International Relations Theories

Course Readings

Part 1: Introduction

 

Theory in International Relations

 

Required:

Burchill, S., Andrew Linklater et al. (2005) Theories of International Relations. Palgrave. Chapter 1: 1-28.

Brown, Chris (2005). Understanding International Relations. Chapter 2

Walt, Stephen M. (1998), "International relations: one world, many theories." Foreign Policy: 29-46.

Recommended:

Brown (2005), Chapter 1

Van Evera, Stephen. (1997). Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) “Hypotheses, Laws, and Theories: A User’s Guide.” pp. 7-48

Elster, Jon (1983) “Modes of Scientific Explanation”, Explaining Technical Change, pp. 15-83

 

Part 2: History of International Relations Theory: Foundational Thinkers

Thucydides and St. Augustine

 

Required:

Brown, Chris, Terry Nardin and Nicholas Rengger (eds) (2002). International Relations in Political Thought: texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War. Cambridge University Press. pp. 32-35, 47-73, 107-115, 131-147. (note: use page numbers from the pdf counter as the copy of the book doesn’t have page numbers)

Bagby, L. M. J. (1994). “The Use and Abuse of Thucydides in International Relations”. International Organization, 48(1), 131-153.

Recommended:

Robert Gilpin (1988) “The Theory of Hegemonic War”’ Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 18:4: 591–613.

Loriaux, Michael. (1992). “The Realists and Saint Augustine: Skepticism, Psychology, and Moral Action in International Relations Thought. International Studies Quarterly 36: 401-420

Niebuhr, Reinhold. (1953). “Augustine’s Political Realism”. The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr - Selected Essays and Addresses, ed. Robert McAfee Brown, Yale University Press. pp. 123-141.

 

 

Machiavelli and Hobbes

 

Required:

Brown, et.al. (2002) Chapter 5, pp.255-259, 270-282; Chapter 6, pp. 349-354.

Femia, Joseph and Paul Kelley (2005), “Machiavelli” Chapter 9 in David Boucher and Paul Kelley (eds.) Political Thinkers. Oxford.

Vincent, R. John (1981). "The Hobbesian Tradition in Twentieth Century International Thought." Millennium 10.2 : 91-101.

Recommended:

Skinner, Quentin (2000). Machiavelli: A very short introduction. Oxford.

Bull, Hedley (1981). “Hobbes and International Anarchy”, Social Research, 48(4): 717-38.

Heller, Mark (1980). “The Use and Abuse of Hobbes: The State of Nature in International

Relations”, Polity, 13(1): 21-32.

 

Grotius and Rousseau

Required:

Bull, Hedley. “The Importance of Grotius in the Study of International Relations” in Bull, Hedley, Benedict Kingsbury, and Adam Roberts, eds. Hugo Grotius and International Relations. Oxford University Press, 1992

Brown et.al. (2002) Chapter 7, 393-401, 431-442

Recommended:

Brown et.al. Chapter 6, pp.348–49

Bull, Hedley, Benedict Kingsbury, and Adam Roberts, eds. (1992). Oxford University Press, Hugo Grotius and International Relations. Chapter 1 Introduction

Fidler, David P. (1996) "Desperately Clinging to Grotian and Kantian Sheep: Rousseau’s attempted escape from the state of war." In Clark and Neumann (1996), Classical theories of international relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 120-141.

 

Kant and Marx

 

Required:

Brown et al (2002) Chapter 7, pp. 401-408, 443-472, Chapter 9, pp. 590-592.

Brewer, Anthony (2002). Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey. Routledge. pp. 11-16, 25-57.

Recommended:

Williams, Howard, and Ken Booth. "Kant: theorist beyond limits." In Clark and Neumann (1996) Classical theories of international relations. pp. 71-98.

Marx, Karl (1852). “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon”

Part 3 – Major Schools of IR Theory

6. Realism Part 1 – From Classical to Structural Realism

 

Required:

Chapter 6: “Realism” in Baylis, Smith and Owens (eds) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (sixth edition) Oxford University Press. pp. 99-112

Donnelley, Jack (2005), “Realism” in Burchill, Scott et. al Theories of International Relations Palgrave. pp. 29-51.

Jervis, Robert. (1994). Hans Morgenthau, realism, and the scientific study of international politics. Social research, 853-876.

Recommended:

Waltz, Kenneth (2000). "Structural realism after the Cold War." International security 25.1: 5-41.

Snyder, G. H. (2002). Mearsheimer's World—Offensive Realism and the Struggle for Security: A Review Essay. International Security, 27(1), 149-173.

Rynning, S and Ringsmose J (2008) Why Are Revisionist States Revisionist? Reviving Classical Realism as an Approach to Understanding International Change”, International Politics 45.1, 19–39.

 

7. Realism Part 2 – … and Back

 

Required:

Brown (2005) Chapter 6

Wohlforth, William C (2011) "Gilpinian realism and international relations." International Relations 25.4: 499-511.

Rathbun, Brian (2008). "A Rose by Any Other Name: Neoclassical Realism as the Logical and Necessary Extension of Structural Realism." Security Studies 17.2 (2008): 294-321.

Recommended:

Schweller, Randy. L. (1994). “Bandwagoning For Profit: Bringing the Revisionist State Back In”. International Security, 19(1), 72-107.

Lobell, S. E., Ripsman, N. M., and Taliaferro, J . W. (eds) (2009), Neoclassical Realism, the State,and Foreign Policy (Cam bridge: Cam bridge University Press). Chapter 1.

 

Ronald L. Tammen, "The Organski Legacy: A Fifty-Year Research Program" International Interactions, 34:4, 2008 pp 314-332

 

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