ACADEMICS

Academic Readings

The Good Society: Dr. Michael Collins

1. Table of Contents

2. Seamus Heaney: Crediting Poetry

3. Havel: Politics, Morality and Civility

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 Civilizations"? 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

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

Reading #1- "Free Trade"

Reading #2- Heritage Foundation- 2011 Index on Economic Freedom

Reading # 3- 'The Use of Knowledge in Society"

Reading #4- "Property Rights For the Poor: Effects of Land Tilting"

Reading # 5- "The Road From Serfdom"

Reading # 6- "Cronyism: Undermining Economic Freedom & Property Around the World"

Reading # 7- "U.N. Millennuim Development Goals: Foreign Aid vs Economic Freedom"

Reading #8- "Why Democracies Produce Efficient Results"

Reading #9- "Stability in Competition"

Reading #10- "An Economic Model of Representative Democracy"

Reading #11- "Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies"

Reading #12- "The Rise of Illiberal Democracy"



Helpful Readings (Not Required)

1. "How Mass Media Simulate Political Transparency"

2. "A Cross-National Analysis of Economic Voting"

3. "Ethinicity, Insurgency and Civil War"

4. "Freedom to Choose And Democracy"

5. "Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Fundamentalism"