Revised Course Schedule and Required Readings

POLS Y340/Fall 2007

Date	Topic	Readings
8/22	Course Overview	None
8/24	The Interwar Period	Rothschild and Wingfield, chs. 1-2
8/29	The New Postwar Order	Rothschild and Wingfield, ch. 3; Karel Bartosek, “Central and Southeastern Europe” (RESERVE), pp. 394-398 only
8/31	No class	None
9/5	The Logic of Communism	Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (INTERNET), parts I, II, and IV only (skip “Socialist and Communist Literature”)
9/7	Stalinism	Rothschild and Wingfield, ch. 4; Karel Bartosek, “Central and Southeastern Europe” (RESERVE), pp. 398-437 only
9/12	The Allure of Totalitarianism	Milosz, preface and chs. 1-2
9/14	Surviving Stalinism	Milosz, chs. 3 and 8
9/19	National Communism	Rothschild and Wingfield, ch. 5
9/21	Confronting Communist Regimes	Grzegorz Ekiert, The State Against Society (excerpt) (RESERVE); James Michener, The Bridge at Andau, pp. 220-227 (RESERVE)
9/26	Late Communism	Rothschild and Wingfield, ch. 6; Karel Bartosek, “Central and Southeastern Europe” (RESERVE), pp. 437-450 only
9/28	No class	None
Wednesday October 3: First paper due in class
10/3	The Revolutions of 1989	Rothschild and Wingfield, ch. 7; Timothy Garton Ash, “Berlin: Wall’s End” (RESERVE)
10/5	Types of Nondemocratic Regimes	Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, “Modern Nondemocratic Regimes” (RESERVE)
10/10	The Transition and Consolidation of Democratic Regimes	Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, “Toward Consolidated Democracy” (RESERVE)
10/12	Economic and Social Transition	Kenney, introduction and ch. 1; Slavenka Drakulic, Café Europa (excerpts) (RESERVE); John Higley, Judith Kullberg, and Jan Pakulski, “The Persistence of Postcommunist Elites” (RESERVE)
10/17	Mid-Term Examination	None
10/19	Economic and Social Transition (continued)	Finish readings from 10/12
10/24	Nationalism	Kenney, ch. 2
10/26	Political Institutions	Kenney, ch. 4
10/31	Parties and Ideologies	Tomáš Kostelecký, “A New Day: Parties in the Post-Communist Period” (RESERVE)
11/2	The European Union and NATO	European Union, “Europe in Twelve Lessons” (INTERNET); Ivo Daalder and James Goldgeier, “Global NATO (RESERVE)
11/7
11/9	The Politics of Accession	Kenney, ch. 5
11/14	The Return to Europe	Katinka Barysch, “Enlargement Two Years On: Economic Success or Political Failure?” (INTERNET)
11/16	Eastern Germany and Romania	The Economist, “Getting Back Together is So Hard” (RESERVE); Vladimir Tismaneanu, “Epilogue” (RESERVE)
11/28	The Yugoslav Wars	Misha Glenny, “Epilogue: The Balkan Vortex” (RESERVE)
11/30	Bosnia	Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup, “Conflict and Accommodation” (RESERVE)
Wednesday December 5: Research paper due
12/5	Kosovo	P.H. Liotta, “After Kosovo: Terminal Ambiguity” (RESERVE)
12/7	Blame and Reconciliation	Kenney, ch. 3 and conclusion; Timothy Garton Ash, “The Romeo File” (RESERVE)
Monday December 10 (10:30-12:30): FINAL EXAMINATION