教學大綱 Syllabus

科目名稱：爭辯中的人類安全：正義、平等、人道與人權

Course Name: Debating Human Security: Justice, Equality, Humanity andRights
  • 學年學期：112-1 Fall Semester, 2023
  • 科目代碼：203915001 Course No.203915001

修別：選

Type of Credit: Elective

3.0

學分數

Credit(s)

40

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details
  • 開課單位：外交三 Course Department:Diplomacy/B/3
  • 授課老師：王韻 Instructor: WANG YUN
  • 先修科目：無Prerequisite(N/A)
  • 上課時間：四234 Session: thu09-12

課程簡介Course Description

Human security is a new interdisciplinary topic that originates from two groups of literature: human rights and international security. The first group is full of practitioners and theorists who care about justice, humanity, and equality, mainly in the battles of defending human rights in the developing world. The second group gathers the best minds of security experts, policy-makers, and strategic analysts who are delicate to defend the peace, stability, and sustainability of the world, which, arguably, relies on the actions of the developed world. This somehow chaotic and self-contradictory nature makes this topic one of the most fascinating and debatable developments in the IR field. Students here will first learn various definitions and theories from two sub-disciplines. Then they will be introduced to case studies in two very different worlds. The final goal is to help students to build their own perspectives on selected issue areas: human rights, just war, humanitarian issues, trade and immigration, and sustainable politics. The semester is divided into five issue blocks and each block contains roughly one class on debates popular in the developed world and one case on practices in the developing world.

核心能力分析圖 Core Competence Analysis Chart

能力項目說明

    課程目標與學習成效Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes

    The main methods of this class are Cooperative Learning and Self-Direct Learning. Starting from the second week, each student will participate in an *expert group and a *case group. Each expert group is responsible for formulating a reading list and to LEAD a class section in one of the five topics in the given week. Each case group, consisting students from different expert groups, is responsible to organize and write a human security *guidebook to a developing country. Case groups will present their work and ideas in the final weeks. In addition, students will self-design a City Wanderer© challenge activity and experience directly justice, equality, humanity, and human rights in their own fashion and perspective.

    Individual Tasks

    There is 30% of the total course evaluation depending on personal understanding of assigned materials and individual participation. Students are required to attend all classes and fully participate in class activities. You will receive points for class participation, and excessive absences could adversely affect your final grade.

                (1) In-class exercises: formats and grades are assigned by expert groups

                (2) City Wanderer© report: the activity should begin in Week 7 and concluded in Week 9

     

    Group Tasks

    Students should rank to the five research blocks according to individual interests. The choice should be made before the second class. I will assign students with similar interests to form five study groups. If too many people choose the same focus then the instructor will make proper arrangement. Those groups have three important tasks:

    (1) Expert section: Expert groups are responsible for providing readings, questions, and exercises or quizzes for the second class of each block; a brief summary and outlines should be sent to instructor a day before the class.

    (2) Human security *guidebook: Each study group should choose a developing country to write a human security report. The proposal is due on Week 7. The division of the group and labor has to be approved by the instructor. Office meeting after midterm is strongly recommended.

    (3) Presentation: In the last day of class, we will have group presentations and discussion about the five case study projects. The grade of each group will be co-judged by instructor, a guest speaker, and other groups. Multimedia, play or any other creative way of presentation is encouraged.

    每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

    教學週次Course Week 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type

    DATE

    READING ASSIGNMENTS

    TOPICS TO BE COVERED

    W1

    9/14
    1. Introduction

    TED Talk video: Meg Jay “Why 30 is not the new 20,”
    1. Overview of the syllabus
    2. What are justice, equality, humanity and rights?
    3. How can “you” do about them?

    W2

    9/21
    1. Kaldor, ch.5 A Decade of Humanitarian Intervention,
    2. Owen and Liotta, 2006. “Why Human Security?” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations Vol VII, No. 1: 37-55.
    3. *Roland Paris, “Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air,” International Security, Vol. 26, N. 2, Fall 2001: 87-102.
    4. *PJ Burgess and Owen, “What is ‘Human Security’? Comments by 21 Authors” Security Dialogue, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 2004: 345-72.
    5. YouTube Video: New War 2.0: Interview with Kaldor

     
    1. Are there universal standards of justice, equality and rights?
    2. What is human security?
    3. Group preference due

    (* are recommended readings)

     
    1. Human Rights

    (Universality and Rights)

    W3

    9/28
    1. Kaldor, ch.2 or Kaldor 2003 “American Power from Compellance to Cosmopolitanism”
    2. Gary King and Christpher Murray, “Rethinking Human Security”
    3. *Donnelly, Jack. 2007. “The Relative Universality of Human Rights” Human Rights Quarterly 29(2)
    4. *Goodhart, Michael. 2008. “Neither Relative nor Universal: A Response to Donnelly” Human Rights Quarterly 30(1): 183-193

     
    1. Who’s security? Measurement of human security
    2. Universal rights?
    3. Cultural rights?
    4. Political rights and socioeconomic rights, which one should be first?

     

    W4

    10/5

     
    1. Thompson, Mark R.. “Pacific Asia after 'Asian Values': Authoritarianism, Democracy, and 'Good Governance'.” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 6 (2004), pp. 1079-1095.
    2. Osofsky, Hari M.. “Understanding ‘Hostage-Diplomacy’: The Release of Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan” Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal 1 (1998).
    3. * Wachman, Alan. “Does the Diplomacy of Shame Promote Human Rights in China?” Third World Quarterly (2001).

     
    1. Expert Section 1
    2. Human Rights: the East and the West
    3. Asian values
    4. Case: Hostage diplomacy
    5. Exercise/Quiz 1

     

     
    1. Just War

    (Stability and Responsibility)

    W5

    10/12
    1. Kaldor, Chapter 6 From Just War to Just Peace
    2. Owen, 2011, “R2P: More than a slogan”
    3. *Weiss, Thomas “The Sunset of Humanitarian Intervention? The R2P in a Unipolar Era,” Security Dialogue, 2004 35: 2: 135-153.    
    4. *Deitelhoff, Nicole, 2009. "The Discursive Process of Legalization: Charting Islands of Persuasion in the ICC Case," International Organization, 63(01): 33-65.
    5. *ICRC, “International Humanitarian Law in Brief”
    6. *Human Rights Watch, “Selling Justice Short,” 2009.
    7. *Scott Strauss, “Darfur and the Genocide Debate” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2005
    8. *Kenneth Roth, "The Law of War in the War on Terror," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2004.
    9. * Renatho Costa, "Religion and the New Wars Debate" Contexto International, 2019.

     
    1. Biopolitics
    2. SARS, MERS, Ebola, COVID-19 and more
    3. Biological security vs. Human rights
    4. What is City Wanderer?

     

    W6

    10/19
    1. Group 2 Presentation and Discussion
    2. TBA

     
    1. Expert Section 2
    2. Exercise/Quiz 2

    W7

    10/26
    1. City Wanderer discussion

     

    CITY WANDERER© BEGIN

     
    1. Prepare City Wanderer projects

     
    1. Humanitarian Issues

    (Issues of Justice and Humanity)

    W8

    11/2
    1. Michael Dillon, “Biopolitics of Security” in Handbook of New Security Studies (2010)
    2. Stefan Elbe, “Pandemic Security” in Handbook of New Security Studies (2010)
    3. Christian Enemark, “Is Pandemic Flu a Security Threat?” Survival (2009)
    4. Stefan Elbe, "AIDS, Security, Biopolitics," International Relations (2005)
    5. Multimedia: Pandemic Online game
    6. Movies: Contagion (2011)

     
    1. Just war theory and humanitarian intervention
    2. UN human security institutions
    3. R2P
    4. Landmine ban movement and transnational advocacy

    W9

    11/9
    1. Midterm Week

     

    CITY WANDERER© REPORT DUE AND SHARING

     
    1. Case Study topic discussion

     

    W10

    11/16
    1. Kaldor, Chapter 5 or Kaldor 2003, “The idea of global civil society”
    2. Don Hubert, “The Landmine Treaty: A Case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy,” Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Occasional Paper # 42, 2000, Chapter 5.
    3. *Thomas Weiss, 2006, “Principles, Politics, and Humanitarian Action” Ethics & International Affairs 13(1)

     
    1. Expert Section 3
    2. Case: Global Civil Society and Cosmopolitanism
    3. Just war theory in test: China or Africa
    4. Just war theory in test: torture
    5. Exercise/Quiz 3

     

     
    1. Trade and Immigration

    (Development and Equality)

    W11

    11/23
    1. (Video) Pietra Rivoli. 2009. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
    2. Wu, Guoguang. 2013. “Human security challenges with China: why and how the rise of China makes the world vulnerable?”
    3. *Tarrow, Sidney G. 2005. The New Transnational Activism, New York: Cambridge University Press. Ch.1-2.
    4. *Yong Deng and Thomas G. Moore, “China Views Globalization: Toward a New Great-Power Politics?” The Washington Quarterly, 27 (3) (Summer 2004): 117 – 136.

    GROUP CASE PAPER TOPIC DUE

     
    1. Globalization: its promises and opposition
    2. Anti-globalization activism
    3. MNCs and “race to the bottom”
    4. Case: China’s view toward globalization

    W12

    11/30
    1. Peggy Levitt, "’You Know, Abraham Was Really the First Immigrant’: Religion and Transnational Migration” International Migration Review, 37(3), Transnational Migration: International Perspectives (Fall, 2003): 847-873.
    2. *Cohen, Robin. 1997. Global Diasporas: An Introduction. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press.

     
    1. Expert Section 4
    2. Immigration: a cultural right or economic right?
    3. Freedom of immigration?
    4. Exercise/Quiz 4

     
    1. Sustainable Politics

    (Issues of Suitability)

    W13

    12/7
    1. Tim Hayward, 2007. “Human Rights versus Emissions Rights: Climate Justice and the Equitable Distribution of Ecological Space,” Ethics and International Affairs 21.4.
    2. *Tarrow, Sidney G.; Donatella Della Porta, 2005b. Transnational Protest and Global Activism‎ (print)
    3. *Romina Picolotti & Jorge Daniel Taillant eds. Linking Human Rights and the Environment. 2003

     

    TED Talk by Paul Piff: Does Money Make You Mean

           

    1. Principal-agent theory
    2. Kyoto Protocol
    3. Environmental rights

     

    W14

    12/14
    1. Xie, 2011, “China's Environmental Activism in the Age of Globalization,” Asian Politics & Policy 3(2): 207–224.
    2. *Abigail R. Jahiel “The Organization of Environmental Protection in China,” The China Quarterly: 757-787.

     
    1. Expert Section 5
    2. Environmental activism in China
    3. Exercise/Quiz 5

     

    W15

    12/21
    1. Owen Taylor and Mary Martin, 2010. “The Second Generation of Human Security: Lessons from the UN and EU Experiences?” International Affairs, 85(1).
    2. *Owen, Taylor, 2008. The Critique that Doesn’t Bite: A Response to David Chandler’s “Human Security: The Dog that didn’t Bark” Security Dialogue, 39(4), April/June 2008.
    3. *Caprioli, Mary, “Democracy and Human Rights Versus Women’s Security: A Contradiction?” Security Dialogue 2004 35(4): 411-428.
    4. *Emilie Hafner-Burton and Kiyoteri Tsutsui, “Justice Lost!: The Failure of International Human Rights Law to Matter Where it is Needed Most” Journal of Peace Research (2007): 407-25.
    5. *Emilie Hafner-Burton and James Ron, “Seeing Double”

     

     

    1. Review: Justice, Equality, Humanity and Rights
    2. Second Generation HS
    3. Feminist view on HS

    W16

    12/28
    1. Group Assignment Discussion and Preparation

     
    1. TBA

    W17

    1/4
    1. Group Presentation
    1. TBA

    W28

    Final Exam Week 1/11

    GROUP PAPER DUE

    授課方式Teaching Approach

    30%

    講述 Lecture

    30%

    討論 Discussion

    30%

    小組活動 Group activity

    10%

    數位學習 E-learning

    0%

    其他： Others:

    評量工具與策略、評分標準成效Evaluation Criteria

    1. In-class exercises and participation: 10%

    2. In-class quizzes: 30%

    3. Thought papers: 20%

    4. Research paper (group): 20%

    5. Presentation and round table (group): 20%

    指定/參考書目Textbook & References

    Texts:

    Mary Kaldor, Human Security. Polity Press (2007) [PDF]

    Yoichi Mine, Oscar A. Gomez, Ako Muto, Human Security Norms in East Asia (2019) [ebook]

    Andrew Crabtree, Sustainability, Capabilities and Human Security (2020) [ebook]

    All selected chapters/articles are available on Moodle.

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