[B] = 
Braman, Sandra. Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power. MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262513241. [Preview with Google Books]
[C] = Choucri, Nazli. Cyberpolitics in International Relations. MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262517690. [Preview with Google Books]
[CH] = Choucri, Nazli, ed. Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. MIT Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780262531344. [Preview with Google Books]
[K] = 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]
[KE] = Keohane, Robert O., ed. Neorealism and Its Critics. Columbia University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780231063494.
[KR] = Kratochwil, Friedrich, and Edward D. Mansfield, eds. International Organization: A Reader. Longman, 1997. ISBN: 9780065012149.
[M] = Mingst, Karen A., and Jack L. Snyder, eds. Essential Readings in World Politics. 2nd ed. W. W. Norton and Company, 2004. ISBN: 9780393924060.
[MI] = ———. Essential Readings in World Politics. 4th ed. W. W. Norton and Company, 2010. ISBN: 9780393935349.
[MU] = Mueller, Milton L. Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance. MIT Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780262518574.
[N] = North, Robert Carver. War, Peace, Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis. Westview Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780813306827.
[NY] = Nye, Jr., Joseph S. The Future of Power. PublicAffairs, 2011. ISBN: 9781610390699. [Preview with Google Books]
Note: The recommended readings are required for graduate students.
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| Part I: Structure And Process In International Relations | ||
| 1 | The Classics—Concepts and Contexts |
Required[N] Chapter 1: "The Contemporary World and Its Problems." [NY] Chapter 1: "What Is Power in Global Affairs?" 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. 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. ———. "The Actors in International Politics." Chapter 3 in Classic Readings in International Relations. 2nd ed. Wadsworth Publishing, 1998, pp. 105–18. ISBN: 9780155055438. Recommended[M] Walt, Stephen M. "International Relations: One World, Many Theories." [M] Gaddis, John Lewis. "History, Theory, and Common Ground." [MI] Snyder, Jack. "One World, Rival Theories." |
| 2 | International Relations—Construction of Cyberspace |
Required[C] Chapter 1: "Introduction." [C] Chapter 2: "Theory Matters in International Relations." [N] Chapter 2: "The Individual in Primal Environments." [N] Chapter 3: "The Growth and Development of States." [NY] Chapter 2: "Military Power." [NY] Chapter 3: "Economic Power."
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. Recommended[K] Kahler, Miles. "Rationality in International Relations." Dodge, Martin, and Rob Kitchin. "Introducing Cyberspace." Chapter 1 in Mapping Cyberspace. Routledge, 2000, pp. 7–31. ISBN: 9780415198844. ———. "Geographies of Cyberspace." Chapter 3 in Mapping Cyberspace. Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415198844. |
| 3 | Cyberspace and the State System—New Challenges |
Required[B] Chapter 1: "An Introduction to Information Policy." [B] Chapter 2: "Forms and Phases of Power: The Bias of the Informational State." [C] Chapter 3: "Cyberspace: New Domain of International Relations." [C] Chapter 5: "The State System: National Profiles and Cyber Propensities." [N] Chapter 4: "State Decision-making." [NY] Chapter 4: "Soft Power." [NY] Chapter 5: "Diffusion and Cyberpower." 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. RecommendedClark, 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. Kratochwil, Friedrich. "Of Systems, Boundaries, and Territoriality: An Inquiry into the Formation of the State." World Politics 39, no. 1 (1986): 27–52. |
| 4 | Globalization and Emergent Dynamics |
Required[C] Chapter 4: "Cyber Content: Leveraging Knowledge and Networking." [CH] Skolnikoff, Eugene B. Chapter 7: "Science and Technology: The Sources of Change." [N] Chapter 8: "The Structure of the Global System." [NY] Chapter 6: "Power Transition: The Question of American Decline." [NY] Chapter 7: "Smart Power." Cerny, Philip G. "Globalization and the Changing Logic of Collective Action." International Organization 49, no. 4 (1995): 595–625. Gourevitch, Peter. "The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of Domestic Politics." International Organization 32, no. 4 (1978): 881–912. Recommended[KR] Kratochwil, Friedrich. "Regimes and Organizations." [KR] Yarbrough, Beth V., and Robert M. Yarbrough. "International Institutions and the New Economics of Organization." [KR] Conybeare, John A. C. "International Organization and the Theory of Property Rights." [KR] Mansfield, Edward D. "The Concentration of Capabilities and International Trade."
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| Part II: Theories of International Relations |
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| 5 | Power and Security—Realism and Neo-Realism |
Required[K] Jervis, Robert. "Realism in the Study of World Politics." [KE] Keohane, Robert O. Chapter 7: "Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond." [MI] Morgenthau, Hans J. "A Realist Theory of International Politics." [MI] Mearsheimer, John J. "Anarchy and the Struggle for Power." [MI] Snyder, Jack. "One World, Rival Theories." 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. Recommended[KE] Ashley, Richard K. Chapter 9: "The Poverty of Neorealism." |
| 6 | Governance and Order—Institutionalism and Neo-Institutionalism |
Required[K] Martin, Lisa L., and Beth A. Simmons. "Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions." 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. Keohane, Robert O. "International Institutions: Two Approaches." International Studies Quarterly 32, no. 4 (1988): 379–96. Shepsle, Kenneth A. "Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach." Journal of Theoretical Politics 1, no. 2 (1989): 131–47. Recommended[KR] Mansfield, Edward D. "The Role of Regimes." [KR] Krasner, Stephen D. "Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables." [KR] Young, Oran R. "The Politics of International Regime Formation: Managing Natural Resources and the Environment." [KR] Haas, Peter M. "Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control." |
| 7 | Perceptions and Expression—Constructivism |
Required[K] Ruggie, John Gerard. "What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge." [KE] Cox, Robert W. Chapter 8: "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory." [MI] Wendt, Alexander. "Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics." [N] Chapter 3: "The Growth and Development of States." Recommended[KR] Snidal, Duncan. "Coordination Versus Prisoners' Dilemma: Implications for International Cooperation and Regimes." [KR] Wendt, Alexander. "Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics." 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. |
| 8 | Growth and Expansion—Lateral Pressure |
Required[C] Chapter 8: "The Global System: Pressures of Growth and Expansion." [CH] Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. Chapter 3: "Growth, Development, and Environmental Sustainability: Profile and Paradox." [N] Chapter 6: "The International Configuration." 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. 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. RecommendedHaas, 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. Waltz, Kenneth N. "Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power." Chapter 6 in Theory of International Politics. Waveland Press Incorporated, 2010. ISBN: 9781577666707. |
| 9 | Cyberpolitics in International Relations |
Required[B] Chapter 3: "Bounding the Domain: Information Policy for the Twenty-first Century." [C] Chapter 6: "The International System: Cyber Conflicts and Threats to Security." [C] Chapter 7: "The International System: Cyberpolitics of Cooperation and Collaboration." [NY] Chapter 6: "Power Transition: The Question of American Decline." Recommended[CH] Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. Chapter 15: "Global Accord: Imperatives for the Twenty-First Century." |
| Part III: Strategic Issues | ||
| 10 | International Conflict and War |
Required[MU] Chapter 8: "Security Governance on the Internet." [N] Chapter 7: "Deterrence, Crisis, and War." 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. ———. "Postwar Japan: Reconstruction, Growth, Expansion." Part IV in The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After. Routledge, 1992. ISBN: 9780415075893. 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. 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. Recommended[M] Krasner, Stephen D. "Sovereignty." |
| 11 | International Cooperation and Global Agenda |
Required[C] Chapter 10: "Conclusion: Lateral Realignment and the Future of Cyberpolitics." [K] March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. "The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders." [MU] Chapter 1: "A Battle for the Soul of the Internet." [MU] Chapter 10: "Critical Internet Resources." [N] Chapter 9: "Global Competition and Violence." 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] RecommendedNorth, 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] |
| 12 | Contending Authority—Principles and Practice |
RequiredCaral, 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. 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. 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. 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. Recommended[KR] Dessler, David. "What's At Stake in the Agent-Structure Debate?" Ostrom, Elinor. "New Horizons in Institutional Analysis." American Political Science Review 89, no. 1 (1995): 174–8. |
| 13 | Alternative Futures—21st Century Challenges |
Required[CH] Haas, Peter M., and Jan Sundgren. Chapter 12: "Evolving International Environmental Law: Changing Practices of National Sovereignty." [CH] Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. Chapter 15: "Global Accord: Imperatives for the 21st Century." RecommendedModelski, George. "Evolutionary Paradigm for Global Politics." International Studies Quarterly 40, no. 3 (1996): 321–42. |