International Relations Theory in the Cyber Age

Readings

• [B] = Buy at MIT Press Braman, Sandra. Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power . MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262513241. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [C] = Buy at MIT Press Choucri, Nazli. Cyberpolitics in International Relations . MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262517690. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [CH] = Buy at MIT Press Choucri, Nazli, ed. Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses . MIT Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780262531344. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [K] = Buy at MIT Press Katzenstein, Peter J., Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner, eds. Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics . MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262611442. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [KE] = Keohane, Robert O., ed. Neorealism and Its Critics . Columbia University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780231063494.
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• [KR] = Kratochwil, Friedrich, and Edward D. Mansfield, eds. International Organization: A Reader . Longman, 1997. ISBN: 9780065012149.
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• [M] = Mingst, Karen A., and Jack L. Snyder, eds. Essential Readings in World Politics . 2nd ed. W. W. Norton and Company, 2004. ISBN: 9780393924060.
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• [MI] = ———. Essential Readings in World Politics . 4th ed. W. W. Norton and Company, 2010. ISBN: 9780393935349.
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• [MU] = Buy at MIT Press Mueller, Milton L. Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance . MIT Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780262518574. ↗
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• [N] = North, Robert Carver. War, Peace, Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis . Westview Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780813306827.
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• [NY] = Nye, Jr., Joseph S. The Future of Power . PublicAffairs, 2011. ISBN: 9781610390699. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [N] Chapter 1: “The Contemporary World and Its Problems.”
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• [NY] Chapter 1: “What Is Power in Global Affairs?”
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• Jackson, Robert J. “Competing Theories, Methods, and Intellectual Debates About Global Politics.” Chapter 3 in Global Politics in the 21st Century . Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780521756532.
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• Williams, Phil, Donald M. Goldstein, et al., eds. “The Structure of the International System.” Chapter 2 in Classic Readings in International Relations . 2nd ed. Wadsworth Publishing, 1998, pp. 71–92. ISBN: 9780155055438.
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• ———. “The Actors in International Politics.” Chapter 3 in Classic Readings in International Relations . 2nd ed. Wadsworth Publishing, 1998, pp. 105–18. ISBN: 9780155055438.
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• [C] Chapter 1: “Introduction.”
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• [C] Chapter 2: “Theory Matters in International Relations.”
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• [N] Chapter 2: “The Individual in Primal Environments.”
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• [N] Chapter 3: “The Growth and Development of States.”
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• [NY] Chapter 2: “Military Power.”
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• [NY] Chapter 3: “Economic Power.”
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• Buy at MIT Press Abbott, Kenneth W., and Duncan Snidal. “Hard and Soft Law in International Governance.” In Legalization and World Politics . Edited by Judith L. Goldstein, Miles Kahler, et al. MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262571517. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• Jackson, Robert, and Georg Sørensen. “Why Study IR?” Chapter 1 in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches . 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199694747.
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• Dodge, Martin, and Rob Kitchin. “Introducing Cyberspace.” Chapter 1 in Mapping Cyberspace . Routledge, 2000, pp. 7–31. ISBN: 9780415198844.
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• ———. “Geographies of Cyberspace.” Chapter 3 in Mapping Cyberspace . Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415198844.
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• [B] Chapter 1: “An Introduction to Information Policy.”
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• [B] Chapter 2: “Forms and Phases of Power: The Bias of the Informational State.”
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• [C] Chapter 3: “Cyberspace: New Domain of International Relations.”
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• [C] Chapter 5: “The State System: National Profiles and Cyber Propensities.”
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• [N] Chapter 4: “State Decision-making.”
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• [NY] Chapter 4: “Soft Power.”
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• [NY] Chapter 5: “Diffusion and Cyberpower.”
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• Jackson, Robert, and Georg Sørensen. “IR as an Academic Subject?” Chapter 2 in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches . 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199694747.
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• Clark, David D. “An Insider’s Guide to the Internet - Version 2.0, July 25, 2004.” (PDF) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ↗
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• Kratochwil, Friedrich. “ Of Systems, Boundaries, and Territoriality: An Inquiry into the Formation of the State .” World Politics 39, no. 1 (1986): 27–52. ↗
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• [C] Chapter 4: “Cyber Content: Leveraging Knowledge and Networking.”
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• [CH] Skolnikoff, Eugene B. Chapter 7: “Science and Technology: The Sources of Change.”
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• [N] Chapter 8: “The Structure of the Global System.”
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• [NY] Chapter 6: “Power Transition: The Question of American Decline.”
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• [NY] Chapter 7: “Smart Power.”
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• Cerny, Philip G. “ Globalization and the Changing Logic of Collective Action .” International Organization 49, no. 4 (1995): 595–625. ↗
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• Gourevitch, Peter. “ The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of Domestic Politics .” International Organization 32, no. 4 (1978): 881–912. ↗
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• Buy at MIT Press Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. “Introduction: An Interview of the Knowledge Commons.” Chapter 1 in Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice . MIT Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780262516037. ↗
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• Buy at MIT Press ———. “A Framework for Analyzing the Knowledge Commons.” Chapter 3 in Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice . MIT Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780262516037. ↗
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• [KE] Keohane, Robert O. Chapter 7: “Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond.”
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• Grieco, Joseph M. “ Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism .” International Organization 42, no. 3 (1988): 485–507. ↗
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• [KE] Ashley, Richard K. Chapter 9: “The Poverty of Neorealism.”
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• Choucri, Nazli, Stuart Madnick, et al. “ Institutions for Cyber Security: International Responses and Global Imperatives .” Informational Technology for Development 20, no. 2 (2014): 96–121. ↗
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• Keohane, Robert O. “ International Institutions: Two Approaches. ” International Studies Quarterly 32, no. 4 (1988): 379–96. ↗
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• Shepsle, Kenneth A. “ Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach .” Journal of Theoretical Politics 1, no. 2 (1989): 131–47. ↗
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• [KE] Cox, Robert W. Chapter 8: “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory.”
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• Ostrom, Elinor. “ A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997 .” American Political Science Review 92, no. 1 (1988): 1–22. ↗
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• [C] Chapter 8: “The Global System: Pressures of Growth and Expansion.”
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• [CH] Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. Chapter 3: “Growth, Development, and Environmental Sustainability: Profile and Paradox.”
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• [N] Chapter 6: “The International Configuration.”
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• Choucri, Nazli, and Charlotte Mathieu. “Basic versus Complex Logic in International Relations.” Chapter 19 in Mapping Sustainability: Knowledge e-Networking and the Value Chain . Edited by Nazli Choucri, Dinsha Mistree, et al. Springer, 2007. ISBN: 9789400799851.
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• Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. “Lateral Pressure in International Relations: Concept and Theory.” Chapter 12 in Handbook of War Studies . Edited by Manus I. Midlarsky. Routledge, 2011, pp. 289–304, and 308–26. ISBN: 9780415611008.
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• Haas, Peter M. “The Fourth Image Reversed: Epistemic Communities and Knowledge Based Bargaining as a Response to Uncertainty.” Prepared for delivery at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 30-September 3, 1989.
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• Waltz, Kenneth N. “Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power.” Chapter 6 in Theory of International Politics . Waveland Press Incorporated, 2010. ISBN: 9781577666707.
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• [B] Chapter 3: “Bounding the Domain: Information Policy for the Twenty-first Century.”
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• [C] Chapter 6: “The International System: Cyber Conflicts and Threats to Security.”
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• [C] Chapter 7: “The International System: Cyberpolitics of Cooperation and Collaboration.”
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• [CH] Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. Chapter 15: “Global Accord: Imperatives for the Twenty-First Century.”
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• [MU] Chapter 8: “Security Governance on the Internet.”
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• [N] Chapter 7: “Deterrence, Crisis, and War.”
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• Choucri, Nazli, Robert C. North, et al. “Lateral Pressure and Japan.” Part I in The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After . Routledge, 1992. ISBN: 9780415075893.
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• ———. “Postwar Japan: Reconstruction, Growth, Expansion.” Part IV in The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After . Routledge, 1992. ISBN: 9780415075893.
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• Levy, Jack S. “The Causes of War: A Review of Theories and Evidence.” Chapter 4 in Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War, Volume I . Edited by Philip E. Tetlock, Jo L. Husbands, et al. University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780195057669.
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• Pollins, Brian M., and Randall L. Schweller. “ Linking the Levels: The Long Wave and Shifts in U. S. Foreign Policy, 1790–1993 .” American Journal of Political Science 43, no. 2 (1999): 431–64. ↗
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• [C] Chapter 10: “Conclusion: Lateral Realignment and the Future of Cyberpolitics.”
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• [MU] Chapter 1: “A Battle for the Soul of the Internet.”
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• [MU] Chapter 10: “Critical Internet Resources.”
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• [N] Chapter 9: “Global Competition and Violence.”
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• Waltz, Kenneth N. “The Management of International Affairs.” Chapter 9 in Theory of International Politics . Waveland Press Incorporated, 2010. ISBN: 9781577666707. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• North, Douglass C. “Institutions and a Transaction-Cost Theory of Exchange.” Chapter 7 in Perspectives on Positive Political Economy . Edited by James E. Alt and Kenneth A. Shepsle. Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521398510. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• Caral, Jose M. A. Emmanuel A. “ Lessons from ICANN: Is Self-Regulation of the Internet Fundamentally Flawed? ” International Journal of Law and Information Technology 12, no. 1 (2004): 1–31. ↗
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• Cowey, Peter, and Milton Mueller. “Delegation, Networks, and Internet Governance.” Chapter 9 in Networked Politics: Agency, Power and Governance . Edited by Miles Kahler. Cornell University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780801474767.
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• Hall, Rodney Bruce, and Thomas J. Biersteker, eds. “The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance.” Chapter 1 in The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance . Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780521523370.
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• Mueller, Milton, and Mawaki Chango. “ Disrupting Global Governance: The Internet Whois Service, ICANN, and Privacy. ” Journal of Information Technology and Politics 5, no. 3 (2008): 303–25. ↗
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• Ostrom, Elinor. “ New Horizons in Institutional Analysis .” American Political Science Review 89, no. 1 (1995): 174–8. ↗
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• [CH] Haas, Peter M., and Jan Sundgren. Chapter 12: “Evolving International Environmental Law: Changing Practices of National Sovereignty.”
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• [CH] Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. Chapter 15: “Global Accord: Imperatives for the 21st Century.”
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• Modelski, George. “ Evolutionary Paradigm for Global Politics .” International Studies Quarterly 40, no. 3 (1996): 321–42. ↗
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• Buy at MIT Press Choucri, Nazli. Cyberpolitics in International Relations . MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262517690. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• Nye, Jr., Joseph S. The Future of Power . PublicAffairs, 2011. ISBN: 9781610390699. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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