Schedule

Feb. 8 - Writing a Constitution (Role playing exercise)

Week 6

Feb. 11 - Writing a Constitution (Role playing exercise)

Feb. 13 - The New Imperialism

WTWA, 668-705
BBC 4, In Our Time, The Opium Wars
Commissioner Lin Tse-Hsu to Queen Victoria, 1839
The People of Canton: Against the English, 1842

Feb. 15 - The Scramble for Africa

BBC 4, In Our Time, The Berlin Conference (2013)
The Earl of Cromer: Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882, (1908)
Joseph Conrad: from Heart of Darkness (1902)

Week 7

Feb. 18 - Era of Mass Migration

Immigrant letters

Feb. 20 - Immigration role playing exercise

Feb. 22 - Professor Hyland away at conference. No class.

Week 8

Feb. 25 - Midterm

Unit III – Global Wars, Global Depressions, 1890-1945

Feb. 27 - Antecedents to World War I

WTWA, 705-720
Film: Battle of Tsushima

Mar. 1 - World War I

Rupert Brooke, The Soldier
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
John Reed, Operating Room
Alexander Blok, The Twelve (you'll need to scroll down)

Week 9

Mar. 4 - World War I and global responses to it

Hyland, “The Syrian Ottoman Home Front in Buenos Aires and Rosario during the First World War” (2018)
V. I. Lenin, “The Transition from Capitalism to Communism”
The Zimmerman Telegram, January 16, 1917

Mar. 6 - A Peace to End All Peace and Global Depression

BBC 4, In Our Time, Rosa Luxemburg (2017)
John Maynard Keynes: The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920
1929, The Great Crash (2009)
The Uprising of ’34 (1995)

Mar. 8 - The Rise of Fascism and the Road to War

Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1922

Spring Break - Mar. 9-17

Week 10

Mar. 18 - The Second Global War

WTWA, 748-758
Neville Chamberlain: “Peace in Our Time”, 1938
The Nanking Massacre, 1937
Winston Churchill: “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat”, May 13, 1940
Eugene Sledge - Battle of Okinawa, 1945 (video & text)
World War II (CCWH)

Unit IV – Winter Has Come: Cold War and Hot Zones, 1945-1991

Mar. 20 - The Cold War (1947-1991)

Mar. 22 - Decolonization

Week 11

Mar. 25 - Decolonization, a continuación

Mandela planned sabotage in struggle for emancipation, The Guardian, April 20, 1964
Nelson Mandela, “An ideal for which I am prepared to die,” April 20, 1964
J.E. Spence, “Southern Africa in the Cold War” (1999)

Mar. 27 - Professor Hyland away at conference. No class.

Mar. 29 - Professor Hyland away at conference. No class.

Week 12

Apr. 1 - Class discussion of The Quiet American

Apr. 3 - Vietnam

The Cold War: Vietnam, 1954-1968
Seymour Hersh, “The My Lai Massacre,” November 1969
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement, 1971

Apr. 5 - Professor Hyland away at conference. No class.

Week 13

Unit V – Globalization – Integration and Differentiation since 1970

Apr. 8 - Globalization

WTWA, 788-827
Dalpino, "Does Globalization Promote Democracy?: An early assessment" (September 1, 2001)
Rifkin, “The Age of Access” (2001)
Friedman, “It’s a Flat World, After All” (2005)
Meredith and Hoppough, “Why Globalization is Good” (2007)
Pew Research Center, “Most of the world supports globalization in theory, but question it in practice” (2014)

Apr. 10 - Globalization and its Discontents

Florida, The World is Spiky (2005)
Ghemawat, “Why the World Isn’t Flat” (2009)
Pankaj Ghemawat, “Actually, the world isn’t flat”
Fox, “The World is Still not Flat” (2014)

Apr. 12 - Globalization and its Offal

Pope Francis, “Apostolic Exhortation, Chapter 2 – Amid the Crisis of Communal Commitment (Paragraphs 50-75)” (2013)
Therules.org, “Global Wealth Inequality”
"The crisis of globalisation: interview with Mark Blyth" (2019)

Week 14

Apr. 15 - Globalization and the Social Contract

Jeff Faux, "Towards a Global Social Contract" (March 4, 2002)
Nancy Birdsall, "The Development Agenda as a Global Social Contract; or, We Are All in This Development Boat Together" (Jan. 2008)
Amanda Taub, "The Rise of American Authoritarianism" (2016)
Christopher Ingraham, "Massive new study traces how corporations use charitable donations to tilt regulations in their favor" (2019)
Christopher Browning, "The Suffocation of Democracy" (2018)
Cassandras of the Crash (September 2018)

Apr. 17 - Globalization and the Social Contract, continued

Sweeney, The Collapse of European Social Democracy, part 1 (August 10, 2018
Sweeney, The Collapse of European Social Democracy, part 2 (September 10, 2018
Bussolo, et. al., Towards a New Social Contract: Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia (2018
Social Policies Must Be Upgraded to Address Rising Inequality in Turkey, Says World Bank (September 25, 2018
Nordic model tarnished as scandals hit region’s banks (2018)
What Europeans Talk about when They Talk about Brexit (2019)

Apr. 19 - Easter Break. No class.

Week 15

Apr. 22 - Easter Break. No class.

Apr. 24 - Technology and Open Societies

WTWA, 828-860
Daniel Solove, "Why privacy matters even if you have 'nothing to hide'" (2011) (backup link 1; backup link 2)

Apr 26 - Technology and Open Societies, a continuación

Shoshana Zubov, “The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism” (2016) "
Nathalie Maréchal, "Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World" (2018)

Week 16

Apr. 29 - Technology and Open Societies, en continue

Jane Mayer, "The Predator War" (2009)
Jane Mayer, "Torture and Obama's Drone Program" (2013) [optional]
Kaag, Pratt, and Bhatia, "Democracy and the Necessity of Drones?" (2014)
Spencer Ackerman. “Trump Ramped Up Drone Strikes in America’s Shadow Wars” (2018)

Finale
May 1, 9am - GPS 320, Section 4 (MWF, 10am)
May 2, 1:30pm - GPS 320, Section 5 (MWF, 11am)