syllabus bleg: help me build a reader

I'm working on the syllabus and reader for the course I'm teaching this summer in Oxford. It's a one-month intensive (3 hours/day, 6 days/week) International Relations course for sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds, mostly from the U.S. and Canada. My co-teacher and I have decided to make the class a sort of issues-focused sampler course cohering around three themes--Historical Background, War and Peace, and Globalization--to make it as lively and interesting as possible, and allow the kids to get a sense of a wide range of current issues (as opposed to a more theory-focused grounding in the field.) Anyway, I am trying to find readings to assign for the segments that I'm teaching. The task is a bit daunting because of the constraints on time and audience: we can't give them huge amounts of reading on each topic since they'll be covering several topics each week, and they're high school students (albeit bright and motivated ones, if last year's students were any indication) so we want to avoid overly academic/formal material, or anything that assumes too much background knowledge. At this point, we're planning to use the OUP Very Short Introduction to Globalization (which, like most of the series, is pretty good) and a photocopied reader.

One of our core aims for this course is to encourage the students to read and write critically, to be aware that texts have a point of view and context--rather than the sort of "omniscient textbook" approach common in too many secondary school courses. So for each topic, we want the reader to include a short, neutral introduction or background bit (in a pinch, we can write our own) and then 2-4 more argumentative/subjective/specific pieces. This is also a nice way to introduce controversies in IR: for example, Huntington vs. one of his many critics on the clash of civilizations, or for globalization & development, some combination of a short Stiglitz essay, a neo-liberal op-ed (Friedman?) and an Arundhati Roy piece on big dams. I like the idea of mixing pieces by academics, journalists, op-ed writers, and activists; also of possibly using fragments of fiction, cinema, personal essay, music and other 'texts'. (For example, I may steal one of thariel's signature pedagogical moves, and use the "Pretty Woman" remix from Kal Ho Naa Ho in a discussion of cultural globalization and hybridity, etc.) We're also having quite a few guest speakers to keep things lively, and some of the topics are chosen to fit with the speakers.

Anyway, I'd love suggestions for what to include, especially for the short written pieces in the reader. We've split up the course topics between the two of us, and I am responsible for covering:

Historical Background: Decolonization and its Aftermaths
War and Peace: The Iraq War and "War on Terror"
War and Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
War and Peace: The International Community and Ethnic Conflict/Genocide (this one will be Rwanda and Darfur-focused)
Globalization: Introduction
Globalization: the Global Human Rights Regime
Globalization: Migration, Transnationalism, and Cultural Globalization
Globalization: "Anti-Globalization" Movements (need a better title, this is meant to include not just anti-WTO or localist movements, but also counterhegemonic arrangements like the G3 and G77 and globalization-from-below efforts)
Globalization: Regionalization and the EU (this one may get cut out or modified)

At this point I have a lot of great authors in mind, but not many specific articles or excerpts of appropriate length and level. So if you have any suggestions, put them in comments or drop me an email. It's a pity the program is so short, since I'd have a lot of fun designing this as a longer course with longer texts--I know exactly what I'd use if this were a college class. Scaling it down is what makes it tricky.