There will be two short take-home midterms, 3 quizzes on the readings, and a take-home final exam.

1. The Anarchical Environment (Jan. 19-31)

Art and Jervis, eds., International Politics, pp. 1-109, 129-49, 184-204.
Jervis, Perception and Misperception in Politics, pp. 58-102.
Virginia Held, "Gender as an Influence on Culture Norms Relating to War and the Environment," in Arthur Westing, ed., Culture Norms, War, and the Environment, pp. 44-51.

2. Explanations and Levels of Analysis (Feb. 2-7)

Jervis, Perception and Misperception..., pp. 13-31.
Alonzo Hamby, "An American Democrat: A Reevaluation of the Personality of Harry S Truman," Political Science Quarterly, vol. 106, Spring 1991, pp. 33- 56.
Bruce Russett, Grasping the Democratic Peace, ch. 2.
Hans Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations, ch. 1.
Ernest May, American Imperialism, pp. 3-16.
William Stephens, Hypotheses and Evidence, pp. 168-79, 195-203.

3. Assessing Adversaries (Feb. 9-14)

"White House Tapes and Minutes of the Cuban Missile Crisis," International Security, vol. 10, Summer 1985, pp. 164-203.
Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (translated and edited by Strobe Talbott), pp. 488-505.
E.L. Woodward, Rohan Butler and Margaret Lambert, eds., Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939, third series, vol. 2, 1938, pp. 2, 10-12, 83-87, 131-35, 306-7, 360-61, 373-99.
Foreign Relations of the U.S., 1952-1954, vol. 2, National Security Affairs, part I, pp. 367-370, 491-534, 578-597.
"Soviet Strategic Nuclear Forces as Perceived by NIE's, 1962-1975," declassified report.
Ralph White, "Why Aggressors Lose," Political Psychology, vol. 11, June 1990, pp. 227-42.
Raymond Garthoff, "Berlin, 1961: The Record Corrected," Foreign Policy No. 84 (Fall 1991) pp. 142-156.
Paul Leventhal and Steven Dolley, "Iraq's Inspector Games," Washington Post National Weekly Edition, Dec. 7, 1998, p. 21.
"1983 Politburo Session on KAL-007 Incident," Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Soviet Union (27 August 1992), pp. 7-10.

Walker, The Cold War.
McGeorge Bundy, Danger and Survival, ch. 9, "Cuban Missile Crisis."
Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein, We All Lost the Cold War, postscript, "Deterrence and the End of the Cold War," pp. 369-76.

5. Domestic Politics and Decision-Making (March 1-8)

Art and Jervis, eds., International Politics, 3rd. ed, pp. 391-471.
Josiah Ober, "Classical Greek Times," in Michael Howard, et al., eds., The Laws of War, pp. 12-26.
Michael Armacost, The Foreign Relations of the U.S., ch. 6.
Leo Ribuffo, "Religion and American Foreign Policy," The National Interest, No. 52, Summer 1998, pp. 36-51 (skim).
Morton Halperin, "The Decision to Deploy the ABM," World Politics, vol. 25, October 1972, pp. 62-95.
I.M. Destler, et al., Managing an Alliance, pp. 125- 166.
Foreign Relations of the U.S., 1950, vol. 7, pp. 157-161, 1242-1249, 1323-1334 (Korean War decisions).
Gary Sick, All Fall Down, ch. 6.
Carroll McKibbin, "Presidential Initiative and Bureaucratice Response: Delivering the Mariner IV Pictures of Mars," Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 23, Fall 1993, pp. 727-37.

Arnold Wolfers, Discord and Collaboration, ch. 5.
K.J. Holsti, International Politics, 5th ed., ch. 5.

K.J. Holsti, International Politics, ch. 9.
David Baldwin, Paradoxes of Power, pp. 10-44.
George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant".
Arnold Wolfers, Discord and Collaboration, ch. 7.
Hans Morgenthau, "The Future of Diplomacy," in Art and Jervis, pp. 118-28.
Joseph Nye, Jr., Bound to Lead, ch. 6.

Art and Jervis, pp. 151-83, 205-26, 236-72.
Robert Jervis, The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution, ch. 1.

Art and Jervis, pp. 110-17.
Robert Jervis, System Effects, pp. 131-46.
Richard Elrod, "The Concert of Europe," World Politics, vol. 28, January 1976, pp. 159-174.

Jacob Viner, "Peace as an Economic Problem."
Theotonio Dos Santos, "The Structure of Dependence."
Benjamin Cohen, The Question of Imperialism, ch. 2.
Ian Lustick, "The Absence of Middle Eastern Great Powers," International Organization, vol. 51, Autumn 1997, pp. 653-63.

Art and Jervis, pp. 273-401.
Joan Spero and Jeffrey Hart, The Politics of International Economic Relations.

Art and Jervis, pp. 403-559.
Robert Chapman, "Reflections of Terrorism: A Sideline View," International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, vol. 12, Summer 1999, pp. 207-26.