Introduction to European History, Law, International Relations, Politics and Philosophy Preliminary Reading List

The seven sections are listed in the order in which they will be taught.

Political Science I: Challenges to the State in World Politics

Key contributions to major theoretical debates in IR:  Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.  Russett, Bruce, and John Oneal. 2001. Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co.  Waltz, Kenneth N. 1979. Theory of International Politics. McGraw-Hill, Inc.

On the state:  Herbst, Jeffrey. 1990. “War and the State in Africa,” International Security 14 (4): 117-139.  Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. New York: Cambridge University Press.  Tilly, Charles. 1985. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In Bringing the State Back, edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Armed challenges to the state from within and outside:  Autesserre, Severine. 2009. “Hobbes and the Congo: Frames, Local Violence, and International Intervention.” International Organization 63 (2): 249-280.  Checkel, Jeffrey T., ed. 2013. Transnational Dynamics of Civil War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.  Kalyvas, Stathis. 2003. “The Ontology of ‘Political Violence’: Action and Identity in Civil Wars.” Perspectives on Politics 1 (3): 475-494.  Mampilly, Zachariah Cherian. 2011. Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life During War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.  Pinker, Steven. 2011. The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes. London: Allen Lane.  Stephan, Maria J., and Chenoweth, Erica. 2008. “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.” International Security 33 (1): 7-44.  Wood, Elisabeth J. 2009. “Armed Groups and Sexual Violence: When is Wartime Rape Rare?” Politics and Society 37 (1): 131-161.

Introduction to IR textbook:  Baylis, John, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, eds. 2008. The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, 4th edition. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

History I: Explaining Modernity

Introductory Reading Historical Theory:

 Tosh, John. The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods, and New Directions in the Study of Modern History. 5th ed. London: Longman, 2010.  Fulbrook, Mary, Historical Theory. London: Routledge, 2002.

Explaining Modernity I:

 Gunn, Simon and James Vernon. eds. The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in imperial Britain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. This book is available online at http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wj6r222  Herf, Jeffrey, Reactionary Modernism. Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich. London: Cambridge University Press, 1984.  Chubarov, Alexander, Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras. New York, London: Continuum, 2001.

Explaining Modernity II:

 Savage, Jon, Teenage. The Creation of Youth 1875-1945. Pimlico, 2007

Philosophy

General:  Rosen, Gideon, Alex Byrne, Joshua Cohen, and Seana Valentine Shiffrin. The Norton Introduction to Philosophy. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.  West, David. An Introduction to Continental Philosophy. London: Polity, 1996.  Nagel, Thomas. What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.  Wolff, Jonathan. An Introduction to Political Philosophy. 3 edition. Oxford; New York: OUP Oxford, 2015.

Plato:  Plato, and John M. Cooper. 2002. Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo. Translated by G. M. A. Grube. 2nd Revised edition edition. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc.  Williams, Bernard. The Great Philosophers: Plato. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011.  Meinwald, Constance. Plato. New York: Routledge, 2016.  Schofield, Malcolm. Plato: Political Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Political Science II: Political Economy

Markets and the State:  Shepsle, Kenneth (2010). Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions. New York: Norton. Chapters 8-10,  Mankiw, N. Gregory (any year/edition will do). Principles of Economics. Chapters 1-4.  Munger, Michael C. (2000). Analyzing policy: choices, conflicts, and practices. New York: Norton. Chapter 3  Hayek, Friedrich. A. (1945). “The Use of Knowledge in Society”. The American Economic Review, 35(4), 519-530.  Hardin, Garrett (1968). The Tragedy of the Commons. Science, 162(3859), 1243-1248.  Ostrom, Elinor (1990). Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge University Press, Chapter 3

Models of Political Institutions:  Downs, Anthony (1957). An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper. Chapters 2,3,8.  Hinich, Melvin J. & Michael Munger (1997). Analytical politics. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1,2,7  Dowding, K. (2005). Is it rational to vote? Five types of answer and a suggestion. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 7(3), 442-459.  Gerber, A. S., Huber, G. A., Doherty, D., Dowling, C. M., Raso, C., & Ha, S. E. (2011). Personality traits and participation in political processes. The Journal of Politics, 73(03), 692- 706.

Further optional reading  Gibbons, Robert. (1997). “An Introduction to Applicable Game Theory”. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(1), 127-149.  Miller, Gary and Thomas Hammond (1994). “Why Politics is More Fundamental Than Economics”. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 6(1), 5-26.  Clark, William R., Matt Golder and Sona N. Golder (2012). Principles of Comparative Politics.2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks: CQ Press.

Law: Selected Topics of International Law

 Carl Stychin and Linda Mulcahy, Legal Method and Systems: Texts and Materials (Sweet & Maxwell, 2007).  Andrew Clapham, Human Rights: A very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007).  Robert Beckman and Dagmar Butte, Introduction to International Law, available at http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/intlawintro.pdf  Frances Nicholson and Patrick Twomey (ed.), Refugee Rights and Realities – Evolving International Concepts and Regimes, (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

History II: Explaining Modernity II

Introductory Reading

General approaches to the theory and practice of history:  Fulbrook, Mary, Historical Theory. London: Routledge, 2002.  Evans, Richard J. In Defence of History. London: Granta, 1997.  Heiko Feldner, Stefan Berger and Kevin Passmore, Writing History, 2nd edn. London: Bloomsbury, 2010.

 Burrow, John. The History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century. London: Allen Lane, 2007  Tosh, John. The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods, and New Directions in the Study of Modern History. London: Longman, 1991.

Surveys (specific periods in European history):  W. Mulligan, The Origins of the First World War. Cambridge: CUP, 2010.  W. Doyle, The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP, 2001.  S. A. Smith, The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP, 2002.

 Blanning, Tim, The Nineteenth Century: Europe, 1789-1914. Oxford: OUP, 2000.  Mazower, Mark, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. London: Penguin, 1998.  Hobsbawm, Eric: The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848; The Age of Capital: 1848-1875; The Age of Empire: 1875-1914; The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1941-1991. various edns: London: Abacus/Vintage 1988-9/1991/1996.

Political Science III: Key Issues & Problems in Politics

 Almond, G.A. et al. Comparative Politics Today. A World View, London, Longman, 2000 (7th ed.).  Axford, B. et al. Politics. An Introduction. London: Routledge, 1997.  Bealy, F., Chapman, R.A., Sheehan, M. Elements in Political Science. Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 1999.  Caramani, D. (ed.), Comparative Politics, Oxford, OUP, 2008.  Cudworth, E., T. Hall, J. McGovern, The Modern State. Theories and Ideologies, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2007.  D Dunleavy, P., O'Leary, B., Theories of the State. The Politics of Liberal Democracy, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1987.  Dyson, K., The State Tradition in Western Europe, Oxford, Oxford UP, 1980.  Minogue, K. Politics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.  Müller, W., Wright, V., The State in Western Europe: Retreat or Redefinition?, Portland, Frank Cass, 1994.  Newton, K., van Deth, J.W., Foundations of Comparative Politics, Cambridge, CUP, 2010 (2ns ed.). June 2018