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

 

 

 


 

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