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