Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books:

Nye Jr., Joseph S. and David A. Welch. Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation.  An Introduction to Theory and History. Boston: Pearson: 2013. 347 pp.

Black, Jeremy, A Century of Conflict. War, 1914-2014. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 212 pp.

Plus either:

Iriye, Akira. Global Community. The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 209 pp.

Or:

Lundestad, Geir. The Rise and Decline of the American “Empire”. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 193 pp.

Or:

Mazower, Mark. Governing the World. The History of an Idea. New York: Penguin Press, 2012. Particularly chapters 1-7: 213 pp.

Articles:

Literature marked (€) will be available as PDF files.

€ Hobsbawm, Eric. "War and Peace in the 20th Century." London Review of Books 24 no. 4 (2002): 16-18 - Available in the Fronter room, under "Teaching material"

€ Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?” (1993)

€ Jack S. Levy, “Too important to Leave to the Other. History and Political Science in the Study of International Relations” (1997) 12 pp

€ 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) 12 pp.

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

€ 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) 24 pp.

The students also have to study the biographies of at least ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates from different historical periods on the basis of:

• Abrams, Irwin. The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates. An Illustrated Biographical History 1901-2001. Nantucket, Mass: Science History Publications, 2001.
• Stenersen, Øivind, Libæk, Ivar and Sveen, Asle. The Nobel Peace Prize. One Hundred Years for Peace. Oslo: Cappelen, 2001. - available at the Nobel Peace Center
• and the Nobel websites: www.nobelprize.org – click peace or www.nobelpeaceprize.org . Stipulated to a total of 100 pp.