Part III: Engaging and Containing Weak States Week 7: Reward and Rebuild [March 3, 2014] What have been the general approaches to rebuilding weak states? What have been the criticisms of these approaches? Readings: Christopher Coyne, “Reconstructing Weak and Failed States: Foreign Intervention and the Nirvana Fallacy,” Foreign Policy Analysis, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 343-360, October 2006. Natasha Ezrow and Erica Frantz. Failed States and Institutional Decay. “State Building, Foreign Aid, and Interventions.” Bloomsbury: London, 2013, chp. 9, pp. 285-314. Michael Mazarr, “The Rise and Fall of the Failed-State Paradigm.” Foreign Affairs, vol. 93, issue 1, pp. 113-121. Pierre Englebert and Denis M. Tull, “Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa,” International Security, Vol. 32, No. 4, Spring 2008, pp. 106-139. Ulrich Schneckener, “State Building or New Modes of Governance? The Effects of International Involvement in Areas of Limited Statehood,” in Governance without a State, ed. Thomas Risse. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, chp. 9. Fukuyama, Francis and Michael McFaul. "Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted?" The Washington Quarterly 31.1 (2008): 23-45 http://www.mafhoum.com/press10/312P6.pdf References: Asian Development Bank “Achieving Development Effectiveness in Weakly Performing Member Countries,” April 2007, Stephen Browne, “Aid to Fragile States, Do Donors Help or Hinder?” United Nations University Discussion Paper No. 2007/01, DFID, “Building Peaceful States and Societies,” 2010. James Dobbins, et al. America's Role in Nation-Building From Germany to Iraq. RAND Corporation, Available at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1753 (Read executive summary, skim rest as inclined) Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World,” Chapter 5.
Liana Sun Wyler, “Weak and Failing States: Evolving Security Threats and U.S. Policy”, Congressional Research Service, 2008, “DAC Guidelines on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation,” Development Advisory Committee, OECD, 1997, pp. 37-52, Marie-Joëlle Zahar, “Foreign Intervention and State Reconstruction: Bosnian Fragility in Comparative Perspective,” in Denisa Kostovicova Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, eds Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age, pp. 115-128 Week 8: Punish and Isolate [March 10, 2014] Alex J Bellamy, “Responsibility to Protect or Trojan Horse? The Crisis in Darfur and Humanitarian Intervention after Iraq” in Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 19 No. 2, 2005, pp. 31-54. Simon Chesterman and Béatrice Pouligny, “Are Sanctions Meant to Work? The politics of creating and implementing sanctions through the United Nations” in Global Governance Vol. 9, Issue 4, Oct-Dec 2003, pp. 503-518.7 Max Du Plessis, “The Creation of the ICC: Implications for Africa’s Despots, Crackpots, and Hotspots.” African Security Review 12.4, 2003, pp. 5-15. Kaye, David. “Who’s Afraid of the International Criminal Court?” Foreign Affairs 90.3, 2011, pp. 118-29. Pierre Leval, “The Long Arm of International Law: Giving Victims of Human Rights Abuses Their Day in Court.” Foreign Affairs, 92.2, 2013, pp. 16-21. NB: March 17-22, 2014 Spring Break Part IV: Case Studies: Define and Assess the Threats and Identify Policy Challenges Week 9: Mid-term [March 24, 2014] Week 10: India, Ukraine and energy security [March 31, 2014]
Stewart Patrick, Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security, Oxford University Press, 2011, Chapter 5 Taras Kuzio, “Transatlantic Energy Security and Ukraine: Politics, Corruption and National Interests.” Chp. 13 et al., The Next Four Billion, Chapter 7 ‘The Energy Market’ March, 2007, Week 11: Pakistan, Mali and transnational terrorism [April 7, 2014] Stewart Patrick, Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security, Oxford University Press, 2011, Chapter 2 Edward Newman, “Weak States, State Failure, and Terrorism” in Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2007, pp. 463-488. Ahmed Rashid, “The Anarchic Republic of Pakistan” in The National Interest. Sept/Oct 2010. Piazza, James A. “Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promotes Transnational Terrorism?” in International Studies Quarterly Vol 52 (2008): 469-488. Ricardo Rene Laremont, “Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in the Sahel.” African Security 4, 2011, pp. 242-268. Extra: Stephen Philip Cohen, “The Jihadist Threat to Pakistan” in The Washington Quarterly Vol 26 No 3 (Summer 2003): p7-24. William McCants, “Al-Qaeda’s Challenge: The Jihadists’ War with Islamist Democrats” in Foreign Affairs Sept/Oct 2011. Week 12: Mexico, Iraq and transnational crime [April 14, 2014] Stewart Patrick, Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security, Oxford University Press, 2011, Chapter 4 Enrique Desmond Arias, “Understanding Criminal Networks, Political Order, and Politics in Latin America, In Anne L. Clunan and Harold A. Trinkunas (eds), Ungoverned Spaces. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2010, chp. 6. David Rieff, “The Struggle for Mexico,” New Republic, March 17, 2011 Phil Williams, “Illicit markets, weak states and violence: Iraq and Mexico,” Crime, Law and Social Change, Volume 52, Number 3, pp. 323-336, September 2009.