PLIT08004 Course Guide 2014- 2015

Course Organiser:

Dr Carmen Gebhard

c.gebhard@ed.ac.uk

tel 650 4622

Office hours: by appointment

Course Secretary:

Ms Sopita Sritawan

UG Teaching Office, tel. 650 8253

sopita.sritawan@ed.ac.uk

Office hours: Mon-Fri, 09.30-12.30; 13.30-16.30

University of Edinburgh

News and events in Politics/IR: www.pol.ed.ac.uk

Follow Politics and IR on Twitter @EdinburghPIR

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Contents

Welcome to IPIR ................................................................................................................................. 4

Course Aims and Objectives ............................................................................................................ 4

Course Eligibility ............................................................................................................................. 4

Course Communication – who to contact for what: ........................................................................ 4

How we communicate with you:..................................................................................................... 5

PIR PALS – get help and advice from your peers ........................................................................... 5

Fundamentals 1 – essential study skills and guidance .................................................................... 5

Content and Structure of Course ....................................................................................................... 6

Overview of Contents ...................................................................................................................... 6

Structure: Lectures and Tutorials..................................................................................................... 6

Tutorial Sign-up ............................................................................................................................... 7

Assessment, regulations, deadlines ................................................................................................... 8

Assessment Weighting and Deadlines ............................................................................................ 8

Coursework Regulations and Guidance for Essay Submission ...................................................... 8

Essay Assignment .......................................................................................................................... 10

Examination ................................................................................................................................... 11

Assessment Feedback .................................................................................................................... 12

Students with learning difficulties................................................................................................. 12

Readings: General Guidance ........................................................................................................... 12

IPIR resource list ............................................................................................................................ 12

Course Textbook ............................................................................................................................ 12

Using the Library ........................................................................................................................... 13

Using the Internet .......................................................................................................................... 15

Readings by Lecture Topic ............................................................................................................... 16

Introduction Lecture 1: 15 Sept (Mon) .................................................................................... 16

What is Politics? Lecture 2: 18 Sept (Thurs)................................................................................ 16

What is International Relations? Lecture 3: 22 Sept (Mon)......................................................... 17

Globalization Lecture 4: 25 Sept (Thurs) .................................................................................. 18

Power and Sovereignty Lecture 5: 29 Sept (Mon) ...................................................................... 19

Power and Society Lecture 6: 02 Oct (Thurs) .............................................................................. 21

The State Lecture 7: 06 Oct (Mon).............................................................................................. 22

Political Systems and Institutions Lecture 8: 09 Oct (Thurs) ...................................................... 23

Nationalism Lecture 9: 13 Oct (Mon).......................................................................................... 25

Sub-State Nationalism Lecture 10: 16 Oct (Thurs)...................................................................... 26

Democracy Lecture 11: 20 Oct (Mon)........................................................................................ 27

Elections and Voting Lecture 12: 23 Oct (Thurs) ........................................................................ 28

Political Parties and Party Systems Lecture 13: 27 Oct (Mon) .................................................... 30

No lecture on Thurs 30 Oct 2014 – Essay due at 12.00noon .......................................................... 32

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Ideology Lecture 14: 03 Nov (Mon) .......................................................................................... 32

Political Activism Lecture 15: 06 Nov (Thurs) ........................................................................... 33

States and Foreign Policy Lecture 16: 10 Nov (Mon) .................................................................. 34

Security Lecture 17: 09 Oct (Thurs).......................................................................................... 35

Morality and IR Lecture 18: 16 Oct (Thurs) ................................................................................ 36

Revision (Q&A) Lecture 19: 20 Nov (Thurs)............................................................................... 37

No lecture held Monday 24 Nov 2014 – exam between 8 and 19 December 2014 ........................ 37

Student Representation .................................................................................................................... 38

Student Staff Meeting..................................................................................................................... 38

The Politics and IR Society ............................................................................................................. 38

Contacts ............................................................................................................................................. 39

Course Convenor (Dr. Carmen Gebhard)...................................................................................... 39

Course Secretary (Ms Sopita Sritawan) ......................................................................................... 39

Lecturers......................................................................................................................................... 39

Tutors ............................................................................................................................................. 39

Further Study of Politics................................................................................................................... 40

Appendix 1: Guide to using LEARN ............................................................................................... 41

Accessing LEARN .......................................................................................................................... 41

Key features of LEARN.................................................................................................................. 41

Appendix 2: Guide to Referencing .................................................................................................. 42

Appendix 3: Subject Dictionary ....................................................................................................... 43

Appendix 4: Essay Feedback Form .................................................................................................. 43

Appendix 5: Past IPIR Exam Questions........................................................................................... 44

Appendix 6: Students on a Tier 4 Visa ............................................................................................ 46

Appendix 7: Discussing Sensitive Topics ....................................................................................... 46

IPIR Lecture Programme Autumn 2014 Overview.......................................................................... 47

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Welcome to IPIR

This course is designed to be interesting, exciting and enriching. For best results, please:

Read this course guide carefully

Ensure that you are PREPARED for every meeting of the course

See your tutor or any of the lecturers if you have difficulties

This guide should be read in conjunction with the School of Social and Political Science (SPSS) Student

Handbook which is distributed to all Year and 1 students in the School and contains important rules and

guidance. It is available online at: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/on_course_students/year_1_2

Course Aims and Objectives

Aims

Introduction to Politics and International Relations (IPIR) seeks to provide:

an introduction to concepts relevant to both Politics and International Relations (IR)

an introduction to key institutions of modern states, and current debates surrounding their operation

an examination of states and their place in the international system.

Objectives

By the end of IPIR we would expect students to be able to:

demonstrate knowledge of key concepts in the study of politics and IR;

exhibit comparative knowledge of different political institutions and their theoretical and practical

significance;

apply their knowledge to the understanding of contemporary issues and problems in (especially)

contemporary democratic states.

Course Eligibility There is a quota of 450 students on this course. The following students are guaranteed a place on the course:

1. First year students admitted to a Politics or International Relations degree (Single or Joint)

2. Visiting Students (pre-registered) holding an offer of a place in the course from the College Office;

3. First year students whose main subject is in the School of Social and Political Science (SSPS)

Beyond these categories, sign-ups will be considered in the following order of priority:

4. First year students whose main subject has a joint degree with Politics (e.g. Economics, History etc.);

5. First year students taking the BA (HSS);

6. Other first year students taking Honours degrees in the College of Humanities and Social Science

(e.g. English Literature, Linguistics; Psychology; Business Studies);

7. Second year students in SSPS

If you belong to any of the categories 4-7 you will be placed on a waiting list until week 1 of the semester. You will then

be informed by the course secretary if a place became available for you. We might be able to admit students who do not

belong to any of the above categories but your place cannot be guaranteed.

Course Communication – who to contact for what:

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The Course Convenor for IPIR (c.gebhard@ed.ac.uk) is the person to contact if you have any concerns or

questions about the contents of the course, the way they are covered by lecturers and tutors and whenever

you have problems locating any of the readings required for the course.

Lecturers can be contacted (wilfried.swenden@ed.ac.uk; john.peterson@ed.ac.uk) or approached after their

lectures with any questions relating to the topics they covered. You can also s ee them in their office hours.

Your tutor (email addresses provided in first tutorial) can help you if with any questions of clarification and

for guidance on essay writing and exam preparation.

The Course Secretary Ms Sopita Sritawan (phone 0131 650 8253: email: sopita.sritawan @ed.ac.uk) deals

with all administrative matters (course sign-up, course change, coursework submission problems etc.).

How we communicate with you:

LEARN

This course will be using a web-based learning environment (LEARN) which you access via the MyEd Portal

https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk and which provides easy access to essential course materials (see Appendix 1:

Guide to using LEARN), lecture slides and any compulsory readings that are not generally available online.

This LEARN page also functions as a virtual notice board, so check it regularly through the MyEd portal.

Students will also be contacted by the course convenor and/or course secretary by email to their Edinburgh

University Account, which is why you should check your university email account regularly. You can set

the university account to forward mail to other accounts (eg hotmail), but we will NOT emai l those accounts

directly.

PIR PALS – get help and advice from your peers

The University of Edinburgh offers a unique peer-assisted learning (PAL) scheme which is aimed at helping

you adapt to university life and study. In small informal groups, second and third year volunteers (student

leaders, SLs) offer support to 1st year students in a series of fortnightly meetings during Semester 1. These

sessions provide the opportunity to ask the questions which new students might feel are too awkward to put

to lecturers, tutors or to their DoS (particularly the questions that seem 'stupid' but are nevertheless

important!). They will be tailored to the experiences of new students and will also provide advice on study

skills, using library resources, essay writing, and other academic issues.

Fundamentals 1 – essential study skills and guidance

“Fundamentals 1” (PLIT08007) is a course complementary to IPIR, which will help you develop critical

thinking, reading and writing skills that you will need to succeed on this and all your future university

courses. Although it is non-credit-bearing it is compulsory for everyone who is taking IPIR as a core course.

You will find that “Fundamentals 1” is closely linked to IPIR in the sense that topics discussed in IPIR

lectures will be used for practical exercises and activities in “Fundamentals”. “Fundamentals 1” also works

closely with our PIR Pals to assure that you get as much guidance as you need with keeping up with your

studies, writing essays and preparing for exams.

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Content and Structure of Course

Overview of Contents This course aims to do exactly what it says on the tin: introduce Politics and International Relations (IR) as

subjects of academic inquiry. It is designed with the needs of students reading for both degrees in Politics

and IR in mind. The different emphases and conceptual frameworks of scholarship in these sub -disciplines

will be highlighted. But we will also consider where Politics and IR connect and share methods, analytical

concerns, and common insights.

The course is principally concerned with what questions: that is, what is Politics? what is IR? But it is also

preoccupied with how questions (‘How should we study nationalism?’ ‘How is power dispersed through

society?’) and why questions (‘Why don’t more people vote?’ ‘Why is it so difficult to provide security

across the world?’).

The course covers most (not all) of the main subjects with which the study of Politics and IR is concerned.

The emphasis is on breadth more than depth. Our main focus wi ll be on concepts, such as ‘liberalism’,

‘power’, ‘devolution’, and ‘anarchy’. As such, IPIR is designed to equip you with a conceptual tool -kit that

will prove useful to you in your later courses, most of which allow you to focus in more depth on topics of

particular interest to you.

The course covers subjects that are living, breathing, and current. Wherever possible, we will strive to

incorporate contemporary examples from the ‘real world’ of Politics and IR to illustrate key concepts,

themes, and questions. You are encouraged to do the same in your own work for the course.

We do not assume that you have studied these subjects previously (i.e., at Highers or A level). But the

course is taught at a University level. In your written assignments (essay plus exam), you are expected to

show knowledge of the subject based on your lectures, tutorials, and your own private study of the core

course materials (plus, in the case of your essay, materials beyond the required reading).

We expect you to spend at least as much time working (reading and writing) on your own for this course as

you spend in the classroom. We expect you to prepare for each and every lecture and tutorial, and never to

turn up ‘cold’ to either (that is, in a position where the subject of the session is entirely new and unfamiliar to

you).

The course, like the subjects it covers, is thematically rich and diverse. However, the three main themes that

run as red threads through the course (and which you are encouraged to reflect upon throughout) are:

o The questions we seek to answer are complicated ones.

o Politics and IR are about resolving conflicts, not eliminating them.

o The line separating national from international politics is vanishing.

Structure: Lectures and Tutorials

Lectures are held in the George Square Lecture Theatre . There are normally two lectures each week of the

semester Mondays and Thursdays at 15.10 (check the lecture programme on the back page of this handout

for details).

If you wish to do well in IPIR, it is essential to integrate what you LEARN from lectures, reading and

tutorials. The lectures are a supplement to, not a substitute for, reading and tutorial participation. You

should listen critically to the lectures; they will provide an outline of what the lecturers consider to be

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important and interesting. You will then have to fill the gaps by reading thoroughly, and by engaging in

tutorial discussions.

Lecture topics for each week are summarised in this course guide followed by a list of required and

additional recommended readings.

Lecture slides from the lecturer’s power point presentation will be available on the LEARN Page shortly

before each lecture. Please note that the lecture slides are only meant to complement the lecture, not replace

it. The slides give you a general outline, point at major debates and some key terms and concepts to guide

your self-study. You will need to look at them in conjunction with each lecturer’s presentation in the lec ture

room as well as with the assigned readings.

The slides are not a source of academic evidence or ‘right answers’. Be careful not to regurgitate handout

information verbatim on your exam or essays as this is likely to adversely affect your mark. Politics and IR

are subjects that cannot be learned by rote!

Tutorials are held once a week during the semester, beginning in week 2, and attendance is compulsory.

The purpose of tutorials is to deepen your knowledge of the material to which you have been introduced in

lectures and in your reading. Tutorials encourage you to articulate and develop ideas for yourselves in small

group discussion. Your tutor will provide their contact details in the first tutorial session as well as further

tutorial guidelines and a specific tutorial programme. The first tutorial meets in the second week of the

semester.

Important note! Attendance at tutorials is compulsory, so please see the SSPS Student Handbook for

procedures should you need to miss a tutorial session:

http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/year_1_2/on_being_a_student

Monitoring Attendance and Engagement It is the policy of the University as well as good educational practice to monitor the engagement and

attendance of all our students on all our programmes. This provides a positive opportunity for us to identify

and help those of you who might be having pr oblems of one kind or another, or who might need additional

support.

Monitoring attendance is particularly important for our Tier 4 students, as the University is the sponsor of

your UK visa. Both the School and the individual student have particular res ponsibilities to ensure that the

terms of your visa are met fully so that you can continue your studies with us. Tier 4 students should read

carefully the advice set out in the Appendix 6 of this Handbook. This can also be found here www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/current_students/student_support/students_on_a_tier_4_visa . You can also

contact: www.ed.ac.uk/immigration

Tutorial Sign-up Tutorials start in Week 2. You are required to sign yourself on to a tutorial group via LEARN. Tutorial sign

up will open on Tuesday 16 September 2014 at noon; i.e. 1 day after your first class. We do not open tutorial

sign on before then, because some first year students from outside the School will not be offered a place on

the course until that day. Once tutorial sign up opens, you should sign up as quickly as possible as tutorials

fill up quickly and space is limited. Make sure you register by the end of Week 1 in any event. Information

on tutorial sign on via LEARN is included in Appendix 1 of this handbook.

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The following is a guide to using LEARN to sign up for your tutorial. If you have any problems using the

LEARN sign up, please contact the course secretary by email (Sopita.Sritawan@ed.ac.uk).

Tutorial sign up will open on Tuesday 16 September at noon), after the first lecture has taken place, and will

close at 12 noon on the Friday of Week 1 (19 September).

Step 1 – Accessing LEARN course pages

Access to LEARN is through the MyEd Portal. You will be given a log-in and password during Freshers’

Week. Once you are logged into MyEd, you should see a tab called ‘Courses’ which will list the active

LEARN pages for your courses under ‘myLEARN’.

Step 2 – Welcome to LEARN

Once you have clicked on the relevant course from the list, you will see the Course Content page. There will

be icons for the different resources available, including one called ‘Tutorial Sign Up’. Please take note of any

instructions there.

Step 3 – Signing up for your tutorial

Clicking on Tutorial Sign Up will take you to the sign up page where all the available tutorial groups are

listed along with the running time and location.

Once you have selected the group you would like to attend, click on the ‘Sign up’ button. A confirmation

screen will display.

IMPORTANT: If you change your mind after having chosen a tutorial you cannot go back and change it

and you will need to email the course secretary. Reassignments once tutorials are full or after the s ign-up

period has closed will only be made in exceptional circumstances.

Tutorials have restricted numbers and it is important to sign up as soon as possible. The tutorial sign up

will only be available until 12 noon on the Friday of Week 1 19 September so that everyone is registered

to a group ahead of tutorials commencing in Week 2. If you have not yet signed up for a tutorial by this

time you will be automatically assigned to a group which you will be expected to attend.

NB: If you fail to register and fail to attend the first tutorial we assume you do not intend on taking the course.

Assessment, regulations, deadlines

Assessment Weighting and Deadlines Assessment is made up of:

One essay (submitted electronically): 40%, due Thursday 30 October 2014, 12.00noon

Degree examination (held between 08-19 December 2014): 60%

Coursework Regulations and Guidance for Essay Submission One piece of assessed written work – an essay – is required in IPIR. It should be a maximum of 1500 words

long. Essays that are longer than 1500 words long will lose marks (see the SSPS student handbook).

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system, ELMA. You will not be required to

submit a paper copy of your work. Marked coursework, grades and feedback will be returned to you via

ELMA on 20 November 2014. You will not receive a paper copy of your marked course work or feedback.

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All our coursework is assessed anonymously to ensure fairness: to facilitate this process put your

Examination number (on your student card), not your name or student number, on your coursework or

cover sheet.

Submission of Essay Essays must be submitted electronically by 12.00 noon on Thursday 30 October 2014. Lateness penalties take

effect immediately after 12.00 (i.e. an essay submitted at 12:05 will incur a full day’s lateness penalty).

For information, help and advice on submitting coursework and accessing feedback, please see the ELMA

wiki at https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/SPSITWiki/ELMA. Further detailed guidance on the essay

deadline and a link to the wiki and submission page will also be available on the course Learn page. The

wiki is the primary source of information on how to submit your work correctly and provides advice on

approved file formats, uploading cover sheets and how to name your files correctly.

When you submit your work electronically, you will be asked to tick a box confirming that your work

complies with university regulations on plagiarism. This confirms that the work you have submitted is your

own. Be very sure you understand and follow the guidelines on avoiding plagiarism as outlined in the SSPS

Student handbook: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/year_1_2/what_is_plagiarism.

Occasionally, there can be technical problems with a submission. We request that you monitor your

university student email account in the 24 hours following the deadline for submitting your work. If there

are any problems with your submission the course secretary will email you at this stage.

We undertake to return all coursework within 15 working days of submission. This time is needed for

marking, moderation, second marking and input of results. If there are any unanticipated delays, it is the

course organiser ’s responsibility to inform you of the reasons.

Plagiarism Guidance for Students: Avoiding Plagiarism: Material you submit for assessment, such as your essays, must be your own work. You can, and should,

draw upon published work, ideas from lectures and class discussions, and (if appropriate) even upon

discussions with other students, but you must always make clear that you are doing so. Passing off anyone

else’s work (including another student ’s work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own

is plagiarism and will be punished severely. When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to

check a box to confirm the work is your own.

ELMA automatically runs all submissions through ‘Turnitin’, our plagiarism detection software, and

compares every essay against a constantly -updated database, which highlights all plagiarised work.

Assessed work that contains plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero, and serious cases of

plagiarism will also be reported to the College Academic Misconduct officer. In either case, the actions taken

will be noted permanently on the student's record.

For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Services’ website:

http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/academic-services/students/undergraduate/discipline/plagiarism

Penalties for late submission (set by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences): Management of deadlines and timely submission of all assessed items (coursework, essays, project reports,

etc.) is a vitally important responsibility in your university career. Unexcused lateness will mean your work

is subject to penalties and will therefore have an adverse effect on your final grade.

If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work, 5 marks will be deducted for each

calendar day that work is late, up to a maximum of five calendar days (25 marks). Work that is submitted

more than five days late will not be accepted and will receive a mark of zero. There is no grace period for

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lateness and penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline. For example, if the deadline is

Tuesday at 12 noon, work submitted on Tuesday at 12.01pm will be marked as one day late, work submitted

at 12.01pm on Wednesday will be marked as two days late, and so on.

Extension Policy If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline, you may request an extension from either

your tutor (for extensions of up to five calendar days) or the course organiser (for extensions of six or more

calendar days), normally before the deadline. Any requests submitted after the deadline may still be

considered by the course organiser if there have been extenuating circumstances. A good reason is illness, or

serious personal circumstances, but not pressure of work or poor time management. Your tutor/course

organiser must inform the course secretary in writing about the extension, for which supporting evidence

may be requested. Work which is submitted late without your tutor's or course organiser's permission (or

without a medical certificate or other supportive evidence) will be subject to lateness penalties.

Essay Assignment

Make sure you reference adequately and properly: you will lose points if you do not. See Appendix 2 for

guidance.

Make sure you write well and clearly.

Consult the guidelines for academic referencing in appendix 2 of this course guide.

Familiarise yourself with the essay marking descriptors (see link above). An example of an essay

feedback form is included in Appendix 4

Your essay should not exceed 1500 words (excluding bibliography). Essays above 1500 words will

be penalised using the Ordinary level criterion of 1 mark for every 20 words over length: anything

between 1500 and 1520 words will lose one mark, between 1500 and 1540 two marks, and so on. You

will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit. However, you shoul d note that

shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark.

Refer to the SPSS student handbook for guidance on essay submission, extension requests and essay writing.

http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/on_course_students/year_1_2/assessment_and_regs/coursework_requir

ements

Guidance on writing essays and explanations of marks are provided in the SSPS student h andbook (see also

Appendix 2 of this handbook). You should also consult a copy of the essay feedback form in this guide

which you will receive back with your marked essay (Appendix 4). Review it before handing in your essay

Select one of the following essay questions (max. 1500 words)

1. Is the role of the state weakening or merely transforming in an ever more globalized world?

2. Does a crisis of ‘party democracy’ also necessarily imply a crisis of ‘democracy’?

3. Why have legislatures in so many countries been losing power to the executive branch?

4. ‘The rise of transnational terrorism has transformed the Security Dilemma.’ Do you agree?

5. Which of Lukes' faces of power provides the most insightful analysis of gender inequality in

the modern world? Explain.

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to remind yourself of the criteria on which you will be marked. Lastly, you should also take a look at the

marking descriptors for coursework grading:

http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/on_course_students/assessment_and_regulations/marking_descriptors

In addition, you can seek specific essay writing advice with your tutor, and consult any of the lecturers about

specific topics (during their office hours or after the lecture). You will also be given essay writing guidance

during “Fundamentals” and in the context of the “PIR Pals” sessions (see below).

Examination The exam will last 2 hours. It will take place during the December exam diet (08-19 December 2014). You will be

required to answer two questions from several options divided into two sections. Exam dates are set by Registry

(http://www.registry.ed.ac.uk/Examinations). Closer to the exam period, Registry will publish the exact time,

date and location of your exam. Note the exam date is set by the university and is non-negotiable; you are

advised not to pre-book non-refundable flights or make other arrangements which may clash with the exam.

To pass IPIR, students must gain a passing average in the exam and a passing average overall. The pass mark

for coursework and the examination is 40. For those failing or missing the exam, a resit examination is held in

mid/late August 2015. It is the student's responsibility to check the resit timetable on the Registry's website

[http://www.registry.ed.ac.uk/], find the time and location of the resit exam, and ensure they are present for that

resit. No formal registration is necessary and students will not be individually notified of the resit date and

location.

IPIR exam questions of previous years are attached to this course guide (Appendix 5). Past exam papers from

earlier years can also be found via the main library's homepage at http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk. As last year, this

year’s exam will consist of two parts (one covering primarily politics topics and one covering IR topics), and

students will be asked to answer one question from each part.

Revision lecture and exam preparation On Thursday 20 November 2014 a Question/Answer and Revision session will be held during the usual

lecture slot. The course organiser, Dr Carmen Gebhard will address substantive questions raised by students

beforehand via a discussion board on LEARN, go over sample questions, and offer tips on how best to

prepare for the exam and perform your best during the exam.

Exam performance and special circumstances If you feel you have suffered from special circumstances which have adversely affected your exam or other

part of assessment on this course it is your responsibility to report these special circumstances, including all

relevant documentary evidence, to your Director of Studies. Your DoS will then forward them to the IPIR

Board of Examiners. You should also tell your personal tutor if you are having problems.

Please note that special circumstances refer to personal circumstances which are clearly beyond your control

and for which there is sufficient documentary evidence. They need to be significant, unforeseen, beyond

your control, applicable over a specifiable period with evident detrimental effects on your assessed work.

Examples of such situations are: death of a close relative during or immediately prior to the examination

period, or injury or illness that impaired your performance substantially during the examination period or

prior the essay deadline. Responsibility for producing the documentary evidence rests with the student.

Special circumstances must be submitted within a week of the affected assessment. Unless you have

exceptional reasons for not submitting within this time frame your circumstances can not be considered.

For further guidance see http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/humanities-soc-sci/undergraduate-

academic-admin/direction-of-studies/special-circumstancesance

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Procedure for Viewing Marked Exam Scripts: If you would like to see your exam script after the final marks have been published then you should contact

the course secretary by email to arrange a time to do this. Please note that there will be no feedb ack

comments written on the scripts, but you may find it useful to look at what you wrote, see the marks

achieved for each individual question and compare it against the general exam feedback available on

LEARN. You will not be permitted to keep the exam script but you are welcome to take it away to read over

or make photocopies. If you wish to do this, please bring a form of ID that can be left at the office until you

return the script. Please note that scripts cannot be taken away overnight.

If after looking at your exam script again and reading the general exam feedback on LEARN you still require

clarification about your exam performance, you can contact the course organiser (c.gebhard@ed.ac.uk) and

arrange a meeting. If you have concerns that your mark is inaccurate, it can be remarked. Note however, that

as a result of remarking your mark could go up, remain the same or also go down further.

Assessment Feedback All students are provided with a mark and a feedback sheet with written comments on their essay (a specialised

feedback form is used, see Appendix 4). General exam feedback (on the exam as a whole and on specific

questions) is posted on LEARN after the exams have been marked and agreed. You will also have the

opportunity to view your exam. More information on feedback and how you can make the most of it is available

on School website: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/year_1_2/feedback

Students with learning difficulties Advice, guidance and a range of support materials are available to students with learning difficulties (such

as dyslexia). These students should contact – in advance of coursework deadlines – the Disability office for

further information. See: http://www.disability-office.ed.ac.uk

Readings: General Guidance

IPIR resource list This course handbook will be your primary source for what to read on each topic and where you can find the

compulsory and recommended readings. An additional tool to help you find the assigned readings is the

Resource List available at http://resourcelists.ed.ac.uk/index.html - simply search for “Introduction to Politics

and International Relations” to get access to a dynamic and interactive list of resources. There you’ll find

basic information about where to find a specific source and whether the library holds a hard copy, an

electronic copy or whether the reading is available on the internet.

Course Textbook There is ONE required course textbook, which you are expected to buy.

Garner, Robert, Peter Ferdinand and Stephanie Lawson (2012) Introduction to Politics (2nd edition).

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The book is available for sale from Blackwell’s bookshop (53-62 South Bridge, Edinburgh, 0131 622 8222).

Please make sure you buy the newest edition, and also take a look at the additional study material on the

Companion Website of the book: http://global.oup.com/uk/orc/politics/intro/garner2e/.

Other recommended Texts

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There are some further texts that are recommended for this course – that is, they will prove useful

throughout the course and occasionally chapters from them will be listed as ‘required’ or ‘recommended

reading’. If you plan to continue studying Politics or IR they will also be useful in subsequent years.

Devetak, R., A. Burke and J. George (2012) Introduction to International Relations, 2nd ed., Cambridge: CUP.

Jackson, R.J. (2013) Global Politics in the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Heywood, A. (2013) Politics, 4th edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Heywood, A. (2011) Global Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kegley Jr., C. and G. Raymond (2010) The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics, International

edition (3rd ed.), Wadsworth Publishing.

Runciman, D. (2013) The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War One to the Present.

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Smith, S., A. Hadfield and T. Dunne (eds) (2012) Foreign Policy, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Stoker, G. (2007) Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work, Basingstoke: Palgrave. (ebook in library)

Learning Resources for Undergraduates: The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and

workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study

techniques. Resources and workshops cover a range of topics, such as managing your own learning, reading,

note making, essay and report writing, exam preparation and exam techniques.

The study development resources are housed on 'LearnBetter ' (undergraduate), part of Learn, the

University's virtual learning environment. Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to

enrol: www.ed.ac.uk/iad/undergraduates

Workshops are interactive: they will give you the chance to take part in activities, have discussions, exchange

strategies, share ideas and ask questions. They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at

1.30pm or 3.30pm. The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above).

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance, using the MyEd booking

system. Each workshop opens for booking 2 weeks before the date of the workshop itself. If you book and

then cannot attend, please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place. (To

be fair to all students, anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from

signing up for future events).

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions

about your own approach to studying, working more effectively, strategies for improving your learning and

your academic work. Please note, however, that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so

they cannot comment on the content of your work. They also do not check or proof read students' work.

To make an appointment with a Study Development Advisor, email iad.study@ed.ac.uk

(For support with English Language, you should contact the English Language Teaching Centre).

Using the Library The reading material for this course is found in books, journals, newspapers and political weeklies, as well as

in official publications and internet sites. Almost all of this material is available in the Main University

Library in George Square, or through its electronic catalogue (www.lib.ed.ac.uk/lib/).

Getting help in the Library All first year students should obtain an Information Pack of introductory information on general services

available from the Main Library. If you have any queries, e.g., about using the computerised catalogue

system, or where to find a journal, do not hesitate to ask the library staff. A list of useful library and

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information resources for Politics can be found on the library website at:

www.lib.ed.ac.uk/lib/resbysub/politics.shtml

Books The open shelves on the fourth floor hold short loan (1 week) and long or ‘standard’ loan (6 week) books.

Most of these are organised using the Library of Congress. Some relevant Library of Congress classifications

are as follows:

J…: Politics; JA..: Ideology and theory; JC. ; Democracy; JF…: Comparative Politics;

JN…: European Politics; JX…: International Politics; JZ….:International Relations

IPIR Reserve Collection in the Library The library holds a number of key sources for this course in the “IPIR Reserve” section (Library Reserve

Collection – HUB) on the Ground Floor. Reserve Collection books may be borrowed on 3-hour or overnight

loan. There are several class libraries scattered throughout the University: as a student here you are entitl ed

to use most of them (although you will not always be able to borrow from them). For example, if a book is

marked 'Law' then it means it is in the Law Library (Old College) and you can find it there. Further

information about reserve collection can be attained with the Library Support Team at ground floor level in

the main library.

In all cases, it is best to check the library’s website for up-to-date information regarding progress of

refurbishment and changes in the main library’s collection: www.lib.ed.ac.uk/lib/news.

Academic journals Articles in periodicals and journals are shorter and often more up-to-date than books. The current serials

(most recent journals and newspapers) are kept on the 3 rd floor of the library.

Several useful journals are ‘e-journals’ which means articles from them can be directly downloaded through

the library’s website. Under ‘simple search’, type in the name of the journal and the listing will indicate if

the journal is available electronically. Sometimes older issues of journals are available via JSTOR. These are

also listed in the library catalogue. Journals available electronically and relevant for this course include:

British Journal of Political Science; Comparative Politics; Comparative Political Studies; Democratization; the

Economist; Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Government and Opposition; International Affairs, International

Security, Journal of Democracy; Journal of Politics; Parliamentary Affairs; Political Quarterly, Political Studies,

Politics, and West European Politics. For reports on specific events or elections, Facts on File and Keesing's

Record of World Events are valuable data sources.

Please note that these links require an internet connection and some may require ‘EASE logon’ or have to be

accessed from a computer within the university network. To learn more about gaining off-campus access to

these resources consult the following website: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resources/shibboleth.html

E-books The library has an expanding collection of books that are available electronically. You are

encouraged to visit the following web-link regularly to look for materials that aid your study in the

course (particularly if you are having difficulty getting your hands on other kinds of reading):

http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resources/collections/ebooks

Several useful e-books may be found either in the ‘netlibrary’ or ‘Oxford Scholarship On -Line’ lists

shown at the link above.

E-reserves We have placed several key readings on e-reserve which means they are available to you electronically

through the IPIR LEARN page (not through the library catalogue). These works are clearly indicated on the

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reading list as ‘e-reserve’ readings. You need only click on the link on LEARN (in the e-reserve folder) to

arrive at the assigned reading. The university had to acquire additional copyrights for these readings to

make them available to you electronically.

Newspapers One of the best ways of keeping abreast of current political developments is by careful reading of

newspapers and periodicals. We recommend you go well beyond checking the BBC news website as their

coverage tends to be incomplete and selective. Try to read a quality daily to keep up with how politics and

IR evolve on a daily basis. The library also receives several relevant foreign newspapers.

For a weekly review, see the Economist which offers a succinct, readable (if sometimes contentious) weekly

account of political and economic developments. The Economist also issues a weekly summary of world

events, Politics this Week, accessible at its website (http://www.economist.com) and also distributed by email.

To develop critical arguments, please also make use of alternative news services such as the one provided by

Educate Inspire Change http://educateinspirechange.org/category/alternative-news/.

Using the Internet In addition to the websites listed under the topic headings below, you can access many other sites covering

various dimensions of general and international politics. Remember: the internet is a wonderful resource

when used correctly, a poor research tool when used uncritically.

A word on Wikipedia: there’s nothing wrong with using this source for your own background inform ation

but do not use or cite it as an authoritative source . Anyone with internet access can create or edit a

Wikipedia entry and these entries do not undergo scholarly review.

Useful, tailored websites:

A useful source of IR topics is the virtual International affairs resources: http://www2.etown.edu/vl/

Freedom House (www.freedomhouse.org) contains much information from its annual surveys of the

state of freedom and democracy in the world.

Newspaper blogs: Some newspapers and journals feature blogs which offer more up to date analysis and

reporting. For IR themes, check out FP editors’ blog at http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/. For a global forum

for debate about current political, economic and foreign policy issues from a pro-democracy perspective,

see http://www.opendemocracy.net/about. Note, however, these sites have not undergone peer review

and the blog entries often build on opinion rather than academic research . Therefore, these sources might

be good to develop analytical ideas but in your essay you should always try to b ack up your arguments

with academic sources.

Go beyond the reading list for your essay The reading lists are designed to get you started and set you thinking; they are not definitive or exhaustive.

The assigned course textbook contains useful guides to further reading at the end of every chapter.

Moreover, almost every item on the reading list will refer in its footnotes to books and articles of related

interest; check some of these references to see whether they are in the library. If you still have difficulty

finding the material you need, consult your tutor.

If you cannot locate a reading listed on our course guide, please notify the course organiser

(c.gebhard@ed.ac.uk). Be sure to give her the precise title of the missing work as soon as possible.

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Required reading:

Garner, R. (2012) ‘Introduction’, in Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson (2012), Introduction to

Politics (2nd edition), pp. 1-23. (textbook)

Stoker, Gerry (2007) Why Politics Matters, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 1-15. (e-book, library)

Readings by Lecture Topic

All “required readings” are to be read BEFORE the relevant lecture. Most “required” texts are

taken from the textbook that you are expected to buy. All the other “required readings” are available to electronically either as “e-reserve” (on LEARN page) or as a general electronic

source (Google from a computer within the university network).

Email the convenor (c.gebhard@ed.ac.uk) if you cannot locate any of the “required readings”.

Introduction Lecture 1: 15 Sept (Mon)

Dr Carmen Gebhard

This lecture will provide an overview of the course eligibility, learning objectives and content. It will

give you an idea of the structure of the course, including lectures and tutorials. You must register for a

tutorial group on LEARN by Friday 19 September 2014. Sign on will open on Wednesday 17

September 2014. Tutorials start in week 2. If you fail to register or attend the fir st tutorial we assume

you do not intend to take the course. If you are having trouble registering for a tutorial please email:

the course secretary sopita.sritawan@ed.ac.uk

What is Politics? Lecture 2: 18 Sept (Thurs) Prof. John Peterson

This lecture introduces Politics both as a social phenomenon and a subject of academic investigation. It

focuses centrally on power, and who wields it (and why). Different approaches to the study of politics –

including many covered in this course – are introduced. The complexity of the kinds of questions we

seek to answer about politics leads to a discussion of whether researching our subject is an ‘art’ or

‘science’, and whether it can be studied objectively. The dilemmas of modern democracy and concepts

of ‘government’ and ‘governance’ are defined and presented as crucial to understanding politics in the

21st century.

Further reading: Allison, G. (2012) ‘The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50’, Foreign Affairs, 91 (4), July/August, pp. 11-16

Caplan, B. (2007) The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, Princeton NJ:

Princeton University Press.

Chatterjee, P. (2004) The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World,

New York: Columbia University Press.

Crick, B. (1982) In Defence of Politics, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Dahl, R.A. (2001) How Democratic is the American Constitution? New Haven, CT: Yale University

Press.

Diamond, L. (2009) The Spirit of Democracy, New York: Times Books.

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Dreze, J. and Sen, A. (2013) An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions, London: Allen Lane.

Hague, R. and Harrop, M. (2010) Comparative Government and Politics: an Introduction (8th ed.)

Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Leftwich, A. (ed.) (2004) What is Politics?: the Activity and its Study , Oxford : Polity, see especially

‘On the Politics of Politics’, pp. 1-18.

Lindblom, C. (1982) ‘The Market as Prison’, Journal of Politics, Vol. 44:2, pp. 324-66.

Neustadt, Richard E. (1991) Presidential Power: the Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan,

London: Free Press.

Rhodes, R. A. W. (2006) ‘The New Governance: Governing Without Government’, Political Studies,

44/4, pp.652-67.

Runciman, D. (2014) The Confidence Trap: a History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the

Present, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, preface & introduction.

Savigny, H. and Marsden, L. (2011) Doing Political Science and International Relations, Basingstoke:

Palgrave, ch. 1.

Stoker, G. (2007) Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Thaler, R. and C. Sustein (2009) Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness,

London: Penguin.

What is International Relations? Lecture 3: 22 Sept (Mon) Prof. John Peterson

This lecture introduces International Relations (IR) as a global experience as well as an intellectual

construct. The relationship between IR and Politics is discussed, and we reflect on why IR is sometimes

seen as a sub-discipline of Politics and other times as a separate field of investigation. We consider

whether IR is best understood by reflecting on the nature of paired opposites: sovereignty and

globalization, anarchy and order, war and peace, poverty and wealth. The session concludes with a

discussion of the extremely thorny question of how theory relates to practice in the study of IR.

Further reading: Baylis, J., S. Smith and P. Owens (eds) (2014) The Globalization of World Politics (6th ed.), Oxford:

Oxford University Press, intro & ch 1.

Booth, K. and N.J. Wheeler (2008) The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics,

Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Brzezinski, Z. (2012) Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power, New York: Basic Books.

Carr, E. H. (1995) The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: an Introduction to the Study of International

Relations, London: Papermac.

Devetak, R., A. Burke and Jim George, (2012) Introduction to International Relations, 2nd edition,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-18 (introduction).

Dunne, T. and M. Klejda (2010) ‘America After Iraq’ International Affairs, 86 (6), pp. 1287-98.

Required reading:

Brown, C. and K. Ainley (2009) Understanding International Relations (4th ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan, ch. 1. (e-reserve, LEARN)

Mearsheimer, J.J. (2005) ‘E H Carr versus Idealism: the Battle Rages On ’, International Relations, Vol.

19:3, June 2005, pp. 139-52 (e-source)

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Dunne, T., M. Kurki and S. Smith (2010) International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (2nd

ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, introduction.

Friedman, Thomas and Kaplan, Robert (2002) ‘States of Discord’ (on globalization and the nation

state), Foreign Policy, March/April.

Kagan, R. (2008) The Return of History and the End of Dreams, London: Atlantic Books.

Kaplan, R.D. (2012) The Revenge of Geography, London: Random House.

Kapstein, E.B. (2008) ‘Fairness Considerations in World Politics: Lessons from International Trade

Negotiations’, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 123:2, Summer, pp. 229-49.

Keohane, R.O. (2012) ‘Hegemony and After’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 91:4, July/August, pp. 114-8.

Legvold, R. (2014) ‘Managing the New Cold War’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 93 (4), July/August, pp. 74-84.

Mingst, K. and Arreguin-Toft, I. (2010) Essentials of International Relations (5th ed.), London: W.W.

Norton, ch. 1.

Nye, J.Jr. (2011) The Future of Power, New York: Public Affairs; see also article of same name in

Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec 2010, Vol. 89 (6), pp. 2-12.

Savigny, H. and Marsden, L. (2011) Doing Political Science and International Relations, Basingstoke:

Palgrave, ch. 2.

Waltz, K.N. (1999) ‘Globalization and governance’, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 32:4

(December), pp. 693-700.

Globalization Lecture 4: 25 Sept (Thurs) Dr Carmen Gebhard

What is globalization, and why has it become such a widely-used term? This week’s lecture and readings

analyse the features and impact of globalization (such as the changing role of the nation-state, the rise of

transnational corporations, changes to the global economy, and glob alization’s impact on trade).

Particular attention is paid to the forces driving globalization and the actors that seem to be playing a

more active role in a globalized international system. The week also looks at the opposition to

globalization, its arguments and effects. Students are encouraged to think about whether globalization is

a new phenomenon, and whether its effects are as negative as are commonly portrayed.

Further reading: Amoore, L. (ed.) (2005) The Global Resistance Reader, London : Routledge.

United Nations (2000) We the Peoples – The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century , pp. 6-17.

http://www.un.org/en/events/pastevents/pdfs/We_The_Peoples.pdf

Axford, B. (2002) ‘The Process of Globalisation’ in Axford, Barrie et al (eds) Politics: an Introduction

(2nd ed.), London: Routledge, ch 14.

Beckwith, K. and D. Rucht (2003) Women's movements facing the reconfigured state, Cambridge :

Cambridge University Press.

Baylis, J., S. Smith and P. Owens (2014) (eds), The Globalization of World Politics (6th ed), Oxford:

Oxford University Press. Also check out their Companion Website for this book

http://global.oup.com/uk/orc/politics/intro/baylis6e/

Required reading:

McGrew, A. (2014) ) ‘Globalization and Global Politics’, Baylis, J., S. Smith and P. Owens (eds), The

Globalization of World Politics (6th ed.), Oxford: OUP, pp. 15-31. (e-reserve, LEARN)

Strange, S. (1999) 'The Westfailure System', Review of International Studies, 25 (3), pp. 345-354. (e-source)

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Berger, P. L. and S P. Huntington (2002) Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary

World, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cable, V. (1999) Globalization and Global Governance, London: Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Camilleri, J.A. and Falk, J. (1992) The End of Sovereignty?, Aldershot: Elgar, chs 4-5.

Dicken, P. (2003) Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century, London: Sage.

Evans, P. (1997) ‘The Eclipse of the State: Reflections on Stateness in an era of Globalisation ’, World

Politics, 50(1), pp. 62-87.

Fukuyama, F. (1992) The End of History and the Last Man, London: Penguin.

Garrett, G. (2000) ‘The Causes of Globalization’, Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 33 (6-7), pp. 941-991.

Hay, C. (2000) ‘Contemporary capitalism, globalization, regionalization and the persistence of

national variation’ Review of International Studies, Vol. 26 (4), pp. 509-531.

Held, D. and McGrew, A. (2007) Globalization/Anti-globalization, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Held, D. and McGrew, A. (2003) The Global Transformations Reader: an Introduction to the Globalization

Debate, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Heywood, A. (2013) Politics (4th ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave, chapter 6 (pp. 141-150 in particular).

Hoogvelt, A.M. (1997) Globalisation and the Postcolonial World: the New Political Economy of

Development, Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Huntington, S. (1998) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, London: Touchstone;

see also short article of same name in Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72(3) Summer.

Hurrell, A. and Woods, N. (1999) Inequality, globalization, and world politics, Oxford: OUP.

Kaplinsky, R. (2001) ‘Is Globalization all it is cracked up to be?’ Review of International Political

Economy Vol. 8: 1, pp. 45-65.

Kapstein, E. B. (1994) Governing the Global Economy: International Finance and the State, Cambridge,

MA: Harvard University Press.

Kegley, C. and G. Raymond (2010) The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics,

International edition (3rd ed.), Wadsworth: Cengage Learning, ch. 11.

Lechner, F. and Boli, J. (2008) The Globalization Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Nye, J. (2001) ‘Globalisation and Discontent’, World Today, Aug/Sept.

Rosenberg, T. (2002) ‘The Free Trade Fix’, New York Times Magazine, 18 March 2002 (*a good

introduction to globalization).

Samir, D. and R. Kiely (eds) (2006) Globalization and After, London : Sage Publications.

Singer, P. (2002) One World: the Ethics of Globalization, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Strange, S. (1996) The Retreat of the State: the Diffusion of Power in the World Economy , Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

Stiglitz, J. E. (2002) Globalization and its Discontents, London: Penguin.

Webber, C. (2010) International Relations Theory. A Critical Introduction (4th ed.), London: Routledge, ch. 6.

See also: Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies [e-journal]

Power and Sovereignty Lecture 5: 29 Sept (Mon)

Prof. John Peterson

This lecture examines the claim that the sovereign state is the key actor in International Relations.

Different theoretical traditions in IR have differing understandings of the role and significance of the

state. We introduce realist, liberal/pluralist and Marxist interpretations. We then examine the closely

connected idea of sovereignty and assess the degree to which sovereignty has been, or is in the process of

being, ‘compromised’ (Krasner). Market forces, international norms such as human rights, and p ower

asymmetries all qualify the concept of sovereignty as traditionally understood. The lecture concludes

with a discussion of ‘globalization’ which critically examines the notion of ‘global terrorist networks’ as a

case that helps us determine whether globalisation is i) unprecedented; ii) changing the nature of

international relations; iii) a serious challenge to traditional notions of sovereignty.

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Further reading: Sovereignty and Power

Brown, C. (2002) Sovereignty, Rights, and Justice: International Political Theory Today , Cambridge: Polity

Press, ch. 2.

Clinton, H.R. (2010) ‘Leading Through Civilian Power: Redefining American Diplomacy and

Development’, Foreign Affairs, November-December, Vol. 89:6, pp. 13-24.

Drezner, D.W. (2007) All Politics is Global, Princeton: Princeton University Press, ch. 1.

Flourny, M. and J. Davidson (2012) ‘Obama’s New Global Posture’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 91:4,

July/August, pp. 54-63.

Held, D. and McGrew, A. (2007) Globalization/Anti-Globalization, Cambridge: Polity Press.

International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2003) Responsibility to Protect.

http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=240

Keohane, R.O. (1998) ‘International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?’, Foreign Policy, Vol.

110 (Spring), pp. 82-96.

Krasner, S.D. (1999) Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Krasner, S.D. (1995/6), ‘Compromising Westphalia’, International Security, Vol. 20 (3) pp. 115-15 – can

also be found in D. Held and A. McGrew (eds) (2007) Global Transformations Reader, Cambridge:

Polity Press, ch. 10.

Risen, J. and S. Perry (2006) State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, New

York: Free Press.

Sanger, D. L. (2013) Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power,

New York: Broadway Paperbacks.

Basics of IR theory

Baylis, J., S. Smith and P. Owens (eds) (2014) The Globalization of World Politics (6th ed.), Oxford:

Oxford University Press, pt 2 .

Baylis, J. et al. (2010) Strategy in the Contemporary World: an Introduction to Strategic Studies (3rd ed.),

Oxford: Oxford University Press, pt 2.

Burchill, S. (2009) Theories of International Relations, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 4 th edition, ch 1 (sl)

Carr, E. H. (1995) The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939, London: Papermac.

Jackson, R.H. and Sørensen, G. (2010) Introduction to International Relations, 4th edition, Oxford:

Oxford University Press, chs 1-2.

Jørgensen, K.E. (2010) International Relations Theory: a New Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan.

Rathburn, Brian (2008) ‘Does One Right Make a Realist? Conserv ativism, Neoconservativism, and

Isolationism in the Foreign Policy Ideology of American Elites’, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 123:2

Summer, pp. 271-99.

Viotti, P.R. and Kauppi, M.V. (2011) International Relations Theory: Realism, Pluralism, Globalism and

Beyond (5th ed.), London: Pearson.

Required reading :

Lawson, S. (2012) ‘Introducing Global Politics’, in Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson (2012),

Introduction to Politics (2nd edition), pp. 309-329 (chapter 14). (textbook)

Slaughter, A. (1997) 'The Real New World Order', Foreign Affairs, 76 (5), pp. 183-97. (e-reserve, LEARN)

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Transnational Terrorism

Baylis, J., S. Smith and P. Owens (eds) (2014) The Globalization of World Politics (6th ed.), Oxford:

Oxford University Press, ch. 21.

Benjamin, D. and S. Stephen (2005) The Next Attack: the Globalization of Jihad, London: Hodder and

Stoughten

Bobbitt, P. (2008) Terror and Consent: the Wars for the 21st Century, London: Allen Lane.

Gause, F.G. (2011) ‘What Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90:4, pp.

81-90.

Miller, P.D., M. Zenko and M.A. Cohen (2012) ‘National Insecurity’, Foreign Affairs Vol. 91:4,

July/August, pp. 146-51.

Naìm, Moisés (2012) ‘Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office’, Foreign Affairs Vol. 91:3,

May/June, pp. 100-111.

Piazza, J.A. and J.I. Walsh (eds) (2010) ‘Symposium: Torture and the War on Terror’, PS: Political

Science and Politics, Vol. 43:3, July, pp. 407-50.

Richardson, L. (2006) What Terrorists Want, London: John Murray.

Sageman, M. (2004) Understanding Terror Networks, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press .

Sageman, M. (2008) Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the 21st Century, Philadelphia: University of

Pennsylvania Press.

Power and Society Lecture 6: 02 Oct (Thurs)

Prof. John Peterson

Power is central to the study of politics and international relations. But ‘power’ is an essentially

contested concept; there is endless disagreement about what the term itself actually means. This lecture

examines different approaches to studying power in politics, both domestic and international. It

provides an overview of the several dimensions of power and then explores the concept in relation to

current debates including race, gender and equality.

Further reading: Allen, N. and Dean. J. (2008) ‘No (Parliamentary) Gender Gap Please, We’re British’ Political

Quarterly Vol. 79:2, pp. 212-220.

Bachrach, P. and Baratz, N. (1970) Power and Poverty. Theory and Practice, London: Oxford University

Press.

Banducci S. et al. (2004) ‘Minority Representation, Empowerment and Participation’, The Journal of

Politics, Vol. 66:2, pp. 534-556.

Barnes, B. (1993) ‘Power’, in Bellamy, R. (ed.) Theories and Concepts of Politics: an Introduction ,

Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Celis, K. and Childs, S (2008) ‘Introduction: The Descriptive and Substantive Representation of

Women: New Directions’ Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 61 (3): 419-425.

Connell, R. (2009) Gender, Cambridge: Polity.

Required reading:

Garner, R. (2012) ‘Political Power, Authority and the State’, in Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson

(2012), Introduction to Politics (2nd ed.), Oxford: OUP, pp. 48-66 (chapter 2). (textbook)

Lukes, S. (2005) Power: a Radical View, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 14-59 (e-book, library)

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Chomsky, N. (2003) Understanding Power: the Indispensable Chomsky, London: Vintage. (essays).

Dahl, R A. (1961/1989) Who Governs? Democracy and power in an American city, Newhaven: Yale

University Press.

Dunleavy, P. and O’Leary, B. (1987) Theories of the State: the Politics of Liberal Democracy, ch 2 & 4

Evans, M. (2002) ‘Elitism’ in Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (eds) Theory and Methods in Political Science.

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hay, C. (2007) Why We Hate Politics, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Inter-Parliamentary Union. Up to date statistics on women in national parliaments, available at

http://www.ipu.org

Kenny, M. (2007) ‘Gender, Institutions and Power A Critical Review’, Politics Vol. 27:2, pp. 91-100.

Mills, C. Wright (1956) The Power Elite, London: Oxford University Press.

Nye, J. (2008) The Powers to Lead, New York: Oxford University Press, ch. 2.

Poggi, G. (2001) Forms of Power, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Phillips, A. (1993) Democracy and Difference, Cambridge: Polity Press, ch. 5.

Phillips, A. (1995) The Politics of Presence, Oxford: Clarendon Press, chs 2 and 3.

Polsby, N. (1980) Community Power and Political Theory , New Haven: Yale University Press.

Ross, K. (ed.) (2002) Women, Politics and Change, also available as Special Issue of Parliamentary Affairs

Vol. 55:1.

Smith, M. (1995) ‘Pluralism’, in Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (eds) Theory and Methods in Political Science.

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Stockemer, D. (2008) ‘Women’s Representation: A comparison between European and the Americas’

Politics, Vol. 28: 2, pp. 65-73.

Waylen, G. (2008) ‘Enhancing the Substantive Representation of Women: Lessons from Transitions

to Democracy’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 61: 3, pp. 518-534.

Women in politics, website: http://www.ipu.org/bdf-e/BDFsearch.asp

Wrong, D H. (1995) Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses, London, NB: Transaction Publishers, chs 6-8.

The State Lecture 7: 06 Oct (Mon) Dr Wilfried Swenden

This lecture will introduce the concept of the state. In modern political life, the state is the primary arena

for the exercise of political power. We will look at different definitions of the state and consider its key

features and functions. In particular, we will study the state as the basis of sovereignty and legitimate

authority. We will examine the emergence and development of the state, and look at the different types

of states that are evident today. Finally, we will consider the internal and external pressures on the

modern state which can sometimes lead to decreasing legitimacy and even state failure.

Further reading: Axtmann, R. (2003) (ed) Understanding Democratic Politics: an Introduction , London: Sage, ch. 11.

Required reading:

Garner, R. (2012) ‘Politics and the State’, in Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson (2012) , Introduction to

Politics (2nd edition), pp. 27-47 (chapter 1) – plus recap chapter 2. (textbook)

Poggi, G. (2011) ‘The Nation-State’, in Caramani, D. (ed.), Comparative Politics (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford

University Press, pp. 67-84. (e-reserve, LEARN)

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Dunleavy, P. and O’Leary, B. (1987) Theories of the State: the Politics of Liberal Democracy, Basingstoke:

Macmillan Education, ch. 1.

Cai, Y. (2008) ‘ Power Structure and Regime Resilience: Contentious Politics in China’, British Journal

of Political Science, Vol. 38, pp. 411-32.

Connel, R (1990) ‘The state, gender and sexual politics: theory and appraisal’, Theory and Society, Vol.

19:5, pp. 507-544.

Hay, C., Lister, M. and D. Marsh (eds) (2006) The State. Theories and Issues, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan.

Heywood, P. et al. (eds) (2002) Developments in West European Politics 2, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan, Introduction.

Gill, G.J. (2003) The Nature and Development of the Modern State, Basingstoke: Palgrave, ch. 1 ‘The

Modern State’ pp. 1-32.

Keating, M. (1999) The Politics of Modern Europe: the State and Political Authority in the Major

Democracies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, ch. 1.

Kharas, H. et al (2009) Portraits of Instability (Failed States Index) Foreign Policy July/Aug.: pp. 88-93.

Nicholson, M. (2002) International Relations: a Concise Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave, ch. 2.

Mann, M (1990) The Rise and Decline of the Nation State, Oxford: Blackwell, ch. 10.

Paul, T. V. et al (2003) The Nation-State in Question, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Pierson, C. (2004) The Modern State (2nd ed.), London: Routledge, ch. 1 ‘Modern States’, pp. 4-26.

Poggi, G. (1990) The State: its Nature, Development and Prospect, Oxford: Polity.

Roeder, P.G. (2007) ‘Who gets a State of their Own’ in Where Nation-States Come From, Princeton, NJ.:

Princeton University Press, ch. 1, pp. 3-42.

Rokkan, S. and Urwin, D.W. (1982) The Politics of Territorial Identity: Studies in European Regionalism,

chapter on ‘Centres and Peripheries in Western Europe’

Rotberg, R.I. (ed.) (2003) When States Fail: Causes and Consequences, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton

University Press.

Sørenson, G. (2004) The Transformation of the State. Beyond the Myth of Retreat, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Spruyt H. (1994) The Sovereign State and its Competitors, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Tilly, C. and Ardant, G. (1975) The Formation of National States in Western Europe, Princeton, N.J.:

Princeton University Press.

Weber, M. et al (1970) From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, London: Routledge.

Political Systems and Institutions Lecture 8: 09 Oct (Thurs) Dr Carmen Gebhard

This lecture examines different types of political systems and looks at their strengths and weaknesses

with regard to democracy. At the heart of this topic lies the relationship between the executive and the

legislative and the “balance of power” present between them. Based on empirical examples we reflect on

the analytical suggestion that the power of legislatures has become undermined and that there has been

a power shift towards the executive in many democratic countries. This lecture builds an important

foundation for the following topics of the course.

Required reading:

Ferdinand, P. (2012) ‘Institutions and States’ and ‘Legislatures, Legislators, and the Executive’,, in

Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson (2012), Introduction to Politics (2nd ed.), Oxford: OUP, pp.

155-176 and 198-219 (chapters 7 and 9). (textbook)

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Further Reading

Arter, D (2003) ‘Parliaments’, in Axtmann, R (2003) Understanding Democratic Politics, London: Sage.

Auel, K. and A. Benz (eds.) (2013) The Europeanisation of Parliamentary Democracy. London: Routledge.

Ball, A.R. and Peters, B. (2005) Modern Politics and Government (7th ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan, chs 9, 10-11.

Bormann, N.-C. (2010) ‘Patterns of Democracy and its Critics’, Living Reviews in Democracy.

Dahl, R. (1970) After the Revolution. Authority in a Good Society

Dahl, R. (2002) How Democratic is the American Constitution?, ch. 3: (esp. pp. 62-72).

Elgie, R. (1999), Semi-presidentialism in Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gallagher, M. et al (2001) Representative Government in Modern Europe, ch 2

Hague, R. and Harrop, M. (2013) Comparative Government and Politics 96th ed., Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan, chs. 14&15.

Hayward, J.E.S. (1995) The Crisis of Representation in Europe, London: Frank Cass.

Heywood, A. (2000) Key Concepts in Politics, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, chs 5-7.

Heywood, P. (2002) ‘Executive Capacity and Legislative Limits’ in Heywood , P. et al (eds),

Developments in West European Politics 2, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Heywood, A. (2013) Politics (4th ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 284-300 and chapter 14.

Helms, L. (2008) ‘Governing in the Media Age: The Impact of the Mass Media on Executive

Leadership in Contemporary Democracies’, Government and Opposition, Vol. 43:1, pp. 26-54.

Helms, L. (2006) ‘The Changing Parameters of Political Control in Western Europe’, Parliamentary

Affairs, Vol. 59:1, pp. 78–97.

Helms, L. (2004) Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors. Executive Leadership in Western

Democracies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3-22.

Jones, C. O. (1994) The Presidency in a Separated System, Washington DC: Brookings Institution.

Kelso, A. (2009) ‘Parliament on its Knees: MPs' Expenses and the Crisis of Transparency at

Westminster’, Political Quarterly Vol. 80(1), pp. 329-338.

Lijphart, A. (1991) ‘Constitutional choices for new democracies’, Journal of Democracy Vol. 2(1), pp.

72-84.

Lijphart, A. (1992) (ed.) Parliamentary versus Presidential Government, Oxford: Oxford University

Press, pp. 1-27.

Lijphart, A. (2012) Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ch. 6+7.

O'Malley, E. (2006) ‘Investigating the Effects of Directly Electing the Prime Minister’ Government and

Opposition Vol. 41(2), pp. 137-56.

Neustadt, R. (1990) Presidential power and the modern presidents: the politics of leadership from Roosevelt to

Reagan, New York: Free Press, ch. 1.

Nye, J. (2008) The Powers to Lead, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 2 ‘Leadership and Power’, pp.

27-54; see also interview with Nye at: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-

events/publications/insight/international/joseph-nye

Rose, R. (2001) The Prime Minister in a Shrinking World, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Wittman, A. (2007) 'Voting for and against war', World Today, Vol. 63(5) May, pp. 9-11.

Ziller, J. (2001) ‘European models of government: towards a patchwork with missing pieces’,

Parliamentary Affairs Vol. 54:1, pp. 102-119.

Additional Websites:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/index.html : the US’ Central Intelligence

Agency’s regularly updated global directory of chief executives.

www.guide2womenleaders.com/index.html Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership contains

short bios of current and former female heads of state and govt.

For websites of national parliaments in the EU, see http://www.ipex.eu/IPEXL-

WEB/parliaments/neparliaments.do;

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http://legacy.c-span.org/international/links.asp - a clearinghouse of televised legislatures and

legislature websites from around the world

www.ipu.org/english/home.htm - provides useful links to parliaments around the world and other

parliamentary related information

www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/World/Parliaments-of-the-World-23158.html - Bored? test your

knowledge of legislatures

Nationalism Lecture 9: 13 Oct (Mon) Dr Wilfried Swenden

Nationalism is one of the most important political phenomena of the last two centuries. It has been at

the root of wars of aggression and at the heart of movements of liberation. Nationalism is a crucial factor

underpinning state formation and disintegrat ion. More subtly, the language of nationalism and the

‘national interest’ are used to justify many of the activities of modern states. This lecture will explore

nationalism as a doctrine and as a form of politics. We will examine the meaning of nationalism , its

emergence as a political phenomenon, and its different manifestations. We will also consider the concept

of the ‘nation’ and how it differs from the concept of the ‘state’, and discuss why the two concepts are

often confused.

Further reading: Alter, P. (1994) ‘What is Nationalism?’ in Nationalism (2nd ed.), London: Edward Arnold, ch. 1.

Anderson, B. (2006) Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London:

Verso.

Anderson, M. (2000) States and Nationalism in Europe since 1945, London: Routledge.

Axtmann, R. (2003) (ed.) Understanding Democratic Politics, London: Sage, chs 11 and 27

Billig, M. (1995) Banal Nationalism, London: Sage.

Breuilly, J. (2014) ‘Nationalism’ in Baylis, J., S. Smith and P. Owens (eds) The Globalization of World

Politics (6th ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 25.

Brown, D. (1999) ‘Are there Good and Bad Nationalisms?’, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 5(2), pp. 281-302.

Brubaker, R. (1996) Nationalism Reframed. Nationhood and the national question in the New Europe,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Calhoun, C. (1997) Nationalism, Buckingham: Open University Press, chs 1, 4 and 5.

Gellner, E. (1997) Nationalism, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Greenfeld, L. (1993) Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University

Press, ch. 1.

Guibernau i Berdún et al. (2001) Understanding Nationalism, Cambridge: Polity, ch. 2 and 3.

Hall, J.A. (ed.) (1998) The State of the Nation. Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism, Cambridge: CUP.

Halliday, F. (2005) ‘Nationalism’, in Baylis, John et al. (eds) The Globalization of World Politics, ch. 23.

Hechter, M. (2000) Containing Nationalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hearn, J. (2006) Rethinking nationalism: a critical introduction , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ch. 1.

Required reading:

Heywood, Andrew (2013) ‘Nations and Nationalism’ (chapter 5), in Heywood, A. Politics (4th ed.),

Basingstoke: Palgrave. (e-reserve, LEARN)

Ozkrimli, U. (2010) ‘Modernism’ in Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (2nd ed.), London:

Pagrave Macmillan, pp. 72-142. (e-reserve, LEARN)

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Heywood, A. (2003) Political Ideologies: an Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ch. 5

Hobsbawm, E. J. (1992) Nations and Nationalism since 1780, Cambridge: CUP, ch. 6.

Ichijo, A and Uzelac G, eds. (2005) When is the Nation? Towards an understanding of theories of

nationalism

Kaldor, M. (2004), ‘Nationalism and Globalisation’, Nations and Nationalism, Vol.10: 1/2, pp. 161-178

Kedourie, E. (1993) Nationalism, Oxford: Blackwell.

Kohn, H. (2005) The Idea of Nationalism, London: Transaction Publishers.

Miller, D. (1997) On Nationality, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Minogue, K.R. (1969) Nationalism, London: Methuen.

McCrone, D. (1998) The Sociology of Nationalism, London: Routledge, chs 1 and 5.

McEwen, N. (2006) Nationalism and the State: Welfare and identity in Scotland and Quebec, Brussels:

P.I.E.-Peter Lang, chs 1&2.

Norman, W. (2006) Negotiating Nationalism: Nation-Building, Federalism, and Secession in the

Multinational State, chs 1 and 2.

Renan, E. (first published 1882) ‘What is a Nation?’, reprinted in Bhabha, H K. (1990) (ed.) Nation and

Narration.

Sekulic, D. (1997) ‘The Creation and Dissolution of the Multinational State: The Case of Yugoslavia’,

Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 3:2, pp. 165-180.

Smith, A. D. (1991) National Identity, London: Penguin.

Smith, A. D. (1993) ‘The Ethnic Sources of Nationalism’, Survival, Vol. 35:1, pp. 48-62.

Sub-State Nationalism Lecture 10: 16 Oct (Thurs) Dr Wilfried Swenden

The second half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of a new kind of nationalism within

established nation-states. Sub-state nationalism (also called neo-nationalism, minority nationalism, or

regional nationalism) has been evident in Scotland and Wales in the UK, Quebec in Canada, Catalonia

and the Basque country in Spain, Flanders in Belgium, northern Italy, and many other advanced

industrial states. Why did these movements emerge? What demands hav e they made, and how and

why have states responded to these demands? This lecture will explore the rise and accommodation of

sub-state nationalism.

Further reading: Alonso, S. (2012), Challenging the State: Devolution and the Battle for Partisan Credibility. A comparison of

Belgium, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom

Breuilly, J (1993) Nationalism and the State, ch 16.

Required reading:

Keating, Michael (2001) Nations against the state: the new politics of nationalism in Quebec, Catalonia and

Scotland, Basingstoke, Palgrave, ch. 3 (e-reserve, LEARN)

Loughlin, John (2007) ‘Reconfiguring the State: Trends in Territorial Governance in European States’,

Regional and Federal Studies, Vol. 17(4), pp. 358-403. (e-journal)

See also: Ferdinand, P. (2012) ‘Law, Constitutions, and Federalism’, in Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S.

Lawson (2012), Introduction to Politics (2nd ed.), pp. 187-193 (second part of chapter 8). (textbook)

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Brown, D (1998), ‘Why is the Nation-State so Vulnerable to Ethnic Nationalism?’, Nations and

Nationalism, 4(1):1-34.

Catt, H and Murphy, M (2002) Sub-state Nationalism

Choudhry, S. ed., (2008) Constitutional Design for Divided Societies. Integration or Accommodation Law

Library.

Connor, W (1994) Ethnonationalism: the Quest for Understanding

Crick, B. (2008) ‘The Four Nations: Interrelations’ [sub state nationalism in British Isles] Political

Quarterly, 79(1): 71-79. Crick, B. (1992) ‘On Nationalism in Scotland’, Government and Opposition, 27/3. Gagnon, A. and J. Tully (2001) Multinational Democracies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gagnon, A-G. and M. Keating (eds) (2012) Political Autonomy and Divided Societies, Basingstoke:

Palgrave-Macmillan.

Ignatieff, M. (1994) Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism

Jenkins, B. (2000) ‘The Europe of Nations and Regions’ in Sakwa, R and Stevens, A. (eds)

Contemporary Europe.

Keating, M. (1997), ‘Stateless Nation-Building: Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland in the Changing State

System’, Nations and Nationalism 3(4): 689-717.

Keating, M. (1998) The New Regionalism in Western Europe

Keating, M. (2001) Plurinational Democracy. Stateless Nations in a Post-Sovereignty Era, Oxford: OUP.

Keating, M. (2002) ‘Territorial Politics and the New Regionalism’ in Heywood, Paul et al (eds)

Developments in West European Politics 2, Basingstoke: Palgrave,

Kohli, A. (1997), ‘Can Democracies accommodate Ethnic Nationalism? Rise and Decline of Sel f-

Determination Movements in India, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 56: 2, pp. 324-44.

Lynch, P. J. (1996) Minority Nationalism and European Integration

Marks, G., L. Hooghe and A. H. Schakel (2008) ‘Patterns of Regional Authority’, Regional and Federal

Studies, Vol. 18: 2-3, pp. 167-181.

McCrone, D. (1998) The Sociology of Nationalism, London: Routledge, ch. 7

Payrow Shabani, O.A. (2007) ‘Language Policy of a Civic-Nation State: Constitutional Patriotism and

Minority Language Rights’ in Castiglione, Dario and Longman, Chris eds., The Language Question in

Europe and Diverse Societies, pp. 37-60

Rudolph, J.R. and R.J. Thompson (1989) Ethnoterritorial Politics, Policy, and the Western World,

Rudolph, J.R. (2006) Politics and Ethnicity. A Comparative Study, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Seymour, M. and A. Gagnon (eds) (2012) Multinational Federalism. Problems and Prospects,

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Swenden, W. (2006) Federalism and Regionalism in Western Europe. A Comparative and Thematic

Analysis, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, chapter on ‘The Centre, the Regions and

Plurinationalism’, pp. 244-87.

Tiryakian, E.A. and Rogowski, R. (1985) New Nationalisms of the Developed West, Boston, Mass.: Allen

& Unwin.

Wilson, R. (2001) ‘The politics of contemporary ethno-nationalist conflicts’, in Nations and

Nationalism, Vol. 7:3, pp. 365-384.

Democracy Lecture 11: 20 Oct (Mon) Dr Wilfried Swenden

This lecture examines the nature and value of democracy. We consider several different conceptions of

democracy, including as a competition between elites, as an expression of a common will, or an

aggregation of individual preferences. We will also examine disputes about the justification of

democracy. Is democracy of value because it provides a procedure where all voters have equal political

rights? Or is democracy valuable because it produces better outcomes than alternatives? We will

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consider recent developments in democratic theory that emphasise the importance of democracy as a

forum for active deliberation by citizens, and consider objections from critics who emphasise the role of

political power and interests in democratic politics. We will also consider important issues around the

scope of democracy: how should we draw the boundaries of an electorate? Should only residents of a

given state be entitled to vote? Or should the franchise be extended to all who are affected by a polity’s

decisions?

Further reading: Ackerman, B. and Fishkin, J. (2002) “Deliberation Day'”, Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 10(2), pp.

129-152.

Christiano, Tom, "Democracy", (2008) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition),

Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/democracy/

Cohen, J. (1986) “An Epistemic Conception of Democracy” Ethics, 97(1), pp. 26-38.

Cohen, J. (2006) “Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy”, in Goodin, R. and P. Pettit (eds.)

Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell, ch. 10.

Dahl, R. (1956) A Preface to Democratic Theory, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, chs. 1-3.

Dahl, R.(2006) ‘Procedural Democracy’, in Goodin, R. and P. Pettit (eds) Contemporary Political

Philosophy: An Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell, ch. 7.

Dryzek, J. and Dunleavy, P. (2009), Theories of the Democratic State, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Elster, J. (2006) “The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory”, in Goodin, R. and

P. Pettit (eds.) Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell, ch. 9.

Goodin, R. (2007) ‘Enfranchising All Affected Interests, and Its Alternatives’ Philosophy and Public

Affairs, Vol. 35:1, pp. 40-68.

Gutmann, A. (2007) ‘Democracy’ in Goodin, R., P. Pettit and T Pogge (eds) A Companion to

Contemporary Political Philosophy, Volume II, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, ch. 25.

Held, D. (1996) Models of Democracy, Cambridge: Polity, esp Parts I and III.

Saward, M. (2003) Democracy, Cambridge: Polity .

Schumpeter, J. (1954) Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, London: Allen and Unwin.

Shapiro, I. (1999) ‘Enough Deliberation: Politics is About Interests and Power’, in Macedo, S. (ed.)

Deliberative Politics: essays on democracy and disagreement, New York: Oxford University Press, ch. 2.

Shapiro, I. (2003) The State of Democratic Theory, Oxford: Princeton University Press, ch. 1 .

Waldron, J. (1998) ‘Participation: The Right of Rights’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Vol. 98,

pp. 307-337.

Weale, A. (1999) Democracy, Basingstoke: Macmillan, chs 1-3.

Young, I. (2000) Inclusion and Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 1.

Elections and Voting Lecture 12: 23 Oct (Thurs) Dr Wilfried Swenden

Required reading:

Garner, r . (2012) ‘Democracy and Political Obligation’, in Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson (2012),

Introduction to Politics (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 67-88 (chapter 3). (textbook)

Collier, D. and S. Levitsky (1997) ‘Democracy with Adjectives’, World Politics, Vol. 49(3), pp. 430-451 (e-

journal)

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The members of the executive or legislature have an indirect or direct electoral mandate. The first part of

this lecture will assess who is eligible to vote and who we vote into office (i.e. do we vote for a president

and a member of the legislature? Do we only vote for a member of the legislature? When we vote, do we

have a particular candidate of our liking in mind, or do we vote for a party?) Whom we elect into public

office is not only a consequence of our vote. It also a consequence of the electoral system that is used to

translate votes into seats. In the second part of the lecture, we provide an overview of the major electoral

systems, and on the basis of some comparative examples, address their strengths and weaknesses.

Further reading: Ball, A.R. and Peters, B.G. (2005) Modern Government and Politics (7th ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave, ch. 8.

Berry, C. (2008) ‘Labour’s Lost Youth: Young People and the Labour Party’s Youth Sections’, Political

Quarterly Vol. 79:3, pp. 366-376.

Bomberg, E. (2002) ‘The Europeanisation of Green Parties: Exploring the EU’s Impact’, West European

Politics Vol. 25: 3, 29-50.

Broughton, D. (2002) ‘Participation and Voting’, in Heywood, P. et al (eds) Developments in West

European Politics 2,

Calvert, P. (2002) Comparative Politics: an Introduction, Harlow: Pearson Education, ch. 7.

Cox, G.W. (1997) Making Votes Count. Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chibber Pradeep K. and K. Kollman (2004) The Formation of National Party Systems. Federalism and

Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India and the United States, Oxford: Princeton University

Press.

Denver, D. (2012) Elections and Voters in Britain (2nd ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gallagher, M. (2011) ‘Elections and Referendums’, in Caramani, D. (ed.) Comparative Politics, Oxford:

Oxford University Press, pp. 181-98.

Franklin, M. (1999) ‘Electoral engineering and cross-national turnout differences: what role for

compulsory voting?’, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 29, pp. 205–224.

Gallagher, M. et al (2001) Representative Government in Modern Europe, Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Gallagher, M. and P. Mitchell (2005) The Politics of Electoral Systems, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hague, R. and M. Harrop (2004) Comparative Government and Politics (5th ed), Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan, ch. 9.

Heywood, A. (2013) Politics, 4th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave, chapter 9.

Inglehart, R. (1977) The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles Among Western Publics,

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Inglehart, R. (1990) Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University

Press.

Lijphart, A. and Aitkin, D. (1994) Electoral Systems and Party Systems: a Study of Twenty-seven

Democracies 1945-1990, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Lubbers, M. et al (2002) ‘Extreme right-wing voting in Western Europe’, European Journal of Political

Research, Vol. 41:3, pp. 345-378.

Required reading:

Farrell, D. M. (2011) Electoral Systems: A Comparative Introduction , Basingstoke: Palgrave, ch. 2 (e-

reserve, LEARN)

LeDuc, L. et al. (2010), ‘Introduction: Building and Sustaining Democracy ’ and ‘Consequences of

Elections’, in Comparing Democracies 3: Elections and Voting in the 21 st century. London: Sage, pp.

1-22 and 225-241 (chapters 1 and 11) (e-book)

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Mair, P. et al (2004) Political Parties and Electoral Change: Party Responses to Electoral Markets, London:

Sage.

Meguid, B. (2008) Party Competition between Unequals. Strategies and Electoral Fortunes in Western

Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Norris, P. (1997) ‘Choosing Electoral Systems: Proportional, Majoritarian and Mixed Systems’,

International Political Science Review, Vol. 18:3, pp. 297-312.

Norris, P. (2004) Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behaviour, Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Poguntke, T. (2002) Green Parties in National Governments , Environmental Politics, Vol. 11:1, pp. 133-

145.

Reilly, B. (2001) Democracy in Divided Societies. Electoral Engineering for Conflict Management,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rucht, D. (2000) ‘Political Participation in Europe’ in Sakwa, R and Stevens, A (eds) Contemporary

Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Saunders, B. (2009) ‘Making Voting Pay’, Politics, Vol. 29:2, pp. 130-6. (Interesting short summary of

debates about increasing voter turn-out)

Sloam, J. (2007) ‘Rebooting Democracy: Youth Participation in Politics in the UK’ Parliamentary

Affairs, Vol. 60:4, pp. 548-567.

The following website provides useful information on elections and electoral systems around the

world: http://www.idea.int/

For coverage of Iran’s presidential election – Chatham House analysis, see

http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/755/

Political Parties and Party Systems Lecture 13: 27 Oct (Mon) Dr Wilfried Swenden

This lecture introduces the role of political parties. Political parties play key functions in democratic

states: we look at functions such as interest aggregation, governmental formation and electoral

competition, and compare these roles with parties in non-democratic states. We analyse key types of

political parties (mass, cadre, catch-all and cartel parties) and their historical evolution. We analyse

whether parties still have a function in the era of social movements and the so-called ‘decline of parties’.

We conclude that parties are still an essential, although changing feature of modern states, democratic

and otherwise.

Further reading: Arzheimer, K. and E. Carter (2009) ‘Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical

Right Parties’, West European Politics, Vol. 32:5, pp. 985-1011.

Required Reading

Ferdinand, P. (2012) ‘Votes, Elections, Parties’, in Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson (2012),

Introduction to Politics (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 240-263 (chapter 11). (textbook)

Mair, P. (2008) ‘The Challenge to Party Government’, West European Politics, Vol. 31:1-2, pp. 211-34 (e)

You should also visit this website in addition to your reading: http://www.politicsresources.net/ is a

gateway to specific links on parties and party studies.

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Bale, T. Denham, A. and Fielding, S. (eds) (2009) ‘Cameron’s Conservatives’ ‘Special issue of Political

Quarterly Vol. 80(2) April-June 2009

Betz, H-G. (1994) Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bomberg, E. (1998) Green Parties and Politics in the European Union, London: Routledge.

Bull, M. J. and Heywood, P. (1994) West European Communist Parties after the Revolutions of 1989 ,

Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Detterbeck, K. (2005) ‘Cartel Parties in Western Europe?’, Party Politics, Vol. 11:2, pp. 173-191.

Detterbeck, K. (2012) Multi-Level Party Politics in Western Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Duverger, M (1959) Political Parties, London: Methuen.

Economist, (2009) ‘Peoples’ parties without the people’ (Germany’s political fragmentation) 8 August,

pp 31-2.

Hale, H. (2006), Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism and the State, Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Heywood, P. et al. (2006) Developments in European Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ch. 5 by

Biezen and Mair.

Heywood, A. (2013) Politics (4th ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave, chapter 10.

Gunther, R. et al (2002) Political Parties: Old Concepts and New Challenges. Oxford: Oxford University

Press.

Gunther , R. and Diamond, L. (2003) ‘Species of Political Parties: A New Typology’, Party Politics, Vol.

9:2, pp. 167-199.

John, P. and Margetts, H. (2009) The Latent Support for the Extreme Right in British Politics West

European Politics, Vol. 32(3), pp. 496 – 513.

Katz, R and Mair, P. (1995) ‘Changing Models of Party Organisation and Party Democracy: the

Emergence of the Cartel Party ’, Party Politics, Vol. 1:1, pp. 5-28.

Katz, R. (2011) ‘Political Parties’ in Caramani, D. (ed.) Comparative Politics, Oxford: Oxford University

Press.

Katz, R.S. and W. Crotty (eds) (2006) Handbook of Party Politics, London: Sage.

Lewis, P. (2000) Political parties in post-communist Eastern Europe, London: Routledge.

Lijpart, A. (1996), ‘The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: a consociational interpretation’, American

Political Science Review, Vol. 90:2, pp. 258-68.

Lipset, S.M. and Rokkan, S. (1990) ‘Cleavage Structures?’, in Mair, P. and Smith, G. (eds)

Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe, London: Cass.

Lipset, S.M. and Rokkan, S. (1967) Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-national Perspectives, New

York: Free Press.

Luther, K. and Deschouwer, K. (1999) Party Elites in Divided Societies, London: Routledge.

Mair, P. (1990) The West European Party System, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mair, P. (1998) Party System Change Approaches and Interpretations, Oxford: Oxford University Press,

ch. 2, 5. Available at:

http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/politicalscience/0198295499/toc.html

March, L. and Mudde, C. (2005) ‘What’s Left of the Radical Left? The European Radical Left After

1989: Decline and Mutation’ Comparative European Politics, Vol. 3:1, pp. 23-49.

Mudde, C. (2007) Populist radical right parties in Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Luther, K.R and F. Müller-Rommel (eds) (2002). Political parties in the new Europe: Political and

Analytical Challenges, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Special Issue Parliamentary Affairs, ‘What’s Left? The Left in Europe Today’, (2004) Vol. 56:1.

Panebianco, A. (1988) Political Parties. Organization and Power, Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

Sartori, G. (1976) Parties and Party Systems: a Framework for Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Ware, A. (1996) Political Parties and Party Systems, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Webb, P. et al (eds) (2002) Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

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No lecture on Thurs 30 Oct 2014 – Essay due at 12.00noon

Ideology Lecture 14: 03 Nov (Mon)

Prof. John Peterson

When we observe and impose meaning on the political world, we inevitably do so with a (more or less)

coherent set of assumptions and ideas. The basis for all organised political action is ideology, an account

of the existing order and how it might change (or not) to produce some kind of desired future. This

lecture examines the role of ideology in political life and teases out the essentials of major ideologies –

liberalism, conservatism, and socialism. It also considers traditionally less mainstream ideologies,

including feminism, environmentalism, Confucianism and religious fundamentalism. It reflects on why

the emergence of modern democratic societies in the mid-20th century gave rise to predictions of ‘the end

of ideology’. We also explore why the end of that century – century – and especially the beginning of the

21st century – have seen rising political interest in ideological alternatives to socialism and liberalism.

Further reading: Bell, D. (1961) The End of Ideology: on the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, New York: Free Press.

Berman, M. (2004) Terror and Liberalism, London: W.W. Norton, chs 1, 6-7.

Bryson, V. (2003) Feminist Political Theory: an Introduction (2nd ed.), Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Childs, S. and Krook, M. (2006) ‘Gender and Politics: the State of the Art’, Politics, Vol. 26:1, pp. 18-28.

Dobson, A. (2007) Green Political Thought (4th ed.), London: Routledge. (older editions also useful)

Eagleton, T. (2011) Why Marx Was Right, New Haven CT: Yale University Press.

Etzioni, A. (2013) ‘The Bankruptcy of Liberalism and Conservativism’, Political Studies Quarterly, Vol.

128:1, Spring, pp. 39-65.

Fukuyama, F. (1989) 'The End of History', The National Interest, Summer. Fukuyama, F. (1992) The End of History and the Last Man, London: Penguin.

Hacker, J.S. and Pierson, P. (2010) Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and

Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, New York and London: Simon and Schuster .

Heywood, A. (2003) Political Ideologies: an Introduction (3rd ed.), Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Hunt, S. (2007) ‘Let Women Rule’, Foreign Affairs, 86 (3). May/June, pp. 109-20.

Kuo, D. (2006) Tempting Faith: an Inside Story of Political Seduction, London: Free Press.

Mueller, John (2014) ‘Did History End? Assessing the Fukuyama Thesis’, Political Science Quarterly,

Vol. 129 (1), pp. 35-54.

Muller, J.Z. (2013) ‘ Capitalism and Inequality: What the Right and Left Get Wrong’, Foreign Affairs,

92 (2), March/April, pp. 30-51.

Shin, D.C. (2011) Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia, Cambridge: CUP.

Phillips, A. (1995) The Politics of Presence, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ch. 1.

Rawls, J. (1996) Political Liberalism, New York: Columbia University Press.

Runcimann, D. (2013) The Confidence Trap, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Schwarzmantel, J. J. (2008) Ideology and Politics, London: Sage.

Required Reading:

Garner, R. (2012) ‘Traditional Ideologies’ and ‘Challenges to the Dominant Ideologies’, in

Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson (2012), Introduction to Politics (2nd edition), Oxford:

Oxford University Press, pp. 109-152. (chapters 5 and 6). (textbook)

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Sheldon, G.W. (2001) The Political Philosophy of James Madison, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Political Activism Lecture 15: 06 Nov (Thurs) Prof. John Peterson

Democracy is about more than just voting every 4-5 years. Autocratic states usually undergo

democratisation and liberalization (when they do) only as a result of political action ‘from below’. This

lecture examines how and why political activism is now often transnational or international in scale. We

ask: how ‘international’ is activism? Can international organizations be ‘democratised’ through moder n

forms of political activism? How powerful are modern global movements such as the anti-globalization

movement?

Further reading: Amoore,L. (ed.) (2005) The Global Resistance Reader, London: Routledge.

Axtmann , R. (2003) ‘Civil Society: National and Global’, in Axtmann, R. (2003) Understanding

Democratic Politics: an Introduction, London: Sage.(see also chapters by Grant and Bennie)

Bandy, J. and Smith, J. (2005) Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order,

Lanham, Md; Rowman & Littlefield.

Beyer, C. (2007) ‘NGOs as motors of change', Government and Opposition, Vol. 42:4, pp. 513-534.

Bhagwati, J N. (2007) In Defense of Globalization, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brown, C. and K. Ainley (2005) Understanding International Relations (3rd ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan, ch 10.

Carter, N. (2007) Politics of the Environment. Ideas, Activism, Policy (2nd ed.), Cambridge: CUP, ch. 6.

Connelly, J. and Smith, G. (2012) Politics and the Environment (3rd ed.), London: Routledge, ch. 3.

Crouch, C. (2009) ‘Privatised Keynesianism: an Unacknowledged Policy Regime’, British Journal of

Politics and International Relations, Vol. 11: 3, pp. 382-99 (discussion of ‘international civic society’)

Della Porta, D. and Tarrow, S. (eds) (2005) Transnational Protest and Global Activism, Lanham, Md:

Rowman & Littlefield, ch 1.

Dalton, R. J. (2005) Citizen Politics in Western Democracies (4th ed.), Washington DC: CQ Press.

Doherty, B. (2007) ‘Friends of the Earth International: Negotiating a Transnational Identit y’

Environmental Politics, Vol. 15: 5, pp. 860-80. (nb: the entire issue 15(5) is dedicated to transnational

movements and may be of interest)

Economist (2007) ‘Cats, mice and handsets. Mobile phones and protest’, Economist 1 Dec, pp. 75-76 (e)

Ferree, M. and Mueller, C. (2004) ‘Feminism and the Women’s Movement: A Global Perspective’, in

Snow, D. et al (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 555-75.

Flanagan, J. (2009) 'Dissenters transform the art of protest' FT Weekend Magazine, 1 August. Available

at: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9124da44-7ca6-11de-a7bf-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1VD0Jm6n1

Goldstone, J A. et al (2003) States, Parties, and Social Movements. Cambridge: CUP.

Hay, C. (2007) Why We Hate Politics. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Held, D. et al (2005) Debating Globalization, Oxford: Polity Press.

Held, D. and McGrew, A. G. (2007) Globalization/Anti-globalization. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Required reading:

Ferdinand, P. (2012) ‘Civil Society, Interest Groups, and the Media’, in Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S.

Lawson (2012), Introduction to Politics (2nd ed.), pp. 264-284 (chapter 12). (textbook)

Sander, T.H. and Putnam, R.D. (2010) ‘Still Bowling Alone? The Post -9/11 Split’, Journal of Democracy,

Vol.21 (1): 9-16 (e-journal).

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Inglehart, R. (1977) Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles among Western Publics.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Keck, M. E. and Sikkink, K (1998) Activists Beyond Borders. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Kriesi, H. (2008) ‘Social Movements’ in Caramani, D. (ed.) Comparative Politics. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, pp. 392-417.

Kriesi, H. (2008) ‘Political Mobilisation, Political Participation and the Power of the Vote’, West

European Politics Vol. (31)1&2, pp. 147-168.

Norris, P. (2002) Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism, Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Panton, J. (2007) 'Pop Goes Politics', World Today, Vol. 63(6), pp. 4-6.

Putnam, R.D. (1995) ‘Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital’, Journal of Democracy, Vol.

6:1, pp. 65-78.

Putnam, R.D. (2000) Bowling Alone: the Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon and

Schuster.

Snow, D. Soule, S. and Kriesi, H. (eds) (2004) et al The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements,

Oxford: Blackwell.

Whiteley, P. (2004) ‘Reinventing Political Activism’, Government & Opposition, 39 (4), pp. 632-635 (e)

States and Foreign Policy Lecture 16: 10 Nov (Mon) Dr Carmen Gebhard

International relations were long conducted and explained in the context of a Cold War between the

United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies, struggling for power in a Westphalia n system.

But are such balance of power dynamics the best way to describe and try to explain the behaviour of

states? What are the most important factors that contribute to the creation of different foreign policies?

This week’s lecture and readings examine the role of the state and the various ways in which domestic

actors and institutions influence the making of foreign policy. Students are introduced to different

sources of foreign policy as a way to explain the behaviour of states during and after the Cold War.

Further reading: Allison, G (2012), ‘The Cuban Missile Crisis’ in Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne (eds),

Foreign Policy, 2nd edition Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch 14.

Brown, C. and K. Ainley (2009) Understanding International Relations (4th ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan, ch. 4 and 6.

Byman, D. and K. Pollack (2001) ‘Let Us Now Praise Great Men: Bringing the Statesman Back In’,

International Security, Vol. 25, 4: 107-146.

Evans, P., D. Rueschemeyer and T. Skocpol (eds) (1985) Bringing the State Back In, Cambridge: CUP.

Evans, P., H. K. Jacobson, R. D. Putnam (eds) (1993), Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Diplomacy

and Domestic Politics, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Garrison, J., ed. (2003), ‘Foreign Policy Analysis in 20/20’, International Studies Review 5: 156-163.

Required reading:

Lawson, S. (2012) ‘Diplomacy and Foreign Policy’, in Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson (2012) ,

Introduction to Politics (2nd edition), pp. 389-407 (chapter 18). (textbook)

Kegley, C. and G. Raymond (2010) ‘Foreign Policy Decision Making’ in The Global Future, 3rd ed., ch 3. (e-

reserve, LEARN)

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Hill, C. (2003) The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy , Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Hudson, V. (2008) ‘The History and Evolution of Foreign Policy Analysis’ in Smith, S. et al. (eds),

Foreign Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch 1.

Kennedy, P. (1988) The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, London: Unwin, Hyman.

Peterson, J. (2006) ‘In Defence of Inelegance: IR Theory and Transatlantic Practice’, International

Relations, Vol. 20:1, pp. 5-25.

Smith, M E. (2008) ‘Researching European Foreign Policy: Some Fundamentals’, Politics, 28 (3): pp.

177-87.

Smith, S., A. Hadfield, T. Dunne (2012), Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2nd edition.

Tilly, C., ed. (1975), The Formation of National States in Western Europe, Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press.

Waltz, K. (1979), Theory of International Politics, New York: Addison-Wesley.

Waston, A. (1992), The Evolution of International Society: A Comparative Historical Analysis, London:

Routledge.

White, B. (2001), Understanding European Foreign Policy, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Zelikow, P. with G. Allison (1999), Essence of Decision, New York: Longman, 2nd edition.

Security Lecture 17: 09 Oct (Thurs) Dr Carmen Gebhard

This lecture provides an overview of the field of international security or, as it is sometimes known,

security studies. At the centre of the study of international security is the understanding of the causes of

war and violent conflict and the means to resolve such conflicts and restore peace. The lecture addresses

the centrality played by nuclear weapons during the Cold War and how the advent of the nuclear age

fundamentally changed the nature of warfare. The impact of the end of the Cold War is assessed and

how this has led to a broader security agenda which include such issues as WMD proliferation, terrorism

and the environment. These are reflected in recent Security Strategies promulgated by the United States

(2010) and the European Union (2008).

Further reading: Baylis, John et al. (eds) (2013) Strategy in the Contemporary World: an Introduction to Strategic Studies

(4th ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Butler, Richard (2001) Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense, Boulder CO:

Westview Press.

Buzan, Barry (1991) People, States and Fear: an Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-cold

War Era, Hemel Hempstead: Wheatsheaf.

Required reading:

Garner, R. (2012) ‘Security and Insecurity’, in Garner, R., P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson (2012), Introduction to

Politics (2nd edition), pp. 368-388 (chapter 17). (textbook)

Browse:

- US National Security Strategy, Sept 2010. Available at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/national_security_strategy.pdf

- Report on the Implementation of the European Security Strategy (2008) Available at:

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/EN/reports/104630.pdf

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Buzan, Barry et al (1998) Security: a New Framework for Analysis, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Dannreuther, R. (2013) International Security: The Contemporary Agenda, Cambridge: Polity, chs. 1-2.

European Security Strategy (December 2003):

www.consilium.europa.eu/cms3_fo/showPage.ASP?id=266&lang=EN&mode=g

Jackson, R.H. (2000) The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States, Oxford: Oxford

University Press, ch. 8.

Kaldor, M. (1999) New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Katzenstein, Peter (ed.) (1996) The Culture of National Security, New York: Columbia University Press.

Litfin, Karen (1999) ‘Environmental Security’, in Paul, T. V. and Hall, John A. (eds.) (1999)

International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lynn-Jones, Sean M. and S. E. Miller (1995) Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International

Security, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Nye, J. S. (2000) Understanding International Conflicts: an Introduction to Theory and History , New York:

Longman.

Schmidt, B. C. (2012), ‘The Primacy of National Security’, in S. Smith, A. Hadfield and T. Dunne

(eds), Foreign Policy, Oxford: OUP, 2nd edition, ch 10.

United Nations (2004) UN High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, ‘ A More Secure

World: Our Shared Responsibility’, 2004.

US National Security Strategy, September 2002.

Morality and IR Lecture 18: 16 Oct (Thurs) Dr Carmen Gebhard

This lecture examines the thorny and much contested question of the role of morality in International

Relations. This involves revisiting some of the main IR theories, most notably realism, which tends to

assume that power always has primacy over morality, as against liberal cosmopolitan and constructivist

accounts, who argue that morality and norms directly and independently influence international

developments. This theoretical debate is then illustrated by an assessment of the significance of human

rights in international law and broader international politics.

Further reading: Normative IR theory

Art, Robert J. and R. Jervis (2007) International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues,

New York: HarperCollins, part 1.

Beitz, C. R. and L. Alexander (1985) International Ethics, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Brown, Chris (1992) International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches, New York: Columbia

University Press.

Dunne, T., M. Kurki and S. Smith (2007) International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity ,

Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch 2.

Required reading:

Barnett, M. (2008), ‘Duties Beyond Borders’, in S. Smith, A. Hadfield and T. Dunne (eds) Foreign Policy,

Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 11. (e-reserve, LEARN)

Weiss, T. G. (2014) Military Humanitarianism: Syria Hasn't Killed It, The Washington Quarterly, Vol.

37:1, pp. 7-20. (e-journal)

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Holzgrefe, J., R. Keohane (eds) (2003), Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political

Dimensions, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Jackson, R. H. (2000) The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States, Oxford: Oxford

University Press, ch. 15.

Nardin, T. and Mapel, D. R. (1993) Traditions of International Ethics, Cambridge: CUP.

Webber, C. (2010) International Relations Theory: a Critical Introduction, London: Routledge.

Humanitarianism and Cosmopolitanism

Barnett, M. (2008), ‘Duties Beyond Borders’ in Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne (eds),

Foreign Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch 11.

Brown, C. (2002) Sovereignty, Rights, and Justice: International Political Theory Today , Cambridge, UK:

Polity Press; ch. 7.

Dexter, H. (2008) ‘The ‘New War’on Terror, Cosmopolitanism and the ‘Just War’ Revival’,

Government and Opposition, Vol. 43:1, pp. 55-78.

Donnelly, J. (1998) International Human Rights, Boulder, CO: Westview .

Donnelly, J. (1998) ‘Human Rights: A New Standard of Civilisation’ International Affairs Vol. 74 (1),

pp. 1-23.

Dunne, T. and N. J. Wheeler (1999) Human Rights in Global Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Dunne, T. (2004) ‘We the People: Contending Discourses of Security in Human Rights Theory and

Practice’ International Relations 18 (1), pp. 9-23.

Forsythe, David P. (2000) Human Rights in International Relations, Cambridge: CUP.

Kegley, C. and G. Raymond (2010) The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics,

International edition (3rd ed.), Wadsworth Publishing, ch 13.

Nardin, Terry and Mapel, David R. (1993) Traditions of International Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, ch. 12.

Sandvik, K. Bergtora, and K. Lohne (2014) ‘The Rise of the Humanitarian Drone: Giving Content to

an Emerging Concept’, Millennium-Journal of International Studies (2014), pp. 1-20.

Shue, H. (1996) Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy , Princeton, N.J.: Princeton

University Press.

Straw, J. ‘A New Era for Foreign Policy’, speech given at the Royal Institute of International Affairs,

Chatham House, London, 12 February 2004.

Vincent, R. J. (1986) Human Rights and International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

Wheeler, N. (2000), Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society , New York:

Oxford University Press.

Walzer, M. (2014) ‘A Foreign Policy for the Left’, Dissent Vol. 61(2), pp. 17-24.

Revision (Q&A) Lecture 19: 20 Nov (Thurs)

Dr Carmen Gebhard

This lecture slot will be used for a Question/Answer and Exam Revision session. Dr Gebhard will

answer substantive questions emailed by students beforehand, go over sample questions, and offer tips

on how best to prepare for the exam and perform your best during the exam.

No lecture held Monday 24 Nov 2014 – exam between 8 and 19 December 2014

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Student Representation

Student Staff Meeting Matters relating to the organisation and teaching of IPIR are discussed at a student staff meeting attended by

student representatives from each tutorial, and teaching staff. In the first week of t utorials each tutorial

group is asked to identify a representative to attend the IPIR student -staff meeting, which will take place on

Friday, 17 October 2014, 13-14.00 (CMB, Seminar Room 5).

The role of tutorial representatives is two fold. First, Representatives will play a key role leading and

monitoring tutorial group LEARN discussions (more information in your first tutorial) Representatives

main function, however, is to make sure that students' interests are fully accounted for in the course design,

delivery and administration. They can raise questions at the meeting, and will also be asked to comment on

questions raised by staff. Student representation is only effective if representatives feel able to speak for

many or most, if not all students on the course. It is important to discuss concerns relating to the course in

tutorials, and time will be made available for such discussion. Of course, representatives should feel free to

approach the course organiser with any concern during the ter m.

At the student staff meeting we will also identify two IPIR representatives to attend Politics/IR meetings

where general matters are discussed. These meetings are attended by Politics/IR staff and student

representatives from every year.

The system of student representation is one of the ways in which the course is monitored as it progresses. A

more explicit evaluation by questionnaire takes place at the end of the course. Students will be asked to

comment on the course’s design, delivery and administration.

The Politics and IR Society The Politics Society is organised and run entirely by Politics and IR students, although students from other

subjects are very welcome to participate in its activities. Financial support is provided by EUSA, allowi ng

students to invite visiting speakers and organise social events. The Society also produces the journal

“Leviathan”. Find them on Twitter @PIRsoc OR http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/society/eupir/

Contacts

Course Convenor (Dr. Carmen Gebhard)

Email Phone no. Location Guidance and Feedback Hours

c.gebhard@ed.ac.uk 650 4622 CMB 4.20 Wednesdays 15-17

Course Secretary (Ms Sopita Sritawan)

Email Phone no. Location Guidance and Feedback Hours

sopita.sritawan@ed.ac.uk 650 8253 UTO Mon – Fri 9.30 - 12.30 & 13.30 -16.30

The office staff in the Politics/IR Undergraduate Teaching Office (UTO) are available in the Chrystal

Macmillan Building, Room G.04/05 to answer student enquiries from 9.30 -12.30 and from 13:30–16:30. The

IPIR secretary is able to answer any relevant general queries. But please check first to see if the answer is

given in this course guide, the SSPS student handbook, or on the Politics/IR notice boards. And note that the

secretaries are unlikely to know where various members of staff are at any given moment; it is better to send

an email message to that person.

Lecturers

Name Email Phone no. Location

Prof John Peterson john.peterson@ed.ac.uk 651 3023 CMB 3.29

Dr Wilfried Swenden w.swenden@ed.ac.uk 650 4255 CMB 3.05

Lecturing staff and the course convenor can be contacted personally in their own rooms: each has allocated

specific guidance and feedback hours which are posted on the PIR website (www.pol.ed.ac.uk). You can also

contact them by email or telephone.

Tutors

Tutor Email

Richard Brodie – Senior Tutor R.Brodie@ed.ac.uk

Victor Gigleux s1369220@sms.ed.ac.uk

Gareth James g.d.james@sms.ed.ac.uk or s0967655@sms.ed.ac.uk

Andris Kokins s1024071@ed.ac.uk

Konstantino Kostagiannis k.kostagiannis@sms.ed.ac.uk

Elena Pollot epollot@ed.ac.uk

Zoey Reeve s0899810@sms.ed.ac.uk

Lisa Schweiger s1266463@sms.ed.ac.uk

Luba Zatsepina s0830948@sms.ed.ac.uk

REMINDER: When you send e-mails to your tutor or others who teach this course, you should use your university

email account. You may set up any other e-mail accounts you may have so that messages are automatically directed to

your university email address..

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Further Study of Politics

Progression If you pass IPIR and Political Thinkers (semester 2) you will be eligible to take ‘International Cooperation in

Europe and Beyond’ (ICEB) next year.

If you are registered for a Politics or IR degree, pass IPIR and PT, reach Honours standard in ICEB and the

two other School required course, and pass 240 credits you may normally read Politics or IR Honours. Please

see the SSPS handbook for further information about progression to Honours.

http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/year_1_2/progression_to_honours.

There are a number of joint degrees with Politics. At present these include: [Politics and] History,

Economics, Economic and Social History, Sociology, Social Policy, German, French, Spanish, Geography,

Philosophy, and Law. Note IR is only offered as a joint honours degree with International Law (IR and IL or

LLB IL and IR) If you have any queries, consult your Director of Studies.

Transfers

If you are not currently registered for a Politics or IR degree but wish to study either subject please note that both

subjects are extremely popular and that transfers are not automatic; they must be approved by Politics/IR and the

School’s Senior Director of Studies. Transfers into Politics or IR will only be considered for students who have

completed their 2nd year at pre-honours level and who qualify under SSPS rules for entry to honours. Politics/IR

also applies a QUOTA FOR ENTRY INTO HONOURS and holds a competitive annual application for places. The

deadline for transfer applications will be 29 April 2015, and further details about the transfer process can be

found on the School website at: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/year_1_2/changing_degree_programme.

Please consult this page before applying for degree transfer.

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Appendix 1: Guide to using LEARN

In addition to the usual lecture and tutorial format this course will be using a web -based learning environment to

give easy access to essential course materials. Other features include a weekly checklist, a calendar, and links to

additional information and websites. A discussion forum will allow you to communicate online with members of

your tutorial group and the wider course community.

The suite of tools we are using is called LEARN, which provides a closed system that only students and teaching

staff from a particular course can access. The system is delivered via web browser (Mozilla Firefox preferred), and

therefore can be accessed on campus using the library and computer labs or off campus if you have access to the

Internet.1 You should log-on to the course LEARN pages at least a couple of times a week; we will be using these

pages for essential communications about the course, up-dates about new material etc.

Accessing LEARN You can access LEARN from your personal page detailing courses via the MyEd Portal: https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk/ Selecting your course takes you to the course homepage.

Key features of LEARN Politics courses make extensive use of LEARN, so getting used to t his virtual learning environment is important

from the start. Experience has shown that the students who use this technology usually get more out of tutorials

and are more prepared for the exam. Some key features to look out for in using LEARN for IPIR include:

Discussion Board

You are encouraged to make use of the discussion forum available to all students taking IPIR. Your tutors will set

up individual discussion groups for you to communicate with fellow students. This forum is a space for you to

express your thoughts and ideas about politics in a supportive and creative way. To use the discussion tool you

can compose a new message or reply to a previously posted message. These are some guidelines to make the

most of the discussions:

1. Participate; you need to communicate with each other to get the most out of this course.

2. Be persistent; this is a new environment for everyone.

3. Share tips and asks questions even if you think they may be silly; these are often the questions that

everyone has on their mind.

4. Before you push the send button re-read your message to check for clarity and think about how your

message will be generally received.

5. The language and tone of your message should reflect the ground rules set in tutorials and expected in

essays. Avoid offensive language or language that could be considered racist, sexist etc. Violators will

be banned from further discussion.

6. When sharing information/ideas with other students, give a reference whenever possible.

Announcements

We’ll use the LEARN page to inform you of upcoming events, changes and additions to course material etc.

Lecture Slides

These will be available shortly before the lecture in PowerPoint Format and/or in print-friendly pdf-format. Please

note that the slides are not meant to substitute you going to the lectures. Lecturers use the slides to highlight the

main points covered in their sessions and to give you an indication of key terms and concepts. It is your own

responsibility to produce more extensive study notes during the lecture.

1 The main computer labs should be set up to support Learn. Ask computer services staff if you have any problems.

Please access Learn off campus through Mozilla Firefox.

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Essays and Exams

Tips and guidance for writing essays will be posted under the essay icon on the main LEARN page. Generalized

feedback on the exam will be made available on the LEARN page in January 2015.

Polling

Throughout the course you may be given the chance to vote on some issues related to the lectures and/or core

readings.

Web Links

You can click on Web Links on the main page to access websites especially helpful to students of Politics and

International Relations.

Appendix 2: Guide to Referencing

The fundamental purpose of proper referencing is to provide the reader with a clear idea of where you

obtained your information, quote, idea, etc. NOTE: You will lose points on your essay for sloppy or

inadequate/missing/incomplete referencing. We strongly recommend the Harvard-style (or ‘in text’)

system which is simple to use. Here’s how it works:

You will have (a) in-text references for direct quotes and references to ideas and arguments in parentheses

plus you will have a (b) bibliography at the end of the essay that lists all sources you used for writing the

essay, in alphabetical order. NOTE that you should not put any sources in that list that are not cited in the

essay as such (either as direct quotations or references to ideas and arguments).

1. After you have quoted from a particular text in your essay, add in parentheses the author's name, the

year of publication and page numbers (if relevant). Place the full reference in the bibliography. Here

is an example of a quoted passage and its proper citation:

Direct quotation within essay:

e.g. “Quite simply, political theory and political practice are inseparably linked” (Heywood 1998: 3).

NOTE that you should not italicise quoted text. The full stop should follow after the reference.

Entry in bibliography:

e.g. for a single-authored book:

Heywood, A. (1998) Political Ideologies: An Introduction . 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

NOTE that punctuation and sequence (author, year of publication, title, edition if needed, place of

publication, publisher) should be the same for all items in the bibliography.

2. If you are employing someone else’s arguments, ideas or categorisation, you will need to cite them even if

you are not using a direct quote. One simple way to do so is as follows:

e.g. Gallagher (1997: 129) argues that future European Parliament elections are unlikely to generate more

interest than past ones.

3. Your sources may well include journal or newspaper articles, book chapters, and internet sites. Below

we show you how to cite these various sources:

Chapters in edited books: (i.e. where the chapter author(s) is/are different from the editor(s))

- within the essay, cite the author as above, i.e. (Gallagher 1997: 129).

- in your bibliography, details should be given following this sequence: author of chapter (last name,

initial), year of publication, chapter title, comma, “in” title of book, editor(s) of book (eds/ed.), place of

publication, publisher, article or chapter pages.

e.g. Gallagher, M. (1997) ‘Electoral Systems and Voting Behaviour’, in Developments in West European

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Politics, M. Rhodes, P. Heywood and V. Wright (eds), Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 114-130.

NOTE punctuation (commas, colons, full stops) must be consistent for all book chapter entries.

Journal Article:

- within your essay, cite as above (Doherty 2007: 861)

- in your bibliography, details should be arranged in this sequence: author of journal article, year of

publication, article title, journal title, journal volume, journal issue, article pages

e.g. Doherty, B. (2007) ‘Friends of the Earth International: Negotiating a Transnational Identity’,

Environmental Politics, Vol. 15(5), pp. 860-880.

NOTE punctuation (commas, colons, full stops) must be consistent for all journal article entries.

Newspaper or magazine article:

If the article has an author, cite as normal in text (Ascherson 1992: 31).

In bibliography cite as follows:

e.g. Ascherson, N (1992) ‘The New Europe’, The Independent on Sunday Magazine, 9 February, pp. 31-34.

If the article has no author, cite the name of the newspaper in-text (Economist, 2007) and list the full source

in the bibliography by magazine or newspaper title.

e.g. Economist (2007) ‘America in the Middle East: arming its friends and talking peace’, 4 August 2007, p. 38.

Internet sites:

If the site has an author, cite in text as normal: i.e. (Álvarez-Rivera, 2007)

In the bibliography, provide a full reference which should include author, date, title of website and URL

address:

e.g. Álvarez-Rivera, M (2007) ‘Election Resources on the Internet’ Available at:

http://ElectionResources.org/ [date accessed 14 August 2014]

If the website has no author, cite the name of the hosting organization or entity in the text (e.g. European

Union 2014)

In the bibliography, provide a full reference including title of website, URL address, publisher or owner of

site

e.g. ‘The European Union’s Institutions’ (http://europa.eu/index_en.htm) The EU’s official portal site.

(If no date is available, indicate date you accessed the site)

4. If you prefer to use footnote citations, please follow the format used in reputable journals such as West

European Politics. These journals include (usually on the back cover) a brief guide to referencing.

If you have any questions about referencing please speak to your tutor or any of the lecturing staff.

Appendix 3: Subject Dictionary

We recommend you start a subject dictionary. Buy a booklet or notepad, take it to lectures and tutorials and

keep a record of new terminology, key concepts and authors. If you come across something you do not

understand make a note of it, look it up online and write down the information/definition. Look up authors,

who they are, what they write about and what their background is. Keeping record of this will help you

tremendously throughout your undergraduate career as it will remain a great source for revision, thereby

helping you to build up your subject knowledge.

Appendix 4: Essay Feedback Form

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IPIR Student Cover Sheet (Feedback Sheet) *Indicated fields MUST be completed by student.

*Exam number *Course

*Essay title *Word Count

Marker’s name

NOTE: marks are reviewed by another member of staff prior to being returned to students

This section is for office use.

Initial Mark Penalties

Adjusted Mark

Overview

Aspect of performance + Avg -

Argument and comprehension (analysis, interpretation, logicality, evaluation, use of comparison, anticipating counter-arguments, coherent argument?)

Quality of research (breadth of reading, accuracy in facts, representation of authors’ views, covering key issues?)

Presentation and style (writing skills, structure and organisation of the text, clarity of argument, precision, grammar/spelling, quality of referencing?)

Advice to student

Main strength(s) of the essay

Main weakness(es) of the essay

This and future essays could be improved by…

Please also consult the UG marking descriptors www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/on_course_students/assessment_and_regulations/marking_descriptors

Appendix 5: Past IPIR Exam Questions

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Below are some exam questions asked in previous years. The exam consists of two parts, part A which

features primarily politics topics and part B which lists primarily IR topics. You will be asked to answer one

question from each section. The December 2014 exam will adopt the same format as the examples below.

DECEMBER 2013 EXAM

You must answer TWO questions, one from section A and one from section B

Section A: answer one question

1. Can sub-state nationalism be successfully accommodated or does it necessarily lead to independence?

2. Is the party system a product of the electoral system or of social cleavages?

3. Is democracy justified by its outcomes or by procedures?

Section B: answer one question

1. What is really new about the 'new security agenda'? Is state insecurity not a timeless issue in

International Relations?

2. What place do moral considerations have in International Relations? Discuss with reference to the

classic theoretical paradigms in IR.

3. Critically examine the view that liberalism and conservatism are 'bankrupt', thus creating new

political space for alternative ideologies.

DECEMBER 2012 EXAM

Please answer ONE question from EACH section

Section A: Answer 1 question

1. 'Individual charisma is more important for effective leadership than formal powers' Discuss with

reference to at least two state leaders.

2. Why has there been a rise in sub-state nationalism across Europe since the 1970s?

3. Why is democracy defined as ‘party democracy’ in crisis?

Section B: Answer 1 question

1. The end of the Cold War has seen a widening of national and international security agendas. Explain.

2. In what ways does power challenge morality in International Relations?

3. 'If the sanctity of state sovereignty is not upheld, international relations inevitably descend into

conflict and anarchy'. Do you agree? If so, why? If not, why not?

More past exam papers can be found in the library.

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Appendix 6: Students on a Tier 4 Visa

As a Tier 4 student, the University of Edinburgh is the sponsor of your UK visa. The University has a number

of legal duties to manage our sponsorship of your visa. These include:

Monitoring your attendance on your programme and

Reporting to the Home Office where you suspend or withdraw from your studies, complete them early,

fail to register or are repeatedly absent to the point of being excluded from studies.

As a student with a Tier 4 visa sponsored by the University of Edinburgh, the terms of your visa require you

to, (amongst others):

Ensure you have a correct and valid visa for studying at the University of Edinburgh, which, if a Tier 4

visa, requires that it is a visa sponsored by the University of Edinburgh;

Attend all of your University classes, lectures, tutorials, etc where required. This includes participating in

the requirements of your course including submitting assignments, attending meetings with tutors and

attending examinations .If you cannot attend due to illness, for example, you must inform your School.

This includes attending university Tier 4 census sessions when required throughout the academic

session.

Please note that any email relating to your Tier 4 sponsorship, including census dates and times will be sent

to your University email address – you should therefore check this regularly.

Further details on the terms and conditions of your Tier 4 visa can be found in the “Downloads” section at

www.ed.ac.uk/immigration

Information or advice about your Tier 4 immigration status can be obtained by contacting the International

Student Advisory Service, located at the International Office, 33 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JS

Email: immigration@ed.ac.uk

Appendix 7: Discussing Sensitive Topics

The discipline of Politics and International Relations addresses a number of topics that some might find

sensitive or, in some cases, distressing. You should read this handbook carefully and if there are any topics

that you may feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor and/or your Personal

Tutor.

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service,

http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/student-counselling

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IPIR Lecture Programme Autumn 2014 Overview Lectures are held Mondays and Thursdays, 15.10-16.00 in George Square Lecture Theatre.

Lecturers:

Carmen Gebhard (CG), John Peterson (JP), Wilfried Swenden (WS)

*Required course textbook: Garner, Ferdinand and Lawson (GFL), Introduction to Politics, 2nd ed. Oxford:

Oxford University Press (2012).

Week Lecture Date Staff Title Reading* To be covered

1 1 Mon

15 Sept CG Introduction

Course organization &

expectations

1 2 Thur

18 Sept JP What is Politics?

GFL Intro; Stoker,

Why Politics

Matters, ch1

Defining politics; dilemmas of

democracy; government v.

governance, art v. science

2 3 Mon 22

Sept JP What is IR?

Brown & Ainley

ch1; Mearsheimer,

E H Carr vs Idealism

Anarchy & order, war & peace,

poverty & wealth, theory &

practice

2 4 Thurs

25 Sept CG Globalization

McGrew

Globalization; AH ch

6; Strange, The

Westfailure System

Non-state actors, global

governance, international

political economy

3 5 Mon

29 Sept JP

Power &

Sovereignty

GFL chapter 14;

Slaughter, The Real

New World Order

States v. markets; intro to IR

theory; humanitarian

intervention

3 6 Thurs

2 Oct JP Power & Society

GFL chapter 2;

Lukes, Power

Defining ‘power’; faces of

power; equality; class, race,

gender

4 7 Mon

6 Oct WS The State

GFL chapter 1 (+2);

Poggi, The Nation

State

Theories of the state, inter &

intra-state conflict; state failure

4 8 Thurs

9 Oct CG

Political Systems

& Institutions

GFL chapters

7 and 9

Political structures; executive-

legislative relationship; types of

government.

5 9 Mon

13 Oct WS Nationalism

Heywood, Nations

and Nationalism;

Ozkrimli,

Modernism

Nations vs states, political

culture, political

communication

5 10 Thurs

16 Oct WS

Sub-State

Nationalism

Keating, Nations

Against the State, ch

3; Loughlin,

Reconfiguring the

state; Marks et al.

Patterns of regional

authority; also GFL

187-193.

Constitutions, devolution,

ethnic politics, subsidiarity

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6 11 Mon

20 Oct WS Democracy

GFL chapter 3;

Collier et al.

Democracy with

Adjectives;

Conceptions of democracy,

disputes and recent

developments

6 12 Thur

23 Oct WS

Elections &

Voting

Le Duc et al.

Consequences of

Elections; Farrell,

Electoral Systems, ch

2

Theories of voting, electoral

systems, voting behaviour

7 13 Mon

27 Oct WS

Political Parties

and Party

Systems

GFL chapter 11;

Mair, The Challenge

to Party Government

Representation, interest

aggregation, party systems

7 - Thur

30 Oct no lecture Essay due Thursday, 30 Oct 2014 before 12.00

8 14 Mon

3 Nov JP Ideology GFL chapters 5+6

Liberalism, conservatism,

socialism, feminism, religious

fundamentalism

8 15 Thur

6 Nov JP Political activism

GFL chapter 12;

Sander and Putnam

Still Bowling Alone;

Protest; social movements; intl.

organizations, NGOs

9 16 Mon

10 Nov CG

States and

foreign policy

GFL, chapter 18;

Kegley&Raymond,

Domestic Sources of

FP;

The Cold War, domestic actors,

foreign policy analysis

9 17 Thur

13 Nov CG Security

GFL, chapter 17; US

and EU documents

Security & insecurity,

proliferation & terrorism, new

security agenda

10 18 Mon

17 Nov CG Morality & IR

Barnett, Duties

Beyond Borders;

Dexter, The New

War;

Humanitarian intervention,

ethics, international law

10 19 Thur

20 Nov CG Revision Review readings Exam review and tips

11 Mon

24 Nov no lecture exams 8-19 December 2014