| CLASS # | TOPICS | REQUIRED READINGS | SUGGESTED READINGS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Organizational Meeting | ||
| Global Political Justice | |||
| 2 | Realism and Normative Skepticism |
Mearsheimer, John. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Chap. 1 and 2. Krasner, Stephen. Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Chap. 1 |
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Chap. 13. Tuck, Richard. The Rights of War and Peace. (Esp. chap. 4.) Morgenthau, Henry. Politics Among Nations. Waltz, Kenneth. Man, the State, and War. Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Part One. |
| 3 | Persons, Peoples, States: Three Conceptions of the Global Moral Realm |
Kant, Immanuel. ?Perpetual Peace.? Habermas, Juergen. ?Kant?s Perpetual Peace at 200 Years Remove.? Rawls, John. The Law of Peoples. Pp. 11-43. Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Pp. 69-92 | |
| 4 | Arguments for Sovereignty and Self-Determination |
Miller, David. On Nationality. Pp. 81-118. Buchanan, Alan. ?Recognitional Legitimacy.? Nussbaum, Martha. For Love of Country? Selections by Nussbaum, Appiah, Gutmann, and Taylor. O?Neill, Onora. ?Identities, Boundaries, and States.? | |
| 5 | Global Democracy without a World State? |
Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and Its Discontents. Chap. 9 (focus on pp. 214-229). Ruggie, John. ?Taking Embedded Liberalism Global.? Shapiro, Ian, and Casiano Hacker-Cordon, eds. Democracy?s Edges. (Dahl. ?Can International Organizations be Democratic? A Skeptic?s View.? Tobin. "A Comment on Dahl?s Skepticism.? Held, David. ?The Transformation of Political Community.? Kymlicka, Will. ?Citizenship in an era of globalization?) |
Schmitter, Philippe. How to Democratize the European Union and Why Bother. Cohen, Joshua, and Charles Sabel. ?Sovereignty and Solidarity.? Anne-Marie Slaughter, unpublished draft of a book. Archibugi, Danielle, and David Held, eds. Cosmopolitan Democracy. |
| Global Economic Justice | |||
| 6 | Cosmopolitanism |
Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Pp. 127-169. Pogge, Thomas. World Poverty and Human Rights. Chap. 4 and 8. |
Pogge, Thomas. ?An Egalitarian Law of Peoples.? O?Neill, Onora. ?Transnational Economic Justice.? |
| 7 | The Case of the Environment | Singer, Peter. One World. Chap. 2. | |
| 8 | Domestic Institutions and Global Injustice |
Rawls, John. Law of Peoples. Pp. 105-120. Easterly, William. The Elusive Quest for Growth. Chap. 8, 11 and 12. Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Chap. 6 and 8. | Buchanan, Allen. ?The Law of Peoples: Rules for a Vanished Westphalian World.? |
| 9 | The Case of Intellectual Property |
Oddi, Samuel. "TRIPS?Natural Rights and a ?Polite Form of Economic Imperialism.? Adelman, Martin, and Sonia Baldia. ?Prospects and Limits of the Patent Provision in the TRIPS Agreement: The Case of India.? |
D?Amato, and Long, eds. International Intellectual Property Law. Pp. 1-19, 27-40, 41-52, 268-282. Nagan, Winston. ?International Intellectual Property, Access to Health Care, and Human Rights: South Africa v. United States." ?Trips and Public Health: The Next Battle.? Oxfam Briefing Paper. Drahos, Peter, and John Braithwaite. Information Feudalism. |
| 10 | Human Rights |
Bentham, Jeremy. Anarchical Fallacies. Pp. 491-501. Beitz, Charles. ?Human Rights as Common Concern.? Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and as Idolatry. Pp. 3-55. Habermas, Juergen. ?Kant?s Perpetual Peace at 200 Years Remove.? | Glendon, Mary-Ann. A World Made New. |
| 11 | Human Rights, Cultural Diversity, and Democracy? |
Rawls, John. Law of Peoples. Pp. 59-70, 78-85. An-Na?im, Abdullahi Ahmed. Toward and Islamic Reformation. Pp. 161-181. Franck, Thomas. ?The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance.? Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Chap. 6 and 8. | |
| 12 | Immigration and Borders |
Walzer, Michael. Spheres of Justice. Chap. 2. Habermas, Juergen. ?Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic State.? Carens, Joseph. "The Rights of Immigrants." | Fiss, Owen. A Community of Equals: The Constitutional Protection of New Americans. |