ISSSV4854 - Summer 2019

Syllabus

All articles not available online will be handed out in a printed compendia first day of classes.

Articles/book chapters:

Alterman, Jon B. (2018). “Aid and Conflict: Pitfalls in Yemen”. CSIS Report. https://www.csis.org/analysis/aid-and-conflict-pitfalls-yemen
Amstutz, Mark. (1999). ‘Morality and Foreign Policy’. in Mark Amstutz, ed., International Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (pp. 1-25).
Asseburg, Muriel, Wolfram Lacher, and Mareike Transfeld. “Mission Impossible? UN Mediation in Libya, Syria, and Yemen” (pp. 7-14 and 44-57). https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2018RP08_Ass_EtAl.pdf
Baev, Pavel (2018) “Russia’s Ambivalent Status-Quo/Revisionist Policies in the Arctic.” Arctic Review, [S.l.], v. 9, p. 408-424. https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v9.1336.
Bercovitch, Jacob, and Scott Sigmund Gartner. (2006). “Is There Method in the Madness of Mediation? Some Lessons for Mediators from Quantitative Studies of Mediation”. International Interactions, 32(4): 329-354. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050620601011024
Bilgili, Özge, Craig Loschmann, Sonja Fransen, and Melissa Siegel. (2019). “Is the Education of Local Children Influenced by Living Near a Refugee Camp? Evidence from Host Communities in Rwanda”. International Migration. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12541
Bjarnegård, E., K. Eck, H. Guthrey, J. Kreutz, E. Melander, I. Svensson, S. Tønnesson (2017). “The East Asian Peace: Will it Last?” in E. Bjarnegård and J. Kreutz, eds. Debating the East Asian Peace. Copenhagen: NIAS Press: 281–296.
Bjarnegård, Elin; Karen Brounéus & Erik Melander (2017) “Honor and political violence: Micro-level findings from a survey in Thailand”. Journal of Peace Research, 54(6): 748-761. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343317711241
BSR. (2018). “Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar”. https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/bsr-facebook-myanmar-hria_final.pdf
Ceyhan, A. (2008) “Technologization of Security: Management of Uncertainty and Risk in the Age of Biometrics”. Surveillance & Society 5(2): 102-123 https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/3430
Clausen, Maria-Louise. (2018). “Competing for Control over the State: The Case of Yemen”. Small Wars & Insurgencies, 29:3, 560-578. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09592318.2018.1455792
Cohen, Raphael S. and Andrew Radin (2019) “Russia's Hostile Measures in Europe: Understanding the Threat” Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1793.html.
Collier, Paul, and Anke Hoeffler. (2004). “Greed and grievance in civil war”. Oxford Economic Papers 56(4): 563-595. https://academic.oup.com/oep/article-abstract/56/4/563/2361902
Dryden-Petersen, Sarah. (2015). “Refugee Education in Countries of First Asylum: Breaking Open the Black Box of Pre-Resettlement Experiences”. Theory and Research in Education, 1-18. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1477878515622703
Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin. (2003). “Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war”. American Political Science Review, 97(1): 75-90. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/ethnicity-insurgency-and-civil-war/B1D5D0E7C782483C5D7E102A61AD6605
Feenberg (2005) Critical Theory of Technology: An Overview, Tailoring Biotechnologies 1 (1): 47-64 https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/books/critbio.pdf
Fisher, Max, and Amanda Taub. (2019, March 14). “Facebook Intervenes in a Civil War, to Mixed Results”. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/world/asia/facebook-myanmar.html
Fotion, Nicholas. (2000). ‘Reactions to Force: Pacifism, Realism and Just War Theory’. In Andrew Valls, ed., Ethics in International Affairs. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (pp. 1-12).
Gindele, Rebecca, Madhav Joshi, Louise Olsson, Jason Quinn, Elise Ditta & Rebecca Méndez (2018) “Implementing the Final Colombian Peace Agreement, 2016–2018”, GPS Policy Brief, 1. Oslo: PRIO https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=11132
Gleditsch, Nils Petter. (2008). “The Liberal Moment Fifteen Years On”, International Studies Quarterly 52(4): 691–712. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29734260?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Gleditsch NP; E Melander & H Urdal. (2016). “Introduction – Patterns of Armed Conflict since 1945”. Chapter 1 in D Mason & S McLaughlin Mitchell, eds, What Do We Know About Civil War? Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 15-32.
Harpviken, Kristian. (2018). “The Taliban’s Choice”. https://blogs.prio.org/2018/03/the-talibans-choice/
Jensehaugen, Jørgen. (2019, forthcoming). “Smokescreen Diplomacy: Excluding the Palestinians by Self-Rule”. Middle East Journal.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen, and Hilde Henriksen Waage. (2012). “Coercive Diplomacy: Israel, Transjordan and the UN – A Triangular Drama Revisited”. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 39(1): 79-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2012.659445
Kirby, Paul and Laura J. Sheperd (2016) “The futures past of the Women, Peace and Security agenda”, International Affairs 92(2): 373–392. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2346.12549
Krause, Jana, Werner Krause & Piia Bränfors (2018) “Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of Peace”, International Interactions, 44(6): 985-1016. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03050629.2018.1492386
Levitsky, Steven, and Daniel Ziblatt. (2018). “Chapter 1: Fateful Alliances”. In How Democracies Die, pp. 1-32. New York: Crown Publishing.
Lidén, Kristoffer, and Henrik Syse. (2015). “The Politics of Peace and Law”. In: Promoting Peace through International Law (eds. Cecilia Baillet and Kjetil M. Larsen, Oxford UP), pp. 21-42.
Lührmann, Anna, et al. (2018). “State of the World 2017: Autocratization and Exclusion?” Democratization, 25(8): 1321-1340. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2018.1479693
Maley, William. (2019). “A Negotiated Peace for Afghanistan?” https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/afghanistan-negotiations-us-taliban/
Marsh, Nicholas (2018) The Availability Puzzle: Considering the Relationship between Arms and Violence Taking Place within States, The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer 6(2): 3–21. https://www.prio.org/utility/DownloadFile.ashx?id=1632&type=publicationfile
Marsh, Nicholas (2017) Brothers Came Back with Weapons: The Effects of Arms Proliferation from Libya, PRISM 6(4): 79–96. https://www.prio.org/utility/DownloadFile.ashx?id=1391&type=publicationfile
Marsh, Nicholas (2015) Firearms Seizures and Trafficking: A «Local» Phenomenon, The Strategic Trade Review 1(1): 73–87. https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=8774
Nygard, Lynn P. (2015). “Who are you talking to? Defining your audience”, chapter 4, pp 59-78 in Writing for Scholars. A Practical Guide to Making Sense and being Heard. 2^nd edition. London: SAGE.
Nygard, Lynn P. (2008). ‘What do you want to say? Forming your core argument”, chapter 5, pp. 79-98, in Writing for Scholars. A Practical Guide to Making Sense and being Heard. 2^nd edition. London: SAGE.
Salvesen, Hilde & Dag Nylander (2017) “Towards an inclusive peace: women and the gender approach in the Colombian peace process”, NOREF Report. https://noref.no/Publications/Regions/Colombia/Towards-an-inclusive-peace-women-and-the-gender-approach-in-the-Colombian-peace-process
Schaftenaar, Susanne (2017) “How (wo)men rebel: Exploring the effect of gender equality on nonviolent and armed conflict onset”, Journal of Peace Research 54(6): 762-776. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343317722699
Teorell, Jan, et al. (2014). “V-Dem: A New Way to Measure Democracy”. Journal of Democracy, 25(3): 159-169. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/v-dem-a-new-way-to-measure-democracy/
Tønnesson, Stein. (2017). “Peace by Development”. In Elin Bjarnegård and Joakim Kreutz (eds.), Debating the East Asian Peace. Copenhagen: NIAS press, pp. 55-77.
Waage,Hilde Henriksen. (2005). “Norway’s Role in the Middle East Peace Talks: Between a Strong State and a Weak Belligerent”. Journal of Palestine Studies, 34(4): 6-24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2005.34.4.6?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Wallensteen, Peter. (2019). Chapters 5,6, 10, & 11 in Understanding Conflict Resolution, 5^th ed. London: Sage.
Wallensteen, Peter, and Isak Svensson. (2014). “Talking peace: International mediation in armed conflicts”. Journal of Peace Research, 51(2), 315–327. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343313512223
Webster, Kaitlyn, Chong Chen, & Kyle Beardsley (2019) “Conflict, Peace, and the Evolution of Women's Empowerment”, International Organization 73(2): 255-289. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818319000055
Wilcox, L (2017) “Embodying algorithmic war: Gender, race, and the posthuman in drone warfare”, Security Dialogue 48 (1) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0967010616657947
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (S/RES/1325(2000)). https://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/cdrom/documents/Background_Paper_Africa.pdf
Østby, Gudrun, Henrik Urdal, and Kendra Dupuy. (2019). “Does Education Lead to Pacification? A Systematic Review of Statistical Studies on Education and Political Violence”. Review of Educational Research, 89(1): 46-92. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0034654318800236