2004 Colloquium Syllabus

Thursday, September 11th
Professor Steve Hirsch (http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/hirsch.html#toppage)

- Excerpts on the Neo-Assyrian and Persian Empires (Richard W. Bulliet et al., The Earth and Its Peoples , 2nd ed., Boston/New York 2001, pp. 93-98, 109-110, 114-121, 130-131, 136) (handout)
- The Neo-Assyrian Empire: King Sennacherib invades Syria-Palestine, ca. 701 B.C.E. (James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament , 3rd ed., Princeton 1969, pp. 287-288) (handout)
- The Persian Empire: Inscriptions of King Darius, ca. 521-486 B.C.E. (Roland G. Kent, Old Persian: Grammar, Texts, Lexicon , New Haven 1953,pp. 119-120, 131-132, 140, 143-144) (handout)
- The Greek historian Herodotus on Persia's first encounters with seafaring Greeks and Scythian nomads, ca. 546-513 B.C.E. (David Grene, trans., Herodotus: The History , Chicago/London 1987, pp. 98-99, 279,311, 316-317, 323-331) (handout)
- The Roman-era historian Arrian on Alexander the Great's adoption of Persian ways, ca. 330-323 B.C.E. (Aubrey de Selincourt, trans., Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander , Harmondsworth 1971, pp. 212-213, 217-223,359-360, 364-366) (handout)

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Tuesday, September 16
Professor Bruce Hitchner (new chair of the Tufts Classics Dept, director of the Dayton Peace Project; former director of the Center for International Programs at the University of Dayton):

- A. G. Hopkins (2003), Globalization in World History , chapters 1 (Globalization--An Agenda for Historians) and 2 (The History of Globalization--and The Globalization of History?) (handout)
- Hopkins, K. 1980. "Taxes and Trade in the Roman Empire." Journal of Roman Studies 70 (1980) 101-125 (handout)
- Mittleman, James. 2000. The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance . (Princeton). chapter 1 (handout)
- Peter Temin. 2001. A Market Economy in the Early Roman Empire. Journal of Roman Studies , 91: 169-181.(handout)
- "The Use and Abuse of Thucydides in International Relations" by Laurie M. Johnson Bagby (handout)

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Thursday, September 18th
Shepard Forman (http://www.nyu.edu/pages/cic/staff/staff.html)

There will be more readings for Outward Bound:

Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement , Shepard Forman and Stewart Patrick (book in the book store)

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Tuesday, October 28
Guest Lecturer: Peter Kornbluh

Senior Analyst, has worked at the Archive since 1986. He currently directs the Archive's Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran contra documentation project and director of the Archive's project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. From 1990-1999, he taught at Columbia University, as an adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs. He is the author/editor/co-editor of a number of Archive books: the Archive's first two documents readers: The Cuban Missile Crisis , 1962 and The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History , both published by the New Press, and Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (The New Press, 1998). In 2003 he published The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability . He has appeared on national television and radio broadcasts, among them 60 Minutes, The Charlie Rose show, Nightline, CNN, All Things Considered, and Fresh Air with Terri Gross. He has also worked on, and appeared in numerous documentary films, including the Panama Deception , the History Channel's Bay of Pigs Declassified , and The Trials of Henry Kissinger .

Readings:
-The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability , pp xi 35 (and accompanying documents; pp. 80-115 (and accompanying documents); pp. 457-490 (and accompanying documents) (handout)

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Wednesday, October 29

Third Essay Questions distributed, essay will be due Friday, November 7

Discussion Sections Meet

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Thursday, October 30
Guest Lecturer: Antonia Chayes

Visiting Professor of International Politics and Law, The Fletcher School; Her recent publications: Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity After Violent Ethnic Conflict (co-editor) (2003); Planning for Intervention: International Cooperation in Conflict Management (co-author) (1999); Preventing Conflict in Former Soviet Union (co-editor) (1997); Preventing Conflict in the Post Communist World: Mobilizing International and Regional Organizations (co editor) (1996); The New Sovereignty: Compliance with International Regulating Agreements (co-author) (1995).

Professional Activities: Senior Advisor and Vice Chair of Conflict Management Group; Founding member of ENDISPUTE; Chair, Project on Compliance and International Conflict Management at the Program on Negotiation; Adjunct Lecturer, The J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Member, Board of Directors, United Technologies Corporation (1981-2002); Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations and Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force (1977-1981); Served on several federal commissions, including the Vice President's White House Aviation Safety and Security Commission, and the Commission on Roles and Missions of the United States Armed Forces.

Readings:
- US Empire section of Inquiry Reader

Class will end early and we will go over to The Fletcher School for Amb. Shattuck's lecture on Freedom on Fire

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Friday, October 31

Annotated Bibliographies due for all students writing a research paper this semester and planning on conducting research abroad over winter break.

Program Committee Third Essay -- Dream Symposium -- due

List of Readings for the Mid-term Exam distributed

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Tuesday, November 4
Guest Lecturer: James Lindsay

Vice President, Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs on the National Security Council; Deputy Director and Senior  Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution (1999-2003); Consultant to the United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, Hart-Rudman Commission, (2000-2001); Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa (1987-1999); Director, Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council (1996-1997); Publications: America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (with Ivo H. Daalder, 2003); Agenda for the Nation (co-editor, 2003); P rotecting the American Homeland: One Year On (with others, 2003); Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense (with Michael E. O'Hanlon, 2001); U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War (co-editor, 1997); Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy (1994); Congress Resurgent: Foreign and Defense Policy on Capitol Hill (co- editor, 1993); Congress and Nuclear Weapons (1991).

Readings:
-America Unbound , James Lindsay and Ivo Daalder (bookstore)

(there may be an evening lecture with Lindsay and Michael Glennon, professor of international law, The Fletcher School)

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Thursday, November 6
Guest Lecturer: Jessica Tuchman Mathews

President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Her career includes posts in the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism. She was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1997 and served as director of the Council's Washington program. While there, she published her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article, "Power Shift," chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the journal's 75 years. From 1982 to 1993, she was founding vice president and director of research of the World Resources Institute. She served on the editorial board of the Washington Post from 1980 to 1982, covering energy, environment, science, technology, arms control, health, and other issues. From 1977 to 1979, she was director of the Office of Global Issues of the National Security Council, covering nuclear proliferation, conventional arms sales policy, chemical and biological warfare, and human rights. In 1993, she returned to government as deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs. Mathews is a director of Somalogic Inc. and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, The Century Foundation, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and the Surface Transportation Policy Project (which she co-founded), a national coalition working on domestic transportation issues. She has authored several publications, including "Estranged Partners", Foreign Policy (November December 2001); "Power Shift," Foreign Affairs (January-February 1997); The Earth as Transformed by Human Action (co-author); and Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership (editor).

Readings:
- "Power Shift," Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Foreign Affairs (handout)
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace newsletters
(http://www.ceip.org )
- State of the World and US Foreign Policy sections from the Inquiry Reader

8:00pm -- Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Address on "Iraq, Iran, and North Korea: Dilemmas of Proliferation, Alumnae Lounge"

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Friday, November 7

Third Essay due by 5:00pm at the Institute Office

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Monday, November 10

Discussion/Review Section may be rescheduled, please check with Yoni

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Tuesday, November 11

No Class -- Veteran's Day

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Wednesday, November 12

Discussion/Review Sections

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Thursday, November 13

In class, short answer mid term exam

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Tuesday, November 18
Guest Lecturer: Clyde Prestowitz

Clyde Prestowitz is founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute. Prior to founding ESI, Mr. Prestowitz served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. There, he led many U.S. trade and investment negotiations with Japan, China, Latin America, and Europe. Before joining the Commerce Department, he was a senior businessman in the United States, Europe, Japan, and throughout Asia and Latin America. He has served as vice chairman of the President's Committee on Trade and Investment in the Pacific and sits on the board of the US Member Committee of PBEC. Clyde Prestowitz regularly writes for leading publications, including the New York Times ,Washington Post , and Foreign Affairs . He is the author of the best-selling book on U.S.-Japan relations, Trading Places , and co-author and editor of several other books on international trade and business strategy including Asia After the Miracle ;Powernomics ;Bit by Bit ; and The New North American Trade Order . His latest book, Rogue Nation, on the United States' disconnect from the rest of the world, was published in May 2003.

Readings:
-Rogue Nation , Clyde Prestowitz (bookstore)

(there may be an evening program)

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Thursday, November 20
Guest Lecturer: Malik Mufti

Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts, Professor Mufti teaches courses on international relations as well as the politics of the Middle East. He is the author of Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq, as well as journal articles and book chapters on the domestic and foreign policies of Jordan, Egypt, Israel, and Turkey. His latest publications are: "A King's Art: Dynastic Ambition and State Interest in Hussein's Jordan" (forthcoming in Diplomacy and Statecraft ), and "From Swamp to Backyard: The Middle East in Turkish Foreign Policy" (forthcoming in The Middle East Enters the 21st Century , edited by Robert O. Freedman). He is currently working on two projects: a book on Turkish strategic culture and an investigation of war in the thought of medieval Islamic political philosophers.

Readings:
- US and the Middle East section of Inquiry Reader
- "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America: September 2002" ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf )
- "Changing Minds, Winning Peace" ( http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/24882.pdf

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Tuesday, November 25 (we are expecting YOU to be in class this day)

TBD

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Thursday, November 27

No class -- Thanksgiving

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Tuesday, December 2

Guest Lecturer: John Hoberman

A European cultural and intellectual historian with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race. His books are Sport and Political Ideology (1984), The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order (1986), Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport (1992), and Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (1997). He has taught courses on sport and politics at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Professor of Germanic Languages with a specialty in Scandinavian studies, including Norwegian language instruction.

Readings:
TBD

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Thursday, December 4
Guest Lecturer: William Moomaw (to be confirmed)
Professor of International Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School

Recent Publications: Transboundary Environmental Negotiation (co-editor) (2002); People and Their Planet: Searching for Balance , (co-editor) (1999). Articles include: "Aligning Values for Effective Sustainability Planning," Planning for Higher Education (2003); "Energy, Industry and Nitrogen: Strategies for Reducing Reactive Nitrogen Emissions," Ambio (2002); "Expanding the Concept of Environment Management Systems," Regulating From the Inside (2001); "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); "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).

Professional Activities: Senior 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 2001; Board of Directors, Consensus Building Institute; Science Advisory Committee, Earthwatch; Lead author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2003.

Readings:
TBD

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Thursday, December 18

Short answer final exam, 9:00am, room TBA