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Lecture / Discussion Page - The Historical Context of Contemporary International Relations
Lecture / Discussion Page - Realism
Lecture / Discussion Page - Liberalism
Lecture / Discussion Page - Class System Theory
Lecture / Discussion Page - Postmodernist and Feminist Theories
Lecture / Discussion Page - Political Culture and Decision Making Process Theories
Lecture / Discussion Page - Human Nature and Cognitive Theories
Lecture / Discussion Page - Peace Studies Theory
Lecture / Discussion Page - International Political Economy and Globalization - The North
Readings - Conventional PerspectivesWorld Trade Organization Globalization 101 "Globalization Already Has A Human Face" - Bhagwati "Understanding the Role of the U.S. in the Global Economy" - Hassett "The Benefits of Globalization" - Center for Trade Policy Studies "Why Globalization Works" - Wolf Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Lecture / Discussion Page - International Political Economy and Globalization - The South
Readings - Critical PerspectivesThe Globalization Website Centre for Research on Globalization The International Forum on Globalization Essays on Globalization and Neoliberalism - Monthly Review Globalization versus Internationalization - Daly Globalization - The American Prospect "The Scorecard on Globalization 1980 - 2000" - Weisbrot "The Collapse of Globalism" - Saul "Globalization for Whom?" - Rodrik
Lecture / Discussion Page - National, International, and Global Security
ReadingsLecture / Discussion Page - Religion and NationalismThe Coming Anarchy - Kaplan Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet - Klare Global Security Challenges: Seeing the U.S. As Others Do - Smith
ReadingsWhy Religion Still Matters - Carroll What Went Wrong? - Lewis God's Country? - Mead Jihad vs. McWorld - Barber
Lecture / Discussion Page - United States Foreign Policy
ReadingsThe United States National Security Strategy - 2006 The Neoconservative Convergence - Krauthammer Power and Weakness - Kagan Failed States - Chomsky Foreign Policy and the Intelligentsia - Chomsky A World Without Power - Ferguson The Logic of U.S. Interventionism - Parenti Parties of God - Silverstein U.S. Middle East Policy: Democratic Illusions - Selfa
Lecture / Discussion Page - International Relations and the Global Environment
ReadingsThe Tragedy of the Commons - Hardin Environmental Scarcity, Mass Violence, and the Limits to Ingenuity - Homer Dixon Capitalist and Socialist Responses to the Ecological Crisis - Wallis
Could Afghanistan Become Obama's Vietnam? - Baker
Antiwar Lawmakers Wary of Adding Troops in Afghanistan - Flaherty
To Surge or Not to Surge? Asking the Wrong Questions in Afghanistan - Fitzgerald and Gould
US Warns of Battle Worse Than Iraq in Afghanistan - Common Dreams
Afghanistan, Another Untold Story - Parenti
The Case for Getting Out of Afghanistan - Whitehouse
Triangulation or strangulation? America's Road to Kabul Goes Through Moscow - Walberg
Afghanistan Page - Project for Defense Alternatives
The War on Terror and Afghanistan - East Carolina University
Fearing Another Quagmire in Afghanistan - Cobban
Losing a No-Win War - Weissman
Afghanistan: Not a Good War - Hallinan
A Military Solution to Win the War in Afghanistan - Taheri
Afghanistan: Not a Good War Gone Bad - Everest
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The Collapse of Globalism - Saul
We Are Hard-Wired to Care and Connect - Korten
Global Trends 2025 - Central Intelligence Agency
Shock and Awe - National Defense University
Vision for 2020 - U.S. Space Command
Rebuilding America's Defenses - Project for a New American Century
U.S. National Security Strategy 2006
Oil, Power and Empire - Everest
Behind the War on Iraq - Research Unit for Political Economy
Iraq's New Constitution - Hassan