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Comprehensive Exam Reading List

International Relations

Comprehensive Examination Reading List Note: the list emphasizes the original articles rather than the subsequent  books (email me for the complete list)

Adler, E. and P. Haas (1992) “Epistemic Communities, World Order, and the Creation of a Reflective Research Program” International Organization, 46(1):367-390

 

 Alker, H. and T. Biersteker (1984) “Dialectics of World Order:  Notes for a Future Archeologist of International

Savior Faire” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  J. Der Derian (ed.) New York:  New York University Press.

 

Almond, G. and S. Genco (1977) “Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics” World Politics, 29(4):489-522.

 

Ashley, R. (1984) “The Poverty of Neorealism” International Organization  38(2): 227-286

 

Ashley, R. (1988) “Powers of Anarchy:  Theory, Sovereignty, and the Domestication of Global Life” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  J. Der Derian (ed.) New York:  New York University Press.

 

Ashley, R.K. 1988. “Untying the Sovereign State: A Double Reading of the Anarchy Problematic”. Millenium: Journal of International Studies 17: 2 pp: 227-262.

 

Ashley, R. (1996) “The Achievements of Post-Structuralism” in International Theory: Positivism and Beyond, Smith, S., K. Booth, and M. Zalewski (eds.) Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press. p.240-253

 

Ashley, R. and RBJ Walker (1990a) “Speaking the Language of Exile:  Dissident Thought in International Studies” International Studies Quarterly, 34(2):259-268

 

 Bartelson, J.1995. “A Genealogy of Sovereignty”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Biersteker, T. (1989) “Critical Reflections on PostPositivism in International Relations” International Studies Quarterly, 33(3):263-267

 

Brooks, S. (1997) “Dueling Realisms” International Organization, 51(3):445-477

 

Bull, H. (1966a) “Society and Anarchy in International Relations” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  J. Der Derian (ed.) New York:  New York University Press.

 

Bull, H. (1966b) “International Theory: The Case for a Classical Approach,” World Politics, 18(3):361-377.

 

Bull, H. (1972) “Theory of International Politics 1919-1969” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  J. Der Derian (ed.) New York:  New York University Press.

 

Buzan, B. (1993) “From International System to International Society: Structural Realism and Regime Theory Meet the English School” International Organization,  47(3):327-352.

 

Campbell, D. (1992) Writing Security Minnesota

 

Cardoso, F.  and Faletto, E. (1979) Dependency and Development in Latin America.

 

Carlsnaes, W. (1992) “The Agency-Structure Problem in Foreign Policy Analysis” International Studies Quarterly, 36(3):245-270

 

Christensen, T. and J. Snyder (1990) “Chain gangs and passed bucks:  predicting alliance patterns in multipolarity.” International Organization, 44(2):137-168

 

Connolly, W. E., “Identity and Difference in Global Politics,” in Der Derian J. and Shapiro, J. International/Intertextual Relations Lexington: Lexington Books,

1989.

 

Cox, Robert (1981) “Social Forces, States, and World Orders:  Beyond International Relations Theory, Millennium, 10(2): 126-155.

 

Robert Cox, “Gramsci, Hegemony, and International Relations: An Essay in Method,” in Stephen Gill, ed., Gramsci, Historical Materialism, and International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 49-66.

 

 

Der Derian, J. (1995) “International Theory: Critical Investigations” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  New York:  New York University Press.

 

Der Derian, J. (1995) “A Reinterpretation of Realism:  Geneology, Semiology, Dromology” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  New York:  New York University Press

 

Der Derian J and Shapiro, 1989 eds., International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics/

 

Dessler, D. (1989) “What’s at Stake in the Agent-Structure Debate?” International Organization, 43(3):441-473.

Donnelly, J 2000 Realism and International Relations Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

 

Devetak, R. chapters "Critical Theory" and "Postmodernism" in Scott Burchill and Andrew Linklater, eds., Theories of International Relations (St. Martin's, 1996).

 

Doty, R. (1997) “Aporia: A Critical Exploration of the Agent-Structure Problematique in International Relations Theory” European Journal of International Relations, 3(3):365-392.

 

Doty, Roxanne (1996) Imperial Encounters: The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations Minnesota: 1-19, 75-98.

 

Doty R. 1996. “Sovereignty and the Nation: Constructing the Boundaries of the Nation” In Biersteker, T., Weber, C. eds. 1996. “State Sovereignty as Social Construct” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Doyle, M. (1986) “Liberalism and World Politics” American Political Science Review, 80(4):1151-1169.

Elman, C. and M.F. Elman (2002) “How Not to Be Lakatos Intolerant:  Appraising Progress in IR Research” International Studies Quarterly, 46(2):231-262.

 

Elman, C., M.F. Elman, and P. Schroeder (1995) “History vs. Neo-Realism: A Second Look” International Security,  20(1):182-195.

 

Elshtain, J.B. (1991) “Feminist Themes in International Relations” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  J. Der Derian (ed.) New York:  New York University Press.

 

Ferguson, Y. and R. Mansbach (1988) “Values and Paradigm Change in International Relations,” The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.

 

Fukuyama, F. 1993 The End of History and the Last Man. New York: Avon Books.

 

George, J. (1989) “International Relations and the Search for Thinking Space: Another View of the Third Debate” International Studies Quarterly, 33(3):269-279

 

George, J. and D. Campbell (1990) “Pattens of Dissent and the Celebration of Difference: Critical Social Theory and International Relations” International Sudies Quarterly, 34(2):269-293.

 

George, J. (1994) Discourses of Global Politics

 

 

Gilpin, R. (1984) “The Richness of the Tradition of Poltical Realism” International Organization, 38(2): 287-304

 

Gilpin, R. (1981) War and Change in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hardt, M., and Negri, A.  (2000) Empire Harvard University Press.

 

Held, D et al., (1999) Global Transformations. Politics Economics and Culture Stanford.

 

Hoffmann, S. (1977) “An American Social Science: International Relations” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  J. Der Derian (ed.) New York:  New York University Press.

 

Hoffmann, Stanley (1985) “Raymond Aron and the Theory of International Relations” International Studies Quarterly,  29:13-27.

 

Holsti, K. (1989)  “Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall,Which are the Fairest Theories of All” International Studies Quarterly, 33(3):255-261

 

Holsti, K. (1998) “Scholarship in an era of anxiety:  the study of international politics during the Cold War” Review of International Studies  24(5) p. 17-46.

 

T. Hopf, "The Promise of Constructivism," IS 23, 1 (Summer 1998).

 

Huntington, Samuel. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

 

Jervis, R. (1976) Perception and Misperception in International Politics, Princeton:  Princeton University Press.  Ch. 1 “Perception and the Level of Analysis Problem”

 

Jervis, R. (1978) “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma” World Politics,  30(1):167-216.

 

 

Kaplan, M. (1966) “The New Great Debate: Traditionalism vs. Science in International Relations” World Politics, 19(1):1-20.

 

Katzenstein, P., R. Keohane, and S. Krasner (1998) “International Organization  and the Study of World Politics” International Organization, 52(4):645-685.

 

Katzenstein, P. Jepperson, R. Wendt, A. 1996 “Norms, Identity and Culture in National Security” in ed. Katzenstein, P. 1996: “The Culture of National Security”. New York: Columbia University Press.

 

Katzenstein, Peter J. ed., (1996) The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press.

 

 

Kegley, C. (1993) “The NeoIdealist Moment in International Studies? Realist Myths and the New International Realities” International Studies Quarterly, 37(1):131-146.

 

Keohane, R (1986) “Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond” in Neorealism and Its Critics, New York:  Columbia University Press

 

Keohane, R. (1988) “International Institutions: Two Approaches” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  J. Der Derian (ed.) New York:  New York University Press.

 

Keohane, R. (1990) “International Liberalism Reconsidered” in The Economic Limits to Modern Politics.  J.Dunn (ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

King, G. Keohane, R and Verba, S. 1994 Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 

Krasner, S. (1976) “State Power and the Structure of Intenational Trade” World Politics, 28(2):317-347

 

Krasner, S. (1989) “Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective” in The Elusive State, Caporoso, J. (ed.) New York: Sage Press.

 

Krasner,S 1999., Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton: Princeton University Press,.

 

 

Kratochwil, F. and J. Ruggie (1986) “International Organization:  a state of the art on an art of the state” International Organization, 40(4)

 

Kuhn, T.S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

 

Lakatos, I., and A. Musgrave (eds.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. London:

Cambridge University Press, 1970. Particularly I. Lakatos, "Falsification and the

Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes."

 

Lapid, Y. (1989) “The Third Debate:  On the Prospects of International Theory in a Post-Positivist Era” International Studies Quarterly, 33(3):235-254

 

Legro, J.,  Moravcsik, A. “Is Anybody Still a Realist?” International Security, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Fall 1999): 5-55, and exchange between Legro and Moravcsik and their critics

 

Linklater, A. "The Achievements of Critical Theory," in Smith, International Theory: Positivism and Beyond, 279-98.

 

Mearsheimer, J. (1990) “Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War” International Security, 15(1):5-56

 

Mearsheimer, John J. (1994/95). “The False Promise of International Institutions.” International Security, 19, 3, Winter, 5-93 (includes responses by Keohane and Martin and by Wendt).

 

Mearsheimer, J.J. (2001) The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: Norton.

 

Milner, H. (1998) “Rationalizing Politics:  The Emerging Synthesis of International, American, and Comparative Politics” International Organization, 52(4):759-786.

 

Moravcsik, A, (1997) “Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics,” International Organization, Vol. 51, No 4 (Autumn).

 

Morgenthau, H. (1970) “Intellectual and Political Functions of Theory” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  J. Der Derian (ed.) New York:  New York University Press.

 

Morgenthau, H J., Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf

 

Palan, R. and B. Blair (1993) “Idealist Origins of the Realist Theory of International Relations” Review of Intenational Studies, 19(1):385-389.

 

Rose, G. (1998) “Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy” World Politics, 51(3):144-172.

 

Rosenau, P. (1990) "Once Again into the Fray: International Relations Confronts the Humanities." Millennium 19.

 

Ruggie, J. (1983) “Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity: Toward A Neorealist Synthesis” World Politics, 35(2): 261-285

 

Ruggie, J. (1993) “Territoriality and beyond:  problematizing modernity in international relations”International Organization, 47(1) p.139-174.

 

Ruggie, J. (1998) “What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-Utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge” International Organization, 52(4):855-885.

 

Schmidt, B. (1994) “The Historiography of Academic International Relations” Review of International Studies, 20(2):349-367.

 

Schroeder, P. (1994) “Historical Reality vs. Neorealist Theory” Internatonal Security, 19(1):108-148.

 

Shapiro, Michael (1989) "Textualizing Global Politics," in Der Derian and Shapiro, International/Intertextual Relations: 11-22.

 

Singer, J.D. (1961) “The Level of Analysis Problem in International Relations” World Politics, 14(1):77-92

 

Singer, J.D. (1969) “The Behavioral Science Approach to International Relations:  Payoff and Prospects” in International Politics and Foreign Policy, rev. ed. J. Rosenau ed. New York:  The Free Press

 

Spruyt, H. (1994) “Institutional Selection in International Relations:  State Anarchy as Order” International Organization, 48(4): 527-557.

 

Strange, S. 1996. The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Strange, S. 1988 States and Markets. London: Pinter.

 

Sylvester, C. (1994) Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era. New York: Cambridge University Press

 

Tickner, J. (1988)  “Hans Morgenthau’s principles of Political Realism:  A Feminist Reformulation” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  J. Der Derian (ed.) New York:  New York University Press.

 

Tickner, J. (1997) “You Just Don’t Understand: Troubled Engagements Between Feminists and IR Theorists” International Studies Quarterly, 41(2):611-632.

 

Tickner and Keohane exchange, ISQ (March 1998), 193-7, 207-210.

 

Van Evera, S. 1997 Guide to Methodology for Students of Political Science Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

 

Van Evera, S. (1999) Causes of War:  Power and the Roots of Conflict.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press.

 

Vasquez, John, (1995) “The Post-Positivist Debate: Reconstructing Scientific Enquiry and International Relations Theory after Enlightenment’s Fall,” in Ken Booth and Steve Smith (eds.), International Relations Theory Today, University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press.

 

Vasquez, J. (1998) The Power of Power Politics.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Waever, Ole (1998) “The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline:  American and European Developments in International Relations” International Organization, 52(4):687-727.

 

Walker, RBJ (1987) “Realism, Change, and International Political Theory” International Studies Quarterly  31, p.65-86.

 

Walker, RBJ (1989) “History and Structure in International Relations” in International Theory:  Critical Investigations  J. Der Derian (ed.) New York:  New York University Press.

 

Wallerstein, I. (1974) “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 16(1):387-415.

 

Walt, S. (1998) “International Relations: One World, Many Theories” Foreign Policy, (Spring):29-46

 

 

Waltz, Kenneth N., 1959 Man, the State, and War. New York: Columbia University Press,

 

Waltz, K. (1979) Theory of International Politics  Reading: Addison-Wellesley

 

Waltz, K (1986) “Reflections on Theory of International Politics:  A Response to my Critics” in Neorealism and Its Critics, New York:  Columbia University Press

 

Waever, O. 1995. "Securitization and Desecuritization". In Lipschutz, R.D. ed. 1995. On Security. New York: Columbia University Press.

Weiss, L. 1998. “Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State”. New Left Review. Iss. 225. pp.3-27

 

Wendt, A. (1987) “The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory” International Organization, 41(3):335-370.

 

Wendt, A. (1992) “Anarchy is what States Make of It:  Social Construction of International Politics” International Organization, 46:395-421.

 

Wendt, A. (1994) “Collective Identity Formation and the International State” American Political Science Review, 88(2):384-396.

Wendt, A. (1998) “On Constitution and Causation in International Relations,” Review of International Studies, Vol. 24 (December): 101-117

 

Wight, M. (1966a) “Why is there no international theory?” in Diplomatic Investigations:  Essays in the Theory of International Politics,  H. Butterfield and M. Wight (eds.) London: George Allen & Unwin.

 

Wight, M. (1966b) “Western Values in International Politics” in Diplomatic Investigations:  Essays in the Theory of International Politics,  H. Butterfield and M. Wight (eds.) London: George Allen & Unwin.

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