Reading Schedule for POLS 401, Fall 2007

POLS 401 Units

Packer

Ricks

Other

1.     Origins: Afghanistan.

Begin September 6

1

1-2

-neocon_fp_kristolkagan.doc

-Berman on Qutb.doc

-Wright_Soufan.pdf

2.     Origins: Adding Iraq to the agenda.

Begin September 18

2

3

-Next Stop Baghdad.doc

-urquhart_Clarke.doc

-powers_tenet_review.doc

3.     The Debate in the U.S., The Decision to Invade

Begin September 25

3

4-6

-hersh_debate_within.doc

-timeline_justify.doc

-HOW IT CAME TO WAR.doc

-bush_propaganda.doc

-danner_war_of_imagination

4.     Technology, Strategy, Conduct of War.

Begin October 4

4

7

-csis_iraqlitany.pdf

-barno.pdf

-Danner_Logic of Torture

5.     The Media in the War

Begin October 18.

Midterm Follows Unit 5.

12, epilogue, after word

4 (rev)

-massing_press_enemy_within.doc

-media_iraq.pdf

6.     The Cleanup and Reconstruction

Begin October 23

5-8

8-10

-democracy_bureaucracy.pdf

-What Went Wrong in Iraq_plus_response

-pe_of_iraqw.doc

7.     Insurgency and Blowback

Begin October 30

9, 10

11-19

-Anderson_insurgency

-bacevich_surge.doc

-insurgents.pdf

-hersh_redirection.doc

-counterinsurg_approach.pdf (see the 3-page summary starting on p. vi.)

-Case For Bombing Iran.doc

-fallows_victory.doc

-Nat_Intel_Est_4_06.doc See also nie_declass.pdf.

-galbraith_way_to_go.doc

8.     Effects on US Politics

Begin November 13

11

After word

-mayer_hidden_power.doc

-gordon_end_of_bush_rev.doc

-cole_review_ashcroft_doc

-Cost_of_War_in_Iraq_NBER.pdf

9.     War and Justice

Begin November 29

x

x

-justwar_bbc

-relig_nat

-zinn_history_wot.doc