Ashford University Political Science Discussion

The weekly memo has two components: first, the student should pose two thoughtful questions. Second, the student should briefly comment on the assigned readings. 3 pages (double-spaced)?

Here is the reading:

Race and Gender

Race

*Freeman, Bianca, D.G. Kim, and David A. Lake. “Race in International Relations: Beyond the
‘Norm Against Noticing’.” Annual Review of Political Science 25, no. 1 (May 2022): 175–96.

*Zoltán I. Búzás (2013) The Color of Threat: Race, Threat Perception, and the Demise of the
Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902–1923), Security Studies, 22:4, 573-606

*Christopher Hemmer and Peter Katzenstein. 2002. “Why is there no NATO in Asia? Collective
Identity, Regionalism, and the Origins of Multilateralism.” International Organization 56(3):
575-607.

*Andy Baker, “Race, Paternalism, and Foreign Aid: Evidence from U.S. Public Opinion”,
American Political Science Review 109:1 (2015), 93-109.

Gender

*McDermott, Rose. “Sex and Death: Gender Differences in Aggression and Motivations for
Violence.” International Organization 69, no. 3 (2015): 753–75.

*Laura Sjoberg, “Gender, Structure, and War: What Waltz Couldn’t See,” International Theory
4:1 (2012), pp.1-38.

*Deborah Jordan Brooks and Benjamin A. Valentino, “A War of One’s Own: Understanding the
Gender Gap in Support for War”, Public Opinion Quarterly 75:2(2011), pp. 270-286.