Thursday, September 8: The Politics of Fear and the Psychology
of Hate
Karen Weis
PhD Candidate, University of Heidelberg
Co-author, Robert Sternberg, Psychology of Hatred (forthcoming -
Yale University Press)
Handouts:
“Explorations of the Duplex Theory of Hate” by Karin Weis, September
2005
“A Duplex Theory of Hate and its Development and its Application to
Terrorism, Massacres, and Genocide” by Robert J. Sternberg, August
2002
Tuesday, September 13: The Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia - Fear, Hatred,
and Nationalism - Ethnic Cleansing and its Repercussions
Zlatko Lagumdzija
President of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Member, House of Representatives,
Parliamentary Assembly, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bruce Hitchner
Professor and Chair, Department of Classics and Director, Archaeology
Program, Tufts University; Chairman, Dayton Peace Accords Project
Books:
The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael
Mann, chapters 12 and 13
Handouts:
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War by Misha Glenny, chapters
1 (The Heart of the Matter, Knin), 2 (Dress Rehearsal ? Serb Eat Serb,
Belgrade), and 5 (Bosnia-Hercegovina ? Paradise of the Damned)
“Yugoslav Nationalities Policy” from Nationalism and Federalism
in Yugoslavia 1962-1991 by Sabrina Ramet
“Nationalist Tensions, 1968-90: Muslims, Albanians, Croats, Slovenes,
Montenegrins” from Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia 1962-1991
by Sabrina Ramet
“The Balkan Tragedy” by Michael Ignatieff, The New York Review
of Books, May 13, 1993
“Bosnia: ‘No More than Witnesses at a Funeral’” from
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
Op-ed from Dnevi Avaz by Bruce Hitchner
Opinion on the Constitutional Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
and the Powers of the High Representative, European Commission for Democracy
through Law (for those who have not done a lot of reading about the former
Yugoslavia, read the handouts in the order listed and then the two chapters
in Mann’s book)
Thursday, September 15: "Metus Hostilis" - Fear of Enemies and
Collective Action
Professor Ioannis Evrigenis
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; Coeditor
and Co-translator, Jonathan Gottfried’s Another Philosophy of History
and Selected Political Writings; Author, “Carthage Must Be Saved”:
Fear of Enemies and Collective Action (forthcoming)
Book:
Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World by
Wole Soyinka
(this will be discussed in the first hour of class)
Handouts:
Carthage Must Be Saved: Fear of Enemies and Collective Action by
Ioannis D. Evrigenis, paper from the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association
Sallust’s Theorem: A Comment on “Fear” in Western Political
Thought by Neal Wood, History of Political Thought, Summer 1995
Tuesday, September 20: The Geopolitics of Fear
Padraig O’ Malley
For most of his professional life he has been involved with the conflict
in Northern Ireland. Working with all the political parties to the conflict
he convened the Amherst Conference on Northern Ireland (Massachusetts,
1975), the Airlie House Conference (Virginia, 1985) and co–convened
the Arniston Conference with the government of South Africa (Western
Cape, 1997). He was also a member of the Opshal Commission, which authored
the report "Northern Ireland: A Citizens' Inquiry" (Belfast,
1993). He is the author of a number of prize winning books on Northern
Ireland including The Uncivil Wars: Ireland Today (1983) Biting at the
Grave (1990), and Questions of Nuance (1990). He has also extensively
researched the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa;
his work is archived online at The Heart of Hope: South Africa's Transition
from Apartheid to Democracy, 1989-1996.
Book:
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by
Andrew Bacevich, pp 1-96
Handouts:
Torture: A Collection, Sanford Levinson, editor, pp 1-141
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror by
Mark Danner, pp. 1-24
Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of
Despair by Padraig O’Malley, parts I (Hunger Strikes) and II (Reactions)
Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council
and the Architects of American Power by David Rothkopf, chapters 1 (The
Committee in Charge of Running the World) and 13 (U.S. Foreign Policy in
the Age of Ambiguity)
Thursday, September 22: The Politics of Fear in Central America: From
Civil War to Anomic Violence
Professor Victor Valle
Dr. Valle is the Dean for Academic Administration and Professor of
Human Security at the University for Peace. As Dean, he oversees admission
and registrar processes as well as the management of all academic programmes.
He serves as Vice Chair of the Headquarters Management Committee, the
Programme Academic Committees and Secretary of the Academic Board.
Handouts:
“Truth as Justice: Investigatory Commissions in Latin America” by
Margaret Popkin and Naomi Roht-Arriaza in Transitional Justice: How Emerging
Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, Neil Kritz, editor
“The United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador” by Thomas
Buergenthal in Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with
Former Regimes, Neil Kritz, editor
“A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers” by
Lawrence Weschler in Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon
with Former Regimes, Neil Kritz, editor
"Myrna Mack" by Elizabeth Oglesby
"Living in a State of Fear" by Linda Green
Tuesday, September 27: Rushdie and Beyond: Literature and the Politics
of Fear
Professor Modhumita Roy
Book:
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies by Ian Baruma
and Avishai MargolitHandouts:
"Literature Can Close the Fear Gap" by Salman Rushdie, New Perspectives
Quarterly, Summer 2005
"Massacre of Arcadia" by Pantcaj Mishra
"Letter from Europe" by Jane Kramer from The New Yorker, Jan 14,
1991
"Kashmir: Learning from the Past" International Crisis Group
Thursday, September 29
First Exam
Friday, September 30 - Sunday, October 2: Fear and U.S. Foreign Policy:
The War on Terror
Sargent Camp for Outdoor Education, Peterborough NH
EPIIC Weekend Immersion with Professor Andrew Bacevich
Dr. Bacevich is professor of international relations and the former
Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and has taught at West
Point and at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Bacevich is the author most
recently of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by
War (2005). His previous books include American Empire: The Realities
and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy (2004), The Imperial Tense: Problems
and Prospects of American Empire (2003), and War over Kosovo: Politics
and Strategy in a Global Age (2002). He was a member of a Cato Institute
task force that produced the report, "Exiting Iraq: Why the U.S.
Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War Against al-Qaida.
In 2004, Dr. Bacevich was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy
in Berlin.
Book:
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by
Andrew Bacevich
Thursday, October 6: US Foreign Policy: Manufactured Fear?
Professor Paul Joseph
Paul Joseph is a political sociologist at Tufts University with a
specialty on the influence of US domestic politics on military policies.
He examines the impact of social movements, public opinion, and various
business and bureaucratic interests particularly with regard to the Vietnam
War and nuclear weapons policy. He is writing a book on public opinion
and military interventions during the period bookended by the two wars
in Iraq.
Book:
Fear's Empire by Benjamin Barber (all)
Handouts:
“Terror and Fear Post 9/11.” by Paul Joseph
"Virtual War" from Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond by Michael Ignatieff
"New Rome, New Jerusalem," from The Imperial Tense: Prospects and
Problems of American Empire by Andrew Bacevich
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden,
from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Prologue by Steve Coll
"Supremacy By Stealth" by Robert Kaplan from The Atlantic Monthly,
July/August 2003
Wednesday, October 12: The Holocaust and Anti Semitism: The Historical
Context
Professor Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen has taught high school history for twenty-five years
and is in his sixth year at Tufts. He has also had the opportunity to
work on educational projects beyond the classroom. He edited and wrote
anthologies to accompany the public television documentaries Vietnam
A Television History and Eyes On The Prize. Steve has been a Program
Associate with Facing History and Ourselves for two decades and written
articles about teaching controversial issues like Vietnam, the dropping
of the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust. His interests are teacher education,
history and social studies.
Book:
The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael
Mann, Chapters 7,8,9 (Nazis)
Handouts:
“I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941” by
Victor Kelmperer
“The Jew Who Fought to Stay German” by Amos Elon
“The True Believer" by Gordon A. Craig from the New York Review
of Books
"Contemporary Anti-Semitism" by Mary Robinson
“In the Wake of Barbarossa, ” Chapter 6 from Understanding Ethnic
Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
by Roger D. Peterson
Tuesday, October 18: Neuroscience, Aggression and Fear
Professor Turhan Canli, EPIIC '86, Tufts '88
Turhan Canli is a neuroscientist and psychologist working on the
brain basis of individual differences in emotion and personality. Dr.
Canli uses cutting-edge methodologies, including functional magnetic
resonance imaging, magnetic brain stimulation, and molecular genetic
techniques to investigate how and why we differ from each other in our
responses to emotional experiences. He has also published, and appeared
as a contributor to a PBS program, on the topic of neuroethics - an emerging
field of inquiry that is concerned with the ethical implications of neuroscientific
discovery.
Professor Klaus Miczek
Professor Miczek is a professor at Tufts University specializing
in Psychopharmacology. The work in Dr. Miczek's pre-clinical psychopharmacology
laboratory systematically dissects the difference between stimulant and
alcohol abuse, violence and social stress in ethologically valid animal
preparations integrating behavioral, physiological and neuropharmacological
research strategies. The distinctive feature of the research is the characterization
of individuals at the behavioral physiological and neurochemical level
in terms of their vulnerability to the aggression-heightening effects
of alcohol, psychomotor stimulants and opiates.
Books:
Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses, "Fear and the Brain" Jacek
Debiec and Joe Le Doux (the book is in the bookstore -- start with this
chapter for Tuesday but keep reading)
Karaoke Fascism: The Politics of Fear in Burma
Handouts:
"Neuroimaging of Emotion and Personality: Scientific Evidence and Ethical
Considerations" by Turhan Canli and Zenab Amin
"When Genes and Brains Unite: Ethical Implication of Genomic Neuroimaging" by
Turhan Canli
"The Neurobiology of Trauma" by David Lisak
"Psych Professor Specializes in the Neurobiology of Fear" by Sue
Moncure
"The Neurobiology of Fear" by Ned Kalin
"Brain Scans Raise Privacy Concerns" by Steve Olsen from New Focus
Thursday, October 20: The Wars Against Terrorism and the Market State
Philip Bobbitt
Philip Bobbitt is the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair in Law at the
University of Texas at Austin. As one of the nation's leading constitutional
theorists, Mr. Bobbitt's interests include constitutional law, international
security and the history of strategy. Mr. Bobbitt is a member of the
American Law Institute, The Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific
Council on International Policy and the International Institute for Strategic
Studies. Aside from his recent book, "The Shield of Achilles: War,
Peace and the Course of History," he has published five other books:
Constitutional Interpretation (1991), U.S. Nuclear Strategy (1989), Democracy
and Deterrence (1987), Constitutional Fate (1982) and Tragic Choices
(1978).
Book:
The Lesser Evil, Michael Ignatieff
Handouts:
Bobbitt manuscript: "The Wars Against Terror" by Philip Bobbitt
"America First: The Case to Answer" by Philip Bobbitt and Paul
Hirst
"The Truth about Terrorism" by Jonathan Raban
Tuesday, October 25: The Politics of Fear, Retribution and Reconciliation
in Chile and Argentina
Judge Juan Guzman
Juan Guzmán is the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals in Santiago,
Chile and is currently in charge of the prosecution and trial of former
General Augusto Pinochet. Judge Guzmán is also a Professor of Law
at the Catholic University Law School and at the Central University Law
School of Santiago.
Handouts:
"Sowing Fear: The Uses of Torture and Psychological Abuse in Chile" by
Physicians for Human Rights, pp 1-50
"The CIA: Time to Come in from the Cold" from TIME Magazine
Roht-Arriaza, Naomi, The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in
the Age of Human Rights Preface - end of Ch. 3; Ch. 7; ch. 8 (all in one
packet)
Kornbluh, Peter, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity
and Accountability, Atrocity and Accountability: The Long Epilogue of the
Pinochet Case
Robben, Antonius C. G. M., Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina,
Part III: Breaking Hearts and Minds: Torture, Self, and Resocialization
Sluka, Jeffrey A., Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror,
Chapter 3 - State Terror in the Netherworld: Disappearance and Reburial
in Argentina
Thursday, October 27: The Genocide in Rwanda: Revenge and Reconciliation
Ervin Staub
Professor of Psychology and Director of the Program in Peace Psychology
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; Authority on youth and mob
violence, genocide, and the role of bystanders; Author of The Psychology
of Good and Evil and The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other
Group Violence; Past president of the Society for the Study of Peace,
Conflict and Violence (Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological
Association 1999-2000).
Handouts:
Staub, Ervin. "Reconciliation After Genocide, Mass Killing or Intractable
Conflict: Healing Understanding and the Prevention of New Violence"
Staub, Ervin and Laurie Anne Pearlman. "Psychological Recovery and
Reconciliation After the Genocide in Rwanda and in Other Post-Conflict
Settings"
Staub, Ervin. (working manuscript) "The Roots and Prevention of Violence" (in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the rest of Europe)"
Power, Samantha, Ch. 10 (Rwanda: 'Mostly in a Listening Mode') from "A
Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide"
Tuesday, November 1: Intellectual Biographies // The Politics of Fear
in Argentina // Covering Coups and Wars
Jack Blum, INSPIRE Practitioner
Jack Blum is the Senior Counsel for Special Projects for Finance
Sector Compliance Advisers Limited, and a US Attorney admitted at the
district of Columbia Bar, the US Court of Appeals for the district of
Columbia Circuit and the US Supreme Court. Blum is an expert on controlling
government corruption, international financial crime, money laundering,
international tax havens and drug trafficking.
Mort Rosenblum, INSPIRE Practitioner
Mort Rosenblum has reported on nearly every major international conflict
since the Congo mercenary wars and the Biafra secession in the 1960s.
Former chief editor of the International Herald Tribune from 1979-1981,
Mr. Rosenblum took an American-style European newspaper to printing plants
around the world and pioneered new forms of international journalism.
He is author of numerous books including Coups and Earthquakes and the
James Beard Award-winning Olives.
Handouts:
"The Lessons of Hannah Arendt" by Samantha Power
Thursday, November 3: Critiquing the Precautionary Principle: Laws of
Fear and the First Amendment
Jack Blum, INSPIRE Practitioner
Jack Blum is the Senior Counsel for Special Projects for Finance
Sector Compliance Advisers Limited, and a US Attorney admitted at the
district of Columbia Bar, the US Court of Appeals for the district of
Columbia Circuit and the US Supreme Court. Blum is an expert on controlling
government corruption, international financial crime, money laundering,
international tax havens and drug trafficking.
Mort Rosenblum, INSPIRE Practitioner
Mort Rosenblum has reported on nearly every major international conflict
since the Congo mercenary wars and the Biafra secession in the 1960s.
Former chief editor of the International Herald Tribune from 1979-1981,
Mr. Rosenblum took an American-style European newspaper to printing plants
around the world and pioneered new forms of international journalism.
He is author of numerous books including Coups and Earthquakes and the
James Beard Award-winning Olives.
Book:
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime by Geoffrey Stone
Laws of Fear by Cass Sunstein
Handouts:
Coups and Earthquakes by Mort Rosenblum
Thursday, November 10: Addressing Michael Crichton’s ‘State
of Fear’ // Fear mongering and the Politics and Science of Climate
Change
William Moomaw
William Moomaw, who earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT,
is professor of international environmental policy at the Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy where he directs the International Environment and
Resource Program. He is also senior director of Tufts Institute of the
Environment, co-director of Tufts Global Development and Environment
Institute, and co-director of the Public Disputes Program at the Program
on Negotiations at Harvard Law School.
Handouts:
“Katrina’s Real Name” by Ross Gelbspan, The Boston Globe
“The Climate of Man I: Disappearing Islands, Thawing Permafrost, Melting
Polar Ice ? How the Earth Is Changing” by Elizabeth Kolbert, The New
Yorker
“The Climate of Man II: The Curse of Akkad” by Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker
“The Climate of Man III: What Can Be Done” by Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker
“Taking Global Warming to Market” by Joseph Lieberman, The American
Interest
“The Single Greatest Threat: The United States and Global Climate Disruption” by
James Gustave Speth, Harvard International Review
“The Uses of Disaster: Notes on Bad Weather and Good Government” by
Rebecca Solnit, Harper’s Magazine
“Rumsfeld’s Growing Stake in Tamiflu” by Nelson D. Schwartz,
CNN Money
“Politics vs. the Integrity of Research” by Sen. John McCain
and Peter Likins, The Chronicle of Higher Education”
“Michael Crichton’s State of Confusion” by Gavin Schmidt,
Earth Institute News
“Michael Crichton’s ‘Scientific Method” by James
Hansen
State of Fear excerpts (pp. 451-460, 477-492, 569-573, 581-603) by
Michael Crichton
“Why Politicized Science Is Dangerous” , Appendix 1 from State
of Fear by Michael Crichton
"The Role of Social Groups in the Persistence of Leaned Fear" by
Andreas Olsson, Jeff Ebert, Mahrazin Banaji, Elizabeth Phelps
Tuesday, November 15: Pandemics, Global Health and the Fear Factor
Edith Balbach
Edith Balbach is the Director of the Community Health Program at
Tufts University. She is interested in how communities identify and solve
health problems. Her academic training is in public policy, which leads
her to a specific interest in how the policy process either facilitates
or impedes the work of communities. Professor Balbach's primary research
interest is in drug policy issues, especially tobacco.
Books:
The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear by Marc Siegel
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the
Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly
Handouts:
"Recipe for Destruction" by Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy, The New
York Times, October 17, 2005
"Emerging Pandemic: Costs and Consequences of an Avian Influenza Outbreak" by
Dr. Michael Osterholm and Helen Branswell
Thursday, November 17: Liberalism and the War on Terror
Corey Robin
Corey Robin is an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn
College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He
is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University
Press), which recently won the Best First Book Award in political theory
from the American Political Science Association (Foundations of Political
Theory section). Fear has been cited as “recommended reading” by
the New York Times and “one of the best books of 2004” by
Publishers Weekly.
Books:
Fear: The History of a Political Idea by Corey Robin
Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses edited by Arien Mack, “Thoughts
on Fear in a Global Society” by Stanley Hoffmann (also in the Inquiry
Reader) and “McCarthyism: Political Repression and the Fear of Communism” by
Ellen Schrecker
Handouts:
"Fascism and Counterrevolution" by Corey Robin, Dissent, Summer
2005
"The Liberalism of Fear" by Jacob Levy, excerpt (pp. 23-38) from
The Multiculturalism of Fear
Excerpts from Political Thought and Political Thinkers by Judith
Shklar (Foreword by George Kateb, Editor’s Preface by Stanley Hoffmann,
Chapter One: The Liberalism of Fear (don’t confuse with reading from
above), Chapter Nine: The Political Theory of Utopia: From Melancholy to
Nostalgia, Chapter Ten: What Is the Use of Utopia?, Chapter Eighteen: Nineteen
Eighty-Four: Should Political Theory Care?, Chapter Nineteen: Rethinking
the Past, Chapter Twenty: Hannah Arendt as Pariah, Chapter Twenty-One:
The Work of Michael Walzer)
Tuesday, November 22: The Efficacy of Terrorism: Thinking About Suicide
Terrorism and Political Violence
Ioannis Evrigenis and Sherman Teichman
Book:
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert
A. Pape
Handouts:
"The Truth About Terrorism" by Jonathan Raban from The New York
Review of Books, January 13, 2005
"What Bush Wants to Hear" by David Cole from The New York Review
of Books, November 17, 2005
"Why They Do It" by Christian Caryl from The NewYork Review of
Books, September 22, 2005
"Is Terrorism Distinctively Wrong?" by Lionel K. McPherson (to
be published)
Thursday, December 1: Sovereignty, Migration and the Politics of Selectivity
and Fear
John Tirman
John Tirman is Executive Director of MIT's Center for International
Studies. A political scientist, Tirman is author, or coauthor and editor,
of six books on international security issues, including The Maze of
Fear: Security and Migration after 9/11 (2004), Fallacy of Star Wars
(1984), the first important critique of strategic defense, and Spoils
of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade (1997). He is recipient
of the U.N. Association's Human Rights Award.
Books:
The Maze of Fear: Security and Migration after 9/11 by John Tirman
Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses (finish the book)
Karaoke Fascism: The Politics of Fear in Burma by Monique Skidmore
Tuesday, Deecember 6: Violence and Politics: Fear and the Manipulation
of Memory
Professor Roger Petersen
Associate Professor of Political Science. Professor Petersen studies
comparative politics with a special focus on conflict and violence. He
has written two books: Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern
Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Understanding Ethnic Violence:
Fear, Hatred, Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe (Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming). He also has an interest in comparative
method and has co-edited, with John Bowen, Critical Comparisons in Politics
and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is currently researching
war and violence in the Balkans, especially in Kosovo.
Handouts:
"Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth
Century Eastern Europe" Ch. 1 (Introduction), Ch. 2 (An Emotion-Based
Approach to Ethnic Conflict), Ch. 3 (Resentment), Ch. 4 (Fear, Hatred, and
Rage) and Ch. 11 (Conclusion) by Roger Petersen
"Fear and Hatred in Transitions" by Roger Peterson
Thursday. December 8
EPIIC committee reports
End of Semester