Reading
Schedule for POLS 401, Fall 2007
|
POLS 401 Units |
Packer |
Ricks |
Other |
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1.
Origins:
Begin September 6 |
1 |
1-2 |
-neocon_fp_kristolkagan.doc -Berman on
Qutb.doc -Wright_Soufan.pdf |
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2.
Origins:
Adding Begin
September 18 |
2 |
3 |
-Next Stop
Baghdad.doc -urquhart_Clarke.doc -powers_tenet_review.doc |
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3.
The
Debate in the 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 |
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4.
Technology,
Strategy, Conduct of War. Begin October
4 |
4 |
7 |
-csis_iraqlitany.pdf -barno.pdf -Danner_Logic of Torture |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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9.
War
and Justice Begin November 29 |
x |
x |
-justwar_bbc -relig_nat -zinn_history_wot.doc |