This course will be taught as a Writing Seminar, with emphasis
on student research, writing, and presentations. Students will prepare
a research paper (15-20 pages) in a series of steps through the semester,
in consultation with the professor.
The final grade will be based 50% on two exams, 25% on the final paper,
15% on the steps toward the final paper (annotated bibliography, draft
paper, and class presentation) and 10% on class participation.
Regular attendance is essential to success in this course, and is required.
The class participation grade will include attendance and active engagement
with all the aspects of the course. In addition to attendance as a component
of the class participation grade, students missing three or more class
sessions for any reason may be asked to withdraw from the course.
In accord with the college, we in this course are governed by the norms
and procedures of The Honor Code of Wofford College.
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| Week
1: The Return of Interstate War? |
| T |
Sep 7 |
Introduction
to Course |
| Th |
Sep 9 |
* Max Boot, “The New American Way of War,”
NYT, 7/25/03.
* Michael Kelly, “The Air-Power Revolution,” Slow Squeeze,” and “The
American Way of War,” The Atlantic Monthly, April, May, and June,
2002. |
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| Week
2 Insurgency and Counterinsurgency |
| T |
Sep 14 |
* John Baylis, “Revolutionary
Warfare,” in Contemporary Strategy: Theory and
Concepts, John Baylis, Ken Booth, John Garnett, and Phil Williams,
ed.
(London: Holmes and Meier, 1987). |
| Th |
Sep 16 |
* Anthony Clayton, Frontiersmen:
Warfare in Africa since 1950 (London: UCL
Press, 1999): pp. 22-35, and 171-174 (two Algerian wars). |
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| Week
3 |
| T |
Sep 21 |
* U.S. Army Joint Low-Intensity
Conflict Project. Final Report: Vol I, Analytical
Review of Low-Intensity Conflict (Fort Monroe, VA: TRADOC, 1 Aug.,
1986). |
| Th |
Sep 23 |
Consultations on Paper Topics |
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| Week
4: New and Old Wars |
| T |
Sep 28 |
Kaldor, Chapters 1 and 2, “Introduction,”
and “Old Wars” |
| Th |
Sep 30 |
Kaldor, Chapter 3, “Bosnia-Herzegovina:
A Case Study of a New War” |
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| Week
5 |
| T |
Oct 5 |
Wrap
Up Day |
| Th |
Oct 7 |
Midterm
Exam |
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| Week
6: |
| T |
Oct 12 |
Kaldor, Chapter 4, “The Politics
of New Wars” |
| Th |
Oct 14 |
Kaldor, Chapter 5, “The Globalized
War Economy” |
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| Week
7 |
| T |
Oct 19 |
* R.T. Taylor, “The Insurgent
Economy,” Black Market Operations of Guerrilla
Organizations,” Crime, Law, and Social Change, Vol. 20 (1993): 13-51. |
| Th |
Oct 21 |
* Reading on the warlordism
TBA |
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| Week
8: Multilateral Counterinsurgency and Democracy |
| T |
Oct 26 |
Kaldor, Chapters 6 and 7, “Toward
a Cosmopolitian Approach,” and
“Governance, Legitimacy, and Security” |
| Th |
Oct 28 |
* Thomas R. Mockaitis, “What
is to be done?”, Chapter 1, “Holding the Ring of
Entering the Fray, and Chapter 4, “The Former Yugoslavia,” from Peace
Operations and Intrastate Conflict (Preager, 1999). |
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|
| Week
9: |
| T |
Nov 2 |
Bibliographic Essays Due, Consultations |
| Th |
Nov 4 |
* Thomas R. Mockaitis, Chapter
5, “Peace Operations and Intrastate Conflict:
Toward a New Paradigm.” |
|
| Week10:
Al Qaeda |
| T |
Nov 9 |
* Excerpts from Rohan Gunaratna,
Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2002). |
| Th |
Nov 11 |
* Excerpts from Rohan Gunaratna,
Inside Al Qaeda. |
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| Week
11 |
| T |
Nov 16 |
Student
Presentations |
| Th |
Nov 18 |
Student
Presentations |
|
| Week
12 |
| T |
Nov 23 |
Student
Presentations |
| Th |
Nov 25 |
Thanksgiving
Holiday, No Class |
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| Week
13 |
| T |
Nov 30 |
* Jessica Stern, “The Protean
Enemy,” Foreign Affairs, (Jul/Aug 2003): 27-40. |
| Th |
Dec 2 |
Insurgency in Iraq, TBA |
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| Week
14 |
| T |
Dec 7 |
TBA |
| Th |
Dec 9 |
Wrap
Up Day |
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| Final Exam: Wednesday, December 15, 2:00
- 5:00 |
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