Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3168: War and its Aftermath: Interventions and Contemporary Conflict

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Michael Barnett, The Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism, CornellUniversity Press, 2011.

Chaim Kaufmann, "Threat Inflation and the Failure of the Marketplace of Ideas: The Selling of the Iraq War," International Security, Summer 2004.

Kenneth Roth. "Was the Iraq War a Humanitarian Intervention?" Journal of Military Ethics Volume 5, Number 2, June 2006: 84-92.

Laurel E. Fletcher and Harvey Weinstein, "Violence and Social Repair: Rethinking the Contribution of Justice to Reconciliation," Human Rights Quarterly 24.3 (2002): 573-639.

Jenifer Lind, Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics, Ithaca, NY: CornellUniversity Press 2010.

J. L. Holzgrefe, Robert O. Keohane, Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas, eds.,Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003.

Martha Minow. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).

Klejda Mulaj, ‘Ethnic Cleansing and Provision of In/Security’, Security Dialogue 38/3, 2007.

Adam LeBor, Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide (New Haven, CT : YaleUniversity Press, 2007).

Kelly Greenhill, "Strategic Engineered Migration as a Weapon of War," Civil Wars, vol. 10, no. 1 (spring 2008): 6-21.

Mary Anderson. Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace or War. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1999. pp. 37-78.

David Rieff, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, Simon and Shuster, 2003.

Fareed Zakaria, "The Rise of Illiberal Democracy," Foreign Affairs, November/December 1997: 1-10.