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

Syllabus

Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session

Syllabus

Syllabus (PDF)

Requirements

Students taking the course for credit are required to submit a one-page proposal for a paper by class #9. The final papers are due in class #12, and should be 7,000-8,000 words.

Books

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

Easterly, William. The Elusive Quest for Growth. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.

Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. 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 Press, 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.