INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS READING LIST for COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS Department of Political Science, University of California – Santa Barbara
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IINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS READING LIST FOR COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS Department of Political Science, University of California – Santa Barbara Version Updated 2014 This reading list is intended for political science graduate students who are preparing to take the PhD qualifying exam in International Relations. This list includes the minimum recommended reading for each part of the exam. Students are expected to be familiar with additional readings beyond this core set. PART I: GENERAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO IR Anthology • Carlsnaes, Walter, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons, eds. Handbook of international relations. Sage, 2002. Realism • Morgenthau, Hans. Politics Among Nations: The struggle for power and peace. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1948. (Also Liberalism) • Waltz, Kenneth N. Theory of International Politics. NY: McGraw Hill, 1979. • Jervis, Robert. Perception and misperception in international politics. Princeton University Press, 1976. • Cederman, Lars-Erik. Emergent actors in world politics: how states and nations develop and dissolve. Princeton University Press, 1997. Liberalism • Doyle, Michael W. "Liberalism and world politics." APSR 80, no. 4 (1986): 1151. • Moravcsik, Andrew. "Taking preferences seriously: A liberal theory of international politics." IO 51, no. 04 (1997): 513-553. • Adler, Emanuel, and Michael Barnett, eds. Security Communities. Cambridge University Press, 1998. English School • Bull, Hedley. The anarchical society: a study of order in world politics. Columbia University Press, 2002. Constructivism • Wendt, Alexander. Social theory of international politics. Cambridge University Press, 1999. (or Wendt, Alexander. "Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics." IO 46, no. 02 (1992): 391-425.) • Hopf, Ted. "The promise of constructivism in international relations theory." IS 23, no. 1 (1998): 171-200. Strategic Choice • Lake, David A. and Robert Powell, eds., Strategic Choice and International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 1 • Levy, Jack S. "Prospect theory, rational choice, and international relations." International Studies Quarterly 41, no. 1 (1997): 87-112. Critiques • Feaver, Peter D., Gunther Hellmann, Randall L. Schweller, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, William C. Wohlforth, Jeffrey W. Legro, and Andrew Moravcsik. "Brother, can you spare a paradigm?(Or was anybody ever a realist?)." IS 25, no. 1 (2000): 165. • Lake, David A. “Theory is Dead, Long Live Theory: The End of the Great Debates and the Rise of Eclecticism in International Relations,” EJIR 19, 3 (2013), pp.567- 587. • Ayoob, Mohammed. The Third World security predicament: state making, regional conflict, and the international system. L. Rienner Publishers, 1995. • Tickner, J. Ann. Gender in international relations: Feminist perspectives on achieving global security. Columbia University Press, 1992. • Wœver, Ole. “The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline: American and European Developments in International Relations,” IO 52, 4 (1998), pp.687-727. INTERNATIONAL ORDER • March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. "The institutional dynamics of international political orders." IO 52, no. 04 (1998): 943-969. • Lake, David A. Hierarchy in International Relations. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. • Ikenberry, G. John. After victory: Institutions, strategic restraint, and the rebuilding of order after major wars. Princeton University Press, 2009. • Krasner, Stephen D. Sovereignty: organized hypocrisy. Princeton University Press, 1999. • Cooley, Alexander and Hendrik Spruyt. Contracting states: Sovereign transfers in international relations. Princeton University Press, 2009. REGIMES AND INSTITUTIONS Keohane, Robert O., and Lisa L. Martin. "The promise of institutionalist theory." IS 20, no. 1 (1995): 39-51. • Martin, Lisa L., and Beth A. Simmons, eds. International Institutions: An IO reader. MIT Press, 2001. • Mearsheimer, John "The false promise of international institutions." IS (1994): 5. • Busch, Marc L. "Overlapping institutions, forum shopping, and dispute settlement in international trade." IO 61, no. 04 (2007): 735-761. • Davis, Christina L. Food fights over free trade: how international institutions promote agricultural trade liberalization. Princeton University Press, 2003. • Haas, Ernst B. Beyond the nation state: Functionalism and IO. ECPR Press, 2008. COOPERATION • James Fearon, “Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation,” IO, 52, 2 (1998), pp.269-305. 2 • Downs, George W., David M. Rocke, and Peter N. Barsoom. "Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation?." IO 50, no. 03 (1996): 379-406. (In Martin and Simmons, 2001) • Jervis, Robert. "Cooperation under the security dilemma." World Politics 30, no. 02 (1978): 167-214. • Martin, Lisa L. Coercive cooperation: Explaining multilateral economic sanctions. Princeton University Press, 1993. • Oye, Kenneth A.Cooperation under anarchy. Princeton University Press, 1986. NORMS, IDEAS, AND IDENTITY • Keck, Margaret and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998). • Philpott, Daniel. Revolutions in sovereignty: How ideas shaped modern international relations. Princeton University Press, 2001. • Finnemore, Martha. National interests in international society. Cornell University Press,1996. • Mueller, John E. Retreat from doomsday: The obsolescence of major war. New York: Basic Books, 1989. • Klotz, Audie. "Norms reconstituting interests: global racial equality and US sanctions against South Africa." IO 49, no. 03 (1995): 451-478. • Hymans, Jacques. "The changing color of money: European currency iconography and collective identity." EJIR 10, no. 1 (2004): 5-31. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS • Bass, Gary. Stay the Hand of Vengence: the politics of war crimes tribunals. Princeton University Press, 2000. • Abbott, Kenneth W. and Duncan Snidal. "Hard and soft law in international governance." IO 54, no. 03 (2000): 421-456. • Goldsmith, Jack L., and Eric A. Posner. The limits of international law. Vol. 199. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. • Franck, Thomas M., Fairness in international law and institutions. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. • Koh, Harold Hongju. "Why do nations obey international law?." (1997): 2599. Human Rights • Simmons, Beth A. Mobilizing for human rights: international law in domestic politics. Cambridge University Press, 2009. • Hafner-Burton, Emilie. Making human rights a reality. Princeton University Press, 2013. • Conrad, Courtenay Ryals, and Will H. Moore. "What stops the torture?."American Journal of Political Science 54, no. 2 (2010): 459-476. • Fariss, Christopher J. "Respect for Human Rights has Improved Over Time: Modeling the Changing Standard of Accountability." APSR (2014): 1-22. VII. States, Groups and Individuals (Second and First Image) 3 Individuals • Institute of international studies (Berkeley, Calif.). Structure of decision: The cognitive maps of political elites. Edited by Robert M. Axelrod. Vol. 404. Princeton University Press, 1976. • Byman, Daniel L., and Kenneth M. Pollack. "Let us now praise great men: bringing the statesman back in." IS 25, no. 4 (2001): 107-146. • Hudson, Valerie M. "Foreign Policy Analysis: Actor‐Specific Theory and the Ground of International Relations." Foreign Policy Analysis 1, no. 1 (2005): 1-30. States/Groups • Tajfel, Henri, and John C. Turner. "An integrative theory of intergroup conflict." The social psychology of intergroup relations 33, no. 47 (1979): 74. • Putnam, Robert D. "Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games." IO 42, no. 03 (1988): 427-460. • Gourevitch, Peter. "The second image reversed: the international sources of domestic politics." IO 32, no. 04 (1978): 881-912. • Stephan, Maria J., and Erica Chenoweth. "Why civil resistance works: The strategic logic of nonviolent conflict." IS 33, no. 1 (2008): 7-44. METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND CRITIQUES IN IR Approaches • King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Interference in Qualitative Research. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. • Bennett, Andrew and Alexander George. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005. • Lave, Charles A. and James G. March. An introduction to models in the social sciences. University Press of America, 1993. • Findley, Michael G., Daniel L. Nielson, and J.C. Sharman, “Using Field Experiments in International Relations: A Randomized Study of Anonymous Incorporation,” IO 67, 4 (2013), pp.657-693. • Goldgeier, James M. and Philip E. Tetlock. "Psychology and international relations theory." Annual Review of Political Science 4, no. 1 (2001): 67-92. • Mahoney, James and Gary Goertz. "A tale of two cultures: Contrasting quantitative and qualitative research." Political Analysis 14, no. 3 (2006): 227. • Bernstein, Steven, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein, and Steven Weber. "God gave physics the easy problems: adapting social science to an unpredictable world." EJIR 6, no. 1 (2000): 43-76. Rationality • Popper, Karl Raimund. "Of clouds and clocks: an approach to the problem of rationality and the freedom of man." Thinking Clearly about Psychology: Essays on Matters of Public Interest 1 (1991): 100. • Simon, Herbert Alexander. Models of bounded rationality: Empirically grounded economic reason. Vol. 3. MIT press, 1982. • Kahler, Miles. "Rationality in international relations." IO 52, no. 04 (1998): 919. 4 • Milner, Helen V. "Rationalizing