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POL-15PPOC258-A22/23-International Theory-May24/25

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15PPOC258-A22/23-International Theory-May23/24

Week 1: What is international theory?

REQUIRED READING 1: Weber, Cynthia. (2009). International Relations Theory: a Critical Introduction.

REQUIRED READING 2: Vitalis, Robert. (2015). White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth Of American International Relations.

OPTIONAL READING: Booth, Ken and Erskine, Toni. (2016). Introduction to International Relations Theory Today.

Further reading

Week 2: From the international to the global?

REQUIRED READING 1: Agnew, J. (1994). The territorial trap: the geographical assumptions of international relations theory. Review of international political economy, 1(1), 53-80.

REQUIRED READING 2: Barkawi, Tarak. (2010). ‘Empire and order in international relations and security studies,’ in Robert Denemark, ed. The International Studies Encyclopedia (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell), vol. III, pp. 1360-1379.

Kamola, Isaac. (2014). 'US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary'. BJPIR, 16 (3), pp. 513-533.

Further reading

Week 3: The global colour line and postcolonial world order

REQUIRED READING 1: Du Bois, WEB. (1903) The Souls of Black Folk

REQUIRED READING 2: Anievas, Alex. Manchanda, Nivi and Shilliam, Robbie. (2014). Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line.

OPTIONAL READING: Douglass, Frederick. (1881). 'The Color Line'. The North American Review. 132 (295). pp. 567-577.

Further reading

Week 4: Liberalism

REQUIRED READING 1: Doyle, M. W. (1983). Kant, liberal legacies, and foreign affairs. Philosophy &amp; public affairs, 205-235.

REQUIRED READING 2: Jahn, B. (2007). The tragedy of liberal diplomacy: Democratization, intervention, statebuilding (Part I). Journal of intervention and statebuilding, 1(1), 87-106.

OPTIONAL READING: Ikenberry, G. John. (2017). 'The Plot Against American Foreign Policy: Can the Liberal Order Survive?'. Foreign Affairs (online).

Ikenberry 2017

Further reading

Week 5: Realism

REQUIRED READING 1: Morgenthau, Hans J. (1957). 'Six Principles of Political Realism' (excerpted from Politics Among Nations, 2nd Ed.).

REQUIRED READING 2: Waltz, Kenneth. (2000). 'Structural Realism After the Cold War'. International Security. 25(1). pp. 5-41.

OPTIONAL READING: Rosenberg, Justin. (1990). ‘What’s the Matter With Realism?’. Review of International Studies. 16(4). pp. 285-303.

Further reading

Week 6: Constructivism

REQUIRED READING 1: Weldes, J et al. (1999). 'Introduction: Constructing Insecurity' in Weldes, J et al. (eds.) Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities and the Production of Danger. Minneapolois: UMP.

REQUIRED READING 2: Pan, Chengxin. (2004). 'The "China Threat" in American Self-Imagination: The Discursive Construction of Other as Power Politics'. Alternatives. 29 (3). pp. 305-331.

OPTIONAL READING: Hay, Colin and Rosamond, Ben. (2002). 'Globalization, European integration and the discursive construction of economic imperatives'. Journal of European Public Policy. 9 (2). pp. 147-167.

Further reading

Week 7: Whiteness and racism in traditional IR theory

REQUIRED READING 1: Henderson, Errol A. (2013). 'Hidden in plain sight: racism in international relations theory'. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26 (1), pp. 71-92.

REQUIRED READING 2: Sabaratnam, Meera (2020). 'Is IR Theory White? Racialised Subject-Positioning in Three Canonical Texts'. Millennium. 49 (1). pp. 3-31.

OPTIONAL READING: Krishna, Sankaran. (2001). 'Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations'. Alternatives. 26 (4). pp. 401-424.

Further reading

Week 8: Marxist and 'critical' theory

REQUIRED READING 1: Marx, K. &amp; F. Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (London, Penguin: 2002).

REQUIRED READING 2: Wood, E.M. (2003). ‘Introduction’ and ‘Surplus Imperialism’ in Empire of Capital. London: Verso. pp. 1-9 AND pp. 143-168.

OPTIONAL READING: Robinson, Cedric. (1981). Black Marxism. Chapel Hill: UNC Press.

Further reading

Week 9: Feminism, gender, and sexualities in the international

REQUIRED READING 1: Enloe, C. (1994). Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. University of California Press.

REQUIRED READING 2: Farris, Sara. (2017). In the Name of Women's Rights: the Rise of Femonationalism. Durham: Duke University Press.

OPTIONAL READING: Hutchings, K. (2008). 'Making Sense of Masculinity and War'. Men and Masculinities. 10 (4), pp. 389–404.

Further reading

Week 10: Theory in action: the migration 'crisis'

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15PPOC258-A22/23 International Theory A22/23

REQUIRED READING 1: Doyle, M. W. (1983). Kant, liberal legacies, and foreign affairs. Philosophy & public affairs, 205-235.

REQUIRED READING 1: Marx, K. & F. Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (London, Penguin: 2002).