| LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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| Part I: Foundations and Contexts | ||
| 1 | Introduction: The Classics – Concepts and Contexts |
Required Readings Mingst, Karen., and Jack Snyder, eds. Essential Readings in World Politics. Chapter 1: "Approaches and History." Selections by Suresht Bald, Woodrow Wilson, George F. Kennan ("X"), and John Lewis Gaddis. Chapter 2: "Contending Perspectives." Selections by Stephen M. Walt, Hans Morgenthau, Michael W. Doyle, Andre Gunder Frank, and J. Ann Tickner. Chapter 3: "New Frontiers in International Political Theory." Selections by: Kenneth N. Waltz, John Gerald Ruggie, and J. Ann Tickner. NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. Waltz, Kenneth N. Chapter 1 in Theory of International Politics. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979. North, Robert C. Chapter 1 in War, Peace, Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970, pp. 1-35. Related Readings: Essential Morgenthau, Hans Joachim. Politics Among Nations: the Struggle for Power and Peace. New York: Knopf, 1985. Waltz, Kenneth N. Man, the State, and War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. |
| 2 | Realism and Neo-realism |
Required Readings Ashley, Richard. K."The Poverty of Neorealism." In Neorealism and Its Critics. Edited by Robert O. Keohane. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 255-300. Beitz, Charles R. Political Theory and International Relations. Introduction & Part 1: "International Relations as a State of Nature." Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979, pp. 3-66. Keohane, Robert O. "Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond." In Neorealism and Its Critics. Edited by Robert O. Keohane. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 158 –203. Mingst, Karen, and Jack Snyder, eds. Essential Readings in World Politics. Chapter 4: "The International System". Selections by Hedley Bull, Hans Morgenthau, Immanuel Wallerstein, William C. Wohlforth, Samuel P. Huntington, and The Economist. NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. Waltz, Kenneth N. Chapters 2 and 3 in Theory of International Politics. Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979. Jervis, Robert. "Realism in the Study of World Politics." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass., 1999, pp. 331-351 Related Readings: Classics Machiavelli, N. The Prince. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Thucydides. History of the Pelopponesian War. |
| 3 | Liberalism and Neo-liberalism |
Required Readings Alker, Hayward R. Jr., and Thomas J. Biersteker. "The Dialectics of World Order: Notes for a Future Archeologist of International Savoir Faire." International Studies Quarterly 28 (1984): 121-42. Keohane, Robert O., ed. Chapter 1 in Neo Realism and Its Critics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. Krasner, Stephen D., ed. International Regimes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983, pp. 1-60 and 355-368. Grieco, Joseph M. "Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism." International Organization 42, no. 3 (1988): 485-507. [Reprinted in Oran R. Young, ed. The International Political Economy and International Institutions Volume II. Brookfield, Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 1996, pp. 311-33.] Choucri, Nazli. "Multinational Corporations and the Global Environment." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 205-253. Mayer-Schonberger, Viktor, and Deborah Hurley. "Information Policy and Governance." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 330-346 Related Readings: Classics Carr, E. H. International Relations Between the Two World Wars, 1919-1939. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Kant, Immanuel. Perpetual Peace. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1957. |
| 4 | Institutionalism and Neo-institutionalism |
Required Readings Keohane, Robert O. "International Institutions: Two Approaches." International Studies Quarterly 32 (1988): 379-96. [Reprinted in Oran R. Young, ed., The International Political Economy and International Institutions Volume I. Brookfield, Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 1996, pp. 289-306. Mingst, Karen, and Jack Snyder, eds. Essential Readings in World Politics. Chapter 9: "Quest for Global Governance." Selections by The Economist, Michael J. Glennon, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, and John J. Mearsheimer. NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. Martin, Lisa L., and Beth A. Simmons. "Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass., 1999, pp. 89-117. March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. "The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass., 1999, pp. 303-329. Shepsle, Kenneth A. "Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach." Journal of Theoretical Politics 1, no. 2 (1989): 131-47. North, Douglass C. "Institutions and a Transaction-Cost Theory of Exchange." In Perspectives on Positive Political Economy. Edited by James E. Alt, and Kenneth A. Shepsle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 182-194 Related Readings: For Interest Kratochwil, Friedrich, and Edward D. Mansfield. Chapter. 3 in International Organization: A Reader. New York: Harper Collins, 1994. Ostrom, Elinor. "New Horizons in Institutional Analysis." American Political Science Review 89, no. 1 (1995): 174-178. |
| 5 | Constructivism and Contentions |
Required Readings Ruggie, John Gerard. "Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity: Toward a Neorealist Synthesis." In Neorealism and Its Critics. Edited by Robert O. Keohane. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 131-57. Cox, Robert W. "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory." In Neorealism and Its Critics. Edited by Robert O. Keohane. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 204-254. Ruggie, John Gerard. "What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass., 1999, pp. 215-245. Kratochwil, Friedrich, and Edward D. Mansfield, eds. International Organization: A Reader. Selections by Duncan Snidal and Alexander Wendt. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1994, pp. 61-94. North, Robert C. Chapter 3 in War, Peace, Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis. Boulder, CO: Westview Pres, 1990. Wæver, Ole. "The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline: American and European Developments in International Relations." Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass., 1999, pp. 47-87. Related Readings: Advances Ostrom, Elinor. "A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997." American Political Science Review 92, no. 1 (1998): 1-22. Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. II. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. |
| Part II: New Challenges and Critical Applications | ||
| 6 | Gaps in Theory: What’s Missing? |
Required Readings Choucri, Nazli. "Introduction: Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Perspectives." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 1-40. Kratochwil, Friedrich. "Of Systems, Boundaries, and Territoriality." World Politics 34, no. 1 (1986): 27-52. Putnam, Robert D. "Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: the Logic of Two-Level Games." In International Organization 42, no. 3 (1988): 427-60. Beitz, Charles R. "Part II: The Autonomy of States." In Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press., 1979, pp. 67-123. Kahler, Miles. "Rationality in International Relations." Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass., 1999, pp. 279-301. Gourevitch, Peter. "The Second Image Reversed: the International Sources of Domestic Politics." International Organization 32, no. 4 (1978): 881-912. North, Robert C. Chapter 6 in War, Peace, Survival. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1990. Waltz, Kenneth N. Chapters 5 and 6 in Theory of International Politics. Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979. Related Readings: In Depth Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970, pp. 144- 173. |
| 7 | Environmental Perspectives |
Required Readings Homer-Dixon, Thomas F. "Physical Dimensions of Global Change." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 43-66. Alker, Hayward R., Jr., and Peter M. Haas. "The Rise of Global Ecopolitics." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 133-171. Haas, Peter M., and Jan Sundgren. "Evolving International Environmental Law: Changing Practices of National Sovereignty." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 401-429. Haas, Peter M. "The Fourth Image Reversed: Epistemic Communities and Knowledge Based Bargaining as a Response to Uncertainty." Prepared for delivery at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 30-September 3, 1989. Sagasti, Francisco R., and Michael E. Colby. "Eco-Development Perspectives on Global Change from Developing Countries." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 175-203. Related Readings: Synthesis Zürn, Michael. "The Rise of International Environmental Politics: A Review of Current Research." In World Politics 50, no. 4 (1998): 617-649. Brewer, Garry D. "Environmental Challenges and Managerial Responses: A Decision Perspective." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 281-303. |
| 8 | Emergent and Evolutionary Dynamics |
Required Readings Cerny, Philip G. "Globalization and the Changing Logic of Collective Action." International Organization 49, no. 4 (1995): 595-625. Kratochwil, Friedrich, and Edward D. Mansfield. Chapter 4 in International Organization: A Reader. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1994. Modelski, George. "Evolutionary Paradigm for Global Politics." In International Studies Quarterly Vol 40 (1996): 321-342. Hodgson, Geoffrey. "An Evolutionary Theory of Long-Term Economic Growth." In International Studies Quarterly Vol 40 (1996): 391-410. Gilpin, Robert. "Economic Evolution of National Systems." In International Studies Quarterly Vol 40 (1996): 411-431. Choucri, Nazli. "Analytical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Relevant Comparisons." Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Dept. of Political Science, 1997. Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio. "Origins and Evolutions of War and Politics." International Studies Quarterly Vol 40, (1996): 1-22. Choucri, Nazli. "Introduction: Cyber Politics in International Relations". International Political Scienc Review Vol. 21, no. 3 (2000): 243-264. Related Readings: Contrasts Nardin, Terry. Law, Morality, and the Relations of States. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. Garrett, Geoffrey. "Capital Mobility, Trade, and the Domestic Politics of Economic Policy." International Organization 49, no. 4 (1995): 657-87. |
| 9 | International Conflict and Warfare |
Required Readings Mingst, Karen, and Jack Snyder, eds. Chapter 7: "War and Strife." In Essential Readings in World Politics. Selections by: Carl Von Clausewitz, Thomas C. Shelling, Robert Jervis, John Mueller, Michael W. Doyle, Jaswant Singh, and Edward N. Luttwak. NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. Pollins, Brian M., and Randall L. Schweller. "Linking the Levels: The Long Wave and Shifts in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1790-1993." In American Journal of Political Science 40, no. 2 (1999): 431-464. Thompson, William R. "Democracy and Peace: Putting the Cart Before the Horse?" International Organization 50, no. 1(1996): 141-74. Choucri, Nazli, Robert C. North., and Susumu Yamakage. The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After. New York: Routledge. Parts I and IV, 1992. Levy, J. S. "The Causes of War: A Review of Theories and Evidence." In Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War, Vol. 1. Edited by P. E. Tetlock, J. L. Husbands, R. Jervis, P. C. Stern, and C. Tilly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Waltz, Kenneth N. Chapters 7 and 8 in Theory of International Politics. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979. Related Readings: In Depth Choucri, Nazli. "Perspectives on Population and Conflict." In Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Population and Conflict. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1984, pp. 1-26. Russett, Bruce, John R. Oneal, and David R. Davis. "The Third Leg of the Kantian Tripod for Peace: International Organizations and Militarized Disputes, 1950-85." In International Organization 52, no. 3 (1998): 441-467. |
| 10 | Transformation of Structures and Processes |
Required Readings Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. "Growth, Development, and Environmental Sustainability: Profile and Paradox." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 67-132. Skolnikoff, Eugene B. "Science and Technology: The Sources of Change." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 255-280. Mingst, Karen, and Jack Snyder, eds. Chapter 5: "The State." Selections by The Economist, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Jeffrey Herbst. Chapter 10: "Nationalism." Selections by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph & Lloyd I. Rudolph, Stephen Van Evera, and Barry R. Posen. Essential Readings in World Politics. NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. Grindle, Merilee S. "Ready or Not: The Developing World and Globalization." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 178-207. Waltz, Kenneth N. Chapters 7 and 8 in Theory of International Politics. Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979 Spiro, David E. "The State of Cooperation in Theories of State Cooperation: The Evolution of a Category Mistake." In Journal of International Affairs 42, no. 1 (1988): 205-225. Lifton, Karen T. "The Greening of Sovereignty: An Introduction." In The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics. Edited by Karen T. Lifton. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, pp. 1-27. Kratochwil, Friedrich, and Edward D. Mansfield, eds. Chapter 8: "David Dessller" in International Organization: A Reader. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers., 1994, pp. 328-343. Related Readings: Controversial Axelrod, Robert R. The Evolution of Cooperation. New York: Basic Books, 1984. Norris, Pippa. "Global Governance and Cosmopolitan Citizens." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 155-177. |
| 11 | Globalization and IR Theory |
Required Readings Mingst, Karen, and Jack Snyder, eds. Chapter 12: "Globalization and Globalizing Issues." Selections by U.N. Development Programme, David Held & Anthony McGrew, with David Goldblatt & Jonathan Perraton, Thomas Friedman, Lester R. Brown & Brian Halweil, and Amartya Sen. In Essential Readings in World Politics. NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. Saich, Tony. "Globalization, Governance, and the Authoritarian State: China." In Governance in a Globalizing World. edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 208-228. Keohane, Robert O., and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. "Introduction." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 229-252. Clark, William C. "Environmental Globalization." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 86-108. Young, Oran R. "Negotiating an International Climate Regime: The Institutional Bargaining for Environmental Governance." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 431-452. Waltz, Kenneth N. Chapter 9 in Theory of International Politics. Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1979. North, Robert C. Chapter 9 in War, Peace, Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990. Related Readings: Basic Kamarck, Elaine Ciulla. "Globalization and Public Administration Reform." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 229-252. Frankel, Jeffrey. "Globalization of the Economy." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 45-71. |
| 12 | Normative and Empirical Challenges – 21sts Century |
Required Readings Weiss, Edith Brown. "Intergenerational Equity: Toward an International Legal Framework." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 333-353. Beitz, Charles R. Part III: "International Distributive Justice," "Conclusion," and "Afterword." In Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press., 1979 pp. 125-219. Finnemore, Martha and Kathryn Sikkink. "International Norm Dynamics and Political Change." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass., 1999, pp. 247-277. March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Katzenstein, Peter J., Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1999, pp. 303-329. Garrett, Geoffrey, and Peter Lange. "Internationalization, Institutions, and Political Change." I International Organization 49, no. 4 (1995): 627-55. Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. "Global Accord: Imperatives for the Twenty-First Century." In Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Edited by Nazli Choucri. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 477-507. Mastanduno, Michael. "Economics and Security in Statecraft and Scholarship." In Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. Cambridge, Mass., 1999, pp. 185-214. Related Readings Young, Oran R. ed. Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 1-25, and 273-300. Brown, L. David, Sanjeev Khagram, Mark H. Moore, and Peter Frumkin. "Globalization, NGOs, and Multisectoral Relations." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 271-296. |