DATE
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READING ASSIGNMENTS
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TOPICS TO BE COVERED
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W1
9/4
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- Introduction
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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
9/11
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- Kaldor, ch.5 A Decade of Humanitarian Intervention,
- YouTube Video: New War 2.0: Interview with Kaldor
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- What is transnational advocacy and transnationalism
- Are there universal standards of justice, equality, and rights?
- What is human security?
- Group Preference Duo
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- Human Rights
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(Universality and Rights)
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W3
9/18
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- Universal HR: Expert Group 1 Presentation and Discussion
- Kaldor, ch.2 or Kaldor 2003 “American Power from Compellance to Cosmopolitanism”
- City Wanderer introduction and QA
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- Expert Group 1a(1)
- Who’s rights? The history of human rights
- Universal rights?
- Civil and political rights vs. socioeconomic rights, which one should be first?
- Case: the US, the UDHR, and the UN HR instruments,
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W4
9/24
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- Cultural Relativism and the China Challenge: Expert Group 2 Presentation and Discussion
- Tanner Larkin, 2022, “How China Is Rewriting the Norms of Human Rights,” https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-china-rewriting-norms-human-rights
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- Expert Group 1b(2)
- Human Rights: The East and the West
- Third-generation HR: Cultural and group rights
- Asian values
Case: China
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- War and Peace
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(Stability and Responsibility)
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W5
10/2
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- Just War: Expert Group 3 Presentation and Discussion
- Kaldor, Chapter 6 From Just War to Just Peace
- Owen, 2011, “R2P: More than a slogan”
CITY WANDERER© BEGIN
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- Expert Group 2a(3)
- Just war theory and humanitarian intervention
- UN human security institutions
- R2P;
- “Ticking time bomb" exception for torture and imprisonment
- The issue of responsibility
- Case: any Genocide-related civil wars or conflicts
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W6
10/9
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- Expert Group 4 Presentation and Discussion: transnational organized crimes (TOCs)
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- Expert Group 2b(4)
- The issue of stability
- The New Wars debate: Non-state actors
- Issue-framing as a tool
- Case: human trafficking, drug and weapons smuggling, money laundering, cybercrimes, online gambling etc.
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- Humanitarian Issues
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(Issues of Justice and Humanity)
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W7
10/16
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- TED Talk Jody Williams: A realistic vision for world peace
- ICBL: http://www.icbl.org/en-gb/home.aspx
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- Expert Section 3b(6)
- Transnational advocacy
- Global Civil Society and Cosmopolitanism
- The issue of humanity vs. security
Case: Landmine ban movement, DMZ in Korea, Kinmen in Taiwan, or Ukraine War
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W8
10/23
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- Midterm Week: Exhibition
- CITY WANDERER© REPORT DUE AND SHARING
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- In-class presenting and sharing. Report and visual files due on Moodle (4/17)
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W9
10/30
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- Biopolitics: Expert Group 5 Presentation and Discussion
- Movies: Contagion (2011)
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- Expert Group 3a(5)
- Biopolitics and body politics
- Biological security vs. Human rights
- Can authorities restrict basic HR during a bio crisis? How and to what degree?
- The justice and injustice in face mask rules, vaccination, and quarantine
- Case: SARS, MERS, Ebola, COVID-19 and more
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- Trade and Immigration
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(Development and Equality)
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W10
11/6
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- Expert Group 7: Globalization, Trade War, Cyber Security
- (Book & 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?”
- GROUP CASE STUDY TOPIC DISCUSSION
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- Expert Group 4a(7)
- Right to Development (RTD)
- The issue of development and equality
- Globalization: its promises and opposition; Winners and losers in trade liberation
- MNCs and the “race to the bottom” argument and global supply chain
- Two types of anti-globalization activism
- Cyber security
- Taiwan’s IT industry and the “Chip War”
- Case: China’s BRI, high tech industries; and the challenge toward liberal economic order; the role of Taiwan
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W11
11/13
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- Immigration: Expert Group 8 Discussion
- 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.
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- Expert Group 4b(8)
- Freedom of immigration?
- Political refugees or economic migrants?
- Internal displacement, statelessness, and the non-refoulement principle
Case: Syria refugee crisis; Central American migrant caravans; Taiwan’s migrant workers; China’s internal migrant workers and more.
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- Green, Pink and Rainbows
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(Issues of Sustainability)
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W12
11/20
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- Environment: Expert Group 9 Discussion
- Tim Hayward, 2007. “Human Rights versus Emissions Rights: Climate Justice and the Equitable Distribution of Ecological Space,” Ethics and International Affairs
- TED Talk by Paul Piff: Does Money Make You Mean
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- Expert Group 5a(9)
- Principal-agent theory; common pool problem
- Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement
- Environmental rights
- Environmental activism in the developing world
- Can environmental problems be solved by technological progress or “market mechanisms”?
- The issue of sustainability
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W13
11/27
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- GROUP CASE PAPER PROPOSAL DUE
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- Paper proposal due on Moodle
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W14
12/4
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- Gender: Expert Group 10 Discussion
- Documentary: The Radical (2022)
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- Expert Section 5b(10)
- Gender, women’s rights and LGBTQ+
- Gender as cultural rights or human rights?
- Feminist view on HS
- Feminism and toxic masculinity
- Minority rights vs. majority’s wishes
Case: Taiwan’s same-sex marriage legislation; Sweden's and Canada's “feminist foreign policy”; China’s “pink feminism”
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W15
12/11
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- Overview and Conclusion on HS
- Owen Taylor and Mary Martin, 2010. “The Second Generation of Human Security: Lessons from the UN and EU Experiences?” International Affairs, 85(1).
- Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1964): 美國的反智傳統：宗教、民主、商業與教育如何形塑美國人對知識的態度 (八旗文化，2025)
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- Review: Justice, Equality, Humanity and Rights
- Second Generation HS
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W16
12/18
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- FINAL Group Presentation
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- Cast study group guidebook presentation
- GROUP PAPER DUE
On 12/20 midnight
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