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Essentials of International Relations 3e

Essential Readings in World Politics Contents

  • Chapter 1: Approaches
  • Stephen M. Walt, "International Relations: One World, Many Theories"
  • John Lewis Gaddis, "History, Theory and Common Ground," in International Security (Summer 1997)
  • Thucydides, "The Melian Dialogue" from The Peloponnesian War
  • Immanuel Kant, "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch" in Perpetual Peace, and Other Essays on Politics, History, and Morals
  • Chapter 2: History
  • Woodrow Wilson, "The Fourteen Points," Address to Congress (Jan. 8, 1918)
  • George F. Kennan (X), "The Sources of Soviet Conduct"
  • John Gaddis, "The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System"
  • Chapter 3: Contending Perspectives
  • Hans Morgenthau, "A Realist Theory of International Relations" from Politics Among Nations (1960)
  • John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001)
  • Michael W. Doyle, "Liberalism and World Politics"
  • Andre Gunder Frank, "The Development of Underdevelopment"
  • J. Ann Tickner, "Man, the State, and War" from Gender in International Relations (1992)
  • Martha Finnemore, "Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention," in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed. The Culture of National Security. Norms and Identity in World Politics
  • Chapter 4: The International System
  • Hedley Bull, "Does Order Exist in World Politics?" from The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (1977)
  • Hans Morgenthau, "The Balance of Power," from Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Peace and Power
  • Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis"
  • Robert Jervis, "The Compulsive Empire" Foreign Policy (July/ Aug. 2003)
  • Chapter 5: The State
  • Stephen D. Krasner, "Sovereignty," Foreign Policy (Jan-Feb. 2001)
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter, "The Real New World Order"
  • Robert Rotberg, "Failed States in a World of Terror," Foreign Affairs (July/ August 2002)
  • Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations"
  • Edward Said, "The Clash of Ignorance," The Nation (Oct. 22, 2001)
  • Graham Fuller, "The Future of Political Islam," Foreign Affairs (March/April 2002)
  • Chapter 6: The Individual
  • Margaret Hermann and Joe Hagan, "International Decision Making: Leadership Matters"
  • Robert Jervis, "Hypotheses of Misperception," World Politics (April 1968)
  • Cynthia Enloe, "The Personal is International," Chapter 9 in Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
  • Chapter 7: International Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, and International Law
  • Michael J. Glennon, "Why the Security Council Failed," Foreign Affairs (May/ June 2003)
  • Edward C. Luck, et al., "Stayin’ Alive: The Rumors of the UN’s Death Have Been Exaggerated" Foreign Affairs (July/ Aug 2003)
  • Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, "Transnational Networks in International Politics: An Introduction" from Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in Int’l Politics (1998)
  • Samantha Powers, "Bystanders to Genocide," Atlantic Monthly (Sept. 2001)
  • Henry Kissinger, "Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction?" Foreign Affairs (July/Aug. 2001)
  • Ken Roth, "The Case for Universal Jurisdiction," Foreign Affairs (Sept./Oct. 2001)
  • G. John Ikenberry, "Is American Multilateralism in Decline?"
  • Chapter 8: War and Strife
  • Carl von Clausewitz, "War as an Instrument of Policy," from On War (1968)
  • Thomas C. Schelling, "The Diplomacy of Violence," from Arms and Influence (1966)
  • Robert Jervis, "Cooperation under the Security Dilemma"
  • Ian Buruma, "What Beijing Can Learn from Moscow"
  • Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz, "India and Pakistani Nuclear Weapons: For Better or Worse," in The Spread of Nuclear Weapons (2003)
  • John Mueller, "The Essential Irrelevance of Nuclear Weapons: Stability in the Postwar World"
  • Michael W. Doyle, "Intervention" from Ways of War and Peace (1997)
  • Barry Posen, "The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict"
  • Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism," International Security (Winter 2002/03)
  • Robert Pape, "Suicide Terrorism," American Political Science Review (August 2003)
  • Chapter 9: International Political Economy
  • Robert Gilpin, "The Nature of Political Economy" from U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation (1975)
  • S. Krasner, "State Power and the Structure of International Trade"
  • Scott, Bruce R., "The Great Divide in the Global Village," Foreign Affairs (Jan. 2001)
  • Einhorn, Jessica, "The World Bank’s Mission Creep," Foreign Affairs (Sept. 2001)
  • Stiglitz, Joseph E., from Globalization and Its Discontents, Chapter 9, "The Way Ahead"
  • Chapter 10: Globalization and Globalizing Issues
  • David Held and Anthony McGrew, "Globalization"
  • Thomas Friedman, "The Backlash" from The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (2000)
  • Amartya Sen, "Universal Truths: Human Rights and the Western Illusion"