Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required reading PECOS 4000 Autumn 2010

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

Becker, David, 2005. “Reconciliation – The wrong track to peace?”, Intervention, vol.3, no.3, pp. 167-179.

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.

Coakley, John (2009) “Ethnic Conflict Resolution: Routes Towards Settlement”, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol 15, no. 3, pp. 462—483.

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.

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.

Galtung, Johan, 2005. “Twelve creative ways to foster reconciliation after violence”, Intervention, vol.3, no.3, pp.222-234.

Gray, Christine, 2008. International Law and the Use of Force. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-66.

Hegre, Håvard, 2005. “Development and the Liberal Peace”, Nordic Journal of Political Economy, vol. 31, no.1, pp.17-46.

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.

Hroch, Miloslav, 1996. “Nationalism and national movements: Comparing the past and the present of central and Eastern Europe”, Nations and Nationalism vol. 2, no.1, pp. 35-44.

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.

Kaminski, Marek M., Monika Nelepa and Barry O’Neill, 2006. “Normative and Strategic Aspects of Transitional Justice”, Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 295-302.

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.

Le Touze, Dominique, Derrick Silvone and Anthony Zwi, 2005. “Can there be healing without justice? Lessons from the Commission for Reception, Truth and reconciliation in East Timor”, Intervention, vol.3, no.3, pp. 192-202.

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, 2008. "War Journalism in the Threat Society: Peace journalism as a strategy for challenging the mediated culture of fear?". Conflict and Communication online vol 7, No 2, 2008 Link

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.

Richters, Annemiek, Cora Dekker and Klaas de Jonge, 2005. ”Reconciliation in the aftermath of violent conflict in Rwanda”, Intervention, vol.3, no.3, pp. 203-221.

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.

Smith, Antohny D., 2001. Concepts, Ch. 1 in Anthony D. Smith: Nationalism. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 5–20.

Sveaass, Nora, 2007. “Torture – a crime against humanity”, in Lothe, Daniel et.al. (eds.). Strength in Broken Places: Marginalization and empowerment. Oslo: Unipub, pp. 179-196.

Sveaass, Nora and Nils Johan Lavik, 2000. “Psychological aspects of human rights violations: The importance of justice and reconciliation”, Nordic Journal of International Law, 69, 35 – 52.

Van der Veer, Guus, 2005. “Introduction”, Intervention, vol.3, no.3, pp.165-166.

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

Walz, Kenneth, 2000. “Structural Realism after the Cold War”, International Security, vol.25, no1, pp. 5-41.

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