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POLI 205

Introduction to International Relations

3 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2009

Topics

  • Realism and liberalism
  • International institutions
  • Domestic politics
  • Constructivism
  • Strategic interaction
  • World wars
  • Cold War
  • Nuclear weapons and terrorism
  • Globalization
  • Environment
  • Ethnic conflict and human rights

Readings

  • Julian Schofield and Elizabeth Bloodgood (eds.), Introduction to International Relations: A Reader, 3rd ed. Pearson Academic Publishing, 2008.
    Required
  • Supplementary course reader.
    Required
  • Thomas Hobbes, “The State of Nature and the State of War.”
    Listed reading
  • Hans Morgenthau, “Six Principles of Political Realism.”
    Listed reading
  • Kenneth Waltz, “The Anarchic Structure of World Politics.”
    Listed reading
  • Michael Doyle, “Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs.”
    Listed reading
  • Richard Rosecrance, “Trade and Power.”
    Listed reading
  • Immanuel Kant, “Perpetual Peace.”
    Listed reading
  • Woodrow Wilson, “Fourteen Points.”
    Listed reading
  • Kenneth Oye, “The Conditions for Cooperation in World Politics.”
    Listed reading
  • Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, “Complex Interdependence and the Role of Force.”
    Listed reading
  • Robert Putnam, “Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games,” International Organization (1988), pp. 433–456.
    Listed reading
  • Graham Allison, “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” American Political Science Review (1969), pp. 689–718.
    Listed reading
  • Ann Tickner, “A Critique of Morgenthau’s Principles of Political Realism.”
    Listed reading
  • Alexander Wendt, “Anarchy Is What States Make of It.”
    Listed reading
  • Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, “Taking Stock,” Annual Review of Political Science (2001), pp. 391–416.
    Listed reading
  • Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff, Thinking Strategically. Norton, 1991, selections.
    Listed reading
  • Robert Jervis, “Offense, Defense, and the Security Dilemma.”
    Listed reading
  • Stephen Walt, “Alliances: Balancing and Bandwagoning.”
    Listed reading
  • Stephen Van Evera, “The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War,” International Security 9.1 (1984), pp. 58–107.
    Listed reading
  • A. J. P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War, chapter 11.
    Listed reading
  • Alan Bullock, “Hitler and the Origins of the Second World War” (1967).
    Listed reading
  • Hossbach Memorandum.
    Listed reading
  • Ernst B. Haas, “Functionalism.”
    Listed reading
  • Stanley Hoffmann, “The Uses and Limits of International Law.”
    Listed reading
  • George Kennan, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct.”
    Listed reading
  • John Lewis Gaddis, “The Long Peace,” International Security 10.4 (1986).
    Listed reading
  • Scott Sagan, “Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?,” International Security 21.3 (1996), pp. 54–86.
    Listed reading
  • Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”
    Listed reading
  • Bruce Hoffman, “What Is Terrorism?”
    Listed reading
  • Richard Betts, “The New Threat of Mass Destruction,” Foreign Affairs 77.1 (1998).
    Listed reading
  • Jeffrey Frankel, “Globalization of the International Economy.”
    Listed reading
  • Kenneth Waltz, “Globalization and Governance,” PS 32.4 (1999).
    Listed reading
  • Bruce Scott, “The Great Divide in the Global Village.”
    Listed reading
  • Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons.”
    Listed reading
  • Keck and Sikkink, “Transnational Activist Networks” (source title abbreviated).
    Listed reading
  • David Victor, “International Cooperation on Climate Change.”
    Listed reading
  • Howard and Donnelly, “Human Rights in World Politics.”
    Listed reading
  • Sebastian Mallaby, “NGOs: Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor.”
    Listed reading
  • Chaim Kaufmann, “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil War.”
    Listed reading
  • Samantha Power, “Bystanders to Genocide,” Atlantic Monthly (September 2001).
    Listed reading
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