NOTE THAT THE SYLLABUS CONTENT MAY UNDERGO REASONABLE (LIMITED) CHANGES.
PART I: INTRODUCTION
WEEK 1
Class 1: Introduction to World Politics
Baylis (6th edition), chapter 2, pp.35-49
Class 2: Perspectives and Levels of Analysis
Nau (5th edition), Introduction and Chapter 1, pp.75-82
PART II: THEORIES & CONCEPTS & APPROACHES
WEEK 2
Class 3: Realism I: power and politics
Nau (5th edition), chapter 1, pp.41-50
Morgenthau, “Six Principles of Political Realism,” 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 (5th edition), Chapter 1: pp. 50-60
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 (5th edition), Chapter 1: pp.60-72
Baylis (6th edition), Chapter 10
Ian Hurd, Legitimacy in International Politics, AJ
WEEK 5
Class 9: Revision class
Class 10: MID-TERM EXAM
WEEK 6
Class 11: Poststructuralism
Baylis (6th edition), chapter 11, pp.169-183
Foucault, M. 1984. “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”, in The Foucault Reader by Rabinow, P. London: Penguin: pp.76–100.
Class 12: 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.
WEEK 7
Class 13: 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
PART III: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY
Class 14: Ancient Greece, Westphalia and the Concert of Europe
Nau (2nd edition), 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)
WEEK 8
Class 15: World War I and War World II (ARTICLE REVIEW DUE)
Nau (5th edition), Chapter 2 and Chapter 3
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 (5th edition), Chapter 4
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 (5th edition), Chapter 5, 6, and 7
PART IV: EVENTS & THEMES & TRENDS
Class 18: Globalization I: history and the basics
Nau (5th edition), Chapter 8 and 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
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.
Recommended:
Randall David Law (2016) Terrorism: a History. Cambridge (UK): Polity Press (2nd edition)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from the Underground
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
WEEK 11
Class 21: Oral presentations
Class 22: Oral presentations
WEEK 12
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
Recommended:
Armbrust, W. 2013. “The Trickster in Egypt’s January 25th Revolution”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 55(4): 834-864.
WEEK 13
Class 23: United Nations, International Law, Human Rights
Baylis (6th edition), 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 14
Class 27: International Relations and the Future
Posen, “Emerging Multipolarity: Why Should we Care?” AJ
Michael Cox (2012) "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
Doug Stokes (2018), "Trump, American hegemony and the future of the liberal international order", International Affairs 94 (1) 133–150
Henry A. Kissinger, “The Future of US-Chinese Relations,” Foreign Affairs March/April (2012).
Recommended:
Cesare Merlini (2016), "The Impact Of Changing Societies on the Future of International Relations"
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