Introduction to International Politics - Pol S 251

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•  Two Realism Readings
   

• Excerpts from Hobbes, Rousseau and Kant
   

• 16 Jan: Theories & Explanation

• 16 Jan: Realism
   

• 18 Jan: Liberalism
   

• 30 Jan: Constructivism

• 30 Jan: Systems
   

• 8 Feb: Interwar Period

• 8 Feb: Cold War
   

• 13 Feb: Power via COW CINC

• 13 Feb: US, USSR, PRC COW CINC Chart

• 13 Feb: Contemporary Power Measures

• 13 Feb: Is the World Unipolar?
   

• 15 Feb: Unipolarity Chart
   

• 20 Feb: Sovereign Territorial State

• 20 Feb: State-making Diagram
   

• 22 Feb: Iranian political system
   

• 27 Feb: State-Centered Approach

• 27 Feb: Society-Centered Approach

• 27 Feb: State-Society Approach
   

• 27 Feb: International Organizations and Sovereignty

• 27 Feb: UN System
   

• 6 Mar: Psychological Approaches
   

• 22 Mar: Bargaining Graphic
   

• 27 Mar: Psychological Approaches & Iraq War

• 27 Mar: International Law
   

• Human Rights Treaties
   

• Thucydides' "Melian Dialogue"

• Marked-Up Melian

• McNaughton Draft Memo
   

• 10 Apr.: Deterrence and Compellence
   

• 12 Apr: US-Soviet Nuclear History
   

• 24 Apr: Nuclear Control Trade-Offs

• 24 Apr: Kargil War links
   

• 24 Apr: UN Terrorism Def

• 24 Apr: Patterns of Terrorism.
   

• 26 Apr: Suicide Terrorism

• 26 Apr: I kid you, not --  the al-Qaeda employment contract (PDF file)
   

• 26 Apr: Post-1945 LIEO

• 26 Apr: Globalization

• 26 Apr: Development