Links to Actual Readings and Weekly Assignments Can Be Found on the Password Protected Weekly Class Page.
For people who are not enrolled in the class, the readings can be found at their original sources.  Most, if not all, will be available on reserve in the Political Science Research Collection, Woodburn 200, under Prof. Barbour's name.  Where we could make it available here electronically, we did. How Did it Happen: Terrorism and the New War by Hoge and Rose is available for purchase at the bookstore.

• Read syllabus; familiarize yourselves with September 11 Web sites. 

• Barbour and Wright, Keeping the Republic, "Consider the Source: How to Become a Savvy Media Consumer," pp. 674-675; 
• "Consider the Source: How to Become a Savvy Web Surfer," pp. 168-169;
• "Consider the Source: Thinking Like a Political Scientist," pp. 22-23

What is the History of Mass Killing in the 20th Century?   What are Some of the Principles of Justice by Which We Hold The Perpetrators Accountable? 

• Human Rights Watch, Slaughter Among Neighbors. Introduction Only

• Hisham Sharabi, "The Heritage of European Domination," pp. 23-42
• Iliya Harik, "The Origins of the Arab State System," pp. 19-45

• Charles Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, "World War I, Great Britain, and Peace Settlements," pp. 38-67

• "The Persian Gulf," in Congressional Quarterly (CQ), pp. 104-129
• "U.S. Policy in the Middle East," in CQ, pp. 64-100

• "The Arab Israeli Conflict," in CQ, pp. 9-60;
• "The Persian Gulf," in CQ, pp. 101-132;
• "U.S. Policy in themiddle East," in CQ, pp. 61-100;
• "The Middle East: Theater of Conflict," in Global Studies; the Middle East, ed. William Spencer, pp. 16-32; 
• Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli-Conflict," pp. 124-150, 177-203, 224-231, 240-314;
• John Haldane, "Thawing Relations with Tehran" Christian Science Monitor

• Samuel Huntington, "Clash of Cultures"
• "Islam Today: A New Assertiveness," in CQ, pp. 183-189
• Karen Armstrong, "Was it Inevitable?  Islam through History" in Hoge and Rose, pp. 53-70. 

• Philip Khoury, "Islamic Revivalism and the Crisis of the Secular State in the Arab World," in I. Ibrahim, ed. Arab Resources: the Transformation of a Society **
• "Fourteen Centuries of Islam," in CQ, pp. 169-183

• Rajan Menan, "The Restless Region: The Brittle States of Central and South Asia," in Hoge and Rose.
• Fiona Hill, "Silencing Central Asia: The Voice of Dissidents." Click  here.
• Georgi M. Derluguian, "Che Guevaras in Turbans: The Twisted Lineage of Islamic Fundamentalism in Chechnya and Dagestan," Policy Memo No.16 in the Program onNEw Approaches to Russian Security series( Wash. DC: CSIS, OCt. 1999)

• Milton Bearden, "Graveyard of Empires: Afghanistan's Treacherous Peaks," in Hoge and Rose,
• Zamay Khalilzad and Daniel Byman, "Afghanistan: The Consolidation of a Rogue State," Washington Quarterly, Winter 2000.  Click here.

• Milton Bearden, "Graveyard of Empires" in your textbook

• Fouad Ajami, "The Uneasy Imperium: Pax Americana in the Middle East" in your textbook
• Benjamin Soskis, "Hope in the Unseen" from the New Republic

• Adam Garfinkle, "The U.S. Imperial Postulate in the Mideast."
• Gary Sick, "U.S. Policy in the Gulf: Objectives and Prospects," in Rosemary Hollis, ed., Managing New Developments in the Gulf, pp. 35-49
• Fouad Ajami, "Stranger in the Arab-Muslim World," Wilson Quarterly
• Fareed Zakaria, "Why Do They Hate Us?" Newsweek

• "'Oil Shock' to Parts of Economy Begins to Reverberate Politically"
• "Energy and the Environment"
• Jeff Plungis, "GOP Again Blocks Changes In Fuel Efficiency Standards"

• Amy Waldman, "Behind the Burka: Women Subtly Fought Taliban," The New York Times (NYT), November 19, 2001;
• Barbara Crossette, "Afghanistan's Women: Hope for the Future, Blunted by a Hard Past," NYT, December 2, 2001;
• Rina Amirii, "Muslim Women as Symbols - and Pawns," NYT, November 27, 2001;
• John Schulz and Linda Schulz, "The Darkest of Ages: Afghan Women Under the Taliban," Peace and Conflict 1999 5 (3)

• "Unlocal & Afghanistan"
• "Afghanistan"
• "Afghanistan - Needed for Oil & Gas Pipelines"
• Joan Spero & Jeff Hart, "Oil, Commodity Cartels, and Power"
• Anatol Lieven, "The True Significance of the Attacks," in your textbook
• Fareed Zakaria, "What September 11 Hath Wrought," in your textbook

• Fouad Ajami, "Pax Americana in the Middle East," in your textbook

Required:

• Nasra Hassan, "An Arsenal of Believers," The New Yorker, November 19, 2001.
• Samuel Berger and Mona Sutphen, "Bin Laden's Belated Concern," in your textbook
• Walter Laqueur, "The Changing Face of Terror," in your textbook
• Michael Doran, "Ideology, Rage, and the Assault on America," in your textbook
• Ehud Sprinzak, "Rational Fanatics," in Foreign Policy
• Bernard Lewis, "License to Kill,' in Foreign Affairs

• Barbara Bardes, “Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: How Does the Public Think About America’s Role in the World?" 
• Barbour and Wright, Excerpt on “The Presidency and Public Opinion” from Chap. 8 of Keeping the Republic.
• Alan Wolf “American Society Responds to the New War” pp. 283-294 in your textbook.
• Powell, "Across America, Voices of Support," 
• Morin and Milbank, "Bush and GOP enjoy Record Popularity.

• Rajan Menan, "The Restless Region," in your textbook

• F. Gregory Gause III, "The Kingdom in the Middle: Saudi Arabia's Double Game," in Hoge and Rose
• Wesley K. Clark, "Waging the New War: What's Next for America's Armed Forces?" in Hoge and Rose
• Michael Mandelbaum, "Diplomacy in Wartime: New Priorities and Alignments," in your textbook
• Tom Grant, "Bin Laden's Grand Miscalcluation"

• Chistopher de Bellaigue, "The Perils of Pakistan," The New York Review of Books
• Michael Rubin, "Uncivil," The New Republic
• Joshua Teitelbaum, "Deserted," The New Republic
• Samuel Berger and Mon Sutphen, "Commandeering the Palestinian Cause: Bin Laden's Belated Concern," in Hoge and Rose
• William Wechsler, "Strangling the Hydra: Targeting Al Qaeda's Finances," in Hoge and Rose

• No reading. Think about what kinds of things would make you feel uncomfortable if someone put them on the wall of a classroom where you were required to attend class.

• White House Press Release, "President Establishes Office of Homeland Security"
• Dave McIntyre, "What is to be Done: The Complexity of Homeland Security"
• Dave McIntyre, "How to Start: Authority for the Homeland Security Advisor"
• William Wechsler, "Targeting Al Qaeda's Finances," in your textook
• Richard Betts, "The Limits of Prevention," in your textbook
• Stephen Flynn, "A Study in Malign Neglect," in your textbook
• Joseph Nye, Jr., "Getting Serious About Terrorism," in your textbook

• Alexis Simendinger, "Power of One"   and 
• Carl Cannon, "Fighting on Two Fronts"  both from National Journal, January 26, 2002. 

• "In Review: Framing the Flag" and
• Neil Hickey, "Access Denied: The Pentagon's War Reporting Rules are the Toughest Ever" Columbia Journalism Review March/April 2002.
• Frank Rich, "Freedom from the Press,: The New York Times, March 2, 2002.

• Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Chapter 1 (pp. 1-17) and Chapter 14 (pp. 378-401)

• Randolph Bourne, "The State"
• U.S. Supreme Court Schenck v. U.S., 249 U.S. 47

• U.S.A. Patriot Act (H.R. 132)
• White House Executive Order on Military Tribunals
• Jeffrey Isaac, "Supporting the War"
• Jeffrey Isaac, "Why Democracy Matters Now"
• Jacob Weisberg, "Taking Liberties"
• William Safire, "Voices of Negativism"
• Jeffrey Rosen, "Holding Pattern"
• Laurence H. Tribe, "Trial by Fury"
• Bruce Shapiro, "Alien's Law"
• David Cole, "National Security State"

• Martha Nussbaum, "Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism," in For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism, eds. Martha Nussbaum and Joshua Cohen
• Alexis de Tocqueville, "Public Spirit in the US," pages 235-237 in Democracy in America

• Michael Walzer, "Excusing Terror: The Politics of Ideological Apology," American Prospect

• Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars