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Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development
Spring 2005 · The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq
Topics
- Introduction
- Planning, Politics and the Idea of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
- International Experience: Marshall Plan, the Reconstruction of Japan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The U.S. Post-September 11 Reconstruction Agenda
- Social and Political Background for Reconstruction: Politics and Society in Iraq in the 20-21st Century
- Post-war Planning: Visioning ‘A New Iraq’ and ‘A New Middle East’
- The U.S. Reconstruction Agenda and Projects in Iraq
- Political Reconstruction: Building a New Democracy
- The Role of International Organization in Post-Conflict Reconstructing
- The Discourse of Iraqis and Arabs on the Reconstruction of a New Iraq
- Conclusions and Critiques: Planning and Reconstruction; Vision and realities; Stability and Resistance in Iraq
- Criticism
- Representations: The Idea of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Readings
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Halchin, L. Elaine. “The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA): Origin, Characteristics, and Institutional Authorities.” CRS Report for Congress. April 29, 2004.
- Copson, Raymond W. “Iraq War? Current Situation and Issues for Congress.” CRS Report for Congress. Updated February 12, 2003.
- ———. “Iraq: Recent Developments in Reconstruction Assistance.” CRS Report for Congress. Updated April 22, 2003.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Recommended Movie
- Antoon, Sinan, Dir. About Baghdad .
Spring 2001
Topics
- The West Philadelphia Landscape Project.
- Frameworks for Action: Water, Infrastructure, Architecture, People.
- Professional Expertise and Local Knowledge: Understanding the Neighborhood.
- Tracing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Historical Context for Projects.
- Tracing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Historical Context for Projects (continued).
- The Internet and Community Design and Development.
- Proposals for Projects Due: Presentation and Discussion.
- Revised Proposals Due. Determine Class Topics.
- Field trip to Philadelphia. Work with Sulzberger students.
- Work on Projects.
- Work on Projects (continued).
- Finish Projects.
- Reflect on Projects.
- Discussion.
Readings
- Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Language of Landscape. Yale University Press, 1998.
- Spirn, Anne Whiston. The West Philadelphia Landscape Plan: A Framework for Action. Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1991.
- Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford University Press, 1987.
- Schon, Donald, Bish Sanyal, and William Mitchell. High Technology and Low-Income Communities . MIT Press, 1998.
- Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History . MIT Press, 1995.
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- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.