POS 203: Introduction to Political Science 10052006.

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POS 203 Introduction to Political Science
10/05/2006.

• Course Status
• Midterm exam review guide distributed 10/12 next
  week, typo in syllabus.
• Paper Assignment One, due today.
• Hard copy turned in in class.
• Electronic copy w/n 24 hours.
• Research Project Example
• Violence, Occupation, and Territorial Sovereignty
  - Example Research Project POS 203 Fall 2006.
• Class Agenda
• Lecture.
• Presentations.
• Video
• Fragmentation of Empires and Nations, Genocide
  and Rebellion Responsibility of Empire.
• United States Kosovo, Darfur, Congo.

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• Hezbollah/Israel Follow-up.
• Terrorism.
• Terrorism Knowledge Base.
• International law regarding terrorism.
• World Anti Terrorism Law.
• International law regarding conduct of war.
• UN Listing of International Law/Geneva
  Conventions.
• Human Rights Watch.
• Israel/Palestinian Territories Lebanon.
• United Nations.
• Human Right Council.

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• Comparative Studies of Genocide.
• Yale University Genocide Studies Program.
• Institute for the Study of Genocide.
• Univ. Maryland Genocide Politicide Project.
• Imperial Biowar Smallpox, Empire, and Genocide.
• British use of smallpox infected materials for
  counterinsurgency against indigenous
  population.
• UMass Amherst Legal Studies Dept.
• Lord Jeffrey Amhersts Diary.
• Commanding General British forces during French
  and Indian Wars.
• British and Spanish use of smallpox.
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Biowar
  History.
• USAF Counterproliferation Center.
• Brenda McEleney (Lt. Col. USAF) Smallpox A
  Primer.
• From Gathering Biological Warfare Storm.

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• Landman, Chap. 3.
• Choosing countries and problems of comparison.
• Too many variables and too few countries.
• Equivalence.
• Selection bias.
• Spuriousness.
• Ecological/individualist fallacies.
• Values bias.

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• Landman, Chapter 5a.

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• Political Violence and Terrorism in United
  States.
• Civil War era.
• First Klan and Federal (Union) Occupation of
  South.
• Labor Mobilization and Anarchist Organizations.
• Haymarket Riot 1886 Chicago.
• Echoes with Days of Rage 1969 (Weather
  Underground).
• Jensen Article.
• Frontier Violence.
• Vigilante.
• Settler Indian/Native American.
• World War I Era
• Anti-War/Pro War Violence.
• American Protective League.
• Bureau of Investigation (predecessor to FBI)
  engaged in anti-radical sweeps.
• IWW violence and counter-violence.
• Second Klan.

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• Political Violence and Terrorism in United
  States.
• Rasler, Karen. 1986. War, Accommodation, and
  Violence in the United States, 1890-1970. APSR.
  Available via JSTOR.
• Nexus of External Crisis and Internal Conflict.
• Severity of Conflict.
• Duration of Conflict.
• Accommodating on Non-Accommodating at federal
  level.
• Findings
• Parallel with Hewitt non-accommodating more
  likely to give rise to conflict. Hewitt term
  unsympathetic.
• Accommodating negative or weak association.
• Government reaction to mobilization key to
  understanding escalatory processes.
• Violence Economic, Social, Political, Total.

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• Video Cases Fragmentation of Empires and
  Nations, Genocide and Rebellion, Responsibility
  of Empire.
• Kosovo.
• War In Europe - PBS.
• NATO-KFOR.
• Political Instability in Africa.
• CNN - Africa.
• Similarities, Differences, in type and causes of
  violence?
• Genocide, politicide, or other type of internal
  violence?
• Obligations of empire, superpower to intervene?
• Next Class October 10th.
• Come to class having done assigned readings.