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Final grades have been posted. See Course Documents below. |
Course Documents |
Syllabus |
Research Tools |
Proofreading Your Papers: Top 5 Spelling/Grammar Issues Need a Citation Format? Use the APSR Style Guide, summarized on this page |
Class Notes |
Game Theory |
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Date |
Topic |
Readings |
Assignments |
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Aug 27 |
Why care? |
None |
None |
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Aug 29 |
Root Causes of Civil War |
Civil War, Civil Peace: Chapters 3,5 |
Memo (A) |
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Sept 3 |
NO CLASS |
NO CLASS |
NO CLASS |
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Sept 5 |
Ethnic Civil War |
Civil War, Civil Peace: Chapter 4 Mueller, The Banality of “Ethnic War” (proxy) Roe, The Intrastate Security Dilemma (proxy) |
Topic Memo (B) |
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Sept 10 |
Is Civil War Rational? |
Civil War, Civil Peace: Chapters 6,7 Cramer, Violence in Developing Countries: Chapter 3 (reserve) Collier et al Chapter 3 (online) Link 2 |
Memo (C) |
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Sept 12 |
The War Process |
Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil War, Chapters 5-7 (reserve) |
Memo (A) |
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Sept 17 |
Barriers to Negotiation |
Walter, The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement (proxy) Snyder and Jervis, Civil War and the Security Dilemma (reserve) |
Literature Search Memo (B) |
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Sept 19 |
War Termination |
Wittman, How a War Ends (proxy) Mason, Weingarten, and Fett, Win, Lose, or Draw (proxy) Dixon, “We Must All Hang Together” (online) |
Memo (C) |
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Sept 24 |
Decisions, Decisions |
Collier et al Chapters 1-2 (online) Link 2 Regan, Choosing to Intervene (proxy) |
Hypothesis Memo (A) |
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Sept 26 |
Rebuilding Society |
Civil War, Civil Peace: Chapter 6 Paris, The Limits of Wilsonianism (reserve) Sustainable Peace: Chapter 1 |
Memo (B) |
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Oct 1 |
Power-Sharing |
Sustainable Peace: Chapters 2,3,4,7 |
Memo (C) |
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Oct 3 |
Settling Secessionism |
Sustainable Peace: Chapters 5, 6, 8, 11 |
None |
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Oct 8 |
Planning Intervention |
NO CLASS -- Columbus Day |
None |
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Oct 10 |
The Intervenor’s Dilemma |
Dixon, Chapter 6 (online) Regan, Conditions of Successful Third-Party Interventions in Intrastate Conflicts (proxy) Regan and Abouharb, Interventions and Civil Conflicts (proxy) -- Be sure to download .pdf version! Balch-Lindsay and Enterline, Killing Time: The World Politics of Civil War Duration (proxy) Enterline and Grieg, Surge, Escalate, Withdraw, and Shinseki (reserve) |
None |
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Oct 15 |
Humanitarian Intervention |
Civil War, Civil Peace: Chapters 1, 2, 8, 10, 11, 12
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Literature Review Presentations (C) |
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Oct 17 |
Peacekeeping |
Seybolt, What Makes Humanitarian Military Interventions Effective? (reserve) Fortna, Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace After Civil War? (proxy) |
Presentations (A and B) |
