International Relations Theory

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*Readings new to the fourth edition. Chapter 1. About IR Theory: Images and Interpretive Understandings IR Field in an Age of Globalization Epistemology, Methodology, and Ontology What Is Theory? Images Interpretive Understandings Summation Selected Readings James N. Rosenau, Thinking Thoroughly Kenneth N. Waltz, Explaining War: Levels of *Max Weber, On Interpretive Understanding Suggestions for Further Reading PART I. IMAGES Chapter 2. Realism: and Balance of Power Major Actors and Assumptions Intellectual Precursors and Influences Power System Globalization and Interdependence Realists and International Cooperation Change Realists and Their Critics Selected Readings Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue Machiavelli, On Princes and the of Their States Thomas Hobbes, Of the Natural Condition of Mankind Jean Jacques Rousseau, The of *Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Hard and Soft Power in American Foreign *John J. Mearsheimer, Tragedy of Great Power Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 3. Liberalism: Interdependence and Global Major Actors and Assumptions Intellectual Precursors and Influences Integration Transnationalism Interdependence International Regimes Neoliberal Institutionalism Global Economic Interdependence and Democratic Decisionmaking Change and Globalization Liberals and Their Critics Selected Readings Michael W. Doyle, Liberalism and World *Robert O. Keohane, From Interdependence and Institutions to Globalization and Governance *Stephen G. Brooks, Producing Security Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 4. Economic Structuralism: Global Capitalism and Postcolonialism Major Actors and Assumptions Intellectual Precursors and Influences Dependency Theorists Capitalist World-System Change and Globalization Postcolonialism Economic Structuralists and Their Critics Selected Readings J.A. Hobson, The Economic Taproot of Imperialism *Immanuel Wallerstein, Gramsci, Hegemony, and International Relations *Robert W. Cox, The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 5. English School: International and Grotian Rationalism Major Actors and Assumptions Intellectual Precursors and Influences Divergence of British and American Scholarship Genesis of the English School Levels of Analysis and Change English School, Liberals, and Social Constructivists English School And Its Critics Selected Readings Hugo Grotius, War, Peace, and the Law of Nations *Hugo Grotius, Freedom of the Seas *Tim Dunne, Inventing International Society Hedley Bull, Does Order Exist in World Politics? Suggestions for Further Reading PART II.INTERPRETIVE UNDERSTANDINGS Chapter 6. Constructivist Understandings Major Actors and Assumptions Intellectual Precursors Intersubjectivity Structure, Rules, and Norms Agents Identity Logic of Appropriateness Interests Diversity of Social Constructivist Thought Wendt's Naturalist Constructivism Constructivist Affinities in the Broader IR Field Constructivists and Their Critics Selected Readings *Alexander Wendt, Constructing International *John Locke, On War and Maintaining the Peace *Alexander Wendt, The Lockean Culture *Martha Finnemore, Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 7. Positivism, and Postmodern Understandings Positivism Intellectual Precursors: Phenomenology and Hermeneutics critical Theory: Major Assumptions Postmodernism: Major Assumptions Theory, Postmodernism and Their Critics Summation Selected Readings *Ken Booth, Critical Explorations and the Highway of Theory *Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman, Realism and Rhetoric in International Relations *David Campbell, Writing Security Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 8. Feminist Understandings Intellectual Precursors and Influences Major Assumptions Strands of Feminism in IR Gender, War and Studies Gender and International Organizations Gendered Understandings and IR Feminists and Their Critics Selected Readings *Iris Marion Young, The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current State *J. Ann Tickner, Why Women Can't Rule the World: International Politics According to Francis Fukuyama Suggestions for Further Reading PART III. NORMATIVE UNDERSTANDINGS Chapter 9. Normative IR Theory: Ethics and Morality Norms, Ethics, and Morality Normative Theory: Alternative Perspectives Levels of Analysis Moral Relativism Secular Bases for Moral or Ethical Choice Justice and War Justice and Human Rights Armed Intervention and Sovereignty Alternative Images and Foreign Policy Choice Rationality and Foreign Policy Choice Values, Choices, and Selected Readings Immanuel Kant, Morality, Politics, and Perpetual Peace E.H. Carr, The Nature of *Robert E. Williams, Jr. and Dan Caldwell, Jus Post Bellum: Just War and the Principles of Just Peace Suggestions for Further Reading