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GOVT387
Culture, Conflict and National Security
GOVT387 FA
Crosslistings: CHUM387
Not Currently Offered
This seminar on the interrelationship between culture and
theories of conflict, both international and civil 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: Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS GOVT
Prerequisites:
None
Last Updated on MAR-22-1999
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