I. INTRODUCTION: THE NATURE AND CONTEXT OF WAR

ORIENTATION WEEK

Wed 2/6/02 Where it all begins: Definitions, concepts, and the course.

WEEK 1

Tue 2/12/02 What is the connection? Geography and war.
o Stoddart, D. R. "Geography and War: The 'New Geography' and the 'New Army' in England 1899-1914."

Thu 2/14/02 In the name of progress. The technological context of war: The changing face of war.
o Townshend, C. "Introduction: The Shape of Modern War."
o Van Creveld, M. "Technology and War I: to 1945."
o Van Creveld, M. "Technology and War II: Postmodern War?"

WEEK 2

Tue 2/19/02 Who has the power? The political context of war: Territory, sovereignty, and international law.
o Murphy, A. "International Law and the Sovereign State System."

Thu 2/21/02 On deadly ground. The spatial context of war: Strategy, tactics and terrain.
o O'Sullivan, P. & J. W. Miller, "Tactics and Terrain."

WEEK 3

Tue 2/26/02 Tools or ideological weapons? The information context of war: Maps and geographic propaganda.
o O'Sullivan, P. & J. W. Miller, "Intelligence."
o Harley, J.B. "Maps, Knowledge and Power."

Thu 2/28/02 Ready for battle? In-class exercise.
o Henderson, J. "Military Geography of the Civil War."

II. GEOGRAPHY AND THE JUSTIFICATION OF WAR: HEGEMONIC TERRITORIAL IDEOLOGIES

WEEK 4

Tue 3/5/02 Library and writing workshop
- Class location to be announced -
> Book review of Keegan, J. War and Our World is due

Thu 3/7/02 White man's burden!? Geo-racial ideologies.
o Livingstone, D. "Climate's Moral Economy: Science, Race and Place in Post-Darwinian British and American Geography."
o Rothenberg, T. "Voyeurs of Imperialism."

Fieldtrip to Mt. Independence (Date and time to be announced)

WEEK 5

Tue 3/12/02 A matter of self-defense? Geo-ethnic and geo-cultural ideologies.
o Soffer, A. and J. Minghi, "Israel's security landscape."
o to be announced

Thu 3/14/02 Global domination: Imperialist geopolitics (I).
o Parker, G. "The roots of twentieth-century geopolitical thought."
o Parker, G. "Halford Mackinder and the World Outlook."
o Westcott, A. "Mahan on Naval Warfare. Selections ..."

WEEK 6

Tue 3/19/02 Global domination: Imperialist geopolitics (II).
o Review readings for Thu 3/14/02

Thu 3/21/02 Dreamweaver: Introduction to Web Design
- Class location to be announced -

WEEK 7
(Tue 3/26/02 & Thu 3/28/02)
NO CLASS - MIDTERM RECESS

WEEK 8

Tue 4/2/02 Under the nuclear umbrella: Post WWII geopolitics.
o Hepple, L. W. "The revival of geopolitics."
o O'Sullivan, P. "Antidomino."

Thu 4/4/02 Doom and gloom? Contemporary geopolitics.
o Homer-Dixon, T. "Environmental scarcity and mass violence."
o Dodds, K. "The 1982 Falklands War and a critical geopolitical eye."

III. GEOGRAPHY AND THE EXECUTION OF WARFARE: TERRITORIAL STRATEGIES OF CONTROL AND RESISTANCE

WEEK 9

Tue 4/9/02 Technology is key: The British Empire.
o Headrick, D. R. The Tools of Empire, pp. 150-91.
o Edney, M. "The Patronage of Science and the Creation of Imperial Space."

Thu 4/11/02 Nazis in Space: The German Occupation of Poland
o Burleigh, M. Germany Turns Eastwards, chap. 5.
> Film review is due

WEEK 10

Tue 4/16/02 No shades of gray: Apartheid or the idea of racial territories.
o Jackson, P. "Geography, race, and racism."
o Davis, D. "South African Apartheid: A socio-spatial problem."

Thu 4/18/02 Till the last man standing: guerrilla and counter-guerrilla warfare.
o Lohman, A. "Insurgencies and counter-insurgencies."

WEEK 11

Tue 4/23/02 What is on the horizon? Terrorism and digital warfare.
o Hoffman, B. "Responding to terrorism across the technological spectrum."
o Ronfeld, D. and A. Martinez, "A comment on the Zapatista 'netwar'."

Thu 4/25/02 Turn the other cheek? Nonviolent resistance.
o Zunes, S. "The role of nonviolence in the downfall of Apartheid."

Fieldtrip to a homeland defense site (Date and time to be announced)

IV. VISIONS OF WAR: A COMPARATIVE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON C0NTEMPORARY WARS

WEEK 12

Tue 4/30/02 Student presentations.
o review Homer-Dixon, T. "Environmental scarcity …."
o Huntington, S. "Clash of Civilizations."
o Keegan, J. War and Our World. (course text)

Thu 5/2/02 Student presentations.
o review readings for 4/30/02

WEEK 13

Tue 5/7/02 Student presentations.
o review readings for 4/30/02

Thu 5/9/02 The future of war.
o Rubin, E. "An Army of One's Own."
o "Select Enemy. Delete."
o Gleick, J. "Lost in space."

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