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Academic Year 2000/2001
Culture, Conflict and National Security
GOVT 387 FA
This course is a study of the interrelationship between culture and theories of conflict, both international and civil. The seminar will also consider issues related to national security and military doctrine.
Increasingly theories of conflict include
cultural and psychocultural variables such as conceptions of identity. And studies of national security consider states' interests as "constructed." They are based on custom and habit, norms and beliefs, and shared
understandings as much as the
objective reality of the international system. There is growing interest in "strategic culture."
MAJOR READINGS
Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., THE CULTURE OF NATIONAL SECURITY: NORMS AND IDENTITY IN WORLD POLITICS Marc Ross, THE CULTURE OF CONFLICT and THE MANAGEMENT OF CONFLICT Janice E. Thomson, MERCENARIES, PIRATES, AND
SOVEREIGNS: STATE-BUILDING AND
EXTRATERRITORIAL VIOLENCE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Elizabeth Kier, IMAGINING WAR: FRANCE AND BRITAIN BETWEEN THE WARS Jonathan Mercer. REPUTATION AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Research paper
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS GOVT
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
GOVT155 OR GOVT157 OR GOVT338 OR GOVT334
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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