Course Meeting Times
Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session
Syllabus
Syllabus (PDF)
Requirements
Students taking the course for credit are required to submit a one-page proposal for a paper by class #9. The final papers are due in class #12, and should be 7,000-8,000 words.
Books
Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Easterly, William. The Elusive Quest for Growth. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.
Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Kant, Immanuel. Political Writings. Edited by H. S. Reiss, translated by H. B. Nisbet. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Nussbaum, Martha, et al. For Love of Country? Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
Pogge, Thomas. World Poverty and Human Rights. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2002.
Rawls, John. Law of Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1999.
Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.