| SES # | Topics | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| L1 | Introduction | |
| L2 | Planning, Politics and the Idea of Post-Conflict Reconstruction |
Orr, Robert C., ed. Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction. CSIS Significant Issues, No. 26. The CSIS Press, 2004. ISBN: 0892064447. The World Bank. Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Role of the World Bank (PDF - 4.2 MB). Washington, DC: 1998. ISBN: 0821342150. Azimi, Nassrine, Matt Fuller, and Hiroko Nakayama, eds. Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Japan, Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Afghanistan. Proceedings of an international conference in Hiroshima. New York, NY: UNITAR, 2003. Addison, Tony, ed. Chapters 1 and 2 in From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 1-29. ISBN: 0199261032. Michailof, Serge, Markus Kostner, Xavier Devictor, and Tony Addison. Post-Conflict Recovery in Africa: An Agenda for the Africa Region (PDF). Africa Region Working Paper Series No. 30, 2002. Vale, Lawrence J., and Thomas J. Campanella, eds. The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0195175832. |
| L3 | International Experience: Marshall Plan, the Reconstruction of Japan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Dower, John W. "Chapters: Introduction, and Part VI: Reconstruction." In Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press, 1999, pp. 19-30, and pp. 525-547. ISBN: 0393046869. Orr, Robert C., ed. "Japan: Occupation as Means to a 'Citadel of Democracy in the East'." In Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction. CSIS Significant Issues, No. 26. Washington, DC: The CSIS Press, 2004, pp. 169-192. ISBN: 0892064447. Maier, Charles S., ed. The Marshall Plan and Germany: West German Development within the Framework of the European Recovery Program. With the assistance of Günter Bischof. New York, NY: Berg, 1991. ISBN: 0854963065. Hogan, Michael J. The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947- 1952. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN: 0521378400. The World Bank. "OED - Operations Evaluation Department." In Bosnia and Herzegovina: Post-Conflict reconstruction and the Transition to a Market Economy: an OED Evaluation of World Bank Support (PDF). Washington, DC: 2004. ISBN: 0821359789. |
| L4 | The U.S. Post-September 11 Reconstruction Agenda |
Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Association of the U.S. Army. Play to Win: Final Report of the bi-partisan Commission on Post-Conflict Reconstruction. U.S.A., 2003. ( Vaishnav, Milan. "Afghanistan: The Chimera of the 'Light Footprint'." In Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction. CSIS Significant Issues, No. 26. Edited by Robert C. Orr. Washington, DC: The CSIS Press, 2004, pp. 244-262. ISBN: 0892064447. Orr, Robert C., ed. "An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction." In Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction. CSIS Significant Issues, No. 26. Washington, DC: The CSIS Press, 2004, pp. 169-192. ISBN: 0892064447. Fujimura, Manabu. Post-Conflict Reconstruction: the Afghan Economy. Tokyo: Asian Development Bank Institute, 2004. ISBN: 4899740034. World Bank. Afghanistan World Bank Approach Paper. 2001. Hanlon, Michael E. O. "The Aid and Reconstruction Agenda for Afghanistan." Analysis Paper 13. Policy Review (2001). |
| L5 | Social and Political Background for Reconstruction: Politics and Society in Iraq in the 20-21st Century |
Nakash, Yitzhak. The Shi'is of Iraq. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN: 0691034311. Dodge, Toby. Iraq Transformed: Violence, Poverty and War. London, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. ISBN: 140511679X. ———. Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0231131666. Dodge, Toby, and Steven Simon, eds. Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change. Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 019852837X. Anderson, Liam, and Gareth Stansfield. Chapters 1 to 7 in The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division? New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN: 1403963541. |
| L6 | Post-war Planning: Visioning 'A new Iraq' and 'A New Middle East' |
Dodge, Toby, and Richard Higgott, eds. Globalization and the Middle East: Islam, Economy, Society, and Politics. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. ISBN: 1862031347. Katzman, Kenneth. "Iraq's Opposition Movements." CRS Report for Congress. June 27, 2000. |
| L7 | The U.S. Reconstruction Agenda and Projects in Iraq |
Halchin, L. Elaine. "The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA): Origin, Characteristics, and Institutional Authorities." CRS Report for Congress. April 29, 2004. Waterhouse, Michael, and Carolyn C. Smith. "Iraq Reconstruction Resources: Fact Sheet (PDF)." CRS Report for Congress. September 24, 2003. Hanlon, Michael E. O. "Iraq without a Plan." Policy Review (January, 2005). Copson, Raymond W. "Iraq War? Current Situation and Issues for Congress." CRS Report for Congress. Updated February 12, 2003. ———. "Iraq War: Background and Issues Overview (PDF)." CRS Report for Congress. Updated April 22, 2003. ———. "Iraq: Recent Developments in Reconstruction Assistance." CRS Report for Congress. Updated April 22, 2003. Cordesman, Anthony H. "Nation Building in Iraq: A Status Report." Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2004. ( |
| L8 | Constructing a New Liberal Economy in Iraq. In Addition to an Example From Afghanistan |
Alnasrawi, Abbas. Iraq's Burdens: Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. ISBN: 031332459X. ———. The Economy of Iraq: Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950-2010. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN: 0313291861. Looney, Robert. "Neoliberalism in a Conflict State: The Viability of Economic Shock Therapy in Iraq." Strategic Insights 3, no. 6 (June 2004). International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The Economic Development of Iraq. (At the Request of the Government of Iraq.) Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1952. |
| L9 | Political Reconstruction: Building a New Democracy |
Feldman, Noah. What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0691121796. Anderson, Liam, and Gareth Stansfield. "The Democracy Dilemma." Chapter 8 in The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division? New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 185-224. ISBN: 1403963541. Kovsted, Jens, and Finn Tarp. "Reconstruction, Reform, and State Capacity in Guinea-Bissau." In From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. Edited by Tony Addison. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 206-227. ISBN: 0199261032. Katzman, Kenneth. "Iraq: U.S. Regime Change Efforts and Post-Saddam Governance (PDF)." CRS Report for Congress. October 22, 2004. Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "From Modernization to Democratization: The Political Economy of the "New" International Law." In Reframing the International: Law, Culture, Politics . Edited by Richard Falk, Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, and R. B. J Welker. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 137-162. ISBN: 0415931762. Halperin, Morton, Joseph T. Siegle, and Michael M. Weinstein. Chapter 1 in The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005, pp. 1-24. ISBN: 041595052X. |
| L10 | The Role of International Organization in Post-Conflict Reconstructing |
"Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Role of the World Bank for Reconstruction (PDF - 4.2 MB)." Washington, DC: 1998. ISBN: 0821342150. Coipuram, Tom. "Iraq: United Nations and Humanitarian Aid Organizations (PDF)." Report for Congress. March 1, 2003. April 2003 updated version. |
| L11 | The Discourse of Iraqis and Arabs on the Reconstruction of a New Iraq |
Khalidi, Rashid. Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN: 0807002348. Hassan, Abu Taleb. "Illusion of Reform." Al-Ahram Weekly. April 25, 2004. Said, Abdel-Moneim. "Heavenly Pursuits." Al-Ahram Weekly. February 2, 2004. |
| L12 | Conclusions and Critiques: Planning and Reconstruction; Vision and Realities; Stability and Resistance in Iraq |
Braude, Joseph. The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for Its People, the Middle East, and the World. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2003. ISBN: 0465007880. Cordesman, Anthony H. "Transnational Threats: The Emerging Strategic Lessons from the U.S. Intervention in Iraq." Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2003. ( Recommended Movie Antoon, Sinan, Dir. About Baghdad. |
| L13 | Criticism |
Open Society Institute and the United Nations Foundation. Iraq in Transition: Post-Conflict Challenges and Opportunities (PDF). 2004. Said, Edward. "Global Crisis Over Iraq: The Alternative United States." MIFTAH, March 20, 2003. ———. "Orientalism 25 Years Later: Worldly Humanism v. the Empire-builders." In Orientalism. 25th Anniversary Edition. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2003. ISBN: 039474067X. |
| L14 | Representations: The Idea of Post-Conflict Reconstruction |
