At least one version of Wally Goldfrank's "take" on the Gulf war appears
in A NEW WORLD ORDER? GLOBAL TRANSFORATIONS IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
edited by David A. Smith and Jozsef Borocz (Greenwood/Praeger, 1995).
It's in a chapter entitled, "Lessons from the Gulf Wars: Hegemonic
Decline, Semiperipheral Turbulence, and the Role of the Rentier States,"
is co-authored by Cynthia Siemsen Maki and Walter Goldfrank.
There are other chapters in that volume (which is available in
paperback) that might be of interest for the described IR course,
including one on the global history of ecology/environmental movements
(Sing Chew) and another on the EU and "the European periphery" (Denis
O'Hearn).
dave smith