POS 885 FOCUS FIELD FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW + ORGANIZATION

POS 885 Focus Field International Law and Organization should be based on a bibliography that a student generates to focus on a research debate/question in the existing literature of the major field. It is to lead to a critical literature review essay that demarcates the major divisions within a literature and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of core arguments in a fifteen-twenty page paper graded by the faculty adviser. The paper will begin moving a student toward the type of narrowing that is essential for the dissertation prospectus and hopefully this will aid in reducing time from comps to proposal. Generation of the bibliography and the review essay will provide the comp committee with a better evaluative tool to determine whether the student is ready for the independent thinking required for a dissertation.The review essay should be completed a month prior to the comprehensive examination whether or not it is taken for credit in that academic term.

RESEARCH METHODS

Empirical Research on Human Rights

            David Cingranelli, Human Rights Theory and Measurement

            Thomas Jabine and Richard Claude, Human Rights and Statistics, 1991

Case Study Method

            Eckstein in Fred Greenstein and Nelson Polsby, “Strategies of Inquiry” vol. 7 of The Handbook of Political Science: 79-137

            Paul Lauren, Diplomacy,  43-68

            Norman Thomas, “Case Studies,” in George Edwards, Studying the Presidency

Functionalism (Readings from Comparative Politics relevant for international organization)

            G. Almond, Comparative Politics

            Brown and Macridis, ed. Comparative Politics,  8 Almond

Standard Reference Works

Moore, John Bassett.  A Digest of Intrnational Law. (8 vols,)  Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906

Hackworth, Green H.  Digest of International Law.' (8 vols.)  Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940-44.

Whiteman, Marjorie M.  Digest of International Law. (15  vols.) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963-1973.

Brierly, J.L. The Law of Nations  6th ed. London: Oxford  University Press, 1963.

Kaplan, Morton A. and Karzenbach, Nicholas deB. The Political  Foundations of International Law. New York: John Wiley, 1961.

Nussbaum, Arthur.  A Concise History of the Law of Nations,  rev. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1954.

Oppenheim, L.F.L. International Law: A Treatise. London and  New York: Longmans, Green Vol. 1 Peace (8th ed. by Hersch  Lauterpacht 1955); Vol. 2, Disputes, War and Neutrality (7th  ed., by Lauterpacht, 1952)

INTERNET/WWW SOURCES

            Links to the United Nations, Human Rights NGOs, Multilateral treaties.                 

                        http://homepages.uc.edu/~tolleyhb

            Treaties are available on the world wide web at internet address                                            

                        http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multilaterals.html