評估
Evaluation
上這門課要拿學分的同學可選擇兩種方法之一滿足書面作業的要求：典型的課程論文，或者兩篇評論文章。後者要解釋一下。每篇評論文章，學生至少閱讀兩本相關的書籍，總共是四本書。這些不能是教學大綱中的必讀書籍。
Those taking the course for credit can satisfy the requirement for written work in one of two ways: a typical class paper, or, a pair of review essays. The latter requires some explanation. The student will read at least two related books for each of the review essays, for a total of four books. These cannot be the required books on the syllabus.
論文和書評的建議題目和問題
Suggested Paper and Book Review Topics and Questions
注釋：相關的問題放在一起。這份清單是提示性的，不是完全無遺漏。請提出其他的。
Note: Related questions are clustered together. This list is suggestive, not exhaustive. Please suggest alternatives.
- 1．強權大國決定干預內戰時，法律、道德、國內政治和權力政治等動機的相關權重是什麼？
What has been the relative weight of legal, ethical, domestic political, and power political, motives in great power decisions to intervene in civil wars?
- 2．預防性外交是否避免內戰的合理政策？或者至少是有時與這種戰爭有關聯的最壞的過分行為？
Is Preventive Diplomacy a reasonable policy tool to avoid civil wars, or at least the worst excesses sometimes associated with such wars?
- 3．內戰的早期預警問題和他們的人道主義過分行為可以解決嗎？
Can the Early Warning problem for civil wars and their humanitarian excesses be solved?
- 4．聯盟政治是如何影響要干預的決定？
How did alliance politics affect decisions to intervene?
- 5．不同的強權處理內戰的方式是否有體系差異？為什麼？
Are there any systematic differences in the ways that different great powers approach civil wars? Why?
- 6．哪些類型的軍事武力，和什麼類型的軍事策略看起來是對內戰最有用的干預？
Which types of military force, and what types of military strategy seem to be most useful for intervention into civil wars?
- 7．對內戰的外部干預最好被看作是威懾問題還是高壓政治問題？
Is external intervention into civil wars best thought of as a deterrence problem or a coercion problem?
- 8．在他們的干預中，國家把政治和軍事成分綜合得怎麼樣？
How well have states integrated the political and military components of their interventions?
- 9．現代干預的聯盟性質如何影響了這些干預的實行或結果？
How has the coalition nature of modern interventions affected the conduct or outcome of these interventions?
- 10．如果我們在1990年已用心研究，冷戰和早期的強權軍事干預內戰的歷史教訓了
What would Cold War and earlier history of great power intervention into civil wars have taught us, had we bothered to examine it in 1990?
- 11．局外人考慮干預時，保持中立相對於選擇一方，兩者有哪些相對的優點？
What are the relative merits of neutrality vs. choosing sides for outsiders considering intervention?
- 12．干預者社會中的國內政治是如何影響干預決定的？
How does domestic politics in the intervener's society affect decisions to intervene?
- 13．在干預之前，"撤退政策"的觀念是合理的策略，還是欺騙懷疑論者的愚笨廢話？
Is the notion of an "exit strategy" before one intervenes, sound strategy or fatuous nonsense invented to gull skeptics?
- 14．與其他種類的戰爭相比，內戰是否產生更多戰爭罪行，還是違背更多國際人道主義法律？它們是否特別具破壞性或邪惡？
Do civil wars produce more war crimes or violations of international humanitarian law than other kinds of wars? Are they particularly destructive or vicious?
