Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required reading PECOS 4000

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

Booth, Cherie, 2003. “Prospects and Issues for the International Criminal Court: lessons from Yugoslavia and Rwanda”, in Sands, Philippe (ed.), 2003. From Nuremberg to the Hague: The Future of International Criminal Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Clapham, Christopher, 1998. “Degrees of Statehood”, Review of International Studies vol.24, no.2, pp. 143-157

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

Cramer, C, 2002. “Homo Economicus Goes to War: Methodological Individualism, Rational Choice and the Political Economy of War”, World Development vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 1845-1864.

Doosje, Bertjan and Nyla R. Branscombe, 2003. “Attributions for the Negative Historical Actions of a Group”, European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 33, pp. 235-248.

Doyle, Michael, 1997. Ways of War and Peace. New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 49-92, 241-300 and 346-355.

Elshtein, Jean Bethke, 1995. Women and War. Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago Press. 2nd edition, pp. 226-270.

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, 1991. “Ethnicity versus Nationalism”, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 263-278

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

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

Fox, Jonathan, 2000. “Is Islam more conflict-prone than other religions? A cross-sectional study of ethno-religious concflict”, Nationalism and ethnic politics vol.6, no.1.

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

Herbst, Jeffrey, 1996. ”Responding to State Failure in Africa”, International Security, vol. 21, no. 3 (Winter 1996/97), pp. 120-144.

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

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

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

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

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

Krasner, Stephen. 2004. “Sharing sovereignty: New Institutions for Collapsed and Failing States”, International Security, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 85-120

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

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

Leffler, Melvyn P., 2000. “Bringing it Together: The Parts and the Whole”, in Westad, Odd Arne (ed.). Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory. London: Frank Cass, pp. 43-63.

Levy, Jack S., 1983. “Misperceptions and the Causes of War: Theoretical Linkages and Analytical Problems”, World Politics, vol.36, no.1: 76-99.

Levy, Jack S., 1990. ”Preferences, Constraints, and Choices in July 1914”, International Security vol. 15, no.3 (Winter 1990/91), pp.151-86.

Luban, David. 2004. “Preventive War”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 207-248.

Mearsheimer, John J., 2003. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York and London: W.W. Norton. Chapters 2 and 10

Mehlum, Halvor and Karl Moene, 2002. ”Battlefields and Marketplaces”, Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 485-496.

Nystuen, Gro. 2004. Aspects of the relationship between international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Unpublished manuscript, will be distributed during the lectures. O’Connell, Robert L., 1998. “War: Institution Without Portfolio”, in Buillet, Richard W. (ed.). The Colombia History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Colombia Press, pp. 248-261.

Paris, Roland. 2001. “Human Security – Paradigm shift or hot air?”, International Security vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 87-102.

Paris, Roland. 2004. At War’s End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ss. 1-62; 97-134; 151-211.

Price, Richard. 1998. “Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Land Mines”, International Organization, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 613-644.

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

Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2001. “Is Femininity Inherently peaceful?”, in Skjelsbæk, Inger and Dan Smith. Gender, Peace and Conflict. London: Sage Publications, pp.

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

Snyder, Jack, 2000. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict, pp. 15-43.

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

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