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CLASS #TOPICSREQUIRED READINGSSUGGESTED READINGS
1Organizational Meeting
Global Political Justice
2Realism and Normative SkepticismMearsheimer, John. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Chap. 1 and 2.

Krasner, Stephen. Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Chap. 1.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Chap. 13.

Tuck, Richard. The Rights of War and Peace. (Esp. chap. 4.)

Morgenthau, Henry. Politics Among Nations.

Waltz, Kenneth. Man, the State, and War.

Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Part One.
3Persons, Peoples, States: Three Conceptions of the Global Moral RealmKant, Immanuel. “Perpetual Peace.” 

Habermas, Juergen. “Kant’s Perpetual Peace at 200 Years Remove.”

Rawls, John. The Law of Peoples. Pp. 11-43.

Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Pp. 69-92.
4Arguments for Sovereignty and Self-Determination

Miller, David. On Nationality. Pp. 81-118.

Buchanan, Alan. “Recognitional Legitimacy.”

Nussbaum, Martha. For Love of Country? Selections by Nussbaum, Appiah, Gutmann, and Taylor.

O’Neill, Onora. “Identities, Boundaries, and States.”

5Global Democracy without a World State?

Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and Its Discontents. Chap. 9 (focus on pp. 214-229).

Ruggie, John. “Taking Embedded Liberalism Global.”

Shapiro, Ian, and Casiano Hacker-Cordon, eds. Democracy’s Edges.
(Dahl. “Can International Organizations be Democratic? A Skeptic’s View.”
Tobin. "A Comment on Dahl’s Skepticism.”
Held, David. “The Transformation of Political Community.”
 Kymlicka, Will. “Citizenship in an era of globalization”) 

Schmitter, Philippe. How to Democratize the European Union and Why Bother.

Cohen, Joshua, and Charles Sabel. “Sovereignty and Solidarity.”

Anne-Marie Slaughter, unpublished draft of a book.
 
Archibugi, Danielle, and David Held, eds. Cosmopolitan Democracy.
Global Economic Justice
6CosmopolitanismBeitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Pp. 127-169.

Pogge, Thomas. World Poverty and Human Rights. Chap. 4 and 8.
Pogge, Thomas. “An Egalitarian Law of Peoples.”

O’Neill, Onora. “Transnational Economic Justice.”
7The Case of the EnvironmentSinger, Peter. One World. Chap. 2.
8Domestic Institutions and Global InjusticeRawls, John. Law of Peoples. Pp. 105-120.

Easterly, William. The Elusive Quest for Growth. Chap. 8, 11 and 12.

Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Chap. 6 and 8.
Buchanan, Allen. “The Law of Peoples: Rules for a Vanished Westphalian World.”
9The Case of Intellectual PropertyOddi, Samuel. "TRIPS—Natural Rights and a “Polite Form of Economic Imperialism.”

Adelman, Martin, and Sonia Baldia. “Prospects and Limits of the Patent Provision in the TRIPS Agreement: The Case of India.”
D’Amato, and Long, eds. International Intellectual Property Law. Pp. 1-19, 27-40, 41-52, 268-282.

Nagan, Winston.  “International Intellectual Property, Access to Health Care, and Human Rights: South Africa v. United States."

“Trips and Public Health: The Next Battle.” Oxfam Briefing Paper.

Drahos, Peter, and John Braithwaite. Information Feudalism.
Human Rights
10Human RightsBentham, Jeremy. Anarchical Fallacies. Pp. 491-501.

Beitz, Charles. “Human Rights as Common Concern.”

Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and as Idolatry. Pp. 3-55.

Habermas, Juergen. “Kant’s Perpetual Peace at 200 Years Remove.”
Glendon, Mary-Ann. A World Made New.
11Human Rights, Cultural Diversity, and Democracy?Rawls, John. Law of Peoples. Pp. 59-70, 78-85.

An-Na’im, Abdullahi Ahmed. Toward and Islamic Reformation. Pp. 161-181.

Franck, Thomas. “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance.”

Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Chap. 6 and 8.
12Immigration and BordersWalzer, Michael. Spheres of Justice. Chap. 2.

Habermas, Juergen. “Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic State.”

Carens, Joseph. "The Rights of Immigrants."
Fiss, Owen. A Community of Equals: The Constitutional Protection of New Americans.
 




 
 


 



 








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