Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

Dokken, Karin, 2008. African Security Politics Redefined. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-206.

Matlary & Petersson, M. (2013). NATO's European Allies: Military Capability and Political Will. Palgrave. Part One, Determinants of the Use of Force, kap. 2-5, 70 pages.

To be found in an article compilation which can be bought at Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus

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

Nygaard, Lynn, 2008. Writing for Scholars: A Practical Guide to Making Sense and Being Heard. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, pp.61-96.

Rosecrance, Richard, 1986. The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World. New York: Basic Books, pp. 22-43.

Russett, Bruce and John Oneal. Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations. London, New York: W.W.Norton, pp. 81-155

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

Walzer 2006. Just and Unjust Wars: A moral argument with historical illustrations. New York: Basic books. (4th. Edition), pp. 51-111.

Downloadable articles, books and other texts

You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.

Baaz, Maria Eriksson, and Maria Stern. (2009) Why do soldiers rape? Masculinity, violence, and sexuality in the armed forces in the Congo (DRC). International Studies Quarterly 53.2 (2009): 495-518.

Bellamy, Alex J., 2005. “Responsibility to Protect or Trojan Horse? The Crisis in Darfur and Humanitarian Intervention after Iraq”. Ethics and International Affairs, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 31-54.

Cederman, Lars-Erik, Andreas Wimmer and Brian Min, 2010. “Why do ethnic groups rebel? New data and analysis.” World Politics 62 (1), pp. 87-119.

Chandler, David, 2004. “The Responsibility to Protect? Imposing the ‘Liberal Peace’”. International Peacekeeping, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 59-81.

Cohen Dara Kay, Green Amelia Hoover, Wood Elisabeth  (2013) Wartime Sexual Violence: Misconceptions, Implications, and Ways Forward. USIP Special Report, February

Cohen, Dara Kay. 2013. “Explaining Rape During Civil War: Cross-National Evidence, 1980-2009.” American Political Science Review 107 (3): 461-477.

Cohen, Dara Kay, and Ragnhild Nordås. 2014. “Sexual violence in Armed Conflict: Introducing the SVAC dataset, 1989–2009.” Journal of Peace Research 51(3):418-428

Collier, Paul, 2000. “Doing Well Out of War: An Economic Perspective.” In Mats Berdal and David Malone (eds.). Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, pp. 91-111.

Fearon, James D. and David D. Laitin, 2003. “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War”, American Political Science Review 97 (1), pp. 75-90

Gartzke, Erik, 2007. “The Capitalist Peace”, American Journal of Political Science 51 (1), pp. 166-191.

Gates, Scott, Håvard Hegre, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, and Håvard Strand. "Development consequences of armed conflict." World Development 40, no. 9 (2012): 1713-1722.

Hegre, Håvard, Tanja Ellingsen, Scott Gates and Nils Petter Gleditsch, 2001. Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992”, American Political Science Review 95(1), pp.33-48.

Lacina, Bethany, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Bruce Russett. "The declining risk of death in battle." International Studies Quarterly 50, no. 3 (2006): 673-680.

Leiby, Michele L. "Wartime Sexual Violence in Guatemala and Peru*." International Studies Quarterly 53.2 (2009): 445-468.

Morkevicius, Valerie, 2014. "Tin Men: Ethics, Cybernetics and the Importance of Soul", Journal of Military Ethics, vol. 13 no. 1, pp. 3-19.

Moseley, Alexander, 2001. "Just War Theory", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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

Schulzke Marcus, 2013. "Ethically Insoluble Dilemmas in War", Journal of Military Ethics, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 95-110.

Wood, Elisabeth. 2009. “Armed Groups and Sexual Violence: When is Wartime Rape Rare?” Politics and Society 37 (1): 131-161.

Wood, Elisabeth. 2012. “Rape During War is Not Inevitable: Variation in Wartime Sexual Violence.” In Understanding and Proving International Sex Crimes edited by Morten Bergsmo, Alf Butenschøn Skre, and Elisabeth Wood. Beijing: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. 

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