Week 1. Introduction: Why Political Science Today?

Reading (excerpt):

Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (University of Chicago Press, 1996).

Week 2. Political Sciences between the Ancients and the Moderns

Reading (excerpt):

Aristotle, The Politics (CUP, 1988).

Niccolo Machiavelli, Machiavelli: The Prince (CUP, 1988).

Shang Yang, The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China, Yuri Pines ed. and trans. (Columbia University Press, 2017).

Week 3. War, State, and Man

Reading (excerpt):

Homer, The Iliad (OPU, 2011).

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (OUP, 2009).

Week 4. Authority and Legitimacy

Reading (excerpt):

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (CUP, 1991).

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, and, The First and Second Discourses (Yale University Press, 2002).

Week 5. Constitution and Institutions

Reading (excerpt):

Emmanuel Sieyès, Sieyès: Political Writings: Including the Debate Between Sieyes and Tom Paine in 1791 (Hackett, 2003).

Week 6. Production and Distribution

Reading (excerpt):

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (OUP, 2008).

Week 7. Revolution and Transformation

Reading (excerpt):

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Yale University Press, 2014).

Week 8. Debate Observation

Screening:

Cambridge Union, This House Would Disband The UN Security Council, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk4PpUiEYh8&list=PLYpyB-7KwFc7PgCzSPZWEtNbRwWL4GW_h.

Week 9. Worlding, Ordering, and the International Systems

Reading (excerpt):

Dante Alighieri, Dante: Monarchy (CUP, 1996).

Carl Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum (Telos Press, 2003).

Week 10. Political Ideologies

Reading (excerpt):

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (Penguin, 2017).

Week 11. Political Memories and Culture

Reading (excerpt):

Ruti G. Teitel, Globalizing Transitional Justice (OUP, 2014).

Week 12. Human Rights

Reading (excerpt):

Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (Penguin, 2023).

Week 13. Identity Politics

Reading (excerpt):

Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018).

Week 14. Genocide, Massacre, and Peace

Reading (excerpt):

Judith Butler, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (Verso, 2016).

Week 15. The Future of Political Science

Reading (excerpt):

Mark Coeckelbergh, The Philosophy of AI: An Introduction (Polity, 2022).

Week 16. Debates

1. The class believes that democracy is worth defending


2. The class believes that peace is worth everything


3. The class believes that a world government can produce perpetual peace

Class Attendance

10%

Participation

10%

Group presentation in debates

30%

Abstract of term paper (1 page)

20%

Term paper (1500-2000 words)

30%