Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books:

Nye and Welch. Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation.  An Introduction to Theory and History. Pearson: 2013. 347 pp.

Lundestad, Geir. The Rise and Decline of the American ¡°Empire¡±. Oxford: 2012. 193 pp.

Either:

Iriye, Akira. Global Community.The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 209 pp.

Or:

Mazower, Mark. Governing the World. The History of an Idea. New York: Penguin Press 2012. Particularly chapters 1-7: 213 pp.

Articles:

Literature marked (*) will be available as PDF files.

* John J. Mearsheimer, ¡°The False Promise of International Institutions¡± (1995) 54 pp.

* Robert O. Keohane and Lisa L. Martin, ¡°The Promise of Institutionalist Theory¡± (1995) 12pp.

* Charles A. Kupchan and Clifford A. Kupchan, ¡°The Promise of Collective Security¡± (1995) 9pp.

* Roger P. Alford, ¡°The Nobel Effect: Nobel Peace Prize Laureates as International Norm Entrepreneurs (2008) 91pp.

* Ronald R. Krebs, ¡°The False Promise of the Nobel Peace Prize¡± (2009-10) 32 pp.

* Geir Lundestad, ¡°The Nobel Peace Prize¡± (2001) 24pp.

The students also have to study the biographies of at least ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates from different historical periods on the basis of:

• Abrams, Irwin. The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates. An Illustrated Biographical History 1901-2001. Nantucket, Mass: Science History Publications, 2001.
• Stenersen, ?ivind, Lib?k, Ivar and Sveen, Asle. The Nobel Peace Prize. One Hundred Years for Peace. Oslo: Cappelen, 2001.
• and the Nobel websites: www.nobelprize.org ¨C click peace or www.nobelpeaceprize.org . Stipulated to a total of 100 pp.

Total 1071 pp.