Notes and Papers Collection (Africa, IR, Ethnic Conflict, Economics, Writing)

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

IMPORTANT NOTE: DON'T CHEAT. DON'T PLAGIARIZE. Notes and Papers are shared here for reference and for studying. Footnote as appropriate.

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, Comparative Politics, Economics, Vietnam/Decision-Making

AFRICA:

Books:

Achebe Collection:

Arrow of God (notes and summary)

Arrow of God (discussion and summary)

Anthills of the Savannah (discussion and summary)

Man of the People (discussion and summary)

No Longer At Ease (discussion and summary)

Things Fall Apart (discussion and summary)

Barcott's It Happened on the Way to War

Bates's Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies

Bradbury's Becoming Somaliland (brief with discussion questions)

Gallab's The First Islamist Republic (partial)

Mary Harper Getting Somalia Wrong: Faith, War, and Hope in a Shattered State by (partial summary, check out her GREAT blog)

Hartley's The Zanzibar Chest

Herbst's States and Power in Africa

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

Iliffe's Africans (extensive)

Nugent’s Africa Since Independence (partial)

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

Articles:

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

Democratization in Africa (Ottaway, Joseph, Bratton and Walle)

Elections as Vehicles for Change (Cheeseman)

Ethnic Politics (Roessler, Eifert, and LeVan)

Generational Politics (Toungara, Kagwanja, Abbink)

Judicial Systems (Akech, Von Doepp, Suberu)

Legislature (Prempeh, Barkan, Lindberg)

Mauritius: A Case Study (Arvind Subramanian)

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

Political Parties (Rakner, Van de Walle, Resnick, Bleck)

Rural Majority (Hyden, Jayne, Maclean)

Papers:

British and French Colonial Legacies in West Africa (average grade)

Copts in Egypt: A Wedding Feast for Copts and Muslims

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

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

Libyan Coalition/Intervention

"Sometimes in April" (review and analysis)

Sometimes in April/Rwanda Genocide Analysis Paper Endnotes

The Unexpected Pattern of Democratization in Africa

Event Notes:

2010 Maritime Safety and Security (MSS) Conference "African Maritime Interests: Security and Development" Plenary Session 1

MSS Conference Speech by Ambassador Huddleston

MSS Conference Speech by Ambassador Carson

MSS Conference Keynote Speech by AU Deputy Chairman Dr. Mwencha

Senator Isakson's Speech at SAIS on 31 March 2011

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

Books and Course:

Entire IR Course

Essays in "Conflict After the Cold War"

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

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

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

Power and Levels of Analysis

Articles:

Mearsheimer and Walt's "An Unnecessary War"

Walt's The Relationship between theory and policy in IR, 2005

Walt's "IR: One World, Many Theories" (1998)

Papers:

Paragraph on Libya as a Case Study in Developing a Democracy from Scratch

Paragraph on Twitter as the New Nuke and the Convergence with Technology

Paragraph on The Dangers of Half-Hearted IR Policy Implementation

Considerations for a US Response to an Alien Communication Signal

Concert of Democracies as the Answer to the Impotent UN

Relevance of UN Charter today

Research Question on Imazighen-State Relations in Morocco and Algeria

WRITING:

How to do a Literature Review

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

How to Write an A+ Paper in Grad School

Presentation on the importance of revision

My Checklist for Writing Well: Essential Edits Before You Turn in That Paper 

ETHNIC CONFLICT:

Notes:

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

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

Harff's "No Lessons Learned from the Holocaust" and Genocide in Syria

Papers:

More than Words: An Argument for Primordialism

ECONOMICS:

Kraska's The Freakonomics of Maritime Piracy

Zachary's  Have and Have Nots-African Style  Notes Link

Gill and Deichmann's Economic Geography of Regional Integration Notes Link

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

Kapstein "Africa's Capitalist Revolution" (July 2009)

Gupta's "Making Remittances Work" (2007) Notes Link

ISLAM:

Notes:

Islamic Fundamentalism Notes

The Origins of Islam

Islamism in Morocco by Zeghal Malika

The First Islamic Republic by Gallab (Sudan)

Imazighen-State Relations in Morocco and Algeria (My research question 1 pager)

Papers:

At the Service of Islam: The Islamists' Role in Morocco's Democratic Islamic Monarchy

50 Shades of Islam: the Rise of Morocco's Democratic Islamarchy

Copts in Egypt: A Wedding Feast for Copts and Muslims

The Myth of Monolithic Islamism (Iran, Egpyt and Pakistan Comparison)

COMPARATIVE POLITICS:

Notes:

Lichbach's "Social Theory and Comparative Politics (CP)"

Papers:

Why do some scholars view popular sovereignty as the ‘dark side’ of democracy?  Are they correct?

VIETNAM/DECISION-MAKING:

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