Syllabus
| WEEK |
TOPIC |
| September 13 |
The Charter of the United Nations and Its Precursors |
| [September 20] |
no class - Yom Kippur |
| September 27 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Anticipatory Self-Defense; the Monroe Doctrine; and the Role of the United Nations; with the later problem of Extraterritoriality and Helms-Burton Act |
| October 4 |
East Timor: Decolonization, Occupation, and International Responses to Violence |
| October 11 |
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The U.N. and Regional Organizations |
| Wed. Oct. 13 (6:20-8:20 p.m.) |
Cyprus: Civil War, Classical Peacekeeping, and Regional Integration |
| October 18 |
Limiting Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction: Adjudication, Monitoring and Norm Creation |
| November 1 |
International Terrorism and Responses: Can There be a Universal Standard? (Terrorism vs. Freedom Fighters); International Criminal Law and Universal Jurisdiction; Can Force be used in Self-Defense? |
| November 8 |
Post-Conflict Disarmament and Economic Sanctions: the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq |
| November 15 |
Democracy and the United Nations: Security Council Reform; Role of NGO's; and an International Right to Democratic Governance |
| November 22 |
Narcotics and International Security |
| November 29 |
The former Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Political, Military, and Humanitarian Problems |
| December 6 |
New Roles for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Norms: Geneva Conventions, Monitoring, and the Contested Right of Humanitarian Intervention |
| December 13 |
Enforcing Humanitarian Law: Proposals for an International Criminal Court; the Case of the Land Mines Treaty |
| December 20 |
U.N. Financing and the Future of U.S./U.N. Relations |
