Week 1: Global Supply Chains and National Security
Content
Resources Recommended by the Foreign Policy Association
- “How Nine Flawed Policy Concepts Hinder the United States From Adopting the Advanced-Industry Strategy It Needs” by Robert D. Atkinson, August 2020
- “America Needs an Industrial Policy” by Arthur Herman, American Affairs, Winter 2019
- For Better or Worse, has Globalization Peaked? by Catherine L. Mann, CitiGPS, August 2019
- “American Industrial Policy and the Rise of China” by Senator Marco Rubio
- “Partial decoupling from China: A brief guide” by Derek Scissors, American Enterprise Institute July 2020
Articles from the Library's Magazine & Journal Database (EBSCOhost)
- Actions to Mitigate Risks to Domestic Supply Chain Could Be Better Planned and Coordinated - GAO Reports, December 10, 2020
- Building manufacturing resilience after COVID-19 - ISE: Industrial & Systems Engineering at Work, September 2020
- Biden Offers Plan to Bolster U.S. Supply Chains in Crises - Bloomberg.com, July 7, 2020
- Pandemic Lays Bare Supply Chain Vulnerabilities - National Defense, July 2020
Video Panels and Lectures
- Virtual Meeting: The Future of Global Supply Chains - Council on Foreign Relations, June 8, 2020
- Thinking About National Security and the Global Supply Chain - The Aspen Institute, Apr 28, 2020
- Supply Chain Security is National Security Panel Discussion - Intelligence & National Security Alliance, April 2019
Other Related Internet Resources
- India Has Chance to Draw Away China Supply Chains, Pompeo Says - Bloomberg.com, July 22, 2020
- Securing our supply chains requires 'big picture' thinking - The Hill, Rob Rosenberg, Opinion Contributor, October 21, 2020
- The National Security Implications of Supply Chain Disruptions - Center for Security Policy Studies at George Mason University, April 18, 2020
- The Coronavirus Puts a Spotlight on a National Security Supply Crisis - The National Interest website, July 26, 2020
- The United States Needs to Reshape Global Supply Chains - Foreign Policy, May 8, 2020
Week 2: Persian Gulf Security Issues
Content
Resources Recommended by the Foreign Policy Association
- How We Got the Iran Deal by Wendy Sherman
- The Persian Gulf: Tradition and Transformation by Lawrence G. Potter
- Iran Among the Ruins by Vali Nasr
- Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf by Mehran Kamrava
- An End to Magical Thinking in the Middle East by William J. Burns
- Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic by Narges Bajoghli
- Salman’s Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
Articles from the Library’s Magazine & Journal Database (EBSCOhost)
- How We Got the Iran Deal: And Why We'll Miss It - Foreign Affairs, September/October 2018
- Iran Among the Ruins - Foreign Affairs, March/April 2018
- The Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian Gulf - Digest of Middle East Studies, Spring 2019
- The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East - Middle East Journal, Winter 2012
Video Panels and Lectures
- UN Security Council Speech on Persian Gulf Security - Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, October 20, 2020
- Livestream: The Changing Dynamics of Gulf Security in 2020 - Gulf International Forum, October 20, 2020
- Panel on the U.S., Iran, and Security in the Persian Gulf - Ford School of Public Policy, February 6, 2020
Other Related Internet Resources
- Concerned about Lasting Conflicts, Terrorism, Sectarian Tensions Plaguing Persian Gulf, Speakers in Security Council Stress Need for Coherent Approach to Collective Security - United Nations, October 20, 2020
- Comprehensive Review of the Situation in the Gulf Region - Security Council Report, September 30, 2020
- An End to Magical Thinking in the Middle East - The Atlantic, December 2019
Books and Videos Available at the Library
- Bitter rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia - Streaming Video on Hoopla
- Bitter rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia - DVD available at the library [Call # DVD 327.55 B548]
Week 3: Brexit and the European Union
Content
Resources Recommended by the Foreign Policy Association
- The Future of the United States and Europe by Various authors, 2018
- The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Keshaw
- Beyond the Border: The Good Friday Agreement and Irish Unity after Brexit by Richard Humphreys
- For the Record by David Cameron
- Brexiternity by Denis MacShane
Articles from the Library’s Magazine & Journal Database (EBSCOhost)
- Britain's Post-Brexit Identity Crisis - Foreign Policy Spring 2020
- Brexit's Heavy Costs on the United Kingdom - U.S. News & World Report, April 2019
- Brexit… Brexit Not - Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 2018
Video Panels and Lectures
- Brexit deal explained: what the UK and EU agreed - Financial Times, December 2020
- Brexit and the End of the British Empire - Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
- Brexit going forward: Who are the winners and losers? - DW News, December 2020
- Boris's Brexit strategy: political disaster or cunningly brilliant? - BBC News, September 2020
Other Related Internet Resources
Books and Videos Available at the Library
- Brexitannia - Streaming video on Hoopla
- Beyond Brexit by Vernon Bognador, 2019
- Brexit [DVD] - BBC movie
Week 4: Struggling Over the Melting Arctic
Content
Resources Recommended by the Foreign Policy Association
- Icebound : shipwrecked at the edge of the world by Andrea Pitzer, available at the library
- Arctic Yearbook by the Arctic Portal
- Emerging Chinese-Russian Cooperation in the Arctic by Camilla T.N. Sorenson
- Russia’s Military Posture by Chatham House
- At Opposite Poles: Canada’s and Norway’s approaches to security jn the Arctic by Andreas Osthagen
Articles from the Library’s Magazine & Journal Database (EBSCOhost)
- The web of responsibility in and for the Arctic - Cambridge Review of International Affairs, April 2019
- ENTER ASIA: The Arctic Heats Up - World Affairs, March 1, 2014
- Small State Strategies in Emerging Regional Governance Structures: Explaining the Danish Advocacy for China’s Inclusion in the Arctic Council - European Politics & Society 19, February 2018
- The Challenge of Arctic Governance - Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2017
- Why the world wants the Arctic - Maclean’s, May 27, 2013
- Is a Melting Arctic Making the Arctic Council Too Cool? Exploring the Limits to the Effectiveness of a Boundary Organization - Review of Policy Research, November 2017
- Cartopolitics, Geopolitics and Boundaries in the Arctic - Geopolitics, 2012
- Arctic Politics Are Getting Warmer: A New Scramble for Territory? - Contemporary Review, Summer 2010
Video Panels & Lectures
- Geopolitics in the Arctic - Caspian Report, November 9, 2006
- Russia and China joining forces in the Arctic - Caspian Report, November 7, 2019
- Why Trump wants to buy Greenland - Caspian Report, August 27, 2019
- Denmark claims an Arctic region 20 times its size - Caspian Report, August 25, 2020
- Inside Russia’s push to lay claim to the Arctic - CBS News, June 19, 2019
- High-Stakes Arctic Race Heats Up for U.S., Russia, and China - The Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2020
Books and Videos Available at the Library
- After the ice : life, death, and geopolitics in the new Arctic by Alun Anderson
- The politics of the oceans edited by Kenneth Partridge.
- Icebound : shipwrecked at the edge of the world by Andrea Pitzer
Week 5: China's Role in Africa
Content
Resources Recommended by the Foreign Policy Association
- New Directions in Africa-China Studies by Chris Alden and Daniel Large
- China and Africa: A Century of Engagement by David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman
- Will Africa Feed China? by Deborah Brautigam
- Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations by Lina Benabdallah
- China,Africa, and the Future of the Internet by Iginio Gagliardone
- The Next Factor of the World: How Chinese Investment is Reshaping Africa by Irene Yuan Sun
Articles from the Library’s Magazine & Journal Database (EBSCOhost)
- Power Plays and Balancing Acts: The Paradoxical Effects of Chinese Trade on African Foreign Policy Positions - Political Studies, February 2020
- Can China's Economic Statecraft Win Soft Power in Africa? Unpacking Trade, Investment, and Aid - Journal of Chinese Political Science, September 2019
- Is China Recolonizing Africa? Some Views from Tanzania - World Affairs, Summer 2019
- Brave New World: Debt, Industrialization, and Security in China-Africa Relations - International Affairs, May 2019
Video Panels and Lectures
- What’s Behind China’s Offer to Share Vaccines with Africa? - Deutsche Welle, 12/14/2020
- China’s Growing Footprint in Africa - Council on Foreign Relations, 6/1/2020
- China-Africa Conference 2020 Keynote Speaker - Centre for the Study of African Economics 4/6/2020
- Filling the Void: China in Africa - Yale University, 11/21/2019
- Africa-China: The History, Geopolitical, and Economic Impacts of China’s Engagement in Africa - Columbia Global Centers, 10/16/2019
- China in Africa: An African Perspective - Paulson Institute Contemporary China Speakers Series, 3/5/2019
Other Related Internet Resources
- Vaccine Diplomacy: China and SinoPharm in Africa - Council on Foreign Relations, 1/6/2021
- Why Africa Borrowed Billions of Dollars from China - Odd Lots Podcast, 12/10/2020
- China’s Debt Relief for Africa: Emerging Deliberations - Brookings Institute, 6/9/2020
- China’s Massive Belt and Road Initiative - Council on Foreign Relations, 1/28/2020
- The Beijing Connection - New Internationalist, 11/25/2019
- Deconstructing the Dragon: China’s Commercial Expansion in Africa - Atlantic Council, 7/15/2019
- The Give-and-Take of BRI in Africa - Center for Strategic & International Studies, 4/8/2019
Week 6 : The Korean Peninsula
Content
Resources Recommended by the Foreign Policy Association
- South Korea at the Crossroads by Scott A. Snyder
- Without You, There is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim, available at the library
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick, available at the library
- Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History by Bruce Cumings
- South Korea Offers a Lesson in Best Practices by Victoria Cha - Foreign Affairs Magazine, April 2020, available at the library
- The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History by Don Oberdorfer, available at the library
Articles from the Library’s Magazine & Journal Database (EBSCOhost)
- Kim May Be Planning Missile Launch to Welcome Biden - The Washington Post, January 19, 2021
- Resolving the Conflict on the Korean Peninsula by Preventive Diplomacy - International Journal on World Peace, December 2020
- A History of and Recent Developments Concerning the Korean Peninsula Northern Limit Line (NLL) – Ocean Development & International Law, July-December 2019
- Talking Foreign Policy: North Korea Summit - Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Spring 2019
- Historicizing North Korea: State Socialism, Population Mobility, and Cold War Historiography - American Historical Review, April 2018
- “Good and “Bad” War – And the Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting - New Statesman, February 14, 2014
Video Panels and Lectures
- Korea Chair Capital Cable #18 - Center for Strategic & International Studies, January 22, 2021
- North Korea Defectors: Why It’s Getting Harder to Escape - BBC, December 30, 2020
- The View from Seoul: A Conversation with the Republic of Korea’s Foreign Minister - Aspen Institute, December 11, 2020
- Diplomacy, Deterrence, and Disruption: Navigating North Korea Policy in 2021 – Hudson Institute, December 4, 2020
- Korea Chair Capital Cable #4 - Center for Strategic & International Studies, July 17, 2020
- Virtual Roundtable: Renewed Crisis on the Korean Peninsula - Council on Foreign Relations, June 17, 2020
- What’s Happening on the Korean Peninsula? - World Affairs, December 13, 2019
Other Related Internet Resources
- Top Conflicts to Watch in 2021: A North Korea Crisis - Council on Foreign Relations, 1/19/2021
- Joint Press Statement for the 18th Korea-U.S Integrated Defense Dialogue - U.S. Department of Defense, September 11, 2020
- ‘We Need to Move from a Wartime Mentality to a Peacetime Mentality’ - The Nation, July 31, 2020
- A Peninsula of Paradoxes: South Korean Public Opinion on Unification and Outside Powers - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 13, 2020
- BTS and EXO: The Soft Power Roots of K-Pop – BBC, March 9, 2020
- What Peace Means on the Korean Peninsula and How to Achieve It – NPR All Things Considered, February 26, 2019
- The Complicated History of the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula – NPR Weekend Edition Sunday, April 24, 2018
Week 7: Roles of International Organizations in a Global Pandemic
Content
Resources Recommended by the Foreign Policy Association
- The WHO Explained by the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
- 239 Experts with One Big Claim: The Coronavirus is Airborne by Apoorva Mandavilli
- The World Health Organization between North and South by Nitsan Chorev
- Strengthening the Multilateral health Architecture Joint statement by France and German governments
- The World Health Organization: A History by Marcos Cueto, Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee
- Managing Global Health Security by Adam Kamradt-Scott
Articles from the Library’s Magazine & Journal Database (EBSCOhost)
- (Re-)Making a People's WHO - Journal of Public Health, September, 2020
- COVID-19, China, the World Health Organization, and the Limits of International Health Diplomacy - American Journal of Public Health, August 2020
- Reimagining Global Health Governance in the Age of COVID-19 - American Journal of Public Health, November 2020
- The need for a coordinated international pandemic response - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, June 2020
Video Panels and Lectures
- What's Next for the World Health Organization - Council on Foreign Relations, December 16, 2020
- The Role of International Organizations in a Global Pandemic - World Affairs Council Monterey Bay, January 14, 2021
- Global Health Security and Pandemics: The Role of the WHO - Mile End Institute, April 1, 2020
- The role of public health in the current and future pandemics - University of Sydney, July 8, 2020
- COVID-19: Public/Global Health Law and Ethics in Pandemic: Human Rights and Model Public Health Laws - Network for Public Health Law, June 11, 2020
Other Related Internet Resources
- COVID-19: The World Community Expects the World Health Organization to Play a Stronger Leadership and Coordination Role in Pandemics Control - Frontiers in Public Health, September 2020
- The World Health Organization and Pandemic Politics: The good, the bad, and an ugly future for global health - Think Global Health (an initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations), April 10, 2020
Week 8: The End of Globalization
Content
Resources Recommended by the Foreign Policy Association
- International Trade: What Everyone Needs to Know by Anne O. Krueger, available at the library
- Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz, available at the library
- Marconi: The Man Who Networked The World by Marc Raboy
- A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark
- Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon, available at the library
Articles from the Library’s Magazine & Journal Database (EBSCOhost)
- Is This the End of Globalization? - Global Finance, December 2016
- The End of Globalisation - New Statesman, June 29, 2018
- The Globalization of United States Debt: The Real Impact of China's Rise as a Creditor State - Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 2018
- A New Pivot to Asia - Foreign Policy, Winter 2021
- Repositioning Globalism Under Nationalism - Journal of Competitiveness Studies, 2019
Video Panels and Lectures
- The End of Globalization and the Beginning of Something New - Mike O’Sullivan TED Talk, May 2020
- Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History - Peterson Institute for International Economics June 8, 2017
- Will COVID-19 End Globalization? - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, April 1, 2020
- Is Globalization Over? - Bloomberg Markets and Finance, December 23, 2019
- The World After Coronavirus: The Future of Globalization - BU Pardee Center, July 26, 2020
Other Related Internet Resources
- What Is Globalization - Peterson Institute for International Economics
- They Saw The Dark Side of Globalization 20 Years Ago - The Business 20/20 Podcast, November 25, 2019
- Globalisation’s Next Wave - Rules Based Audio Podcast, November 19, 2019
- Trade and Globalization - Our World In Data, 2014 (rev. 2018)