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IRP 645  Histories, Theories, and International Policies
M001 meets Monday 12:45-3:30 in Eggers 225; M002 meets W 3:45-6:15 in Eggers 010

James P. Bennett, Maxwell Hall 405b, 443-1749, jbennett@syr.edu, Office hours M 3:45-5:15, W 12-2 and by appointment




Purpose

This is a problem-oriented course about contemporary challenges to international public policy. We explore complex relations among histories, lessons putatively derived from histories, theory-building and theory-revision, and policy analysis. We begin with short critiques of histories of our field of International Relations. Next we explore those historical methods which address the various presentations of the past by historians. After a quick tour through the contemporary theories of international relations which seem to have the greatest influence upon policy making, we examine how histories and theories inform policy processes as leaders attempt to grapple with six remarkable "redirections" that have taken most policy shapers by surprise:

The course anticipates your careers as “policy shapers” – persons working to influence major decisions at critical junctures in a policy making process. The diverse readings invite you to develop a sophisticated familiarity with the most influential modes of historical and theoretical analysis. The writing requirements invite you to apply these modes of analysis to important contemporary issues.

Requirements

One's grade is based upon a maximum of 100 points earned as follows:

1. Participation in all forms of class activity: quality of participation in class discussion, formal presentations, and service as discussant to presentations. 0-20 points

2. A 'literacy test,' designed to test your comprehension of the principal historiographies and theories which influence contemporary international practice, will be offered at Meeting 6. The questions will cover the common readings assigned up to that date. Twenty-five candidate questions drawn from the common readings and from class discussion will be announced at Meeting 5: from these 25, three will be randomly drawn to constitute the test. The test will be scored 0-24 points.

3. Two papers, on items of your choice listed in this syllabus, submitted during meetings 7-14. 0-20 points each.  (Presentations in class will accompany submission of a written report but be graded separately.)

4. Service as a discussant, twice, during weeks 3-5 and 7-14. 0-8 points each.

Two books are available for purchase at Orange Student Bookstore, Marshall Square Mall:
George C. Iggers, Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge, Wesleyan; 2nd ed., 2005. (40 copies)
Lenin, V. I.,
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism. International Publishing Company, 1935 (or another equivalent edition). (20 copies)

Items which you select to read and critique -- three in the interval of weeks 7-14 -- may be accessed from the holdings of Syracuse University Library, via interlibrary loan, or by purchase. Most of these are
not found on reserve at Bird Library.

All other required readings are available either through the university library's electronic journal holdings or linked to the course's Blackboard pages.

Policies regarding academic integrity and disability are found here.

Syllabus

* Identifies common
(required) readings.  
# Identifies readings made available to the class.
All journal articles are available on the web via the university library's subscriptions.
Make a heroic effort to complete the readings marked *
prior to the class meeting in which the reading is listed.

0. Read this first: Christina D Romer, "The Nation in Depression,"  The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, 7,  2 ( 1993), 19-39.

Part I. Foundations

1. Scope and focus of the course (1: Jan 12; 2: Jan 14)
The field of "International Relations",  "History of international relations", History of "International Relations," Historical sensibilities for the Theory and Practice of International Relations
   
North American origins of the Field of International Relations:
*
Quincy Wright, A Study of War, University of Chicago Press, 1942.  Google Books shows enough of this volume to comprehend the research program.
Almost all of Wright's publications deal with international law.  An informative exception is Quincy Wright, "Review of
Power and International Relations. by Inis L. Claude, Jr., Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 4 (Dec., 1963), pp. 609-613.   

European origins:
*
Ole Wæver, "The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline:American and European Developments in International Relations," International Organization 52, 4, Autumn 1998, pp. 687–727. [If you read this article for Prof. Bonham's course, read instead the one below by Steiner.]

Zara Steiner, "On Writing International History: Chaps, Maps and Much More,"
International Affairs  73, 3 (1997), pp. 531-546. [Perspective of the 'English School']

Some Non Western origins:

*Yongjin Zhang, "System, empire and state in Chinese international relations," Review of International Studies  27, 5, (2001), 43–61.
Yong Deng, "The Chinese Conception of National Interests in International Relations,"
The China Quarterly, 154 (1998), 308-329

*Takashi Inoguchi, “Why are there no non-Western theories of international relations? The case of Japan” International Studies Association, 2006. [To read this, click the article's title link, then find and click “International Studies Association” at mid-page.]

2. Two modes of knowledge (claims)  in interational relations: explanation and understanding (1: Jan26; 2: Jan 21)

*#
Martin Hollis and Steven Smith, Explaining and Understanding in International Relations, Oxford Clarendon, 1990, chapter 1,3,4.

*Alternative understandings of international relations suggested by the careers of Diocletian, Tekemthe, Hongi Hika, Gertrude Bell (1) (2) (3)These people must have understood their respectively contemporary worlds differently from the way that we try to explain it today.  Note how different are our sources for these historical figures.

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3. Introduction to Theory: the Big 3 and the Little 1 (Families of International Relations Theory) -- (1) Political Realism and (2) Liberalism (1: Feb 2; 2 Jan 28)

*#J
ohn Baylis and Steve  Smith with Patricia Owens, The Globalization of World Politics, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2001, chapters 7-11, pp. 161-270).  (isbn 0-19-927118-6)  [Don't use the 4th ed.]

For a more thorough introduction, Michael W. Doyle,
Ways of War and Peace, Norton, 1997.

*Morgenthau, Hans J., Politics among nations; the struggle for power and peace, 2nd ed., Chapter 1, "A Realist Theory of International Politics" Here

Andreas Osiander, "Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth," 
International Organization ,  55,02, April 2001, pp 251-287.

Andrew Moravcsik, "Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics," International Organization 51:4 (1997) 513-554.

*David A. Baldwin, "Neoliberalism, Neorealism and World Politics, pp. 3-26 in D. A. Baldwin, ed., Neorealism and Neoliberalis;: the Contemporary Debate. Columbia University Press, 1993. (Available through Google Books)

*
John Gerard Ruggie, "International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in
the Postwar Economic Order,"
International Organization   36,  2,  (1982), 379-415.

Bruce Russsett, John Oneal and Michael Berbaum, "Causes of  Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, 1886-1992,
International Studies Quarterly 47:3 ( 2003): 371-93.

William R. Thompson, The Emergence of the Global Political Economy. Routledge 2000.

Lucian M. Ashworth, “Did the Realist-Idealist Great Debate Really Happen? a Revisionist History of International Relations,” International Relations, 16, 1(2002) 33-51.

(On the benefits of empire according to Monte Python.)

4. Introduction to Theory: the Big 3and the Little 1 (Families of International Relations Theory) -- (3) Marxism and (i) Constructivism (1: Feb 9; 2: Feb 4)

*Lenin, V. I., Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism. International Publishing Company, 1935. Available here.   Relevant?

(temporarily unavailable) Helen Byrne Armstrong,"International socialism: the end of an era," Foreign Affairs 12 (1933), 436.

Jeffrey T. Checkel, "The Constructivist Turn in International Relations Theory," 
World Politics 50,2 (1998) 324-348.

*
Alexander Wendt, "Constitution and causation in International Relations," Review of International Studies 24: 5 (1998), 101-117. (Notes by K. Czarniak)

Nicholas Onuf,
Worlds of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations. University of South Carolina Press, 1989

5. What are histories?  Historiography for the policy shaper (1: Feb 16; 2: Feb 11) (From Soumi the Romantic)

* George C. Iggers, Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge, Wesleyan; 2nd ed., 2005. ISBN-10: 0819567663; ISBN-13: 978-0819567666  [Hint: Read this book backward: last chapter first, etc.]

[For an illustration of microhistory -- and unparalleled account of what it means to seek to understand historical figures -- seeCarlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the  Worms, Penguin 1992.]

Edward Hallett Carr, What is History? Vintage, 1967.

Keith Jenkins, On 'what is History?': From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White. Routledge, 1995.  Ch 3 (on Edward Hallett Carr) and Ch 5 (on Hayden White). (Google Books)

Peter Johnson, "Book review of William H. Dray,
History as Re-enactment: R.G. Collingwood’s Idea
of History, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995)," Philosophical Investigations 21:1 January 1998.

Fernand Braudel,
A History of Civilizations. A. Lane, 1994.


6. (a) What uses do policy shapers make of histories?  Can we do better?  Relations among history, theory and practice (1: Feb 23; 2: Feb 18)

Recall the 'prisoner of a dead economist'?  Check this out.

Ernest R. May,
The Lessons of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy, Oxford University Press, 1973.  

*
Stephen M. Walt "The Relationship between Theory and Policy in International Relations," Annual Review of Political Science, 2005. 8:23–48.  
   
*
Richard N. Haass and Martin Indyk, "Beyond Iraq: A New U.S. Strategy for the Middle East,"  Foreign Affairs, (2009)

[As a transition from historiography to the 'redirections', you may be interested in:
Barbara Levitt and
James G. March, "Organizational Learning". Annual Review of Sociology 14: 319-338 (1988).
Jack S. Levy, "Learning and foreign policy: sweeping a conceptual minefield," International Organization 48,2 (1994), 279-312.]
The Natchez Indians and Marxist inquiry: an illustration

   (b)  'Literacy' Test in class.
 (1: Mar 2; 2: Feb 25)

90-minute, closed book test, presenting you with three questions drawn from a list to be attached to this syllabus, meeting 5.

   (c)  a 5th Mom


Part II. Applications. Seven "redirections of history" that are shaking the World

7.
Rapid and irregular proliferation of the capacity to build weapons of mass destruction (as contrasted with once-effective multilateral programs to inhibit the proliferation of nuclear and other complicated military technologies during the Cold War). (1: Mar 16; 2: Mar 4)

(Check out the Nuclear Suppliers' Group.  And objections to the US-India accords.)

William Langewiesche, The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. H. Kim

Etel Solingen, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East. Princeton University Press, 2007.

Jacques E.C. Hymans, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy. Cambridge University Press, 2006 Allem

Kroenig, M.H., The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Customer: Why States Provide Sensitive Nuclear Assistance. University of California, 2007.

Stephen M. Younger, The Bomb, A New History. Harper/Ecco, 2009. ISBN: 9780061537196; ISBN10: 0061537195 Rouse Shiels

Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman, The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation. Zenith Press, 2009. Czarniak

(Baxter, Polyakova, Rohr, Inafuku discussants)

8. The current near-collapse of the international economic order which, at a minimum, is pushing the global economy toward a recession serious enough to endanger the post-WW2 liberal economic order. (1: Mar 23; 2: Mar 18)

Alison Bailin, From Traditional to Group Hegemony: The G7, the Liberal Economic Order and the Core-Periphery Gap.  Ashgate, 2005.

Jonathan Kirshner, Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power, Princeton University Press, 1995. Patriciu

Ralph C. Bryant, Cross-Border Finance and International Governance.  Brookings, 2003.

Peter Gourevitch, The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of Domestic Politics. Routledge, 1994. 

George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, PublicAffairs, 1998, and Barry Eichengreen, "The crisis of (confidence in ) global capitalism," 1999. Polyakova

Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press, 2008. Jang Goldfarb

Peter Gourevitch,
Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Responses to International Economic Crises. Cornell University Press, 1986. Zhang

Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Aliber, Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (5th ed.). Wiley, 2005. Carrasco

Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World.  Penguin, (January) 2009. Hasper

David Harvey, A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism.  Oxford University Press, 2007. Thompson Chatterjee

(Discussants Smith, Benedict, Dailey, Yejerla)

9.  The end of 'globalization' as a political symbol representing material opportunities for most of the world's people and as a political objective by governments to reduce risks and to exploit opportunities for social as well as economic gains acievable by realizing comparative advantages. (1: Mar 30; 2: Mar 25)

(El Fisgón (trans. Mark Fried), How to Succeed at Globalization, A Primer for the Roadside Vendor.  Metropolitan Books, 2002.)

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents.  W.W.Norton, 2003. Shiels

Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom.  Knopf, 1999. Zabava Cetola

Jaghdish N. Bhagwati
, In Defense of Globalization, Oxford University Press, 2004. Yejerla Goldfarb

Hernando de Soto,
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else.  Basic Books, 2003. Capalbo Carrasco

Beth A. Simmons, Frank Dobbin, and Geoffrey Garrett, eds., The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2008. Takabayashi
Jan Aart Scholte,
Globalization: A Critical Introduction. Macmillan/Palgrave, 2000. Published by Macmillan, 2000.  Read also a  review by Frank Lechner.

James N. Rosenau,
Distant Proximities: Dynamics beyond Globalization.  Princeton University Press, 2003. Plazolles

Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization.  Yale University Press, 2002. Hart Yourchuck

Hisham M. Nazer, Power of a Third Kind: The Western Attempt to Colonize the Global Village, Praeger, 1999. Cho

Alison Bailin, From Traditional to Group Hegemony: The G7, the Liberal Economic Order and the Core-Periphery Gap.  Ashgate, 2005.

Michel Beaud (trans. Tom Dickman and Anny Lefebvre), A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000.  Monthly Review Press, 2002.(ISBN: 1583670416).  [One must select the 2002 edition.]

Jeffry A. Frieden, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century.  W. W. Norton, 2007. Jang

John Fox, Nada Mourtada Sabbah and Mohammed Al Mutawa (eds.), Globalization and the Gulf.  Routledge, 2006. Thompson

Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done
About It.  Oxford University Press, 2008. Rohr

Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World.  Princeton  University Press, 2009.

William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So
Much Ill and So Little Good.  Penguin, 2007.  Cadondon Ratzlaff

Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.
University of California Press, 2004. Li Caraballo

Graham Hancock, The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International
Aid Business.  Atlantic Monthly Press, 20xx.  Aston

(Discussants: Hasper, Hu,  Sangi, Wang, Dailey, Patriciu, Amodeo, Zhang, Nantulya, Jackson )

10. Demise of  the superpower status of the United States, with an immanently violent contest for influence by other states and  alignments. (Aka, hegemonic decline in historical perspective) (1: Apr 6; 2: Apr 1)

John J. Mearsheimer,
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.  W. W. Norton, 2003. Zabava, 

Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World. W. W. Norton, 2008. Wang Chatterjee

 G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars. Princeton University Press, 2001.

Stephen Van Evera,
Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict. Cornell University Press, 1999; also Richard K. Betts, "Must war find a way?" International Security 24:2 (Fall 1999), 166-198. White

Clyde Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East.  Basic, 2005. Dailey Sangi

Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. Columbia University Press, 1977. Polyakova


Hegemonic decline in (some particular) historical perspective.

James J. O'Donnell, The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History. Harper, Ecco Books, 2008.  Smith

David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. Holt Paperbacks, 2001.

Efraim and Inari Karsh, Empires of the Sand: The Struggle For Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923. Harvard Univesity Press, 2001. Baxter

Unryu Suganuma, Sovereign Rights and Territorial Space in Sino-Japanese Relations. University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. Zhang

Margaret Macmillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World. Random House, 2003.   Hasper Amodeo

Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power.  Basic Books, 2004.

Helene Carrere d'Encausse, The End of the Soviet Empire: The Triumph of the Nations.  Basic Books, 1993. Patriciu

Kimberly Z. Marten, Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past.  Columbia University Press, 2004. Inafuku

Edith Brown Weiss and Harold K. Jacobson, eds., Engaging Countries: Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords.  MIT Press, 2000.

(Discussants Allem, Hu, Aston, Li, Goldfarb, Rouse, Hart, Jang, Yourchuck, Cadondon, McSwain, Plazolles, Capalbo)

11.  Challenges for supra-, infra- and non-state policy formulation and policy implementation required by the gradual dissolution of the Westphalian system of sovereign states. (Aka, building a different world order.) (1: Apr 13; 2: Apr 8)

Scott Barrett, Why Cooperate?  The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods.  Oxford University Press, 2007. Wang Yourchuck

James Capraso, ed., “Changes in the Westphalian Order: Territory, Public Authority and Sovereignty, International Studies Review special issue, 2000.

Janice Thomson, Mercenaries, Pirates and Sovereigns.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Rohr

Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization.  Yale University Press, 2002.

Luis Cabrera,
Political Theory of Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Case for the World State. Taylor & Francis, 2006.  Hu

Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor C. Boas,
Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule. MIT Press, 2003. 

Hans-Henrik Holm and Georg Sorensen (eds.),
Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War. Westview Press, 1995. Also read the comments in Mershon International Studies Review 40 (339-352), 1996.

Stephen G. Brooks, Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization and the Changing Calculus of Conflict.  Princeton, 2005.

James N. Rosenau, Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 

Christer Karlsson, Democracy, Legitimacy and the European Union. 2001 dissertation available here. 

Coercive Humanitarian Intervention

Gary J. Bass, Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention. Knopf, 2008. Cetola

James Orbinski, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century. Walker, 2008. Li

Nicholas J. Wheeler, Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society. Oxford University Press, 2003. Nantulya

Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Harper 2007. McSwain

Gerald Prunier, Darfur, A 21st Century Genocide, 5th ed. Cornell University Press, 2008. Capalbo

Leo Kuper, Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, 1983. Cho Amodeo

R. J. Rummel, Death by Government, Transaction Books, 1997. Benedict

Lucien W. Pye, Politics, Personality, and Nation Building: Burma's Search for Identity. Yale University Press, 1962.

(Discussants Allem, Caraballo,  Rouse, Inafuku, Kim, Hart, Jang, Shiels, Zhang, Jackson, White, Li, Polyakova, Chatterjee, Plazolles, Carrasco, Ratzlaff)


12. Increasing acceptance of the a need to combat a sudden worldwide change in the atmosphere and oceans, caused in large measure by patterns of human habitation and consumption. (1: Apr 20; 2: Apr 15)

Geoffrey Parker and Lesly M. Smith, The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, 2nd ed. Routledge, 1997, & William S. Atwell, Volcanism and short-term climatic change in East Asian and world history, c. 1200-1699," Journal of World History 12:1 (2001), 29-97.

J. R. McNeil, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World.  W. W. Norton, 2001. Jackson

Clive Ponting, A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, revised ed..  Penguin, 2007. McSwain

Edward L. Miles, Arild Underdal, Steinar Andresen, Jorgen Wettestad, Tora Skodvin and Elaine M. Carlin, Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence. MIT Press, 2001.

Scott Barrett, Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making.  Oxford, 2003.

David G. Victor, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming.  Princeton, 2004. H. Kim Sangi

Louis Lebel, Po Garden, and Masao Imamura, “The Politics of Scale, Position, and Place in the Governance of

Water Resources in the Mekong Region,” Ecology and Society 10(2): 18. [online] AND Piers M. Blaikie and Joshua S. S. Muldavin, 
Upstream, Downstream, China, India: The Politics of Environment in the Himalayan Region,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94, (2004)  520 - 548 AND Jonathan Rigg,  "Thailand's Nam Choan Dam Project, a case study in the 'greening' of South East Asia," Global Ecology and Biogeoology Letters  19: 1 (1991) , 42-54. Dailey


Mary E. Pettinger, ed., The Social Construction of  Climate Change.  Ashgate, 2007.

Bert Bolin, A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 2008.


William D. Nordhuas, A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies. Yale University Press, 2008. Yejerla Takabayashi


James G. Speth and Peter Haas, Global Environmental Governance. Island Press, 2006.

James G. Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability.  Yale University Press, 2008.

Scott Barrett,  Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making.  Oxford University Press, 2006.

James Garvey, The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World. Continuum, 2008. Inafuku

(Discussants Smith, Cho, Hasper, Aston, Benedict, Cetola, Caraballo, Amodeo, Shiels, Yourchuck, Cadondon, White, Carrasco)

13. Increasing need to monitor and mitigate the worldwide spread of new diseases which emerge in large measure from changed patterns of human habitation and behaviors. (1: Apr 27; 2: Apr 22)

David McQueen and Pekka Puska, Global Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance. Springer, 2003.

Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. Hyperion, 2001. Cadondon

Gina Kolata,  Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic. Touchstone, 2001. Caraballo, Rouse

Obijiofor Aginam, Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World. University of Toronto Press, 2005. Ratzlaff

Leonard A. Cole, The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare. W.H. Freeman, 1996. Allem Benedict

Arno Karlen, Plague's Progress : A Social History of Man and Disease, V. Gollancz, 1995. Parulkar Jackson

J. N. Hays, The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History. Rutgers University Press, 1998.  Smith

Tony McMichael, Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

C. Everett Koop, Clarence E. Pearson, M. Roy Schwarz, Critical Issues in Global Health. Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Jonathan Engel, The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS. Collins, 2006. Nantulya

Irwin W. Sherman, Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World. Asm Press, 2007. Hart Plazollo

Noble D. Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650. Cambridge University Press, 1998.  Aston

Jennifer Brower, The Global Threat of New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Reconciling U.S. National Security and Public Health Policy. RAND, 2003. White Baxter

Michael B. Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, and History. Oxford University Press, 2000. Pei

(Discussants Cho, Li, Cetola, Uurtsaikh, Wang, Patriciu, Rohr, Yejerla, McSwain, Czarniak, Chatterjee, Ratzlaff)


14.
Historical and theoretical underpinnings for the 'policy shaper': a portfolio of skills and sensibilities. Providentia deorum?