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:

From the Inquiry Reader:

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:

From the Inquiry Reader:

Thursday, September 19

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

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:

Recommended Readings:

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):

From the Inquiry Reader:

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:

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

In War and Peace:

Tuesday, October 8

Scenarios

Guest Lecturer:
Philip Bobbitt

Readings from The Shield of Achilles:

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

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

Thursday, October 24

Dilemmas of Humanitarian Intervention

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

Readings

Monday, October 28

Optional - David Rieff at Harvard

Readings (mandatory)

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

Thursday, October 31

US Foreign Policy & Great Power Intervention in Peripheral Areas

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

Readings

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

From Inquiry reader:

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)