Grad School Notes Collection (Africa, IR, Ethnic Conflict, Economics, Writing)

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Grad School Notes Collection (Africa, IR, Ethnic Conflict, Economics, Writing, Islam, Comparative Politics)

Below are the links to all the notes I have previously published here on FUUO.  They are organized into a few areas: Africa, IR, Islam

AFRICA:

Notes (Discussion) Iliffe’s Africans: The History of a Continent

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/02/notes-of-iliffes-africans-history-of.html

Notes (Extensive) on Iliffe's Africans

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/grad-schol-extensive-notes-on-iliffes.html

Notes (Partial) on Paul Nugent’s Africa Since Independence

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/07/grad-school-partial-notes-on-paul.html

Notes and Summary: Achebe's Arrow of God

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/07/grad-school-notes-and-summary-on.html

Notes (Discussion) and Summary: Achebe's Arrow of God

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/01/arrow-of-god-notes.html

Notes (Discussion) and Summary Anthills of the Savannah 

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/04/anthills-of-savannah-discussion-notes.html

Notes (Discussion) and Summary: Achebe's Man of the People

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/02/disclaimer-these-are-my-notes-that-i.html

Notes (Discussion) and Summary: Achebe's No Longer At Ease

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/02/no-longer-at-ease-notes.html

Notes (Discussion) and Summary: Achebe's Things Fall Apart

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/01/things-fall-apart-notes.html

Notes on Rye Barcott's It Happened on the Way to War

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2011/07/notes-on-barcotts-it-happened-on-way-to.html

Notes/Summary (Partial) on Getting Somalia Wrong: Faith, War, and Hope in a Shattered State by Mary Harper (her blog is GREAT)

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/12/gettingsomaliawrong.notes.summary.maryharper.html

Notes on Hartley's The Zanzibar Chest

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/11/thezanzibarchest.aidenhartley.summary.review.notes.html

Notes on Democratization in Africa (Ottaway, Joseph, Bratton & Walle)

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/11/democratization.africa.huntingtonisandiot.html

Notes on African Judicial Systems (Akech, Von Doepp, Suberu)

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/11/african.judiciary.akech.vondoepp.suberu.notessummary.html

Notes on Clientelist State-Society Relations(Barkan, Fatton, Pitcher et al)

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/11/clientstatesociety.barkan.fatton.pitcher.sparknotes.html

Notes on African Elections as Vehicles for Change by Nic Cheeseman

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/10/alternation.africa.politics.elections.cliffnotes.fao.html

Notes on Patrimonialism in Africa (Theobald, Bach, Pitcher and Moran)

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/10/patrimonialism.africa.bach.theobald.pitcher.sparknotes.html

Notes (Brief) and Discussion Questions on Bradbury's Becoming Somaliland

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/10/bradbury-becomingsomaliland-sparknotes.html

Notes (Partial) on Gallab's The First Islamist Republic 

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/10/sudan-islamistrepublic-gallab-sparknotes.html

Notes (Brief) on O'Kane and Hepner's  Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development: Eritrea in the Twenty-first Century 

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/09/biopoliticsertireasomaliaokane.html

Notes for Debate Arguing that Counter-Piracy HAS been effective in the Horn of Africa

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/06/counter-piracy-has-been-effective-in.html

Paper on Libyan Coalition/Intervention

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/04/libya-coalition-to-what-end-and.html

Paper reviewing and analyzing "Sometimes in April"

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-wrote-earlier-footnoted-version-of.html

Paper (Average Grade) on British and French Colonial Legacies in West Africa
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/07/essay-on-british-and-french-legacies-in.html

Paper on the Unexpected Pattern of Democratization in Africa
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-pattern-of-democratization-in-africa.html

Paper on Copts in Egypt: A Wedding Feast for Copts and Christians
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/09/copticchristianegyptembassycairo.html

Poem: The Guilt of the Silent: An Analysis of Raoul Peck's "Sometimes in April"

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/02/guilt-of-silent-analysis-of-raoul-pecks.html

Endnotes for Sometimes in April/Rwanda Genocide Analysis Paper

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/02/sometimes-in-april-analysis-paper.html

EVENTS:

Notes from 2010 Maritime Safety and Security Conference "African Maritime Interests: Security and Development" Plenary Session 1

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/10/mss-conference-african-maritime.html

Notes from MSS Conference Speech by Ambassador Huddleston Speech

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/10/mss-conference-ambassador-huddleston.html

Notes from MSS Conference Speech by Ambassador Carson

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/10/mss-conference-speech-by-ambassador.html

MSS Conference Keynote Speech by AU Deputy Chairman Dr. Mwencha

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/10/mss-conference-keynote-speech-by-au.html

Notes on Senator Isakson's Speech at SAIS on 31 March 2011

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2011/04/senator-isaksons-speech-at-sais-from-31.html

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

Notes for entire IR Course

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/09/entire-notes-for-grad-school.html

Notes for Chapter 12 from Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Challenges of Our Time

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-on-force-and-statecraft-chapter-12.html

Notes on Selected Chapters of Force and Statecraft by Lauren, Craig and George

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-on-selected-chapters-of-force-and.html

Notes (1st four chapters) on Nye's Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (7th Edition)

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-on-nyes-understanding.html

Notes on Power and Levels of Analysis
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/ir-notes-on-power-and-levels-of-analysis.html

Notes on Mearsheimer and Walt's "An Unnecessary War"
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-on-mearsheimer-and-walts.html

Notes on Stephen Walt's The Relationship between theory and policy in IR, 2005
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-on-relationship-between-theory.html

Notes on Stephen Walt's "IR: One World, Many Theories" (1998)
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-on-stephen-walts-ir-one-world.html

Paragraph on Libya as a Case Study in Developing a Democracy from Scratch
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/libya-as-case-study-in-difficulty-of.html

Paragraph on Twitter as the New Nuke and the Convergence with Technology
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/twitter-as-new-nuke-and-convergence.html

Pargraph on The Dangers of Half-Hearted IR Policy Implementation
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/on-dangers-of-half-hearted-ir-policy.html

Paper on Considerations for a US Response to an Alien Communication Signal
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/thoughts-on-us-response-to-alien-signal.html

WRITING:

How to do a Literature Review

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/09/literaturereviewhowto-nps.html

In Praise of Refworks--The Best Reference Management Tool?

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/09/in-praise-of-refworks-best-reference.html

How to Write an A+ Paper in Grad School

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-write-a-paper-in-grad-school.html

Paper (presentation) on the importance of revision

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-revising-well-or-taking-ax-to-your.html 

ETHNIC CONFLICT:

Notes on "The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism" (2008) by Muller

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-enduring-power-of-ethnic.html

Notes on “From a Theory of Relative Economic Deprivation (RED) Towards a Theory of Relative Political Deprivation”  by Walker Connor (2001)

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/theory-of-relative-political.html

Notes on Genocide in Syria and Harff's "No Lessons Learned from the Holocaust"
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/08/genocide-in-syria-early-warning-systems.html

ECONOMICS:

Notes on Kraska's The Freakonomics of Maritime Piracy

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/11/freakonomics.maritimepiracy.africa.html

Notes on Have and Have Nots-African Style by Pascal Zachary

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/11/ginicoefficient.africa.haveandhavenots.html

Notes on Economic Geography of Regional Integration (Gill &Deichmann)

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/11/notes-on-economic-geography-of-regional.html

Notes on "Nigeria’s Shot at Redemption" by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Dec 2008)

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/11/nigeriaoilcurse.needfordistributionalfund.html

Notes on "Africa's Capitalist Revolution by Kapstein (July 2009)
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2013/01/notes.africacapitalism.revolution.kapstein.html

ISLAM: 

Notes on Origins of Islam

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/10/origins-of-islam-notes.html

COMPARATIVE POLITICS:

Notes on Social Theory and Comparative Politics (CP) by Mark Lichbach

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/04/grad-school-notes-on-social-theory-and.html

VIETNAM/DECISION-MAKING:

Paper on the Gulf of Tonkin: "The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: A Response to Which Campaign?"

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/09/johnsongulfoftonkinvietnammatterhorn.html