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Academic Year 2000/2001

Culture, Conflict and National Security
GOVT 387 SP

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.

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 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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