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Thursday, September 13
Terrorism & Global Inequities
Extractive Industries & Global Equity
Peter Rosenblum
Director, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
Readings
"The Dirt in the New Machine," Blaine Harden, New York Times Magazine, August 12, 2001, pages 35-39
"A Message From The Global South," Saskia Sassen
"Rational Fanatics," Ehud Sprinzak, Foreign Policy
"The New Geography of Conflict," Michael T. Klare, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2001, pages 49-61
New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era, Mary Kaldor, pages 69-152
"Reluctant Missionaries," Marina Ottaway, Foreign Policy, July/August 2001, pages 44-54
"Keeping Up With the Revolution," Peter Rosenblum, Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, pages 19-26
"An Army of One's Own," Elizabeth Rubin, Harper's Magazine/ February 1997
Tuesday, September 18
Rosh HaShana -- No formal class for those celebrating
David Turner -- FIPSE Evaluation Session
Thursday, September 20
Hafsat Abiola
Director, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy. Nigeria; Executive Board YES - Youth Employment Summit
Readings
"Prisoners of Geography," Ricardo Hausmann, Foreign Policy, January/February 2001, p.45-53
"Informal Value Transfer System," Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek --en Documentatiecentrum website, http://www.minjust.nl:8080/b_organ/wodc/summaries/ond1999-4s.htm
Illusions of Power: Nigeria in Transition, Julius O. Ihonvbere and Timothy Shaw, Chapter 10-"Nigeria and the Future: Early 1990s to 2000 and Beyond" and Chapter 9-"Shell, the Military and the Ogoni Crisis"
Friday-Sunday, September 21- 23
Varieties of Justice and Dilemmas of Inequality
Outward Bound,
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School
Readings
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, John Rawls, ed. Erin Kelly, pp1-79
"The Enduring Significance of John Rawls," Martha Nussbaum, Chronicle Review, July 20, 2001
"Rawls on International Justice," Thomas W. Pogge, The Philosophical Quarterly, April 2001
"Critical Notice of John Rawls The Law of Peoples," Kok-Chor Tan, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, March 2001
After Politics: The Rejection of Politics in Contemporary Liberal Philosophy, Glen Newey, pp 1 14, 159-186
Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick, pp 26-53, 149-182
"Moral Relativism," Gilbert Harman, in Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity, Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson, pp 20-31
"Famine, Affluence, and Morality," Peter Singer, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Spring 1972, pp 229-243
"The Singer Solution to World Poverty A contentious ethicist explains why your taste for foie gras is starving children," Peter Singer, New York Times Magazine, September 5, 1999
"Equity in a Global Public Goods Framework," J. Mohan Rao Case Studies: Equity and Justice
"Distributive Justice as an International Public Good: A Historical Perspective," Ethan B. Kapstein in Case Studies: Equity and Justice
"Global Justice: Beyond International Equity," Amartya Sen in Case Studies: Equity and Justice
"Harrison Bergeron", Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Welcome to the Monkey House
Tuesday, September 25
Thinking About Globalization
Paul Joseph
Professor of Sociology, Director Peace & Justice Studies Program, Tufts
University
Readings
Inequality, Globalisation, and World Politics, Andrew Hurrell & Ngaire Woods, pages 1-332
Globalization: The Reader, John Benyon and David Dunkerley, eds., pages 1-38.
Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture, Held, McGrew, Goldblatt, and Perraton, editors, pages 1-31, 77-86, 149-282, 414-452
"Part 6: The New Global Economy," Jeffrey Sachs, Dani Rodrik, Roger Altman, and Lester C. Thurow, in Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century: A Reader, O'Meara, Mehlinger and Krain, editors, pages 215-252
"Preparing for the 21st Century: Winners and Losers," Paul Kennedy, in Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century: A Reader, O'Meara, Mehlinger and Krain, editors, pages
323-374
"Measuring Globalization," www.foreignpolicy.com, pages 1-6
"Pakistan's Islamic Colleges Provide the Taliban's Spiritual Fire," Daniel Del Castillo in The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 28, 2001
Thursday September 27
No Class-- Yom Kippur
Makeup TBA
Tuesday, October 2
First In-Class Examination
Thursday, October 4
The End of Globalization: Lessons From the Great Depression, Harold James, pp. 1-30, 200-224
"Globalisation's children strike back," Financial Times, September 11,2001
"Harrison Bergeron", Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Welcome to the Monkey House
Thursday, October 11th
Heeten Kalan and Ravi Dixit
SAEPEJ
Readings
"Citizenship Challenges for South Africa's Young Democracy" by Mamphela
Ramphele in Daedalus, Winter 2001 (Why South Africa Matters)
"Can South Africa Avoid a Malthusian Positive Check?" by Charles Simkins
in Daedalus, Winter 2001
"AIDS: Losing "The New Struggle"' by Virginia van der Vliet in Daedalus
Winter 2001
"Education and Democracy in South Africa Today" by Kader Asmal and Wilmont
James in Daedalus Winter 2001
"Two Nations? Race and Economic Inequality in South Africa" by Nicoli
Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings in Daedalus Winter 2001
"Economic Scenarios for South Africa: A Business Perspective" by Leslie
Boyd, Michael Spicer, and Gavin Keeton in Daedalus Winter 2001
"Minerals ad Migrants: How the Mining Industry has Shaped South Africa" by
Francis Wilson in Daedalus Winter 2001
"Who We Are" and SAEPEJ Activity Report
"Apartheid and the Environment: Polluting the Poor" by Heeten Kalan,
Toward Freedom, Dec. 1993
"Apartheid's Environmental Toll" by Alan B. Durning, Worldwatch Institute
Tuesday, October 16th
Peter Uvin
Director of the Institute on Human Security and Professor of Humanitarian Studies, The Fletcher School
Readings
"Global Dreams and Local Anger: From Structural to Acute Violence in a
Globalizing World" by Peter Uvin
Selections from Aiding Violence: Development Enterprise in Rwanda by Peter Uvin
12:00-3:00pm, Wright Center 267C
World Hunger Day
Special Program (optional)
Reading
"Globalization: The Answer or the Problem" by the US National Committee
for World Food Day
Thursday, October 18
Readings
Durable Inequality by Charles Tilly
Freedom and Development by Amartya Sen
Reprise
Selection from The End of Globalization by Harold James
"Globalization's Children Strike Back" by James Harding
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr Daedalus Winter 2001
Saturday, October 20
Jeffrey Ballinger
Readings
"Strategic Public Relations, Sweatshops, and the Making of a Global Movement", B.J. Bullert, The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Working Paper Series. #2000-14
"Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices", Harvard Business School January 19, 2000, N1-700-047
"Taking On the Global Market Machine: Time to Gear for a Revolution in Worker Rights", Jeffrey Ballinger, Brown Economic Review, Spring 1999
Nike in Indonesia, Volume 1, No. 2, February 1995
Nike in Indonesia, Volume 1, No. 3, May 1995
"How the Military Enforces Global Capitalism: Nike's Armies", Jeff Ballinger, The Nonviolent Activist, July August 2000
"Old Policies of Repression Linger", Jeff Ballinger and Deborah Sklar, The Los Angeles Times, Friday August 7, 1998.
"The Financial Page The Most Devastating Retailer in the World", James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, September 16, 2000
"Tracking Nike's Footprints Across Asia", Jardine Fleming Research Regional Manufacturing Sector, April 9 1997
"Realizing Labor Standards How transparency, competition, and sanctions could improve working conditions worldwide.", Archon Fung, Dara O'Rourke, and Charles Sabel, Boston Review, February/March 2001
A Step Up for Workers? Eight responses to "Realizing Labor Standards.", Robin Broad and Pranab Bardhan, Boston Review, February/March 2001
"Two Cheers for Sweatshops They're dirty and dangerous. They're also a major reason why Asia is back on track.", Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, The New York Times Magazine, September 24, 2000
"Nike's profits jump on the backs of Asian Workers", Jeff Ballinger, Harpers Magazine/ August 1992
"Open letter to Nike: From Nike Website" From Nike Website on Friday September 10, 1999 printed October 10, 2001 from http://www.web.net/-msn/3nike13.htm
"Labor Rights", Jeff Ballinger, Third World Traveler, printed October 15, 2001 from http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Labor/Labor_Rights_Ballinger.html
"A Code of Conduct Needed for Code of Conduct Monitors", Robert A. Senser, Human Rights for Workers Bulletin, Volume II, No. 12: July 21, 1997, printed October 15, 2001 from http://www.senser.com/btwelve.htm
"Nike and Freedom of Association: An Opportunity Not to be Wasted", Campaign for Labor Rights Labor Alerts, posted May 21, 1999 on the Campaign for Labor Rights Page, printed October 15, 2001 from http://www.summersault.com/~agi/cir/alerts/nikeopportunitynottobewasted.html
"Nike Does It to Vietnam", Jeff Ballinger, Multinational Monitor, March 1997 Volume 18, Number 3 printed October 15, 2001 from http://www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm0397.07.html
"New Report on Nike", Labornet Newsline, posted November 9, 1999 , printed October 15, 2001 from http://www.labornet.org/news/111499/03.html
"Nike's Response to Clean Clothes Campaign", Dusty Kidd, October 5, 1999 printed on October 15, 2001 from http://nikebiz.com/labor/cleancl_let.shtml
"Labor Pains", Foreign Policy, September/October 2002
"These Firms Make Nothing", Edmund Lee, The Straits Times, March 24, 1999
"Nike to Improve Minimum Monthly Wage Package for Indonesian Workers, Company VP Tells Portland City Club Audience", Nike Press Release dated March 19, 1999, Printed from http://www.nikebiz.com/media/n_wage.shtml
"Nike Board of Directors and CEO Philip H. Knight Create Corporate Responsibility Committee", Nike Press Release dated September 10, 1999, Printed from http://www.nikebiz.com/media/n_crboard.shtml
"Global Business Leaders Discuss Social Responsibility Obligations", Nike Press Release dated November 17, 1998, Printed from http://www.nikebiz.com/media/n_socialoblig.shtml
"Dismissal of Keady Against Nike Affirmed", Nike Press Release dated October 2, 2001, Printed from http://www.nikebiz.com/media/n_diskeady.shtml
Tuesday, November 6
john a. powell
Readings
"United States-Style Globalization as the Newest Expression of Racial Subordination: International and International Evidence", john a. powell, Paper presented at the International Council on Human Rights Policy, Geneva Switzerland, January 24-25, 2001
"Whites Will Be Whites: The Failure to Interrogate Racial Privilege", john a. powell, University of San Francisco Law Review, Volume 34, Spring 2000
Tuesday, November 13
Readings
Preface and Introduction, Amartya Sen, Inequality Reexamined, 1992, pp. viii-xiv, 2-11
"International Development: Is It Possible?", Joseph E. Stiglitz, Foreign Policy, pp. 138-151
"International Economics: Unlocking the Mysteries of Globalization", Jeffrey Sachs, Foreign Policy, Spring 1998, pp. 97-111
"International Organizations and the Pursuit of Justice in the World Economy", Steven Weber, Ethics and International Affairs, volume 14, 2000, pp.99-117
"Globalization, Justice, and International Organizations: A Commentary", Mark W. Zacher, Ethics and International Affairs, volume 14, 2000, pp.119-123
"Racial Justice: The Superficial Morality of Colour-Blindness, Glenn Loury, The International Council on Human Rights Policy Seminar on Racism, Geneva, November 24-25, 2001
Thursday, November 15
Readings
Bridging the Digital Divide: Placing People at the Center, Equal Access Case Study: Speech delivered by Ronni Goldfarb, Executive Director, Equal Access, June 14, 2001 at the United Nations Association of Greater Boston Conference "Reaching Across the Digital Divide", for more information on Equal Access visit www.equalaccess.org
"HIV/AIDS Prevention and Women and Girls Empowerment Equal Access and the United Nations Development Programme: Asia-Pacific, UNDP Project Briefing
"Taking Technology Investment to Africa", Denise Caruso, The New York Times, October 11, 1999
"Digital Technology, Digital Satellite, Digital Receivers, Digital Information Initiative- A UNDP / Equal Access Public Private Partnership Serving the Information Poor Through ICT", UNDP Digital Information Initiative, pp. 1-12, for more information visit Equal Access at www.equalaccess.org and the UNDP at www.hivasiapacific.apdip.net/.
Friday, November 16
Readings
"Chapter 8: From Wall Street to Main Street: Economic Policy for the Twenty-first Century", Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, Growing Prosperity, 2000
"Chapter 1: Growth with Equity", Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, Growing Prosperity, 2000
Thursday, November 29
Readings
"Treating the roots of terrorism", Jonathan Moore, The Boston Globe, Saturday, September 29, 2001
Tuesday, December 4
Readings
"Trade and the Developing World: A New Agenda", Joseph Stiglitz, Current History, November 1999
"The Invention of Development", Arturo Escobar, Current History, November 1999
"Exploring the Flaws in the Notion of the 'Root Causes' of Terror", Edward Rothstein, The New York Times, November 17, 2001
"Global Rich-Poor Divide to Widen, Says World Bank", Jim Lobe, OneWorld.net, printed from http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/oneworld/20011031/wl/global_rich-poor_divide_to_widen_says_world_bank_1.html on November 6, 2001
"The International Economy Power Tree", International Economy, March/April 2000
"Debt Relief", William Easterly, Foreign Policy, November/December 2001
"The Future of the International Financial Structure" A Report by a Council on Foreign Relations Task Force, Foreign Affairs, Volume 78, No. 6
"Environmental Stress and Human Security in Northern Pakistan", Richard
A. Matthew, Environmental Change and Security Project Report, Summer 2000
"The Invention of Development", Arturo Escobar, Current History, November
1999
"Debt Relief", William Easterly, Foreign Policy, Nov/Dec, 2001
Thursday, December 6
Readings
"Global Public Goods: Concepts, Policies and Strategies", Inge Kaul et
al, from Global Public Goods, Inge Kaul et al (eds.)
"Knowledge as a Global Public Good", Joseph E. Stiglitz, from Global
Public Goods,
Inge Kaul et al (eds.)
"Apartheid's Environmental Toll" by Alan B. Durning, Worldwatch Institute
"Commentaries: The U.S. National Intelligence Council's Global trends
2015: Excerpts, Commentaries, and Response", Eugene J. Carroll, Jr. et
al., Environmental Change and Security Project Report, Summer 2001
"Too Many Flags?", Juan Enriquez, Foreign Policy, Issue 116 Fall 1999
"Montreal versus Kyoto: International Cooperation and the Global
Environment", Scott Barrett, from Global Public Goods, Inge Kaul et al
(eds.)
Miscellaneous Fall Semester Readings
Excerpts from "The Population Implosion", Nicholas Eberstadt, ECSP Report, Issue 7
"Property Wrongs", Heather Bourbeau, Foreign Policy, Nov/Dec 2001
"Ethnicity, Gender Relations, and Multiculturalism", Nira Yuval Davis
"The Other Evil", Strobe Talbott, Foreign Policy, Nov/Dec 2001
"From Wall Street to Main Street: Economic Policy for the Twenty-first
Century", Barry Bluestone, from Growing Prosperity
"Growth with Equity", Barry Bluestone, from Growing Prosperity
"Will Globalization Go Bankrupt?", Michael Pettis, Foreign Policy,
September/October 2001
"Who's Minding the Bank?", Stephen Fidler, Foreign Policy,
September/October 2001
"Armed Conflict and Hunger", Ellen Messer, Marc J. Cohen and Jashinta D'Costa, printed from http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/fall2000/messer1.htm
"The Taliban: Exporting Extremism", Ahmed Rashid, Foreign Affairs, November/ December 1999, Volume 78, Number 6
"Homeland Defense", Michael E. O'Hanlon, Defense Policy Choices for the Bush Administration 2001-2005
Spring Semester Readings
"Pegged for Failure? Argentina's Crisis", James E. Mahon, Jr. and Javier Corrales, Current History, February 2002
"How to judge Globalism", Amartya Sen, The American Prospect, Special Supplement, Winter 2002
"Medicine as a Luxury", Merrill Goozner, The American Prospect, Special Supplement, Winter 2002
"The Mirage of Progress", Mark Weisbrot, The American Prospect, Special Supplement, Winter 2002
"Free Markets and Poverty", Christian E. Weller and Adam Hersh, The American Prospect, Special Supplement, Winter 2002
"Globalism's Discontents", Joseph E. Stiglitz, The American Prospect, Special Supplement, Winter 2002
"A Deal Built on Sand", Jeff Faux, The American Prospect, Special Supplement, Winter 2002
"Justice for Refugees", William F. Schulz, The American Prospect, Special Supplement, Winter 2002
"Starved for Attention", Susan Sechler, The American Prospect, Special Supplement, Winter 2002
"The Costs of Orthodoxy", Mark Alan Healey and Ernesto Seman, The American Prospect, Special Supplement, Winter 2002
"A Politics of Denial", Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The American Prospect, Special Supplement, Winter 2002
"Making Globalization Work for the Have-Nots: The Decade Ahead", P.J. Simmons, Forthcoming, in Nicholas Kittrie, Rodrigo Carazo-Odio and James Mancham, Eds., The Seeds of True Peace: Responding to the Discontents of a Global Community
"Economic Policy, Distribution and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements", Ravi Kanbur, Rome, January 19, 2001
"A perfect crime: inequality in the age of globalization", James K. Galbraith, Daedalus, Winter 2002
"Inequality in the Era of Globalization", James K. Galbraith
Women and Human Development, Martha C. Nussbaum, pp. x-xxi and 1-33
"Sex, laws, and inequality: what India can teach the United States", Martha C. Nussbaum, Daedalus, Winter 2002
"Testimony of James K. Galbraith, Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, Senior Scholar, Jerome Levy Economics Institute and Director, The University of Texas Inequality Project, before the Advisory Commission on the International Financial Institutions, Washington D.C., January 4, 2000
Women and Human Development, Martha C. Nussbaum, pp. 34-166 and 298-303
"Roy Vagelos Attacks River Blindness", Michael Useem, The Leadership Moment, pp. 10-42
"India's Plague", Michael Specter, The New Yorker, December 17, 2001
"Anthrax, Drug Transnationals and TRIPS: Profits before public health", Kavaljit Singh, Z Magazine, December 2001
"March Madness", The New Republic, May 1, 2001
"Drug Companies have lowered the price of drugs to treat AIDS in Africa. The world has embraced the cause. Now what?", John Donnelly, The Boston Sunday Globe, April 1, 1001
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