FALL 2000
This information effective for Fall 2000.
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Instructor: Isebill V. Gruhn
Fall 2000
In today's world ethnic conflicts seem to play an important role in domestic and international affairs. Kosovo, Chechnya, Rwanda, the Congo, Indonesia, among other multi-ethnic states, are wrestling with the politics of ethnicity. Like all Politics 100 courses, this course is devoted to intensive writing and discussion about important topics in the study of politics. Students will write four to five short five-page essays and will participate in seminar discussions. Readings will include: John Hutchinson and Anthony Smith (eds.), Ethnicity; Julie A. Mertus, Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War; David Lake and Donald Rothchild (eds.), The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation; David Callahan, Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict.
Instructor: Isebill V. Gruhn
Fall 2000
Explores a range of theories, issues and cases that are of interest to students of international affairs and that are helpful in understanding recurrent patterns of global conflict and cooperation. Readings will include: Bruce Russett and Harvey Starr, World Politics: The Menu for Choice, 5th edition; Geir Lundestad, East, West, North, South: Developments in International Relations Since 1945; Paul Wapner and Lester Ruiz (eds.), Principled World Politics: The Challenge of Normative International Relations at the Millennium; John Allen, Student Atlas of World Politics, 4th edition; Daily reading of the New York Times. Written work includes two 5-page take-home essays, in-class midterm and final exams, and in-class quizzes.
Instructor: Ronnie Lipschutz
Fall 2000
Office: 260 Stevenson
Phone: 459-3275
e-mail: rlipsch@cats.ucsc.edu
Class Meetings: TTH 4-5:45 PM
Room: Cowell 223
In this senior seminar, we ask: What happens to the security of the state when borders no longer matter? What happens to the state? Where is "inside" and where is "outside?" Who is a citizen and to what is she loyal? How do we redefine who we are and how do we explain why we are here? Threats to the self, society and state arise when boundaries are transgressed; reinforcing the boundaries between the self and other, between one's nation and other nations, reinforces the security of self and nation. Yet, it is increasingly commonplace to observe that "interdependence" undermines the impermeability of such boundaries, thereby rendering their significance problematic. More than this, the problem of defense--against what threats and whom--becomes more and more difficult to address. We will explore these questions and puzzles through a series of readings, and discussions, that begin with the tradi-tional con-cepts and practices of security and end with the postmodern decentering of state and citizen.
Inasmuch as this is a senior seminar and constitutes the Politics grad-uation requirement, there is no set syllabus (although there are specific writing assignments). Rather, we will organize a syllabus that might include books and documents such as those found on the list below, adding other ma-ter-ials and topics that students might think are of interest or seem appro-priate to our discussions. Class members will be asked to carefully read these writings and to organize class discussions on them. In other words, the oral component of this semi-nar will be very important and your con-tri-bu-tion to that component should also be a central part of your final paper. In addition to the research paper required as part of this seminar, each student will prepare a set of written exercises related to the research endeavor.
Terry Terriff, et al, Security Studies Today, Polity Press, 1999.
Keith Krause & Michael Williams (eds.), Critical Security Studies, Minnesota, 1997.
Richard Falk, Predatory Globalization, Polity Press, 1999.
Hans-Peter Martin & Harald Schumann, The Global Trap, Zed, 1997.
Martin Shaw (ed.), Politics and Globalisation, Routledge, 1999.
Zaki Laïdi, A World without Meaning, Routledge, 1998.
Kees van der Pijl, Transnational Classes and International Relations, Routledge, 1998.
Jerry Everard, Virtual States, Routledge, 2000.
Ramesh Mishra, Globalization and the Welfare State, Edward Elgar, 1999.
Other readings will be passed out in class or made available at the reserve desk at McHenry. You should also make a point of reading a newspaper on a daily basis, either in the paper version or on the Web. The New York Times is preferable, although The San Jose Mercury-News and The San Francisco Chronicle are acceptable substitutes.