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Readings

Below are the required texts for the course and readings associated with each class session.


Required Texts

Clark, Ian. Globalization and International Relations Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Katzenstein, Peter J., Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner, eds. Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.

Nye, Joseph S., and John D. Donahue, eds. Governance in a Globalizing World. Cambridge, Mass: Visions of Governance for the 21st Century, 2000.

Tainter, Joseph A. The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Weiner, Myron, and Sharon Stanton Russell, eds. Demography and National Security. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001.


Class Session Readings

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction: Concepts, Theories and Interconnections

Required Readings

Choucri, Nazli. "Introduction: Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Perspectives." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 1-40.

Clark, Ian. Globalization and International Relations Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2.

Keohane, Robert O., and Joseph S. Nye. "Introduction." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. Pp. 229-252.

Litfin, Karen T. "The Greening of Sovereignty: An Introduction." In The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics. Edited by Karen T. Litfin. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. 1-27.

Starr, Chauncey. "Sustaining the Human Environment: The Next Two Hundred Years." In Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment. Edited by Jesse H. Ausubel, and H. Dale Langford. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997. Pp. 185-98.

Related Readings

Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Chapter 1.

Skolnikoff, Eugene B. "Science and Technology: The Sources of Change." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 255-280.

Part I: Foundations and Fundamentals
2 Globalization Dimensions and Domains

Required Readings

Clark, Ian. Globalization and International Relations Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Chapters 3 and 4.

Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. Globalization in Question. 2nd ed. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers Inc, 1999. Chapter 3.

Kratochwil, Friedrich. "Of Systems, Boundaries, and Territoriality." World Politics 34, 1 (1986): 27-52.

Sassen, Saskia. Globalization and its Discontents. New York: The New Press, 1998. Introduction, pp. XIX-XXXVI.

Tainter, Joseph A. The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Chapters 1 and 2.

Vitousek, Peter M., Harold A. Mooney, Jane Lubchenco, and Jerry M. Melillo. "Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems." Science 277 (25 July, 1997): 494-99.

Related Readings

Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. Globalization in Question. 2nd ed. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers Inc, 1999. Chapter 2.

3 Theoretical Contentions and Historical Patterns

Required Readings

Cerny, Philip G. "Globalization and the Changing Logic of Collective Action." International Organization 49, 4 (1995): 595-625.

Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. "Growth, Development, and Environmental Sustainability: Profile and Paradox." In Global Change: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 67-132.

Clark, William C. "Environmental Globalization." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. Pp. 86-108.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Ready or Not: The Developing World and Globalization." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. Pp. 178-207.

Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. Globalization in Question. 2d ed. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers Inc, 1999. Chapter 4.

Pollins, Brian M., and Randall L. Schweller. "Linking the Levels: The Long Wave and Shifts in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1790-1993." American Journal of Political Science 40, 2 (1999): 431-464.

Related Readings

Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Vol. II. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.

Holling, C. S. "Sustainability: The Cross-Scale Dimension." In Defining and Measuring Sustainability: The Biogeophysical Foundations. Edited by Mohan Munasinghe, and Walter Shearer. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1995. Pp. 65-75.

4 Growth, Development, Environment and Complexity

Required Readings

Choucri, Nazli, ed. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Population and Conflict. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1984. Chapters 1 and 8.

Finnemore, Martha, and Kathryn Sikkink. "International Norm Dynamics and Political Change." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass.: 1999. Pp. 247-277.

Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio. "Origins and Evolutions of War and Politics." International Studies Quarterly 40 (1996): 1-22.

Kates, Robert W. "Population, Technology, and the Human Environment: A Thread Through Time." In Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment. Edited by Jesse H. Ausubel, and H. Dale Langford. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997. Pp. 33-5.

Kuehls, Thom. "Between Sovereignty and Environment: An Exploration of the Discourse of Government." In The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics. Edited by Karen T. Litfin. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. 31-53.

Tainter, Joseph A. The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Chapter 4.

Related Readings

Choucri, Nazli. "Population and the Global Environment." In Energy and the Environment in the 21st Century. Edited by Jefferson W. Tester, David O. Wood, and Nancy A. Ferrari. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1991. Pp. 91-102.

Modelski, George. "Evolutionary Paradigm for Global Politics." International Studies Quarterly 40 (1996): 321-342.

Sassen, Saskia. Globalization and its Discontents. New York: The New Press, 1998. Chapters 2, 3 and 4, pp. 5-76.

5 Knowledge, Technology and International Exchanges

Required Readings

Allenby, Braden R. "The Information Revolution and Sustainability: Mutually Reinforcing Dimensions of the Human Future." In Information Systems and the Environment. Edited by Deanna J. Richards, Braden R. Allenby, and W. Dale Compton. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001. Pp. 15-43.

Choucri, Nazli. "Knowledge Networking for Global Sustainability: New Modes of Cyberpartnering." In Information Systems and the Environment. Edited by Deanna J. Richards, Braden R. Allenby, and W. Dale Compton. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001. Pp. 195-210.

Litfin, Karen T. "Satellites and Sovereign Knowledge: Remote Sensing of the Global Environment." In The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics. Edited by K. T. Litfin. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. 193-221.

Rothenberg, Jerome. "Economic Perspectives on Time Comparisons: An Evaluation of Time Discounting." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 307-32.

Wapner, Paul. "Reorienting State Sovereignty: Rights and Responsibilities in the Environmental Age." In The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics. Edited by Karen T. Litfin. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. 275-297.

Related Readings

Grübler, Arnulf. "Time for a Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation." In Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment. Edited by Jesse H. Ausubel, and H. Dale Langford. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997. Pp. 14-32.

Rejeski, David. "Metrics, Systems, and Technological Choices." In The Industrial Green Game: Implications for Environmental Design and Management. Edited by Deanna J. Richards. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997. Pp. 48-72.

Wernick, Iddo K., Robert Herman, Shekhar Govind, and Jesse H. Ausubel. "Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends." In Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment. Edited by Jesse H. Ausubel, and H. Dale Langford. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997. Pp. 135-56.

Part II: Crossing Borders - Migration Matters
6 Theories of Migration and Population Movements

Required Readings

Jervis, Robert. "Realism in the Study of World Politics." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass.: 1999. Pp. 331-351.

Massey, Douglas S., Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, and J. Edward Taylor. "Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal." Population and Development Review 19, 3 (September, 1993): 431-466.

Sassen, Saskia. Globalization and its Discontents. New York: The New Press, 1998. Chapters 8 and 9.

Teitelbaum, Michael S. "International Migration: Predicting the Unknowable." In Demography and National Security. Edited by Myron Weiner, and Sharon Stanton Russell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. Pp. 21-37.

Therborn, Goeran. "Migration and Western Europe: The Old World Turning New." Science 237 (4 September, 1987): 1183-87.

Weiner, Myron. "Security, Stability and International Migration." In International Migration and Security. Edited by Myron Weiner. San Francisco: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. 1-35.

Related Readings

Mayer-Schonberger, Viktor, and Deborah Hurley. "Globalization of Communication." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. Pp. 135-151 and 330-346.

Sagasti, Francisco R., and Michael E. Colby. "Eco-Development Perspectives on Global Change from Developing Countries." In Global Change: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 175-203.

7 Migration and Security

Required Readings

Banister, Judith. "Impacts of Migration to China's Border Regions." In Demography and National Security. Edited by Myron Weiner, and Sharon Stanton Russell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. Pp. 256-304.

Goldstone, Jack A. "Demography, Environment, and Security: An Overview." In Demography and National Security. Edited by Myron Weiner, and Sharon Stanton Russell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. Pp. 38-61.

Krebs, Ronald R., and Jack S. Levy. "Demographic Change and the Sources of International Conflict." In Demography and National Security. Edited by Myron Weiner, and Sharon Stanton Russell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. Pp. 62-105.

Jacobsen, Karen, and Steven Wilkinson. "Refugee Movements as Security Threats in Sub-Saharan Africa." In International Migration and Security. Edited by Myron Weiner. San Francisco: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. 201-228.

Levy, J. S. "The Causes of War: A Review of Theories and Evidence." In Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War 1. Edited by P. E. Tetlock, J. L. Husbands, R. Jervis, P. C. Stern, and C. Tilly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Mastanduno, Michael. "Economics and Security in Statecraft and Scholarship." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. 185-214.

Related Readings

Martin, Terry. "Stalinist Forced Relocation Policies: Patterns, Causes, Consequences." In Demography and National Security. Edited by Myron Weiner, and Sharon Stanton Russell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. Pp. 305-339.

8 The States and Its Institutions

Required Readings

Aleinikoff, T. Alexander, and Douglas Klusmeyer. "Plural Nationality: Facing the Future in a Migratory World." In Demography and National Security. Edited by Myron Weiner, and Sharon Stanton Russell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. Pp. 154-176.

Brubaker, Rogers. "Political Dimensions of Migration From and Among Soviet Successor States." In International Migration and Security. Edited by Myron Weiner. San Francisco: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. 39-64.

Choucri, Nazli. "Multinational Corporations and the Global Environment." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 205-53.

Clark, Ian. Globalization and International Relations Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Chapters 5 and 6.

Durch, William J. "Keepers of the Gates: National Militaries in an Age of International Population Movement." In Demography and National Security. Edited by Myron Weiner, and Sharon Stanton Russell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. Pp. 109-153.

Rogers, Rosemarie. "Western European Responses to Migration." In International Migration and Security. Edited by Myron Weiner. San Francisco: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. 107-146.

Related Readings

Norris, Pippa. "Global Governance and Cosmopolitan Citizens." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. Pp. 155-177.

Part III: Shaping International Relations
9 Insights from International Relations Theories

Required Readings

Alker, Hayward R., Jr., and Thomas J. Biersteker. "The Dialectics of World Order: Notes for a Future Archeologist of International Savoir Faire." International Studies Quarterly 28 (1984): 121-42.

Gourevitch, Peter. "The Second Image Reversed: the International Sources of Domestic Politics." International Organization 32, 4 (1978): 881-912.

Grieco, Joseph M. "Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism." International Organization 42, 3 (1988): 485-507.
[Reprinted in Oran R. Young, ed. The International Political Economy and International Institutions. Volume II. Brookfield, Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 1996. Pp. 311-333.]

Haas, Peter M., and Jan Sundgren. "Evolving International Environmental Law: Changing Practices of National Sovereignty." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 401-429.

Keohane, Robert O. "Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond." In Neorealism and Its Critics. Edited by Robert O. Keohane. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. Pp. 158-203.

Kindleberger, Charles P. "The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe." In International Political Economy. Edited by Jeffry A. Frieden, and David A. Lake. 1995. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975. Pp. 73-89.

Martin, Susan. "Migration and Foreign Policy: Emerging Bilateral and Regional Approaches in the Americas." In Demography and National Security. Edited by Myron Weiner, and Sharon Stanton Russell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. Pp. 177-196.

Putnam, Robert D. "Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: the Logic of Two-Level Games." International Organization 42, 3 (1988): 427-460.

Related Readings

Spiro, David E. "The State of Cooperation in Theories of State Cooperation: The Evolution of a Category Mistake." Journal of International Affairs 42, 1 (1988): 205-225.

Tainter, Joseph A. The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Chapter 5.

10 Dynamics of International Political Economy

Required Readings

Alker, Hayward R., Jr., and Peter M. Haas. "The Rise of Global Ecopolitics." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 133-171.

Allenby, Braden R. "Environmental Constraints and the Evolution of the Private Firm." In The Industrial Green Game: Implications for Environmental Design and Management. Edited by Deanna J. Richards. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997. Pp. 101-113.

Garrett, Geoffrey. "Global Markets and National Politics: Collision Course or Virtuouse Cicle?" In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass.: 1999. Pp. 147-184.

Goldstein, J. "Ideas, Institutions, and American Trade Policy." In International Political Economy. Edited by Jeffry A. Frieden and David A. Lake. 1995. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. 387-406.

Jackson, John J. "World Trade Rules and Environmental Policies: Congruence or Conflict?" Washington and Lee Law Review 49 (1992): 1227-1277.

Lofdahl, Corey L. Environmental Impacts of Globalization and Trade. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. Chapters 1 and 2.

Tainter, Joseph A. The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Chapter 6.

Williamson, Jeffrey A. "Globalization and Inequality, Past and Present." In International Political Economy. 4th ed. Edited by Jeffry A. Frieden, and David A. Lake. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 2000. Pp. 405-416.

Related Readings

Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Chapter 4.

Zürn, Michael. "The Rise of International Environmental Politics: A Review of Current Research." World Politics 50, 4 (1998): 617-649.

11 Institutional Responses - Private and Public

Required Readings

Hardin, Garrett. "The Tragedy of the Commons." In Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings. Edited by Robert Dorfman, and Nancy S. Dorfman. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993. Pp. 5-19.

Keohane, Robert O. "International Institutions: Two Approaches." International Studies Quarterly 32 (1988): 379-96. [Reprinted in Oran R. Young, ed. The International Political Economy and International Institutions, Volume I. Brookfield, Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 1996. Pp. 289-306.]

March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. "The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass.: 1999. Pp. 303-329.

Martin, Lisa L., and Beth A. Simmons. "Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass.: 1999. Pp. 89-117.

North, Douglass C. "Institutions and a Transaction-Cost Theory of Exchange." In Perspectives on Positive Political Economy. Edited by James E. Alt, and Kenneth A Shepsle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 182-194.

Rothenberg, Jerome. Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 355-397.

Shepsle, Kenneth A. "Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach." Journal of Theoretical Politics 1, 2 (1989): 131-147.

Young, Oran R. "Negotiating an International Climate Regime: The Institutional Bargaining for Environmental Governance." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 431-452.

Related Readings

The Editors of Harvard Law Review. "Trends in International Environmental Law." Chicago: American Bar Association, 1992.

Ostrom, Elinor. "New Horizons in Institutional Analysis." American Political Science Review 89, 1 (1995): 174-178.

12 Transcending the State - Globalization and Civil Society

Required Readings

Deudney, Daniel. "Global Village Sovereignty: Intergenerational Sovereign Publics, Federal-Republican Earth Constitutions, and Planetary Identities." In The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics. Edited by Karen T. Litfin. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. 299-325.

Frankel, Jeffrey. "Globalization of the Economy." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. Pp. 45-71.

Haas, Peter M. "The Fourth Image Reversed: Epistemic Communities and Knowledge Based Bargaining as a Response to Uncertainty." Prepared for delivery at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Atlanta, Georgia: August 30-September 3, 1989.

Lipschutz, Ronnie D. "The Nature of Sovereignty and the Sovereignty of Nature: Problematizing the Boundaries between Self, Society, State, and System." In The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics. Edited by Karen T. Litfin. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Pp. 109-138.

Ruggie, John Gerard. "What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner, eds. Cambridge, Mass.: 1999. Pp. 215-245.

Saich, Tony. "Globalization, Governance, and the Authoritarian State: China." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. Pp. 208-228.

Related Readings

Brown, L. David, Sanjeev Khagram, Mark H. Moore, and Peter Frumkin. "Globalization, NGOs, and Multisectoral Relations." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. Pp. 271-296.

Kamarck, Elaine Ciulla. "Globalization and Public Administration Reform." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. Pp. 229-252.

13 Assessing Legacies of the 20th Century

Required Readings

Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. "Global Accord: Imperatives for the Twenty-First Century." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 477-507.

Clark, Ian. Globalization and International Relations Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Chapters 7 and 8.

Kahler, Miles. "Rationality in International Relations." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass.: 1999. Pp. 279-302.

Tainter, Joseph A. The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Chapter 3, pp. 39-90.

Related Readings

Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. Globalization in Question. 2nd ed. 1999. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers Inc, 1999. Chapter 9.

Victor, David G., Abram Chayes, and Eugene B. Skolnikoff. "Pragmatic Approaches to Regime Building for Complex International Problems." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. 453-74.