This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Readings

Texts

Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Easterly, William. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.

Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Edited by Amy Gutmann. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Kant, Immanuel. Political Writings. Edited by H. S. Reiss, translated by H. B. Nisbet. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Nussbaum, Martha, et al. For Love of Country? Boston: Beacon, 2002.

Pogge, Thomas. World Poverty and Human Rights. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2002.

Rawls, John. Law of Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1999.

Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

Required Readings

Adelman, Martin, and Sonia Baldia. "Prospects and Limits of the Patent Provision in the TRIPS Agreement: The Case of India." Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 29 (1996): 507-33.

An-Na'im, Abdullahi Ahmed. Toward an Islamic Reformation. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1990, pp. 161-181.

Beitz, Charles. "Human Rights as Common Concern." American Political Science Review 95, 2 (2001): 269-82.

Bentham, Jeremy. "Anarchical Fallacies." In The Works of Jeremy Bentham. Edited by John Bowring. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843, pp. 491-501.

Buchanan, Alan. "Recognitional Legitimacy." Philosophy and Public Affairs 28, 1 (1999): 46-78.

Carens, Joseph. "The Rights of Immigrants." In Group Rights. Edited by J. Baker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. 142-63

Cohen, Joshua. "Minimalism About Human Rights: The Most We Can Hope For?" Manuscript. MIT. (PDF)

Cohen, Joshua, and Joel Rogers. "Globalization, Growth, and Poverty." Manuscript. MIT. (PDF)

Dahl, Robert. "Can International Organizations be Democratic? A Skeptic's View." In Democracy's Edges. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 19-36.

Franck, Thomas. "The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance." The American Journal of International Law 86, 1 (1992): 46-91.

Habermas, Jürgen. "Kant's Perpetual Peace at 200 Years Remove." In The Inclusion of the Other. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT PRess, 1998, pp. 165-201.

Habermas, Jürgen. "Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic State." In Inclusion of the Other. Pp. 226-236.

Held, David. "The Transformation of Political Community." In Democracy's Edges. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 84-111.

Krasner, Stephen. Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. Chap. 1.

Kymlicka, Will. "Citizenship in an era of globalization." In Democracy's Edges. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 112-126.

Mearsheimer, John. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: Norton, 2001. Chap. 1 and 2.

Miller, David. On Nationality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 81-118.

Oddi, Samuel. "TRIPS--Natural Rights and a 'Polite Form of Economic Imperialism'." Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 29 (1996): 415-70.

O'Neill, Onora. "Identities, Boundaries, and States." Chap.9 in Bounds of Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Ruggie, John. "Taking Embedded Liberalism Global." Chap. 4 in Taming Globalization: Frontiers of Governance. Edited by David Held and Mathias Koenig- Archibugi. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003.

Singer, Peter. One World: The Ethics of Globalization. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. Chap. 2.

Tobin, James. "A Comment on Dahl's Skepticism." In Democracy's Edges. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 37-40.

Walzer, Michael. Spheres of Justice. New York: Basic Books, 1983. Chap. 2.

Suggested Readings

Archibugi, Danielle, and David Held, eds. Cosmopolitan Democracy: An Agenda for a New World Order. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1995.

Buchanan, Allen. "The Law of Peoples: Rules for a Vanished Westphalian World." Ethics 110 (July 2000): 697-721.

Cohen, Joshua, and Charles Sabel. "Sovereignty and Solidarity." In Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments. Edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and David Trubek. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

D'Amato, Anthony A., and Doris E. Long, eds. International Intellectual Property Law. Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1997, pp. 1-19, 27-40, 41-52, 268-282 (on TRIPS).

Drahos, Peter, and John Braithwaite. Information Feudalism. New York: New Press, 2003.

Fiss, Owen. A Community of Equals: The Constitutional Protection of New Americans. Edited by Micah Kleit, and Edwidge Danticat. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.

Glendon, Mary-Ann. A World Made New. New York: Random House, 2001.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Chap. 13.

Morgenthau, Henry. Politics Among Nations. New York: Knopf, 1985.

Nagan, Winston. "International Intellectual Property, Access to Health Care, and Human Rights: South Africa v. United States." Florida Journal of International Law 14 (2001/02): 155-191.

O'Neill, Onora. "Transnational Economic Justice." Chap. 7 in Bounds of Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Oxfam International. "Trips and Public Health: The Next Battle." Oxfam Briefing Paper. March 2002.

Pogge, Thomas. "An Egalitarian Law of Peoples." Philosophy and Public Affairs 23, 3 (Summer 1994): 195-224.

Schmitter, Philippe. How to Democratize the European Union and Why Bother. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Slaughter, Anne-Marie. Unpublished draft of a book manuscript on global network governance.

Tuck, Richard. The Rights of War and Peace. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Esp. chap. 4.

Waltz, Kenneth. Man, the State, and War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001 [1959].