Readings in International Relations

Abstract

CHAPTER 1. THE GLOBALIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Theory: Stephen Walt, "One World, Many Theories" Application: Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, "Globalization: What's new? What's Not? (And So What?)" CHAPTER 2. POWER POLITICS Theory: Hans Morgenthau, Chapter 1 from Politics Among Nations Application: Michael J. Mazarr, "George W. Bush, idealist" CHAPTER 3. ALTERNATIVES TO POWER POLITICS Theory: Bruce Russett and John Oneal, "International Systems: Vicious Circles and Virtuous Cycles" Application: Saikiko Fukuda-Parr, "Gender, Globalization and New Threats to Human Security" CHAPTER 4. FOREIGN POLICY Theory: Graham Allison, "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis" Application: Howard J. Wiarda, "Beyond the Pale: the Bureaucratic Politics of United States Policy in Mexico" CHAPTER 5. INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT Theory: Barry Posen, "The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict" Application: Stephen Biddle, "Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon" CHAPTER 6. MILITARY FORCE AND TERRORISM Theory: Andrea Kurth Cronin, "Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism" Application: Deborah Avant, "The Privatization of Security: Lessons from Iraq" CHAPTER 7. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, LAW, AND HUMAN RIGHTS Theory: Richard Steinberg and Jonathan Zasloff, "Power and International Law" Application: Scott Straus, "Darfur and the Genocide Debate" CHAPTER 8. INTERNATIONAL TRADE Theory: Robert Gilpin, "Three Ideologies of international Political Economy" Application: Jennifer Clapp, "WTO Agriculture Negotiations: Implications for the Global South" CHAPTER 9. MONEY AND BUSINESS Theory: Theodore Cohn, "International Monetary Relations" Application: Dennis Rondinelli, "Transnational Corporations: International Citizens or New Sovereigns?" CHAPTER 10. INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION Theory: Ernst B. Haas, "Functionalism" Application: Andrew Moravcsik, "A Too Perfect Union? Why Europe Said No" CHAPTER 11. ENVIRONMENT AND POPULATION Theory: Thomas homer-Dixon, "On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict" Application: Nicholas Eberstadt, "Russia, the Sick Man of Europe" CHAPTER 12. THE NORTH-SOUTH GAP Theory: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, "Dependent Capitalist Development in Latin America" Application: Stephan Klasen, "Bridging the Gender Gap To Promote Economic and Social Development" CHAPTER 13. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Theory: Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, and Arvind Subramanian, "How to Help Poor Countries" Application: Ngaire Woods, "The Shifting Politics of Foreign Aid"