IN500.01-02: Introduction to International Studies Spring 2014 Professor Jennifer Erickson Lecture: (1) 9-10:15am TTH Phone: 617-552-2965 Room: Gasson 306 Email: jennifer.erickson.2@bc.edu Lecture: (2) 1:30-2:45pm TTH Office: McGuinn 339 Room: Cushing 335 Office hours: T 10:30-11:30 Tuesday section: McGuinn 437 TH 3:00-4:00 All Wednesday sections: O Neill 255 Erickson Spring 2014 Course Introduction and Objectives This course lays the theoretical groundwork for describing and explaining the ways in which international influences shape the world's economies, polities, and societies, and their consequences for global conflict and cooperation. Students will learn to distinguish among different theoretical explanations for understanding international politics, think critically about their strengths and weaknesses, and apply them to a range of historical and contemporary issues. Teaching Assistants Maria McCollester (mccollma@bc.edu); Thomas Goodman (Goodmath@bc.edu) Lectures and Sections Attendance in lectures and sections is mandatory. Lectures will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sections will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. Lectures will complement but not explicitly review the readings. Sections are therefore a vital supplement to the lectures, in which students will evaluate the readings and theories in greater depth. Students must therefore come prepared to discuss the relevant readings in their weekly section. Course Reading This is a reading intensive course. At times, the reading may be intellectually demanding. Although lectures will not summarize the readings, they will explore concepts and facts discussed in the readings. Students are expected to come to class fully prepared with the reading completed by the first day for which the reading is listed on the syllabus. Sections are designed to help students understand the readings more explicitly. In both lecture and section, students must be prepared to engage in discussions drawing from the reading, which are primarily book excerpts and articles. All readings will be available through Blackboard. It is your responsibility to make sure you acquire all of the readings necessary for the class. Course Requirements and Grading This course consists of five graded components: midterm (25%); paper (25%); final (35%); and section attendance and participation (10%), and reading summaries (5%). Late papers will be graded down by one grade for every day late (e.g., from an A- to a B+). Make-up exams will not be offered without a written request from the Dean. Attendance and Participation As an essential element of the learning process, students are expected to attend and participate in all classes. This means that you should arrive punctually, reading in hand and prepared in advance, be attentive to lectures, and participate actively in discussions. Obviously, regular participation requires regular attendance. If you miss more than two class sessions (except when excused in reasonable cases of documented medical or family emergencies), your participation grade will be negatively affected.
Respect and Discussion Rules The study of international politics addresses complex and often contentious issues. Students should feel free to share their comments and questions in class and respect the right of their colleagues to do the same. In order to foster an atmosphere of thought, learning, and discussion, it is important that students express themselves in an appropriate manner, listen, and learn from the debates at hand. Disability Services If you are a student with a documented disability seeking reasonable accommodations in this course, please contact Kathy Duggan (617-552-8093 or dugganka@bc.edu) at the Connors Family Learning Center regarding learning disabilities and ADHD, or Paulette Durrett (617-552-3470 or paulette.durrett@bc.edu) in the Disability Services Office regarding all other types of disabilities, including temporary disabilities. Advance notice and appropriate documentation are required for accommodations. Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Academic integrity is an essential component of the university community. It is necessary to acknowledge the work and ideas of those that have gone before you with proper and consistent citations. Plagiarism is a serious offence, and no forms of borrowing without acknowledgement are acceptable. If it is suspected that you have misrepresented another s work as your own, it will be investigated and punished accordingly. It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with the academic code. In general, plagiarism consists of knowingly using the ideas or work of others as if they were your own. This can involve but is in no way limited to using a paper purchased on the internet or written by another student, or failing to cite ideas or information obtained from published sources, including online sources. Please familiarize yourself with the Boston College Code of Academic Integrity and see me if you have questions: http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/integrity.html If you have any questions about citations, please consult with Professor Erickson. For citation formatting guides, see: http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/libraries/help/citation/formatting.html Course Requirements Assignment Date Percentage Purpose Midterm Exam March 13 25% Assess knowledge of course materials and analytical skills Short Paper April 10 25% Final Exam May 10/May 12 35% Section --- 10% Apply critical thinking and analytical skills Assess knowledge of course materials and analytical skills Develop reading comprehension, critical thinking, analytical skills Reading Summary Set in section 5% Develop reading comprehension 2
STUDY AID: CATEGORIZE READINGS BY PARADIGM TOPIC REALISM LIBERALISM CONSTRUCTIVISM World War I Cold War Origins Cuban Missile Crisis Cold War End Nuclear Weapons Iraq War Trade and Investment Economic Globalization International Institutions International Law and NGOs International Interventions Environment Terrorism Power in US Foreign Policy
STUDY AID: CATEGORIZE READINGS BY PARADIGM AND LEVEL OF ANALYSIS LEVEL OF ANALYSIS REALISM LIBERALISM CONSTRUCTIVISM INDIVIDUAL DOMESTIC INTERNATIONAL 4
Course Schedule Week 1: January 14-16 Tuesday: Introduction Thursday: Concepts in International Relations Singer, J. David. 1960. International Conflict: Three Levels of Analysis. World Politics 12 (3). (9p) Walt, Stephen M. 1998. International Relations: One World, Many Theories. Foreign Policy (Spring). (15p) Week 2: January 21-23 Tuesday: Realism Thursday: Realism Morgenthau, Hans J. 1964. A Realist Theory of International Politics. Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, 3 rd Ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. (13p) Waltz, Kenneth N. 1979. Political Structures. Theory of International Politics. Addison-Wesley: Reading, MA. (23p) Gilpin, Robert. 1988. The Theory of Hegemonic War. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18 (4). (24p) Mearsheimer, John J. 2001. Anarchy and the Struggle for Power. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. (26p) Week 3: January 28-30 Tuesday: Liberalism Doyle, Michael W. 1983. Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs. Philosophy and Public Affairs 12 (3). (32p) Rosecrance, Richard. 1986. The Worlds of International Relations: The Military-Political World, the Trading World. The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World. Basic Books: New York. (22p) Keohane, Robert O. 1998. International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work? Foreign Policy (Spring). (13p) Thursday: Domestic Liberalism Moravcsik, Andrew. 2008. The New Liberalism. In The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal. New York: Oxford University Press. (18p) Week 4: February 4-6 Tuesday: Constructivism Thursday: Constructivism Wendt, Alexander. 1992. Anarchy is What States Make of It. International Organization 46 (2). (35p) Katzenstein, Peter J. 1996. Introduction: Alternative Perspectives on National Security. In The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein. New York: Columbia University Press. (30p) Checkel, Jeffrey T. 1999. Norms, Institutions, and National Identity in Contemporary Europe. International Studies Quarterly 43 (1). (26p) Hurd, Ian. 2008. Constructivism. In The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal. New York: Oxford University Press. (16p) 5
Week 5: February 11-13 Tuesday: Explaining World War I Thursday: Explaining World War I Keylor, William R. 2006. Germany s Bid for European Dominance (1914-1918). The Twentieth Century World and Beyond: An International History since 1900. 5 th Ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (26p) Gordon, Michael R. 1974. Domestic Conflict and the Origins of the First World War: The British and the German Cases. Journal of Modern History 46 (2). (36p) Sagan, Scott D. 1986. 1914 Revisited: Allies, Offense, and Instability. International Security 11 (2). (25p) Week 6: February 18-20 Tuesday: Explaining the Origins of the Cold War Calvocoressi, Peter. 2001. The Superpowers. World Politics: 1945-2000. 8 th Ed. New York, NY: Longman. READ: 3-33. (26p) X (Kennan, George F.). 1947. The Sources of Soviet Conduct. Foreign Affairs (July). (17p) Kennan, George F. 1994. The Failure in Our Success. The New York Times (March 14). (3p) Jervis, Robert. 2001. Was the Cold War a Security Dilemma? Journal of Cold War Studies 3 (1). (25p) Thursday: Cuban Missile Crisis Allison, Graham T. 1969. Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis. American Political Science Review 69 (3). (30p) Weldes, Jutta. 1996. Constructing National Interests. European Journal of International Relations 2 (3). (29p) Week 7: February 25-27 Tuesday: Explaining the End of the Cold War Keylor, William R. 2006. Moscow, Washington, and the End of the Soviet Empire. The Twentieth Century World and Beyond: An International History since 1900. 5 th Ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (16p) Wohlforth, William C. 1994/95. Realism and the End of the Cold War. International Security 19 (3). (39p) Koslowski, Rey and Friedich V. Kratochwil. 1994. Understanding Change in International Politics: The Soviet Empire s Demise and the International System. International Organization 48 (2). (33p) Thursday: Nuclear Weapons Sagan, Scott D. and Kenneth N. Waltz. 2010. Is Nuclear Zero the Best Option? The National Interest (September-October). (9p) Tannenwald, Nina. 2007. Introduction: The Tradition of Nuclear Non-Use. The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons since 1945. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. (28p) Week 8: NO CLASS SPRING BREAK Study Weeks 1-7 IN-CLASS MIDTERM EXAM Thursday, March 13 6
Week 9: March 11-13 Tuesday: Explaining the Iraq War Mazarr, Michael J. 2007. The Iraq War and Agenda Setting. Foreign Policy Analysis 3. (21p) Shannon, Vaughn P. and Jonathan W. Keller. 2007. Leadership Style and International Norm Violation: The Case of the Iraq War. Foreign Policy Analysis 3 (1). (21p) Thursday: IN-CLASS MIDTERM (Covers weeks 1-7) Week 10: March 18-20 Tuesday: Trade and Investment Thursday: Trade and Investment Gilpin, Robert. 1971. The Politics of Transnational Economic Relations. International Organization 25 (3). (22p) Hymer, Stephen. 1972. The Multinational Corporation and the Law of Uneven Development. In Economics and World Order from the 1970s to the 1990s, edited by Jagdish N. Bhagwati. New York: Macmillan. (10p) Kindleberger, Charles P. 1973. An Explanation of the 1929 Depression. The World in Depression, 1929-1939. London: Allen Lane the Penguin Press. (18p) Blyth, Mark. 2003. The Political Power of Financial Ideas: Transparency, Risk, and Distribution in Global Finance. In Monetary Orders: Ambiguous Economics, Ubiquitous Politics, edited by Jonathan Kirshner. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (21p) Week 11: March 25-27 Tuesday: Economic Globalization Keohane, Robert O. and Joseph S. Nye. 2000. Globalization: What s New? What s Not? (And So What?). Foreign Policy (Spring). (15p) Waltz, Kenneth N. 2000. Globalization and American Power. National Interest (Spring). (11p) Frankel, Jeffrey. 2000. Globalization of the Economy. In Governance in a Globalizing World, edited by Joseph S. Nye Jr. and John D. Donahue. Cambridge, MA: Visions of Governance for the 21 st Century. (22p) Barber, Benjamin R. 1992. Jihad vs. McWorld. The Atlantic Monthly (March). (8p) Thursday: Financial Crisis In-Class Film: BBC: The Love of Money Back from the Brink (Part 3 of 3) Kindleberger, Charles P. 1996. Anatomy of a Typical Crisis. Manias, Panics, and Crashes. Third Ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. (9p) Eichengreen, Barry. 2009. The Last Temptation of Risk. The National Interest (May/June): 8-14. (7p) The World Economy: The Gated Globe. 2013. The Economist (October 12). (4p) http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21587384-forward-march-globalisation-haspaused-financial-crisis-giving-way/print Week 12: April 1-3 Tuesday: Globalization and Illicit Economies Andreas, Peter. 2002. Transnational Crime and Economic Globalization. In Transnational Organized Crime and International Security: Business as Usual?, edited by Mats Berdal and Mónica Serrano. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. (14p) Thursday: International Institutions and Global Governance Ikenberry, G. John and Thomas Wright. 2008. Rising Powers and Global Institutions. New York: Century Foundation. (28p) 7
Mearsheimer, John J. 1994/95. The False Promise of International Institutions. International Security 19 (3). (45p) Johnston, Alastair Iain. 2001. Treating International Institutions as Social Environments. 45. (26p) Week 13: April 8-10 Tuesday: International Law, NGOs, and Global Governance Simmons, Beth A. 1998. Compliance with International Agreements. Annual Review of Political Science 1. (17p) Keck, Margaret E. and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Introduction. Activists beyond Borders. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (38p) Commins, Stephen. 1999. NGOs: Ladles in the Global Soup Kitchen. Development in Practice 9 (5): 619-22. (4p) Tuesday: Environment Hardin, Garrett. 1968. The Tragedy of the Commons. Science (December). (6p) Busby, Joshua. 2010. Climate Change: The Hardest Problem in the World. Moral Movements and Foreign Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press. (46p) Homer-Dixon, Thomas F., Jeffrey H. Boutwell, and George W. Rathjens. 1993. Environmental Change and Violent Conflict. Scientific American (February). (8p) PAPER DUE Thursday, April 10 Week 14: April 15-17 Tuesday: International Interventions Betts, Richard K. 1996. The Delusion of Impartial Intervention. In Managing Global Chaos: Sources and Responses to International Conflict, edited by Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson with Pamela Aall. (9p) Walker, Thomas C. 2008. Two Faces of Liberalism: Kant, Paine, and the Question of Intervention. International Studies Quarterly 52. (18p) Finnemore, Martha. 1996. Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention. In The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein. New York: Columbia University Press. (32p) Thursday: NO CLASS EASTER BREAK Week 15: April 22-24 Tuesday: Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Evans, Gareth and Mohamed Sahnoun. 2002. The Responsibility to Protect. Foreign Affairs 81 (6): 99-110. (12p) Bellamy, Alex J. 2011. Libya and the Responsibility to Protect: The Exception and the Norm. Ethics & International Affairs 25 (3):263-69. (7p) Carpenter, Charli. 2013. Responsibility to Protect Or to Punish: Morality and the Intervention in Syria. Foreign Affairs Spotlight (Aug. 29). (3p) Gottlieb, Stuart. 2013. Syria and the Demise of the Responsibility to Protect. The National Interest (Nov. 5). (3p) http://nationalinterest.org/print/commentary/syria-the-demise-the-responsibility-protect-9360 8
Thursday: Terrorism and the War on Terror Crenshaw, Martha. 1981. The Causes of Terrorism. Comparative Politics 13 (4): 379-99. (19p) Rose, William, Rysia Murphy, and Max Abrahms. 2007. Does Terrorism Ever Work? The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings. International Security 32 (1). (8p) Mueller, John. 2005. Six Rather Unusual Propositions about Terrorism. Terrorism and Political Violence 17 (4): 487-505. (16p) Fukuyama, Francis. 2002. History and September 11. In Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order, edited by Ken Booth and Tim Dunne. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (9p) Mamdani, Mahmood. 2002. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism. American Anthropologist 104 (3). (9p) Week 16: April 29-May 1 Tuesday: Explanations Katzenstein, Peter and Rudra Sil. 2008. Eclectic Theorizing in the Study and Practice of International Relations. In The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal. New York: Oxford University Press. READ pp109-111; 116-26 (14p) Thursday: Power in US Foreign Policy Wohlforth, William C. 2002. US Strategy in a Unipolar World. In America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power, edited by G. John Ikenberry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (21p) Johnson, Chalmers. 2000. Blowback. The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. New York: Metropolitan Books. (30p) Zakaria, Fareed. 2008. The Future of American Power. How America Can Survive the Rise of the Rest. Foreign Affairs (May/June). (26p) Time to Cheer Up. 2013. The Economist (Nov. 23). (4p) http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21590100-after-dreadful-decade-abroadamericans-are-unduly-pessimistic-about-their-place FINAL EXAM Please make sure that you show up to the exam time dedicated to your course time. Class meeting TTH 9am: Final on MONDAY, May 12, 12:30pm Class meeting TTH 1:30pm: Final on SATURDAY, May 10, 12:30pm 9