The Empire Strikes Back
SCHEDULE
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INSTRUCTOR: Professor Jean
Shackelford
OFFICE HOURS: W 9-12 , Others by appointment (Coleman 165)
ADDRESSES: e-mail: jshackel@bucknell.edu, phone: X- 73441
REQUIRED TEXTs and NEWSPAPER:
- *Benjamin R. Barber, Fear’s Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy, W.W. Norton, 2004.
*Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire, The Penguin
Press, 2004.
*THE NEW YORK TIMES - daily
*Additional reading assigments are on e-reserve and others will be handed
out during the semester.
Optional Texts: (selections to be assigned)
*Amos Oz, How to Cure a Fanatic, Princeton University Press, 2006.
*Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence, W.W. Norton, 2006.
Tentative SCHEDULE: | Sept. | Oct.
| Nov. | Dec.
August 19- Introduction to Foundation Seminars
August 22 - CONVOCATION - 8:00 PM , Weis
Center for the Performing Arts, "Because of Bucknell," Mary DeCredico, Provost.
August 24 - iNtroduction to the course/journals/materials/technology,
further discussion of reading and some goal setting. (ABC
assignment and Introductory Materials ) - Images
of Empire
August 29 - Readings: "Jihad vs. McWorld," The Atlantic
Monthly, B. Barber (e-reserves). Introduction, Barber, Fear's Empire. Podcasting assignment.
August 31 - Readings: "Watching Lebanon," Seymour M. Hersh (eres); Colossus, Ferguson, Chapter 1 "The Limits of the American Empire," Review Table p. 11; "Iraq Runneth Over: What Next?" The Washington Post, August 20, 2006, by Kenneth M. Pollack & Daniel L. Byman; " The State of Iraq- Update. Table
Sept. 5 - Colossus, Ferguson, Chapter 2, "The Imperialism of Anti-Imperialism".
Sept. 7 - "The American Empire, " Michael Ignatieff, New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003 (e-reserves); "Blowback," Chalmers Johnson The Nation, 10.15.01.
Sept. 12 - Fog of War
Sept. 14 - "Imperialism" J. Hobson, (Blackboard - Course Documents-Readings - Hobson 1-6); Colossus, Ferguson, Chapter 3 "The Civilization of Clashes,"; War News Radio from Swarthmore College, iPod
Sept. 19 - Readings: Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Military Industrial Complex; review of Corporate Warriors; Technology and Empire; A. Ciralsky, L. Myers & the NBC News I.Unit. “Did the Army favor Raytheon in anti-RPB bid?; The U.S. Constitution.
Sept. 21 - Reading: The Patriot Act - Please scan. (Explore the American Library Association’s webpages on the Patriot Act - or the Special Libraries Association’s Portal; and review the Center for Democracy and Technology's review of the reauthorized Patriot Act and CCAP's PA vs. Constitution.Read Wendell Berry’s Citizen’s response to the earlier National Security Strategy; Fear's Empire, Barber Chapter 2 and 3.
Sept. 26 –Readings: Technology, Privacy and Empire, (Privacy Assignment); The State of Surveillance, BusinessWeek, August 8, 2005; PRIVACY - EU vs. US Privacy Legislation-
** Wired - US Twitchy on EU Data Privacy-
** Wired - EU Drives Privacy Global
- Optional: Another Podcast....from a World Technology Podcast via PRITue, 16 May 2006 18:00:00 EST - WTP 102: NSA Update, Gary McKinnon Update, and Network-Centric Warfare in Iraq http://blog.rssapplied.com/public/aggregate/108651
/public/aggregate/108651
Sept. 26 – Technology, Privacy and Empire, (Privacy Assignment);
Reading: PRIVACY - EU vs. US Privacy Legislation-
** Wired - US Twitchy on EU Data Privacy-
** Wired - EU Drives Privacy Global
Sept. 28 - Reading: Technologies - Tools of Empire
October 3 - The Arabs. Reading: Empires: The Ottoman Empire ( 1281-1923); The Mughal Empire ( 1526-1857); Safavids ( 1501-1736); Maps.
October 5 - Thieves Reading/background
October 5, - Lecture - Langone Center Forum, 7 pm, Matthew Bogdanos' ('80), Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures.
October 10 - Understanding Images - Arabs (Video Reviews)
Reading: Amartya Sen (excerpt from Slate), Identity and Violence
October 12 - Reading: Understanding Islam - Wiki entry
Vali Nasr, "When the Shiites Rise," Foreign Affairs, July/August 2006)
Islamic Alienation by David Rieff, NYT Magazine, 8.14.05
Fall Break - October 13-17
October 19 - Reading: Ferguson, e-reserves; The British Empire ( 1485-1997)
Readings: Colossus, Chapter 5 - The Case for a Liberal Empire
Listen to Podcast OpenSource 9.21.06 Niall Ferguson’s “War of the World” - Historian Niall Ferguson's lethal three E's of global conflict: ethnic hatred, economic volatility and empires in decline. Ferguson's grim reading is that the roots of world warfare in the last century are all in place in the Middle East today.
FINAL PROJECT ASSIGNMENT
October 24 - Reading: The Choice, Global Domination or Global Leadership, Zbigniew Brzezinski, pp 1-38, (e-reserves)
October 26 - Reading: Fear's Empire, Chapter 7. Discussion: McWorld and a Liberal Empire
Robert Fisk, The Age of Terror - a landmark report, The Independent, October 6, 2006.
October 31 - Cost of Empire/War and Financing Terror
Reading: "Encore: Iraq Hemorrhage," Update of "The Economic Costs of the Iraq War," with Professor Linda Bilmes, The Milken Institute Review, Fourth Quarter, pp. 76-83. (updated summary of January 2006 study) The Economic Costs of the War in Iraq SCOTT J. WALLSTEN and KATRINA KOSECUpdated costs http://www.wallsten.net/iraq/ (This is updated from the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies; American Enterprise Institute (AEI) AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies; World Bank - Development Research Group September 2005 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=848408 - 32k)
Financing Terror
Forbes Article
Economist's Article "Looking in the Wrong Place"
Explore:
Cost estimator http://aei-brookings.org/iraqcosts/
List:
What should be included in the estimating the cost of war?
Nov. 1 - LECTURE: 7:00 PM, Rooke Chapel, Kevin Phillips, The Political Economy of Oil .
Nov. 2- Empire and Society - Reading London 1900 - Chapter 5
Nov. 7 - Theatre and Empire (project)
Nov. 9 - Music and Empire - Prof. Jackson Hill
Nov. 14 - Reading: B. Barber, Fear's Empire, Chapters 6 and 8
Nov. 16 - Images within Empire (assignment): The Media Empire(The Big 10)/The Media and Empire - Readings: Tomorrow's Woodwards and Bernsteins; The Global Media; Chart 1;
Nov. 21 - More media/more empire: "Good Night and Good Luck "
Reading on the Media/Sights of War (e-reserves)
Thanksgiving Break November 22 - 26
Nov 28 - Readings: Colossus, Chapter 6, "Going Home or Organizing Hypocracy"; Fear's Empire, Chapter 9, Barber
Nov. 30 - Readings: Colossus, Chapter 9, "The Closing Door"
Dec. 5 - Goals revisited or FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Last updated, November 2006 - please contact Jean Shackelford,
Department of Economics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837.
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