POLITICAL SCIENCE 114T
Stanford University Prof. Stephen Stedman
Spring Quarter 2006 Office: Encina Hall, C239
Terman Auditorium Off. Hrs: W 2-4
T,Th 11-12:15 and Section email: sstedman@stanford.edu
This course surveys major issues of international conflict management: mediation, conflict prevention, implementation of peace agreements, peace enforcement, humanitarian intervention, and refugee crisis management. The course combines theories of conflict resolution and international relations with case studies of conflicts, including Bosnia, Cambodia, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Somalia, among others. The class has three goals:
1.) to understand and analyze tough choices that policy-makers face when they contemplate or undertake intervention in conflicts;
2.) to better evaluate the outcomes of actions taken and alternatives eschewed and;
3.) to identify underlying ethical issues that are embedded in the decisions and actions of policy-makers and practitioners in the field of conflict management.
For undergraduates, there are three requirements for this class. The first is participation in discussion section and attendance at lectures (10% of grade). You are expected to do the class reading, attend class, and participate in discussions; you will not be graded on the amount of participation, but on the quality of it. The second requirement is an in-class midterm (40% of grade). The third is a take-home final (50% of grade). Graduate students are expected to fulfill all of the above and to write a 10-15 page paper.
The following books are required reading and have been ordered by the Stanford Bookstore:
Chester Crocker, Fen Hampson, and Pamela Aall, Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict, (Washington DC: USIP, 2001).
Priscella Hayner, Unspeakable Truths: Facing the Challenge of Truth Commissions
Gil Loescher and James Milner, Protracted Refugee Situations. Adelphi Paper 375
Gerard Prunier, Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 2005).
Stephen John Stedman, Donald Rothchild, and Elizabeth Cousens, Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002).
There is no course reader. Instead the syllabus will be posted on the web and additional readings will be available for downloading.
April 4 Introduction and Overview of Course
April 6 Violent Conflict and its Management in the
Post-Cold War World
Chapters by Ayoob, Brown, and Doyle in Turbulent Peace.
NOTE: This lecture will end at 11:45.
April 11 Prevention
Stephen John Stedman, “Alchemy for A New World Order,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 75, pp. 14-20. [Available on Lexis-Nexis.]
Chapter by
Jentleson in Turbulent Peace
April 13 Case Study: Rwanda
Chapter by Khadiagala in Ending Civil Wars.
Howard Adelman and Astri Suhrke, with Bruce Jones, The International Response to Conflict and Genocide: Lessons from the Rwanda Experience, Study 2: Early Warning and Conflict Management, Executive Summary, Introduction, Chapters 1-4 and 7.
www.reliefweb.int/library/nordic/book2/pb021.html
The Cable, The UN’s Response, and “Early Premonitions”- excerpt from Phillip Gourevitch, We Regret to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed Along With Our Families.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/warning/
Interviews with Gourevitch, Riza, Woods, Marley and Marchal
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/interviews/
Power, Samantha (2001) "Bystanders to Genocide," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, No. 2 (Sept.), pp. 84-108 [Available Online.]
Kuperman, Alan (2000) "Rwanda in Retrospect," Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb. [Available On Lexis-Nexis.]
WEEK THREE
April 18 Mediation
M.A. Kleiboer, “Understanding Success and Failure of International Mediation,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 41 (1996), pp. 360-389.
Chapters by Crocker, Hampson and Aall, “Is More Better?” and Touval and Zartman in Turbulent Peace.
April 20 Case Studies: Bosnia (Dayton) and Kosovo (Ramboullet)
Melanie Greenberg and Margaret McGuinness, “From Lisbon to Dayton: International Mediation and the Bosnia Crisis” in Words Over War, pp. 35-75.
Summary of Dayton Agreement
www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/bosnia/dayton.html
Independent International Commission on Kosovo, Chapter 1 and Chapter 5. http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/thekosovoreport.htm
Ivo H. Daalder and Michael O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly: NATO’s War to Save Kosovo (Washington DC: Brookings, 2000), pp. 63-100.
USIP Special Report, “Kosovo Dialogue: Too Little, Too Late”
http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/early/KosovoDialogue.html
Interviews on Kosovo Negotiations
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kosovo/interviews/holbrooke.html
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kosovo/interviews/daalder.html
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kosovo/interviews/chernomyrdin.html
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kosovo/interviews/talbott.html
April 25 Peace Implementation
Chapters by Paris and Licklider in Turbulent Peace.
Chapters by Stedman, Stedman and Downs, Doyle, Jones, Spear in Ending Civil Wars.
Brahimi Commission Report on the Future of UN Peacekeeping
www.un.org/peace/reports/peace_operations/docs/full_report.htm
Stephen John Stedman, “Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes,” International Security, Vol. 22: No. 2 (Fall 1997), pp. 5-53.[Available online]
April 27 Case Study: Cambodia
Chapter by Peou in Ending
Civil Wars.
WEEK FIVE
May 2 Midterm Examination
May 4 Humanitarian Intervention
Luttwak, Hoffman, Freedman, Haass, and Betts in Turbulent Peace.
Gareth Evans and Mohamed Sahnoun, “The Responsibility to Protect,” Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec. 2002
Stephen John Stedman, “The New Interventionists,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72 (1993), pp. 1-16. [Available Lexis-Nexis].
WEEK SIX
May 9 Case Study: Somalia
Thomas Weiss, Military-Civilian Interactions: Intervening in Humanitarian Crises (Lanham, MD.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), pp. 69-96.
Readings by Crocker, Bacevich, Joyce, Cuny and Allard
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/readings/
Interviews with Allard (old and new), Abshir, Clarke, Haad, Howe, Montgomery, Oakley, and Zinni
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/interviews/
May 11 Case Study: Bosnia
Srebrenica Report: Report of the
Secretary-General Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 53/35 (1998)
http://www.un.org/News/ossg/srebrenica.pdf
WEEK SEVEN
May 16 Case Study: Kosovo
Independent International Commission on Kosovo, Chapters 2,3,4, 6 and 7
http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/thekosovoreport.htm
May 18 Case Study: Darfur
Gerard Prunier, Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, all.
May 23 Refugee Crisis Management
Myron Weiner, “The Clash of Norms: Dilemmas in Refugee Policies,” Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 11 (1998)
Gil Loescher and James Milner, Protracted Refugee Situations. Adelphi Paper 375
May 25 Case Study: Rwanda II and Eastern Zaire
Howard Adelman, “The Use and Abuse
of Refugees in Zaire,” in Stephen John Stedman and Fred Tanner, eds. Refugee
Manipulation: War, Politics, and the Abuse of Human Suffering (Washington,
DC: Brookings Institution, 2003).
May 30 Accountability
and Peace
Priscella Hayner, Unspeakable Truths: Facing the Challenge of Truth Commissions, pp. 1-31; 72-169; 183-212.
June 2 Case Study: Northern Ireland
Readings to be assigned later.
WEEK TEN
June 6 The Future of International Conflict Management
Stedman, “Conclusion” in Ending Civil Wars;
James Fearon and David Laitin, “Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States,” International Security, 28:4 (Spring 2004);
Jeremy Weinstein, “Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective,” Center for Global Governance, Working Paper 57; available online http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2731
Stephen John Stedman, “A Peacebuilding Commission as an Instrument of Conflict Prevention,” in Anders Melbourne, ed., Development, Security and Conflict Prevention, (Brussels: Madiriaga European Foundation, 2005).