Conflict, Rights and Justice

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1. War and Violence in International Politics

Edward N. Luttwak, ‘Give War a Chance.’ Foreign Affairs v. 78, n. 4 (July-August 1999): pp. 36-44.

John Mueller, ‘War has almost ceased to exist,’ Political Science Quarterly, v24, no. 2 (2009):

Tanisha M Fazal, ‘Dead wrong? Battle deaths, military medicine and exaggerated reports of war’s demise,’ International Security, v. 39, no. 1 (2014).

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Lecture recording - War and Violence in International Politics

2. The Ethics of Intervention

Luban, David. ‘Just War and Human Rights’. Philosophy &amp; Public Affairs 9, no. 2 (1980): 160–81.

Walzer, Michael. ‘The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics’. Philosophy &amp; Public Affairs 9, no. 3 (1980): 209–29.

Orford, A. 1999. “Muscular Humanitarianism: Reading the Narratives of the New Interventionism.” European Journal of International Law 10 (4): 679–711.

Lecture 2 - The Ethics of Intervention 2019

Lecture Recording - the Ethics of Intervention

3. Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

Evans, Gareth, and Mohamed Sahnoun. 2002. “The Responsibility to Protect.” Foreign Affairs 81 (6): 99–110.

Bellamy, Alex J, and Paul D Williams. 2011. “The New Politics of Protection? Côte d’Ivoire, Libya and the Responsibility to Protect.” International Affairs 87 (4): 825–50

Nuruzzaman, Mohammed. 2013. “The ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Doctrine: Revived in Libya, Buried in Syria.” SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 2542280. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network.

Çubukçu, Ayça. 2013. “The Responsibility to Protect: Libya and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity.” Journal of Human Rights 12 (1): 40–58.

United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect

International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP)

Lecture 3 - Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect 2019

Lecture Recording - Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect

4. The Laws of War

Nils Melzer, International Humanitarian Law: A Comprehensive Introduction, ICRC, August 2016 [Chapter 1: Introduction to IHL, pages 15-47]

Jochnick, C. af, &amp; Normand, R. (1994). The Legitimation of Violence: A Critical History of the Laws of War. Harvard International Law Journal, (1), 49–96

Valentino, Benjamin, Paul Huth, and Sarah Croco. ‘Covenants without the Sword: International Law and the Protection of Civilians in Times of War’. World Politics 58, no. 3 (2006): 339–77.

Kinsella, H. M. (2011). Gender, Innocence and Civilization. Image Before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction Between Combatant and Civilian. pp1-23

Lecture 4 - The Laws of War 2019

Lecture recording - the Laws of War

5. Controlling Weapons

Selden, Mark. ‘A Forgotten Holocaust: US Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities &amp; the American Way of War from World War II to Iraq’. Japan Focus 5, no. 5 (2007): 1–29.

Tannenwald, Nina. ‘The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use’. International Organization 53, no. 3 (1999): 433–68.

Stavrianakis, Anna. ‘Legitimising Liberal Militarism: Politics, Law and War in the Arms Trade Treaty’. Third World Quarterly 37, no. 5 (3 May 2016): 840–65.

Sagan, Scott, Kenneth Waltz, and Richard K Betts. ‘A Nuclear Iran: Promoting Stability or Courting Disaster?’ Journal of International Affairs, 2007, 135–50.

International Committee for the Red Cross. ‘Weapons That May Cause Unnecessary Suffering or Have Indiscriminate Effects, Report on the Work of Experts’. Geneva: ICRC, 1973. - Chapter on Incendiary Weapons

Lecture 5 - Controlling Weapons 2019

Lecture Recording - Controlling Weapons

6. Pluralistic International Society and the Normative Order

Acharya, A. (2004). How Ideas Spread: Whose Norms Matter? Norm Localization and Institutional Change in Asian Regionalism. International Organization, 58(2), 239–275.

Pu, X. (2012). Socialisation as a Two-way Process: Emerging Powers and the Diffusion of International Norms. The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 5(4), 341–367.

Prantl, J., &amp; Nakano, R. (2011). Global Norm Diffusion in East Asia: How China and Japan Implement the Responsibility to Protect. International Relations, 25(2), 204–223

Week 6 Lecture PPT

Lecture Recording - Week 6

7. UNSCR 1325: The Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Krook, Mona Lena, and Jacqui True. 2012. “Rethinking the Life Cycles of International Norms: The United Nations and the Global Promotion of Gender Equality.” European Journal of International Relations 18 (1): 103–27.

Olonisakin, ’Funmi, Cheryl Hendricks, and Awino Okech. 2015. “The Convergence and Divergence of Three Pillars of Influence in Gender and Security.” African Security Review 24 (November): 376–89

Kirby, Paul, and Laura J. Shepherd. 2016. “The Futures Past of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.” International Affairs 92 (2): 373–92.

Meger, Sara. 2016. “The Fetishization of Sexual Violence in International Security.” International Studies Quarterly 60 (1): 149–59.

BBC World Service - 'The All-women peacekeeping force' (9mins)

Lecture 7 - Women Peace and Security slides

Lecture recording - Week 7

8. Sovereignty and Accountability: The Politics of International Justice

Bosco, D. (2013). Conclusion. Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics (1 edition). Oxford University Press. pp177-189.

Jalloh, C. C. (2017). The African Union, the Security Council, and the International Criminal Court. In The International Criminal Court and Africa (pp. 181–213).

Clark, P. (2018). Introduction. Distant justice: The impact of the International Criminal Court on African politics /. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,.

Nouwen, S. M., &amp; Werner, W. G. (2010). Doing justice to the political: The international criminal court in Uganda and Sudan. European Journal of International Law, 21(4), 941–965.

Lecture 8 - ICC

Lecture Recording - Lecture 8

9. International Conflict Management: From Peacekeeping to Statebuilding

Paris, Roland. 1997. “Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism.” International Security 22 (2): 54–89

Mac Ginty, Roger. 2008. “Indigenous Peace-Making Versus the Liberal Peace.” Cooperation and Conflict 43 (2): 139–63.

Sabaratnam, Meera. 2017. Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique. Rowman &amp; Littlefield International. [Chapter One, Introduction, 1-12; Chapter Seven, Conclusions: 131-145]

Lecture 9 - Conflict Management and Peacebuilding 2019

Lecture recording - week 9

10. Conclusions: Understanding and Responding to the Syrian Crisis

Hinnebusch, Raymond, I William Zartman, With Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, and Omar Imady. 2016. “UN Mediation in the Syrian Crisis: From Kofi Annan to Lakhdar Brahimi.” New York: International Peace Institute.

Ismail, Salwa. 2018. The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria /. Cambridge Middle East Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, (Conclusion)

Hubbard, Ben, and Michael Schwirtz. 2018. “Foreign Powers See ‘No Military Solution’ in Syria, but Diplomacy Stalls.” The New York Times, September 8, 2018, sec. World

“‘There Is No Military Solution.’” 2013. BBC News

“David Davis: What I Saw in Syria. And What Britain Should Do to Help End Its Barbarous Civil War – in Its Own Interest, Ours, and the World’s.” 2016. Conservative Home

Luban, David. ‘Just War and Human Rights’. Philosophy & Public Affairs 9, no. 2 (1980): 160–81.

Walzer, Michael. ‘The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics’. Philosophy & Public Affairs 9, no. 3 (1980): 209–29.

Jochnick, C. af, & Normand, R. (1994). The Legitimation of Violence: A Critical History of the Laws of War. Harvard International Law Journal, (1), 49–96

Selden, Mark. ‘A Forgotten Holocaust: US Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities & the American Way of War from World War II to Iraq’. Japan Focus 5, no. 5 (2007): 1–29.

Prantl, J., & Nakano, R. (2011). Global Norm Diffusion in East Asia: How China and Japan Implement the Responsibility to Protect. International Relations, 25(2), 204–223

Clark, P. (2018). Introduction. Distant justice: The impact of the International Criminal Court on African politics /. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,.

Nouwen, S. M., & Werner, W. G. (2010). Doing justice to the political: The international criminal court in Uganda and Sudan. European Journal of International Law, 21(4), 941–965.

Sabaratnam, Meera. 2017. Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique. Rowman & Littlefield International. [Chapter One, Introduction, 1-12; Chapter Seven, Conclusions: 131-145]