ESPS1001 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

 Mingst, Karen A., and Jack Snyder, eds. 2008. Essential Readings in World Politics, 3rd edition. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co.

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

On the state: - Tilly, Charles. 1985. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In Bringing the State Back In, ed. Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. - Herbst, Jeffrey. 1990. “War and the State in Africa,” International Security 14 (4): 117-139.

Armed challenges to the state from within and outside:  Checkel, Jeffrey T., ed. 2013. Transnational Dynamics of Civil War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.  Lawrence, Adria, and Erica Chenoweth. 2010, ed. Rethinking Violence: State and Non-State Actors in Conflict. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Widely read book on globalization (written by a journalist): - Friedman, Thomas L. 2000. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. New York: Anchor Books.

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

1. Historical Theory 2. The Causes of the First World War 3. Comparing Revolutions

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.

Main Reading

1. Historical Theory a) Interpretation - Quentin Skinner, ‘Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas’ in J. Tully (ed.), Meaning and Context: Quentin skinner and His Critics, 1988 b) Causality - Behan McCullagh, The Truth of History (London, 1998), Chpt. 7, 172-208 c) Comparison - John Breuilly, ‘Introduction: Making Comparisons in History’, in Breuilly, Labour and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1992)

2. The Causes of the First World War - Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig, 'World Wars: Definitions and Causes', in Hamilton and Herwig (eds.), The Origins of World War I (Cambridge, 2003), 1-44 - James Joll, The Origins of the First World War, 2nd edn. (London, 1992), Conclusion, 234-40 - Annika Mombauer, The Origins of the First World War (London, 2002), Introduction, 1-20

3. Comparing Revolutions - T. Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions (Cambridge, 1979), Chpts 1, 5 and 6, 3-40, 174- 235 - John M. Gates, ‘Towards a History of Revolution’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 28 (1986), 535-44

History II: History of Political Thought

General reading on the methodology of the History of Political Thought:  Pocock, J. G. A., Political Thought and History. Essays on Theory and Method (Cambridge 2009).  Richter, M., “Reconstructing the History of Political Languages: Pocock, Skinner, and the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe”, in History and Theory 29 (1990), p. 38-70.  Skinner, Q., “Some Problems in the Analysis of Political Thought and Action”, in Political Theory 2 (1974), p. 277-303.  Skinner, Q., “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas” in Visions of Politics volume I. Regarding Method (Cambridge 2002), p. 57-89.

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).

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.).

Philosophy – t.b.c.

General:  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.

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