Week 1: Introduction: The Discourse of State Failure (9/2/08)

• "The Failed States Index 2008." Foreign Policy (July 2008): 64-68. [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4350&page=0]

Week 2: The Causes and Prevention of State Failure (9/9/08)

• Rotberg 2003, pp. 1-150.
• Kaplan, Robert D. “The Coming Anarchy: How Scarcity, Crime, Overpopulation, Tribalism, and Disease are Rapidly Destroying the Fabric of Our Planet,” Atlantic Monthly (1994). [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199402/anarchy ]

Week 3: Historicizing, Assessing, and Categorizing State Failure (9/16/08)

• Bilgin, Pinar and Adam David Morton. “Historicising Representations of ‘Failed States’: Beyond the Cold War Annexation of the Social Sciences?” Third World Quarterly 23, no. 1 (2002): 55-80. [JSTOR]
• Gros, Jean-Germain. “Towards a Taxonomy of Failed States in the New World Order: Decaying Somalia, Liberia, Rwanda, and Haiti,” Third World Quarterly 17, no. 3 (1996): 455-471. [JSTOR]

• Carment, David. “Assessing State Failure: Implications for Theory and Policy,” Third World Quarterly 24, no. 3 (2003): 407-427. [http://http-server.carleton.ca/~dcarment/papers/assessingstatefailure.pdf]
• Patrick, Stewart. “Weak States and Global Threats: Fact or Fiction?” The Washington Quarterly 29, no. 2 (2006): 27-53. [Project Muse]
• Carpenter, Ted Galen. “The Imperial Lure: Nation Building as a US Response to Terrorism,” Mediterranean Quarterly 17, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 34-47. [Project Muse]
• Atzili, Boaz. “When Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Fixed Borders, State Weakness, and International Conflict,” International Security 31, no. 3 (Winter 2006/2007): 139-173. [Project Muse]
• Hunt, Stacey. “Languages of Stateness: A Study of Space and El Pueblo in the Colombian State,” Latin American Research Review 41, no. 3 (2006): 88-121. [Project Muse]

Week 4: Predicting State Failure (9/23/08)

• Adler, Robert. “The Crystal Ball of Chaos,” Nature 414, (29 November 2001). [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v414/n6863/pdf/414480a.pdf]
• Goldstone, Jack A.; Gurr, Ted Robert; Harff, Barbara, et al. “State Failure Task Force Report: Phase III Findings,” (30 September 2000): 1-53. [http://globalpolicy.gmu.edu/pitf/SFTF%20Phase%20III%20Report%20Final.pdf]
• King, Gary and Langche Zeng. “Improving Forecasts of State Failure,” World Politics 53, no. 4 (July 2001): 623-658. [Project Muse]
• Goldstone, Jack A., Bates, Robert H., Gurr, Ted Robert, et al. “A Global Forecasting Model of Political Instability,” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. (1-4 September 2005). [http://globalpolicy.gmu.edu/pitf/PITFglobal.pdf]
• Gurr, Ted Robert, Woodward, Mark and Marshall, Monty G. “Forecasting Instability: Are Ethnic Wars and Muslim Countries Different?” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. (1-4 September 2005). [http://globalpolicy.gmu.edu/pitf/PITFethnicmuslim.pdf]

Week 5: Intervention and Post-Failure Resuscitation (9/30/08)

• Rotberg 2003, pp. 151-318.
• Helman, Gerald B. and Steven R. Ratner. “Saving Failed States,” Foreign Policy 89 (Winter 1992): 3-20. [JSTOR]
• Herbst, Jeffrey. “Responding to State Failure in Africa,” International Security 21, no. 3 (Winter 1996/97): 120-144. [JSTOR]
• Krasner, Stephen D. and Carlos Pascual. “Addressing State Failure.” Foreign Affairs 84, no. 4 (July/August 2005): 153-163. [ProQuest]
• Langford, Tonya. “Things Fall Apart: State Failure and the Politics of Intervention,” International Studies Review 1, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 59-79. [JSTOR]

• Englebert, Pierre and Dennis M. Tull. “Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa: Flawed Ideas About Failed States,” International Security 32, no. 4 (Spring 2008): 106-139. [Project Muse]
• MIDTERM EXAM (Handed out in class; Due @ 110 Stern Hall, Friday 10/16/08 at 3:00 pm)

Week 6: Afghanistan - From Buffer State to Failed State (10/7/08)

• Student Presentation - Pair 1
• Rubin 1995, pp. 1-145.

Week 7: Fall Break (10/14/08)

Week 8: Afghanistan – Endless War (10/21/08)

• Goodson 2001, pp. 3-188.
• Rough Draft 1 (10+ pages) Due – Bring 2 copies

Week 9: (10/28/08)

• Student Presentation - Pair 2

• Rashid 2001, pp. 1-216.
• Constable, Pamela. “A Wake-up Call in Afghanistan,” Journal of Democracy 18, no. 2 (April 2007): 85-98. [Project Muse]
• Jones, Seth G. “The Rise of Afghanistan’s Insurgency: State Failure and Jihad,” International Security 32, no. 4 (Spring 2008): 7-40. [Project Muse]

• Johnson, Thomas H. and M. Chris Mason. “No Sign Until the Burst of Fire: Understanding the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier,” International Security 32, no. 4 (Spring 2008): 41-77. [Project Muse]

• Peer Evaluation 1 (2 pages) Due – Bring 2 copies

Week 10: Pakistan: The Idea of Pakistan I (11/4/08)

• Student Presentation - Pair 3
• Cohen 2006, pp. 1-130.
• Khan, Feisal. “Corruption and the Decline of the State in Pakistan,” Asian Journal of Political Science 15:2 (August 2007): 219-247. [PDF – Ask Professor]

• Mohan, C. Raja. “What if Pakistan Fails? India Isn’t Worried … Yet,” The Washington Quarterly 28:1 (2004): 117-128. [Project Muse]

Week 11: Pakistan: The Idea of Pakistan II (11/11/08)

• Cohen 2006, pp. 131-328.

• Rough Draft 2 (20+ pages) Due – Bring 2 copies

Week 12: Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military I (11/18/08)

• Student Presentation - Pair 4
• Haqqani 2005, pp. 1-158.
• Peer Evaluation 2 (4 pages) Due – Bring 2 copies

Week 13: Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military II (11/25/08)

• Student Presentation - Pair 5
• Haqqani 2005, pp. 159-329.

Week 14: Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism I (12/2/08)

• Student Presentation - Pair 6
• Abbas 2005, pp. 1-132.

Week 15: Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism II & Conclusion (12/9/08)

• Abbas 2005, pp. 133-242.
• Final Paper (30 pages) Due 12/11/08 @ 3:00 pm