PS314 "National States and Global Challenges" Spring 2006 Course Schedule

I. Introduction: The Globalization Debate

Week 1

January 10^th: Introduction: The themes of the course

January 12^th: No Class

READ: T. Friedman and I. Ramonet, “Dueling Globalizations”

Week 2

January 17^th: How new is globalization?

READ: E. Rothschild, “Globalization and the Return of History”

January 19^th: What is new in contemporary globalization?

READ: R. Keohane and J. Nye, “Globalization: What’s New? What’s Not? (And So What?)”

II. The Sovereign State?

Week 3:

January 24^th: The emergence of the sovereign state

READ: H. Spruyt, “The Sovereign State and It’s Competitors” (copy)

January 26^th: The Nature of Sovereignty

READ: Stephen Krasner, “Sovereignty”

Week 4:

January 31^st: The national market and economic sovereignty

READ: Henry Kaufman, “If Adam Smith were alive today: Capitalism is the only way to go” Vital Speeches of the Day; New York; Oct 15, 2001 (Proquest).

February 2^nd: Keynesianism and the Welfare State

READ: R. Reich, "Economist: John Maynard Keynes", Time, March 29^th, 1999. (Proquest).

Week 5: 

February 7^th: Economic sovereignty today

READ: P. Drucker, "The Global Economy and the Nation-State", Foreign Affairs (Sept/Oct 1997) (Proquest).

February 9^th: The New Global Paradigm

READ: Susan Strange, “The Erosion of the State”, Current History, vol. 96, November 1997 (Proquest)

Week 6

February 14^th: The transformation of power

READ: N. Ferguson, “Power”

February 16^th: Measuring Globalization

Read: Foreign Policy, “Measuring Globalization 2005”

Nationalism, Culture, and Globalization

Week 7:

February 21^st: Nations, Identity, and Nationalism

READ: Samuel Huntington, "Will you become your own nation?", Time Magazine May 22^nd, 2000 (Proquest).

February 23^rd: The Civilizational Approach

READ: Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”, Foreign Affairs, vol. 72, Summer 1993 (Proquest) 

Midterm Examination Due (February 28^th)

Week 8

February 28^th: The Critique of Huntington

READ: “Comments: Responses to Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’”, Foreign Affairs, vol. 72, Sept/Oct 1993 (Proquest)

March 2^nd: Jihad versus McWorld

READ: Benjamin Barber, “Jihad versus McWorld”, The Atlantic, Boston; Mar 1992; Vol. 269, Iss. 3 (Proquest)

Globalization and Politics

Week 9:

March 7^th: The Triumph of Liberalism

F. Fukuyama, "The End of History", The National Interest, no. 16, Summer 1989

March 9^th: Critiques of Fukuyama

READ: “Responses to Fukuyama’s ‘The End of History’”, The National Interest, no. 17, Fall 1989, and F. Fukuyama responds to his critics, The National Interest, no. 18, Winter 1989

Week 10: Spring Break (no classes)

Week 11

March 21^st: The Institutions of Globalization

READ: D. Kapur, “The IMF: Cure or Curse?”

March 23^rd: The Evolution of the International System

READ: R. Keohane, “Can Interdependence Work”

Week 12

March 28^th: The Problem of Democracy

READ: D. Kapur, “Who Gets to Run The World?”

March 30^th: The Cosmopolitan Vision

READ: D. Held, “Globalization and Cosmopolitan Democracy”, Peace Review, 9:3 (1997) (Proquest)

Week 13

April 4^th: The Regional Alternative

READ: Europa website

April 6^th: The Challenges for the EU

READ: F. Gonzalez and S. Hoffman, “The European Union and Globalization”

Case Studies in Globalization

Week 14

April 11^th: Food

READ: T. Bestor, “How Sushi Went Global”

April 13^th: The Media

READ: B. Compaine, “Global Media”

Week 15

April 18^th: Wine

READ: K. Anderson, “Wine’s New World”

April 20^th: Terrorism

READ: R. Fatton, “Globalization, Poverty, and Terror” and “Globalization and Terrorism” Global Envision at http://www.globalenvision.org/library/8/703/

Week 16

April 25^th: Poster Project presentations

April 27^th: Course review and final examination day