Political Science 110: Introduction to International Politics

Political Science 190J: Freshman Seminar on Conflict and Cooperation

Emory University, Fall 1999, Call No. 1332

Woodruff Library 974, TT 11:30-12:45p

August 24, 1999

Professor: Eric Reinhardt

Office: 333 Tarbutton Hall

Office hours: W 10:00a-12:00p & by appointment

Phone: 404-727-4977

Email: erein@emory.edu

My home page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~erein/

Course home page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~erein/courses/pols190j/

Course Description & Objectives

This course is about why individuals sometimes manage to cooperate—to act in the group’s best interests—even when doing so is contrary to their short-term self-interest. We explore the problem of cooperation in many social settings, e.g., "altruistic" behavior in various animal species; loyalty and betrayal among Mafioso; the willingness of soldiers to risk their lives in battle; rebellion in the lager, or concentration camp; participation in 1950s and 60s civil rights action in the face of grave danger; conflict among different ethnic groups; the varying success of community development experiments; strategic behavior and alliances among corporations; and more. Through these examples, the course will examine a variety of different explanations for cooperative behavior, including the role of reciprocity and retaliation; asymmetries in power; social and political institutions; norms, ideas, and culture; social psychological dynamics; and genetics and natural selection.

As a freshman seminar, the class consists primarily of discussion—there will be no lectures. Rather than focus on dry and abstract theories, I aim to bring the problem of cooperation alive for you. Readings tend to focus on first-person accounts or case studies. Your assignments will stress cooperation with other students in a variety of forms. Finally, the course requires you to get out and talk with faculty and researchers all across Emory University whose specialties lie in the social setting to which you wish to apply your knowledge of cooperation.

On-Line Course Information

I maintain a "conference" for this course on Learnlink. If you do not know how to access or use Learnlink I recommend you learn immediately. (Check out the Web site http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/ for further information.) You can run Learnlink using the proprietary software installed on most campus computers or, in a limited fashion, through the Web at http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/Login/POLS190J-Reinhardt/. The Learnlink conference contains copies of all handouts and discussion questions, fora for group project coordination, etc. You should check in with the Learnlink site every week at a minimum. I also maintain a Web site for this course, with purely derivative material: see http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~erein/courses/pols190j/.

Requirements

Grades in the course will be based on the following items:

Group research project (40% total), consisting of the following individually graded components: (a) first draft due Tuesday, Sept 28 in class (5% of project grade); (b) second draft due Tuesday, Oct 26 in class (5% of project grade); (c) third draft due Tuesday, Nov 23 in class (5% of project grade); (d) group oral presentation of preliminary results, Tuesday, Dec 7 in class (10% of project grade); and (e) final version due Friday, Dec 10, at 4:30p in Prof. Reinhardt’s office (75% of project grade). Each group will schedule a meeting with the instructor 2 weeks prior to the 3 draft deadlines above; all students in the group must attend these meetings. The project will result in a social science paper which identifies and, based upon research, provides an answer to a puzzle having to do with the problem of cooperation in a social setting of the group’s choice. More details on the group project and its components are contained in a separate handout.

Weekly essays (30%). You are responsible for turning in a weekly, 2-3 page synthesis essay. Each essay should address the following questions (in order, in most cases). First, what is the main point of each reading, and what arguments or evidence does the reading invoke to serve that main point? Second, what do you think about each reading, the merits of its arguments, the worth of its example(s), and why? Third, relate the issues covered by one or more of these readings to an example from prior weeks’ readings or discussion. Your essays should be cumulative, reacting to prior essays and demonstrating the self-conscious evolution of your thinking about the problem of cooperation. Prior to each week I will distribute discussion questions over Learnlink. These will highlight the issues we will discuss in class the following week and may help in writing your essay. In general, when you read, think about the following: Is the argument proposed in the readings convincing to you? What kind of evidence do the authors offer? What kind of writing is this? What kind of methodology and evidence are used? Is it descriptive, explanatory, impressionistic? Is it scientific and rigorous? You must turn in the essays by noon on Monday of the week the readings are to be discussed, via email (erein@emory.edu). That means that you effectively have from Thursday night to Monday morning to read and reflect on these readings. Given the limits on the readings—50-75 pages—this should not be too difficult. I will return your essays the next day at the start of class, with comments. There will be 14 of these essays possible, but each student can skip up to 2 without penalty. (If you submit more than 12 I will factor in just the 12 with the highest grades.) In addition, each student has the option to rewrite up to 2 essays for a (hopefully better) substitute grade — though rewrites must be submitted to the instructor no more than 7 days after the initial version was returned to the student.

Class participation (25%). Students are expected to attend and participate actively in every class. This portion of your grade is based on the quality and quantity of your contributions to class discussion, as well as evidence from discussion that you did the readings and reflected upon them.

Individual in-class oral presentation (5%). At the beginning of each week’s topic, one student will make a short (5-10 minute) presentation, summarizing the main points of each reading, bulleting the issues raised, offering his or her own perspectives, and generally framing the topic for the class. Presentations will be scheduled at the start of the semester using a signup sheet.

A note on group work. The group project is designed to encourage interaction and debate among students on the topics of the course. You will work closely with your group throughout the course. Each group will consist of two to four students. You may choose your own group partners; if you do not, you will be assigned to groups by the instructor. The group should meet on its own repeatedly to discuss the project. The group members will all receive an identical grade for the project. Remember, you must fulfill your part of the group effort. Do not let your group down. Likewise, you are responsible for your group’s division of labor and for fully integrating each other into the project. However, if for some reason a severe problem arises among group members that threatens to prevent the successful completion of the project, an individual member or the entire group may bring this to the attention of the professor. We can only solve problems, however, if you bring them to my attention right away, not after the semester is over.

Important Dates

Form groups by Sept 7.
Group project drafts due Sept 28, Oct 26, and Nov 23.
In-class group presentations on Dec 7.
Group project final version due Dec 10.

Course Policies

There is no prerequisite for the course. The course does satisfy the college writing requirement. Only freshmen can enroll.

Absolutely no excuses will be accepted for late assignments, unless they are formally approved by the academic counselors in Student Affairs at the Emory College office in White Hall, and communicated directly to the instructor from the College. See a College representative before you come to me with an excuse for any assignment whatsoever. There will be no exceptions. In the absence of a formal College waiver, late assignments will be penalized. Each day the assignment is late will result in a drop of a half letter grade, e.g., A to A-, etc.

The academic counselors at the College office are your advocates and are wonderful resources for all academic-related questions during your time at Emory (e.g., choice of major, distribution requirements, resources for coping with personal problems interfering with academic progress, etc.). Contact information is below:

Helen Blier, hblier@www.colloff.emory.edu, Academic Counselor

Karen Brown-Wheeler, kbrown-wheeler@www.colloff.emory.edu, Academic Counselor

Angela Hunter, ahunt03@emory.edu, Academic Counselor

White Hall 218, phone 404-727-6048

M-F 9a-4p, call ahead for appointment when possible

Readings

Readings average 63 pages per week, mostly articles, though we will read portions of books in many cases. I have prepared a comprehensive packet of photocopies of all required readings in order. I will make this packet available to you at the start of the semester so that you can borrow it for a short duration, make a complete copy for yourself, and return it to me. In addition, all items will be on reserve by the second or third week of the course.

Students are expected to have completed the "required" reading by the day for which it has been assigned. The "further reading" is entirely optional. Students are also encouraged to keep up with current events, e.g., in sources like the New York Times, which often provide information about interesting cases of conflict and cooperation in many different settings.

Course Outline

Aug 26 (Th): Introduction.

Aug 31 (Tu): The problem of cooperation. (No class Thursday, Sept 2.)

Required

Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 3-12.
Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (London: Vintage, 1997), 1-3, 8-16.

~22 pages

Sept 7, 9: Collective action in the civil rights movement. (Form groups by Sept 7.)

Required

Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 3-5, 66-115.

~53 pages

Further Reading

David Halberstam, The Children (New York: Random House, 1998).
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 450-491, 492-523.
John Lewis with Michael D’Orso, Walking with the Wind (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998).
Kenneth Clark, "The Civil Rights Movement: Momentum and Organizations," Daedalus 95 (1994), 239-267.
August Meier and Elliot Rudwick, "The Boycott Movement Against Jim Crow Streetcars in the South, 1900-1906," Journal of American History 55 (1969), 756-75.
David Garrow, Protest at Selma. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
Dennis Chong, Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement.

Resources

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site (http://www.nps.gov/malu/) and the King Center

Sept 14, 16: A theory of cooperation among rational self-interested players.

Required

Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 3-54, 124-141, also look at 192-205.

~70 pages

Further Reading

Marc L. Busch and Eric R. Reinhardt, "Nice Strategies in a World of Relative Gains: The Problem of Cooperation Under Anarchy," Journal of Conflict Resolution 37:3 (September 1993), 427-445.
Robert Axelrod, The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), esp. 33-39, 44-68.

Sept 21, 23: Cooperation and altruism among animals.

Required

Raghavendra Gadagkar, Survival Strategies: Cooperation and Conflict in Animal Societies (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), 1-12, 25-39, 57-108.
Lee Alan Dugatkin, "The Evolution of Cooperation," Bioscience 47:6 (June 1997), 355-362.
Allison O. Adams, "Why Do Voles Fall In Love?", Emory Magazine 75:1 (Spring 1999), 10-13.

~90 pages

Further Reading

Frans de Waal, Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), 133-162.
Edward O. Wilson, In Search of Nature (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996), 63-69, 75-94.
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, new ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 166-188.
Edward O. Wilson, On Human Nature (New York: Bantam Books, 1978), 155-175.
Lee Alan Dugatkin, Cooperation Among Animals: An Evolutionary Perspective (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), esp. 14-44 and animal case studies.
Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 88-105.

Resources

Living Links Center, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University, "Chimpanzee Food Sharing" on-line video.

Frans de Waal, dewaal@emory.edu, Yerkes and Dept of Psychology.

Marshall Duke, duke@social-sci.ss.emory.edu, Dept of Psychology.

Sept 28, 30: Effects of gender and culture on cooperation. (Group draft 1 due Sept 28.)

Required

Deborah Tannen, "Teachers’ Classroom Strategies Should Recognize That Men and Women Use Language Differently," Chronicle of Higher Education (June 19, 1991), B1, B3.
Nancy L. Segal, Sharon L. Connelly, Tari D. Topoloski, "Twin Children with Unfamiliar Partners: Genotypic and Gender Differences on Cooperation," Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 37 (September 1996), 731-735.
Beth Reingold, "Conflict and Cooperation: Legislative Strategies and Concepts of Power among Female and Male State Legislators," Journal of Politics 58:2 (May 1996), 464-485.
Nicholas D. Kristof, "In Japan, Nice Guys (and Girls) Finish Together," New York Times (April 12, 1998), section 4, page 7.
Robert H. Frank et al., "Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 7:2 (1993), 159-171.

~42 pages

Further Reading

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (New York: Pantheon Books, 1979).
Deborah Tannen, "The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why," Harvard Business Review 73:5 (September 1995), 138-148.
Jose R. Molinas, "The Impact of Inequality, Gender, External Assistance, and Social Capital on Local-Level Cooperation," World Development 26:3 (March 1998), 413-431.
William Golding, Lord of the Flies (London: Faber and Faber, 1954).

Resources

Movie: Gung Ho (Hollywood: Paramount Home Video, 1986), V.DISC 1441.

Oct 5, 7: Cooperation under fire: why soldiers fight, why they shirk.

Required

James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), vii-xi, 3-29, 46-61, 77-89, (optional) 163-178.
Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), xv-xxii, 55-87, (optional) 88-132 & 143-189.
Richard Cohen, "Binding Us Tighter," Washington Post (February 18, 1999), A21.

~103 pages

Further Reading

Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II (New York: Touchstone, 1994), 320-360, 434-450.
Thomas E. Ricks, Making the Corps (New York: Scribner, 1997).
Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (New York: Henry Holt, 1977), 3-24, 249-285.
Edward Shils and Morris Janowitz, "Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmacht in World War II," Public Opinion Quarterly 12 (1948), 280-315.
Omer Bartov, Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Michael C. Desch, "Why Ordinary Men Commit Extraordinary Crimes," Security Studies 3:2 (Winter 1993/1994), 359-368.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, A Novel (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961), selections.

Resources

Movie: Saving Private Ryan

Oct 14 (Th): Cooperation among firms. (No class Tuesday, Oct 12, Fall Break.)

Required

Jeffrey H. Dyer, "How Chrysler Created an American Keiretsu," Harvard Business Review 74:4 (July/August 1996), 42-56.
Joel Kotkin, "How Toys Cleaned Up Urban Blight," New York Times (November 29, 1998), B6.
Michael E. Porter, "Clusters and the New Economics of Competition," Harvard Business Review (November-December 1998), 77-86.
Peter Passell, "Economic Scene: Fixing Prices for Virtue’s Sake?", New York Times (May 13, 1992), D2.

~28 pages

Further Reading

Marc L. Busch and Eric Reinhardt, "Geographic Concentration and Political Mobilization: The Spatial Determinants of Collective Action in Trade Politics," presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 3-6, Atlanta, GA.
AnnaLee Saxenian, "The Origins and Dynamics of Production Networks in Silicon Valley," Research Policy 20:5 (October 1991), 423-437.
George B. Sheperd, "Overlap and Antitrust: Fixing Prices in a Smoke-Filled Classroom," Antitrust Bulletin 40:4 (December 22, 1995), 859-884.
Steven C. Salop and Lawrence J. White, "Policy Watch: Antitrust Goes to College," Journal of Economic Perspectives 5:3 (Summer 1991), 193-202.
Connie Leslie and Sue Hutchinson, "An Ivy League Cartel," Newsweek 114:8 (August 21, 1989), 65+.
Ian Ayres, "Colleges in Collusion," New Republic 201:16 (October 16, 1989), 19-20.

Resources

George Sheperd, Emory School of Law, gshep@law.emory.edu, on Ivy price-fixing.

Emory Admissions Office.

Oct 19, 21: Rebellion in the lager, cooperation among prisoners.

Required

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 3-15, esp. 6-15.
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (New York: Touchstone Books, 1996), 87-100 (ch.9 , "The Drowned and the Saved").
Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved (New York: Summit Books, 1988), 150-161.
Primo Levi, The Reawakening (New York: Collier, 1987), 202-205.
Isaiah Trunk, "Note: Why Was There No Armed Resistance Against the Nazis in the Lodz Ghetto?", in Michael R. Marrus, ed., Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust (Westport: Meckler, 1989), 185-190.
Reuben Ainsztein, Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe (London: Paul Elek, 1974), 707-714, optional 685-714.

~57 pages

Further Reading

Yisrael Gutman, "The Genesis of the Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto," in Michael R. Marrus, ed., Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust (Westport: Meckler, 1989), 118-159.
Yitzhak Arad, "Jewish Prisoner Uprisings in the Treblinka and Sobibor Extermination Camps," in Michael R. Marrus, ed., Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust (Westport: Meckler, 1989), 240-283.
Reuben Ainsztein, Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe (London: Paul Elek, 1974), ch. 40, "Vilno: The Tragic Failure" (486-518).
Douglas R. Egerton, "Gabriel’s Conspiracy and the Election of 1800," Journal of Southern History 56 (May 1990), 191-214.
David Barry Gaspar, "The Antigua Slave Conspiracy of 1736: A Case Study of the Origins of Collective Resistance," William and Mary Quarterly 35:2 (April 1978), 308-323.
Michael P. Johnson, "Runaway Slaves and the Slave Communities in South Carolina, 1799 to 1830," William and Mary Quarterly 38:3 (July 1981), 418-441.

Oct 26, 28: Community economic and political development. (Group draft 2 due Oct 26.)

Required

Robert D. Putnam, "The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life," American Prospect 13 (Spring 1993), 35-42.
Michael Pollan, "Town-Building is No Mickey Mouse Operation," New York Times Magazine (December 14, 1997), 56+.
"Research Alliance Prepares a Harvest," South (December 1997), 18-22.
"Tupelo: How a Small Mississippi Town Moved From Being Dead Last in Everything to a Model of Social and Economic Progress," Doubletake (Winter 1999), 6+.

~33 pages

Further Reading

Russ Rymer, "Back to the Future: Disney Reinvents the Company Town," Harper’s 293:1757 (October 1996), 65+.
Dietland Stolle and Thomas R. Rochon, "Are All Associations Alike? Member Diversity, Associational Type, and the Creation of Social Capital," American Behavioral Scientist 42:1 (September 1998), 47-65.
Mark Schneider et al., "Institutional Arrangements and the Creation of Social Capital: The Effects of Public School Choice," American Political Science Review 91 (March 1997), 82-93.
S. Knack and P. Keefer, "Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation," Quarterly Journal of Economics 112:4 (November 1997), 1251-1288.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 2 (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 106-120.

Nov 2, 4: Interest group participation & labor unions.

Required

Gregg Michel, "‘Union Power, Soul Power’: Unionizing Johns Hopkins University Hospital, 1959-1974," Labor History 38 (Winter 1996-1997), 28-66.
James Q. Wilson, Political Organizations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 119-142.
Leslie Taylor, Doug Anderson, and David Colman, "Student Union: Graduate Student Organizing," The Nation 20:263 (December 16, 1996), 5+.
George Judson, "Yale’s Labor Woes, In and Out of Class," New York Times (January 11, 1996), B1+.
Andrea Adelson, "Graduate Teaching Assistants, Increasingly Burdened, Are Unionizing," New York Times (March 31, 1999), B7.

~68 pages

Further Reading

Federalist, No. 10.
Pamela Zurer, "Graduate Student Strike Bypassed Yale’s Science Departments," Chemical & Engineering News 74:9 (February 26, 1996), 42+.
Randall L. Patton, "Textile Organizing in a Sunbelt South Community: Northwest Georgia's Carpet Industry in the Early 1960s," Labor History 39:3 (August 1998), 291-309.
Draper, "The New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Success of the Mine and Smelter Workers Union in Birmingham, 1934-," Journal of Southern History 62 (February 1996), 87-108.
David C. King and Jack L. Walker, "The Provision of Benefits by Interest Groups in the United States," Journal of Politics 54 (May 1992), 394-426.
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971), 132-167.
Kenneth A. Shepsle and Mark S. Bonchek, Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), 237-250.
Terry Moe, The Organization of Interests (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).
David Knoke, "Incentives in Collective Action Organizations," American Sociological Review 53 (1988), 311-329.
Jack L. Walker, Jr., Mobilizing Interest Groups in America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991).

Resources

Movie: Matewan (Los Angeles: Lorimar Home Video, 1987), V.DISC 245 (130 min.)

Documentary Film: Harlan County, USA (New York: Columbia Pictures, 1980), V.CASS. VHS 37 (103 min.).

United Auto Workers home page and history documents, http://www.uaw.org/History/index.html

AFL-CIO Home Page, http://www.aflcio.org/home.htm

Nov 9, 11: Cooperation in the information age.

Required

Elena Rocco and Massimo Warglien, "Computer Mediated Communication and the Emergence of ‘Electronic Opportunism,’" Department of Economics, University of Trento, WP 1996-01 (1996).

A. Blanchard and T. Horan, "Virtual Communities and Social Capital," Social Science Computer Review 16:3 (Fall 1998), 293-307.

David L. Kirp, "Two Cheers for the Electronic Town Hall: Or Ross Perot, Meet Alexis de Tocqueville," Responsive Community: Rights & Responsibilities 2:4 (Fall 1992), 48-52.

Stephen Talty, "The Method of a Neo-Nazi Mogul," New York Times Magazine (February 25, 1996), 40+.

Richard A. Serrano, "Internet Promotes a Surge in Hate Groups, Study Finds," Los Angeles Times (March 4, 1998), A10.

Nate Stulman, "The Great Campus Goof-Off Machine,"New York Times (March 15, 1999), A19.

Amy Harmon, "Sad, Lonely World Discovered in Cyberspace," New York Times (August 30, 1998), A1+.

~66 pages

Further Reading

John Perry Barlow, "Is There a There in Cyberspace?", Utne Reader (March/April 1995), 52-56.

William J. Mitchell, City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995), on-line version at http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/City_of_Bits/.

Andrea Hollingshead, Joseph McGrath, and Kathleen O’Connor, "Group Task Performance and Communication Technology: A Longitudinal Study of Computer-Mediated versus Face-To-Face Work Groups," Small Group Research 24 (August 1993), 307-33.

Jane Sell and Rick Wilson, "Levels of Information and Contributions to Public Goods," Social Forces 70 (September 1991), 107-24.

Mark Isaac and James Walker, "Communication and Free-Riding Behavior: The Voluntary Contribution Mechanism," Economic Inquiry 26 (February 1988), 51-74.

C. A. Bowers, "Toward a Balanced Perspective on the Educational Uses of Computers: Advantages, Myths, and the Responsibilities of Educators," International Journal of Leadership in Education 1:1 (1998), 75-83.

Elinor Ostrom, "A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997," American Political Science Review 92:1 (March 1998), 1-22, esp. 6-7.

Alden M. Hayashi, "The Net Effect," Scientific American (January 1999), 21-22.

Resources

See John Perry Barlow’s organization promoting on-line expression and community-building, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), at http://www.eff.org/.

For a very disturbing example of the way modern racist groups are using the Internet to mobilize, you may wish to see a white-supremacist site called Stormfront, at http://www.stormfront.org/.

Nov 16, 18: Cooperation among criminals. Loyalty and betrayal in the Mafia.

Required

Brian Forst and Judith Lucianovic, "The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Theory and Reality," Journal of Criminal Justice 5 (Spring 1977), 55-64.
Peter Maas, Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 1-6, 119-128, 134-147, 398-418, 438-481.
Selwyn Raab, "Mob’s ‘Commission’ No Longer Meeting, As Families Weaken," New York Times (April 27, 1998), B1.
Ed Vulliamy, "New York Mafia Boss," Observer (April 19, 1998), 5.

~115 pages (Maas book has small pages, big print)

Further Reading

Scott H. Decker and Barrik Van Winkle, Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), esp. chs. 3-4.
Rich Cohen, Tough Jews (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998).
Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), esp. 1-11, 245-256, 262-270.
Raimondo Catanzaro, Men of Respect: A Social History of the Sicilian Mafia (New York: Free Press, 1988), esp. 3-44.

Resources

Movie: Donnie Brasco

Nov 23 (Tu): Intra- and inter-ethnic cooperation and conflict. (Group draft 3 due Nov 23. No class Nov. 25, Thanksgiving.)

Required

David Bornstein, "The Barefoot Bank with Cheek," Atlantic Monthly 276:6 (December 1995), 40-47.
Murray Hiebert, "Chain Lending: Informal Credit Fills Void Left by Vietnam’s Banks," Far Eastern Economic Review (March 4, 1993).
V. P. Gagnon, Jr., "Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict," International Security 19 (Winter 1994/1995), 130-166.
Bill Berkeley, "Judgement Day," Washington Post Magazine (October 11, 1998), W10+.

~60 pages

Further Reading

Scott Anderson, "Making a Killing: The High Cost of Peace in Northern Ireland," Harper’s 288:1725 (February 1994), 45-54.

James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, "Explaining Interethnic Cooperation," American Political Science Review 90:4 (December 1996), 715-735.

Mark Granovetter, "The Economic Sociology of Firms and Entrepreneurs," in Alejandro Portes, ed., The Economic Sociology of Immigration: Essays on Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepeneurship (New York: Russell Sage, 1995), 128-157.

Syed Hashemi, Sidney Schuler, and Ann Riley, "Rural Credit Programs and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh," World Development 24:4 (1996), 635-653.

L. A. Peter Gosling, "Chinese Crop Dealers in Malaysia and Thailand: The Myth of the Merciless Monopsonistic Middleman," in Linda Lim and L. A. Peter Gosling, eds., The Chinese in Southeast Asia, Vol. 1: Ethnicity and Economic Activity (Maruzen Asia, 1983), 130-166.

Pankaj Jain, "Managing Credit for the Rural Poor: Lessons from the Grameen Bank," World Development 24:1 (1996), 79-89.

Ivan Hubert Light, Ethnic Enterprise in America: Business and Welfare among Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972).

Nov 30, Dec 2: Cooperation among nations: dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization.

Required

Eric Reinhardt, "Aggressive Multilateralism: The Determinants of GATT/WTO Dispute Initiation, 1948-1998," presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, February 17-20, Washington, DC.
John H. Jackson, William J. Davey, and Alan O. Sykes, Jr., Legal Problems of International Economic Relations, 3^rd ed. (St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1995), 327-348, 369-371.
"At Daggers Drawn," Economist (May 8, 1999).

~ 72 pages

Further Reading

Eric Reinhardt, "Adjudication without Enforcement Can Be Influential," working paper, Emory University, June 1998. http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~erein/research/dsi.pdf

Marc L. Busch, "Overlapping Institutions and Global Commerce: The Calculus of Forum Shopping for Dispute Settlement in Canada-U.S. Trade," presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, February 17-20, Washington, DC. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mbusch/

Christina R. Sevilla, "Explaining Patterns of GATT/WTO Trade Complaints," Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Working Paper, January 1998. https://wwwc.cc.columbia.edu/sec/dlc/ciao/wps/sec01/

Resources

World Trade Organization, http://www.wto.org/, with an introductory video, special pages on dispute settlement procedures, case studies on disputes, and current trade events.

For related international institutions, see the International Court of Justice, (http://www.icj.org/), the International Monetary Fund (http://www.imf.org), and the World Bank (http://www.worldbank.org).

Dec 7 (Tu): Group presentations.

Dec 10 (Fri): Group projects due, 4:30p, Prof. Reinhardt’s office.