SemesterSpring Semester, 2018
DepartmentMA Program of Diplomacy, First Year MA Program of Diplomacy, Second Year
Course NameDebating Human Security: Justice, Equality, Humanity and Rights
InstructorWANG YUN
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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DATE

READING ASSIGNMENTS

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

W1



3/1

  1. Lecture: Introduction

  2. Binder, Libuse. 2009. Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties.

  3. *YouTube video: Libuse Binder

  1. Overview of the syllabus

  2. What are justice, equality, and rights?

  3. How can “you” do about them?

W2



3/8

  1. Kaldor, ch.5 A Decade of Humanitarian Intervention,

  2. Owen and Liotta, 2006. “Why Human Security?” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations Vol VII, No. 1: 37-55.

  3. *Roland Paris, “Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air,” International Security, Vol. 26, N. 2, Fall 2001: 87-102.

  4. *PJ Burgess and Owen, “What is ‘Human Security’? Comments by 21 Authors” Security Dialogue, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 2004: 345-72.

  5. YouTube Video: New War 2.0: Interview with Kaldor



 

  1. Are there universal standards of justice, equality and rights?

  2. What is human security?

  3. Group preference due



(* are recommended readings)

 

  1. Human Rights

(Issues of Universality and Rights)

W3



3/15



 

  1. Kaldor, ch.2 or Kaldor 2003 “American Power from Compellance to Cosmopolitanism”

  2. Gary King and Christpher Murray, “Rethinking Human Security”

  3. *Donnelly, Jack. 2007. “The Relative Universality of Human Rights” Human Rights Quarterly 29(2)

  4. *Goodhart, Michael. 2008. “Neither Relative nor Universal: A Response to Donnelly” Human Rights Quarterly 30(1): 183-193



 

  1. Who’s security? Measurement of human security

  2. Universal rights?

  3. Cultural rights?

  4. Political rights and socioeconomic rights, which one should be first?



 

W4



3/22

  1. Thompson, Mark R.. “Pacific Asia after 'Asian Values': Authoritarianism, Democracy, and 'Good Governance'.” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 6 (2004), pp. 1079-1095.

  2. Osofsky, Hari M.. “Understanding ‘Hostage-Diplomacy’: The Release of Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan” Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal 1 (1998).

  3. * Wachman, Alan. “Does the Diplomacy of Shame Promote Human Rights in China?” Third World Quarterly (2001).



 

  1. Human Rights: the East and the West

  2. Asian values

  3. Case: Hostage diplomacy

  4. QUIZ 1



 

 

  1. Just War

(Issues of Stability and Responsibility)

W5



3/29

  1. Kaldor, Chapter 6 From Just War to Just Peace

  2. Owen, 2011, “R2P: More than a slogan”

  3. *Weiss, Thomas “The Sunset of Humanitarian Intervention? The R2P in a Unipolar Era,” Security Dialogue, 2004 35: 2: 135-153.

  4. *Deitelhoff, Nicole, 2009. "The Discursive Process of Legalization: Charting Islands of Persuasion in the ICC Case," International Organization, 63(01): 33-65.

  5. *ICRC, “International Humanitarian Law in Brief”



 

  1. Just war theory and humanitarian intervention

  2. UN human security institutions

  3. R2P



 

W6



4/5

  1. Group discussant (online)



 



GROUP PAPER TOPIC DUE



 

  1. What is thought paper

  2. Thought Paper topic out

W7



4/12

  1. Human Rights Watch, “Selling Justice Short,” 2009.

  2. Scott Strauss, “Darfur and the Genocide Debate” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2005

  3. *Kenneth Roth, "The Law of War in the War on Terror," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2004.



 

  1. Just war theory in test: Africa

  2. Just war theory in test: China

  3. Just war theory in test: torture

 

  1. Humanitarian Issues

(Issues of Justice and Humanity)

W8



4/19

  1. Kaldor, Chapter 5 or Kaldor 2003, “The idea of global civil society”

  2. Don Hubert, “The Landmine Treaty: A Case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy,” Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Occasional Paper # 42, 2000, Chapter 5.

  3. *Thomas Weiss, 2006, “Principles, Politics, and Humanitarian Action” Ethics & International Affairs 13(1)



 

  1. Global Civil Society and Cosmopolitanism

  2. Landmine ban movement and transnational advocacy

W9



4/26

  1. Movie: TBA



 



THOUGHT PAPER DUE



 

 

W10



5/3

  1. Lombardi, 2012, “Religion and Human Security: an Understudied Relationship” Religion and HS Ch.1

  2. * Griffin, 2012, “In Violence and in Peace: The Role of Religion and Human Security in Northern Ireland” Religion and HS Ch.12

  3. * Métraux, 2012, “The Soka Gakkai and Human Security” Religion and HS Ch.15



 

  1. Case: Religions in wars and peace



 

 

  1. Trade and Immigration

(Issues of Development and Equality)



W11



5/10

  1. (Video) Pietra Rivoli. 2009. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

  2. Wu, Guoguang. 2013. “Human security challenges with China: why and how the rise of China makes the world vulnerable?”

  3. *Tarrow, Sidney G. 2005. The New Transnational Activism, New York: Cambridge University Press. Ch.1-2.

  4. *Yong Deng and Thomas G. Moore, “China Views Globalization: Toward a New Great-Power Politics?” The Washington Quarterly, 27 (3) (Summer 2004): 117 – 136.



 

  1. Globalization: its promises and opposition

  2. Anti-globalization activism

  3. MNCs and “race to the bottom”

  4. Case: China’s view toward globalization

W12



5/17

  1. 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.

  2. *Cohen, Robin. 1997. Global Diasporas: An Introduction. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press.



 

  1. Immigration: a cultural right or economic right?

  2. Freedom of immigration?

  3. QUIZ 2

 

  1. Sustainable Politics

(Issues of Suitability)

W13



5/24

  1. Tim Hayward, 2007. “Human Rights versus Emissions Rights: Climate Justice and the Equitable Distribution of Ecological Space,” Ethics and International Affairs 21.4.

  2. *Tarrow, Sidney G.; Donatella Della Porta, 2005b. Transnational Protest and Global Activism‎ (print)

  3. *Romina Picolotti & Jorge Daniel Taillant eds. Linking Human Rights and the Environment. 2003



 



*YouTube video: “If the World was a village of 100”



 

  1. Principal-agent theory

  2. Kyoto Protocol

  3. Environmental rights



 

W14



5/31

  1. Xie, 2011, “China's Environmental Activism in the Age of Globalization,” Asian Politics & Policy 3(2): 207–224.

  2. *Abigail R. Jahiel “The Organization of Environmental Protection in China,” The China Quarterly: 757-787.



 

  1. Environmental activism in China



 

W15



6/7

  1. Owen Taylor and Mary Martin, 2010. “The Second Generation of Human Security: Lessons from the UN and EU Experiences?” International Affairs, 85(1).

  2. *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.

  3. *Caprioli, Mary, “Democracy and Human Rights Versus Women’s Security: A Contradiction?” Security Dialogue 2004 35(4): 411-428.

  4. *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.

  5. *Emilie Hafner-Burton and James Ron, “Seeing Double”



 

  1. Review: Justice, Equality, Humanity and Rights

  2. Second Generation HS

  3. Feminist view on HS



W16



6/14

  1. Group Presentation 1



 

  1. (6/9-11 Dragon Boat Festival Holidays)

W17



6/21

  1. Group Presentation 2



 

  1. Roundtable Discussion

W28

Final Exam Week



GROUP PAPER DUE


 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading


  1. In-class exercises and participation: 10%




  2. In-class quizzes: 30%




  3. Thought papers: 20%




  4. Research paper (group): 20%




  5. Presentation and round table (group): 20%




Textbook & Reference

Texts: Mary Kaldor, Human Security. London: Polity Press 2007 (Google Book and e-copy) and selected chapters from other sources. All readings in the first class of each block are required; readings in the second class with *sign are recommended but students have to review at least one article to receive discussion points.


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