Last week of readings

These are relatively short articles on terrorism and the complication of non-state violence to the workings of the international system. Remember you need to be read to discuss your papers as well.

Said-Identity, Negation, and Violence

Negarestani-The Militarization of Peace

Postcolonial Questions

You only have to read the Preface and Introduction. I hope everyone had a nice holiday.

Chakrabarty-Provincializing Europe

Theories of Global Order

Reading is short but dense this week. Two articles and a chapter. Each of these pieces represents a major school of IR thinking about the conditions of global order.

Wendt-Anarchy is What States Make of It

Bull-Does Order Exist in World Politics

Cox-Social Forces, States and World Orders

The Global System Part II

I assigned a whole book but it is short and I cut the other readings. I think people are going to like this book. Also after listening to people today I think that this book in particular has a number of useful concept for all of the papers proposed. So read it carefully. Be ready to discuss how you would apply concept such as the exploit or protocol in pursuing the central question of your proposed paper.

Reading Here

Class November 7th

As we will be discussing paper ideas the readings have been shortened dramatically. Just read the Harvey chapter bellow. We will discuss Harvey's theory of uneven geographic development and his concept of space. After that we will discuss paper ideas.

Harvey-Uneven Development and Space

Class October 31st

 There is a practice job talk going on today. You all should attend it if you can. It is only a matter of time until you have to give one and it is important for the person giving the talk to have a real audience. As a result class will be starting at 3:15 rather than 2:30.

The job talk is in the Friedman room. Hope to see you all there.
Best,
Jairus

Political Economy

I went back and forth on which readings were most essential for this week. The result is a little Smith, a little Marx, and a lot of Keohane. Read Smith and Marx and figure out what you think Political Economy is from there see how Keohane adapts the insights from neo-classical economics to explain liberal institutionalism as an alternative to Realism.  For those interested in international regimes and institutions this is your week so dig in.

Smith-Wealth of Nations

Marx-Introduction to the Grundrisse

Keohane-After Hegemony