POLS425 Lecture Notes Page

This page contains lecture notes, usually posted as a PDF file. Please be advised that notes from only a FEW classes will be posted here (in other words, do not rely on this page to find notes for classes you missed!) • In general, I will only post notes for classes in which the bulk of the lecture was based on non-required reading material. Check back for updates.

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** See below for lecture materials from spring 2004, the last time I taught POLS 425. Since we are using the same textbook, much of the material below will be the same material we use this quarter.

LECTURE NOTES SPRING QUARTER 2004

•	Week NINE Notes and Lecture Materials (May 24, 2004) Quotes from "U.S. Counterinsurgency in Iraq: Lessons from the Philippine War" Postmodern "Deconstruction" Exercise (using textual mechanisms discussed by Roxanne Doty) • Overheads are saved as a single PDF file Lecture overheads (all the overheads for the lectures on Wendt and Doty are saved on a single PDF file) *** NOTE: These overheads are from FALL 2003, so they do not correspond exactly to what we covered in class. However, the content is essentially the same
•	Week FOUR Notes and Lecture Materials (April 19, 2004) This week we began our discussion of the Marxist perspective. Below you will find the overheads used in class. All documents are available only in the PDF format. • What is Marxism? • Base-Superstructure • Logic of Capitalism • Lecture Notes: Marxism
•	Week THREE Notes and Lecture Materials (April 12, 2004) This week we finished up our discussion of liberalism. Below you will find my overheads and lectures notes (on both realism and liberalism) used for class. All docusments are avaiable as a PDF file. • Realism/Liberalism lecture notes • Rice: America's foreign policy priorities ª Liberalism and the Study of Foreign Policy • Idealist principles of Bush Administration • Realist principles of Bush Administration
•	Week TWO Notes and Lecture Materials (April 5, 2004) This week we discussed the realist perspective and began a discussion of the liberal perspective. Below you will find the overheads I used in class. Each overhead is available as a PDF file. NOTE: I have not posted my lecture notes, but may do so at a later date (however, my notes from fall 2003 are available below). • What is Realism? (Some basic definitions) • Core Principles of Realism • Additional Principles of Realism • The Essential Realism--The Three "S's" • What is Liberalism?
•	Week ONE Notes (March 29, 2004) This week, during the first class meeting, we had a brief lecture covering material from the main textbook by Laura Neack. Normally, I will not post notes on material covered in the required readings, but since the textbook was not available this week, I am posting the notes.

** The notes posted below are from the last time I taught this course (fall 2003). It is likely I will use much of the same material, so if you want to get a head start, this is a good place to start.

FALL QUARTER 2003

Week Ten Notes and Lecture Materials

Feminist perspectives on US Foreign Policy/Postmodern Constructivism (con't)

• "..Beware of Babies in Incubators" • news story from the Christian Science Monitor meant to illustrate how certain aspects of the first Gulf War were "engendered"

• Realities of War (overhead) • Graphic depiction of two very different "realities" of the war in Iraq

Week Eight/Nine Notes and Lecture Materials

Wendt, "Constructing International Politics" and Doty, "Foreign Policy as Social Construction"

• Quotes from "U.S. Counterinsurgency in Iraq: Lessons from the Philippine War" Postmodern "Deconstruction" Exercise (using textual mechanisms discussed by Roxanne Doty) • Overheads are saved as a single PDF file

• Lecture overheads (all the overheads for the lectures on Wendt and Doty are saved on a single PDF file)

• The POLS 425 Readings page contains additional resources related to this week's lectures

Week Six Notes and Lecture Materials

Neack Chapter Three and Four: State and System Level of Analysis

• Notes for the lectures this week will not be posted; however, overheads summarizing the individual, state, and system-levels of analysis are available below.

• Individual Level of Analysis overhead (gif)

• State Level of Analysis overhead (gif)

• System Level of Analysis overhead (gif)

Week Five Notes and Lecture Materials

• Nothing posted for this week

Week Four Notes and Lecture Materials

Neack Chapter Two: Individual Level of Analysis

Notes for the lecture will not be posted for this chapter; however, overheads used in class are available, as follows:

• Quotes from Bush and "Neo-cons" on foreign policy

• Quote by Bush (the candidate) on "nation-building"

• Cartoon by J. Borgman (Cincinnati Enquirer) on Bush

Interested students should also take a look at the online reading page for additional links to useful sources of information related to this week's topic.

Week Four Notes and Lecture Materials

• Marxism Lecture (posted 10/17/03)