Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books:

Nye Jr., Joseph S. and David A. Welch. Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation.  An Introduction to Theory and History. Boston: Pearson: 2013. 347 pp.

Black, Jeremy, A Century of Conflict. War, 1914-2014. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 212 pp.

Plus 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:

Lundestad, Geir. The Rise and Decline of the American ¡°Empire¡±. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 193 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.

€ Hobsbawm, Eric. "War and Peace in the 20th Century." London Review of Books 24 no. 4 (2002): 16-18 - Available in the Fronter room, under "Teaching material"

€ Samuel Huntington, ¡°The Clash of Civilizations?¡± (1993)

€ Jack S. Levy, ¡°Too important to Leave to the Other. History and Political Science in the Study of International Relations¡± (1997) 12 pp

€ 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) 12 pp.

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

€ 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) 24 pp.

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. - available at the Nobel Peace Center
• and the Nobel websites: www.nobelprize.org ¨C click peace or www.nobelpeaceprize.org . Stipulated to a total of 100 pp.