Class Syllabus

Week 1

May 22:
Introduction: Overview of International Relations Theories

Methods, Theory and Practice

Stephen M. Walt, "International Relations: One World, Many Theories," Foreign Policy, no. 110 (Spring 1998), pp. 29-46.
Robert Jervis, excerpt from "The Future of World Politics: Will It Resemble the Past?" International Security, vol. 16, no. 3 (Winter 1991/92), excerpted in Art and Jervis, International Politics, pp. 409-422.
Stephen D. Krasner, "Sovereignty," Foreign Policy (January-February, 2001), pp. 20-29.
Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, New York, 1999, ch. 2 (p.25-37), ch.6 (p.93-122), ch.8 (p.141-164).

May 24: States, State Formation, and State Capacity, Non-State, Transgovernmental, and Transnational Actors, Networks and Social Movements

Thomas Callaghy, "The State and the Development of Capitalism in Africa: Theoretical, Historical, and Comparative Reflections," in Donald Rothschild, The Precarious Balance (Westview, 1988), pp. 67-99.
Peter Evans, "The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization," World Politics, 50 (October 1997), pp.62-87.
Kalevi J. Holsti, The State, War, and the State of War (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 99-126.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, "The Real New World Order," Foreign Affairs, vol. 76, no. 5 (September-October, 1997), pp. 183-97.
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, "Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics: Introduction," in Karen Mingst and Jack Snyder, Essential Readings in World Politics (New York: Norton, 2001), pp. 335-340.

Week 2

May 29 Force, Coercion, and War

Security Dilemma and Deterrence

Kenneth N. Waltz, "The Origins of War in Neorealist Thought." (First published in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 18:4 (Spring 1988), pp. 615-628) in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War, pp. 88-95.
Robert J. Art, "The Four Functions of Force," excerpt from "To What Ends Military Power?" International Security, 4 (Spring 1980) in Art and Jervis, International Politics, pp. 156-168.
Thomas C. Schelling, "The Diplomacy of Violence," excerpt from Arms and Influence (Yale University Press, 1966) in Art and Jervis, International Politics, pp. 169-183.
Robert Jervis, "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma," World Politics, 30:2 (Jan. 1978), pp. 167-214), excerpted in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War, pp. 312-329.
Richard K. Betts, "The New Threat of Mass Destruction," Foreign Affairs, vol. 77, no. 1 (January-February 1998), pp. 26-41.

May 31 The Spread of Nuclear Weapons and Global Security

Scott D. Sagan and Kenneth N. Waltz, eds., The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate (New York: Norton, 1995), chaps. 1-2.

Week 3

June 5:
Pluralism and Liberalism

Robert Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (New Haven: Yale, 1971), pp.1-16.
Michael W. Doyle, "Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs, Part 2," Philosophy and Public Affairs, 12:4, 1983, excepted in Art and Jervis, International Politics, pp. 97-109.
Fareed Zakaria, "The Rise of Illiberal Democracy," Foreign Affairs, vol. 76, no. 6 (November/ December 1997), pp. 22-43.
Marc F. Plattner, "From Liberalism to Liberal Democracy," Journal of Democracy, vol. 10, no.3, (July 1999), pp.121-135.
Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder,
"Democratization and War," Foreign Affairs, vol. 74, no. 3 (May-June 1995), pp. 79-97.

June 7 Cooperation and International Institutions

Kenneth A. Oye, "The Conditions for Cooperation in World Politics," in Art and Jervis, eds., International Politics, pp. 83-96.
Robert Axelrod and Robert O. Keohane, "Achieving Cooperation Under Anarchy: Strategies and Institutions," in Baldwin, Neorealism and Neoliberalism, pp. 85-115.
Joseph M. Grieco, "Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism," in Baldwin, Neorealism and Neoliberalism, pp. 116-140.
Stephen D. Krasner, "Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto Frontier," in Baldwin, Neorealism and Neoliberalism, pp. 234-249.

Week 4

June 12
International Regimes: Theory and Practice

Robert O. Keohane, "International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?" Foreign Policy, no. 110 (Spring 1998), pp. 82-96.

and Select two of the following readings:
John Ruggie, "International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order," International Organization, vol. 36, no. 2 (Spring 1982).
Peter M. Haas, "Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control," International Organization, vol. 43, (1989), pp. 377-404.
Ronald B. Mitchell, "Regime Design Matters: International Oil Pollution and Treaty Compliance," International Organization, vol. 48, no. 3 (Summer 1994), pp. 425-58.
Robert B. McCalla, "NATO's Persistence After the Cold War," International Organization, vol. 50, no. 3 (Summer 1996), pp. 445-75.
Edward D. Mansfield, "International Institutions and Economic Sanctions," World Politics, 47 (July 1995), pp. 575-605.
Andrew Moravcsik, "The Origins of Human Rights Regimes: Democratic Delegation in Postwar Europe," International Organization, vol. 54, no. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 217-252.

June 14
International Political Economy: Theoretical Foundations

Robert Gilpin, "The Nature of Political Economy," excerpt from U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation in Art and Jervis, International Politics, pp. 278-294.
Theodore H. Moran, "Grand Strategy: the Pursuit of Power and the Pursuit of Plenty," International Organization, vol. 50, no. 1 (Winter 1996), pp. 175-205.
Robert O. Keohane and Helen V. Milner,
"Internationalization and Domestic Politics: An Introduction," in Keohane and Milner eds., Internationalization and Domestic Politics (Cambridge, 1996), pp.3-24.
Andrews, David, "Capital Mobility and State Autonomy" International Studies Quarterly 38 (1994), pp. 193-218.
Robert J. Samuelson, "The Spirit of Capitalism," Foreign Affairs, vol. 80, no. 1 (January/February 2001), pp. 205-211.

Week 5

June 19
International Trade: Winners and Losers in the World Economy

Prospects for Greater Trade Liberalization

Jagdish Bhagwati, A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy (MIT Press, 1998), p.29-71. OR
Paul Krugman, "Trade, Jobs and Wages" and "Does Third World Growth Hurt First World Prosperity" in Pop Internationalism (MIT Press, 1996), pp.35-69.
Bruce R. Scott, "The Great Divide in the Global Village," Foreign Affairs, vol. 80, no. 1 (January/February 2001), pp. 160-177.
Judith Goldstein and Lisa L. Martin," Legalization, Trade Liberalization, and Domestic Politics: A Cautionary Note," International Organization, vol. 54, no. 3 (Summer 2000), pp. 603-632.

June 21
Globalization

Dani Rodrik, "Sense and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate," Foreign Policy, (Summer 1997), pp. 19-37.
Robert Wade, "Globalization and Its Limits: Reports of the Death of the National Economy Are Greatly Exaggerated," in Suzanne Berger and Ronald Dore, eds., National Diversity and Global Capitalism (Cornell, 1996) p.60-89. (Also excerpted in Art and Jervis, International Politics.)
Lawrence Summers, "Reflections on Managing Global Integration," Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 13, no. 2 (Spring 1999), pp.3-18.
Jagdish Bhagwati, "The Capital Myth: The Difference Between Trade in Widgets and Dollars," Foreign Affairs, vol. 77, no. 3 (May/June 1998), pp. 7-12.

Week 6

June 25
Identity Politics and Conflicts

Ernest Gellner, "Nations and Nationalism," in Betts, Conflict After the Cold War, pp. 280-292.
David A. Lake and Donald Rothchild, "Spreading Fear: The Genesis of Transnational Ethnic Conflict," in Lake and Rothchild, eds., The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict (Princeton, 1998), ch.1.
Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs, vol.72 no.3 (Summer 1993), pp. 22-49.

June 28
International Norms and Human Rights

Conclusions

Rhoda E. Howard and Jack Donnelly, "Human Rights in World Politics," in Art and Jervis, International Politics, pp. 30-48.
Kathryn Sikkink, "Human Rights, Principled Issue-Networks and Sovereignty in Latin America," International Organization, vol. 47, no. 3 (Summer 1993), pp. 411-441.