Global Worlds/Global Issues
Department of Politics
University of Glasgow
Term II 2005 Reading List
Office: S508 Adam Smith Building
Phone: 330 5091
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Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:00, Thursday 4:00-5:00, and by appointment
NOTE: Please refer to the Term I course guide for all class policies and procedures.
11 January: The Internet and Global Communications – Identity and Governance
•Held and McGrew: "The Globalization of Communication," pp. 246-259
•Ingenta: Kurt Mills, "Cybernations: Identity, Self-determination, Democracy and the ÔInternet Effect' in the Emerging Information Order," Global Society 16 (1 2002): 69-87
•Reserve: "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and Internet Governance," in Se‡n î Siochrœ, Bruce Girard, and Amy Mahan, Global Media Governance: A Beginner's Guide (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littelfield, 2002): 99-116
•Reserve: "Information Policy and Governance," in Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue, eds., Governance In A Globalizing World (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000): 330-346
Additional Resources:
•Working Group on Internet Governance (http://www.wgig.org)
•World Summit on the Information Society (http://www.itu.int/wsis)
•The Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org)
•ICANN (http://www.icann.org)
•ICANN Watch (http://www.icannwatch.org)
•World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org)
•Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org)
•World Intellectual Property Organization – Domain Name Dispute Resolution (http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/)
•Nominet.uk – The UK Internet Names Organisation (http://www.nic.uk)
•Internet Assigned Names Authority (http://www.iana.org)
•World Trade Organization – Electronic Commerce (http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/ecom_e/ecom_e.htm)
18 January: Terrorism
•Packet: Martha Crenshaw and Maryann Cusimano Love, "Networked Terror," in Maryann Cusimano Love, ed., Beyond Sovereignty (Wadsworth, 2003): 119-141
•Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, World Islamic Front Statement, 23 February 1998, http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm
•"Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places," August, 1996 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html
•The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf
Additional Resources:
•U.S. Department of State, Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003 (29 April 2004), http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2003/
•The 9/11 Comission Report (2004), http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm
25 January: Human Rights
•Packet: Kurt Mills, A New Sovereignty? Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order, (London, Macmillan, 1998): Chapter 1, "Reconstructing Sovereignty," pp. 9-53
•Packet: David Forsythe, Human Rights and International Relations, pp. 84-109, 163-190
•Held and McGrew: David Held, "The Changing Structure of International Law: Sovereignty Transformed?" pp. 162-176
Additional Resources:
•Universal Declaration of Human Rights, http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/b1udhr.htm
•Amnesty International Report 2004, http://web.amnesty.org/report2004/index-eng
•Human Rights Watch, World Report 2004: Human Rights and Armed Conflict, http://hrw.org/wr2k4/
•U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – 2003 (25 February 2004), http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/index.htm
1 February: Refugees and Migration
•Packet: Hal Kane, "Leaving Home: The Flow of Refugees," in Maryann Cusimano Love, ed., Beyond Sovereignty (Wadsworth, 2003): 301-322
•Packet: Kurt Mills, "Permeable Borders: Human Migration and Sovereignty," Global Society 10 (May 1996): 77-106
•TBA
8 February: Humanitarian Intervention
•Packet: Kurt Mills, "United Nations intervention in refugee crises after the Cold War," International Politics 35 (December 1998): 391-424
•Packet: Tom J. Farer, "Humanitarian Intervention before and after 9/11: legality and legitimacy," in J. L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane, eds., Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal, and Political Dilemmas (Cambridge University Press, 2003): 53-89
•Howard Tolley, "President Clinton's Response to Kosovo," Teaching Human Rights Online, http://homepages.uc.edu/thro/Kosovo/JWMain.html
15 February: Global Democracy
•Held and McGrew: Anthony McGrew, "Models of Transnational Democracy," pp. 500-513
•Held and McGrew: Robert A. Dahl, "Can International Organizations be Democratic? Skeptics View," pp. 530-541
•Packet: Maryann Cusimano Love, "Nongovernmental Organizations: Politics beyond Sovereignty," in Maryann Cusimano Love, ed., Beyond Sovereignty (Wadsworth, 2003): 71-94
22 February: Institutions for Governing Globalization
•Held and McGrew: Anthony Payne, "Globalization and Modes of Regionalist Governance," pp. 213-222
•Held and McGrew: James N. Rosenau, "Governance in a New Global Order," pp. 223-233
•Held and McGrew: Joseph Stiglitz, "The Promise of Global Institutions," pp. 477-81
•Held and McGrew: Fred Halliday, "Global Governance: Problems and Prospects," pp. 489-499
Additional Resources:
•"A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility," Report of the Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, http://www.un.org/secureworld/
1 March (Tony Lott): Assessing Globalisation