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Course Plan and Syllabus 2011

Course Code: ISSSV1855Course Name: International PoliticsCourse Leader: Hilde E. Restad

Date Time10:15

Topic/ Readings/ Lecturer Optional Readings

Week 1

June 27[No readings] Introduction by Hilde E. Restad(HER)

June 28The Basics: Concepts and Context HER

Textbook Introduction& chap. 2

June 29Theories of IR: Realism and Neo-Realism Morten Skumsrud Andersen

Textbook chaps. 5 & 7

June 30Theories of IR: Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism Morten Skumsrud Andersen

Textbook chaps. 6 & 7

July 01  Alliances and Cooperation in International Politics Kristin M. Haugevik

Müller (2002)

Week 2

July 04Theories of IR: Constructivism HER

Textbook chap. 9;Barnett (1996)

July 05International law, the United Nations, and humanrights HER

GWP chapters 16, 18,29.

July 06Normative Theory: Nationalism vs. Cosmopolitanism Erlend Grøner Krogstad 

Pogge (2002); Walzer(1983)

July 07 Group work

July 08  Presentations Group work

Week 3

July 11 Humanitarian Interventions, Libya case study GWP chap 30; TBA  

July 12European integration: liberal and realists approaches Håkon Lunde Saxi 

Cooper (1996); Kagan(2002)

July 13State weakness and (in)security  Erlend Grøner Krogstad  

Clapham (2002);Milliken & Krause(2002)

July 14 -- No Classes: Long Weekend --

July 15 -- No Classes: Long Weekend --

Week 4

July 18 MIDTERM EXAMINATION

July 19In-Depth Topic: U.S. Foreign Policy:Historical background HER

McDougall chap 1 & 2(1997)

July 20 U.S. Foreign Policy: Modern traditionsRestad (2010), Leffler(2005)

July 21Domestic sources of U.S. Foreign Policy: The IsraelLobby case study 

Mearsheimer & Walt(2006)

July 22 War, Security and Geopolitics: The case of the Nordicstates. Håkon Lunde Saxi  

Moritzen (2006); Saxi

(2010)

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Week 5 

July 25 Excursion: Nobel Institute Date flexible

July 26Globalization, Culture and Politics I Fabián Mosenson

GWP chap. 24; Barber(2002)

July 27Globalization, Culture and Politics II Fabián Mosenson 

Lieberz & Weizberg(2002)

July 28Terrorism Anders Romarheim

Hoffman (2006)

July 29Counter-Terrorism Anders Romarheim

Silk (2005)

Week 6

 August 01 The Future of the International System GWP chaps. 31 & 32

 August 02 Summary of the course

 August 03  Reading day

 August 04 FINAL EXAM

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Reading List

 Available at the bookstore “Akademika”, Blindern campus:

Main text book: John Baylis. Steve Smith & Patricia Owens (eds.) (2008), TheGlobalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations.Oxford: Oxford University Press. Shortened to GWP in the syllabus.

 Available online/ electronic compendium:

Barnett, Michael (1996) “Identity and Alliances in the Middle East”, in Katzenstein,Peter ed. The Culture of National Security. New York: Columbia.

Barber, Benjamin (2002): “Democracy and Terror in the Era of Jihad vs. McWorld” inBooth, Ken and Timothy Dunne (eds.) (2002): Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order. Palgrave: Basingstoke

Clapham, Christopher ‘The Challenge to the State in a Globalized World’,  Development and Change 33:5 (2002), 775-95

Cooper, Robert (1996) The post-modern state and the world order. Lonodno: Demos, s.10-32

Hoffman, Bruce (2006) Inside Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Kagan, Robert “Power and Weakness,” Policy Review No. 113 (2002). Stable URL:http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/7107

Leffler, Melvyn P. ”9/11 and American Foreign Policy” Diplomatic History Vol. 29, No.3, (June 2005): 395–413.

Lieberz, Robert J. and Ruth E.Weisberg, “Globalization, Culture, and Identities inCrisis” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 16, No. 2(2002): 273-296.

McDougall, Walter (1997) “Liberty, or Exceptionalism (so called)” and “Unilateralism,

or Isolationism (so called)” in Promised Land, Crusader State. New York:Houghton Mifflin Company.

Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen Walt, “The Israel Lobby”, London Review of Books Vol. 28 No. 6 · 23 March 2006: 3-12. Online:http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/john-mearsheimer/the-israel-lobby   

Milliken, Jennifer and Keith Krause, ‘State Failure, State Collapse and StateReconstruction’, Development and Change 33:5 (2002), 753-774

Moritzen, Hans "The Nordic-Baltic Area: Divisive Geopolitics at Work." Cambridge Review of International  Affairs, Vo. 19. No. 3, September 2006.

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Müller, Harald (2002) "Security cooperation", in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse andBeth A. Simmons, (eds.) Handbok of International Relations. London: Sage.

Pogge, Thomas (2002) "Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty" Excerpt from World  Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reform 

Cambridge: Polity Press.Restad, Hilde Eliassen (2010) “Conclusion: The End of American Exceptionalism?” in

 Identity and Foreign Policy: The Case of American Exceptionalism and Unilateralism. Diss. Charlottesville, VA.

Saxi, Håkon Lunde "Defending small states: Norwegian and Danish defence policies inthe post-Cold War era." Defense & Security Analysis 26, no. 4 (December 2010).

Silk, Andrew (2005) “Fire of Iolaus: The role of state countermeasures in causingterrorism and what needs to be done”, in Bjørgo, ed. The Root Causes of Terrorism. London: Taylor & Francis Group.

 Walzer, Michael (1983) "Membership" [Ch. 2] in Michael Walzer, Excerpt from Spheresof Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality. New York: Basic Books.

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