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(August 24) Lecture / Discussion Page - Introduction to Comparative Politics
Readings1. Instructions for the August 24, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Comparative Politics: What Is It? Why Study It? How to Study It? 4. Journal Article Reading: Make America....More Like Canada - Pizzigati 5. Video Presentation: Where to Invade Next (first hour) 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Comparative Politics: What Is It? Why Study It? How to Study It? Democratic Backsliding in the U.S. and Why the Rest of the West Should Care - Portzer Spectrums of Nationalism: A Comparison of American and Chinese Nationalism - Roach Foreign versus Domestic Bribery: Explaining Repression in Kleptocratic Regimes - LaPorte What's Behind the G7's Rival to China's 'Belt & Road' Initiative? - Al Jazeera
(August 31) Lecture / Discussion Page - The Modern State
Readings1. Instructions for the August 31, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Modern State 4. Journal Article Reading: Understanding the Modern State - D'Amato 5. Video Presentation: Where to Invade Next (second hour) 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] The Modern State Big Shorts & Failed States - Dreher 'Failed State' Status Here We Come? - Pizzigati The Roots of Jacobinism - Hilditch A World of Bikes, Not Walls?: Demilitarizing the Border - Miller
(September 7) Lecture / Discussion Page - States, Citizens, and Regimes
Readings1. Instructions for the September 7, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] States, Citizens, and Regimes 4. Journal Article Reading: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It - Rockhill 5. Video Presentation: What is Democracy? 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] States, Citizens, and Regimes The Weaknesses in Liberal Democracy That May Be Pulling It Apart - Fisher Nobody's Century: Deglobalization and its Discontents - Freeman Millions Protest India's Anti-Muslim Citizenship Laws As Gov't Crackdown Intensifies - MacLeod The Fight Conservatives Are Having Over Theocracy and Classical Liberalism Obscures How Beaten Their Movement Is - Gillespie
(September 14) Lecture / Discussion Page - States and Identity
Readings1. Instructions for the September 14, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] States and Identity 4. Journal Article Reading: An American Identity Crisis - Purple 5. Video Presentation: Zero Tolerance 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] States and Identity Who Gets to Wear a Headscarf? The Complicated History Behind France's Latest Hijab Controversy - Lang Iowa Bills Would Ban Teachers From Talking About Trans Issues - Walker Defend Feminists in China - Solidarity Against Repression in China and Hong Kong Why Identity-Politics Pushers Are Winning the Culture Wars - Dougherty
(September 21) Lecture / Discussion Page - Other World Regions: Latin America
Readings1. Instructions for the September 21, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Other World Regions: Latin America 4. Journal Article Reading: From Trump to Biden in Latin America - Long 5. Video Presentation: Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Other World Regions: Latin America Is the 'Pink Tide' Returning to Latin America? - Sader and Baird Under Left-Wing and Right-Wing Leaders, the Amazon Has Burned. Can Latin America Reject Oil, Ranching, and Mining? - Zaitchik Chile Shifts Left to Rewrite Pinochet-Era Constitution, as Goldman Sachs Eyes its Copper Reserves - Norton Narco Politics: the Political Economy of the Drug War - Terrall
(September 28) Lecture / Discussion Page - Governing Institutions in Democracies
Readings1. Instructions for the September 28, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Governing Institution in Democracies 4. Journal Article Reading: The Decay of American Political Institutions - Fukuyama 5. Video Presentation: Requiem for the American Dream 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Governing Institutions in Democracies Israel's Knesset Is Debating Democracy Itself - Lynfield The Fate of Rojava, the Autonomous, Majority Kurdish Region of Syria - Against the Grain How the US Became the Center of Global Kleptocracy - Michel The NED's Useful Idiots - Nelson
Readings1. Instructions for the October 5, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Institutions of Participation and Representation in Democracies 4. Journal Article Reading: Details About Ranked Choice Voting - Fair Vote 5. Video Presentation: Pay to Play: Democracies High Stakes 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Institutions of Participation and Representation in Democracies How Proportional Representation Elections Work - Fair Vote Why Our Green Parties Haven't Taken Off - Dixon The Far-Right: A Global Phenomenon - Lowy Corporatism Is An American, Bipartisan Scourge - Enjeti
Readings1. Instructions for the October 12, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Contentious Politics: Social Movements, Political Violence, and Revolution 4. Journal Article Reading: No, the Capitol Riot Was Not a Dress Rehearsal for a Coup d'Etat - Brown 5. Video Presentation: American Insurrection - PBS Frontline 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Contentious Politics: Social Movements, Political Violence, and Revolution The Capitol Rioters Aren't Like Other Extremists - Pape & Ruby Riots and Resistance 10 Years After the Tunisian Revolution - Brown Chris Hedges: Discussion with Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion - Scheerpost The Roots of Social Rebellion? Social Movements - Chaulia
(October 19) Lecture / Discussion Page - Authoritarian Institutions
Readings1. Instructions for the October 19, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Authoritarian Institutions 4. Journal Article Reading: The Difference Between Totalitarian Regimes And Free Democracies- Johnstone 5. Video Presentation: Putin's Way - PBS Frontline 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Authoritarian Institutions As US Continues New Cold War, Russia and China Forge New Ties - Mate There Are No Issues on Which China Can Be Considered an Ally - Schorr The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism - Bloom After Trump 'Treason' Talk, Sanders Says 'Grassroots Activism' Key to Defeating 'Authoritarianism' - Johnson
(October 26) Lecture / Discussion Page - Regime Change
Readings1. Instructions for the October 26, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Regime Change 4. Journal Article Reading: Trump Administration Escalates Regime Change Operation Against Venezuela With Forced 'Humanitarian Aid Delivery' 5. Video Presentation: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Documentary 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Regime Change The Myanmar Coup Is the First Test for Biden's Democracy Agenda - Green How to Do "Regime Change" Correctly: a Blueprint for the Biden Administration - Fayazmanesh The Future of Maximum Pressure - Hajjar Washington Brings Syria's Al Qaeda in From the Cold - Van Auken
(November 2) Lecture / Discussion Page - Other World Regions: Asia and Eurasia
Readings1. Instructions for the November 2, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Other World Regions: Asia and Eurasia 4. Journal Article Reading: A Theory of China's 'Miracle': Eight Principles of Contemporary Chinese Political Economy - Enfu & Xiaoqin 5. Video Presentation: China: Power and Prosperity - PBS Newshour 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Other World Regions: Asia and Eurasia North Korea's Kim Vows to Be Ready for Confrontation with US - Kim Empire Files: Buying a Slave - The Hidden World of US/Philippines Trafficking Just How Stable Is North Korea? - Kelly How Saudi Arabia's Religious Project Transformed Indonesia - Varagur
(November 9) Lecture / Discussion Page - Political Economy of Wealth
Readings1. Instructions for the November 9, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Political Economy of Wealth 4. Journal Article Reading: The Higher the Inequality, the More Likely We Are to Move Away from Democracy - Milanovic 5. Video Presentation: Free To Choose: The Power of the Market 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Political Economy of Wealth Inequality, Ideology, and American Reordering - Garfinkle The Problem With Inequality, According to Adam Smith - Rasmussen College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism's Useful Idiots - Anderson Bailouts for the Rich, the Virus for the Rest of Us - Urie
(November 16) Lecture / Discussion Page - Political Economy of Development
Readings1. Instructions for the November 16, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Political Economy of Development 4. Journal Article Reading: Reflections on South Africa: Whose Capital, Whose State? - Tandon 5. Video Presentation: System Error 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Political Economy of Development Property Rights: The Key to Economic Development - O'Driscoll Jr. & Hoskins Aid, Debt and Development: An Overview - Share the World's Resources Women & Development Aid - Sharma A Guide to US Empire in Africa: Neocolonial Order & AFRICOM - The Empire Files
Readings1. Instructions for the November 23, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Public Policies When Markets Fail: Welfare, Health, and the Environment 4. Journal Article Reading: Africa's Exploding Plastic Nightmare - Lerner 5. Video Presentation: Four Horsemen 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Public Policies When Markets Fail: Welfare, Health, and the Environment America Will Keep Losing Its Middle Class as Long as 'Free Markets' Dominate the Economic Debate - Auerback Junk: Mark Bittman's History of Why We Eat Bad Food - McKibben Black and Latinx Americans Have Seen "Catastrophic" Declines in Life Expectancy - Szabo Economic Update: The Pandemic's Lesson About Capitalism - Democracy at Work with Richard Wolff
(November 30) Lecture / Discussion Page - Other World Regions: The Middle East and North Africa
Readings1. Instructions for the November 30, 2021 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Other World Regions: The Middle East and North Africa 4. Journal Article Reading: Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State - MacLeod 5. Video Presentation: Arabs & Terrorism 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation [PowerPoint Presentation] Other World Regions: The Middle East and North Africa AFRICOM Military's Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests - Kulkarni America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History - Bacevich Israel's New Government Is a Rebuke of Left-Wing Nonsense - Mor Israel's Deep Apartheid Is Here to Stay - Haaretz Podcast with Gideon Levy
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Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites from the Declinist SchoolUS Empire on Decline - Zeese and Flowers US Collective Suicide - Hedges Empire of Chaos: With President Trump, is the American Experiment Over? - Engelhardt The World According to Trump: Or How to Build a Wall and Lose an Empire - McCoy How We Got Here: American History After "the End of History" - Bacevich The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - AbsoluteAstronomy.com Paul Kennedy's Imperial Overstretch Revisited - PeoplesGeography Why All Empires Come to Dust - Gray The Perils of Empire - Kennedy America's Turbulent Decline - Rihani The Eagle Has Crash Landed - Wallerstein Capitalism's Demise? - Interview with Jae-Jung Suh
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites from the American Exceptionalist SchoolImperial Recovery and "Disappearing Workers": Imperialism Expands, Living Standards Decline - Petras Is America an Empire? - Hendrickson Why America Needs a Grand Strategy - Wilkie Why the United States Remains an Indispensable Nation - Wickett 'Indispensable Nation' - Hillary Clinton Pitches American Exceptionalism (VIDEO) - RT Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power - Nye Three Centuries of American Declinism - Dowd The Pessimist Persuasion - Herman Falling Upwards: Declinism, the Box Set - Lieber The End of History - Fukuyama
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites from the Neo-Imperialist SchoolState of Insecurity: The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11 - National Priorities Project / Institute for Policy Studies The West Is Experiencing a Contraction of Its Power, Not Necessarily Its Decline - De Sousa Santos The Empire Does Not Forgive - Hedges US Empire: Global Imperialism and Internal Colonialism - Petras Is Our Failed Empire Heading for the Exit? - Engelhardt Capitalism Is the Problem - Wolff The Y Article: The Pentagon's Secret Plan to Slash Its Own Budget - Norris Triumphing Toward International Disaster - Gowan Global Depression and Regional Wars - Lendman Decline of America's Empire - Lendman Who Rules America? - Petras Economic Empire Building: The Centrality of Corruption - Petras Blowback Effect: The World in 2020 - Klare The Military-Industrial Complex is Ruining the Economy - Washington's Blog World Depression: The Decline of US Empire - Petras
A Message From the Future II: "Years of Repair"
UNCOUNTED: The True Story of the California Primary - Wake Up California!
The Crisis of Democracy - The Trilateral Commission (1973)
The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto) - Reclaim Democracy!
A Century of War - RT Documentary
The Collapse of the American Empire? - The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Corruption is Legal in America - Represent.Us
Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis - Represent.Us
The Lie We Live [Smart Kid - A Nice Wake-Up Call] - Spencer Cathcart
Understanding Marxism and Socialism with Richard Wolff
War Is A Racket - Major General Smedley Butler
Four Horsemen - Documentary (Great Stuff! Check This Out!)
Empire Files: Peter Joseph & Abby Martin on Abolishing Capitalism
Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism - The Real News Network
Tipping Point: The End of Oil - Documentary
Capitalism Never Solves Its Crises; It Moves Them Around Geographically - RSAnimate
Two American Families - Frontline Documentary
Global Wealth Inequality: What You Never Knew You Never Knew - therules.org
Wealth Inequality in America - therules.org
Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us - Institute for Policy Studies
Park Ave: Wealth, Poverty, and the American Dream - Documentary
Shadows of Liberty - Documentary (Mass Media)
Plutocracy in America - Brenner
The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats - Stauber
Consent Without Consent: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Democracy - Chomsky
Obamacare: A Deception - Roberts
The Purchase of Our Republic - Falkson
The Crisis of Civilization - Documentary
Let Your Life Be A Friction That Stops The Machine - Class War Films
Political Fraud - Class War Films
Financial Crime - Class War Films
Military Cancer - Class War Films
Imperial Decay - Class War Films
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis - Documentary
What Democracy? The Case for Abolishing the United States Senate - Rosenfeld
Making Every Vote Count: The Case for Proportional Representation - Amy
Ignoble Liars: Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the Philosophy of Mass Deception - Shorris
Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow It Again - Baker
The Great American Bubble Machine - Taibbi
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? - Taibbi
Empire Under Obama: Counterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Population as the Target - Marshall
Smash the Control Machine - Otep Rocks!
Rise Rebel Resist - Otep Rocks!
The World is Coming to an End - Prince Ea
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