DATE
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READING ASSIGNMENTS
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TOPICS TO BE COVERED
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W1
9/14
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- Introduction
TED Talk video: Meg Jay “Why 30 is not the new 20,”
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- Overview of the syllabus
- What are justice, equality, humanity and rights?
- How can “you” do about them?
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W2
9/21
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- Kaldor, ch.5 A Decade of Humanitarian Intervention,
- Owen and Liotta, 2006. “Why Human Security?” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations Vol VII, No. 1: 37-55.
- *Roland Paris, “Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air,” International Security, Vol. 26, N. 2, Fall 2001: 87-102.
- *PJ Burgess and Owen, “What is ‘Human Security’? Comments by 21 Authors” Security Dialogue, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 2004: 345-72.
- YouTube Video: New War 2.0: Interview with Kaldor
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- Are there universal standards of justice, equality and rights?
- What is human security?
- Group preference due
(* are recommended readings)
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- Human Rights
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(Universality and Rights)
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W3
9/28
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- Kaldor, ch.2 or Kaldor 2003 “American Power from Compellance to Cosmopolitanism”
- Gary King and Christpher Murray, “Rethinking Human Security”
- *Donnelly, Jack. 2007. “The Relative Universality of Human Rights” Human Rights Quarterly 29(2)
- *Goodhart, Michael. 2008. “Neither Relative nor Universal: A Response to Donnelly” Human Rights Quarterly 30(1): 183-193
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- Who’s security? Measurement of human security
- Universal rights?
- Cultural rights?
- Political rights and socioeconomic rights, which one should be first?
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W4
10/5
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- Thompson, Mark R.. “Pacific Asia after 'Asian Values': Authoritarianism, Democracy, and 'Good Governance'.” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 6 (2004), pp. 1079-1095.
- Osofsky, Hari M.. “Understanding ‘Hostage-Diplomacy’: The Release of Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan” Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal 1 (1998).
- * Wachman, Alan. “Does the Diplomacy of Shame Promote Human Rights in China?” Third World Quarterly (2001).
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- Expert Section 1
- Human Rights: the East and the West
- Asian values
- Case: Hostage diplomacy
- Exercise/Quiz 1
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- Just War
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(Stability and Responsibility)
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W5
10/12
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- Kaldor, Chapter 6 From Just War to Just Peace
- Owen, 2011, “R2P: More than a slogan”
- *Weiss, Thomas “The Sunset of Humanitarian Intervention? The R2P in a Unipolar Era,” Security Dialogue, 2004 35: 2: 135-153.
- *Deitelhoff, Nicole, 2009. "The Discursive Process of Legalization: Charting Islands of Persuasion in the ICC Case," International Organization, 63(01): 33-65.
- *ICRC, “International Humanitarian Law in Brief”
- *Human Rights Watch, “Selling Justice Short,” 2009.
- *Scott Strauss, “Darfur and the Genocide Debate” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2005
- *Kenneth Roth, "The Law of War in the War on Terror," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2004.
- * Renatho Costa, "Religion and the New Wars Debate" Contexto International, 2019.
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- Biopolitics
- SARS, MERS, Ebola, COVID-19 and more
- Biological security vs. Human rights
- What is City Wanderer?
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W6
10/19
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- Group 2 Presentation and Discussion
- TBA
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- Expert Section 2
- Exercise/Quiz 2
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W7
10/26
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- City Wanderer discussion
CITY WANDERER© BEGIN
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- Prepare City Wanderer projects
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- Humanitarian Issues
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(Issues of Justice and Humanity)
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W8
11/2
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- Michael Dillon, “Biopolitics of Security” in Handbook of New Security Studies (2010)
- Stefan Elbe, “Pandemic Security” in Handbook of New Security Studies (2010)
- Christian Enemark, “Is Pandemic Flu a Security Threat?” Survival (2009)
- Stefan Elbe, "AIDS, Security, Biopolitics," International Relations (2005)
- Multimedia: Pandemic Online game
- Movies: Contagion (2011)
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- Just war theory and humanitarian intervention
- UN human security institutions
- R2P
- Landmine ban movement and transnational advocacy
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W9
11/9
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- Midterm Week
CITY WANDERER© REPORT DUE AND SHARING
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- Case Study topic discussion
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W10
11/16
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- Kaldor, Chapter 5 or Kaldor 2003, “The idea of global civil society”
- Don Hubert, “The Landmine Treaty: A Case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy,” Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Occasional Paper # 42, 2000, Chapter 5.
- *Thomas Weiss, 2006, “Principles, Politics, and Humanitarian Action” Ethics & International Affairs 13(1)
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- Expert Section 3
- Case: Global Civil Society and Cosmopolitanism
- Just war theory in test: China or Africa
- Just war theory in test: torture
- Exercise/Quiz 3
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- Trade and Immigration
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(Development and Equality)
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W11
11/23
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- (Video) Pietra Rivoli. 2009. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
- Wu, Guoguang. 2013. “Human security challenges with China: why and how the rise of China makes the world vulnerable?”
- *Tarrow, Sidney G. 2005. The New Transnational Activism, New York: Cambridge University Press. Ch.1-2.
- *Yong Deng and Thomas G. Moore, “China Views Globalization: Toward a New Great-Power Politics?” The Washington Quarterly, 27 (3) (Summer 2004): 117 – 136.
GROUP CASE PAPER TOPIC DUE
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- Globalization: its promises and opposition
- Anti-globalization activism
- MNCs and “race to the bottom”
- Case: China’s view toward globalization
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W12
11/30
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- Peggy Levitt, "’You Know, Abraham Was Really the First Immigrant’: Religion and Transnational Migration” International Migration Review, 37(3), Transnational Migration: International Perspectives (Fall, 2003): 847-873.
- *Cohen, Robin. 1997. Global Diasporas: An Introduction. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press.
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- Expert Section 4
- Immigration: a cultural right or economic right?
- Freedom of immigration?
- Exercise/Quiz 4
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- Sustainable Politics
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(Issues of Suitability)
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W13
12/7
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- Tim Hayward, 2007. “Human Rights versus Emissions Rights: Climate Justice and the Equitable Distribution of Ecological Space,” Ethics and International Affairs 21.4.
- *Tarrow, Sidney G.; Donatella Della Porta, 2005b. Transnational Protest and Global Activism (print)
- *Romina Picolotti & Jorge Daniel Taillant eds. Linking Human Rights and the Environment. 2003
TED Talk by Paul Piff: Does Money Make You Mean
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- Principal-agent theory
- Kyoto Protocol
- Environmental rights
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W14
12/14
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- Xie, 2011, “China's Environmental Activism in the Age of Globalization,” Asian Politics & Policy 3(2): 207–224.
- *Abigail R. Jahiel “The Organization of Environmental Protection in China,” The China Quarterly: 757-787.
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- Expert Section 5
- Environmental activism in China
- Exercise/Quiz 5
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W15
12/21
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- Owen Taylor and Mary Martin, 2010. “The Second Generation of Human Security: Lessons from the UN and EU Experiences?” International Affairs, 85(1).
- *Owen, Taylor, 2008. The Critique that Doesn’t Bite: A Response to David Chandler’s “Human Security: The Dog that didn’t Bark” Security Dialogue, 39(4), April/June 2008.
- *Caprioli, Mary, “Democracy and Human Rights Versus Women’s Security: A Contradiction?” Security Dialogue 2004 35(4): 411-428.
- *Emilie Hafner-Burton and Kiyoteri Tsutsui, “Justice Lost!: The Failure of International Human Rights Law to Matter Where it is Needed Most” Journal of Peace Research (2007): 407-25.
- *Emilie Hafner-Burton and James Ron, “Seeing Double”
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- Review: Justice, Equality, Humanity and Rights
- Second Generation HS
- Feminist view on HS
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W16
12/28
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- Group Assignment Discussion and Preparation
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- TBA
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W17
1/4
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- Group Presentation
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- TBA
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W28
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Final Exam Week 1/11
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GROUP PAPER DUE
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