911 Forum/Course: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

911 Forum - Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley: 2003




 

Syllabus

Please Note: The sequence of lectures is subject to change and modification. In addition to the readings, one or two short articles will be assigned each week at the selected readings for the week page.

Webcast videos of all lectures can be dowloaded from the webcast.berkeley website beginning the day after the lecture.

NOTE: See the information on the final exam.

January 27: Showing of Frontline documentary "In Search of al Qaeda"

Readings:

February 3: Bureaucratic Politics and Public Opinion

Readings:

Suggested Readings:

  • Elizabeth Drew, "Separation of Powers, " New York Review of Books, December 5, 2002
  • Glenn Kessler, "U.S. Decision on Iraq Has Puzzling Past," Washington Post, January 12, 2003

February 10: Foreign Policy and the International System: "Alone in the World"

Readings:

February 17: No class (Presidents' Day)

Readings:

  • Mead, pp. 1-173

February 24: The U.S. Foreign Policy Tradition, Iraq, and the War on Terror

Note: First paper due

Readings:

  • Mead, pp. 174-334
  • "What's next for Networks and Netwars?" by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, Networks and Netwars, The Future of Terror, Crime, Rand , 2001; to be distributed in class
  • See the study questions for this lecture

March 3: Invading Iraq: Magic Bullet or Poison Dart?

Readings:

  • Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations," Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993
  • Stanley Kurtz, "The Future of 'History,'" Policy Review, No. 113
  • Michael Ignatieff, "The Burden," New York Times, January 5, 2003
  • Sandy Tolan, "Beyond Regime Change," Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2002
  • Roula Khalaf, "Iraq Will Make America's Enemies Desperate," Financial Times, January 15, 2003
  • Stanley Kurtz, "After the War," City 13/1 (Winter) 2003
  • Michael Ledeen, "The Real Foe is Middle Eastern Tyranny," Financial Times, September 23, 2002
  • Schlomo Avineri, "The Arab World's Democracy Deficit," Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2002.
  • Martin Wolf, "The World's Lonely Imperial Power," Financial Times, November 26, 2002
  • David Pryce-Jones, "The End of Pax Britannica," Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2002
  • Interview with Kenneth Jowitt, see 911 Interviews at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/interviews.html
  • See the study questions for this lecture

March 10: The Spectre of Imperialism: The Human Rights Movement and the Bush Administration in the Aftermath of September 11th

Readings:

March 17: The Instruments of Foreign Policy: Military Power, The Information Age, and War against Terrorism

Readings:

  • Elliot A. Cohen, Supreme Command (Free Press, 2002), Chapter 6, pp. 173-207
  • Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace (Basic Books, 2002), Chapters 14 & 15, pp. 318-352
  • "Military Revolution," The Economist, July 18, 2002
  • "Transformation Postponed," The Economist, February 14, 2002
  • William M. Arkin, "Secret Plan Outlines the Unthinkable," Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2002
  • Interviews with General Anthony Zinni and with Samuel P. Huntington, see 911 Interviews at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/interviews.html
  • See the study questions for this lecture

March 24: No class (Spring Break)

March 31: A New Approach to Foreign Assistance: The Bush Administration's Millennium Challenge Account

Note: Second paper due

Readings:

April 7: Alliance Lost: The U.S. and Europe in a Unipolar World

Readings:

  • Robert Kagan, "Power and Weakness," Policy Review, No. 113
  • John Vinocur, "Chancellor's Debilitating Triumph," International Herald Tribune, September 24, 2002
  • "Living with a Superpower," The Economist, January 2, 2003
  • Dominique Moôsi, "France Deploys a Creative Approach to Conflict," Financial Times, January 12, 2003
  • Interview with Joe Joffe, see 911 Interviews at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/interviews.html
  • See the study questions for this lecture

April 14: Squaring Bush's North Korea Circle

Readings:

  • "Closing Pandoraís Box," The Economist, January 2, 2003
  • Stephen Fidler, "North Korea Could Become Plutonium Supermarket," Financial Times, January 10, 2003
  • "Chronology of North Koreaís Nuclear Development" AP, January 10, 2002
  • Sonni Efron, "Fear Seen as Driving North Korea Disclosure," LA Times, October 18, 2002
  • David E. Sanger & James Dao, "U.S. Says Pakistan Gave Technology to North Korea," New York Times, October 18, 2002
  • Charles Krauthammer, "The Japan Card," Washington Post, January 3, 2003
  • William S. Cohen, "Huffing and Puffing Wonít Do," Washington Post, January 7, 2002.
  • William Pfaff, "East Asia: U.S. Power Canít Do it All," International Herald Tribune, January 6, 2003
  • Dennis Ross, "Donít Rule Out Force," Washington Post, January 10, 2003 Leon Fuerth, "Outfoxed by North Korea," New York Times, Jan. 1, 2003
  • Ashton B. Carter & William J. Perry, "Back to the Brink," Washington Post, October 20, 2002
  • Samuel R. Berger & Robert L. Galluci, "Two Crises, No Back Burner," Washington Post, December 31, 2002
  • Gerald F. Seib and Carla Anne Robbins, "Nuclear Arms Move to Center Stage for U.S. Policy," Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2002
  • Interview with Robert Gallucci, see 911 Interviews at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/interviews.html
  • See the study questions for this lecture

April 21: The Internet and National Security

Readings:

  • Andrew Higgins, Karby Leggett & Alan Cullison, "How al Qaeda put Internet in Service of Global Jihad," Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2002
  • David Johnston, "Administration Begins to Rewrite Decades-Old Spying Restrictions," New York Times, November 30, 2002
  • Jonathan Turley, "George Bush's Big Brother," Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2002
  • Michael Moss & Ford Fessenden, "New Tools for Domestic Spying, and Qualms," New York Times, December 10, 2002
  • John Markoff, "Terror Tracking Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet," New York Times, November 22, 2002
  • Interview with Manuel Castells, see 911 Interviews at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/interviews.html
  • See the study questions for this lecture

April 28: The Doctrine of Preemption

Note: Third paper due

Readings:

  • John Lewis Gaddis, "A Grand Strategy of Transformation," Foreign Policy Online
  • Frances Fitzgerald, "George Bush and the World," NY Review of Books, September 26, 2002
  • George W. Bush, "West Point Speech," "National Security Strategy of the United States of America," (Optional)
  • Walter Russell Mead, "Misunderstanding the Rice Doctrine," Financial Times, October 1, 2002
  • Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer, "Can Saddam Hussein be Contained? History Says Yes," Harvard Publication, November 12, 2002
  • Charles Krauthammer, "The Obsolescence of Deterrence," The Weekly Standard, December, 9, 2002
  • Bill Keller, "The Sunshine Warrior," New York Times, September 22, 2002
  • Nicholas Lemann, "The Next World Order," The New Yorker, April 1, 2002

May 5: Political Islam

Readings:

  • Interview with Olivier Roy, see 911 Interviews at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/interviews.html
  • Oliver Roy, The Failure of Political Islam,(Harvard, 1996) pp. 107-131, 194-203
  • Ahmed Rashid, "The Eye of the Storm," New York Review of Books, September 11, 2002
  • Lawrence Wright, "The Man Behind bin Laden," The New Yorker, September 19, 2002.
  • James S. Robbins, "Bureaucracy of Terror," National Review, Jan. 6, 2003
  • David S. Cloud and Ian Johnson, "Hunt for al Qaeda Misses the Likes of Nizar Nawar," Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2002
  • Interview with Ira Lapidus, see 911 Interviews at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/interviews.html

May 12: Is This Our Unipolar Moment? U.S. Policy Directions in an Interdependent World

Note: Fourth paper due

Readings:

  • Interview with Princeton Lyman, see 911 Interviews at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/interviews.html
  • Tina Rosenberg, "The Free Trade Fix," New York Times, August 18, 2002
  • Joseph Stiglitz, "The Roaring Nineties," Atlantic Monthly, October 2002
  • Alan B. Krueger & Jitka Maleckova, "Does Poverty Cause Terrorism," New Republic Online, June 24, 2002
  • Roger Thurow and Geoff Winestock, "Addiction to Sugar Subsidies Chokes Poor Nations' Exports," Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2002

May 22: Final Exam

5:00 - 8:00 p.m. in 2050 Valley LSB; exam group 17. See more information on the final exam.

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