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ACADEMICS

Academic Readings

The Good Society: Dr. Michael Collins

1. Table of Contents

2. Seamus Heaney: Crediting Poetry

3. Havel: The Politics of Hope

4. Plato: Seventh Letter

5. Fugard: On David Thoreau's Walden

6. Documents of American Government

7. Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address

8. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self Reliance

9. Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience

10. Martin Luther King Jr.: Letter from Birmingham City Jail

11.Brennan:The Contemporary Constitution

12. Fang Lizhe: Human Rights in China

13. Weil:Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations

14. Vaclav Havel: The Politics of Hope

 

Political Philosophy and International Affairs: Dr. Antony Sullivan

1. Course Description/Study Guidelines

2. Course Syllabus

Section 1: The "Clash of Civilzations"? and All That

1. Samuel P Huntington

2. Antony Sullivan: The Journal of the Historical Society

3. Claes G Ryn

4. Jack Goldstone

Section 2: Ibn Khaldun and the Muqaddimah: A Theory of History and the Political Economy of Prosperity

5. Ibn Khaldun

Section 3: Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America: The Lineaments of Republican Liberty

6. Alexis de Toqueville:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

 

Conflict Management: Dr. Faten Ghosn

Course Syllabus

July 26: Origins of Conflict

Reading #1: Thomas Ohlson

Reading #2: John Burton

Reading #3: Hugh Miall

July 27 : Dynamics of Conflict

Reading #1: Anthony Clark Arend & Robert Beck

Reading #2: Jennifer Jackson Preece

Reading #3: Patrick Regan

July 28 : Strategies for Conflict De-Escalation & Conflict De-Escalation

Reading #1: Roger Fisher & William Ury

Reading #2: William Ury

Reading #3: William Zartman & Saadia Touval

July 28: Obstacle to Conflict Management: The Role of the Media

Reading #1: Janice Gross Stein and Janice Gross

Reading #2: Allan Thompson

July 29: Conflict Termination

Reading #1: E. Berg & G. Ben-Porat

Reading #2: Ian Spears

Reading #3: Kelly Greenhill and Solomon Major

July 30: Peace Consolidation

Reading #1: Gunnar Theissen

Reading #2: Lynn Graybill

Reading #3: Herbert Wulf

Day 6: Simulation

 

Political Economy : Sam Potolicchio- Coming Soon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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