Intro to International Studies: Second Week October 6 - 10 - Readings, Newspaper Articles and Online Quiz-1

Dear all,

For the second week (October 6 - 10 ), you should read the following chapters:

Economic Globalization – Smallman and Brown

Documentary: The Corporation (2003)

Readings in Globalization By Ritzer and Atalay
Part I Political Economy.
2 Civilizations.
2 The Clash of Civilizations? (Samuel P. Huntington).
3 Global Utopias and Clashing Civilizations: Misunderstanding the Present (John Gray).
4 Can Civilizations Clash? (Jack F. Matlock, Jr).
5 History Ends, Worlds Collide (Chris Brown).
6 If Not Civilizations, What? Paradigms of the Post-Cold War World (Samuel P. Huntington).

The case of Africa by Tugrul Keskin

Readings in Globalization By Ritzer and Atalay
3 Orientalism, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism.
7 Orientalism: Introduction (Edward W. Said).
8 Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse (Sadik Jalal al-'Azm).
9 Postcolonialism and Its Discontents (Ali Rattansi).
10 Said’s Orientalism: A Vital Contribution Today (Peter Marcuse).

Documentary: Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death - Peter Bate, Belgium, 2003

ONLINE QUIZ-1: You will take the online quiz-1 on Sunday Oct. 12 between 9 and 10 PM.

Also, I have created a website for this course please visit the website at the following homepage: http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.com/

On the website, you will find recommended newspapers. Please use these newspapers for your article presentations.
A list of US and International think-tanks are also posted on the website.

As you will see, I post weekly variable news items from current events. If you would like to make comments, a comment section is available for each news item. 

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE PRESENTATION: Please bring the newspaper articles every Monday. We will not have any newspaper article presentations on Wednesdays and I do not accept the newspaper articles by email.

FOR THIS WEEK, please bring newspaper articles related with GLOBALIZATION, IMPERIALISM, ORIENTALISM or AFRICA. Other subjects will not be accepted. 
 
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. 

Best to all,

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Tugrul Keskin
333 East Hall
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