MPCT-303-2: State building and state dissolution

Course leader: Associate professor Arne Kommisrud and associate professor Stuart Robinson, Department of Political Science.

Duration: 10 hours (5 lectures).

Lectures in political science for MPCT 303, Autumn 2002.

1) The International Order between Power & Norms (Stuart Robinson)
Literature: Linklater, Arrigi and Silver

2) Power & Hegemony in the International System (arne Kommisrud.)
Cox; Arrigi and Silver; Hobsbawn 8, 12 and 15.

3) The Age of Total War and the Cold War (Arne Kommisrud)
Hobsbawn 1, 2 og 12.

4) Security Politics from Cold War to Post Communism : The Role of the U.S.(Stuart Robinson)
Hobsbawn chapt. 8, Peter Gowan.

5) Dismantling of Multi-National States and National Conflicts (Arne Kommisrud)
Brubakers, Kolstø, McGary and 0'Leary,


Reading list:

Global dependency:
* Arrigi, Giovanni and Beverly Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1999, Introduction, pp. 1-36. 35 pages


Critical approaches to International Studies:
* Cox, Robert W. Approaches to World Order.

Chapter 6, ASocial forces, states and World Orders: beyond international relations theory@,

Chapter 7, A Gramsci, hegemony, and international relation: an essay in method@, pp. 85-143. 58 s.

* Gowan, Peter, Contemporary Intra-Core Relations and World Systems Theory (Paper) 22 pages


Norms and power in the international system:
* Linklater, Andrew, ARationalism@, chapter 4 Scott Burchill and Andrew Linklater,

Theories of International Relations, pp 93-118 25pages.


International history:
Hobsbawn, Eric, Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century. London: Michael Joseph 1994 or later.

Chapter 1. AThe Age of Total War@, chapt. 5,@Against the Common Enemy@,

chapter 7 "End of Empires@, chapt. 8, AThe Cold War@, chapt. 12, A The Third World@,

chapter 15. Third World and revolution@.145 pages



Nationalism and nationality conflicts:

* Brubaker, Rogers, Nationalism Reframed. Nationhood and the national question in the New Europe.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 1996,

chapter 3, ANational minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the New Europe@. pp. 55-76.

* Kolstø, Pål, A Comparisons and Conclusions@ in
Political Construction Sites. Nation Building in Russia and the Post-Soviet States. Westview Press 2000. 28 pages

* McGarry, John & O'Leary, Brendan, The politics of ethnic conflict regulation, London: Routledge, 1993.

Chapter 1 'Introduction: The macro-political regulation of ethnic conflict'. 40 pages..

Total: 374 pages.