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International Relations Theory (Nankai) (Semester One 2017/18 )

This course will provide students with a thorough andcomprehensive grounding in international relationstheory. It will examine the major theoretical approachesto the study of international relations. Particularattention will be paid to key historical, methodologicaland epistemological debates that have shaped this areaof study.

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Course Textbooks (2 items)

Theories of international relations - Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, JackDonnelly, Terry Nardin, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit, Jacqui True, 2013

Book | Essential

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, MyiLibrary, 2005Book | Essential

Class Participation (1 items)

Seminars 2-5 will focus on the critical analysis of key articles on the theories covered onthe day. Groups of 4-5 (assigned before the start of teaching) will be responsible forreading and critically analysing articles.

 

This type of analysis will be demonstrated during the first session and should aim toanswer these questions:

 

1. What are the main concepts discussed or employed in the article?

 

2. What is the article's main argument? -arguments may be about how internationalrelation 'works' or about how we should study or approach international relations.

 

3. What are the article's sources and methodology?

 

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4. What are the article's main strengths and weaknesses?

 

Students should give a brief presentation (5 minutes) of their analysis and provide DrDingli with a single page of their findings which will be uploaded to Moodle at the end ofthe session. Dr Dingli will provide students with feedback on their presentations,arguments and written presentation of findings.

 

Seminars 8 and 9 will take the form of debates. Further information on these will beprovided in class. Each student will take part in one debate and will have an opportunity toassess another. 

How to Use Reading List (20 items)

Reading for the class is listed under weekly topics below. You are expected to read all ofthe seminar readings in advance of every seminar so that you can contribute to thediscussion. Seminar readings are taken from journal articles and/or from books. Thejournals articles are available online.

 

Don't limit yourselves to the reading list. If you have difficulty getting hold of any of theitems listed, you are expected to use your initiative and look for other appropriate materialor to contact the lecturer. You are also encouraged to make use of the internet andnewspapers to gain relevant information and keep up with current affairs. 

Finally, there are several security and international relations journals available in thelibrary. You are strongly advised to look for relevant articles in them. Particularly usefuljournals include the titles listed below, however you may also access back issues ofseveral other journals via JSTOR (www.jstor.org):

British journal of politics and international relations - Political Studies Association of theUnited Kingdom, ©1999-

Journal

Ethics & international affairs - Carnegie Council on Ethics & International AffairsJournal

European journal of international relationsJournal

Foreign affairs - Archibald Cary Coolidge, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Council on ForeignRelations

Journal

Foreign policy - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, National Affairs, Inc, 1971-Journal

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Foreign policy analysis - International Studies Association, ©2005-Journal

Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations - 1995-Journal

International affairs - Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1944-Journal

International organizationJournal

International security - Belfer Center for Science and International AffairsJournal

International studies quarterly - International Studies Association, 1967-Journal

International studies review - International Studies Association, ©1999-Journal

International studies perspectives - Oxford University PressJournal

International theory: a journal of international politics, law and philosophyJournal

Political studiesJournal

Review of international studies - British International Studies Association, 1981-Journal

Third world quarterly - Third World Foundation (Great Britain)Journal

World politics - 1948-Journal

Pre-Sessional Reading (1 items)

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, MyiLibrary, 2005Book | See Chapters: 1-3

Seminar 1 (10 items)

Required Readings (2 items)

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Theories of international relations - Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, JackDonnelly, Terry Nardin, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit, Jacqui True, 2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, MyiLibrary, 2005Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1- 2

Recommended (8 items)

Revisiting Westphalia, Discovering Post-Westphalia - Richard Falk, 2002Article | Recommended

Hidden in plain sight: racism in international relations theory - Errol A Henderson, 2013-03Article | Recommended

Political Science: Witchcraft or Craftsmanship? Standards for Good Research - Asbjørn S.Nørgaard, 2008-01-21

Article | Recommended | The library does not subscribe to this journal.

International relations theory today - Ken Booth, Steve Smith, 1995Book | Recommended | See Chapter: Steve Smith, 'The Self-Images of a Discipline: A

Genealogy of International Relations Theory'

The Discipline of International Relations: Still an American Social Science? - Steve Smith,2000-10

Article | Recommended

One World, Rival Theories. - Jack Snyder, 2004Article | Recommended

The Graceful and Generous Liberal Gesture: Making Racism Invisible in AmericanInternational Relations - Robert Vitalis, 2000-06

Article | Recommended

International Relations: One World, Many Theories - Stephen M. Walt, 1998-21Article | Recommended

Seminar 2 (20 items)

From the Textbook (1 items)

Theories of international relations - Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, JackDonnelly, Terry Nardin, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit, Jacqui True, 2013

Book | See: pp. 29-36 and Chapter 4

Required Reading (1 items)

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What is History in International Relations? - John M. Hobson, George Lawson, 2008-12Article | Essential

Group Reading (8 items)

Group 1: 

Politics among nations: the struggle for power and peace - Hans J. Morgenthau, KennethW. Thompson, W. David Clinton, c2006

Book | See: Chapter 1. Available via Online Resource Button.

Group 2:

Why International Relations Theorists Should Stop Reading Thucydides - David A. Welch,2003

Article

Group 3: 

The anarchical society: a study of order in world politics - Hedley Bull, c2012Book | See Chapters 1 and 2

Group 4: 

The English School: an underexploited resource in IR - Barry Buzan, 2001-7Article

Recommended (10 items)

Remembering Hedley - Meredith Thatcher, Coral Bell, Hedley Bull, Australian NationalUniversity. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, 2008

Book | Recommended | See Chapter 8: "Hedley in his own words: three essays”.

Martin Wight and the theory of international relations: The Second Martin Wight MemorialLecture - Hedley Bull, 1976-7

Article | Recommended

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: reissued with a new preface from Michael Cox -Edward Hallett Carr, SpringerLink (Online service), 2016

Book | Recommended

An American Social Science: International Relations - Stanley Hoffmann, 1977Article | Recommended

International History and International Relations Theory: A Dialogue Beyond the Cold War -Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, 2000-10

Article | Recommended

The eternal divide? History and International Relations - George Lawson, 2012-06Article | Recommended

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Politics among nations: the struggle for power and peace - Hans J. Morgenthau, KennethW. Thompson, W. David Clinton, c2006

Book | Recommended

Moral man and immoral society: a study in ethics and politics - Reinhold Niebuhr, 2005Book | Recommended

Thucydides: Melian DialogueDocument | Recommended

Why Ideas Matter in International Relations: Hans Morgenthau, Classical Realism, and theMoral Construction of Power Politics - Michael C. Williams, 2004-10

Article | Recommended

Seminar 3 (21 items)

From the Textbook (1 items)

Theories of international relations - Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, JackDonnelly, Terry Nardin, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit, Jacqui True, 2013

Book | See: Ch. 2, pp. 37-56; 58-66 AND 188-205

Required Reading (1 items)

International theory: positivism and beyond - Ken Booth, Marysia Zalewski, Steve Smith,1996

Book | Essential | See: Steve Smith, ‘Positivism and Beyond, pp. 14-25 available viaOnline Resource Button.

Group Reading (8 items)

Group 1:

Structural Realism after the Cold War - Kenneth N. Waltz, 2000Article

Group 2:

The Promise of Institutionalist Theory - Robert O. Keohane, Lisa L. Martin, 1995-22Article

Group 3:

Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics - AlexanderWendt, 1992-3

Article

Group 4:

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The false promise of international institutions - John J. MearsheimerArticle

Recommended (11 items)

The Poverty of Neorealism - Richard K. Ashley, 1984Article | Recommended

Structural Realism, Classical Realism and Human Nature - Chris Brown, 2009-06Article | Recommended

The construction of a ‘realistic utopia’: John Rawls and international political theory - ChrisBrown, 2002-1

Article | Recommended

Liberalism and World Politics - Michael W. Doyle, 1986-12Article | Recommended

Treating International Institutions as Social Environments - Alastair Iain Johnston, 2001-12Article | Recommended

Same War: Different Views: Germany, Japan, and Counterterrorism - Peter J. Katzenstein,2003

Article | Recommended

Moving Beyond the Agent?Structure Debate - Audie Klotz, 2006-06Article | Recommended

The Law of Peoples - John Rawls, Fall 1993Article | Recommended

International Organization - John Gerard Ruggie, 1998Journal | Recommended

The Discipline of International Relations: Still an American Social Science? - Steve Smith,2000-10

Article | Recommended

Social theory of international politics - Alexander Wendt, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 1999Book | Recommended

Seminar 4 (20 items)

From the Textbook (1 items)

Theories of international relations - Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, JackDonnelly, Terry Nardin, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit, Jacqui True, 2013

Book | See: Chapter 5 & Chapter 7

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Group Reading (8 items)

Group 1:

Is critical theory always for the white West and for Western imperialism? BeyondWestphilian towards a post-racist critical IR - John M. Hobson, 2007-4

Article

Group 2:

Global Hegemony and the Structural Power of Capital - Stephen R. Gill, David Law,1989-12

Article

Group 3:

The Development of Underdevelopment - Andre Gunder Frank, 1966-09-02Article | Article is not part of a library subscription.

Group 4:

Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory - Robert W.Cox, 1981-06

Article

Recommended (11 items)

Power in International Politics - Michael Barnett, Raymond Duvall, 2005-1Article | Recommended

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Critical Theory as the Latest Edition of Liberal Idealism- Beate Jahn, 1998-09

Article | Recommended

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Critical Theory as the Latest Edition of Liberal Idealism- Beate Jahn, 1998-09

Article | Recommended

Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations : An Essay in Method - Robert W. Cox,1983-06

Article | Recommended

A Structural Theory of Imperialism - Johan Galtung, 1971-06Article | Recommended

Review of International Studies - Randall D Germain, Michael Kenny, 1998Journal | Recommended

Globalisation, Market Civilisation, and Disciplinary Neoliberalism - Stephen Gill, 1995-12Article | Recommended

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Marxism and International Relations: A Strange Case of Mutual Neglect - John Maclean,1988-06

Article | Recommended

Why is There No International Historical Sociology? - Justin Rosenberg, 2006-09Article | Recommended

The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System - Immanuel Wallerstein, 1974Journal | Recommended

The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory - Alexander E. Wendt, 1987Article | Recommended

Seminar 5 (22 items)

From the Textbook (1 items)

Theories of international relations - Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, JackDonnelly, Terry Nardin, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit, Jacqui True, 2013

Book | See: Chapter 9

Group Reading (8 items)

Group 1:

Review of International Studies - Jean Bethke Elshtain, 1998Journal

Group 2:

Why is there no non-Western international relations theory? An introduction - A. Acharya,B. Buzan, 2007-05-21

Article

Group 3:

The curious feminist: searching for women in a new age of empire - Cynthia H. Enloe,c2004

Book | Please see: Introduction and Chapter 2. Available via Online Resource Button.

Group 4:

Globalization and postcolonialism: hegemony and resistance in the twenty-first century -Sankaran Krishna, Dawson Books, 2009

Book | See Chapter 1

Recommended (13 items)

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Global International Relations (IR) and Regional Worlds - Amitav Acharya, 2014-12Article | Recommended

Postcolonial Dissidence within Dissident IR: Transforming Master Narratives of Sovereigntyin Greco-Turkish Cyprus - Anna M. Agathangelou, L.H.M. Ling, 1997-01

Article | Recommended

Hidden in plain sight: racism in international relations theory - Errol A Henderson, 2013-03Article | Recommended

Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the EgyptianIslamic Revival - Saba Mahmood, 2001-05

Article | Recommended

Transgressing Boundaries: Theories of Knowledge, Gender and International Relations - V.Spike Peterson, 1992-06

Article | Recommended

Postcolonial Theory and the Critique of International Relations - Sanjay Seth, 2011-09Article | Recommended

Toward a Post-Western IR: The Umma, Khalsa Path and Critical International RelationsTheory - Giorgio Shani, 2008-12

Article | Recommended

Empathetic Cooperation: A Feminist Method For IR - Christine Sylvester, 1994-06Article | Recommended

The Graceful and Generous Liberal Gesture: Making Racism Invisible in AmericanInternational Relations - Robert Vitalis, 2000-06

Article | Recommended

Is IR still ‘an American social science?’ | Foreign PolicyWebpage | Recommended

From Queer to Queer IR - Cynthia Weber, 2014-12Article | Recommended

Why is there no Queer International Theory? - Cynthia Weber, 2015-03Article | Recommended

Why is there no Chinese international relations theory? - Y. QIN, 2007-05-21Article | Recommended

Seminar 6 (14 items)

From the Textbook (1 items)

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, MyiLibrary, 2005Book | See: Chapter 5

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Required Reading (2 items)

Discourses of Power: Traversing the Realist-Postmodern Divide - Jennifer Sterling-Folker,Rosemary E. Shinko, 2005-06

Article | Essential

Power in International Politics - Michael Barnett, Raymond Duvall, 2005-1Article | Essential

Task: In around 400 words answer one question from each category:

 

Category 1:  

Critically analyse the realist conception of power.

Critically assess the post-modern conception of power.

 

Category 2:

Discuss the differences between soft and hard power.

 

Evaluate which conception of power best explains China's position in international politics.

Recommended (10 items)

Reflexivity in Practice: Power and Ethics in Feminist Research on International Relations -Brooke Ackerly, Jacqui True, 2008-12

Article | Recommended

The House of IR: From Family Power Politics to the Poisies of Worldism1 - Anna M.Agathangelou, L. H. M. Ling, 2004-12

Article | Recommended

Hard power, soft power: toward a more realistic power analysis - Pinar Bilgin, Berivan ElisArticle | Recommended

Power, Persuasion and Justice - Richard Ned Lebow, 2005-06Article | Recommended

China Debates Soft Power - L. Mingjiang, 2008-12-01Article | Recommended

Politics among nations: the struggle for power and peace - Hans J. Morgenthau, KennethW. Thompson, W. David Clinton, c2006

Book | Recommended | See: Chapter 1. Available via Online Resource Button.

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Soft Power - Joseph S. Nye, 1990-23Article | Recommended

The Rise of China's Soft Power | Belfer Center for Science and International AffairsWebpage | Recommended

Get Smart- Combining Hard and Soft Power - Nye, J., 2009Article | Recommended

Competing Realist Conceptions of Power - Brian C. Schmidt, 2005-06Article | Recommended

Seminar 7 (21 items)

From the Textbook: (1 items)

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, MyiLibrary, 2005Book | See: Chapter 4.

Required Reading: (2 items)

Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations - Tarak Barkawi, Mark Laffey,2002-01

Article | Essential

Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics - AlexanderWendt, 1992-3

Article | Essential

Task: In around 400 words answer one question from each category:

 

Category 1:  

Analyse the constructivist conception of structure in international relations.

What is the relation of state and structure according to neorealism and marxism?

 

Category 2:

Assess the different conceptions of structure in international relations.

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How, if at all, does imperialism and colonialism affect the relations of states today?

Recommended Reading: (17 items)

The Gordian Knot of Agency—Structure in International Relations: - Andreas Bieler, AdamDavid Morton, 2001-03

Article | Recommended

Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory - Robert W.Cox, 1981-06

Article | Recommended

A Reply to Colin Wight - Roxanne Lynn Doty, 1999-09Article | Recommended

A Structural Theory of Imperialism - Johan Galtung, 1971-06Article | Recommended

Power, postcolonialism and international relations: reading race, gender and class - GeetaChowdhry, Sheila Nair, 2004, c2002

Book | Recommended | See: Chapter 1.

Engaging Gramsci: international relations theory and the new Gramscians - Randall D.Germain

Article | Recommended

The Development of Underdevelopment - Andre Gunder Frank, 1966-09-02Article | Recommended | Article is not part of library subscription

The 'Second State Debate' in International Relations: Theory Turned Upside-Down - John M.Hobson, 2001

Article | Recommended

The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory - Ted Hopf, 1998-22Article

Structural causes and regime consequences: regimes as intervening variables - Stephen D.Krasner, 1982-3

Article | Recommended

Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations - Sankaran Krishna, 2001Article | Recommended

Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism: a popular outline - Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, 1975Book | Recommended

Apertura: Race in International Relations - Randolph B. Persaud and R. B. J. Walker, 2001Article | Recommended

The False Premise of Realism - John Gerard Ruggie, 1995-22Article | Recommended

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States and markets - Susan Strange, 1994Book | Recommended | See: Part II

Constructing International Politics - A WendtArticle | Recommended

They Shoot Dead Horses Don't They? - Colin Wight, 1999-03Article | Recommended

Seminar 8 (12 items)

From the Textbook: (1 items)

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, MyiLibrary, 2005Book | See: Chapters 8 and 9.

Required Reading: (2 items)

Review Essays - 1998-01Article | Essential

The Westfailure System - Susan Strange, 1999Article | Essential

Group task

 

Debate between Groups 1 and 2. Debate proposition: 'Globalisation has made the worldmore peaceful and prosperous.'

Recommended Reading: (8 items)

Trade Globalization since 1795: Waves of Integration in the World-System - ChristopherChase-Dunn, Yukio Kawano and Benjamin D. Brewer, 2000

Article | Recommended

Beyond the Great Divide: Globalization and the Theory of International Relations - Ian Clark, 1998

Article | Recommended

Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory - Robert W.Cox, 1981-06

Article | Recommended

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Beyond the Third World: Imperial Globality, Global Coloniality and Anti-Globalisation SocialMovements - Arturo Escobar, 2004

Article | Recommended

Globalisation, Market Civilisation, and Disciplinary Neoliberalism - Stephen Gill, 1995-12Article | Recommended

Globalization: What's New? What's Not? (And So What?) - Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S.Nye, 2000-21

Article | Recommended

Globalization and postcolonialism: hegemony and resistance in the twenty-first century -Sankaran Krishna, Dawson Books, 2009

Book | Recommended

Gramsci and Globalisation: From Nation‐State to Transnational Hegemony - William I.Robinson, 2005-12

Article | Recommended

Seminar 9 (14 items)

From the Textbook: (2 items)

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, MyiLibrary, 2005Book | See: pp. 101-105.

Contemporary security studies - 2016Book | See: Weaver, O., Buzan, B., 'After the Return to Theory: The Past, Present and

Future of Security Studies', pp. 417-435. Available via Online Resource Button.

Required Reading: (2 items)

Security: a new framework for analysis - Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver, Jaap de Wilde, 1998Book | Essential | See: Chapter 2. Available via Online Resource Button.

People, states and fear: the national security problem in international relations - BarryBuzan, 1983

Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1 available via Online Resource Button.

Group task

 

Debate between Groups 3 & 4: 'Security is socially constructed.'

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Recommended Reading: (9 items)

The Periphery as the Core: The Third World and Security Studies - Acharya, Amitav, 1995Article | Recommended

Security and emancipation - Ken Booth, 1991-10Article | Recommended

The security dilemma: fear, cooperation and trust in world politics - Ken Booth, Nicholas J.Wheeler, 2008

Book | Recommended | See: Chapter 1.Available via Online Resource Button.

The Little Mermaid's Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in theCopenhagen School - Lene Hansen, 2000-06

Article | Recommended

Gender, Nation, Rape: Bosnia and the Construction of Security - Lene Hansen, 2000-01Article | Recommended

Security! What Do You Mean? - Jef Huysman, 1998-06Article | Recommended

Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma - Robert Jervis, 1978Article | Recommended

Broadening the Agenda of Security Studies: Politics and Methods - Keith Krause, Michael C.Williams, 1996-10

Article | Recommended

The Renaissance of Security Studies - Stephen M. Walt, 1991-06Article | Recommended

Seminar 10 (8 items)

After a revision lecture focused on the requirements of the essay and exam, we willdiscuss the usefulness or otherwise of IR theory. If you wish to read on the debate on thesubject these may be some interesting articles:

Global International Relations (IR) and Regional Worlds - Amitav Acharya, 2014-12Article

Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory - Robert W.Cox, 1981-06

Article

The Future of the Discipline? - Chris Brown, 2007-09

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Article

At a Crossroads — and Other Reasons to be Cheerful: The Future of International Relations- Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, 2007-09

Article

World History and International Relations - Andrew Linklater, 2007-09Article

Still critical after all these years? The past, present and future of Critical Theory inInternational Relations - Nicholas Rengger, Ben Thirkell-White, 2007-4

Article

Singing Our World into Existence: International Relations Theory and September 11.Presidential Address to the International Studies Association, February 27, 2003, Portland,OR - Steve Smith, 2004-09

Article

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