HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: International Relations

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: HEBREW

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: DR. Oded Lowenheim

Coordinator Email: oded.lowenheim@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Monday, 10:30-12:30

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Oded Lowenheim

Course/Module description:
This course covers a variety of aspects and issues of authority and resistance to it in the global political system, as well as in the academic field of International Relations. Initially, the course analyzes the concept of the authority of the great powers in IR. Then, a discussion will be held on various cases of challenge to this authority. The second part of the course introduces the concept of governmentality, based on the ideas of Michel Foucault. In this context, a discussion will be held on certain types of governmentality in world politics, and the different ways adopted by different actors to oppose this government. The third part of the course discusses writing about emotions in international relations, and presents case studies of emotion in world politics. In this context, the occupation with emotions illustrates the structures of authority in the sense of proper behavior and non – desirable conduct in world politics. Part four of the course deals with structures of authority and practices of resistance to conventional ways of academic writing about international politics, and in doing so presents the genre of auto-ethnographic writing, as well as addressing other aspects of narrative and political representation. Finally, we'll discuss how to teach sensitive political issues in a divided society like Israel, and examine the threat to academic freedom in Israel.

Course/Module aims:
Gain an understanding and a broad perspective on the concept of authority and resistance to authority in the current global political system.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To think interesting and complex thoughts about the subject matter of the course.

Attendance requirements(%):
90

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lecture and discussion

Course/Module Content:
1-2. Hierarchy and authority the Great Powers: the characteristics and origins of GP authority in world politics.
3. Punishment and reproduction of the authority of the great powers
4. Predators and parasites: the Barbary pirates in the 17th century
5. Caribbean pirates in the 17th and 18th
6. Barbary piracy suppressed by Britain at the beginning of the 19th century
7. "The War on terror" to the U.S. under President Bush
8. Ggovernmentality: international ratings of good govern
9. Governmentality of mobility and international migration
10. Governmentality of measuring time and accuracy and the connection to international security
11. Governmentality, the UFO and the world state
12. Governmentlaity of discourse and academic research in IR
13. Emotions and international politics
14. Emotions and international politics - anger, disrespect, revenge and war
15. Emotions and international politics: schadenfreude in Israel – Europe relations
16. Emotions and international politics: scars in the body, soul and landscape
17. Emotions and international politics: apology and forgiveness
18. Emotions and international politics: friendship and commitment
19. Voice and the individual in IR: autoethnography and the reflexive turn in IR
20. Writing autoethnography in a dividied society
21. Watching the movie Good Bye Lenin
22. Post – Communist autoethnographies
23. War as you never heard about in IR: "The Good Soldier Svejk" and "Catch 22 "
24. Alternate History
25. Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt: an indictment against the institution of the state?
26. The threat to academic freedom in Israel

Required Reading:
* Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society (London: Macmillan, 1977), chp. 9.
* Oded Löwenheim, Predators and Parasites: Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), chp. 1.
- David A. Lake, “Escape from the State of Nature: Authority and Hierarchy in World Politics,” International Security Vol.32, No.1 (Summer 2007), pp. 47-79.
- Gerry Simpson, Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), chps. 1-3.
- Jack Donnelly, Rethinking political structures, International Theory 1(1), 2009, 49-86.
- Hendrik Spruyt, The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change (Princeton University Press, 1994).
- Janice Thomson, Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns (Princeton University Press, 1994).

3. קריאת תיגר על סמכות המעצמות הגדולות, וענישה כאשרור לסמכות זו
* Oded Löwenheim, Predators and Parasites: Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), chp. 2.
- Janice Thomson, Mercenaries, Pirates and Sovereigns (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2004), chp. 1.
- Anthony Lang, “Punishment and Peace: Critical Reflections on Countering Terrorism,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol.36 No.3 (May 2008), pp. 493-511.

4. הפירטיות של ערי המדינה הברבריות בצפון אפריקה במאה ה-17.
* Oded Löwenheim, Predators and Parasites: Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), chp. 3.
- Gillian Weiss, Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2011).

5. הפירטים בים הקריבי במאות ה-17 וה-18
* Thomson, Mercenaries, Pirates and Sovereigns, pp. 45-54, 69-77, 107-118.
- Marcus Rediker, Between the devil and the deep blue sea: merchant seamen, pirates, and the Anglo-American maritime world, 1700-1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), chp. 6.
6. "טורפים וטפילים": דיכוי הפיראטיות הברברית בידי בריטניה בראשית המאה ה-19.
* Chaim Kaufmann and Robert Pape, “Explaining Costly Moral Action: Britain's Sixty-Year Campaign against the Atlantic Slave Trade,” International Organization Vol.53 No.4 (1999), pp. 631-68.
- Löwenheim, Predators and Parasites, chp. 4.
7. "טורפים וטפילים": "המלחמה בטרור" של ארה"ב בימי הנשיא בוש.
* Barak Mendelsohn, “Sovereignty under Attack: The International Society Meets the Al Qaeda Network.” Review of International Studies Vol.31 No.1 (2005), pp. 45-68.

8. ממשליות (governmentality): דירוגים בינ"ל של ממשול טוב.
* Michel Foucault, “Governmentality.” In, The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, edited by Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991), pp. 87-104.
* Hans K. Hansen, “Managing corruption risks,” Review of International Political Economy 18(2) 2011, pp. 251-275.
- Mitchell Dean, Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society (London: Sage, 2010), chp. 1.
- Hindess, Barry. 2005. “Investigating International Anti-corruption.” Third World Quarterly 26(8):1389-1398.

9. הממשליות של המוביליות (mobility) הבינ"ל ושל ההגירה
* Mark B. Salter, “The Global Visa Regime and the Political Technologies of the International Self: Borders, Bodies, Biopolitics,” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol.31 No.2 (April 2006), pp. 167-189.
* Oded Löwenheim and Orit Gazit, "Power and Examination: A Critique of Citizenship Tests," Security Dialogue Vol.40 No.2 (April 2009), pp. 145-167

10. הממשליות של מדידת הזמן והדייקנות והקשר שלה לתחום הבטחון הבינ"ל
* ייבגני יאנובסקי, זמן ובטחון: חיבור לשם קבלת תואר מ"א (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים, 2011).

11. הממשליות של העב"מ והמדינה העולמית
* Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, “Sovereignty and the UFO,” Political Theory Volume 36 Number 4 August 2008, 607-633.
- Alexander Wendt, “Why a World State is Inevitable,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 9, No. 4, 491-542 (2003).
12. הממשליות של השיח והמחקר האקדמי ביחב"ל
* Teaching, Research, and Policy Views of International Relations Faculty in 20 Countries
ניתן להוריד את המסמך ב:
http://irtheoryandpractice.wm.edu/projects/trip/TRIPAroundTheWorld2011.pdf

- Ersel Aydinli and James N. Rosenau, “Courage versus Caution: A Dialogue on Entering and Prospering in IR,” International Studies Review Vol.6 No.3 (November 2004), pp. 511-526.

13. רגשות בפוליטיקה הבינ"ל
* Neta Crawford, “The Passion of World Politics,” International Security 24, no.4 (Spring 2000), 116-156.
 Jonathan Mercer, “Rationality and Psychology in International Politics,” International Organization 59(1), 2005, pp. 77-106.
 Jonathan Mercer, “Emotional Beliefs,” International Organization 64(1) 2010, pp. 1-31.

14. רגשות בפוליטיקה הבינ"ל – כעס, פגיעה בכבוד, נקמה ומלחמה
* Oded Löwenheim and Gadi Heimann, “Revenge in International Politics,” Security Studies Vol.17 No.4 (Winter 2008/9), pp. 685-724.
* Todd H. Hall, “We will not swallow this bitter fruit: theorizing a diplomacy of anger,” Security Studies 20(4), 2011, pp. 521-555.
- Jonathan Mercer, “Emotion and Strategy in the Korean War,” International Organization 67 (2) (2013), pp. 221-252.

15. רגשות בפוליטיקה הבינ"ל: שמחה לאיד ביחסי ישראל-אירופה

16. רגשות בפוליטיקה הבינ"ל: צלקות בגוף, בנפש ובנוף
* Brent J. Steele, Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics: The Scars of Violence (Routledge, 2012). Chps. Introduction and 1.
- Jenny Edkins, Missing: Persons and Politics (Cornell University Press, 2011).
- Shahram Khosravi, “The ‘Illegal’ Traveler: An Auto-ethnography of Borders,” Social Anthropology Vol. 15 No.3 (October 2007), pp. 321–334.

17. רגשות בפוליטיקה הבינ"ל: בקשת סליחה
* Nava Löwenheim, “A haunted past: requesting forgiveness for wrongdoing in International Relations,” Review of International Studies 35 (3), 2009, pp. 531-555.
- Nava Löwenheim and Zohar Kampf, “Rituals of apology in the global arena,” Security Dialogue 43(1), 2012, 43-60.

18. רגשות בפוליטיקה הבינ"ל: ידידות ומחוייבות

19. Voice והאינדיבידואל ביחב"ל; כתיבה אוטו-אתנוגרפית, והפנייה הרפלקסיבית ביחב"ל
* Carol Cohn, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Vol.12 (Summer 1987), pp. 687-718
* Elizabeth Dauphinee, “The Ethics of Autoethnography,” Review of International Studies Vol.36 No.3 (July 2010), pp. 799-818.
- Oded Löwenheim, “The 'I' in IR: An Autoethnographic Account,” Review of International Studies, Vol.36 No.4 (October 2010), pp. 1025-1048.
- Naeem Inayatullah (ed), Autobiographical International Relations (London: Routledge, 2011)
- Christopher Hill, “‘Where Are We Going?’ International Relations and the Voice From Below,” Review of International Studies Vol.25 No.1 (January 1999) pp. 107-122.
- Roxanne Lynn Doty, “Maladies of Our Souls: Identity and Voice in the Writing of Academic- International Relations,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol.17 No.2 (July 2004), pp. 377-392.
- Carolyn S. Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner, “Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography: An Autopsy,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Vol.35 No.4 (August 2006), pp. 429-449.
- Eric Mykhalovskiy, “Reconsidering Table Talk: Critical Thoughts on the Relationship between Sociology, Autobiography, and Self-Indulgence,” Qualitative Sociology Vol.19 No.1 (March 1996), pp. 131-151.
- Hamati-Ataya, Inanna (2012) “Reflectivity, Reflexivity, Reflexivism: IR’s “Reflexive Turn’ – and Beyond.” European Journal of International Relations (forthcoming).
- Christine Sylvester, “The Elusive Arts of Reflexivity in the ‘Sciences’ of International Relations,” Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 2013, 41(1):309-325.

20. כתיבה אוטו-אתנוגרפית בחברות שסועות
* Oded Löwenheim, The Politics of the Trail: Reflexive Mountain Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, forthcoming in 2014) – prologue and chp. 1.
* Naeem Inayatullah, “Something There: Love, War, and Basketball in Afghanistan,” Intertexts, Vol. 7, issue 2, Fall 2003, pp. 143-56.

21. צפייה בסרט Good Bye Lenin

22. אוטו-אתנוגרפיות פוסט-קומוניסטיות
* Dominic Boyer, “Ostalgie and the Politics of the Future in Eastern Germany,” Public Culture 18:2, 2006, pp. 361-381.
* Wanda Vrasti, McMaster University, “Goodbye Nostalgia: In memory of a country that has never existed as Such.” in Naeem Inayatullah (ed), Autobiographical International Relations (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 136-151
* Alina Sajed, McMaster University, “Waiting for the Revolution: A foreigner’s narrative,” in Naeem Inayatullah (ed), Autobiographical International Relations (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 78-92.

23. המלחמה כפי שמעולם לא שמעתם עליה ביחב"ל: "החייל האמיץ שווייק" ו"מילכוד 22”.
* J. P. Stern, "War and the Comic Muse: The Good Soldier Schweik and Catch-22," Comparative Literature, Vol. 20, No. 3, (Summer, 1968), pp. 193-216.
* Hana Cervinkova, “The Phantom of the Good Soldier Švejk in the Czech Army Accession to NATO (2001–2002),” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (2009) 22, pp. 359–371.
24. היסטוריה חלופית
* Gavriel Rosenfeld, “Why Do We Ask ‘What If?’ Reflections on the Function of Alternate History,” History and Theory 41(4), 2002, pp. 90-103.
- T. Austin Graham, “On the Possibility of an American Holocaust: Philip Roth's The Plot Against America,” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 63.3 (2007) 119-149.
* Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, “What Almost Was: The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel,” American Studies, Volume 50, Number 3/4, Fall/Winter 2009, pp. 63-83, p. 65.

25. אייכמן בירושלים של חנה ארדנט: כתב אישום נגד מוסד המדינה?
* קיראו את הספר, תוך תשומת לב מיוחד לאפילוג שלו.
- סטיבן אשהיים, עורך, חנה ארנדט בירושלים (ירושלים: מאגנס, 2007), ע' 228- 314.

26. האיום על החופש האקדמי בישראל
- משה ליסק ואורי כהן, "האסטרטגים המדעיים בתקופת הממלכתיות: יחסי הגומלין בין הקהילה האקדמית למוקדי כוח פוליטיים," עיונים בתקומת ישראל כרך 20 עמ' 1-27.
* Jamie Frueh et al., “Political Beliefs and the Academic Responsibilities of Undergraduate Teaching,” Journal of Political Science Education Vol.4 (October 2008), pp. 447–462.
* Neil Gross and Ethan Fosse, “Why are professors liberal?” Theory and Society Vol.41 No.2 (March 2012), pp. 127-168.
* Yitzhak Galnoor, “Academic Freedom under Political Duress: Israel”, Social Research: An International Quarterly, Vol.76 No.2 (Summer 2009), pp. 541-560.

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End of year written/oral examination 100 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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