PS 4351: International Conflict and Security Spring 2020 Texas State University

Conflict Cooperation Peace on Earth

Contact Information Instructor: Dr. Thomas Doyle Class Location: UAC 406 Class Time: T/Th 12:30-1:50pm Office: UAC 375 Office Hours: Wednesdays 1pm-3pm Email: [email protected] Phone: 512-245-3280 (note : it is best to contact me by email)

Course Description: This course focuses on the inter-state politics of security-seeking in which conflict and cooperation dynamics are center-stage. It focuses specifically on the “” and the “security paradox” as defining features of inter-state security seeking, and it examines a variety of theoretically-based political strategies of states to address their insecurities. Unlike a course in US foreign policy, this course is not US- centric (although the US is quite often mentioned for obvious reasons), and thus the case studies are used to illuminate the competing theories of international conflict and cooperation from a variety of historical periods and locales. Note: This course is both reading and writing intensive.

Course goals: students are expected to

1. Demonstrate increased mastery of knowledge related to the causes, effects, and constitutive elements of international and intra-state conflict, and to the necessary conditions of conflict prevention at diverse levels of analysis. 2. Demonstrate improvement in their ability to communicate clearly, powerfully, and persuasively in speaking and writing. 3. Demonstrate improvements in the skill of applying knowledge to the challenges of simulated international conflict situations. 4. Demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge gained in the classroom to current events in world politics.

Page 1 of 6 Assessment Mechanisms and Weights:

1. Attendance – 5% of the grade a. Place your signature on the sign-in sheet at the beginning of each class session. b. Scores are based on a 90/80/70/60 percentile based on the total number of class sessions during the semester, not including the final exam and any dates that the instructor is away. 2. Debates – 60% of the grade a. You are responsible for participating in one debate and writing two debate essays. b. Each debate is worth 20% of the grade. c. See Debate Instructions Sheet for details. 3. Final Exam – 35% of the course grade a. Comprehensive, 50 question multiple choice format. b. Open book, open note, closed computer, closed internet, closed neighbor.

Instructional Materials

1. Textbooks and other resources (listed alphabetically) a. Robert J. Art and , 2017, International Politics: Enduring concepts and Contemporary Issues, 13th edition, Pearson. ISBN 978-0-13-448201-9. b. Ken Booth and Nicholas J. Wheeler, 2008, The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation, and Trust in World Politics, Palgrave MacMillan, ISBN 978-0-333-58745-4 c. Michael Walzer, 2015, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, 5th edition, Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465052714 2. For additional readings, see the topics/readings schedule below. Most of these will be provided by the instructor in pdf format on the course website or via the course email list. 3. Students are expected to keep abreast of current events in world politics by daily reading of the major newspapers, professional journals, and TV/internet outlets. Examples of these include but are not limited to the list below. You might check the TRACS site to see if one of these is provided for you: a. New York Times (www.nytimes.com) b. Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com) c. NPR or PBS.

Course Policies

1. Cheating or plagiarism of any kind is grounds for failing the assignment, the exam, or the entire course. Please be aware of student responsibilities for maintaining honesty under the Honor Code. 2. Students are greatly encouraged to communicate with the professor. Students are also expected to treat communications with the professor as a matter of improving on professional skills. Professional communication skills in the workplace is very important to keeping a good job once you are hired. Please refer to the following link to see how your emails to me and fellow students should be crafted: http://www.wikihow.com/Email-a-Professor 3. Please email the instructor if you require special accommodations. Alternately, you may see me in office hours. 4. All written assignments are due on the day noted. Late assignments are penalized one letter grade per day late. 5. Read assigned articles or chapters beforehand. As mentioned above, we use each day’s assigned readings in class. 6. Please bring your readings with you. Carpenters must bring their hammers to work, otherwise they cannot perform their job. Do perform well in the discussions, you must have your readings accessible to you in class. 7. Class discussion is an opportunity to engage ideas and values which might be different from the ones with which you are familiar. While my mission is not to indoctrinate, I expect that each student will be open- minded, fair-minded, and willing to change his or her mind upon sufficient evidence. Focus on ideas instead of persons or personalities. Use disagreement and debate as an opportunity to learn and grow rather than ‘win’ or ‘score points.’ Be prepared to affirm the best argument, but not the loudest argument or the most popular argument.

Page 2 of 6 8. On letters of recommendation: Before you approach me to ask for a letter of recommendation to graduate school, an internship, or a job, determine if my letter would reflect your strongest performance. If you don’t think I would write a strong letter for you, seek another professor. However, I will write a letter for anyone who asks me. It will be honest on matters of academic strength and weakness. Finally, students must allow 3-4 weeks prior to the due date of the letter of recommendation for it to be written. My schedule is such that I cannot adequately honor requests for letters that are due within the same week or following week. I reserve the right to deny requests for letters of recommendation that are “short-notice.”

Course Schedule: Topics, Readings, and Assignments

Week Date Topic Readings Activities/Assignments 1 1/21/202 Introduction to Course Syllabus, Lecture; 0 Course Course Handouts Introductions

1/23 Introduction: Booth and Wheeler, Introduction; Lecture; discussion Core Concepts of International Security Studies 2 1/28 Interstate Booth and Wheeler, chapter 1; Lecture; discussion Conflict and From Art and Jervis: Security *Mearsheimer, Anarchy and the Dynamics: Struggle for Power Offensive and Defensive “Realism”

1/30 The Case of the Walzer, chapter 1; Debate Teams and Topics Athenians and From Art and Jervis: Selection; Melians *Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue Lecture; discussion

3 2/4 The Causes and Walzer, chapter 2; Lecture; discussion Logic of War From Art and Jervis: *Fearon, Rationalist Explanations for War

2/6 The Functions Booth and Wheeler, chapter 2; Lecture; discussion of Force and the From Art and Jervis: Ambiguity of *Art on the Four Functions of Weapons Force

4 2/11 The Fungible From Art and Jervis: Lecture; discussion Uses of Force *Art on the Fungibility of Force and Coercive *Schelling on the Diplomacy of Diplomacy Violence

2/13 The Offense- From Art and Jervis: Lecture; discussion Defense Balance *Jervis, Offense, Defense, and the and the Role of Security Dilemma Diplomacy *Morgenthau, The Future of Diplomacy

Page 3 of 6 5 2/18 Fear, Political Booth and Wheeler, chapter 3; Lecture; discussion Identity, and the From Art and Jervis: Security *Wendt on Anarchy is What Dilemma States Make of It

2/20 End of Module: Review Module #1 Readings Debate 1: Which is the best Debate #1: approach to the security Offensive or dilemma: offensive or defensive ? Realism Debate #1 Essays due in TRACS/Assignments by 2/23/2020 @ 11:55pm. 6 2/25 State and Booth and Wheeler, chapter 4; Debate #1 Debrief; Inter-state From Art and Jervis: Discussion based on readings Security *Jervis, Cooperation under the around this 30-minute Game through Security Dilemma Theory exercise: http://ncase.me/ Cooperation: trust/ Rationalist and Identity-Based Approaches 2/27 The Security Walzer, chapters 3 Lecture; discussion Dilemma; From Art and Jervis: International * Hoffman on the Uses and Limits Norms and Law of International Law

7 3/3 War, Military Walzer, chapter 4-5 Lecture; discussion Action, and International Law 3/5 International Booth and Wheeler, chapter 5; Lecture; discussion Security From Art and Jervis: Regimes *Keohane on International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work? 8 3/10 Global Nadelmann 1990, Global Lecture; discussion Prohibition Prohibition Regimes (pdf) Regimes The 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (pdf) 3/12 The Nuclear Dunn 2009, The NPT – Assessing Lecture; discussion Nonproliferation the Future (pdf) Treaty Regime Fuhrmann and Lupu 2016, Do Arms Control Treaties Work? (pdf) 3/17-3/19 Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break 9 3/24 Interventions: Walzer chapter 6; Class does not meet: Instructor is Collective and From Art and Jervis: attending the annual International Human Security *Annan, Reflections on Studies Association Conference Intervention during this week 3/26 Just War and Walzer chapter 7 Class does not meet: Instructor is International attending the annual International Security Studies Association Conference during this week 10 3/31 Common Booth and Wheeler chapter 6; Lecture; discussion Security: Its Toje 2011_ The European Union Possibilities and as a Small Power (pdf)

Page 4 of 6 Limits 4/2 End of Module Review Module #2 Readings Debate #2: Which approach to Debate #2: interstate cooperation is the best Rational or to address the security dilemma: Identity-based rationalist or identity-based Cooperation approaches? Debate #2 Essay due in TRACS/ Assignments by 4/5/2020 @ 11:55pm 11 4/7 State and Booth and Wheeler, chapter 7; Debrief of Debate #2; Inter-state From Art and Jervis: Lecture; discussion Security *Doyle on Kant, Liberal Legacies, through and Foreign Affairs Security Communities: Kantian Liberal Approaches 4/9 The War Walzer, chapters 8-9 Lecture; discussion Convention and Kantian Principles 12 4/14 Alternative Booth and Wheeler, chapter 8; Lecture; discussion Approaches to World Order 4/16 A Conceptual Booth and Wheeler, chapter 9 Lecture; discussion Analysis and Rathbun 2011 – Before Case Study of Hegemony (pdf) Trust 13 4/21 Nuclear Ford 2007 “Debating Lecture; discussion Disarmament: Disarmament” Nonproliferation Its Possibilities Review (pdf); and Limits Doyle 2015 “Moral and Political Necessities of Nuclear Disarmament” Strategic Studies Quarterly (pdf) 4/23 The Security Booth and Wheeler chapter 10, 11 Lecture; discussion Dilemma in the 21st Century 14 4/28 The Security Flockhart 2016, The Coming Lecture, discussion Dilemma in the Multi-Order World (pdf); 21st Century Stokes 2018, Trump, American hegemony, and the future of the liberal international order

15 4/30 End of Module Review Module #3 Readings Debate #3: Can Kantian Debate #3 approaches to the security dilemma become resilient enough to withstand the Realist or Populist counter-pressures? Debate #3 Essay due in TRACS/ Assignments by 5/3/2020 @ 11:55pm. Final Final Exam Comprehensive final exam: 50 Exa questions multiple choice, open

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