Syllabus/achievement requirements

Introductory course

Ayoob, Mohammed: State Making, State Breaking, and State Failure, 1996. pp. 37-51 in Crocker, Chester et.al. (eds.).

Collier, Paul: Doing Well out of War: An Economic Perspective, 2001. pp 91-111 in Malone, David and Mats Berdal (eds.). Greed & Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

D’Amato, Anthony: Peace vs. Accountability in Bosnia, pp. 500-06 in American Journal of International Law vol. 88, no. 3, 1994.

Desch, Michael C,: War and strong states, Peace and weak states, pp 237-68 in International Organization vol. 50 no. 2 1996.

Doyle, Michael: Ways of War and Peace, 1997. pp 49-92, 230-250, 251-300 and 340-364 in Ways of War and Peace. New York: W.W. Norton.

Farrell, Theo: Constructivist Security Studies: Portrait of a Research Program, pp. 49-72 in International Studies Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2002.

Fawcett, Louise : “Rivalry over Territory and Resources and the Balance of Peace and War: The 20th Century”, 2002. pp. 177-198 in Lundestad, Geir and Olav Njølstad (eds.). War and Peace in the 20th Century and Beyond; New Jersey: World Scientific.

Gaddis, John Lewis: “The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System”, , pp. 99-142 in International Security vol. 10, no. 4, ;1986.

George, Alexander: The Causal Nexus Between Cognitive Beliefs and Decision-making Behavior: The ‘operational code’ Belief System, 1979. pp. 95-124 in Falkowski, Lawrence (ed.). Psychological Models in International Politics. Boulder, Colorado: Westview.

Goldstein, Joshua: War and Gender, 2001. pp. 251-331 i War and Gender New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gray, Christine: International Law and the Use of Force, 2000. pp. 1-50 in International Law and the Use of Force. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hampson, Fen Osler: Nurturing Peace: Why Peace Settlements Succeed or Fail, 1996. pp. 3-25 and 205-234 in Nurturing Peace: Why Peace Settlements Succeed or Fail. United States Institute of Peace.

Hobsbawn Eric : “War and Peace in the 20th Century”, 2002. pp 25-40 in Lundestad, Geir and Olav Njølstad (eds.) New Jersey: World Scientific.

Horowitz, Donald: Irredentas and Secessions: Adjacent Phenomena, Neglected Connections, 1991. pp. 9-22 in Naomi Chazan (ed.). Irredentism and International Politics. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, .

Huntington, Samuel P: The Clash of Civilizations?, pp. 22-49 i Foreign Affairs vol. 72, no. 3 1993.

Jackson, Robert H: Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World, 1990. pp. 13-49 in Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, .

Katz, Mark N: Collapsed Empires, 1996. pp. 25-35 in Crocker, Chester A. et. al. (eds), 1996. Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict. Washington D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, .

Kaufmann, Stuart: Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. , 2001. pp. 15-47 Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Cornell University Press,.

Lake, David A. and Rothchild Donald: Containing Fear: The Origins and Management of Ethnic Conflict, 1996. pp. 41-75 in International Security vol. 21 no. 2.

Layne, Christopher: Kant or Can’t: The Myth of the Democratic Peace, 1994. pp. 5-49 in International Security vol. 19, no. 2.

Leffler, Melvyn P: “Bringing it Together: The Parts and the Whole”, 2000. pp43-63 in Westad, Odd Arne (ed.) Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory. London: Frank Cass,.

Levy, Jack S: Misperceptions and the Causes of War: Theoretical Linkages and Analytical Problems, pp 76-99 in World Politics 36:1983.

Little, David: Religious Militancy, 2002. pp. 79-93 in Crocker, Chester A. et.al. (eds.) .

Mansfield, Edward and Jack Snyder: Democratic Transitions, Institutional Strength, and War, pp. 297-337 in International Organization, vol. 56, no. 2 2002.

Matheson, Michael J: United Nations Governance of Postconflict Societies, 2001. pp. 76-85 in American Journal of International Law vol. 95, no. 1.

Mearsheimer, John J: “The False Promise of International Institutions”, pp 5-49 International Security vol. 19, no. 3 1994.

Mueller, John: Changing Attitudes Towards War: The Impact of the First World War, pp. 1-28 in British Journal of Political Science, vol. 21, no. 1, 1991. .

O’Connell, Robert L: “War: Institution Without Portfolio”, 1998. pp. 248-261 in Buillet, Richard W. (ed.). The Colombia History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Colombia Press, .

Paris, Roland: Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism, pp. 54-89 in International Security vol. 22, no. 2 1997.

Roberts, Adam: “Towards a World Community? The United Nations and International Law”, 1998. pp. 305-318 in Howard, Michael and Wm. Roger Loius (eds.). The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press,.

Snyder, Jack and Robert Jervis: Civil War and the Security Dilemma, 1999.. pp. 15-37 in Snyder, Jack and Barbara Walter (eds.). Civil Wars, Insecurity and Intervention. New York: Colombia University Press.

de Soysa, Indra: The Resource Curse: Are Civil Wars Driven by Rapacity or Paucity?, 2001. pp. 113-135 in David Malone and Mats Berdal (eds.).

Waltz, Kenneth N.: “The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory”, pp 615-28 in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 18, no. 4: 1988.

Walzer, Michael: Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, 2000. pp. 51-108 in Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. 3rd. Edition, . .

Williams, Paul R. and Michael P. Scharf: Peace with Justice? War Crimes and Accountability in the Former Yugoslavia, 2002. pp. 3-35 in Peace with Justice? War Crimes and Accountability in the Former YugoslaviaMaryland and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield.