Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required reading PECOS 4100

Appleby, R. Scott, 2001. “Religion as an Agent of Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding”, in Crocker, Chester A., Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela All. Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict. Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, pp. 821-841.

Bellamy, Alex J., Paul Williams and Stuart Griffin, 2004. Understanding Peacekeeping. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 146-185.

Bercovitch, Jacob & Allison Houston, 1995. “The Study of International Mediation: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence”, in J. Bercovitch (ed.), Resolving International Conflicts. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Carnevale, Peter J. D., 1986. “Strategic Choice in Mediation”, Negotiation Journal, vol. 2, pp. 41-56.

Chopra, Jarat, 2000. “The UN’s Kingdom of East Timor”, Survival vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 27-40.

Coakley, John (ed.), 2003. The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict. Second revised and expanded edition. London and Portland: Frank Cass, pp. 1-22.

Fearon, D., 1995. “Rationalist Explanations for War”, International Organization, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 379-414

Fearon, James D. and David D. Laitin. 2004. “Neotrusteeships and the Problem of Weak States”, International Security, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 5-43.

Habeeb, William Mark, 1988. Power and Tactics in International Negotiation: How Weak Nations Bargain with Strong Nations. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 7.

Hopmann, P. Terrence, 1996. The Negotiation Process and the Resolution of International Conflicts. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. Chapters 3-13

Kaufmann, Stuart J. 2006. “Escaping the Symbolic Politics Trap: Reconciliation Initiatives and Conflict Resolution in Ethnic Wars”, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 201-218.

Kelman, Herbert C., 1997. “Some Determinants of the Oslo Breakthrough”, International Negotiation, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 183-194.

Lederach, John Paul, 2001. “Civil Society and Reconciliation”, in Chester A. Crocker et.al. (eds.), 2001, pp. 841-854.

Lijphart, Arend, 1996. “The Framework Document on Northern Ireland and the Theory of Power-Sharing”, Government and Opposition, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 267-274.

McGarry, John, 1998. “Demographic engineering: The state-directed movement of ethnic groups as a technique of conflict regulation”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol.21, no. 4, pp. 613-638.

Miall, Hugh, Oliver Ramsbotham and Tom Woodhouse. 1999. Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The prevention, management and transformation of deadly conflicts. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 1-38.

Muthoo, Abhinay, 2000. “A Non-technical Introduction to Bargaining Theory”, World Economics, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 145-166.

Paris, Roland. 2004. At War’s End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-51 and 179-211.

Pearson, Frederick S., 2001. Dimensions of Conflict Resolution in Ethnopolitical Disputes. Journal of Peace Research, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 275-287.

Pillar, Paul R., 1983. Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a Bargaining Process. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapter 2.

Pruitt, Dean G., Jacob Bercovitch and I. William Zartman, 1997. “A Brief History of the Oslo Talks”, International Negotiation, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 177-182

Pruitt, Dean G., 1991/2002. “Strategy in Negotiation”, in Victor A. Kremenyuk (ed), International Negotiation: Analysis, Approaches, Issues. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, pp. 78-90.

Santiso, C., 2002. “Promoting democratic governance and preventing the recurrence of conflict: The role of the United Nations Development Programme in Post-Conflict Peace Building ”, Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 34, no. 3, pp.555-586.

Schelling, Thomas C., 1960. The Strategy of Conflict. London: Oxford University Press. Chapter 2.

Sebenius, James K., 1983. “Negotiation Arithmetic: Adding and Subtracting Issues and Parties”, International Organization, vol. 37, pp. 281-316.

Sebenius, James K., 1991/2002. “Negotiation Analysis”, in Victor A. Kremenyuk (ed.), International Negotiation: Analysis, Approaches, Issues. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, pp. 203-216.

Shlaim, Avi, 1994. “The Oslo Accord”, Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 24-40.

Stedman, Stephen John, 1997. “Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes”, International Security, vol. 22, no.2, pp. 5-53.

Underdal, Arild, 1983. “Causes of Negotiation Failure”, European Journal of Political Research, vol. 11, pp. 183-195.

Underdal, Arild, 1992. “Designing Politically Feasible Solutions.” Chapter 8 in R. Malnes and A. Underdal (eds.), Rationality and Institutions. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.

Underdal, Arild, 1991/2002. “The Outcomes of Negotiation”, in Victor A. Kremenyuk (ed.), International Negotiation: Analysis, Approaches, Issues. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, pp. 100-117.

Vetlesen, Arne Johan, 2005. Evil and Human Agency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 265-288.

Waage, Hilde Henriksen, 2005. “Norway's Role in the Middle East Peace Talks: Between a Strong State and a Weak Belligenerent”, Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 6-24.

Wallensteen, Peter, 2002. Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace and the Global System. London: Sage Publications, pp. 33-38, 53-60 and 87-127.

Walter, Barbara F., 2002. Committing to Peace: The Successful Settlement of Civil Wars. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapter 1-5, and 8

Watkins, Michael, 2003. “Strategic Simplification: Toward a Theory of Modular Design in Negotiation”, International Negotiation, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 149-167

Zartman, I. William, 1991/2002. “The Structure of Negotiation”, in Victor A. Kremenyuk (ed) International Negotiation: Analysis, Approaches, Issues. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, pp.65-78

Zartman, I. William and Jeffrey Z. Rubin (eds.), 2000. Power and Negotiation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, chapter 1 and 12.

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