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Possible Changes for Next Year

Here I include some changes in the references that might improve the course next year. The suggestions are based on my own assessment of the course as well as the students' feedback.

Session 01

  • Remove Lacina and Gleditsch (2012) and add this paper to be read alongside Pinker's:

    • Pettersson, T., & Eck, K. (2018). Organized violence, 1989–2017. Journal of Peace Research, 55(4), 535-547.

  • Maybe change the order and put the two papers on the decline of violence together, then the two counterpoints.

  • Suggested reading:

    • Hegre, H., Karlsen, J., Nygård, H. M., Strand, H., & Urdal, H. (2013). Predicting armed conflict, 2010–2050. International Studies Quarterly, 57(2), 250-270.

Session 02

  • Move Sambanis (2004) to suggested readings and add Gleditsch, K. S., Metternich, N. W., & Ruggeri, A. (2014). Data and progress in peace and conflict research. Journal of Peace Research, 51(2), 301-314.

  • Add as recommended readings, along with Sambanis (2004):

    • Kreutz, J. (2015). The war that wasn’t there: Managing unclear cases in conflict data. Journal of Peace Research, 52(1), 120-124.
    • Mueller, H., & Rauh, C. (2018). Reading between the lines: Prediction of political violence using newspaper text. American Political Science Review, 112(2), 358-375.

Session 03

  • Replace Cederman et al (2009) for Bormann, N. C., Cederman, L. E., & Vogt, M. (2017). Language, religion, and ethnic civil war. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 61(4), 744-771.

  • Add to suggested readings:

    • Sambanis, N. (2004). Using case studies to expand economic models of civil war. Perspectives on Politics, 2(2), 259-279.

Session 04

  • Nothing to change in the required readings.

  • Replace Lacina (2004) for:

    • Clauset, A. (2018). Trends and fluctuations in the severity of interstate wars. Science advances, 4(2), eaao3580.

Session 05

  • Move Findley & Young (2015) to recommended readings.

  • Add these two papers to suggested readings:

    • Tiernay, M. (2015). Killing Kony: Leadership change and civil war termination. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 59(2), 175-206.
    • Narang, N. (2015). Assisting uncertainty: how humanitarian aid can inadvertently prolong civil war. International Studies Quarterly, 59(1), 184-195.
    • Aliyev, H. (2019). ‘No peace, no war’ proponents? How pro-regime militias affect civil war termination and outcomes. Cooperation and Conflict, 54(1), 64-82.

Session 06

  • Remove Blatman (2015) and Fein (1993).

  • Add this article to required readings:

    • Owens, P. B., Su, Y., & Snow, D. A. (2013). Social scientific inquiry into genocide and mass killing: From unitary outcome to complex processes. Annual Review of Sociology, 39, 69-84.

Session 07

  • I can include a session on micro-level mechanisms of genocide.

  • Suggested readings:

    • Arendt, H. (1973). The origins of totalitarianism. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
    • Mann, M. (2000). Were the perpetrators of genocide “ordinary men” or “real Nazis”? Results from fifteen hundred biographics. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 14(3), 331-366.
    • Fujii, L. A. (2008). The power of local ties: Popular participation in the Rwandan genocide. Security Studies, 17(3), 568-597.
    • Oberschall, A. (2000). The manipulation of ethnicity: from ethnic cooperation to violence and war in Yugoslavia. Ethnic and racial studies, 23(6), 982-1001.

  • Recommended readings:

    • Hagan, J., & Rymond-Richmond, W. (2008). The collective dynamics of racial dehumanization and genocidal victimization in Darfur. American Sociological Review, 73(6), 875-902.
    • Bloxham D. 2005. The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians. New York: Oxford Univ. Press
    • Su Y. 2011. Collective Killings in Rural China During the Cultural Revolution. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press

Session 08

  • Replace Uzonyi (2014) for:
    • Esteban, J., Morelli, M., & Rohner, D. (2015). Strategic mass killings. Journal of Political Economy, 123(5), 1087-1132.

Sessions 12-13

  • Merge them with Kydd and Walter first, then Pape, then Abrams in a single discussion

  • Perhaps remove the other two texts discussed in session 12