POLS 205 - Reading for Tues (11/27)

This is scanned in reverse order so don't be confused.

Thinking in time

Skim the article below. I may ask you to read it completely. Stay tuned.
The Operational Code

POLS 374 - More policy memos

These are the two some of you said didn't come through in the email.

Graham Fuller memo

McFarlane%20memo.pdf

POLS 205 - slides for Tues

Presidential decision making

POLS 205 - Readings for Tues 11/20

Barber1
Barber2 (start reading at "Johnson escalates the war" on the second page)

POLS 205 - slides for Tues

Voters and Strategists

POLS 374 - Terrorism readings

These are the same readings I sent to you via email.

Defining terrorism

Rethinking terrorism

List of political science journals (with hyperlinks)

Political science journals

POLS 374 - Failed States index online

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3865

POLS 374 - Policy memo examples

This memo, written by a student at the University of Denver won 1st prize in a contest on policy memos. It is useful to consder for its form and tightness.

You may also want to look at this essay that took second prize. Note that it is a bit more long winded. Compare the two and consider why the one was the first prize winner and the other not. But both are useful in terms of orienting yourself to what a policy memo is all about.

Here is an old memo written to the Secretary of Defense from his deputy.

Here is a very nice memo on Iran.

POLS 205- IR reading for Thurs. (11/8)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

POLS 205-Slides for today (11/6)

Intro to IR

Paul Tibbets: 1915 - 2007

Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

LA Times story.

Tibbets apparently did not grant many interviews. NPR interviewed him in 2000. Note that he says there is no morality in war.

NY Times article.

POLS 374 - The two other humantiratin int. readings

Justifying Intervention

Humanitarian Hazard

Some good sites on the Rwanda genocide:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/video/ (here you can see some video from the PBS Frontline show on Rwanda)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/

Please take a look at these especially if you are not at all familiar with what happened. Be sure to also read the Samantha Power article posted earlier.

POLS 205-Slides for today

Interest Groups & Elections