course outline

I.                    Cartography of International Relations: Four Worlds of IR (Sessions 1-20)

  • Introductory Sessions (1-4)

  • The Economic World (5-7)

  • The Political and Military World (8-11)

  •  The Cultural World (12-14)

  •  The Social World-Civil Society (15-16)

  • Summing up the four worlds (17)

  • Overview of the Intellectual History of the Field of IR (18)

  • IR Scholar as Surfer: Riding the Waves of IR Theory (19)

  • Marginalized Voices in IR (20)

II.                 Analytical Tools: Explaining and Understanding (Sessions 21-31)

  •  Two Stories of IR: Explaining and Understanding (21)

  • Rationalists and Reflectivists Approaches (22)

  • Case II: Pew 266-The Rocky Road to Debt Forgiveness (23)

  • Level I: The Individual as Independent Variable (24-25)

  • MIDTERM EXAM (26)

  • Level II:  Domestic sources as independent Variables (27-29)

  • Level III: System Approaches (30)

  • Level IV: Global and Transnational Factors (31)

III.           Images of the World or Worldviews-and a review of three critical issue areas: The Pursuit of Security, The Pursuit of Wealth & The Pursuit of Human Rights and Social Justice (Sessions 32-43)

  • The Importance of Worldviews (32)

  • Case Study: The Dutch in Srebrenica (33)

  • System Maintainer (34-35)

  • System Reformer (36-37)

  • System Transformer (38)

  • A Review of three views on national, human, and global security (39)

  • Contending Worldviews and the search for ecological balance (40)

  • Should we intervene in other countries to protect human rights? (41)

  • Three views of the future of international relations. (42)

  • Ten Rules for the Road for Global Survivors (43)

Key Dates

  • Review sessions: Friday, Dec. 10th; Saturday, December 11th

  • FINAL EXAMINATION: MONDAY, DECEMBER 13 @ 8AM

 

Niccolo Machiavelli

You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second. Therefore it is necessary for a prince to understand how to avail himself of the beast and the man.

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