Introduction

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Presentation, citations, bibliography and plagiarism

Word count and penalties

Instructions - how to submit your essay

Late submission of coursework

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DS - Undergraduate assignment writing guidelines

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Learning Opportunities in Development Studies at SOAS

Coursework turnaround period

ESSAY QUESTIONS FOR SECOND ASSIGNMENT

Assignment 1 (AS1) – 2023/24

Assignment 2 (AS2) – 2023/24

Module overview

Assessment

Course Guide: explaining the logic of the course

Essay writing guidlines

Week 1: Political Violence and Historical Change

1. Cramer, Christopher (2006), Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries, London: Hurst. Chapter 1.

2. Tilly, Charles. 1985. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime”, In: Bringing the State Back In, edited by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

3. Jutta Bakonyi and Berit Bliesemann De Guevara (2009), “The Mosaic of Violence: An Introduction”, Civil Wars, 11:4, pp.397-413.

lecture slides

4. Kalyvas, Stathis, Ian Shapiro and Tarek Masoud (2008). “Introduction: integrating the study of order, conflict, and violence”. In: Stathis Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro and Tarek Masoud (eds). Order, conflict, and Violence.

Lecture 1 - Supplementary lecture Notes and reading guide

North et al (2007) Limited access orders (highly recommended reading)

Vogel 1996 tragedy of history (highly recommended reading)

Easterly (2019) book review of Scheidel’s The Great Leveler (recommended reading)

Lecture 1 slides

Week 2: ‘New’ wars? Contemporary theories of war and globalization (J. Di John)

1. Kaldor, Mary (2013) “In defence of new wars”. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 2 (1).

3. Leander, Anna. 2004. “Wars and the un-making of states: taking Tilly seriously in the contemporary world”, In: Stefano Guzzini and Dietrich Jung (eds.) Contemporary Security Analysis and Copenhagen Peace Research. London: Routledge.

4. Ahram, Ariel and Charles King. 2012. “The Warlord as Arbitrageur”, Theory and Society 41 (2): 169-186.

2. Paul Richards (2005), “New War: An Ethnographic Approach”, In: Paul Richards (ed), No War No Peace: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts. Oxford: James Currey Ltd.

Di John (2010) lit survey on 'failed' states (highly recommended reading)

Putzel and Di John (2012) Meeting the Challenges of Crisis States ((esp chaps 1-3) [recommended reading]

Why Civil Wars last longer---recommended readings

Supplementary lecture notes and reading guide

'new wars' lecture slides

Week 3: Identity politics: Ethnicity and religion (T. Kaiser)

Lecture slides

Week 4: War Economies (C.Cramer)

1. Richard Snyder (2006), “Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder?: A Political Economy of Extraction Framework”, Comparative Political Studies 39: 943–968.

2. Carolyn Nordstrom (2000). “Shadows and Sovereigns”, Theory, Culture &amp; Society 17: 35-54

4. Goodhand, Jonathan. 2005. “Frontiers and Wars: the Opium Economy in Afghanistan”, Journal of Agrarian Change 5(2):191–216.

Cramer - Civil War is not a stupid Thing - Chapter 5

War economies/war and economics slides 2023

War economies/war and economics lecture recording

Week 5: Geographies of Violence (J. Goodhand)

Anwar 2014. Urban transformations: brokers, collaborative governance and community building in Karachi’s periphery

Goodhand - War, peace and the places in between

Duffield - Global Governance and the New Wars - Chapter 1

Mark Duffield - Global Governance and the New Wars - Chapter 6

John Agnew - The Territorial Trap

Deborah Cowen - The Deadly Life of Logistics

lecture slides

Week 6: Researching war and violence: Data, methods, ethics and security (C.Cramer)

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. (1995). “The primacy of the ethical. Propositions for a militant anthropology”, Current Anthropology 36 (3): 409–440.

2. Goodhand, Jonathan. (2000). “Research in conflict zones: ethics and accountability” Forced Migration Review No. 8, pp. 12-15.

3. Cramer, Christopher (2006), Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries, London: Hurst. Chapter Two (pp.49-86).

4. Wood, Elisabeth (2006). “The Ethical Challenges of Field Works in Conflict Zones”, Qualitative Sociology 29: 373–386.

BBC story on massacre in Ethiopia

Bellingcat - forensic analysis of conflict evidence (TRIGGER - deeply upsetting material)

Week 7: War-to-peace transitions: Conflict resolution and peace settlements (J. Goodhand)

1. De Waal, Alex (2009). “Mission without end? Peacekeeping in the African political marketplace”. International Affairs, 85: 99–113.

2. Macginty, Roger. (2012). “Against Stabilization”. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 1(1), 20-30.

3. O'Kane, Eamonn. 2006. “When Can Conflicts be Resolved? A Critique of Ripeness”, Civil Wars, 8(3-4): 268-284.

4. Di John, Jonathan and James Putzel. 2009. Political Settlements. Issues Paper. Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, International Development Department, University of Birmingham.

5. Al-Ali, N (2005) ‘Reconstructing Gender: Iraqi women between dictatorship, war, sanctions and occupation’ Third World Quarterly vol 26, no 4, pp 739-758.

Week8 - Class excercise

ConRes PPT 2023-4

Lecture recording

Week 8: Humanitarian Interventions (S. Njeri)

Humanitarian Mine Action: The first decade of a new sector in Humanitarian Aid

The Landmine Ban: A case study in Humanitarian Advocacy

Maps, Measurements and Landmines

2. Carolyn Nordstrom (2000). “Shadows and Sovereigns”, Theory, Culture & Society 17: 35-54

4. Jonathan Goodhand & Mark Sedra (2013) Rethinking liberal peacebuilding, statebuilding and transition in Afghanistan

1. Kirsch, S and Flint, C., 2011. Introduction: Reconstruction and the Worlds that War Makes. In: Kirsch, S. & Flint, C. (eds), Reconstructing Conflict. Integrating War and Post-War Geographies Ashgate, pp. 3-30