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International Relations Theory View Online

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1: Introduction to IR theory and the structure of the course (16 items)This session looks at IR as a discipline and how it relates to political theory more generally.It considers some historical background and focuses on Martin Wight’s claim that IR theoryis the poor ‘twin’ of political theory. Is there anything unique about IR theory? How does itinform political practice?

Core Texts (2 items)

Why is there no international theory - Wight, M.Chapter | Core (Must Read) | Chap: 2

The intellectual and political functions of theory - Morgenthau, H.Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Reading (14 items)

Understanding international relations - Brown, Chris, Ainley, Kirsten, 2009Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 1

Introduction - Burchill, S.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations theories: discipline and diversity - Dunne, Timothy, Kurki, Milja,Smith, Steve, c2007

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Please read introduction

International politics and political theory - Elshtain, J.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

An American Social Science: International Relations - Stanley HoffmannArticle | Recommended (Should Read)

Classical and modern thought on international relations: from anarchy to cosmopolis -Jackson, Robert H., 2005

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

R. Jackson, ‘Is There A Classical International Theory?’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Introduction to international relations: theories and approaches - Jackson, Robert H.,Sørensen, Georg, c2007

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Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chaps. 1 and 2

Is Anyone Listening? International Relations Theory and the Problem of Policy Relevance -Lepgold, J.

Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

International theory: critical investigations - James Der Derian, 1995Book | Recommended (Should Read) | H. Morgenthau ‘The Intellectual and Political

Functions of Theory’

What's the use of international relations - Nicholson, M., 2000Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Power of truth: A reply to William Wallace - Smith, S., 1997Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Ten self-images of a discipline - Smith, S.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 1

International Relations: One World, Many Theories - Stephen M. WaltArticle | Recommended (Should Read)

2: Origins of the discipline and the classical tradition of realism (48 items)This session explores how international relations emerged as a discipline after the FirstWorld War with its first ‘great debate’ between the largely Liberal writers of the post-WW1era and the originator of Realism (but was he a Realist?) E.H. Carr

Core readings (2 items)

The twenty years' crisis, 1919-1939: an introduction to the study of international relations- Carr, Edward Hallett, Cox, Michael, 2001

Book | Core (Must Read) | ‘The Realist Critique’

Utopia and Reality - LEONARD WOOLF, 2009-09Article | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Reading (46 items)

Inter-war Idealism (9 items)

Reclaiming the Utopian imaginary in IR theory - SHANNON BRINCAT, 2009-7Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Creating international studies: Angell, Mitrany, and the liberal tradition - Lucian M.Ashworth, 1999

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Where are the idealists in interwar International Relations? - LUCIAN M. ASHWORTH,

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2006-4Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The great illusion revisited: the international theory of Norman Angell - Cornelia Navari,1989-10

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The myth of the 'First Great Debate' - Wilson, Peter, 2001/04/04Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Thinkers of The twenty years' crisis: inter-war idealism reassessed - David Long, PeterWilson, 1995

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

A history of international relations theory: an introduction - Knutsen, Torbjorn L., 1992Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 8

The twenty years' crisis, 1919-1939: an introduction to the study of international relations- Edward Hallett Carr, Michael Cox, 2001

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. ‘The Beginnings of a Science’

What is history? - Carr, Edward Hallett, Evans, Richard J., 2001Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Liberalism in General (37 items)

Traditions of International Ethics - Terry Nardin, David R. Mapel, 1992Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Donaldson, T 'Kant's Global Rationalism'

Liberalism - Burchill, S.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Various editions held in Library

The globalization of world politics: an introduction to international relations - John Baylis,Steve Smith, c2005

Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Dunne, T 'Liberalism'

International relations, political theory and the problem of order: beyond internationalrelations theory? - N. J. Rengger, 2000

Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | 'Institutions'

Kant and the Kantian paradigm in international relations - Andrew Hurrell, 1990-7Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs - Michael W. Doyle, 1983Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs, Part 2 - Michael W. Doyle, 1983Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Imperialism - J. A. Hobson, 1938Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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The nature and sources of liberal international order - DEUDNEY, DANIEL; IKENBERRY, G.JOHN, 2000/09/08

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Sovereignty and freedom: Immanuel Kant's liberal internationalist ‘legacy’ - ANTONIOFRANCESCHET, 2001-4

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma - John H. Herz, 1950Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The Kantian Peace: The Pacific Benefits of Democracy, Interdependence, and InternationalOrganizations, 1885-1992 - John R. Oneal and Bruce Russett, 1999

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

International politics: enduring concepts and contemporary issues - Robert J. Art, RobertJervis, c2013

Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Oye, K.A. 'The Conditions for Cooperation inWorld Politics'

Constructing the world polity: essays on international institutionalization - John GerardRuggie, 1998

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Winning the peace: America and world order in the new era - John Gerard Ruggie, 1996Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Traditions of International Ethics - Terry Nardin, David R. Mapel, 1992Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Smith, M.J. 'Liberalism and International

Reform'

Political theories of international relations: from Thucydides to the present - Boucher,David, 1998

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 7

International relations in political thought: texts from the ancient Greeks to the First WorldWar - Brown, Chris, Nardin, Terry, Rengger, N. J., 2002

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The timeless wisdom of realism - Buzan, BChapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Classical theories of international relations - Clark, Ian, Neumann, Iver B., St. Antony'sCollege (University of Oxford), 1996

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International politics and political theory - Elshtain, J.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 12

International political theory: rethinking ethics in a global era - Hutchings, Kimberly, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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The evolution of international society - Armstrong, DChapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap. 2

Is there a classical international theory? - Jackson, R.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap : 9

Classical theory in international relations - Jahn, Beate, 2006Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Perpetual peace: a philosophical essay - Kant, I., [1903]Book | Recommended (Should Read)

A history of international relations theory - Torbjørn L. Knutsen, 1997Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Westphalia and all that. - Krasner, S.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Scientific man vs. power politics - Morgenthau, Hans Joachim, 1965Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Lessons from the past: Reassessing the interwar disciplinary history of internationalrelations - Schmidt, B., 1998

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

On the history and historiography of International Relations - Schmidt, B.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap. 1

The rights of war and peace: political thought and the international order from Grotius toKant - Tuck, Richard, Dawsonera, 2001

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Why International Relations theorists should stop reading Thucydides - Welch, D, 2003Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Hobbes and International Relations: A Reconsideration - Michael C. Williams, 1996Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Liberalism and World Politics - Michael W. Doyle, Dec., 1986Article | Recommended (Should Read)

On liberal peace: democracy, war, and the international order - MacMillan, John, 1998Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Contending liberalisms - past and present - Richardson, J.L., 1997Article | Recommended (Should Read)

3: "Classical" Realism (26 items)This session looks at realism and its alleged “dominance” of IR. Realism is subjected to a

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critical, genealogy in which what it appears to be according to the various textbooks of IRis turned on its head by a return to the texts.

Core readings (2 items)

Realism: A Problematic Paradigm - S.{i. e.}N Molloy, 2003-03-01Article | Core (Must Read)

The hidden history of realism: a genealogy of power politics -Sean Molloy, 2006

Book | Core (Must Read) | 'Introduction'

Recommended Reading (24 items)

Deconfusing Morgenthau: moral inquiry and classical realism reconsidered - Bain, W., 2000Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme - Bell, Duncan,2009

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The hidden history of realism: a genealogy of power politics -Sean Molloy, 2006

Book

Aristotle, Epicurus, Morgenthau and the Political Ethics of the Lesser Evil - Seán Molloy,2009-04

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Truth, Power, Theory: Hans Morgenthau's Formulation of Realism.: EBSCOhostArticle | Recommended (Should Read)

Dialectics and Transformation: Exploring the International Theory of E. H. Carr - SeánMolloy, 2003-24

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Spinoza, Carr, and the ethics of The Twenty Years' Crisis - SEÁN MOLLOY, 2013-4Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Power and international relations - Claude, Inis L., 1962Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Realism and international relations - Donnelly, Jack, 2000Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap. 1

Realism - Dunne, T. and Schmidt, B.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Various editions held in Library

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Chapter 3Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap. 3

State-centric perspectives - Garnett, J.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 2

War and change in world politics - Gilpin, Robert, 1981Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The tragic vision of politics: ethics, interests, and orders - Richard Ned Lebow, 2003Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Realism in international relations and international political economy: the continuing storyof a death foretold - Guzzini, Stefano, 1998

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Chapter 3Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap. 3

Forum on American realism - 2003Article | Recommended (Should Read)

American diplomacy, 1900-1950 - Kennan, George F., 1952 [c1951]Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Scientific man vs. power politics - Morgenthau, Hans Joachim, 1965Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Classical realism, Freud and human nature in international relations - R. Schuett,2010-04-01

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Chasing Morgenthau, or: What Is Political Realism? - Robert Schuett, 2012-03Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The security dilemma in theory - Wheeler, N. and Booth, K.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 1

The realist tradition and the limits of international relations - Williams, Michael C., 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Discord and collaboration: essays on international politics - Wolfers, Arnold, 1962Book | Recommended (Should Read)

4: Positivism and Post-Positivism: The Second and Third “Debates” (18items)This session looks at two debates in IR. The Second debate concerns the behaviouralistchallenge to classical IT theory and the search for scientific grounds. The Third debate isstill on-going (sort of), but we will focus here on the rise of various approaches thatchallenge the positivist ascendancy and the so-called inter-paradigm debate.

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Core Texts (18 items)

“Second” Great Debate (3 items)

International theory: The case for the classical approach - Bull, H.Chapter | Core (Must Read)

The New Great Debate: Traditionalism vs. Science in International Relations - Kaplan, M.Chapter | Core (Must Read)

J. David Singer, "The Incomplete Theorist: Insight Without EvidenceDocument | Core (Must Read) | J. David Singer, "The Incomplete Theorist: Insight

Without Evidence

“Third” Great Debate (3 items)

The Third Debate - Lapid, J, 1989Article | Core (Must Read)

International Institutions: Two Approaches - Robert O. Keohane, 1988Article | Core (Must Read)

Antinomies of Postmodernism in International Studies - Øyvind ØsterudArticle | Core (Must Read)

Background Readings (12 items)

The inter-paradigm debate - Banks, M.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Why International Relations has Failed - Barry Buzan and Richard Little, 2001Article | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations theories: discipline and diversity - Dunne, Timothy, Kurki, Milja,Smith, Steve, c2007

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap.1

Critical theorists and international relations - Edkins, Jenny, Vaughan-Williams, Nick, 2009Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The last post? - Hollis, M.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Introduction to international relations: theories and approaches - Robert H. Jackson, GeorgSørensen, 2010

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chaps: 8 and 9

Scientific realism and international relations - Joseph, Jonathan, Wight, Colin, 2010Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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The level-of-analysis problem in international relations - Singer, D.J.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Various editions held in Library

The post-positive debate - Vasquez, J.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 10

The rise and fall of the inter-paradigm debate - Waever, O.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Incommensurability and Cross-Paradigm Communication in International Relations Theory- Wight, C., 1996

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Philosophy if social science and IR - Wight, C.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 2

6: Neorealism and liberalism (31 items)Kenneth Waltz’s Theory of International Politics claims to introduce a more scientificversion of realism, sometimes called structural or neo-realism. This session looks at hismethodological and epistemological claims, assessing the extent to which neo-realismremains within the positivist framework. This session also introduces neo-liberalism andlooks at the neo-neo debate.

Core Texts (2 items)

Realist thought and neorealist theory - Waltz, Kenneth N, 1990Journal | Core (Must Read)

Neorealism and its critics - Keohane, Robert O, 1986Book | Core (Must Read) | ‘Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond’

Recommended Reading (29 items)

The poverty of Neo-realism - Ashley, R.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Neorealism and neoliberalism: the contemporary debate - Baldwin, David A., 1993Book | Recommended (Should Read)

People, states and fear: an agenda for international security studies in the post-coldwarera - Barry Buzan, 1991

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Various editions held in Library

The nature and sources of liberal international order - Deudney, D. and Ikenberry, J.G.,1999

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations theories: discipline and diversity - Dunne, Timothy, Kurki, Milja,

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Smith, Steve, c2007Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 4

Forum on Waltz - 2002Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Forum on Waltz - 2009Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The richness of the tradition of political realism - Gilpin, RChapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Structural power: The limits of neorealism power analysis - Guzzini, S., 1993Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Theories of international regimes - Hasenclever, Andreas, Mayer, Peter, Rittberger, Volker,1997

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 1

The state and international relations - Hobson, John M., 2000Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Explaining and understanding international relations - Hollis, Martin, Smith, Steve, 1991Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 5

The Strategic Use of Liberal Internationalism: Libya and the UN Sanctions, 1992–2003 -Ian Hurd, 2005-7

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Theory of world politics: Structural realism and beyond - Keohane, R.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Neorealism and its critics - Robert O. Keohane, 1986Book | Recommended (Should Read)

After hegemony: cooperation and discord in the world political economy - Keohane, RobertO., 1984

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Power and interdependence: world politics in transition - Keohane, Robert Owen, Nye,Joseph S., c1977

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Various editions held in Library

Security and international relations - Kolodziej, Edward A., 2005Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 4

International regimes - Krasner, Stephen D., Center for International and Strategic Affairs,1989

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Introduction and conclusion

The embarrassment of changes: neo-realism as the science of Realpolitik without politics -Kratochwil, F., 1993

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Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Neo-realism in theory and practice - Linklater, A.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 11

Structuralism and realism - Little, R.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War - John J. Mearsheimer, 1990Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The tragedy of Great Power politics - Mearsheimer, John J., 2001Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics - Andrew MoravcsikArticle | Recommended (Should Read)

Neorealism and Neoliberalism - Nye, Joseph S., 1988Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Introduction to international relations: theories and approaches - Jackson, Robert H.,Sørensen, Georg, c2007

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chaps: 3 and 4

Rational choice and international relations - Snidal, DChapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap. 4

Reflections on Theory if international politics - Waltz, Kenneth NChapter | Recommended (Should Read)

7.The English School and International Society (29 items)

Core readings (3 items)

Society and anarchy in international relations - Bull, H.Chapter | Core (Must Read) | Chap: 5

Diplomatic investigations: essays in the theory of international politics - HerbertButterfield, Martin Wight, 1966

Book | Core (Must Read) | M. Wight, ‘Western Values in International Relations,’

A Realist critique of the English School - Dale Copeland, 2003-7Article | Core (Must Read)

Background Readings (26 items)

The anarchical society: a study of order in world politics - Bull, Hedley, 2002Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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The theory of international politics - Bull, H.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 8

The Expansion of international society - Bull, Hedley, Watson, Adam, 1984Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Sovereignty, rights, and justice: international political theory today - Brown, Chris, 2002Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 4

Understanding international relations - Brown, Chris, Ainley, Kirsten, 2009Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 2 Various editions held in Library

The twenty years' crisis, 1919-1939: an introduction to the study of international relations- Carr, Edward Hallett, Cox, Michael, 2001

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. The beginnings of science

The hierarchy of states: reform and resistance in the international order - Clark, Ian, Clark,Ian, 1989

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chaps. 5 and 8

Liberalism - Dunne, T.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | chapter 6 in n J Baylis & S Smith (eds) The

Globalization of World Politics (5th ed.)

Inventing international society: a history of the English school - Dunne, Tim, St. Antony'sCollege (University of Oxford), 1998

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 2

Society and hierarchy in international relations - Dunne, T., 2003Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The social construction of international society - Dunne, T., 1995Article | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations theories: discipline and diversity - Dunne, Timothy, Kurki, Milja,Smith, Steve, c2007

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 7

Explaining and understanding international relations - Hollis, Martin, Smith, Steve, 1991Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 2 The growth of a discipline

Classical and modern thought on international relations: from anarchy to cosmopolis -Jackson, Robert H., 2005

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The political theory of international society - Jackson, R.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 5

Rationalism - Linklater, A.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

The English school - Linklater, A.

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Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

The English school of international relations: a contemporary reassessment - Linklater,Andrew, Suganami, Hidemi, Dawsonera, 2006

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Order and violence: Hedley Bull and international relations - Vincent, Raymond John, Miller,John Donald Bruce, 1990

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations then and now: origins and trends in interpretation - William ClintonOlson, Arthur John Richard Groom, 1991

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chaps: 4 and 5

Rereading early twentieth-century IR theory: Idealism revisited. - Osiander, A., 1998Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Alexander Wendt and the English School - Hidemi Suganami, 2001Journal | Recommended (Should Read)

Power politics - Wight, Martin, Bull, Hedley, Holbraad, Carsten, Royal Institute ofInternational Affairs, 1978

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International Society: Theoretical Promises Fulfilled? - Waever, O., 1995Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Saving strangers: humanitarian intervention in international society - Wheeler, Nicholas J.,Oxford University Press, 2000

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

English School of International Relations Theory at the University of LeedsWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

8. Critical Theory and Marxism (28 items)Another challenge to the positivist bias of the discipline comes from critical theory which inturn draws upon various forms of Marxism – particularly that of the Frankfurt School andGramsci. Here we look at Cox’s distinction between critical theory and problem solving aswell as the claims critical theory makes about the nature of the social world.

Core readings (2 items)

Social forces, States and world orders. - Cox, R., 1981Article | Core (Must Read)

Still critical after all these years? The past, present and future of Critical Theory inInternational Relations - NICHOLAS RENGGER, BEN THIRKELL-WHITE, 2007-4

Article | Core (Must Read)

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Background Readings (26 items)

Gramsci, political economy, and international relations theory: modern princes and nakedemperors - Ayers, Alison J., c2008

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Interstate System and Capitalist World-Economy: One Logic or Two? - ChristopherChase-Dunn, 1981

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Toward a Structural Perspective on the World-System - Chase-Dunn, C. and Rubinson, R.,1977

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Production, power and world order: social forces in the making of history - Cox, Robert W.,1987

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Approaches to world order - Cox, Robert W., 1996Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations theories: discipline and diversity - Dunne, Timothy, Kurki, Milja,Smith, Steve, c2007

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 8

Engaging Gramsci: international relations theory and the new Gramscians - Germain, R.and Kenny, M., 1998

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Gramsci, historical materialism and international relations - Gill, Stephen, 1993Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Power and resistance in the new world order - Gill, Stephen, 2003Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Marxism-Leninism and theory of international relations; V Kubalkova and A A Cruickshank -Kubalkova, V., 1980

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The transformation of political community: ethical foundations of the Post-Westphalian era- Linklater, Andrew, 1998

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Marxism - Linklater, A.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism: a popular outline - Lenin, Vladimir Ilich,[1970]

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Various editions held in Library

Beyond realism and Marxism: critical theory and international relations - Linklater, Andrew,1990

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Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Critical theory - Devetek, R.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Vigilantism in international Relations: Kubálková, Cruickshank and Marxist theory - FredHalliday, 2009-10-26

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Critical Theory and the Inter-Paradigm Debate - Hoffman, M., 1987Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Security and secularization in International Relations - L. Mavelli, 2012-03-01Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Images of Gramsci: connections and contentions in political theory and internationalrelations - Bieler, Andreas, Morton, Adam David, 2006

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Critical theory and international relations: a reader - Roach, Steven C., 2008Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The empire of civil society: a critique of the realist theory of international relations -Rosenberg, Justin, 1994

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Promoting polyarchy globalization, US intervention, and hegemony - Robinson, William I.,1996

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Critical theory of international politics: complementarity, justice, and governance - StevenC. Roach, 2010

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Critical theory and international relations: a reader - Steven C. Roach, 2008Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Globalising common sense: a Marxian-Gramscian (re-)vision of the politics ofgovernance/resistance - Rupert, M., 2003

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Historical materialism and globalization - Rupert, Mark, Smith, Hazel, 2002Book | Recommended (Should Read)

9. Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism (22 items)This session discusses the post-structural turn and its relation to IR. It raises questionsabout the boundaries of the discipline and its focus on traditional concerns like states andsovereignty. It looks at the challenges to the power structure of politics and IR throughprojects like deconstruction and genealogy.

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Core readings (4 items)

Postmodernism - R. DevetakChapter | Core (Must Read)

Virtuous War/Virtual Theory - James Der Derian, 2000-10Article | Core (Must Read)

Security! What do you mean? From concept to thick signifier - Huysmans, JefJournal | Core (Must Read)

Why Fight: Humanitarianism, Principles, and Post-structuralism - D. Campbell, 1998-09-01Article | Core (Must Read)

Background Readings (18 items)

Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life - Agamben, Giorgio, Heller-Roazen, Daniel,1998

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The achievements of post-structuralism - Ashley, R.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Please read pp.11-44.

Living on border lines - Ashley, R.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

The geopolitics of political space - Ashley, R.Article | Recommended (Should Read)

MetaBosnia: narratives of the Bosnian War - Campbell, 1998Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Writing security: United States foreign policy and the politics of identity - Campbell, David,1998

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Various editions held in Library

On diplomacy: a genealogy of Western estrangement - Der Derian, James, 1987Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The (S)pace of International Relations: Simulation, Surveillance, and Speed - James derDerian, Sep., 1990

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Foucault on politics, security and war - Dillon, Michael, Neal, Andrew W., 2008Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations theories: discipline and diversity - Dunne, Timothy, Kurki, Milja,Smith, Steve, c2007

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 11

Poststructuralism & international relations: bringing the political back in - Edkins, Jenny,

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1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Michel Foucault (1984) ‘What is Enlightenment?’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Society must be defended: lectures at theCollege de France, 1975-76 - Foucault, Michel, Bertani, Mauro, Ewald,Francois, Fontana, Alessandro, 2004

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | (SEE CHAPTER 11 ON THE CONCEPT OFBIOPOLITICS)

L. Hansen ‘Post Structuralism’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Special Issue - 1990Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Feminist theory and international relations in a postmodern era - Sylvester, Christine, 1994Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Inside/outside: international relations as political theory - Walker, R. B. J., 1993Book | Recommended (Should Read)

MetaCampbell: the epistemological problematics of perspectivism - Wight, C., 1999Article | Recommended (Should Read)

10. IR constructivism (23 items)Constructivism argues that the world of international relations is not a given, but issomething that is continually recreated through human interaction. Constructivists tend toshift from a focus on power to an interest in constitutive language, law and norms ofbehaviour. After looking at the general concerns of constructivists we turn to AlexanderWendt’s controversial attempts to marry the concerns of Neorealism with the idea of socialconstruction. In the seminar we discuss whether or not Wendtian constructivism offers anadvance on the English School.

Core Texts (2 items)

The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory - Hopf, T, 1998Article | Core (Must Read)

Anarchy is what states make of it: The social construction of power politics. - Wendt, A,1992

Article | Core (Must Read)

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Recommended Reading (21 items)

Seizing the Middle Ground:: Constructivism in World Politics - Adler, E, 1997Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Constructivism and IR - Adler, EChapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 5

The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations. - Barnett, M andFinnemore, M, 1999

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Constructivism within a positivist social science - Dessler, D, 1999Article | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations theories: discipline and diversity - Dunne, Timothy, Kurki, Milja,Smith, Steve, c2007

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 9

Links across the Abyss: Language and Logic in International Relations - Fierke, K.M., 2002Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Forum on Wendt - 2000Article | Recommended (Should Read)

A Reconstruction of Constructivism in International Relations - Guzzini, S, 2000Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Constructivism and international relations: Alexander Wendt and his critics - Guzzini,Stefano, Leander, Anna, 2006

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International Institutions: Two Approaches - Keohane R., 1988Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Security and international relations - Kolodziej, Edward A., 2005Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 7

Norms in international relations: the struggle against apartheid - Klotz, Audie, c1995Book | Recommended (Should Read)

'Is something rotten in the state of Denmark?' Constructivism and European integration. -Moravcsik, A

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

. Milliken,’The Study of Discourse in International Relations: A Critique of Research andMethods’ - J. MillikenA1

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Reflectivity and international relations - Neufeld, M, 1993Article | Recommended (Should Read)

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World of our making: rules and rule in social theory and international relations - Onuf,Nicholas Greenwood, c1989

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Constructivism - Reus-Smit, C.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Please read: Onuf, N 'Constructivism'

Dangerous Liaisons?: Critical International Theory and Constructivism - Price, R. andReus-Smit, C., 1998

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

"Let's Argue!": Communicative Action in World Politics - Thomas Risse, 2000Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Social theory of international politics - Wendt, Alexander, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Constructing International Politics - Wendt, A., 1995Article | Recommended (Should Read)

11: Ethics in IR (20 items)This seminar looks at normative theory and its relation to the post-positivist turn. It raisesquestions about the traditional basis of the discipline, its focus on facts rather than norms,and what the goals of political science are

Core Texts (2 items)

A turn not taken: Ethics in IR at the millenium - Frost, M., 1998Article | Core (Must Read)

Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme - Duncan Bell,2009

Book | Core (Must Read) | Molloy, S ' ‘Hans J. Morgenthau versus E. H. Carr: ConflictingConceptions of Ethics in International Relations,’

Recommended Reading (18 items)

International ethics - Beitz, Charles R., Alexander, Lawrence A., 1985Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Political theory and international relations - Beitz, Charles R., 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme - Bell, Duncan,2009

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations theory: new normative approaches - Brown, Chris, 1992Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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The politics of ethical foreign policy: A responsibility to protect whom? - D. Bulley,2010-09-01

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Normative theory in international relations: a pragmatic approach - Cochran, Molly, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)

T. Erskine ‘Normative IR Theory’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Ethics in international relations: a constitutive theory - Frost, Mervyn, 1996Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Migrants, civil society and sovereign states: Investigating an ethical hierarchy. - Frost, M.,1998

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme - Duncan Bell,2009

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | S. Molloy, ‘Hans J. Morgenthau versus E. H. Carr: Conflicting Conceptions of Ethics inInternational Relations’

Norms and ethics in IR - Hurrell, A.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 7

Normative international relations theory: approaches and issues. - Hoffmann, M.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Please read pp. 27-45

Duties beyond borders: on the limits and possibilities of ethical international politics -Hoffmann, Stanley, 1981

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International political theory: rethinking ethics in a global era - Hutchings, Kimberly, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Dialogic politics and the civilising process - Linklater, A., 2005Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Law, morality and the relations of states - Nardin, Terry, 1983Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Justice, community and dialogue in international relations - Shapcott, Richard, 2001Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Just and unjust wars: a moral argument with historical illustrations - Walzer, Michael, 2006Book | Recommended (Should Read) | 3rd edition unavailable in library

12. Conclusions: Back to the Future? (44 items)

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Looks at the discipline following the post-positivist turn and assesses its futuredevelopment.

Core readings (3 items)

International theory: critical investigations - James Der Derian, 1995Book | Core (Must Read) | M. Wight 'Why is there no International Theory?'

Why there is International Theory now - Duncan Snidal, Alexander Wendt, 2009-3Article | Core (Must Read)

Reading Martin Wight's 'Why is there no international theory?' as history. - Weber, Cynthia,1998

Article | Core (Must Read)

Recommended (41 items)

Martin Wight, International Theory and the Good Life - R. H. Jackson, 1990-06-01Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The international thought of Martin Wight - Ian Hall, 2006Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 7

What's the use of International Relations? - NICHOLSON, MICHAEL, 2000/09/08Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The globalization of world politics: an introduction to international relations - 2014Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Introduction & Chapter 1

Introduction to international relations: theories and approaches - Robert H. Jackson, GeorgSørensen, c2007

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 1

Global politics: a new introduction - 2014Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapters 1 & 2

International theory: the three traditions - Martin Wight, Gabriele Wight, Brian Porter, RoyalInstitute of International Affairs, 1994

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, 2001Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations theory: a critical introduction - Cynthia Weber, 2005Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International Relations and Its Discontents - Fred Halliday, 1995Article | Recommended (Should Read)

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The Structure of the Theoretical Revolution in International Relations - Arend Lijphart, 1974Article | Recommended (Should Read)

International Studies in the Twentieth Century and beyond: Flawed Dichotomies,Synthesis, Cumulation: ISA Presidential Address - Michael Brecher, 1999

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

International Relations Theory: Hegemony or Pluralism? - B. Schmidt, 2008-04-01Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Tradition as Invention: The `Traditions Tradition' and the History of Ideas in InternationalRelations - R. Jeffery, 2005-08-01

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The Discipline International Relations: a Multi-National Perspective. - Gareau, Frederick H.Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Which Are the Fairest Theories of All? - K. J. Holsti, 1989Article | Recommended (Should Read)

International Relations: The Long Road to Theory - Stanley H. Hoffmann, 1959Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The Third Debate: On the Prospects of International Theory in a Post-Positivist Era - YosefLapid, 1989

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Patterns of Dissent and the Celebration of Difference: Critical Social Theory andInternational Relations - Jim George and David Campbell, 1990

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

A note on the origin of the word ‘International’ - Hidemi Suganami, 1978-10Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The Function of Theory in International Relations - Charles A. McClelland, 1960Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The Dialectics of World Order: Notes for a Future Archeologist of International Savoir Faire- Hayward R. Alker, Jr. and Thomas J. Biersteker, 1984

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline: American and European Developmentsin International Relations - Ole Waever, 1998

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics - AlexanderWendt, 1992

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Is International Relations a Discipline? - Morton A. Kaplan, 1961-8Article | Recommended (Should Read)

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Reading Martin Wight’s “Why Is There No International Theory?” as History’ - Weber, C,1998

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Recovering the Classical Approach - Review by: Sasson Sofer, 2002Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Beyond the Three Traditions: The Philosophy of War and Peace in Historical Perspective -Pierre Hassner, 1994

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations theory today - Ken Booth, Steve Smith, 1995Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Smith, S 'The Self-Images of a Discipline'

The Reason of states: a study in international political theory - Michael D. Donelan, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Savigear, P 'International Relations Theory and

Philosophy of History' & George, S 'Schools of Thought in International Relations'

International political thought: a historical introduction - Edward Keene, 2005Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Reason of states: a study in international political theory - Michael D. Donelan, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Stephen George, ‘Schools of Thought in

International Relations’

International theory: the three traditions - Martin Wight, Gabriele Wight, Brian Porter, RoyalInstitute of International Affairs, 1996

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations in political theory - Howard Ll Williams, 1992Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Political theories of international relations: from Thucydides to the present - David Boucher, 1998

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International relations in political thought: texts from the ancient Greeks to the First WorldWar - Chris Brown, Terry Nardin, N. J. Rengger, 2002

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Hugo Grotius and international relations - Hedley Bull, Benedict Kingsbury, Adam Roberts,1990

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International political theory: rethinking ethics in a global era - Kimberly Hutchings, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Basic texts in international relations: the evolution of ideas about international society -1992

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International Relations: Poetry, Prescription or Science? - R. C. Ogley, 1981-06-01

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Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Political Philosophy and the Theory of International Relations - David S. Yost, 1994Article | Recommended (Should Read)

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