ESPS0001 Introduction to History, Law, Politics and Philosophy Preliminary Reading List 20221-22

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

❖ Denotes highly recommended readings

Political Science I: Challenges to the State in World Politics

NB: For the “must read”/required readings, see the section reading list on the Moodle page. These are readings to pursue if you are particularly interested in a topic.

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. 1976. “France, Russia, China: A Structural Analysis of Social Revolutions.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 18 (2): 175-210. • 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. • Cunningham, Kathleen Gallagher, Kristin M. Bakke, and Lee J. M. Seymour. 2012. “Shirts Today, Skins Tomorrow: Dual Contests and the Effects of Fragmentation in Self-Determination Disputes.” Journal of Conflict Research 56 (1): 67-93. • 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. 2016. The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, 7th edition. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

History I: Modernity and modernisation

ESPS STUDENTS ONLY

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.

Political modernisation: • 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.

Cultural and societal modernisation: • Savage, Jon, Teenage. The Creation of Youth 1875-1945. Pimlico, 2007.

Global Politics

ISPS STUDENTS ONLY

The Liberal International Order ❖ Walt, S. M. (1998). International relations: one world, many theories. Foreign policy, 29-46 ❖ Ikenberry, G. J. (2010). The liberal international order and its discontents. Millennium, 38(3), 509-521. ❖ Mearsheimer, J. J. (2019). Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order. International Security, 43(4), 7-50. • Ikenberry, G. J. (2018). The end of liberal international order?. International Affairs, 94(1), 7-23. • Nye Jr, J. S. (2017). Will the liberal order survive: The history of an idea. Foreign Aff., 96, 10. • Krauthammer, C. (1990). The unipolar moment. Foreign Aff., 70, 23. • Layne, C. (2006). The unipolar illusion revisited: The coming end of the United States' unipolar moment. International security, 31(2), 7-41.

Globalization • Rosenberg, J. (2005). Globalization theory: A post mortem. International politics, 42(1), 2-74. • Scholte, Jan Aart (2005) Premature Obituaries: A Response to Justin Rosenberg, International Politics, Volume 42, Number 3, September 2005, pp. 390-399. • Stiglitz, J. E. (2002). Globalization and its Discontents (Vol. 500). Norton: New York. • Barber, B. R. (2010). Jihad vs McWorld. New York: Random House. • Baylis, J., Smith, S., & Owens, P. (Eds.). (2017). The globalization of world politics: An introduction to international relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Case Study: Climate Change ❖ Gardiner, S. M. (2004). Ethics and global climate change. Ethics, 114(3), 555-600. ❖ Thompson, A. (2006). Management under anarchy: the international politics of climate change. Climatic Change, 78(1), 7-29. ❖ Selby, J. (2018). The Trump presidency, climate change, and the prospect of a disorderly energy transition. Review of International Studies, 1-20. • Caney, S. (2009). Justice and the distribution of greenhouse gas emissions. Journal of global ethics, 5(2), 125-146. • Falkner, R. (2016). The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics. International Affairs, 92(5), 1107-1125.

Political Science II: Key Issues and Problems in Politics

❖ D Dunleavy, P., O'Leary, B., Theories of the State. The Politics of Liberal Democracy, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1987. • 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. • 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.).

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 https://www.ilsa.org/Jessup/Jessup%20Competitor%20Resources/intlawintro.pdf • Frances Nicholson and Patrick Twomey (ed.), Refugee Rights and Realities – Evolving International Concepts and Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

History II: History of Political Thought

❖ Koselleck, R., Critique and Crisis (Cambridge Mass. 1988). • Castiglione, D./Hampsher-Monk, I. (eds.), The History of Political Thought in National Context (Cambridge 2001). • Skinner, Q./B. Stråth (eds.), States and Citizens. History, Theory, Prospects (Cambridge 2003).

Philosophy

Introductory, chapter-length - (to get an idea of the territory), see either of the following:

• Jon Elster, 'Philosophy of Social Sciences', in The Philosophy of Science: A Companion, ed. A. Baberousse, D. Bonnay, and M. Cozic (Oxford: OUP, 2018) Via UCL Library from:

OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (oxford.universitypressscholarship)

• Martin Hollis, The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction (Cambridge: CUP, 1994), Ch 1. An overview of the philosophy of social theory.

Introductory books:

• Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 1990). More than an introduction – a classic, which the course will look at closely – but short and clear.

• Martin Hollis, The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction (Cambridge: CUP, 1994). Comprehensive and highly accessible.

• Daniel Little, Varieties of Social Explanation: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Science (Oxford: Westview, 1991). Contains a rich and illuminating selection of examples.

Political Science III: Political Economy

Markets and the State: ❖ Shepsle, Kenneth (2010). Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions. New York: Norton. Chapters 8-10 • Ostrom, Elinor (1990). Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge University Press • 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. • Axelrod, Robert (1984). The evolution of cooperation. Basic Books. • Nowak, M. A. (2006). “Five rules for the evolution of cooperation.” Science, 314(5805), 1560-1563. • Henrich, J. P. (Ed.). (2004). Foundations of human sociality: Economic experiments and ethnographic evidence from fifteen small-scale societies. Oxford University Press. • 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

Models of Political Institutions: ❖ Hinich, Melvin J. & Michael Munger (1997). Analytical politics. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1,2,7 • Downs, Anthony (1957). An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper • Grofman, B. (2004), 'Downs and two-party convergence', Annual Rev. Political Science 7, 25--46. • Laver, Michael. "Policy and the dynamics of political competition." American Political Science Review 99.2 (2005): 263-281. • 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.

Further 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. June 2020