PART IV: GLOBAL ISSUES AND WORLD ORDER
Class 12 (Monday, July 23): Global Environment Issues
* IR, Chapter 8, Environment Section only, pp. 350-371
* Taking Sides: Clashing Views in World Politics
o ISSUE 22 “Are U.S. Efforts to Control Global Warming Gas Emissions Adequate
o ISSUE 20 “Do Environmentalists Overstate Their Case?" (Skim)
* Flannery (2006), The Weathermakers, Chapter 2, "The Great Aerial Ocean," pp. 19-26 (reserve)
* Flannery (2006), The Weathermakers, Chapter 3, "The Gaseous Greenhouse," pp. 27-35 (reserve)
* McKibben, “A Special Moment in History,” pp. 3-6 (reserve)
* Cases in IR, “Warm and Getting Warmer: Global Warming and the Fate of the Kyoto Protocol,” pp. 227-242 (reserve)
Class 13 (Wednesday, July 25): Global Governance: Transcending the State
* Debate III: Global Liberalization (pro globalization v. anti-globalization)
* IR, Beginning of Chapter 6, pp. 231-263.
* IR, End of Chapter 8, pp. 371-385
* Taking Sides: Clashing Views in World Politics
o ISSUE 3 “Will State Sovereignty Survive Globalism?”
Recommended/Debate Readings
* A&W, “Sense and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate,” pp. 168-183
* A&W, Dollar & Kraay, “Spreading the Wealth,” pp. 184-198
* Global Policy Forum--Globalization
Class 14 (Friday, July 27): Globalization of Disease and Crime
* Taking Sides: Clashing Views in World Politics
o ISSUE 21 “Are Adequate Preparations Underway For a Possible Avian Influenza Pandemic”
* Global Issues, Chapter 10, “Global Crime,” pp. 322-348 (reserve)
* Global Issues, Chapter 11, “The Globalization of Disease,” pp. 349-378 (reserve)
* Michael T. Osterholm, “Preparing for the Next Pandemic,” Foreign Affairs 84:4, 24 (July-August 2005).
* Nicholas Eberstadt, “The Future of AIDS,” Foreign Affairs 81:6, 22 (Nov-Dec 2002).
Class 15 (Monday, July 30): Future Global Order & Debate
* Debate IV: Future Global Order (the case for optimism? Pro v. Con)
* Final Exam Review
* Skim (know major points):
* Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy,” pp. 81-118.
* Fukujama, “The End of History,” pp. 1-29
* Ajami, “The Summoning,” pp. 71-80
* Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Global Issues
o Issue 18: “Are Cultural and Ethnic Wars the Defining Dimension of 21st Century Conflict?” pp. 311-336 (reserve)
* Global Issues, “Challengers to American Hegemony,” pp. 57-71 (reserve)
* Diamond, “The Ends of the World as We Know Them,” pp. 21-23 (reserve)
* McKibben, “A Deeper Shade of Green,” pp. 181-183 (reserve)
Class 16 (Wednesday, Aug 1): Final Exam