 Madres of the Plaza de Mayo, from a 1986 documentary by Lourdes Portillo |
| Professor:Jordana Dym |
| Email:jdym@skidmore.edu |
| Phone:580-5272 |
| Office: TLC 326 |
| Office Hours: M, T 2:30-3:30 or by appointment |
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Institute of War & Peace Studies (Columbia)
U. of W. Australia webpage on w & p
Center for War & Peace Studies
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace (Stanford)
The Law of War & Peace (resources)
Political Economy of War & Peace in Afghanistan
Policy Paper: Role of Armed Forces in the Americas, 21st Century, ed. D. E. Schultz; see also War and Peace in the Amazon: Strategic Implications for othe United States and Latin America of the 1995 Ecuador-Peru War, by Dr. G. Marcella
El Salvador: War, Peace & Human Rights (Nat'l Security Archive)
Ricardo Flores Magon, Tierra & Libertad
History Department Home Page | Skidmore Home
HISTORY 361H: War & Peace in Latin America
| Class | Date | Topic | Reading Assignment (due date of class) |
| 1 | 9/4 | Introduction |
Machiavelli, The Prince, Ch 5, 12, 13 (Site 2); Sun Tzu, Art of War, Ch1, Ch 13 (Site 2); Clausewitz, Ch 1 & 2, On War, online (see Intro by Marie von Clausewitz); Mao, On Guerrilla Warfare, Ch 1 & 2 (Site 2) |
| 2 | 9/9 | How we study war & peace | E. Hobsbawm (The Guardian), War & Peace; Selbin, "Social Revolutions & the Individual" |
| 3 | 9/11 | Workshop: Latin America in the 20th c. | Centeno,
"Making War," 33-100 Annotated Timeline; intro to JSTOR |
| 4 | 9/16 | Holiday-Yom Kippur | González, Mexican Revolution, Intro & Chapter 1 |
| 5 | 9/18 | Case Study 1: Revolution: Mexico | González, Mexican Revolution, Ch 2-4 |
| 6 | 9/23 | Case Study 1: War: Mexico | Primary Sources on Mexican Revolution; González, Mexican Revolution, Ch 5-6; Groups 1 & 3: Knight, "Political Violence in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" and Groups 2 & 4: Pansters, "Transition Under Fire" |
| 7 | 9/25 | Guest Speaker: Joaquín Chávez | War & Peace in El Salvador: A Former Combatant's Comments |
| TBA | Case Study 1: Peace: Mexico | González, Mexican Revolution,Ch 7-9, | |
| 8 | 9/30 | Case Study 1: Cuba: Revolution |
Perez-Stable, The Cuban Revolution, 14-60; Bonachea & San Martin, The Cuban Insurrection, xi-60 |
| 9 | 10/2 | Workshop: Effective Research Techniques |
Paper Topic & Annotated Bibliography |
| 10 | 10/7 | Case Study 1: Cuba: Revolution |
Bonachea & San Martin, The Cuban Insurrection, 61-100,
153-172 |
| 11 | 10/9 | Case Study 1: Cuba & Mexico: afterwords | GROUP ANALYSIS: the aftermath GROUP 1 : PRIMARY SOURCES & COMMENTS GROUPS: SECONDARY SOURCES & COMMENTS |
| 12 | 10/14 | Case Study 2: International Conflict: Foreign Intervention: Caribbean | Langley, The Banana Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 4 |
| 13 | 10/16 | Case Study 2: Foreign Intervention: Caribbean |
Renda, Taking Haiti, "Moral Breakdwon" (131-181), Schmidt, The US Occupation of Haiti, 82-107, 135-153 |
| 14 | 10/21 | Case Study 2: International Conflict | TBA |
| 15 | 10/23 | Case Study 2: Foreign Intervention/International Conflict |
GROUP ANALYSIS: International
Conflict |
| 16 | 10/28 | Case Study 3: Military Rule: Southern Cone | Kruit & Koonings: Introduction (Societies of Fear), Robben: "Fear of Indifference" (Societies of Fear) : Guzman Bouvard, Revolutionizing motherhood,1-63 |
| 17 | 10/30 | Case Study 3: Military Rule: Southern Cone |
Guzman Bouvard, Revolutionizing motherhood,
64-126 |
| 18 | 11/4 | Case Study 3: Military Rule: Southern Cone | GROUP ANALYSIS:
Military Rule GROUPS 3: PRIMARY SOURCES & COMMENTS Recommended Reading: Politics of Anti-Politics GROUPS 1: SECONDARY SOURCES & COMMENTS Recommended Reading: Koonings "Shados of Violence & political Transition in Brazil" (Societies of Fear); Silva, "Chilean Democratic Transition"(Societies of Fear); Death & the Maiden; Loveman & Davies, Politics of Antipolitics |
| 19 | 11/6 | Case Study 4: Guerrilla Movements I | Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare, 47-162 |
| 20 | 11/11 | Case Study 4: Guerrilla Movements II | Wickham Crowley, Guerrillas & Revolution in Latin America,
19-59 Group 1: 51-92; Group 2: 92-153; Group 3: 154-206; Group 4: 231-301 |
| 21 | 11/13 | Case Study 4: Guerrilla Movements III | GROUPS: Indigenous
Guerrilla: Shining Path & EZLN First Draft & Abstract Due |
| 22 | 11/18 | Case Study 5: Guatemala: Civil War | Jonas, Of Centaurs & Doves; First Draft Critiques due Societies of Fear, 31-33 |
| 23 | 11/20 | Case Study 5: Guatemala (El Norte) | Jonas, Of Centaurs & Doves |
| 24 | 11/25 | Case Study 5: Guatemala: Peace | Arnson: Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador (1-4, 9-11) |
| 25 | 11/27 | Holiday-Thanksgiving | Holiday-Thanksgiving Arnson |
| 26 | 12/2 | Comparative Peace Processes Workshop: Presenting a Paper |
ALL: Torres-Rivas, "Notes on Terror, Violence, Fear & Democracy
(in Societies of Fear) |
| 27 | 12/4 | Comparative Peace Processes | GROUP ANALYSIS: Comparative
Peace GROUPS 2: PRIMARY SOURCES & COMMENTS GROUPS 4: SECONDARY SOURCES & COMMENTS |
| 28 | 12/9 | Panel: Research Projects Group I |
Groups 1 & 3 |
| 29 | 12/11 | Panel: Research Projects Group II |
Groups 2 & 4 |