Course Materials

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Study Guides, Notes, and Worksheets

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• Social Sciences Student Guide

• Six Factors of History (6FH)

• Socratic Seminar Discussion Sheet

• HAPPY Document Analysis

• Academic Literature Review

• Media Literacy Analysis

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Required Texts & Readings

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• Global Issues: Politics, Economics, and Culture (Fifth Edition) by Richard J. Payne​

• Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations (Third Edition) by Saul Bernard Cohen

• The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington 

• A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order by F. William Engdahl

• The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations by Wayne C. McWilliams et al.

• The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski

• The Balance of Power in International Relations: Metaphors, Myths and Models by Richard Little

• The Lexus And The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

• America’s “War On Terrorism” by Michel Chossudovsky

• Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence by Mark Juergensmeyer  

• The Revenge of Geography: What The Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts And The Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan

• Globalization and National Security edited by Jonathan Kirshner

• Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor by Jim Yong Kim et al. (editors)

• Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz

• Globalization And Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz

• Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History (Tenth Edition) by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and David A. Welch

• Of Paradise And Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan

• Non-Western Theories of International Relations: Conceptualizing World Regional Studies by Alexei D. Voskressenski

• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer

 

Supplemental Readings​

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• A World of Regions: America, Europe, and East Asia by Peter J. Katzenstein

• After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy by Robert O. Keohane

• Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security by Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver

• Why Nations Cooperate: Circumstance and Choice in International Relations by Arthur A. Stein

• Why Nations Fail: The Origins Of Power, Prosperity, And Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson 

• Political Theory And International Relations by Charles R. Beitz

• Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance by Jeremy Black

• Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century by Cynthia C. Combs

• The Five Wars of Globalization by Moises Naim

• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast For the 21st Century by George Friedman​​

• The Next Decade: Where We've Been...And Where We're Going by George Friedman

• Foreign Affairs (The Council on Foreign Relations)

• Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs

• The Economist Magazine

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"Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences -
some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality." ~ John B. Larson

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"Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism.
It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization." ~ Jean Baudrillard