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Sovereignty and Intervention
2002 - 2003
Course Syllabus

EXP 91F
Global Inequities
EPIIC 2002-03
Demiurge - Sherman Teichman

Tuesday, September 3

First day of class

Thursday, September 5

Overview of GIS Project
Guest Speakers:
Rhonda Ryznar &
Denise Castronovo

Tuesday, September 10

Readings:

  • Altered States Globalization, Sovereignty and Governance, Gordon Smith and Moises Naim (handout)
  • "Prologue" and "Introduction", from The Shield of Achilles, Philip Bobbitt

    Thursday, September 12

    Guest Lecturer:
    Professor Pierre Laurent, History Department; author, European Integration: Theories and Approaches; editor, The European Community: To Maasricht and Beyond and The State of the European Union

    Readings:

  • Beyond Westphalia: State Sovereignty and International Intervention, Lyons and Mastanduno (Introduction and Chapters 4 and 9) (book in the bookstore)
  • "Are There Limits to EU Power Expansion?", from Sovereignty and European Integration, Madeline Wind (handout)
  • "The Victory of the Sovereign State", from The Sovereign State and Its Competitors, Hendrik Spryut (handout)

    From the Inquiry Reader:

  • "A Brief History of Constitutions of International Society in the West", Daniel Philpott -- 3
  • "Conclusion: Two Revolutions, One Movement", Daniel Philpott -- 8
  • "Despite Global Changes, National Sovereignty Remains King", William Pfaff -- 23

    Tuesday, September 17

    Guest Lecturer:
    Juan Enriquez is a senior research fellow and director of the Harvard Business School Life Science Project. His most recent book is As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces are Changing Your Life, Work, Heath & Wealth. He is finishing Flags, Borders, Anthems, and Other Myths: The Impulse Towards Secession and the Americas, a book which looks at the effect of globalization and democracy on the Americas and its borders.

    He previously served as CEO of Mexico City's Urban Development Corporation, coordinator general of economic policy and chief of staff for Mexico's Secretary of State, and a member of the Peace Commission that negotiated the cease-fire in Chiapas' Zapatista rebellion.

    Readings:

  • Selections from As the Future Catches You by Juan Enriquez (handout) (if you want to read the full book, the office has several copies that you can borrow)

    From the Inquiry Reader:

  • "Too Many Flags?", Juan Enriquez -- 70

    Thursday, September 19

    Review of Readings to Date
    Readings:
    From the Inquiry Reader:

  • "Sovereignty and Globalization: Government in a State of Confusion", Gordon Smith and Moises Naim -- 14
  • "Sovereignty", Stephen D. Krasner -- 24
  • "When Worlds Collide: A Debate", Marc A. Thiessen and Mark Leonard -- 31
  • "International Law: The Trials of Global Norms", Steven R. Ratner -- 42
  • "Self-Determination in an Interdependent World", Strobe Talbott -- 58

    Friday, September 20-Sunday, September 22

    Outward Bound Immersion Weekend

    Sovereignty, Human Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy

    Guest Speakers:
    The Honorable John Shattuck: He is the chief executive officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic; and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. He is the author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights, Wars and the Roots of Terrorism. While serving in his Assistant Secretary of State position, he worked to end the war in Bosnia and negotiate the Dayton Peace Agreement; establish the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; restore a democratically-elected government to Haiti; administer U. S. assistance to new and emerging democracies; and raise the profile of human rights in U.S. foreign policy after the end of the Cold War. As the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union and national ACLU staff counsel from 1971 to 1984, he was involved in all major civil-rights and civil-liberties issues during the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations.

    Ellen Hume is an experienced journalist, teacher, speaker, administrator, conference director and television commentator. While living in Prague, Czech Republic, from 1998-2000, she updated her thinking about journalism, the Internet and democracy, originally published in her prizewinning 1995 study, Tabloids, Talk Radio and the Future of News. As the founding Executive Director of PBS's Democracy Project, from 1996 to 1998, she developed special news programs that encouraged citizen involvement in public affairs. From 1988 to 1993, Hume served as Executive Director and Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. The recipient of numerous honors and fellowships, Hume has conducted journalism and democracy workshops throughout the United States, in Russia, Bosnia, Poland and the Czech Republic.

    Required Readings:

  • Freedom on Fire: Human Rights and the Roots of Terror, by John Shattuck (manuscript)(handout)
  • "Heartened In Haiti," in Democracy By Force: U.S. Military Interventionism In The Post Cold War World, by Karin von Hippel (handout)
  • "Building Peace In Bosnia," by Elizabeth Cousens, and "Peacebuilding in Haiti," by Chetan Kumar, in Peacebuilding As Politics: Cultivating Peace In Fragile Societies, edited by Elizabeth Cousens and Chetan Kumar (handout)
  • "Bosnia," and "Haiti," by Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, in Coercive Inducement and the Containment of International Crises, edited by Donald C. Daniel, Bradd C. Hayes, and Chantal de Jonge Oudraat (handout)
  • "The Perils of Info-Democracy, " by Ted Koppel in Managing Global Chaos, edited by Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler with Pamela Aall (handout)
  • "The Media and U.S. Policies Toward Intervention: A Closer Look at the 'CNN Effect'" by Warren Strobel in Managing Global Chaos, edited by Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler with Pamela Aall (handout)
  • "Rulers and Ruled: Human Rights" in Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy, by Stephen D. Krasner (book in the book store)
  • Human Rights as Politcs and Idolatry, Michael Ignatieff (handout)

    Recommended Readings:

  • "Iraq: Containing Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War" in Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy by Robert S. Litwak (handout)
  • "Iraq's Repression of Its Civilian Population: Collective Responses and Continuing Challenges", by Jane E. Stromseth, from Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts, Lori Fisler Damrosch (ed.) (handout)

    Tuesday, September 24

    Reaction To Outward Bound

    Film: "Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda", Amnesty International

    Thursday, September 26

    Rwanda, Central Africa and Intervention

    Guest Lecturer:
    Peter Rosenblum
    Clinical Director Peter Rosenblum joined the Human Rights Program at the Harvard Law School in the fall of 1996 and served as Associate Director until 2002. He holds an academic appointment as lecturer at the law school and oversees voluntary and for-credit human rights projects with students. He was formerly Program Director for the International Human Rights Law Group and Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Centre for Human Rights. He has engaged in human rights research and field missions in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia. His recent writing addresses human rights topics affecting Africa and human rights pedagogy in the United States.

    Readings (a few more will be added):

  • Chapter 4: "Military Intervention in Rwanda's 'Two Wars': Partisanship and Indifference" (p.116-145), by Bruce D. Jones, from Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention, Barbara F. Walter and Jack Snyder (eds.) (book is in the book store)
  • "Intervention Is a Response to a New Moral Narrative", by Peter Rosenblum, Public Affairs Report, January 2000 (handout)
  • "Bystanders to Genocide: Why the United States Let the Rwandan Tragedy Happen", by Samantha Power, The Atlantic Monthly, September 2001(handout)
  • "Rwanda: Seven Years after the Genocide", by Donald M. Payne and Ted Dagne, Mediterranean Quarterly, Winter 2002 (handout)
  • "The Defendant", from The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa by Bill Berkeley (handout)

    From the Inquiry Reader:

  • "Regional Perspectives on Sovereignty and Intervention", Adonia Ayebare -- 286
  • "Think Again: Africa", Marina Ottoway -- 288
  • "African Responses to African Crises: Creating a Military Response", Robert I. Rotberg -- 307
  • "Military Intervention in Africa: Intervention Unbound", Alex de Waal -- 314
  • "U.S. Human Rights Policy toward Africa", Debra Liang-Fenton -- 327
  • "Global Bystander to Genocide: International Society and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994", Nicholas J. Wheeler -- 379

    Tuesday, October 1

    Israel - Palestine

    Guest Lecturer:
    Barbara F. Walter, who is currently an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to coming to UCSD she was a post doctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University and a post-doctoral fellow at the War and Peace Institute at Columbia University. Publications include: "The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement"; "Designing Transitions from Violent Civil War"; Civil Wars, Insecurity and Intervention (co edited with Jack Snyder); Committing to Peace: The Successful Settlement of Civil Wars; and "Sabotaging the Peace: The Politics of Extremist Violence," International Organization, Spring 2002, with Andrew Kydd. She is currently working on a new project on the persistence of territorial conflict.

    Readings:

  • Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention, Barbara F. Walter and Jack Snyder (eds.)
  • Chapter 1: "Civil War and the Security Dilemma", by Jack Snyder and Robert Jervis (p. 15-37)
  • Chapter 2: "Designing Transitions from Civil War", by Barbara F. Walter (p. 38-72)
  • Chapter 7: "When All Else Fails: Evaluating Population Transfers and Partition as Solutions to Ethnic Conflict", by Chaim D. Kaufmann (p. 221-260)
  • Chapter 8: "The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict", by Rui J.P. De Figueiredo Jr. And Barry R. Weingast (p. 261-302)
  • Chapter 9: "Conclusion", Barbara F. Walter (p. 303-310)
  • A Concise History of the Arab-Palestinian Conflict, Ian Bickerton and Carla Klausner (handout)
  • Chapter 8: The Search for Peace, 1973-1979 (p. 183-209)
  • Chapter 9: "Lebanon and the Intifada" (p. 210-243)
  • Chapter 10: "The Peace of the Brave" (p. 244-279)
  • Chapter 11: "The Peace Progresses" (p. 280-312)
  • Chapter 12: "Collapse of the Peace Process" (p. 313-351)
  • "Conclusion" (p. 352-360)
  • Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities, Stephen D. Krasner (ed.) (in the book store)
  • Chapter 10: "The Road to Palestinan Sovereignty: Problematic Structures or Conventional Obstacles?", by Shibley Telhami (p.301-322)

    Thursday, October 3

    In-Class Exam

    Sunday, October 6

    Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Building, 1:00-5:00pm

    Guest Lecturer:
    Philip Bobbitt
    One of the nation's leading constitutional theorists, Professor Bobbitt's interests include not only constitutional law but also international security and the history of strategy. He has published six books: Constitutional Interpretation (1991), Democracy and Deterrence (1987), U.S. Nuclear Strategy (with Freedman and Treverton, 1989), Constitutional Fate (1982), Tragic Choices (with Calabresi, 1978) and most recently The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (2002). He has served as associate counsel to the President; the counselor on International Law at the U.S. State Department; legal counsel to the Senate Iran Contra Committee; and director for Intelligence, senior director for Critical Infrastructure, and senior director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council. Bobbitt teaches constitutional law at the University of Texas, where he holds the A. W. Walker Centennial Chair.

    Readings from The Shield of Achilles:
    Everyone

  • Chapter 5: "Strategy and the Constitutional Order"
  • Chapter 13: "The Wars of Market-State: Conclusion to Book I"
  • Introduction to Book II: "The Origin of International Law in the Constitutional Order"
  • Chapter 17: " Peace and the International Order"

    In War and Peace:

  • Book I: States of War: Elana, Zaki, Rebecca V., Lindsay, Naomi, Alia, Christine, Rob Sm., Aaron, Rebecca F., Lauren, Leah, Natalia, Mayte, Andrea, Jenna, Sarah Kl., Liv, Amiti, Zeleka, Sarah B., Lulu, Eugene, Rachel, Robina, Vicky, Damaris, Laura R.
  • Book II: States of Peace: Zachary, Ben, Rob Sw., Kate, Nick, Hank, JR, Laura, Anya, Rachel, Sonia, Shai, Alex, Joe B., Elliot, Natica, Jen, Asi, Maarouf, Jeremy, Joe J., Frances, Margaret, Cedza, Nikais, Daniel S., Kari, Narissa, Daniel M.

    Tuesday, October 8

    Scenarios

    Guest Lecturer:
    Philip Bobbitt

    Readings from The Shield of Achilles:

  • Chapter 24: "Challenges to the New International Order"
  • Chapter 25: "Possible Worlds"
  • Chapter 26: "The Coming Age of War and Peace"
  • Chapter 27: "Peace in the Society of Market-States: Conclusion to Book II"
  • Epilogue
  • Postscript: The Indian Summer

    Thursday, October 10

    Review of Bobbitt

    Tuesday, October 15

    No Class (Monday's Schedule)

    Thursday, October 17th

    Central African Crisis - An Update

    Guest Lecturer: Ms. Agnes Nindorera
    Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Center for Human Rights and Conflict Management; Burundian Journalist, Radio Bujumbura; Former Nieman Fellow

    Readings

  • Review Rwanda readings and readings on Africa from the Inquiry reader
  • Frontline Chronologies

    Tuesday, October 22

    US Foreign Policy: Empire and Realism, Intervention from Kosovo to Iraq

    Guest Lecturer: Andrew Bacevich
    Professor and director, Center forInternational Relations, Boston University; coauthor, War Over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in A Global Age; author, American Empire

    Readings

  • War Over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in A Global Age, Andrew Bacevich and Elliot Cohen
  • Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond, Michael Ignatieff

    Thursday, October 24

    Dilemmas of Humanitarian Intervention

     Guest Lecturer: Larry Minear
    Director, Humanitarianism and War Project, Tufts University

    Readings

  • The Humanitarian Enterprise: Dilemmas and Discoveries, Larry Minear

    Monday, October 28

    Optional - David Rieff at Harvard

    Readings (mandatory)

  • A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, David Rieff, Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8

    Tuesday, October 29

    "Considering Law, Power and Intervention"

    Guest Lecturer: Michael Glennon,
    The Fletcher School, Professor of International Law; author, Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism After Kosovo; former Legal Counsel, Senate foreign Relations Committee

    Readings

  • Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism After Kosovo, Michael Glennon
  • The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo, Noam Chomsky

    Thursday, October 31

    US Foreign Policy & Great Power Intervention in Peripheral Areas

    Guest Lecturer: Professor Jeffrey Taliaferro
    Department of Political Science, Tufts University

    Readings

  • Handout from Manuscript by Professor Taliaferro - Balance of Risk: Great Power Intervention in Periphery Chapters 1 5, ,6, and 7

    Tuesday, November 19

    Part II: The Gulf War, Frontline video

    Thursday, November 21

    In-Class Mid Term, 4-8pm

    (all papers turned in at 8pm; those working on laptops must print them out, so bring the necessary disks and drives to the exam)

    Friday, November 22

    In-Class Mid Term for the Program Committee and the East Timor Group

    Tuesday, November 26

    Guest Lecturer: Ian Johnstone, Assistant Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School

    Professional Activities:
    Seven years professional experience at the United Nations, including five as an aide in the Office of the Secretary-General, one in the Department of Peace-keeping Operations, and one in the Office of Legal Affairs; Senior Research Associate, International Peace Academy; Warren Weaver Fellow in International Security, Rockefeller Foundation; Associate in Law, Columbia University; Judicial Clerk, Ontario Court of Appeal; American Society of International Law; Academic Council on the United Nations System; Law Society of Upper Canada

    Recent Publications:
    Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional UN Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador (co-editor)(1997); Rights and Reconciliation: UN Strategies in El Salvador (1995); Aftermath of the Gulf War: An Assessment of UN Action (1994). Articles include: "UN peacebuilding: consent, coercion and the crisis of state failure," Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Council of International Law, 1999 (forthcoming); "The UNšs Role in Transitions from War to Peace: Sovereignty, Consent and the Evolving Normative Climate," Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies Info Paper (1999); "Treaty Interpretation: The Authority of Interpretive Communities," 12 Michigan Journal of International Law 371 (1991).

    Readings (all handouts):

    From Why Peacekeeping Fails, Dennis C. Jett

  • Introduction
  • A Brief History of Peacekeeping
  • Inconclusion: Why Real Reform Might Not be Possible

    From Inquiry reader:

  • Executive Summary: Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations
  • Functional Alternatives to Traditional UN Peacekeeping Operations, Paul F. Diehl
  • From Famine Relief to Humanitarian War: The US and UN Intervention in Somalia, Nicholas J. Wheeler

    From Peacemaking and Peacemaking for the New Century, Olarra Otunnu and Michael Doyle (eds)

  • Discovering the Limits and Potential of Peacekeeping, Michael Doyle
  • Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century, Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • Challenges of the New Peacekeeping, Kofi Annan
  • Prospects for a Rapid Response Capability: A Dialogue, Brian Urquhart and Francois Heisbourg

    From Soldiers of Diplomacy: The UN, Peacekeeping and the New World Order

  • In the Glass Tower
  • Cambodia: The Fairies around the Cradle
  • Sabotage and Betrayal in Western Sahara
  • The New Warriors (Somalia)

    From Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional UN Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador, Michael Doyle, Ian Johnstone, Robert Orr

  • From Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding: Restructuring Military and Police Institutions in El Salvador, David McCormick
  • Rights and Reconciliation in El Salvador, Ian Johnstone

    Tuesday, December 3

    Special Meeting in the morning (tbd)

    Guest Lecturer: Michael Doyle, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of International Affairs, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, and Director of the Center of International Studies, Princeton University. His fields of interest are international relations theory, comparative history, and United Nations peacekeeping. He is the author of Ways of War and Peace, a study of political philosophies of international relations, Empires, and UN Peacekeeping in Cambodia. He co-authored Alternatives to Monetary Disorder, and co-edited Escalation and Intervention, Keeping the Peace, and New Thinking in International Relations. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study and a Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

    Readings (handouts):

    From Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional UN Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador, Michael Doyle, Ian Johnstone, Robert Orr

  • Holding a Fragile Peace: The Military and Civilian Components of UNTAC, Cheryl Kim and Mark Metrikas
  • Authority and Elections in Cambodia, Michael Doyle

    From The Blue Helmets: A Review of United Nations Peace-keeping

  • UNAVEM II (Angola)
  • UNAMIC (Cambodia)
  • UNTAC (Cambodia)
  • UNASOM I (Somalia)
  • ONUMOZ (Mozambique)
  • UNASOM II (Somalia)
  • UNOMIL (Liberia)

    Class

    Guest Lecturer: Neva Goodwin, Co-director, The Global Development and Environment Institute (to be confirmed); editor, Michigan Press series on Evolving Values for a Capitalist World; supervisor, six-volume series Frontier Issues in Economic Thought

    Readings:

    From Mad Money: When Markets Outgrow Government, Susan Strange (in the bookstore)

  • Chapter 1: The Casino Image Gone Mad
  • Chapter 2: Innovations
  • Chapter 6: The Debtors
  • Chapter 7: Finance and Crime
  • Chapter 8: Managing Mad Money -- National Systems
  • Chapter 9: Our International Guardians
  • Chapter 10: So What?

    Thursday, December 5

    Guest Lecturer: William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School

    Professional Activities:
    Director, Tufts Institute of the Environment; Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institute; Co-Director, Public Disputes Program, Program on Negotiations, Convening Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2000; Trustee, Consensus Building Institute and Earthwatch

    Recent Publications:
    People and Their Planet: Searching for Balance, (co-editor) (1999).

    Articles include:
    "The Environment and Economic Transition in the Region," Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (1999); "Renewable Energy in a Carbon Limited World," Advances in Solar Energy (1999); "Are Environmental Kuznets Curves Misleading Us? The Case of CO2 Emissions," Environment and Development Economics (1998); "Life-cycle Global Warming Impact of CFCs and CFC-Substitutes for Refrigeration," Journal of Industrial Ecology (1998); "Going Around the GATT: Private Green Trade Regimes," Praxis Journal of Development Studies (1997); "Adverse Implications of the Montreal Protocol Grace Period for Developing Countries," Journal of International Environmental Affairs (1997); Principal Lead Author for "Industry" and "Industry, Energy and Transportation: Impacts and Adaptation," Climate Change 1995, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (1996).

    Reading: The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation) by Karen T. Litfin (Editor)

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