NOTE THAT THE SYLLABUS CONTENT MAY UNDERGO REASONABLE (LIMITED) CHANGES.
PART I: INTRODUCTION
WEEK 1
Class 1: Introduction to World Politics
Baylis, chapter 2, pp.35-49
Class 2: Perspectives and Levels of Analysis
Nau, Introduction
Nau, chapter 1, pp.56-66
PART II: THEORIES & CONCEPTS & APPROACHES
WEEK 2
Class 3: Realism I: power and politics
Nau, chapter 1, pp.28-34
Morgenthau, “Six Principles of Political Realism,” AJ
Thucydides, “The Melian Dialogue,” AJ
Class 4: Realism II: beyond classical realism
Waltz, “The Anarchic Structure of World Politics,” AJ
Walt, “Alliances: Balancing and Bandwagoning,” AJ
Robert Jervis, “Offense, Defence, and the Security Dilemma,” AJ
WEEK 3
Class 5: Liberalism I: preferences & cooperation & interdependence
Nau, Chapter 1: pp. 34-44
Keohane, “International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?” AJ
Class 6: Liberalism II: democratic peace theory
Doyle, “Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs,” AJ
John M. Owen, How Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace , International Security, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 87-125
WEEK 4
Class 7: The realist-liberal debate
John J. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International Institutions,” International Security 19, no. 3 (1994/5), pp. 14-26, 47-49
Robert. O. Keohane and Lisa Martin, “The Promise of Institutionalist Theory,” International Security 20 no.1 (1995)
Sebastian Rosato, “The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory,” American Political Science Review 97 no. 4 (2003)
Class 8: Constructivism
Nau, Chapter 1: pp.44-53
Ian Hurd, Legitimacy in International Politics, AJ
Wendt, “Anarchy is What States Make of It,” AJ
WEEK 5
Class 9: Poststructuralism
Baylis, chapter 11, pp.169-183
Foucault, M. 1984. “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”, in The Foucault Reader by Rabinow, P. London: Penguin: pp.76–100.
Class 10: MID-TERM EXAM
WEEK 6
Class 11: Anthropological theory in international relations I: World politics as a
liminal space
Thomassen, B. 2009. “The Uses and Meanings of Liminality”, International Political Anthropology, 2(1): 5-27.
Mälksoo, M. 2012. “The Challenge of Liminality for International Relations Theory”, Review of International Studies, 38(2): 481-494.
Recommended:
Rumelili, B. 2012. “Liminal Identities and Processes of Domestication and Subversion in International Relations”, Review of International Studies, 38(2): 495-508.
Class 12: Anthropological theory in international relations II: world politics and mimesis
Harald Wydra (2008) “Towards a New Anthropological Paradigm: The Challenge of Mimetic Theory”, International Political Anthropology,1(1):161-174.
Harald Wydra (2013) „Victims and new wars“, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26:1, 161-180
Recommended:
Roberto Farneti (2013) Bipolarity redux: the mimetic context of the ‘new wars’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26:1, 181-202
WEEK 7
Class 13: Marxism in international relations
Baylis chapter 9
Cox, R.W. (1986): Social Forces, States and World Orders’ Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 10(2): 126-155
Recommended:
Hoffman, M. (1987) Critical Theory and the Inter-paradigm Debate, Millennium: Journal of International Studies,16(2), 231-249
PART III: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY
Class 14: Ancient Greece, Westphalia and the Concert of Europe
Nau, Chapter 2
William Weir, “Battle 1 – Marathon, 490 BC”, excerpt from 50 Battles That Changed the World. The Conflicts That Most Influenced the Course of History (book by William Weir)
Thucydides, “The Melian Dialogue,” AJ
WEEK 8
Class 15: World War I and War World II (FIRST ASSIGNMENT DUE)
Nau, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4
Lawrence D. Freedman, “The War That Didn’t End All Wars. What Started in 1914 – and Why It Lasted So Long”, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2014
Class 16: The Cold War
Nau Chapter 5
Recommended:
John Lewis Gaddis, “The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System,” International Security 10, no. 4 (1986)
WEEK 9
Class 17: From the end of the Cold War to the present day
Nau, Chapter 6, pp.225-232
Nau, Chapter 7
PART IV: EVENTS & THEMES & TRENDS
Class 18: Globalization I: history and the basics
Nau, Chapter 8 and Chapter 9
Recommended:
Held, D. and McGrew, A., Goldblatt, D. and Perraton, J. (1999), Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge.
WEEK 10
Class 19: Globalization II: discussions
Na’im, “What Globalization is and is Not,” AJ
Hiscox, “The Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policies,” AJ
Frankel, “Globalization of the Economy,” AJ
Dani Rodrik, Trading in Illusions, AJ
Bruce R. Scott, The Great Divide in the Global Village, AJ
Class 20: Terrorism (SECOND ASSIGNMENT DUE)
Bruce Hoffman, “What is Terrorism?” AJ
Rapoport D (2002) The four waves of Rebel Terror and September 11. Anthropoetics 8(1). Available at: http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0801/terror.htm
Simon J.D. (2011) Technological and Lone Operator Terrorism: Prospects for a fifth wave of global terrorism. In: Rosenfeld J (ed.) Terrorism, Identity and Legacy: The Four Waves Theory and Political Violence. New York: Routledge, pp. 44–65.
James Wood: Warning Notes from Underground
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview33
Jeffrey Meyers, „Joseph Conrad’s Relevance Today. `The Secret Agent` speaks to modern concerns about terror.” Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2016
https://patrick.net/?p=1293432&c=1306232
Recommended:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from the Underground
WEEK 11
Class 21: Religion, politics and the sacred
Kratochwil, F. 2013. “Politics, law, and the sacred: a conceptual analysis”, Journal of International Relations and Development, 16(1): 1-24.
Harald Wydra, Spells of the sacred in a global age, Journal of International Political Theory, 2015, Vol. 11(1) 95–110
Class 22: Revolutions
Thomassen, Bjorn (2012) “Notes Towards an Anthropology of Political Revolutions”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 54(3): 679-706.
George Lawson, Halliday’s revenge: revolutions and International Relations, International Affairs 87:5 (2011) 1067–1085
Bukovansky, Mlada. “The Altered State and the State of Nature: The French Revolution and International Politics.” Review of International Studies 25, 2 (April 1999): pp. 197–216.
Recommended:
Armbrust, W. 2013. “The Trickster in Egypt’s January 25th Revolution”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 55(4): 834-864.
WEEK 12
Class 23: United Nations, International Law, Human Rights
Baylis, chapters 18 and 20
Howard and Donnelly, “Human Rights in World Politics,” AJ
Hoffman, “The Uses and Limits of International Law,” AJ
Class 24: Humanitarian interventions
Ben Barber “Feeding Refugees or War? The Dilemmas of Humanitarian Interventions,” Foreign Affairs 76 no. 4 (1997):
Kofi Annan, “Reflections on Intervention,” AJ
Jon Western and Joshua Goldstien, “Humanitarian Intervention Comes of Age: Lessons from Somalia to Libya,” , Foreign Affairs, November/December 2011
Valentino, The True Costs of Humanitarian Intervention , Foreign Affairs, November/December 2011
WEEK 13
Class 25: The Environment
Dupont, “The Strategic Implications of Climate Change,” AJ
Victor et al. “The Climate Threat we can Beat,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2012
Class 26: Global Governance and Justice
Ikenberry, “The Future of the Liberal World Order,” AJ
Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons, AJ
David Held, “Reframing Global Governance: Apocalypse Soon or Reform!” New Political Economy 11 no. 2 (2006).
Joseph Nye, “What China and Russia don’t get about Soft Power,” Foreign Policy, April 29, 2013
WEEK 14
Class 27: International Relations and the Future
Posen, “Emerging Multipolarity: Why Should we Care?” AJ
Cox, Power Shifts, Economic Change, and the Decline of the West? International Relations 26(4) 369–388
Subramanian, “The Inevitable Superpower: Why China’s Dominance is a Sure Thing,” AJ
Henry A. Kissinger, “The Future of US-Chinese Relations,” Foreign Affairs March/April (2012).
Recommended:
Cesare Merlini, The Impact Of Changing Societies on the Future of International Relations (2016)
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Merlini-Impact-of- Changing-Societies-FINAL-001.pdf
Class 28: Concluding remarks
WEEK 15
FINAL EXAM