How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy

Johanna Hanink, associate professor of classics at Brown University, talks about her book How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy, published by Princeton University Press. She has selected, translated, and introduced key speeches from Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. From the "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers" series

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Carnegie Council Lesson Plan Ideas

https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/education/002

The ideal/optimum size of the nation-state

the ideal/optimum size of the nation-state

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2004-03-01/size-nations
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1997-09-01/global-economy-and-nation-state
faculty.som.yale.edu/shyamsunder/Phdaccountingcontrol/RousseauReveiwZhang.doc
http://www.economist.com/node/2300223
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4551794/alesina_size.pdf?sequence=2
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/size-nations
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/international-migration/glossary/nation-state/
https://people.ucsc.edu/~wittman/working.papers/wealth.of.nation.pdf
https://aeon.co/essays/the-end-of-a-world-of-nation-states-may-be-upon-us
https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/15240/24501
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313598458_Aristotle_on_population_size
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/to-the-size-of-states-there-is-a-limit-measurements-for-the-success-of-a-state/
http://sqapo.com/rousseau.htm

The Role of Ethics in Foreign Policy

The Role of Ethics in Foreign Policy

http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2014/12/12/role-ethics-foreign-policy

South China Sea Simulation

You are Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. in the U.S. Department of State. Your task is to write a policy memo to the NSC that is no longer than three pages. The memo must identity which country has the best claim under international law to territory in the South China Sea and explain why that claim is the best. 

http://activelearningps.com/2017/05/15/south-china-sea-simulation-part-1/

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/31/world/asia/Territorial-Claims-in-South-China-Sea.html

https://www.cfr.org/asia-and-pacific/chinas-maritime-disputes/p31345/#!/

http://www.businessinsider.com/tensions-in-the-south-china-sea-explained-in-18-maps-2015-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea  

https://amti.csis.org/

Allen Sens and IR theories

resource for International relations theories: short videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/allensens/videos