Session 9 International Organizations and International Law

Session 7 Lecture:

Lecture ppt and the Lecture video will be uploaded on the google drive after class on Tuesday.

Assigned Readings (All uploaded on the google drive):

• John J. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International Institutions,” International Security, vol. 19, no. 3 (Winter 1994-95), pp. 5-49.
• Anne-Marie Slaughter, “The Real New World Order,” Foreign Affairs, vol. 76, no. 5 (September/October 1997), pp. 183-97.

Session 10 Security Studies, Realism and the Multi-Methods Approach

Session 8 Lecture:

Lecture ppt and the Lecture video will be uploaded on the google drive after class.

Assigned Readings (All uploaded on the google drive):

• • Peter Burgess, ‘The international political sociology of security studies’, in Xavier Guillaume and Pinar Bilgin, eds., Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology (London: Routledge, 2017): 233-244.
  • Pinar Bilgin, ‘The “Western-Centrism” of Security Studies: “Blind Spot” or Constitutive Practice?’, Security Dialogue 41:6 (2010): 615-622.

Forum Post: (due by Sunday September 6th at midnight 11:59 pm LA time.)

You only need to write 1 post for this week. You could use the materials from both sessions in the post.

The Forum Post must show critical thinking and the proof of reading by using quotes and ideas from the course materials. Minimum 7 paragraphs and each paragraph should contain at least 6 sentences. Please use proper MLA citation format both in-text and the works cited section at the end of the post. There is no need for the heading (name and course etc).

Forum Reply:

There is no reply due for this class anymore.