Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required reading PECOS 4000

Abeysekara, Ananda, 2001. ”The Saffron Army, Violence , Terror(ism): Buddhism, Identity, and Difference in Sri Lanka”, Numen vol. 48, pp. 1-46.

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.

Chabal, Patrick and Jean-Pascal Daloz, 1999. Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument. African Issues. The International African Institute in association with James Currey, Oxford, pp. 3-16.

Chabal, Patrick and Jean-Pascal Daloz, 2006. Culture Troubles: Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning. London: Hurst and Company, pp. 226-268.

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.

Deutsch, Morton and Catarina Kinnvall, 2002. “What is Political Psychology?”, in Kristen Renwick Monroe (ed.). Political psychology. Mahwah, New Jersey and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

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

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

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.

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.

Kressel, Neil J., 2002. Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror. Westview Press. Updated edition, pp. 145-212.

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.

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.

Nohrstedt, Stig A. and Rune Ottosen (eds.), 2004. U.S and the Others: Global Media Images on ”The War on Terror”. Gøteborg University: NORDICOM, pp. 7-22.

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.

Ottosen, Rune, 1995. “Enemy Images and the Journalistic Process”, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 97-112.

Raychaudhuri, Tapan, 2000. “Shadows of the Swastika: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Hindu Communalism”, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 259-279.

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.

Sapiro, Virginia, 2003. “Theorizing Gender in Political Psychology Research”, in Sears, David et.al. (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Singer, Peter W., 2001. “Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry and Its Ramifications for International Security”, International Security, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 186-220.

Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2001. “Sexual Violence and War: Mapping out a Complex Relationship”, European Journal of International Relations, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 211-237.

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.

Staub, Ervin, 1996. “Cultural-Societal Roots of Violence: The Examples of Genocidal Violence and of Contemporary Youth Violence in the United States”, American Psychologist, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 112-132.

Vetlesen, Arne Johan, 2005. Evil and Human Agency: Understanding Collective Evildoing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 145-219.

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