Issues of War and Peace
Poli 334, sec. 3372, spring 2008
Phone:
201-200-3259 Email:
fmoran@njcu.edu

Political Science Dept.
Syllabus
Useful Links
Paper
Guidelines
Prof. Moran Homepage
Exams

Course Description:

The twentieth century was one of the bloodiest and deadliest in the history of the human species. The two world wars alone accounted for more than 60 million deaths and untold numbers of personal tragedies, and the Cold War which followed in the wake of the Second World War produced technologies capable of, if not actually destroying the planet, at least rendering it largely uninhabitable for human beings.

If the twenty first century is anything like the twentieth, there's probably no need to worry about the twenty second. In other words, a better understanding of issues of war and peace is vital to our continued existence. This course will attempt to provide a more theoretical and historically situated framework for understanding the obstacles and opportunities before us. Much of the reading and discussion will be focused on war, trying to understand its causes, for without that understanding it seems difficult if not impossible to begin to find solutions that make peace possible.

 Useful Links

Part I

Francis Fukuyama's Homepage
John Mearsheimer
Huntington-esque from NYT 1/27/08

Part II

Thucydide's Peloppessian War
Hobbes'
Leviathan
Machiavelli's The Prince
Machiavelli's Discourses

Part III

Kant's Perpetual Peace
Richard Cobden's
Political Writings
Richard Cobden's
Speeches

Part IV

Stanley Milgram
More Milgram
Evolutionary Psychology
Living Links (primate politics)
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
Politics and the Life Sciences
Political Animals in 1/22/08 NYT
Abu Ghraib in New Yorker

Part V

Lenin's Marxism and Revisionism
Mao's
On the People's Democratic Dictatorship
Trotsky's
Permanent Revolution

Part VI

Part VII

Part VIII

Part IX

Part X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Lecture Powerpoints

Introduction
Section One
Section Two
Section Three
Section Four1
Section Four2
Section Six
Section Eight
Section Nine
Section Ten

Exercises

Iraq War 1
Ethnographic Map
Mideast Map
Asia Map
CIA World Factbook

 

Diversions

Cognitive Dilemma1
Cognitive Dilemma2
Cognitive Dilemma3
Optical Illusions
Sense Challenge

Personality Quiz
Getting Perspective
Got the time?
Weirdly cool
Open Sesame

Throw Paper!
Pinguin Extrem
Hamster Flight
Helicopter
Bubblewrap pop
Four Square
Mr. Picassohead
Waste lots of time
Gaelic Curses

Games

Hawks & Doves Game

Vector Tower Defense
Catapult
Trebuchet

Impending Doom Quiz
Political Humor

Doonesbury
Get Fuzzy
Pearls Before Swine
The Daily Show
Colbert Report
This Modern World

 

 

 

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