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Introduction |
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The causes of war in perspective. Does international politics follow regular laws of motion? If so, how can we discover them? Can we use methods like those of the harder sciences? |
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33 Hypotheses on the Causes of War |
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8 Hypotheses on Military Factors as Causes of War. |
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- Ziegler, David. "Disarmament." Chap. 15 in War, Peace and International Politics. 249-267.
- Schelling, Thomas C. Arms and Influence. 221-251.
- Blainey, Geoffrey. "Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War." Chap. 3 in The Causes of War. 35-56.
- Van Evera, Stephen. "Primed for Peace: Europe After the Cold War." In Cold War and After. 193-203.
- John Mueller's collection of predictions, "Various Shapes of Things to Come," appended to the course syllabus. Has our understanding of war made progress since the days of Henry Buckle, Randolph Bourne, and David Starr Jordan? (optional delectation) And see also, for background, the appended data on war deaths from Ruth Sivard, World Military and Social Expenditures, 28-31.
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5, 6, 7 |
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10 Hypotheses on Misperception and the Causes of War: Hypotheses from Psychology; Militarism; Nationalism; Spirals and Deterrence; Defects in Academe and the Press; Accidental War. |
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- Jervis, Robert. "Hypotheses on Misperception." In International Politics: Anarchy, Force, Political Economy, and Decision Making. 510-526.
- Jervis, Robert. "Perception and Misperception." In International Politics. 58-84.
- Van Evera. "Primed for Peace." 204-211.
- Zimmerman, William. "Yugoslav Disintegration, Social and Economic Change, and Balkan Transformation."
- Hedges, Chris. "In Bosnia's Schools, 3 Ways Never to Learn From History." New York Times. November 25, 1997.
- Morgenthau, Hans J. "The Purpose of Political Science." In A Design for Political Science: Scope, Objectives, and Methods. 69-74.
- Pearson. David. "The Media and Government Deception." Propaganda Review. 6-11.
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15 More Causes of War and Peace: Culture, Gender, Language, Democracy, Social equality & social justice, Minority rights & human rights, Prosperity, Economic interdependence, Revolution, Capitalism, Imperial decline and collapse, Cultural learning, Religion, Emotional factors (revenge, contempt, honor), Polarity of the international system; Causes of civil war. |
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- Bellak, Leopold. "Why I Fear the Germans." New York Times. April 4, 1990.
- Harris, Louis. "The Gender Gulf." New York Times. December 7, 1990.
- Goldstein, Joshua S. "Feminism." In International Relations. 282-295.
- Mearsheimer, John. "Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War." In Cold War and After. 147-155, 165-167, 176-187.
- Van Evera, Stephen. "Primed for Peace." 211-236.
- Wallensteen, Peter, and Margaret Sollenberg. "Armed Conflict 1989-99." Journal of Peace Research 37, no. 5, September 2000, 635-649.
- Brown, Michael E. "Introduction." In The International Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict. 1-31.
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Response Paper Due Class #9
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Cases: Wars and Crises |
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The Seven Years War. |
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- Palmer, R. R., and Joel Colton. "The Great War of the Mid-Eighteenth Century." In A History of the Modern World. 273-285.
- Smoke, Richard. "The Seven Years War." In War: Controlling Escalation. 195-236.
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The Crimean War. |
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- Palmer, R. R., and Joel Colton. "The Crimean War". In A History of the Modern World. 544-546.
- Smoke. "The Crimean War". In War. 147-194.
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The Wars of German Unification: 1864, 1866, and 1870; and segue to World War I. |
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- Ziegler. "The Wars for German Unification." Chap. 1 in War, Peace and International Politics. 7-20.
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14, 15, 16 |
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World War I. |
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- Palmer and Colton. "The First World War." In History of the Modern World. 695-718.
- Geiss, Imanuel. German Foreign Policy, 1871-1914. Pages: vii-ix, 75-83, 106-181, 206-207. The key pages are 121-127, 142-150, 206-207.
- Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War. Edited by Miller, pages xi-xix, 20-108.
- Kitchen, Martin. "The Army and the Idea of Preventive War." and "The Army and the Civilians." Chap. 5 and 6 in The German Officer Corps, 1890-1914. 96-142.
- Langsam, Walter Consuelo. "Nationalism and History in the Prussian Elementary Schools Under William II." In Nationalism and Internationalism. Edited by Edward Mead Earle, 241-260.
- Joll, James. Origins of the First World War. Chap. 2, 9-34.
- Documents collection at
www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914.html
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First (4 - 6 pages) Paper Due Class #14 |
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Interlude: Hypotheses on Escalation & Limitation of War; and Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Strategy and the Causes of War. |
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- Iklé, Fred. Every War Must End. 1-105.
- Ziegler. "The Balance of Terror." In War, Peace and International Politics. 221-234.
- Haass, Richard N. "It's Dangerous to Disarm." New York Times. December 11, 1996.
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World War II. |
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- Palmer R. R., and Joel Colton. A History of the Modern World. 798-799, 822-849.
- Haffner, Sebastian. The Meaning of Hitler. 3-165.
- Herwig, Holger. "Clio Deceived: Patriotic Self-Censorship in Germany After the Great War." In Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War. 262-301.
- Wette, Wolfram. "From Kellog to Hitler (1928-1933). German Public Opinion Concerning the Rejection or Glorification of War." In The German Military in the Age of Total War. 71-99.
- Sagan, Scott. "The Origins of the Pacific War." In The Origins and Prevention of Major Wars. 323-352.
- Ienaga, Saburo. The Pacific War, 1931-1945. Pages vii-152, 247-256.
- Utley, Jonathan G. Going to War With Japan 1937-1941. 151-156.
- Heinrichs, Waldo. The Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II. 141-142, 177, 246-247.
- Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. "Letter to the editor." New York Review of Books. 40.
- Kristoff, Nicholas. "A Tojo Battles History, for Grandpa and for Japan." New York Times. April 22, 1999.
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23, 24 |
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The Cold War, Korea and Indochina. |
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- Paterson, Thomas G., J. Gary Clifford, and Kenneth Hagan. American Foreign Policy: A History Since 1900. 471-480, 519-539, 546-563.
- Stoessinger, John. Nations at Dawn. Pages xi-119.
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The Peloponnesian War. |
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- Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. 35-108, 118-164, 212-223, 400-429, 483-488, 516-538.
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Second (4 - 6 pages) Paper Due Class #26 |
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The Future of War |
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Testing and Applying Theories of War Causation; the Future of War, Solutions to War. |
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- Kaysen, Carl. "Is War Obsolete?" In Cold War and After. 81-103.
- Ziegler. "World Government." "Collective Security." Chap. 8, 11 in War, Peace and International Politics. 127-45, 179-203.
- Nitze, Paul. "A Threat Mostly to Ourselves." New York Times. October 28, 1999.
- Mearsheimer. "Back to the Future." In Cold War and After. 167-176, 187-192. (Review)
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