recons tituting the Global Public Domain Is sues, Actors, and Practices, European Journal of International Relations 10, 4 (2004): 499 531. Week 8: October 22: Hegemony, Regimes and Institutions: the Paradox of Cooperation Stephen Krasner, St ate Power and the Structure of International Trade, World Politics, 28, 3 (April 1978): 317 43. John Ruggie, In ternational Regimes, Transactions and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order, in International Regimes, Stephen Krasner, ed., (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), pp. 195 231. On Reserve. Also available in International Organization 36, 2 (Spring, 1982): 379 415 Robert Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy, Chapters 3, 8 and 9 (31 46, 135 216). On Reserve Susan Strange, The Persistent Myth of Lost Hegemony, International Organization 41 (Autumn 1997): 551 74. Joseph Grieco, Underst anding the Problem of International Cooperation: The Limits of Neoliberal Institutionalism and the Future of Realist Theory, in Neorealism and
5 Neoliberalism, David Baldwin, ed., (New York: Columbia University Press), pp. 301 38. On Reserve. Midterm paper Due Friday October 26 [must be submitted by 5:00 p.m.] Week 9: October 29: Domestic Dynamics and Foreign Economic Policy Peter Gourevitch, International Trade, Domestic Coalitions, and Liberty: Comparative Responses to the Crisis of 1873 1896, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 8, 2 (Autumn, 1977): 281 313. Peter Katzenstein, Conclu sion: Domestic Structures and Strategies of Foreign Economic Policy, International Organization 31 (Autumn 1977): 879 920. James Kurth, The Po litical Consequences of the Product Cycle: Industrial Policy and Political Outcomes, International Organization, 33, (Winter 1979): 1 34. Robert Putnam, Diplo macy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two Level Games, International Organization, 42 (1988): 427 60. Helen Milner, Interests, Institutions, and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1997), Chapters 1 2 (3 66). On Reserve. William Bernhard and David LeBlang, Democr atic Institutions and Exchange Rate Commitments, International Organization 53, 1 (Winter 1999): 71 97. Week 10: November 5: No Class Week 11: November 12: Power, Politics and Development W.W. Rostow, The St ages of Economic Growth, The Economic History Review 12, 1 (1959): 1 16. Fernando Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America (Berkeley: University of California Press), Preface to the English Edition, Chapters 1 2, Post Script (vii xxv, 1 28, 177 216). On Reserve Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), Chapter 1 (pp. 1 36). On Reserve James A. Caporaso, Dependence, Dependency, and Power in the Global System: A Structural and Behavioral Analysis, International Organization, 32, 1 (Winter, 1978): 13 43. Stephan Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990), Chapters 1 2 (pp. 9 48). On Reserve Stephen Krasner, Structural Conflict: The Third World Against Global Liberalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), Chapters 1 and 10 (pp. 3 31, 267 314). On Reserve
6 Week 12: November 19: Regions and Integration Ernst Hass, The Challenge of Regionalism, International Organization, 12, 4 (Autumn 1958): 440 58. Edward Mansfield and Helen Milner, The New Wave of Regionalism, International Organization 53, 3 (Summer 1999): 589 627. Edward Mansfield and Eric Reinhardt, Mul tilateral Determinants of Regionalism, International Organization 57, 4 (Fall 2003): 829 62. Peter Katzenstein, A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), Chapters 1 2 (pp. 1 75). On Reserve Kenneth Chase, Econom ic Interests and Regional Trading Arrangements: The Case of NAFTA, International Organization 57, 1 (Winter 2003): 137 74. Arrigo Pallotti, SAD C: A Development Community without a Development Policy? Review of African Political Economy 31, 101 (2004): 513 On Reserve. Week 13: November 26: Where is Justice? Charles Beitz, International Liberalism and Distributive Justice: A Survey of Recent Thought, World Politics, 51 (1998/99): 269 96 Ngaire Woods, Orde r, Globalization, and Inequality in World Politics, i n Inequality, Globalization and World Politics, A. Hurrell and N. Woods, eds., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, DATE), pp. 8 35. On Reserve. Andrew Hurrell, Orde r and Justice in International Relations: What is at Stake? in Order and Justice in International Relations, Rosemary Foot, John Lewis Gaddis, and Andrew Hurrell, eds., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 24 48. On Reserve. Terry Nardin, Ju stice and Cooperation, i n International Society and its Critics, Alex J. Bellamy, ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 247 64. On Reserve Thomas Pogge, A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the Global Economic Order, in The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Gillian Brock and Harry Brighouse, eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 92 109. On Reserve Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work (New York: WW Norton, 2006), Chapters 1 3. On Reserve Week 14: December 3: Things Illicit Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Chapter 8 (pp. 110 21). On Reserve. H. Richard Friman and Peter Andreas, In troduction: International Relations and the Illicit Global Economy, i n The Illicit Global Economy and State Power, H. Richard Friman and Peter Andreas, eds., (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), pp. 1 23. On Reserve. Moises Naim, Illicit (New York: Doubleday, 2005), Chapters 1 2,13 (pp. 1 37, 261 282). On Reserve. Itty Abraham and Willem van Schendel, Introduction: The Making of Illicitness, Illicit Flows and Criminal Things, Willem van Schendel and Itty Abraham, eds., (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), 1 37. Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann, Policing the Globe (Oxford: Oxford University Press), Introduction, Chapters 1, 6 (pp. 3 58, 223 53). On Reserve. Final Paper: Due Wednesday, December 12 [must be submitted by 5:00 p.m.]