Week Nine (Oct. 20, 22): Iraq

Watkin, Biddle, Rayburn, Ramberg

• Iraq

• MIDTERM EXAM

part three: africa

Week Ten (Oct. 27, 29): European Colonialism in Africa

Conrad

• Case study in colonial control: Congo

• Class cancelled due to snow

Week Eleven (Nov. 3, 5): Legacies of Colonialism

Paper proposal due at the beginning of class on Tue, Nov 3

Power, Engle

• Case study in colonial control: Rwanda

• Identity and conflict: the case of Rwanda

Week Twelve (Nov. 10, 12): Darfur

Straus, “President and Secretary of State Characterize Events in Darfur,” Natsios

• The problem of mass rape

• Recovering from genocide (guest lecture by Eamon Aloyo)

part four: latin america

Week Thirteen (Nov. 17, 19): Informal Empire

Paper draft due in TA’s box by Thursday, Nov 19 (optional)

Hawthorn, Monshipouri and Welch, Gibson

• Memory and forgetting; QUIZ 3

• Chile under Pinochet (guest lecture by Tolan Hoffman)

Week Fourteen (Nov. 24, 26)

Fall break

Week Fifteen (Dec. 1, 3): Globalization and International Trade

Crenshaw, Cronin, Pape

• Economic crisis (guest lecture by Shannon Martin); FCQ administration

• Terrorism (guest lecture by Michael Burch)

Week Sixteen (Dec. 8, 10): Terrorism

No reading; work on your paper

Final paper due in TA’s box by 5pm on Wednesday, Dec. 9

• The aid dilemma

• The future of international affairs: Afghanistan (guest panel)

Final Exam (Saturday, Dec. 12, 7:30pm): MATH 100