Networked states
Topics
Culture vs. civilization
Roads and trader
Thallasocracies
Travellers
Read
Vaissière, "Structures," Sogdian Traders, 2018
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Vaissière_2018_Structures
Reid, "The Structure of Cities in Southeast Asia"
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reid1980
Watch
On the Edge of the Snow
Oman: History, Power and Influence
Listen
In Our Time, "The Silk Road"
Download audio
Activities
Ibn Battuta
BBC, “
Who was Ibn Battuta?
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Yijing
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POLS 411
No non-Western IR theory?
Failed states, failed theories
Western IR theory
Competitive systems
IR theory in competitive systems
Imperial systems
Mid-term exam
Updated empires
Societies on the move
Networked states
The Bandung spirit
Pan-Nationalism
Final exam
