Obnova Zálohy Economic Warfare

Topic outline

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  General

  • Oznámení Forum
  • Oznámení Forum
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  Week 1: Introduction to the class and the class requirements

  • Karl Gustafsson and Linus Hagstrom What is the point teaching graduate students how to construct political science research puzzles File
  • Economic Warfare syllabus SS2019 update 20190305 File
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  Week 2: Economy as a source of power in war (lecture)

  • Hugh Rockoff The economics of war File
  • Jan Ludvik Poverty of Statistics File
  • Mark Harrison Why the Wealthy Won File
  • Mark Harrison The economics of World War II an overview File
  • Niall Ferguson Understretch The Limits of Economic Power File
  • reading assignment Economy as a source of power in war File
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  Week 3: Economy as a source of power in war (seminar)

  • Mini case study 1: Regime type and economic mobilization for war Turnitin Assignment 2
  • Group conclusion 1 Assignment
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  Week 4: Economy as a target in war (lecture)

  • Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll The Age of the World Wars, 1914-1945 The Case of Diminishing Marginal Returns to the Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II File
  • Adam Tooze Chapter 19 Disintegration and Chapter 20 The End File
  • Joel Ira Holwitt, Execute Against Japan The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Chapter 11 and Conclusion File
  • Karl Lautenschlager The Submarine in Naval Warfare, 1901-2001 File
  • Michael A. Glosny Strangulation from the Sea A PRC Submarine Blockade of Taiwan File
  • reading assignment Economy as a target in war File
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  Week 5: Economy as a target in war (seminar)

  • Mini case study 2: Are new tools like cyber-attacks against economic targets more effective than traditional tools of economic warfare like blockades, submarine warfare, or strategic bombing? Turnitin Assignment 2
  • Group conclusion 2 Assignment
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  Week 6: Policy session I
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  Week 7: Economic sanctions (lecture)

  • Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Jeffrey J. Schott, Kimberly Ann Elliott, Barbara Oegg-Economic Sanctions Reconsidered (2008) File
  • Robert Pape Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work File
  • Daniel W. Drezner The Sanctions Paradox Introduction and Conclusion File
  • Daniel W. Drezner Sanctions Sometimes Smart Targeted Sanctions in Theory and Practice File
  • Bryan Early Busted Sanctions Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail Introduction and Chpater 2 File
  • reading assignment Economic sanctions File
  • LECTURE Economic sanctions new File
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  Week 8: Economic sanctions (seminar)

  • Mini case study 3: Are economic sanctions a real alternative to war? Turnitin Assignment 2
  • Group conclusion 3 Assignment
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  Week 9: Logic of positive engagements (lecture)

  • Daniel W. Drezner The Trouble with Carrots Transaction Costs, Conflict Expectation, and Economic Inducement File
  • Charles W. Kegley and Steven W. Hook U.S. Foreign Aid and UN Voting Did Reagans Linkage Strategy Buy Deferrence or Defiance File
  • Miroslav Nincic The Logic of Positive Engagement Dealing with Renegade Regimes File
  • James Reilly Chinas economic statecraft in Europe File
  • Stephen D. Collins Can America Finance Freedom Assessing US Democracy Promotion via Economic Statecraft File
  • Logic of Positive Engagements new File
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  Week 10: reading week on counterfactuals

  • Jack Levy Countrafactuals, Causal Inference, and Historical Analysis File
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  Week 11: Logic of positive engagements (seminar)

  • Mini case study 4: Can positive economic incentives achieve what negative economic incentives cannot? Turnitin Assignment 2
  • Group conclusion 4 Assignment
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  Week 12: Policy session 2

  • Background reading URL
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  Week 13: Wrap-up session and peer assesment

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