Syllabus_Modern Diplomacy_Emmanuel Navon

Modern Diplomacy Dr. Emmanuel Navon Syllabus 2017

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International MA in Security and Diplomacy

Modern Diplomacy

Dr. Emmanuel Navon

Spring Semester, 2017

1. Course Description: This course offers an overview and explanation of the historical evolution and contemporary practice of diplomacy. Its purpose it to equip future diplomats with the historical knowledge and practical tools that are required in today's complex and challenging international environment. The course will cover the following topics: the history of diplomacy and of successive international (dis)orders; the challenges of diplomacy after the Cold War; Diplomacy and international trade/finance; Diplomacy and conflict resolution/management; Diplomacy, disarmament and arms control; Diplomacy, international organizations and NGOs; Public diplomacy and soft power in the age of social media.

2. Course Details: Thursdays, from 5 to 7:30 pm Naftali Building (Social Sciences), Room #4

3. Lecturer's Contact & Reception Hours: Email: [email protected] Social media: /emmanuelnavon Reception hours: Mondays from 2 to 3 pm Naftali Building, Room 526 (next to the elevator)

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4. Assignments and Grading: Class Discussion/Participation: 10% Essay/Presentation: 20% Final Paper: 70%

5. Reference Books: M.S. Anderson, The Rise of Modern Diplomacy, 1450-1919 (Routledge, 1993). R.P. Bartson, Modern Diplomacy (Routledge, 2013). G.R. Berridge, Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). G.R. Berridge, M. Keens-Soper, and T.G. Otte, Diplomatic Theory from Machiavelli to Kissinger (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001). John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (Penguin, 2005). Keith Hamilton & Richard Langhorne, The Practice of Diplomacy: Its Evolution, Theory and Administration (Routledge, 2010). Henry Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1922 (Echo Point Books, 2013). Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (Simon & Schuster, 1994). Henry Kissinger, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? (Simon & Schuster, 2002). Henry Kissinger, World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History (Penguin Books, 2015) Jon Melissen (ed.), The New Public Diplomacy: Soft Power in International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). J.P. Muldoon, J. Aviel, R. Reitano and E. Sullivan (eds.), Multilateral Diplomacy and the United Nations Today (Westview Press, 2005). Geoffrey Allen Pigman, Contemporary Diplomacy: Representation and Communication in a Globalized World (Polity Press, 2011). David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 2007).


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6. Schedule and Readings:

Class 1 (March 9): Diplomacy Between Idealism and Realism

Class 2 (March 16): Raison d'État, Balance of Powers, Realpolitik

Essay/Presentation: Did the founding principle of the Westphalian system put an end to value-based diplomacy?

Required Reading:

M.S. Anderson, The Rise of Modern Diplomacy (Longman, 1993), 149-203. Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (Simon & Schuster, 1994), pp. 56-77.

Class 3 (March 23): Classical Diplomacy in the Age of Modern Nationalism

Essay/Presentation: Doesn't modern nationalism contradict the "democratic peace" theory?

Required Reading:

M.S. Anderson, The Rise of Modern Diplomacy, pp. 103-148. Kissinger, Diplomacy, pp. 78-167.

Class 4 (March 30): The Rise and Fall of Wilsonian Diplomacy

Essay/Presentation: Was the failure of the Versailles Agreements inevitable?

Required Reading:

M.S. Anderson, The Rise of Modern Diplomacy, pp. 204-290. Kissinger, Diplomacy, pp. 218-265.


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Class 5 (6 April): Diplomacy Between Democracies and Dictatorships

Essay/Presentation: Did the Munich Agreement discredit diplomacy?

Required Reading:

Kissinger, Diplomacy, pp. 288-368. Paul Gordon Lauren & al., Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Challenges of Our Time (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 47-69.

Class 6 (20 April): Diplomacy During the Cold War: Anchoring the Bi-Polar System

Essay/Presentation: Did nuclear deterrence make diplomacy more, or less relevant?

Required Reading:

Kissinger, Diplomacy, pp. 394-445. Lauren, Force and Statecraft, pp. 70-87.

Class 7 (27 April): Diplomacy in the Nuclear Age: Challenging the Bi-Polar System

Essay/Presentation: US diplomacy after Vietnam: Capitulation or Realism?

Required Reading:

Kissinger, Diplomacy, pp. 643-702. Lauren, Force and Statecraft, pp. 88-109.

Class 8 (May 4): The Challenges of Diplomacy After the Cold War

Essay/Presentation: Does humanitarian intervention contradict the Westphalian model?

Required Reading:

Zbigniew Brezinski, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Advisor 1977-1981 (Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1983), pp. 234-288.


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Silviya Lechner, "Humanitarian Intervention: Moralism versus Realism?" International Studies Review 12/3 (2010), pp. 437-443.

Additional Reading:

Kissinger, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? pp. 32-83.

Kissinger, World Order, Introduction ("The Question of World Order").

Class 9 (May 11): Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution/Management

Essay/Presentation: Is conflict resolution always pre-determined by power?

Required Reading:

Ho-Won Jeong, Conflict Management and Resolution: An Introduction (Routledge, 2010), pp. 151-172.

Morton Deutsch, Peter Coleman, and Eric Marcus (eds.), The Handbook of Conflict Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2006), pp. 1-22.

Additional Reading:

R.P. Barston, Modern Diplomacy (Pearson, 1988), pp. 215-238. Ho-Won Jeong, Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution (Routledge, 2010), pp. 3-56.

Class 10 (May 18): Diplomacy, Arms Control, and Disarmament

Essay/Presentation: Can diplomacy prevent nuclear proliferation?

Required Reading:

Bartson, Modern Diplomacy, pp. 104-168.

Emily B. Landau, A Decade of Diplomacy: Negotiations with Iran and North Korea, and the Future of Nuclear Nonproliferation (INSS Memorandum 115, March 2012).


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Additional Reading:

Geoffrey Allen Pigman, Contemporary Diplomacy (Polity, 2010), pp. 161-179. Zartman, Meertz, Melamud (eds.), Banning the Bang or the Bomb? Negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Regime (Cambridge, 2014), pp. 32-57.

Class 11 (June 1): Economic Diplomacy: International Trade and International Finance

Essay/Presentation: Has globalization made economic diplomacy powerless?

Required Reading:

Peter Van den Bossche and Werner Zdouc, The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 1-73.

Steve Charnovitz, Transparency and Participation in the World Trade Organization (George Washington Law Faculty, 2004), pp. 1-34.

Additional Reading:

R.P. Barston, Modern Diplomacy, pp. 130-166. Pigman, Contemporary Diplomacy, pp. 138-160.

Class 12 (June 8): Diplomacy, International Organizations, and NGOs

Essay/Presentation: The influence of NGOs on modern diplomacy: Blessing or Curse?

Required Reading:

Edward D. Mansfred & Jon C. Peverhouse, "Democratization and the Varieties of International Organizations" The Journal of Conflict Resolution 52/2 (2008), pp. 229-269.

Margaret Karns and Karen Mingst, "International Organizations and Diplomacy" in Andrew Cooper, Jorge Heine, and Ramesh Thakur (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford University Press, 2013), 142-160.

Additional Reading:

Pigman, Contemporary Diplomacy, pp. 49-105.


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Weiss, Gordenker, Watson (eds.), NGOs, the UN, & Global Governance (Lynne Rienner, 1996), pp. 17-47.

Class 13 (June 15): Public Diplomacy and Soft Power in the Age of Social Media

Essay/Presentation: Has the Internet made public diplomacy irrelevant?

Required Reading:

G.R. Berridge, Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2010), pp. 179-191.

Pigman, Contemporary Diplomacy: Representation and Communication in a Globalized World, pp. 121-137, pp. 180-199.

Additional Reading:

Copeland, Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations, pp.

Kissinger, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? pp. 200-212.

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