Week of:

Weekly Readings

Tuesday

Thursday

August 19

notes
powerpoint

EIR – Ch 1

RIR – Ch 1

Introduction and review of syllabus

What is International Relations, and why do we study it? Also, also begin history lectures.

August 26

notes
powerpoint

EIR – Ch 2

RIR – Ch 2

History of IR: Part 1 – 1400 to colonialism

History of IR: Part 2 – colonialism and its consequences

September 2

notes
powerpoint

EIR – Ch 3 – 5

History of IR: Part 3: From World Wars to Cold War to War on Terror – the making of our international world

A Rogues Gallery of IR: who do we study and what roles to they play?

Map Quiz #1

September 9

notes
powerpoint

EIR – Ch 6, 7

RIR – Ch 6 – 7

IP – Ch 1,3,4,6

IR Theory: Why we have theory and how we use it. Start Realist theory

Research Proposal Due

IR Theory: Liberalism/Idealism

September 16

notes
powerpoint

RIR – Ch 3 – 5

IR Theory: Marxism and the great machine of history

IR Theory: Social Constructivism

September 23

notes
powerpoint

IP – Ch 5

AN – 1 - 3

IR Theory: Critical Theory – race, gender, language, and the layers of the onion

Thinking theory thoroughly – using theory in the study of IR and in policy-making

September 30

notes
powerpoint

EIR – Ch 8

RIR – Ch 8

The scientific study of international conflict: Violence in IR

  Exam 1 Due

Understanding war and political violence: What is war?

 Map Quiz #2

October 7

notes
powerpoint

IP – Ch 12 - 20

What we know about violence short of war

Fall Break – no class

October 14

notes
powerpoint

IP – 33 – 36

Civil war and state collapse

War without end? – the non-state violent actor hydra

October 21

notes
powerpoint

IP – 8, 37 – 40

AN – Ch 35 – 40, 43

Regulating war: The rules of war from Athens to Guantanamo Bay

Global governance of international violence

October 28

notes
powerpoint

EIR – Ch 9

RIR – Ch 9

International Humanitarian Intervention

Literature Review Due

International Political Economy 101: Why everyone in the US should understand economics

Map Quiz #3

November 4

notes
powerpoint

AN – 4 – 13  

Trade: all international politics is local

Commodities and markets: Food shocks, oil shocks, and why you should get used to them, or maybe not…

Exam 2 Due

November 11

notes
powerpoint

AN – 14 – 20

IP 41 - 44

The colonial legacy in the global economy

Global governance of IPE and its critics

November 18

notes
powerpoint

EIR – Ch 10

RIR – Ch 10

AN – 1,21 – 28

World Systems Theory and challenges to the Washington Consensus

Globalization and global governance: solving problems beyond the nation state

Research Paper Due

Map Quiz #4

November 25

notes
powerpoint

IP – 45 – 53

AN – 29,30 – 34,42,44 – 49

An inconvenient truth or Man-Bear-Pig? Global warming and why it doesn’t matter if its real

Thanksgiving – no class

December 2

notes
powerpoint

Conclusion, pt 1

Conclusion, pt 2

December 8

Final Exam: cumulative