Syllabus/achievement requirements

HIS 4421 – WAR, PEACE, AND THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Literature:

Literature marked (*) will be available as PDF files. The rest of the publications can be bought or borrowed.

Books:

Joseph S. Nye, Understanding International Conflicts. An Introduction to Theory and History (Seventh edition, 2009) 288pp.

Akira Iriye, Global Community. The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (2004) 209pp.

Joseph S. Nye, The Future of Power (2011) 234pp.

Articles:

* John J. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International Institutions” (1995) 54 pp.

* Robert O. Keohane and Lisa L. Martin, “The Promise of Institutionalist Theory” (1995) 12pp.

* Charles A. Kupchan and Clifford A. Kupchan, “The Promise of Collective Security” (1995) 9pp.

* Roger P. Alford, “The Nobel Effect: Nobel Peace Prize Laureates as International Norm Entrepreneurs (2008) 91pp.

* Ronald R. Krebs, “The False Promise of the Nobel Peace Prize” (2009-10) 32 pp.

* Geir Lundestad, “The Nobel Peace Prize” (2001) 24pp.

The students also have to study the biographies of at least ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates from different historical periods on the basis of Irwin Abrams, The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates. An Illustrated Biographical History 1901-2001 (2001), Øivind Stenersen, Ivar Libæk and Asle Sveen, The Nobel Peace Prize. One Hundred Years for Peace (2001, yearly enclosures for later laureates) and the Nobel websites (www.nobelprize.org – click peace or www.nobelpeaceprize.org). Stipulated to a total of 100 pp.

Total 1053 pp.