Faculté des sciences sociales | Faculty of Social Sciences
Honours Seminar in International Relations
and Global Politics
POL 4330 C
Miguel de Larrinaga
Winter, 2016
COURSE OUTLINE
Class Schedule:
Thursdays, 5:30 to 8:30
FSS 14001
Professor’s office hours:
Tuesdays, 3:00 to 4:30
Thursdays, 3:00 to 4:30
FSS 7008
E-mail:
[email protected]
Any questions sent by email should receive a response within two business days or during the following class if taken place within the
48 hours following receipt of the email. Note that the professor reserves the right not to answer an email if the level of language used
is inadequate.
On virtual campus:
Yes
OFFICIAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
For students completing an honours program. Advanced synthesis and critique
of the main debates and analytical approaches in the field of international
relations and global politics.
GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES
Following upon the introductory session and a first discussion on the state of
the field, the seminar is divided into three major sections, each representing
one of the three important areas of inquiry in international relations research:
I. Conflict; II. Cooperation; and III. Development. In each of these sections,
the merits of different theories, approaches and paradigms will be assessed on
the basis of their contribution to knowledge. Each section will present an
overview of the “classical” perspectives as well as more critical ones. The final
week will examine one of the key current questions in the discipline: the
debate on the meanings of empire.
READING MATERIALS
Most reading material will be found on the virtual campus site for the course. A
course reader containing all compulsory readings that cannot be found online is
available for sale at Rytek (404 Dalhousie).
TEACHING METHODS
POL4330 is a seminar. Weekly discussions are organized around a series of
compulsory readings and are led by the professor. The discussions are
supplemented by oral presentations on the optional readings for the week.
This is not a lecture course, which means that it is incumbent upon each
seminar participant to prepare well for each seminar in order to be able to
participate in discussion in the most effective manner. Oral participation is a
critical component of this course.
ASSESSMENT METHODS
1. Participation (25%).
Components:
i) Complete the required readings every week before each seminar in order to
be able to participate actively in the discussion (readings marked with an
asterisk on the course outline *);
ii) Once during the term, you will be asked to do a formal presentation of one
of the optional readings listed on the course outline. This oral presentation
will represent 10% of the total grade for the seminar. The presentation shall
be of a maximum of ten minutes in length;
iii) Once during the term, you will also submit a written report (2 pages) of an
academic article that you have found and which is related to the particular
theme being covered that week. The weeks where this option is recommended
have been identified in the course outline. You must limit yourself to articles
published relatively recently (2005 and later). The written report counts for 5%
of the total grade for the seminar.
2. Essay (40%).
A critique of the literature (12-15 pages double-spaced plus bibliography).
Detailed instructions concerning the essay will follow.
Due date: Thursday April 7th, 2016. The essay must be handed in to the
professor during class. Late essays will be penalized (5% per business day).
Beware of academic fraud (See below).
3. Final Exam (35%).
A take-home examination has been scheduled for the final examination period
in April 2016. The exam will be posted on April 7th, 2016. The due date for the
examination has been scheduled for Monday April 18th, 2016.
Components of Final Mark
Evaluation format
Weight
Date
Participation
Essay
Final take-home exam
25 %
40 %
35 %
April 7, 2016
April 18, 2016
Policy on language quality and late submissions
Class attendance is necessary to successfully complete this course.
You will also be judged on your writing abilities. It is recommended to take the appropriate measures to
avoid mistakes. You will be penalized between 5% to 15%, to the professor’s discretion.
Late submissions are not tolerated. Exceptions are made only for illness or other serious situations
deemed as such by the professor. There will be a penalty for late submissions. University regulations
require all absences from exams and all late submissions due to illness to be supported by a medical
certificate. The Faculty reserves the right to accept or reject the reason put forth if it is not medical.
Reasons such as travel, work and errors made while reading the exam schedule are not usually accepted.
In the event of an illness or related complications, only the counseling service and the campus clinic
(located at 100 Marie-Curie) may issue valid certificates to justify a delay or absence.
Each day of late submission results in a penalty of 5% (weekends not excluded). This also applies to
assignments sent by email, and in this case, the time of receipt of the email by the recipient is guarantor
of the time of delivery.
We advise you to notify your professor as soon as possible if a religious holiday or event forces your
absence during an evaluation.
SCHEDULE
DATE
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
COURSE
ASSIGNMENTS/MEETINGS
Introduction to the seminar
Theory and analysis in international relations
Short assignment on IR theory
Realism and neo-realism
Presentations
Regimes, world orders, and norms
Presentations / 2 page
summary
Presentations / 2 page
summary
Presentations
Feminisms and the re-questioning of the State
Week 6
Functionalism, neo-functionalism and regionalisms:
the transformation of political space
Week 7
Multilateralisms, governance and new ways of
thinking political space
Presentations / 2 page
summary
Week 8
Territoriality, identity and political communities:
challenging notions of political space
Presentations / 2 page
summary
Development, dependency and the world-economy
Presentations
Globalisation and new configurations of power and
economy
Presentations / 2 page
summary
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Post-colonialism and the questioning of
representations of the North and the South
Presentations / 2 page
summary
Which world? The resurgence of empire
Presentations / 2 page
summary / research essay
Submit take-home exam
Exam period
BIBLIOGRAPHY
January 14: Introduction to the seminar
THE SPECIFICITY OF THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
January 21: Theory and analysis in international relations
*SHORT ASSIGNMENT IN PREPARATION FOR THE SEMINAR: Read, reflect and
then write a 5 page paper (handwritten if this is more convenient for you) in
preparation for today’s seminar discussion (January 16). In thinking about the
state of the field of International Relations, answer the following questions:
(1) Science, Social Sciences, Political Science.... What is the specificity of
International Relations (for example, what are its key questions, its
methodology, its key concepts?)
(2) What have been the most significant changes in world order over the past
two decades? What challenges do these changes pose for the dominant
paradigms in International Relations?
* Ole Waever,“Still a Discipline after all these Debates?”, in Timothy Dunne, Milja
Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds.), International Relations Theories: Discipline and
Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 288-308.
* Steve Smith, “Positivism and Beyond,” (Chapter 1), in Steve Smith, Ken Booth and
Marysia Zelewski (eds.) International Theory: positivism and beyond. Cambridge
University Press, 1996, pp. 11-44.
* Steve Smith, « Singing Our World into Existence: International Relations Theory and
September 11, » International Studies Quarterly 48, 3, 2004: 499-515. (Available
online through the University of Ottawa library portal / Scholars portal).
* Tim Dunne, Lene Hansen, Colin Wight, “The end of International Relations theory?”,
European Journal of International Relations, 19, 3, 2013, pp.405-425.
Richard K. Ashley, and R.B.J.Walker, “Introduction: Speaking the Language of Exile:
Dissident Thought in International Studies”, International Studies Quarterly, 34, 1990,
pp.259-268. (Available online through University of Ottawa library portal / JSTOR).
Susan Strange, "What about International Relations?," in Susan Strange (ed.) Paths to
International Political Economy. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp. 183-197.
Stanley Hoffman, “An American Social Science: International Relations,” Daedalus
106:3 (Summer 1977), pp. 41-60.
Mark Hoffman, "Critical Theory and the Interparadigm Debate," Millennium vol 16, no
2 (1987), pp. 231-249.
Stephen Rosow« Toward an anti-disciplinary global studies », International Studies
Perspectives (2003) 4, 1: 1-14.
Tickner, Arlene B. et Ole Waever, “Conclusion : Worlding where the West once Was”,
in idem (dirs.), International Relations Scholarship around the World. Routledge,
(2009).
CONFLICT
Classics of the field:
Hans J. Morgenthau. Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, multiple editions.
Raymond Aron. Paix et guerre entre les nations. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, multiple
editions.
Kenneth N. Waltz. Theory of International Politics. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley
Publishing Company, 1979.
Cynthia Enloe. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International
Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Alexander Wendt. Social Theory of International Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1999.
January 28: Realism and neo-realism
* Hans Morgenthau, “Realist Theory of International Politics,” (Chapter 1), “The
Science of International Politics,” (Chapter 2), and “Political Power,” (Chapter 3),
Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. (Brief edition). McGrawHill Inc., 1993, pp. 3-49.
* Kenneth N. Waltz, “Political Structures” (Chapter 4) and “Anarchic Orders and
Balances of Power,” (Chapter 5) in Robert Keohane, Neo-Realism and Its Critics. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 70-130.
Robert Keohane, Neo-Realism and Its Critics. New York: Columbia University Press,
1986. Chapter 7 "Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond" pp. 158203.
Justin Rosenberg, “What’s the matter with realism?,” Review of International Studies,
16, 1990, 285-303 (you can also read Mark Neufeld’s response to Rosenberg, “Who’s
afraid of Meta-Theory?”, Millennium, 23, 3, 1994).
Hedley Bull, “The Concept of Order in World Politics,” “Does Order exist in world
politics?”, and “How is order maintained in world politics?” (Chapters 1-3) The
Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. Macmillan, 1977, pp. 3-73.
John Mearsheimer, “Why we will soon miss the cold war,” Originally published in The
Atlantic Monthly 266:2 (August 1990), pp. 35-50. (Available online at
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/ index.asp?documentprint=713)
Bradley Klein, “The politics of strategic studies,” (Chapter 2), Strategic Studies and
World Order: The Global Politics of Deterrence. Cambridge University Press, 1994,
pp. 13-38.
Richard Ashley, “Untying the sovereign state: a double reading of the anarchy
problematique,” Millennium, 17:2, 1988, pp. 227-262.
Walt, Stephen M., “The Enduring Relevance of the Realist Tradition”, in Katznelson,
Ira et Helen Milner (dirs.), Political Science: State of the Discipline III. W.W. Norton,
2002.
Brian Schmidt (2005), “Competing Realist Conceptions of Power”, Millennium 33, 3.
Vivienne Jabri, “War, Security and the Liberal State”, Security Dialogue, 2006, 37,
pp.46-64.
February 4: Regimes, world orders, and norms
* Oran Young, “International Regimes: Problems of Concept Formation” World Politics
30 (April 1980): 331-357. (Available online through the University of Ottawa library
portal / JSTOR)
* Robert Keohane. After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political
Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. (Chapter 4, “Cooperation and
Regimes,” pp.49-64.)
* Alexander Wendt, “Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of
power politics”, International Organization, 46, 2, 1992, pp.391-425. (Available online
through the University of Ottawa library portal / JSTOR)
James F. Keeley, "Toward a Foucauldian analysis of international regimes,"
International Organization 44:1 (Winter 1990), pp. 83-105.(Available online through
the University of Ottawa library portal / JSTOR)
J. Samuel Barkin, “Realist constructivism”, International Studies Review, vol.5, no.3,
Sept. 2003. (Available online through the University of Ottawa library portal /
Blackwell).
Susan Strange, "Cave hic dragones: A critique of regime analysis," International
Organization 36:3 (Spring 1986). (Available online through the University of Ottawa
library portal / JSTOR)
J.G. Ruggie, “What makes the world hang together? Neo-utilitarism and the social
constructivist challenge”, International Organization, 52, 4, 1998, pp.855-885.
(Available online through the University of Ottawa library portal / JSTOR)
Maja Zehfuss, “The politics of ‘reality’: Derrida’s subversions, constructivism and
German military involvement abroad,” Constructivism in International Relations: The
Politics of Reality. Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 196-249.
Pouliot, Vincent (2007), « ‘Sobjectivism’ : Toward a Constructivist Methodology »,
International Studies Quarterly 51, 2.
Hay, Colin (2009), “King Canute and the ‘Problem of Structure and Agency: On Times,
Tides and Heresthetics”, Political Studies 57, 2.
* In addition to the compulsory articles for this week, you might wish to find an
academic article related to this week’s theme and prepare a written report of 1-2
pages summarizing its main arguments.
February 11: Feminisms and the re-questioning of the State
*Anne Sisson Runyan and V. Spike Peterson, “The radical future of realism : Feminist
subversions of IR theory”, Alternatives, 16, 1991, pp. 67-106.
*J. Ann Tickner, “Hans Morgenthau’s Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist
Reformulation,” Millennium 17 (3) (Winter 1988), pp. 429-440.
* Weber, Cynthia, “Flying Planes Can Be Dangerous”, Millennium: Journal of
International Studies (2002) 31, 1: 129-147. (Available online through the University of
Ottawa library portal / Ingenta).
J. Ann Tickner, “You just don’t understand : Troubled engagements between feminist
and IR theorists”, International Studies Quarterly, 41, 4, 1997, pp.611-632. (Available
online through the University of Ottawa library portal / Blackwell)
Spike Peterson, « Trangressing Boundaries : Theories of Knowledge, Gender and
International Relations », Millennium 21, 2 (1992).
Christine Sylvester, “Feminist homesteadings of security and cooperation”, Feminist
Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era, New York, Cambridge
University Press, 1994, pp.169-207.
Sandra Whitworth, “Militarized masculinities and the politics of Peacekeeping: The
Canadian Case”, in C.Turenne Sjolander, H.Smith, Deborah Stienstra, Feminist
Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp.76-89.
Carol Cohn (1987), « Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals »,
Signs 12, 4.
Cynthia Enloe, “How do they militarise a can of soup?” Maneuvers: The International
Politics of Militarizing Women’s lives, Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 2000, pp.134.
Rebecca Grant, “The sources of gender bias in International Relations theory”, in
R.Grant and K. Newland, Gender and International Relations, Bloomington, Indiana
University. Press, 1991, pp.8-25.
Robert O. Keohane,, “International Relations Theory: Contributions of a Feminist
Standpoint”, Millennium, 18, summer 1989, pp.245-253.
Enloe, Cynthia (2004), « Margins, Silences, and Bottom Rungs : How to Overcome the
Underestimation of Power in the Study of International Relations », dans The Curious
Feminist : Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire. Berkeley : University of
California Press. [chap. 2]
Kimberly Hutchings, « Making Sense of Masculinity and War », Men and Masculinities,
vol. 10, no. 4, 2008, p. 389-404.
* In addition to the compulsory articles for this week, you might wish to find an
academic article related to this week’s theme and prepare a written report of 1-2
pages summarizing its main arguments.
COOPERATION
Classics of the field:
Ernst Haas. Beyond the Nation-state: Functionalism and International Organization
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964.
David Mitrany, A Working Peace System, Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1966.
Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society, N.Y., Columbia Univ. Press, 1977.
David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan
Governance, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1995.
February 25: Functionalism, neo-functionalism and regionalisms: the
transformation of political space
* David Mitrany. A Working Peace System Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1966, Chapter 1
(“A Working Peace System”), pp. 25-99.
* Ernst Haas. Beyond the Nation-state: Functionalism and International Organization
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964) Chapter 1, pp. 3-26 , "Functionalism".
* Jeffrey Checkel, “Social construction and integration”, Journal of European Public
Policy, 16, no.4, Sept. 1999, (Available online through the University of Ottawa portal/
E-journal) (earlier version available online at
http://www.arena.uio.no/publications/wp98_14.htm)
Andrew Moravcsik, “Preferences and power in the European Community : A liberal
intergovernmentalist approach”, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 31, no.4,
1993, pp.473-524.
James Caporaso, "The European Union and Forms of State: Westphalian, Regulatory or
Post-Modern?" Journal of Common Market Studies vol. 32, no. 1 (mars 1996) pp.29-51.
Geoffrey Garrett and George Tsebelis, “An Institutional Critique of
Intergovernmentalism”, International Organization, vol.50, no.2 (1996), pp.269-299
(Available online through the University of Ottawa library portal / JSTOR).
Ben Rosamond, Theories of European Integration, (New York: St. Martin’s Press,
2000), chs.1 and 8, “Introduction” and “Integration Theory and Social Science”, pps.119 and 186-197.
Peter Van Ham, European Integration and the Postmodern Condition, (London:
Routledge, 2001), chs.1, 4 and 7, “European integration and the challenge of
postmodernity”, “Sovereignty, territoriality and the representation of political
space”pps..1-27, 91-123.
Jef Huysmans, “The European Union and the Securitization of Migration”, Journal of
Common Market Studies, 38.5 (2000).
Catherine Guisan, “From the European Coal and Steel Community to Kosovo:
Reconciliation and its Discontents, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol.49, no.3,
2011.
March 3: Multilateralisms, governance and new ways of thinking political space
*James N. Rosenau,, “Governance, order, and change in world politics”, in
J.N.Rosenau & E.O.Czempiel (eds), Governance without Government: Order and
Change in World Politics, Cambridge, CUP, 1992, pp.1-29.
* William Walters, “Some critical notes on “governance”, Studies in Political Economy,
73, Spring/Summer 2004, pp.27-46.
* Michael Dillon et Julian Reid, «Global Liberal Governance: Biopolitics, Security and
War», Millennium Journal of International Studies, 30, 1, 2001: 41-66. (Available
through the University of Ottawa portal / Ingenta).
J.G. Ruggie, “Territoriality and beyond : Problematizing modernity in International
Relations”, International Organization, 47, no.1, 1993, pp.139-174. (Available online
through the University of Ottawa library portal / JSTOR)
Stephen Gill, “Economic globalization and the Internationalization of authority : Limits
and contradictions”, Geoforum, 23, 3, 1992, pp.269-283. (Available online through the
University of Ottawa library portal / E-Journals@University of Ottawa)
John Mearsheimer, “The false promise of international institutions,” International
Security 19:3, 1994-1995, pp. 5-49. (Available online through the University of Ottawa
portal / JSTOR)
Timothy W. Luke and Gearòid O’Thuathail, “The Geopolitics of Failed States, the CNN
International and (UN) Governmentality,” Review of International Political Economy
4:4 (1997), pp. 709-733.
Klaus Dingwerth and Philipp Pattberg (2006), « Global Governance as a Perspective on
World Politics », Global Governance 12, 2.
Michael Merlingen, “Governmentality: Towards a Foucauldian Framework for the Study
of IGOs”, Cooperationa and Conflict, 2003, 38, pp.361-384
Robert Latham, (1999), « Politics in a Floating World : Toward a Critique of Global
Governance », in Hewson, Martin et Timothy Sinclair (dirs.), Approaches to Global
Governance Theory. Albany : SUNY Press, chap. 2.
Michael Barnett, and Raymond Duvall (2005), « Power in Global Governance », dans
Barnett et Duvall (dirs.), Power in Global Governance. Cambridge : Cambridge
University Press, chap. 1.
Wendy Larner and William Walters, “Globalization as governmentality”, Alternatives:
Global, Local, Political, 2004, 29, pp.494-514.
Miguel de Larrinaga and Marc G. Doucet, “Introduction: the global
governmentalization of security and the securitization of global governance”, in Miguel
de Larrinaga and Marc G. Doucet (eds.), Security and Global Governmentality:
Globalization, Governance and the State, London: Routledge, 2010, pp.1-19.
* In addition to the compulsory articles for this week, you might wish to find an
academic article related to this week’s theme and prepare a written report of 1-2
pages summarizing its main arguments.
March 10: Territoriality, identity and political communities: challenging notions
of political space
* Cox, Robert (1999), “Civil Society at the Turn of the Millennium: Prospects for an
Alternative World Order”, Review of International Studies, 25:1, pp.3-28. (Available
through the University of Ottawa portal / E-Journal)
*Jan Art Scholte, “Civil Society and Democracy in Global Governance”, Global
Governance, 8,2, (2002), pp.281-304. (Available online through EBSCOhost).
* Ole Jacob Sending et Iver B. Neumann (2006), « Governance to Governmentality :
Analyzing NGOs, States and Power », International Studies Quarterly 50, 3.
Campbell, David, “The Deterritorialization of Responsibility: Levinas, Derrida, and
Ethics After the End of Philosophy,” Alternatives 19, 1994, pp. 455-484.
Mustapha Kamal Pasha,and Blaney, David (1998), “Elusive Paradise: The Promise and
Peril of Global Civil Society”, Alternatives 23, 4.
J.H. Mittelman with C. Chin, “Conceptualizing resistance to globalization”, in
J.H.Mittelman, The Globalization Syndrome, Princeton, Princeton University Press,
2000, pp.165-178.
Michael Hardt and A. Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire,
New York, Penguin Press, 2004, part 1, chap.3, “Resistance”, pp.63-96.
Robert W. Cox,, ”Civilizations and world order”, in R.Cox with Michael G.Schechter,
The Political Economy of a Plural World: Critical Reflections on Power, Morals and
Civilization, London, Routledge, 2002, pp.176-188.
Craig Warkentin and Karen Mingst, “International Institutions, the State and global
civil society in the age of the world wide web, Global Governance, 2000, pp.237-257.
(Available online through the University of Ottawa library portal / HEIN Online)
R.B.J.Walker, ”Social movements/ world politics”, Millennium, 23, 3, 1994, pp.669700.
Roland Bleiker, Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics. Cambridge
University Press, 2000, Part III: “Discursive terrains of dissent”, pp. 185-272.
Barry Hindess (2002), “Neo-liberal Citizenship”, Citizenship Studies 6,2
Matthew Paterson, David Humphreys et Lloyd Pettiford, «Conceptualizing Global
Environmental Governance: From Interstate Regimes To Counter-Hegemonic
Struggles», Global Environmental Politics, 3, 2, 2003: 1-10.
* In addition to the compulsory articles for this week, you might wish to find an
academic article related to this week’s theme and prepare a written report of 1-2
pages summarizing its main arguments.
DEVELOPMENT
Classics of the field:
Samir Amin, Unequal development: An essay on the social formations of peripheral
capitalism. Hassocks, UK: Havester Press, 1976.
Immanuel Wallerstein, The modern world-system. Academic Press, 1974. (3 volumes)
Karl Polanyi, The great transformation: the political and economic origins of our
time. Beacon Press, 2001. (with introduction by Joseph E. Stiglitz) Originally
published in 1944.
Edward W. Said, Orientalism. Vintage Books, 1979.
Robert W. Cox, Power, Production and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of
History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
March 24: Development, dependency and the world-economy
* Peter Evans, “Imperialism, Dependency and Dependent Development,” Dependent
Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital in Brazil.
Princeton University Press, 1979, pp. 14-54.
* Jan Nederveen Pieterse, “The development of development theory: towards critical
globalism,” Review of International Political Economy 3 (1996), pp. 541-564
* Arturo Escobar,, “Beyond the Third World: Imperial Globality, Global Coloniality and
Anti-Globalisation Social Movements”, Third World Quarterly (2004), 25, 1. (Available
through the University of Ottawa portal / Scholar Portal).
Mike Davis, “The origins of the Third World”, Late Victorian Holocausts, London:
Verso, 2001, pp.279-310.
Giovanni Arrighi, “The three hegemonies of historical capitalism”, in Stephen Gill
(ed.), Gramsci, historical materialism and international relations. Cambridge
University Press, 1993, pp. 148-185.
B. Madeuf, “A new approach to International Economics”, International Social Science
Journal, 30, 2, 1978, pp.253-283.
Samir Amin, “After the New International Economic Order: the future of international
economic relations”, Trade and Development, Winter 1982, pp.9-23.
Martin Carnoy, The State and Political Theory Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1984. Chapitre 7, "The Dependent State," pp. 172-207.
Theotonio Dos Santos, "The Structure of Dependence," The American Economic Review
60:2 (june 1970), pp.231-236 (Available through the University of Ottawa library portal
/ JSTOR)
Johan Galtung, “A structural Theory of Imperialism”, Journal of Peace Research, no.2,
1971, pp.81-117. (Available through the University of Ottawa library portal / JSTOR)
Ian R. Douglas, “Globalisation and the End of the State?”, New Political Economy ,
Vol.2, No.1 pp 165-77. (Available online through the University of Ottawa library
portal / EBSCOHost).
J.H. Mittelman, “The dynamics of globalization,” in J. H. Mittelman (ed),
Globalization: Critical Reflections. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner, 1996, pp.1-19.
Stephen Gill (1995), « Globalisation, Market Civilisation, and Disciplinary
Neoliberalism », Millennium 24, 3.
Nancy Fraser, “From discipline to flexibilization? Rereading Foucault in the Shadow of
Globalization”, Constellations, 2003, 10, pp.160-171.
Mark Duffield, “Development, Territories, People: Consolidating the External
Sovereign Frontier”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2007, 32, pp.225-246.
March 31: Post-colonialism and the questioning of representations of the North
and the South
* Edward W. Said, Orientalism, New York, Vintage Books, 1979,“Introduction”, pp. 128 and chapter 1 “The Scope of Orientalism”, pp. 31-73.
* Leela Gandhi, Postcolonial Theory : A Critical introduction N.Y., Columbia Univ.
Press, 1998, chap. 4 (“Edward Said and his critics”, pp.64-80), chap.5
(“Postcolonialism and feminism”, pp.81-101) and/or chap.9 (“The limits of
postcolonial theory”, pp.167-176).
* Ilan Kapoor, “Capitalism, culture, agency: dependency versus postcolonial theory”,
Third World Quarterly, 23, 4, 2002, pp.647-664. (Available online through the
University of Ottawa library portal / Taylor & Francis)
Arif Dirlik, “The postcolonial Aura: Third world criticism in the age of global
capitalism”, Critical Inquiry, 20, hiver 1994, pp.328-356.
William Graf, “Reappropriating the past: history in ideology and discourse in the Third
World”, New Political Science, no.40, summer 1997, pp.45-58.
Sankaran Krishna, “The importance of being ironic: a postcolonial view of critical
International Relations theory”, Alternatives, 18, 1993, pp.385-417.
Marta Savigliano, “From exoticism to decolonisation”, Tango and the Political
Economy of Passion, Boulder, Westview Press, 1995, pp.207-238.
* In addition to the compulsory articles for this week, you might wish to find an
academic article related to this week’s theme and prepare a written report of 1-2
pages summarizing its main arguments.
THE STATE OF WHICH DISCIPLINE?
April 7: Which world? The resurgence of empire
*Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of
Empire, New York, Penguin Press, 2004, Part 1, chap. 1 and 2 (“Simplicissimus”, pp.335; “Counterinsurgencies”, pp.36-63).
* Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey, “Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International
Relations”, Millennium, 31, no.1, 2002. (Available online through the University of
Ottawa library portal / Ingenta Select)
* Brad Evans, “Foucault’s Legacy: Security, War and Violence in the 21st Century”,
Security Dialogue, Vol.41, No.4, August 2010 (Available online).
Simon Dalby, ”Calling 911: geopolitics, security and America’s new war”, Geopolitics,
vol.8, no.3, October 2003. (Available online through the University of Ottawa library
portal / Taylor & Francis)
Alex Callinicos, “The actuality of imperialism”, Millennium, 31, no.2, 2002. (Available
online through the University of Ottawa library portal / Ingenta Select)
Martin Shaw, “Post-Imperial and Quasi-Imperial: State and Empire in the Global Era,”
Millennium, 31, no.2, 2002. (Available online through the University of Ottawa library
portal / Ingenta Select)
R.B.J. Walker, “On the Immanence/Imminence of Empire” Millennium, 31, no.2, 2002.
(Available online through the University of Ottawa library portal / Ingenta Select)
Robert W. Cox, “Beyond empire and terror: Critical reflections on the Political
Economy of World Order”, New Political Economy, vol.9, no.3, Sept. 2004. (Available
online through the University of Ottawa library portal /ProQuest)
G.John Ikenberry, “America’s imperial ambition”, Foreign Affairs, 44, 2002. (Available
online through the University of Ottawa library portal / Hein Online)
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, «Neoliberal Empire», Theory, Culture and Society, 21, 3,
2004: 119-140.
Miguel de Larrinaga, “’A Day in the Life’: A Tomogram of Global Governmentality in
Relation to the “War on Terror” on Novemebr 20th, 2003”, Geopolitics, 2011, 16, 2,
pp.306-329.
* In addition to the compulsory articles for this week, you might wish to find an
academic article related to this week’s theme and prepare a written report of 1-2
pages summarizing its main arguments.
Resources for you
Mentoring Centre - http://www.sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/mentor/fra/
The goal of the Mentoring Centre is to help students with their academic and social well being during
their time at the University of Ottawa. Regardless of where a student stands academically, or how far
along they are in completing their degree, the mentoring centre is there to help students continue on
their path to success.
A student may choose to visit the mentoring centre for very different reasons. Younger students may
wish to talk to their older peers to gain insight into programs and services offered by the University,
while older student may simply want to brush up on study and time management skills or learn about
programs and services for students nearing the end of their degree.
In all, the Mentoring Centre offers a place for students to talk about concerns and problems that they
might have in any facet of their lives. While students are able to voice their concerns and problems
without fear of judgment, mentors can garner further insight in issues unique to students and find a more
practical solution to better improve the services that the Faculty of Social Sciences offers, as well as the
services offered by the University of Ottawa.
Academic Writing Help Centre - http://www.sass.uottawa.ca/writing/
At the AWHC you will learn how to identify, correct and ultimately avoid errors in your writing and
become an autonomous writer. In working with our Writing Advisors, you will be able to acquire the
abilities, strategies and writing tools that will enable you to:
 Master the written language of your choice
 Expand your critical thinking abilities
 Develop your argumentation skills
 Learn what the expectations are for academic writing
Career Services - http://www.sass.uottawa.ca/careers/
Career Services offers various services and a career development program to enable you to recognize and
enhance the employability skills you need in today's world of work.
Counselling Service- http://www.sass.uottawa.ca/personal/
There are many reasons to take advantage of the Counselling Service. We offer:
 Personal counselling
 Career counselling
 Study skills counselling
Access Service - http://www.sass.uottawa.ca/acces/
The Access Service contributes to the creation of an inclusive environment by developing strategies and
implementing measures that aim to reduce the barriers to learning for students who have learning
disabilities, health, psychiatric or physical conditions.
Student Resources Centres - http://www.communitylife.uottawa.ca/en/resources.php
The Student Resources Centres aim to fulfill all sorts of students needs.
Beware of Academic Fraud!
Academic fraud is an act committed by a student to distort the marking of assignments, tests,
examinations, and other forms of academic evaluation. Academic fraud is neither accepted nor
tolerated by the University. Anyone found guilty of academic fraud is liable to severe academic
sanctions.
Here are a few examples of academic fraud:
• engaging in any form of plagiarism or cheating;
• presenting falsified research data;
• handing in an assignment that was not authored, in whole or in part, by the student;
• submitting the same assignment in more than one course, without the written consent of the
professors concerned.
In recent years, the development of the Internet has made it much easier to identify academic
plagiarism. The tools available to your professors allow them to trace the exact origin of a text on
the Web, using just a few words.
In cases where students are unsure whether they are at fault, it is their responsibility to consult the
University’s Web site at the following address:
http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/eng/writing_tools.asp « Tools for Writing Papers and
Assignments ».
Persons who have committed or attempted to commit (or have been accomplices to) academic fraud
will be penalized. Here are some examples of the academic sanctions, which can be imposed:
• a grade of « F » for the assignment or course in question;
• an additional program requirement of between 3 and 30 credits;
• suspension or expulsion from the Faculty.
Last session, most of the students found guilty of fraud were given an « F » for the course and had
between three and twelve credits added to their program requirement.
For more information, refer to:
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/info/newsletter/fraud_e.html