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Course Plan and Syllabus 2012
Course Code: ISSSV1855
Course Name: International Politics
Course Leader: Hilde E. Restad
Time: 10:15 12:00
Date Time Topic/ Readings/ Lecturer
Optional
Readings
Week 1
June 25

Introduction by Hilde E. Restad (HER) [No readings]
June 26

The Basics: Concepts and Context
HER
Textbook
Introduction &
chap. 2
June 27
Theories of IR: Realism and Neo-Realism
Morten Skumsrud Andersen
Textbook chaps. 5
& 7
June 28
War, Security and Geopolitics: The case of the Nordic
states.
Hkon Lunde Saxi
Moritzen (2006);
Saxi (2010)
June 29
Theories of IR: Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism
Morten Skumsrud Andersen
Textbook chaps. 6
& 7
Week 2
July 02

Alliances and Cooperation in International Politics
Kristin M. Haugevik
Mller (2002)
*hardcopy
handout*
July 03
Theories of IR: Constructivism
HER
Textbook chap. 9;
tba
July 04
International law, the United Nations, and human rights
HER
GWP chapters 16,
18, 29.
July 05

Group work
July 06

Presentations group work
Week 3
July 09

TBA (US Ambassador White on prez election?)
July 10

Russian Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity
Geir Flikke
Tsygankov
(2010), chapters
5, 6.
July 11
International law and the War on Terror
HER
Restad (2012b)
July 12

No Classes: Long Weekend --
July 13

No Classes: Long Weekend --
Week 4
July 16

Midterm Examination
July 17
Excursion: Nobel Peace Center


July 18
Humanitarian Interventions, Libya case study
HER
GWP chap 30;
TBA

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July 19

State weakness and (in)security
Erlend Grner Krogstad
Clapham (2002);
Milliken & Krause
(2002
July 20
Normative IR Theory: Nationalism vs. Cosmopolitanism
Erlend Grner Krogstad
Pogge (2002);
Walzer (1983)
Week 5
July 23
In-Depth Topic: U.S. Foreign Policy:
Historical background
HER
Restad (2012a);
TBA
July 24
U.S. Foreign Policy: Modern traditions
HER
Leffler (2005);
Desch (?)
July 25

Domestic sources of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Israel Lobby
case study
HER
Walt &
Mearsheimer
(2006);
opponents TBA
July 26
Terrorism
Anders Romarheim
Silk (2005)
July 27
Counter-Terrorism
Anders Romarheim
Hoffman (2006)
Week 6
July 30
The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy: Decline & Declinism
HER


July 31

The Future of the International System
GWP chaps. 31 &
32
August
01

Summary of the course
August
02

Reading day
August
03

FINAL EXAM



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Reading List

Available at the bookstore Akademika, Blindern campus:

Main text book: John Baylis. Steve Smith & Patricia Owens (eds.) (2010), The
Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations.
Fifth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Shortened to GWP in the
syllabus.

Available online/ electronic compendium:
Clapham, Christopher The Challenge to the State in a Globalized World, Development
and Change 33:5 (2002), 775-95

Hoffman, Bruce (2006) Inside Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Kagan, Robert Power and Weakness, Policy Review No. 113 (2002). Stable URL:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/7107

Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby, London Review of Books
Vol. 28 No. 6 ! 23 March 2006: 3-12. Online: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/john-
mearsheimer/the-israel-lobby

Milliken, Jennifer and Keith Krause, State Failure, State Collapse and State
Reconstruction, Development and Change 33:5 (2002), 753-774

Moritzen, Hans "The Nordic-Baltic Area: Divisive Geopolitics at Work." Cambridge
Review of International Affairs, Vo. 19. No. 3, September 2006.

Pogge, Thomas (2002) "Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty" Excerpt from World
Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reform
Cambridge: Polity Press.

Restad, Hilde Eliassen. Old Paradigms in History Die Hard in Political Science:
American Exceptionalism and U.S. Foreign Policy, American Political Thought Vol. 1,
No. 1 (2012): 53-77.

Saxi, Hkon Lunde "Defending small states: Norwegian and Danish defence policies in
the post-Cold War era." Defense & Security Analysis 26, no. 4 (December 2010).

Silk, Andrew (2005) Fire of Iolaus: The role of state countermeasures in causing
terrorism and what needs to be done, in Bjrgo, ed. The Root Causes of
Terrorism. London: Taylor & Francis Group.

Walzer, Michael (1983) "Membership" [Ch. 2] in Michael Walzer, Excerpt from Spheres
of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality. New York: Basic Books.


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Hardcopies that will be handed out by instructor: (?)

Leffler, Melvyn P. 9/11 and American Foreign Policy Diplomatic History Vol. 29, No.
3, (June 2005): 395413.

Mller, Harald (2002) "Security cooperation", in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and
Beth A. Simmons, (eds.) Handbok of International Relations. London: Sage.

Restad, Hilde Eliassen. The War on Terror from Bush to Obama: On Power and Path
Dependency, NUPI Working Paper No. 798 (2012): 1-52.

Tsygankov, Andrei P. Russias Foreign Policy. Change and Continuity in National
Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2010). Chapters 5, 6.