POLI 136A:
NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT (Fall 2009)
Prof.
Joel W. Johnson
Lecture: TuTh 2:00 - 3:20p, WLH 2005
Office Hours: Thursday 4-6pm, SSB 444
Website: http://dss.ucsd.edu/~jwjohnso/p136A.htm
Email: jwjohnson_is@yahoo.com [My UCSD email,
jwjohnson@ucsd.edu, is currently having problems]
Updates
Paper Assignment #2, Due
November 19
Paper Assignment #1, Due
October 29
Course. This seminar course will study the political origins and
consequences of national/ethnic identities.
Readings. The course readings consist of
articles and chapters posted on the course website and on E-Reserves (http://reserves.ucsd.edu), and the
following two books:
Friedman, Thomas. (1999). From Beirut to
Jerusalem. Anchor Books.
Huntington, Samuel. (2005). Who are We? Simon &
Schuster.
Grading.
The course grade will consist of three response/position papers, each
worth 16.7% of the course grade (50% for all three papers). Paper prompts and
further information will be given out in class and posted on the website. The
final exam accounts for the remaining 50% of the course grade. The final exam
will cover the whole course, including all of the readings and all the lecture
material.
Grade
appeals must be directed to the appropriate grader (see
website).
Late
papers will be docked 1/3rd of a letter grade
if they are not handed in by the end of class on the due date,
and 1/3rd a grade for each day thereafter. (i.e., a paper turned in
the next day would be docked 2/3rds of a letter grade).
Academic
dishonesty will without exception be reported to the student's
dean for disciplinary action. The papers are meant to be your own analysis. There
will be a zero-tolerance policy for plagiarism.
Email
policy. Please email me if there is an error on the syllabus
or webpage, if you have a question about some administrative issue, or if you
have something to discuss but cannot make it to office hours and so would like
to schedule another time. Please do not email me if your question is answered
on the website or syllabus -- if you would like to discuss course material,
your papers, or your grade, please see me in office hours. Sometimes, I may
also be available immediately after class.
Course
agenda by day/date
(Disclaimer: subject to changes announced in
class)
Week
1--Introduction
Week 2--(Sept 29,
Oct 1)
Huntington.
Who Are We? Chapter 2: Identities,
National and Other.
Anderson,
B. (1994). Imagined Communities, (p. 89-96) in Nationalism, edited by J. Hutchinson and A.D. Smith, Oxford. (E-reserves)
Fearon & Laitin.
(2000). Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic
Identity. International
Organization 54(4). 845-877. (link)
Week 3--(Oct 6, no class on Thursday, Oct 8)
Lake, D. and Rothchild, D. (1996). Containing Fear: The origins
and management of ethnic conflict. International Security. (link)
Week 4--(Oct 13,
15)
V.P.
Gagnon Jr. (1995). Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict: the case of Serbia.
International Security 19(3).
(link)
Vladisavljevic, N. (2004). Institutional
Power and the Rise of Milosevic. Nationalities Papers 32(1). (link)
Week 5--(Oct 20,
22)
Chapter
1: Introduction, in Winning Ugly: NATO's
war to save Kosovo, by Daadler, I. H. & M.E.
O'Hanlon. (2000). Brookings. (E-reserves)
Kaufmann,
C. (1996). "Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic
Civil Wars," International Security
(20). (link)
Week 6--(Oct 27,
29)
Bruce
D. Jones. (1999). Military Intervention in Rwanda's Two Wars: Partisanship and
Indifference. In Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention, edited by Barbara F. Walter and
Jack Snyder. New York: Columbia University Press. Chapter
4. (E-reserves)
Zorbas, E. (2004). Reconciliation
in Post-Conflict Rwanda. African Journal of Legal
Studies. 1(1): 29-52. (link)
Week 7--Nov 3, 5)
Andeweg, R.
(2000). Consociational Democracy. Annual Review of Political Science.
3:509 - 36. (link)
O'Leary,
Brendan. (2002). The Belfast Agreement and the
British-Irish Agreement: Consociation, Confederal
Institutions, a Federacy, and a Peace Process. In Andrew Reynolds, ed. The
Architecture of Democracy, Oxford. (E-reserves)
Week 8--(Nov 10,
12)
Salloukh, BF. (2006). The Limits of Electoral Engineering in Divided Societies:
Elections in Postwar Lebanon. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 39:3
(September/septembre 2006) 635 - 655. (link)
Friedman,
From Beirut to Jerusalem: Chapters:
Prelude, 2, 4, 8-9, 11-13, Epilogue.
Week 9--(Nov 17,
19)
Huntington,
S. (1993). The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs. (link)
Gray,
J. (1998). Global Utopias and Clashing Civilizations: Misunderstanding the
Present International Affairs (Royal
Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 74,
No. 1, pp. 149-163. (link)
Optional reading: Tipson,
F. S. (1997). Culture Clash-Ification: A Verse to
Huntington's Curse Foreign Affairs,
Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 166-169. (link)
Week 10--(Nov 24,
no class on Thursday Nov 26)
Bremmer, I. and
Johnston, R. (2009).
The Rise and Fall of Resource Nationalism. Survival, vol. 51 no. 2, April - May
2009, pp. 149–158. (link)
Schroeder,
K. (2007). Economic Globalization and Bolivia's Regional Divide, Journal of
Latin American Geography, 6 (2). (link)
Week 11--(Dec 1,
3)
Huntington, Who Are We? Chapters 1-7 & 11-12.
Final Exam:
Thursday, December 10, 3-6pm