IGA-116
GREAT POWER COMPETITION IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
Professor Nicholas Burns
Autumn 2016
Tuesdays, 4:15 – 7:00 pm
Land Hall (4th floor Belfer Building)
Contact Information:
 Professor Nicholas Burns: [email protected], L374, 617-496-3255
 Alison Hillegeist, Faculty Assistant: [email protected], L372, 617-495-2495
 Aditi Kumar, Course Assistant: [email protected]
 Christopher Mirasola: [email protected]
 Yue Fu: [email protected]
Office hours: Tuesday, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm; 2:00 – 3:15 pm, Littauer 374
A sign-up sheet will be distributed electronically at the beginning of the semester. Please check date/time
on sign-up sheet when you sign-up to note any variation to normal office hours schedule.
I will hold an optional class discussion session each week. Days/times for sessions are included in the syllabus
and will be posted to the course calendar online.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will focus on the future balance of power in the world and cooperation as well as competition
among the 21st Century Great Powers. We will study the rise of China, India and other rising powers in the
decade ahead and assess whether these countries are prepared and willing to lead effectively. We will look
closely at the changing nature of American power. In addition, we will focus on the relationship between the
United States and China and their likely competition for strategic influence in the Asia-Pacific region. We will
also investigate whether the Russian Federation and European Union will be more or less influential in the
future. The major objective of the course is to reflect on how this group of countries and other regional
powers can work together to address some of the principal challenges of the new century including on
climate change, avoiding conflict in the South and East China Seas, limiting nuclear proliferation, enhancing
cooperation on energy, and dealing with the dilemma of intervention in regional wars worldwide.
ASSIGNMENTS, GRADING AND CLASS EXPECTATIONS
Students should commit to be well prepared for class and to engage in discussion and debate. I will
encourage active class participation with cold calling as the norm. Each of you will be assigned to a team to
represent one of the countries that are the focus of the course. Each team will be asked to research and
make presentations in class on topics to be assigned.
Individual Class Participation
Team Briefings
Policy memos
Final Exam
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Individual Participation: I expect your full participation in class discussions. It is important that you
complete the readings and come to class ready to participate, ask questions, debate with your
colleagues, and contribute to our collective enterprise. Attendance is mandatory, and 20% of your
grade will be based on class participation. I will do my best to make it possible for everyone in this class
to participate to their full potential. This is a screen-down class so no laptops, tablets or smartphones
can be used in class (ADA exceptions apply).
Online discussion forum: Students are expected to use the course's online forum in advance of class to
present reflections and comments on the class readings and to respond to other students' reflections
and comments. Pre-class comments will be used to inform the teaching team of topics of particular
interest for in-class discussion. I will ask each of you to contribute a short reflection on the major issues
before each class.
Team Breifings: Students will be divided into country groups at the beginning of the semester – China, Russia,
EU, USA, India, and “Wildcard” – and will remain in those groups for the duration of the semester. Teams
should come to each class prepared to brief their principle on a briefing scenario that will be posted online
in advance.
Absence policy: with the exception of illness, family emergency or job interviews, attendance is mandatory.
Out of respect for your classmates and the discussion, please be on time to class.
REQUIRED READINGS
Required readings will be posted electronically to Canvas. “For further exploration” readings noted on the
syllabus are not mandatory but are offered for students interested in delving more deeply into particular
issues. As this is a course that looks at several contemporary global issues, students are encouraged to read
a major international newspaper daily and The Economist weekly, which is available for free online in the
Harvard Library system’s e-resources. Students are also encouraged to post articles and discussion topics and
to start conversations on the course website.
COURSE CALENDAR
*Optional class discussion sessions
**Rescheduled class
Tuesday, August 30 – Shopping Day
Introduction to the Course and the Five Maps
4:15 – 4:45 pm (Session I)
5:00 – 5:30 pm (Session II)
Land Hall (4th floor Belfer Building)
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CLASS 1
Tuesday, September 6 - The Current World Order and Shifting Balance of Power
Required readings:
 Ikenberry, John G., Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis and Transformation of the American
World Order, Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 7
 Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy, Ch. “The New World Order,” pp 17-28
 Posner, Eric, “Sorry, America, the New World Order Is Dead,” Foreign Policy, May 6, 2014
 National Intelligence Council, “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds.” Executive Summary
*Wednesday, September 7 – Class Discussion Session
8:30 – 10:00 am
Bell Hall (5th floor Belfer)
**CLASS 2
Friday, September 9 - The Two Great Global Powers: the United States and China
9:00 am – 11:50 am
Wiener Auditorium (ground floor Taubman)
Required Reading
 Zhang, Yongjin. “China and liberal hierarchies in global international society: power and negotiation
for normative change,” International Affairs. Vol 92, No 4, July 2016.
 Ferdinand, Peter. “Westward ho – the China dream and ‘one belt, one road’: Chinese foreign policy
under Xi Jinping,” International Affairs. Vol 92, No 4, July 2016.
 “The new class war,” The Economist, July 9, 2016.
 Stokes, Bruce. “How American See Their Place in the World in 2016,” Presentation at Aspen
Strategy Group Meeting, 8/5/2016, Aspen, CO.
 “China’s economy likely to follow ‘L-shaped’ path in coming years, says an ‘authoritative insider’,”
People’s Daily, May 9, 2016.
 “The New Political Divide,” The Economist, 30 July 2016.
 “Full text: Xi Jinping in military parade speech vows China will ‘never seek hegemony, expansion,’”
South China Morning Post, September 3, 2015.
 “The Great Fall of China,” The Economist, August 29, 2015.
 “Xi’s History Lessons,” The Economist, August 15, 2015.
 Krauss, Clifford and Keith Bradsher. “China’s Global Ambitions, With Loans and Strings
Attached,” The New York Times, July 24, 2015.
 Nye, Joseph. “The Limits of Chinese Soft Power.” Project Syndicate, July 10, 2015.
 Prasad, Eswar. “The Path to Sustainable Growth in China.” Testimony before the U.S.-China
Economic and Security Review Commission, Brookings, April 22, 2015.
 Shambaugh, David. “The Coming Chinese Crackup,” Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2015.
 Nye, Joseph. The Future of Power, pp. 187-204.
 Rose, Gideon. “What Obama Gets Right: Keep Calm and Carry the Liberal Order On.” Foreign
Affairs, Sept/Oct 2015.
 Stephens, Bret. “What Obama Gets Wrong: No Retreat, No Surrender.” Foreign Affairs,
Sept/Oct 2015.
 Chicago Council on Global Affairs, “Foreign Policy in the Age of Retrenchment,” September
2014. Executive Summary and Chapter 1 (pages 1-18).
 Colby, Elbridge and Paul Lettow, “Have We Hit Peak America?,” Foreign Policy, July 3, 2014.
For further exploration:
 “Editorial: China-US relations not to be affected by aggressive speeches in US presidential
election,” People’s Daily, August 19, 2016.
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Wu, Xinbo. “Cooperation, competition and shaping the outlook: the United States and China’s
neighbourhood diplomacy,” International Affairs, Vol. 92, No. 4, July 2016
Kissinger, Henry. On China (New York: Penguin, 2012), pp 1-3, 5-32.
Kaplan, Robert. “The Geography of Chinese Power.” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2010.
Mahbubani, Kishore. “The Chinese Century,” American Review, Issue Two, May-October 2010.
Edelman, Eric D. “The Declinist Persuasion,” from “Understanding America’s Contested
Primacy.” Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (2010), pp. 17-30.
Beckley, Michael. "China's Century: Will America's Edge Endure?,” International Security,
Winter 2011.
**Tuesday, September 13 – NO CLASS – RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
*Wednesday, September 14 – Class Discussion Session
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Taubman 102
CLASS 3
Tuesday, September 20 - The European Union and Russia: Declining Powers?
Required readings:
 Pecasting, Camille. “Please Leave”, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2016.
 Manchau, Wolfgang. “The High Price of Europe’s Misguided Pragmatism”, Financial Times, 24
July 2016.
 “A Brexiteer’s Celebration: A Conversation with Kwasi Kwarteng”, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2016.
 “A Remainer’s Lament: A Conversation with Ed Balls”, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2016.
 Butler, Nick. Europe and Russia: “Nightmares and Realities,” Financial Times, 21 March 2016.
 “Doping and Hacking”, The Economist, 30 July 2016.
 “United Russia, Divided Putin,” The Economist, 4 June 2016.
 Lukyanov, Fyodor. “Putin’s Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2016.
 Kanter, James. “E.U. Nations Urged to Accept 160,000 Migrants.” The New York Times,
September 9, 2015.
 “State of the Union: Can the Eurozone Survive Its Debt Crisis?” Economist Intelligence Unit
Report, 2015.
 Krastev, Ivan and Leonard, Mark. “Europe's Shattered Dream of Order,” Foreign Affairs, June
2015.
 Hanson, Philip, “An Enfeebled Economy,” Chatham House Report: The Russian Challenge, June
4, 2015, pp. 14-22.
 Wright, Thomas. “China and Russia vs. America: Great-Power Revisionism Is Back,” The
National Interest, April 27, 2015.
 Mikhail Gorbachev Interview with Der Spiegel on January 16, 2015.
 Kaplan, Robert. The Revenge of Geography, “Russia and the Independent Heartland” (Ch. 10)
(New York: Random House, 2012).
 “Fact checking Vladimir Putin’s speech on Crimea,” Washington Post, 19 March 2014.
 Packer, George. “The Quiet German: The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel, the Most Powerful
Woman in the World.” The New Yorker, December 1, 2014.
For further exploration
 Wu, Wendy. Wong, Catherine. “Will China be affected if Britain leaves European Union?,”
South China Morning Post, June 21, 2016
 Ashford, Emma. “Not-So-Smart Sanctions,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2016.
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Aslund, Anders. “Putin Gets it Wrong Again. Eurasian Economic Union Hurts Russia,” Atlantic
Council, 1 February 2016.
Treisman, Daniel. “Watching Putin in Moscow: What Russians Think of the Intervention in Ukraine,”
Foreign Affairs, March 5, 2014.
Eberstadt, Nicholas. “The Dying Bear: Russia's Demographic Disaster,” Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec
2011.
Tsygankov, Andrei P. “Russia’s Power and Alliances in the 21st Century,” Politics: 2010, Vol 30,
pp. 43-51.
*Wednesday, September 21 – Class Discussion Session on Brexit and the future of the EU with Douglas
Alexander, former UK Shadow Foreign Secretary (confirmed)
8:30 – 10:00 am
Malkin Penthouse (4th floor Littauer)
Suggested reading:
 Alexander, Douglas. "Brexit would hurt U.S." Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2016.
**CLASS 4
Friday, September 23 - India and the Rise of Middle Powers
8:30 – 11:10 am
Littauer 140
Required readings:
 Tellis, Ashley. “India as a Leading Power,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. April
2016
 “The Future of Kashmir?”, BBC News.
 “Reviving the Cause”, The Economist, 13 August 2016.
 Rao, Nirupama. “New, strong, and clear outreach”, The Hindu, 4 March 2016.
 Hussain, Touqir and Silverman, David. “In with the Old: India-Pakistan Relations at a Standstill,”
Foreign Policy, September 2, 2015.
 Kynge, James & Jonathan Wheatley. “Is it time to declare an emerging markets crisis?”
Financial Times, September 7, 2015.
 Manoj Joshi, “The Bigger Picture: Modi’s Foreign Policy Style Is Continuity, Not Change,” Daily
Mail India, July 19, 2015.
 Burns, Nicholas. “Passage to India,” Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2014.
 Thottam, Jyoti. “Two Indias,” The New York Times, September 6, 2013.
 Nocera, Joe. “A Silver Lining to Brazil’s Troubles,” The New York Times, Sept 4, 2015.
 “Should Japan Allow Its Military to Fight in Foreign Wars?,” The New York Times, August 18,
2015.
 Johnson, Steve. “Mexico and Colombia join ‘fragile five’ emerging markets.” Financial Times,
August 13, 2015.
 Kaplan, Robert D., Monsoon, Chapter 7: “The View from Delhi” (New York: Random House,
2011), pp. 119-134.
For further exploration:
 “Immigration to Japan - A narrow passage, ” The Economist, August 20, 2016.
 Liu, Zhun. “India’s vision cannot be realized by containing China,” Global Times, June 8, 2016
 Ganguly, Sumit. “Think Again: India’s Rise.” Foreign Policy, July 2012.
 Robinson, David A. “India’s Rise as a Great Power, Part One: Regional and Global Implications,”
Future Directions International Associate Paper, July 7, 2011.
 Malik, Mohan. “Asia’s Great Naval Rivalry,” Wall Street Journal, September 5, 2011
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Ciorciari, John D. “India's Approach to Great-Power Status,” The Fletcher Forum of World
Affairs, Vol. 35:1 Winter 2011.
Danforth, Nick. “Turkey’s Anti-Imperial Agenda,” Foreign Affairs, June 14, 2015.
“Have Turkish Voters Made Themselves Heard?,” The New York Times, June 9, 2015.
Abe, Shinzo and Barack Obama, “U.S.-Japan Joint Vision Statement,” April 28, 2015.
Gilley, Bruce. “The rise of the middle powers,” The New York Times, September 12, 2012.
CLASS 5
Tuesday, September 27 - The New Great Game in the Middle East: The U.S., Russia and China Compete
for Power; Intervention in Syria as a Case Study
*Wednesday, September 28 – Class Discussion Session on Israel's Future Security Challenges with The
Honorable Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel (confirmed)
8:30 – 10:00 am
Malkin Penthouse (4th floor Littauer)
*Monday, October 3 – Class Discussion Session on NATO and the Putin Threat in Europe with The
Honorable Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of
Denmark (confirmed)
8:30 – 10:00 am
Malkin Penthouse (4th floor Littauer)
Suggested Reading:
 Burns, Nicholas R. and James L. Jones. “Restoring the Power and Purpose of the NATO
Alliance”, Atlantic Council, June 2016 (Executive Summary).
**Tuesday, October 4 – NO CLASS – RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
CLASS 6
Tuesday, October 11 – The Fight Against the Islamic State, Boko Haram and other Terrorist Groups in the
Middle East and Africa
Guest speaker: Farah Pandith, former Special Represenative to Muslim Communities, U.S. Department of
State; author; and Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project (HKS)
POLICY MEMO #1 DUE (bring hard copy to class and upload to course website)
Required Readings:
 Pandith, Farah and Juan Zarate. “Winning the War of Ideas”, Center for Strategic and
International Studies, Global Forecast 2016.
 Tierney, Dominic. “The Twenty Years’ War”, The Atlantic, 23 August 2016.
 Pandith, Farah. “Blind Spot: America’s Response to Radicalism in the Middle East,” Chapter 1:
Extremism in the Middle East and Beyond: Fighting and Winning the Ideological War.” Aspen
Strategy Group, 2015.
 Boot, Max and Pregent, Michael. “How Obama Could Salvage His Hapless ISIS Strategy,” Wall Street
Journal, September 30, 2015.
 Friedman, Thomas, “Are you sure you want the job?” New York Times, October 21, 2015.
 The Economist, “The Propaganda War” August 15, 2015.
 Ottaway, Marina, “ISIS: Many Faces, Different Battles,” Wilson Center, 2015.
 Bunker, Robert, “Defeating Violent Non-State Actors,” 2015.
 “Shadow Army: Nigeria has surprisingly little idea of what it is fighting against,” The Economist,
September 5, 2015.
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Allen, Nathaniel D. F., Lewis, Peter M., Matfess, Hilary, “Down, Not Out: How to Fight Back Against
Boko Haram’s Newest Strategy”, Foreign Affairs, June 18, 2015
Amnesty International, “Global response to atrocities by states and armed groups ‘shameful and
ineffective’,” February 25, 2015
*Wednesday, October 12 – Class Discussion Session on the fight against ISIS, the war in Yemen and
struggles with Iran with His Excellency Yousef Otaiba, UAE Ambassador to the United States (confirmed)
8:30 – 10:00 am
Malkin Penthouse (4th floor Littauer)
CLASS 7
Tuesday, October 18 - Contest for Predominance in the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific: U.S.-China
Military Competition
Guest speaker: Shankar Menon, author; Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution; former Indian
National Security Advisor (2010-2014) and Foreign Secretary (2006-2009)
Required readings:
 Zeng, Jinghan & Breslin, Shaun. “China’s ‘new type of Great Power relations’: a G2 with Chinese
characteristics?” International Affairs. Vol 92, No 4, July 2016.
 Xinbo, Wu. “Cooperation, competition and shaping the outlook: the United States and China’s
neighbourhood diplomacy.” International Affairs. Vol 92, No 4, July 2016.
 Dai, Bingguo. “On Building a New Model of Major-Country Relations Between China and the
United States - A Dialogue Between Dai Bingguo and Former US Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger on How to Avoid the "Thucydides Trap,” March 20, 2016.
 Mullen, Rani D. and Poplin, Cody. (2015). "The New Great Game: A Battle for Access and
Influence in the Indo-Pacific." Foreign Affairs, September 29, 2015
 Applebaum, Yoni (2015) "The Region That's Really Driving Obama's Foreign Policy". The
Atlantic, June 29, 2015
 Mohan, C. Raja (2015) "Modi and the Indian Ocean: Restoring India’s Sphere of Influence" CSIS,
June 18, 2015
 Blackwill, Robert D. and Ashley J. Tellis. “Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China.” Council
on Foreign Relations, March 2015, pp 7-17.
 Wang, Jisi. “The ‘Two Orders’ and the Future of China-U.S. Relations,” Two Way Street - China
File, July 9, 2015.
 McBride, James (2015) "Building the New Silk Road", CFR, May 25, 2015
 Kynge, James (2015) "Chinese overseas lending dominated by One Belt, One Road strategy", FT,
June 18, 2015
 Kaplan, Robert D. Monsoon, Introduction, Chapter 1, "China Expands Vertically, India Horizontally,”
Afterword, “The Post-Imperial Order and the Indian Ocean”
 Allison, Graham. "The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?" The Atlantic,
September 24, 2015.
 De Luce, Dan. “In South China Sea, a Tougher U.S. Stance,” Foreign Policy, October 2, 2015.
 Sevastopulo, Demetri. “U.S. Warships to Challenge Chinese Claims in South China Sea,”
Financial Times, October 8, 2015.
 Page, Jeremy “Missing from Beijing’s WWII Victory Parade: Price Tag,” Wall Street Journal,
September 2, 2015
 The State Council Information Office of the PRC. Chinas Military Strategy, May 2015.
 Department of Defense, Asia-Pacific Maritime Security Strategy, July 27 2015. Introduction and
Strategic Context.
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Jacobs, Andrew. “China, Updated its Military Strategy, Puts Focus on Projecting Naval Power,”
New York Times, May 26, 2015.
 Browne, Andrew. “Stuck on a Reef, A Bilateral Relationship Founders,” Wall Street Journal, May
19, 2015:
 Blackwill, Robert D. and Ashley J. Tellis. “Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China.” Council
on Foreign Relations, March 2015, pp 3-6, 18-39.
For further exploration:
 Mirski, Sean. “Stranglehold: The Context, Conduct and Consequences of an American Naval
Blockade of China,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Feb 13, 2013.
 Schwartz, General Norton A. & Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert. “Air-Sea Battle: Promoting Stability
in an Era of Uncertainty,” The American Interest, February 20, 2012.
 O’Hanlon, Michael & James Steinberg. “Going Beyond ‘Air-Sea Battle,’” The Washington Post,
August 23, 2012 .
 General Yao Yunzhu, “Boost for Sino-US military ties,” China Daily, June 17, 2013
*Thursday, October 20 – Class Discussion Session
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Taubman 275
CLASS 8
Tuesday, October 25 - The South and East China Sea Crises
Required readings:
 Fangyin, Zhou. “Between assertiveness and self-restraint: understanding China’s South China
Sea policy,” International Affairs. Vol 92, No 4, July 2016.
 Dutton, Peter. “China’s Claims are Unambiguously Ambiguous,” Asia Maritime Transparency
Initiative. June 16, 2015
 “Courting Trouble”, The Economist, July 2016.
 “Yang Jiechi Gives Interview to State Media on the So-called Award by the Arbitral Tribunal for
the South China Sea Arbitration,” July 16, 2016
 Zhang, Yunbi. Zhao, Lei. “ Beijing 'will never' halt island work,” China Daily, July 19, 2016.
 Mirasola, Christopher. “What Makes an Island? Land Reclamation and the South China Sea
Arbitration,” CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, July 15, 2015.
 Watkins, Derek. “What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea,” The New York Times,
September 23, 2015.
 Poling, Gregory, et al. “Spratly Airstrip Update: Is Mischief Reef Next?” CSIS Asia Maritime
Transparency Initiative, September 30, 2015.
 “Island Tracker,” CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, last visited October 12, 2015.
 Wang, Yi. “Speech on the South China Sea Issue at the ASEAN Regional Forum,” Chinese
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, August 6, 2015.
 Fravel, M. Taylor. “Things Fall Apart: Maritime Disputes and China’s Regional Diplomacy,” in
Jacques deLisle and Avery Goldstein, eds., China’s Challenges (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
 “China’s Maritime Disputes,” CFR InfoGuide Presentation.
 “Talks on Japan-China Maritime Liaison Mechanism Deadlock,” Chicago Tribune, October 2, 2015.
 Matsui, Nozomi, “Japan Protests China’s Gas Development in East China Sea,” The Asahi Shimbun,
September 17, 2015.
 Hornung, Jeffrey W. “Get Ready: China-Japan Tensions Set to Flare over East China Sea,” National
Interest, August 12, 2015.
For further exploration:
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Ronald, O’Rourke. “Maritime Territorial and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Disputes Involving
China: Issues for Congress,” CRS Report R42784, September 18, 2015.
Videographic: What does China want?, The Economist, August 27, 2014
Rapp-Hooper, Mira. “Before and After: The South China Sea Transformed,” CSIS Asia Maritime
Transparency Initiative, February 18, 2015.
*Thursday, October 27 – Class Discussion Session
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Taubman 275
*Tuesday, November 1 – Class Discussion Session on Ukraine and Russia with The Honorable Natalie
Jaresko (MPP 1989), former Minister of Finance for Ukraine, Chair of Aspen Institute Kyiv (confirmed)
8:30 – 10:00 am
Allison Dining Room (5th floor Taubman)
CLASS 9
Tuesday, November 1 - Putin’s Re-division of Europe and Threats to the European Union
Guest speaker: The Honorable Natalie Jaresko (MPP 1989), former Minister of Finance for Ukraine, Chair
of Aspen Institute Kyiv
Required Readings:
 Trenin, Dmitri. “Russia and NATO must communicate better,” Carnegie Moscow Center, 8
August 2016.
 Lieven, Anatol. “Don’t Fear the Russians,” New York Times, 18 March 2016.
 Putin, Vladimir. “Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly,” December 3, 2015.
 Putin, Vladimir. “Address by President of the Russian Federation,” 18 March 2014.
 Burns, Nicholas R. and James L. Jones. “Restoring the Power and Purpose of the NATO
Alliance”, Atlantic Council, June 2016 (read Executive Summary).
CLASS 10
Tuesday, November 8 - Emerging Domains of Strategic Competition: Energy, Cyber and Space
Guest speaker: Meghan O’Sullivan, Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs (TBC)
Required Readings:
 Paikowsky, Deganit and Gil Baram. “Space Wars”, Foreign Affairs, 7 January 2015.
 Mandiant Report, Executive Summary (pg. 2-6).
 Rid, Thomas, “Cyber War and Peace,” Foreign Affairs, November/December 2013.
 Significant Cyber Events since 2006, Center for Strategic & International Studies
 Clark, David D. and Susan Landau. “Untangling Attribution,” National Security Journal. 2.2. (2011).
 Mahnken, Thomas. “Why Cyberwar Isn’t the Warfare You Should Worry About.” Foreign Policy, July
23, 2012.
For further exploration:
 Segal, Adam. “What to Read on Cybersecurity,” Foreign Affairs, November 13, 2012.
*Wednesday, November 9 – Class Discussion Session
8:30 – 10:00 am
Malkin Penthouse (4th floor Littauer)
CLASS 11
Tuesday, November 15 - The Future Global Governing Board of the World: International Financial
Institutions and UN Security Council Reform
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POLICY MEMO #2 DUE (bring hard copy to class and upload to course website)
Required readings:
 “The UN Security Council (UNSC)” CFR.org, September 2, 2015.
 Rodrik, Dani. “The False Economic Promise of Global Governance,” Project Syndicate, 11 August
2016.
 “Past Time to Reform Bretton Woods,” The New York Times, May 16, 2015.
 United Nations, Framework Document for Inputs from Member States, March 27, 2015.
 Rothwell, Sonia. “Security Council reform: why it matters and why it's not happening,”
openSecurity: Reconciliation & Conflict, November 7, 2013.
 Von Freiesleben, Jonas and Lyndia Stewart. “Reform of the Security Council from 1945 to
September 2013,” Governing & Managing Change at the United Nations, Vol 1, September
2013.
 Stedman, Stephen J. “UN Transformation in an Era of Soft Balancing,” International Affairs, 83:
5 (2007): 933–944.
*Thursday, November 17 – Class Discussion Session
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Taubman 275
*Tuesday, November 22 – Class Discussion Session
8:30 – 10:00 am
Malkin Penthouse (4th floor Littauer)
CLASS 12
Tuesday, November 22 - Climate Change and Global Public Health: Arenas of Great Power Cooperation?
Required readings:
 Stavins, Robert. “Paris Agreement — A Good Foundation for Meaningful Progress.” December
12, 2015.
 Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, “Key Legal Issues in the 2015 Climate Negotiations,”
June 2015.
 Ad Hoc Working Group On The Durban Platform For Enhanced Action, October 19-23, 2015.
Please skim the current negotiating text.
 Pew Research Center, “Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting
Emissions,” November 5, 2015.
 Bipartisan Policy Center, "The Case for Strategic Health Diplomacy: A Study of PEPFAR,"
November 2015 Report
 Center for Strategic and International Studies, "Global Health as a Bridge to Security: Interviews
with U.S. Leaders," September 2012.
 Nicholas Kristof, "Progress in the War on Poverty," New York Times, January 8, 2014.
 The Lancet, “Global Health 2035,” Report Overview. December 3, 2013.
 Andrew Jack, "Benefits of UN's Millennium Health Goals Remain Unevenly Spread," Financial
Times, September 15, 2015.
 James Gallagher, "Malaria: Huge Progress on Global Killer," BBC, September 17, 2015
For further exploration:
 The World We Want, “Health in the Post-2015 Agenda,” Report of the Global Thematic
Consultation on Health, April 2013. Executive Summary, pages 7-13.
 Jeffrey Sachs, “The Cure for Gilead,” Huffington Post, August 3, 2015.
 Malaria No More, “Q&A with Ray Chambers,” Co-founder of Malaria No More and UN Special
Envoy for Financing the Health MDGs and for Malaria, November 13, 2014
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*Monday, November 28 – Class Discussion Session
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Malkin Penthouse (4th floor Littauer)
CLASS 13
Tuesday, November 29 - Final Class and Review of Semester
Dates TBC – FINAL EXAMS
There will be a final exam for all credit students. A study guide will be distributed one week prior to the first
day of exams.
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