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International Undergraduate Program (IUP) 2013 Department of International Relations Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Universitas Gadjah Mada Lecturer: Luqman-nul Hakim aim.hakim@gmail.com, 0817 469 332 (SMS) Violence in Global Politics The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world. Hannah Arendt, On Violence, 1970 p.80 Political violence of all types manifests itself at all level of social and political life. War is today the least important contemporary manifestation of political violence, which implicates non-state armed groups, inter-community conflicts, state violence, rebellion, genocide, military intervention, and acts of terror. In the context of global politics we are witnessing that although the traditional model of war, state-against-state, is now declining, many faces of violence are continuing. Statistically, such modes of violence have killed much more people during the last several decades. The practice of political violence constitute, what Vivianne Jabri (2007) called, a global matrix of war that incorporates not just a diversity of agents, but a complex array of interactions that draw upon the globality of the contemporary era in seeking to affect change both locally and globally. New faces of war have also transformed global politics: no distinction between the domestic and the international, zone of civic peace and zone of war, the sovereign state and anarchic outside, and therefore put the effectiveness of international law and regime into questions. This course aims at understanding contending perspectives on political violence and global politics and explore contemporary violence in different cases and context comparatively. This course will firstly examine variety perspectives on political violence in global politics and its manifestation on contemporary issues such as the new war, contemporary warlordism, communal conflict, genocidal violence, state violence and terrorism. The last part of the course will be devoted to presentations and discussions of student s papers, which should explore one of the themes of the course in a focused research case study. Methods and Organization of the Class Every student attending the course is assumed to have done the assigned reading and actively participate and contribute in the discussion. In order to achieve the desired goals, the class is organised around different activities which are equally important. 1. Lecture. The lecturer gives a general overview of the topics and concepts based on the assigned readings. It is not an activity within which the students are simply passively listen, but one where the students compare and clarify their understanding of the reading. 2. Review Essays. Based on the assigned readings, everyone is required to write short reviews (3-4 pages) of the reading materials and/or class presentations. The reviews will be discussed in the class. 3. Class Presentation. Every student is required to conduct a comparative or case study
research to be presented before the class. The topic distribution and the detailed requirements will be discussed in the class. Assignment and Grading 1. Attendance and participation (10%). A minimum attendance of 75% is required for the students to be qualified for final grade. Those who do not reach this minimum level of attendance will be disqualified for final grade. 2. Reviews (20%). The length of the review essay is between 700 to 000 words (or 3 4 pages: Times New Roman; 1,5 space). Essay must be submitted on the scheduled date. Late submission will not be accepted! 3. Mid-Term Exam (20%). This is a written examination to assess students understanding on the issues and perspectives discussed during the class. The schedule will be announced by the Faculty later. 4. Presentation (20%). Class participants are divided into several topic clusters to present and discuss their case study. Students must prepare a power point presentation as a preparation phase for the Final Paper. 5. Final Paper (30%). The final paper must be submitted on the date of the scheduled for the final exam. Late submission will not be accepted! Others Every student must submit the abstract of the proposed paper (150-200 words) on the date of the Mid-Term Exam (this follows the Faculty s schedule). Critical review essay must be submitted on the Week 11 (First Session of the Class Presentation). The essay is a literature review to support your proposed papers. It should consist of academic journal and books (min. 5 sources). Class Structure Week Topics Class Activities Reading Materials 1 Course Introduction Lecture What we study in this course? Class discussion Why studying this course? Class organization How to study? Sylabus 2 Theorising War: The Ontology of Lecture Zizek (2008), pp. 1-15 Violence Short Video Tilly (2003), pp.1-25 Class Walzer (2004), pp.ix-xv Butler (2003), 9-27 3 Changing Face of War: Violence and Lecture Hardt and Negri (2004) the Transformation of Global Class Chapt.1 and 2. Politics Jabri (2007) Chapt. 2, 3 and 4. Walzer (2004) 4 Civil Wars and Insurgencies Lecture Sambanis (2004), pp. 814- Class 858. Klavyas (2001), pp.99-118
Fearon and Laitin (2003), pp.75-90. 5 Identity and Communal Violence Lecture Sen (2006) pp.18-39, Varshney (2003), pp. 85-99. Short Video Wilson (2005), pp.69-91. Wilmer (2002), pp. 143-169 6 Mass Killing and Genocide Lecture Mamdani (2001), pp. 26-47. Campbell (2009), pp. 150- Short Video 172. Colaresi (2008), pp. 39-67 7 Warlordism Lecture Reno (2011), pp. 163-205 Wantchekon (2004), pp. Short Video 17-33. Marten (2007), pp. 41-73. Mid-Term Exam 8 Violence and Terrorism Lecture Asad (2007), pp. 6-38. Held (2008), pp. 13-51. Weiner (2007), pp. 137-150. 9 Violence and the State Lecture Dellaporta (1995), pp. 187-216. Wilmer (2002), pp113-141. Guistozzi (2004) Nasemullah (2011) 10 Violence and Democracy Lecture Hardt and Negri (2004), 231-258 Keane (2004), pp. 1-14. 11 Class Presentation: Case Study I Class Presentation 12 Class Presentation: Case Study II Class Presentation 13 Class Presentation: Case Study III Class Presentation 14 Closing: Reflection and Evaluation Lecture References Amartya Sen (2006), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, London: Penguin, pp. 18-39. Asad, Talal (2007), On Suicide Bombing, New York: Columbia University Press. Butler, Judith (2003), Violence, Mourning and Politics, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 4(1): 9-37.
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