University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Political Science Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822 Spring 2016 POLS 630: International Relations Seminar Instructor: Nevzat Soguk Office: Saunders 619, phone 956-8929 Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 12:00-1:00PM and by appointment. Course Description This course is designed to provide students with a survey of the field of international relations. As a reading seminar, the course finds its focus in the exploration of one of the most complex practices in modern political thought: international relations. What is "international relations?" The course gives students an opportunity to become conversant with a variety of perspectives that bear upon international relations. Providing students with conceptual and theoretical tools used in those perspectives, the course encourages students to practice putting the perspectives to work in various politico-economic fields of life to analyze the mixture of processes and projects constituting international relations. In addition to studying, through theoretical perspectives, the evolution of the IR as a field, the course explores a number of substantive themes or research areas such as the state, nation and nationalism, indigenous politics, race and culture in international relations, political economy of global politics, postcolonialism, post-modernity in international relations, and social movements. Its focus is inter-disciplinary, drawing on the works of both conventional and critical theorists and observers of international relations. Course Requirements Each student is expected to: 1-Attend all weekly seminars 2-Read all assigned materials in their entirety 3-Participate actively and regularly in seminar discussions 4-Present and lead discussions of reading(s) assigned to him/her for that week 5-Write either a weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) analytical journal 6-Write a final analytical essay

Weekly Analytical Journals 1-The purpose of the weekly journal is: -- to prepare you to engage in an interesting and confident manner with other seminar participants during weekly discussions. --to provide thinking time and writing space for each student to pursue ideas of interest to him/her throughout the semester. 2-Each weekly journal must include some discussion of two of texts assigned for that week's seminar meeting. 3- The weekly journal should be written thoughtfully and carefully, with attention to offering clear, reasoned arguments about assigned readings. Imagination, humor, and even parody are encouraged in the journal. 4- The Weekly Journal Format: One (1) page (absolutely no more) typed, single-spaced. 5- Journal Exchange: Please come to weekly seminar meetings with two (2) Xerox copies of your journal. You will be asked to give one to me and one to another seminar participant, keeping the original for yourself. This is mandatory. You are encouraged to offer thoughts on one another's journal, although this is not mandatory. Final Essay The topic of the final essay is your choice, but you must demonstrate its direct relevance to this course. The final essay is to be no less than 12 double-spaced, typed pages and no more than 25 pages. I shall be happy to talk with you regarding the final essay. Evaluation of Course work: 50% Weekly Journals 30% Final Essay 20% Class Participation: decided upon both leading class discussions in those meetings assigned specifically to certain individuals and general participation in the seminar meetings. I. CONCEPTUAL ISSUES Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Changing Global Landscapes – Terrirorializing Histories Read: Baylis and Schmit, “Historical Context of Contemporary International Relations” Armstrong, “The Evolution of International Society” Soguk and James, “Global Political and Legal Governance: a Critical Overview” Barabantseva, “How Do People Come to identify With Nations?” Elden, "Why is the World Divided Territorially"

Week 3: Changing Global Landscapes – Globalizing Presents Video: Four Horsemen Read: Scholte, “The Globalization of World Politics.” Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy," Castells, “The Network Society” McGrew, “Globalization and Global Politics”

Week 3. Conceptual issues: Representation and Power Video – Stuart Hall on Discourse and Representation Read: Edward Said, Orientalism, Introduction. Stuart Hall, "The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power." Edward Said. Culture and Imperialism. Recommended: Hall, Stuart, The Work of Representation”

Week 4: Conceptual Issues in International Relations: Politics of Power Read Jeffrey Isaac. Power and Marxist Theory A Realist View, selections Ian MacKenzie, “Power,” in Contemporary Social and Political Theory. Michel Foucault. History of Sexuality, Vol.1, pp. 92-102. Michel Foucault, “The Body of the Condemned.’ In Discipline and Punish. Stories of Power (if you are up to reading on your own) Mahesweta Devi, "Draupadi." -- a short story Sembene Ousmane, "Black Girl." -- a short story Abdul Latief, “ I, the Accused.” – a short story Week 5: Conceptual Issues in International Relations: States, Nations, Sovereignty, and Anarchy Read: Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A study of Order in World Politics. (3-52) Martin Wight. "International Anarchy" (Chap. 6) in Power Politics. Alexander Wendt. "Anarchy is What States Make of it. " In International Organization. Edited by John Ruggie and Edward Mansfield. Richard K. Ashley. "The Powers of Anarchy: Theory, Sovereignty, and the Domestication of Global Life." In International Theory: Critical Investigations. Edited by J. Der Derian. David Campbell. "Political Prosaics, Transversal Politics, and the Anarchical World." In Challenging Boundaries. Edited by Michael Shapiro and Hayward Alker. Recommended: Arjun Appadurai. "Sovereignty Without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography," in Patricia Yager, ed., The Geography of Identity (An Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press) Richard K. Ashley. "Untying the Sovereign State." Stephen Krasner. “Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective.” In James Caparoso, ed., The Elusive State: International and Comparative Perspectives. R. B. J. Walker. "Security, Sovereignt y and the Challenge of World Politics." Alternatives. Donald Carter. "The Art of the State and the Other Abstractions." Journal of Historical Sociology.

David Held” “The Development of the Modern State”

II APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

Week 6. Roots and Routes of Theorizing International Relations Read: Stephen Walt,” International Relations: One World , Many Theories.” Steve Smith, “The Self Images of a Discipline: A genealogy of International Relations Theory” Liberalism/Idealism/Utopianism Hugo Grotius. "The Rights of War and Peace." Emeric De Wattel. "Justice Between Nations." Immanuel Kant. "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch." in Classics of International Relations. Edited by John A. Vasquez. Tim Dunne, “Liberalism” Classical Realism Tim Dunne and Brian Schmidt, “ Realism” Thucydides. The Melian Dialogue Nicolo Machiavelli. The Prince. –selections Thomas Hobbes. "On the Natural Conditions of Mankind.” in Classical Readings of International Relations. Hedley Bull. International Society. A Case for a Classical Approach. E. H. Carr. Twenty Years Crisis (Chaps. 3-6) Martin Wight. Power Politics. (Chaps. 1-5, 7, 8, 9 and 15) Hans Morgenthau. "A Realist Theory of International Politics."

Week 7. “Roots and Routes” of Theorizing International Relations Read: Neorealism Kenneth Waltz. Theory of International Politics. Reading, Mass: Addison Wesley, 1979 – selections. Stephen Lammy, Contemporary mainstream approaches to neo-realism and neoliberalism” Neorealism, Neorealism's Critics and Beyond Richard K. Ashley. “The Poverty of Neorealism,” in Neorealism and Its Critics. Rob Walker. "Realism, Change, and International Relations Theory." Robert Cox. “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory,” in Neorealism and Its Critics.” Recommended: Robert Keohane. “Theory of World Politics.” In Neorealism and Its Critics. James Der Derian. "A Reinterpretation of Realism: Genealogy, Semiology, Dromology." In International Theory: Critical Investigations. Edited by J. Der Derian. John G. Ruggie. "Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity." Jim George. "Understanding International Relations After the Cold War. Probing Beyond the Realist Legacy." In Challenging Boundaries Stephen Brooks, “Dueling Realisms.” International Organization Vol. 51.

Week 8: Neo-Marxist Approaches General: S. Hobden and R. Wyn Jones, “Marxist Theories of International Relations a) World Systems Theory Immanuel Wallerstein “Patterns and Perspectives of the Capitalist World Economy” Immanuel Wallterstein, “World Systems Analysis.” b) Dependency Theory. James A. Caporoso. "Dependency Theory. Continuities and Discontinuities."

c) Gramscian Approaches Robert Cox. "Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: an essay in method." Tim Luke, “Marx and Materiality: ‘International Relations’ as Embedded Efficiencies and Emergencies” in Modern Theory, Modern power and World Politics, Edited by Nevzat Soguk and Scott Nelson. 2016. Video: “Life and Debt” Recommended: Ankie Hoogvelt, Globalization and the Postcolonial World, pp 1-43. Immanuel Wallerstein. "The Capitalist World Economy." Chaps. 1-4 , 7 and 17. Chase-Dunn and Rubinson. "Interstate System and Capitalist World Economy" Mark Rupert. "Alienation, Capitalism and the Interstate System." Fernando Henrique Cordoso and Enzo Faletti. Dependency and Development Stephen Gill, ed. Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations. Stephen Gill and David Law. "Global Hegemony and the Structural Power of Capital." Enrico Augelli and Craig N. Murphy. "Gramsci and International Relations: A general perspective with examples from recent US policy toward the Third World." Randall D. Germain and Michael Kenny. "Engaging Gramsci: International Relations theory and the New Gramscians. Review of International Studies. E. Herman and R. McChesney. “The Global Media,” in D. Held and A. McGrew (eds.,) The Global Transformations Reader. Polity Press. Robert, Cox. Political Economy and the World Order: Problems of Power and Knowledge at the Turn of the Millennium,” in Political Economy and the Changing Global Order. Robert O’brien. “The Agency of Labour in a Changing Global Order,” in Political Economy and the Changing Global Order. Manuel Castells. The Global Economy,” D. Held and A. McGrew (eds.,) The Global Transformations Reader. Polity Press. Manuel Castells. The Network Society,” D. Held and A. McGrew (eds.,) The Global Transformations Reader. Polity Press. Stephen Gill “Knowledge, Politics, and Neo-Liberal Political Economy,” in Political Economy and the Changing Global Order. Louis Pauly. ( “Capital Mobility and the New Global Order,” in Political Economy and the Changing Global Order.

Week 9: Feminist Approaches Read: Jill Steans. "Gender, Feminisms and International Relations." In Jill Steans. Gender and International Relations. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan. "Gender as a Lens on World Politics." in Global Gender Issues. Gillian Youngs, “Feminist International Relations: a contradiction in terms? Or: why women and gender are essential to understating the world we live in” J Ann Tickner, “ You just don’t understand: Troubled Engagements between Feminists and IR theorists” International Studies Quarterly. Chandra Mohanty, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses." in Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Recommended: Jean L. Pyle, “Critical Globalization Studies and Gender.” In Critical Globalization Studies. Edited by Richard P. Appelbaum and William I. Robinson. Spike Peterson. "Whose Crisis? Early and Post-modern Masculinism." in Innovation and Transformation in International Studies. Jindy Pettman. "Women, Gender and the State. " in Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics.

Week 10: Poststructural/Postmodern and Constructivist Approaches Yosef Lapid, “ The Third Debate: On the prospects of International Theory in a PostPositivist Era.” International Studies Quarterly. Vol 33. (1989). Poststructural/Postmodern: James Der Derian. "The Boundaries of Knowledge and Power in International Relations. In International/Intertextual Relations. Edited by James Der Derian and Michael Shapiro. Michael Shapiro. "Textualizing Global Politics." International/Intertextual Relations. Edited by James Der Derian and Michael Shapiro. Richard K. Ashley and Rob Walker. "Reading Dissidence/Writing the Discipline: Crisis and the Question of Sovereignty in International Relations. ". Vol. 34, No. 3 – Abbreviated Version

Richard K. Ashley. "Living On Border Lines: Man, Poststructuralism, and War. " In International/Intertextual Relations. Edited by James Der Derian and Michael Shapiro. Week 11: Post-Colonialist and Constructivist Approaches Post-Colonialist: Chowdry and Nair, “Power in a postcolonial world: race, gender and class in international relations” Sankaran Krishna, “Genealogies of the Postcolonial, “ in Globalization and Postcolonialism Constructivist: Nicholos G. Onuf. “Politics of Constructivism.” In Constructing International Relations. Edited by Karin M. Fierke and Knud E.Jorgensen. Maja Zehfuss, “Constructivisms in International Relations: Wendt, Onuf and Krotochwill.” In Constructing International Relations. Edited by Karin M. Fierke and Knud E.Jorgensen. Knud E. Jorgensen, “Four Levels and a Discipline.” In Constructing International Relations. Edited by Karin M. Fierke and Knud E.Jorgensen. Recommended: Jim George. "(Re)Introducing the Theory as Practice of International Relations." in Discourses of Global Politics. James Der Derian. "Post-Theory: The Eternal Return of Ethics in International Relations." in New Thinking in International Relations Theory. Edited by Michael W. Doyle and G. John Ikenberry, 1997. R. B. J. Walker. "Violence, Modernity, Silence: From Max Weber to International Relations. " in The Political Subject of Violence. Edited by David Campbell and Michael Dillon. William Connolly. "Global Political Discourse." in Identity and Difference. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994 -Second Printing. Roxanne L. Doty. "Repetition and Variation: Academic Discourses on South North Relations." in Imperial Encounters. Minneapolis Minnesota: Univ. of Minnesota Press.

III AREAS OF RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Week 12. Globalization and International Relations O’Byrne and Hensby, “Globalization: the Global Village,” Arjun Appaduarai.”” Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination.” In

Globalization. Edited by Arjun Appadurai. Masao Miyoshi. "A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State. Critical Inquiry 19(4): 726-751. Saskia Sassen. “The Many Scales of the Global: Implications for Theory and Politics.” In Critical Globalization Studies. Edited by Richard P. Appelbaum and William I. Robinson. David Harvey. “From Globalization to the New Imperialism.” In Critical Globalization Studies. Edited by Richard P. Appelbaum and William I. Robinson. Recommended: Gupta, A and Ferguson, J. "Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity and the Politics of Difference. Cultural Anthropology, 7(1): 6-23. Pheng Cheah. "Given Culture: Rethinking Cosmopolitical Freedom in Transnationalism." Boundary 2. Vol. 24 (2). Gupta, Akil. "The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism." Cultural Anthropology, 7(1): 63-79. Warren Magnuson "Social Movements and the Global City," in The Search for Political Space. Ash Amin. " Placing Globalization" in Theory, Culture and Society. Vol. 14 (2). Mike Featherstone. "Global and Local Cultures." in Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures and Change.

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Anthony McGrew "A Global Society," in Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies. David Harvey. "From Space to Place and Back Again," in Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures and Global Change.

Week 13: Security/Insecurity Studies John Baylis, “International and Global Security” Howard Winant, “Globalization and Racism.” In Critical Globalization Studies. Edited by Richard P. Appelbaum and William I. Robinson. “Beverly Silver, Historical Dynamics of Globalization, and War and Social Protest.” In Critical Globalization Studies. Edited by Richard P. Appelbaum and William I. Robinson. Weldes, at al, “Introduction: Constructing Insecurity.” In Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger, University of Minnesota Press. Simon Dalby, “Contesting an Essential Concept: Reading the Dilemmas in Contemporary

Security Discourse.” In Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger, University of Minnesota Press. R.B.J. Walker, “The Subject of Security.” In Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger, University of Minnesota Press. Recommended: A) War and Classical Balance of Power Theory Morton Kaplan. "The Balance of Power, Bipolarity and other Models of the International System. Kenneth Waltz. "The Stability of a Bipolar World." Daedalus. No. 93. K. Deutsch and J. Singer. "Multipolar Power Systems and International System." B) War and Hegemonic Stability Theory Robert Gilpin. War and Change in World Politics -- selections Robert Keohane. After Hegemony C) Poststructralist Approach on Security/Insecurity Hayward R. Alker, et all. "From Imperial Power Balancing to People's Wars: Searching for Order in the Twentieth Century. James Der Derian. "The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrilliard. " in The Political Subject of Violence. Edited by David Campbell and Michael Dillon. Michael J. Shapiro. "The Obscure Object of Violence. in Violent Cartographies. R. B. J. Walker. "Security, Sovereignty and the Challenge of World Politics." Alternatives. J. Ann Tickner. "Re-Visioning Security" in International Relations Theory." Edited by Ken Booth and Steve Smith David Campbell. Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity Making. 1998 - New Revised Edition -- selections

Week 14: Multilateralism and Social Movements – Local ⇔Global A- Rules, Norms, Regimes -- Statist Multilateralism Friedrich Kratochwill. International Organization: A Reader – selections. B- Social Movements -- Multilateralism Beyond the State R.B.J. Walker. "Social Movements/World Politics." Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Vol. 23. No. 3. Warren Magnusson. "Social Movements and the Global City." Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Vol. 23. No. 3.

Immanuel Wallerstein, "Antisystemic Movements: History and Dilemmas." in Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World System. Jackie Smith, et all, "Social Movements and World Politics: A Theoretical Framework" in Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics. Recommended: Martin Shaw. "Civil Society and Global Politics: Beyond Social Movements Approach." Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Vol. 23. No. 3. Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye. Power and Interdependence – selections. Cecelia Lynch. "E.H. Carr International Relations Theory, and the Societal Origins of International Legal Norms." James Keely. "Toward a Foucauldian Analysis of International Regimes." International Organization.

Week 15: Human Rights and Ethics in International Relations Video: Globalization and Human Rights Thucydides. The Poleponesian War -- Selections. Hedley Bull. "Order Versus Justice in World Politics." in The Anarchical Society. Immanuel Kant. The Critique of Practical Reason -- Selections Jack Donnelly. "Twentieth Century Realism." in Traditions of International Ethics. Edited by Terry Nardin and David Mappel. Thomas Donaldson. "Kant's Global Rationalism." in Traditions of International Ethics. Edited by Terry Nardin and David Mappel. Edouard Glissant. Poetics of Relation, pp. 5-42. Emanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity -- Selections. Fiona Robinson. "Human Rights and the Global Politics of Resistance." Recommended: Michael J. Shapiro. "The Ethics of Encounter: Unmapping the Imperium." in Violent Cartographies. David Campbell and Michael Dillon. "The Political and the Ethical." in The Political Subject of Violence. Edited by David Campbell and Michael Dillon. Neta C. Crawford. "Postmodern Ethical Conditions and a Critical Response." in Ethics and International

Relations. Lisa Hajjar, “Toward a Sociology of Human Rights”

Week 16. Migration Video: The Underground Orchestra A) Migration Trinh T. Minh-ha. "Other than Myself/My Other Self. " Ian Chambers, “Leaky Habitats and Broken Grammar.” in Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement. James Clifford. (1997) "Travelling Cultures." in Routes: Travel and Translation in Global Culture. Nevzat Soguk, “Borders Capture: insurrectional politics, border-crossing humans, and the new political” in Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territories Edge. Nevzat Soguk, “Transversal Communication, Diaspora and the Euro-Kurds” Review of International Studies, 2008. Michael Kearney "Borders and Boundaries of the State and Self at the End of Empire." Journal of Historical Sociology 4 (1): 52-74. Recommended: Edward Said. "Movements and Migrations, in Culture and Imperialism. Roger Rouse. "Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism. Diaspora (Spring): 8-23. Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson “Home and Movement: A Polemic.” in Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson, Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in a World of Movement. Berg. Madan Sarup. "Home and Identity." in Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement. Ludger Pries. “New Migration in Transnational Social Spaces.” in Ludger Pries, Migration and Transnational Social Spaces. Ashgate. Winifred Woodhull. (1993) “Exile.” in Winifred Woodhull, Transfigurations of the Maghreb: Feminism, Decolonization and Literatures. University of Minnesota Press. Pheng Cheah. (1997) "Given Culture: Rethinking Cosmopolitical Freedom in Transnationalism." Boundary 2. Vol. 24 (2). Nevzat Soguk, Poetics of a World of Migrancy: Migratory Horizons, Passages, and Encounters of Alterity.” Global Society, (July 2000) Vol. 14. No 3. Avtar Brah. "Diaspora, Border and Transnational Identities." in Cartoghraphies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities.

Guillermo Gomez-Pena. "Warrior for Gringostrioka." in The Late Great Mexican Border: Reports From a Disappearing Line.

Week 17: Race, Ethnicity and Indigenous Politics in International Relations Video: A Place Called Chiapas Nevzat Soguk, “Indigenous Peoples and Radical Futures in Global Politics” Gordon Brotherston, Book of the Fourth World -- selections Epeli Hau'ofa, et all. A New Oceania: Rediscovering Our Sea of Islands. Selections. Roger Dunsmore. Earth’s Mind. University of New Mexico Press-Selections Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Selections. June Nash. Maya Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age Globalization. Introduction Nicholas Higgins. “The Zapatista Uprising and the Poetics of Cultural Resistance.” Alternatives, Vol. 25. Andrea Muehlebach, “Making Place at the United Nations: Indigenous Cultural Politics at the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations.” Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 16(3). Recommended: Karena Shaw, (2002) “Indigeneity and the International: Repoliticizing Decolonization.” Millennium: Journal of International Affairs. Frankie Wilmer, "Colonization, Conquest and the Boundaries of Legal and Political Community Frankie Wilmer, "From Conquest to Self-Determination: The Decolonization of Fourth World Peoples. Anaya, "Indigenous Rights Norms in Contemporary International Law." United Nations, "The Rights of Indigenous People." Crawford "Appendix 3: The United Nations and Non-Self-Governing Territories, 1946-1977." Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960. (In conjunction, read UN Resolutions 742, 1953, "Factors which should be taken into consideration. and UN Resolution 743, 1953: "Educational Conditions in Non-Self-Governing Territories." United Nations, "Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 1994." Anaya, "Indigenous Rights Norms in Contemporary International Law."

United Nations, "The Rights of Indigenous People." Crawford "Appendix 3: The United Nations and Non-Self-Governing Territories, 1946-1977." Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960. (In conjunction, read UN Resolutions 742, 1953, "Factors which should be taken into consideration......," and UN Resolution 743, 1953: "Educational Conditions in Non-Self-Governing Territories. United Nations, "Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 1994." Hawaii: Return to Nationhood -- Selections

On Hawaii: Manulani Aluli Meyer (1998) Native Hawaiian Epistemology. Ph.D Thesis. Harvard University. "Public Law 103-150- 100th Anniversary of the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom." International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965 Draft of the Inter-American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, 1995." UN International Labor Organization, "Convention 169 Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, 1989" Statement of the USA on the Rights of Indigenous People." *The instructor reserves the right to make changes such as changes in the assigned readings and the schedule of topics, etc., as the instructor deems necessary. The students will be fully informed about the changes in due time.