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P23101 International relations in theoryand practice(Semester 1)

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Readings for review essay (10 items)Please see your P23101 module handbook for full details of this assignment

You should base your review around ONE of the THREE sets of readings listed below. Eachset of readings contains three pieces that are written from different theoreticalperspectives. Your review should not be simply separate reviews of the three readings. Itshould incorporate the following: A summary of the key points raised by each reading.Analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the literature. Comments on the three piecesas a whole.

1. Territoriality - States, Nations and Power (3 items)

Defining Globalisation - Jan Aart Scholte, 2007Article

The double outside of the modern international - R.B.J. Walker, 2006Article

Structural Realism after the Cold War - Kenneth N. Waltz, 2000Article

2. Democracy and International Order (3 items)

Constitutionalizing Inequality and the Clash of Globalizations - Stephen Gill, 2002Article

The Nature and Sources of Liberal International Order - Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry,1999

Article

Liberalism since the Cold War: An Enemy to Itself? - Geoffrey Hawthorn, 1999Article

3. Development and Inequality (3 items)

Spreading the Wealth - David Dollar, Aart Kraay, 2002Article

Poverty Reduction through Liberalisation? Neoliberalism and the Myth of Global

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Convergence - Ray Kiely, 2007Article

Does Inequality Matter? - Robert Hunter Wade, 2005Article

Core text (2 items)There is one core text that we recommend you purchase:

Global politics: a new introduction - Jenny Edkins, Maja Zehfuss, 2014Book

Each week the reading requirements are listed individually. You should read theessential items and ideally a selection from the supplementary readings. The readinglist is not exhaustive and many more materials are available in the library. Pleaseuse your initiative! You may also want to join the Bodleian Library in town.

Recommended journals and online links (10 items)There are a number of journals dealing with theoretical aspects of international relations,providing access to recent scholarship. The main ones available via the library web siteare:

British Journal of Politics & International Relations (Wiley)Journal

European Journal of International RelationsJournal

International Affairs (Blackwell)Journal

International OrganizationJournal

International Studies Perspectives (Wiley)Journal

International Studies Quarterly (Wiley)Journal

Review of International Political Economy : RIPEJournal

Review of International StudiesJournal

Interview - Barry Buzan (E-International Relations) - 27 March 2013Webpage

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Structural Realism - International Relations (#1) - The Open University, 3 October 2014Audio-visual document

Detailed weekly reading list (329 items)

Week 1: Introduction - Theory and Practice in International Relations (21items)This first lecture will provide an introduction and overview of the module. We will introducethe discipline of International Relations and address the question of the role of theory andtheorising in International Relations and its relationship to practice.These issues will be explored further in the seminar when we will also seek to discoverwhat our own assumptions are and how they shape the way we view global politics.

Seminar Questions:1. What is the purpose of theory in International Relations?2. Can theory and practice be seen as separate?

Essential reading (4 items)

Global politics: a new introduction - Jenny Edkins, Maja Zehfuss, 2014Book | Introduction

Explaining and understanding international relations - Martin Hollis, Steve Smith, 1991Book | Introduction

'All these theories yet the bodies keep piling up’: theories, theorists, theorising - MarysiaZalewski

Chapter

'All these theories yet the bodies keep piling up’: theories, theorists, theorising - MarysiaZalewski

Chapter

Supplementary reading (16 items)

Writing the World: Disciplinary History and Beyond - Duncan Bell, 2009Article

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, c2009Book | Chapter 1

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, 2009Book | Chapter 1

International Politics and Political Theory - Jean ElshtainChapter

Rethinking international relations - Fred Halliday, 1994

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Book | Chapter 1

Scholarship in an era of anxiety : the study of international politics during the Cold War -Holsti, K., 1998

Article

Introduction to international relations: theories and approaches - Robert H. Jackson, GeorgSørensen, 2016

Book | Chapters 1 and 2.

Introduction to international relations: theories and approaches - Robert H. Jackson, GeorgSørensen, 2013

Book | Chapters 1 and 2.

Introduction to international relations: theories and approaches - Robert H. Jackson, GeorgSørensen, 2010

Book | Chapters 1 and 2.

What's the Use of International Relations? - Michael Nicholson, 2000Article

On the History and Historiography of International Relations - Brian C. SchmidtChapter

Introduction: Diversity and Disciplinarity in International Relations Theory - Steve SmithChapter

Introduction: Diversity and Disciplinarity in International Relations Theory - Steve SmithChapter

Inside/outside: international relations as political theory - Walker, R. B. J., 1993Book | Especially chapter 1

Why is there no International Theory? - Martin WightChapter

The Uses of Theory in the Study of International Relations - Ngaire WoodsChapter

Week 2 Territoriality - States, Nations and Power (32 items)This week will provide an introduction to the classical, territorial terrain of the discipline ofInternational Relations with its focus on states and territory and related to that the focuson state security, national interest, sovereignty, conflict and war and ideas about powerpolitics and the ‘balance of power’. These core founding concepts and ideas will further bescrutinised in the context of competing theoretical explanations in International Relations,looking at dominant Realist ideas, as well ascritical viewpoints.

Seminar Questions:

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1. In what ways is territory still relevant/important to our understanding of world politics, ifat all?2. How does thinking 'non-territorially' or 'supra-territorially' alter our understanding ofworld politics?3. Do you agree with Justin Rosenberg that Realism is not a theory at all, but 'an operator'smanual posing as one'?

Essential reading (4 items)

Why is the world divided territorially? - Stuart EldenChapter

The Timeless Wisdom of Realism? - Barry BuzanChapter

The Timeless Wisdom of Realism? - Barry BuzanChapter

The empire of civil society: a critique of the realist theory of international relations - JustinRosenberg, 1994

Book | Chapter 1

Supplementary reading (27 items)

The Territorial Trap: The Geographical Assumptions of International Relations Theory - JohnAgnew, 1994

Article

Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics -John Agnew, 2005

Article

The Poverty of Neorealism - Richard AshleyChapter

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, c2009Book | Chapters 4, 5 and 6.

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, 2009Book | Chapters 4, 5 and 6.

The twenty years' crisis, 1919-1939: an introduction to the study of international relations- Edward Hallett Carr, Michael Cox, 2001

Book | Especially chapter 5

The twenty years' crisis, 1919-1939: an introduction to the study of international relations- Edward Hallett Carr, 1946

Book | Especially chapter 5

Missing the Point: Globalization, Deterritorialization and the Space of the World - Stuart

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Elden, 2005Article

War and change in world politics - Robert Gilpin, 1983Book

The Richness of the Tradition of Political Realism - Robert G. Gilpin, 1984Article

The Clash of Civilizations? - Samuel P. Huntington, 1993Article

Citizenship, Humanity, and Cosmopolitan Harm Conventions - Andrew Linklater, 2001Article

Politics among nations: the struggle for power and peace - Hans Joachim Morgenthau,Kenneth W. Thompson, c1993

Book | ‘A realist theory of international politics’, Chapters 1-2.

Politics among nations: the struggle for power and peace - Hans Joachim Morgenthau,1967

Book | ‘A realist theory of international politics’, Chapters 1-2.

World Politics in the Mid-Twentieth Century - Hans J. Morgenthau, 1948Article

The Moral Politics of Hans Morgenthau - A. J. H. Murray, 1996Article

Realism and Utopianism Revisited - Michael Nicholson, 1998Article

On the Costs of Realism - Robert L. Rothstein, 1972Article

Defining Globalisation - Jan Aart Scholte, 2008Article

Does the nation-state work? - Michael J. ShapiroChapter

Reshaping critical geopolitics? The materialist challenge - Vicki Squire, 2015Article

The double outside of the modern international - R.B.J. Walker, 2006Article

Structural Realism after the Cold War - Kenneth N. Waltz, 2000Article

Theory of international politics - Kenneth Neal Waltz, c1979

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Book | Especially Chapter 1.

Man, the state and war: a theoretical analysis - Kenneth N. Waltz, c2001Book

International relations theory: a critical introduction - Cynthia Weber, 2001Book | Chapter 2

Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics - AlexanderWendt, 1992

Article

Week 3 Democracy and International Order (37 items)This week will focus on the concept of international and global order and ideas about howthe world has been/could/or should be ordered. Particularly in International Relationstheory there is a tradition of ‘liberal internationalism’, which we will examine in relation tothese questions alongside proclamations of ‘global governance’. Another key concept inthe political landscape is that of democracy. A concept with a long history, we will analysehow this concept and the promotion of this ‘practice’ has been linked to ideas ofinternational order and governance.

Seminar Questions:1. What is the difference between an international system and international society andhow, if at all, does this affect our understanding of international order?2. Are liberal-democratic states more peaceful?3. What is global governance and do we need it?

Essential reading (4 items)

Globalization as governance: Towards an archeology of contemporary political reason - IanDouglas

Chapter

Liberalism and World Politics - Michael W. Doyle, 1986Article | This is also available in Richard K. Betts (ed.) (1994), Conflict after the Cold

War, New York: Macmillan (below).

Conflict after the Cold War: arguments on causes of war and peace - Richard K. Betts,c2005

Book

How far is it from Königsberg to Kandahar? Democratic peace and democratic violence inInternational Relations - Anna Geis, Wolfgang Wagner, 2011

Article

Supplementary reading (32 items)

Achieving Cooperation Under Anarchy: Strategies and Institutions - Robert Axelrod, Robert

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O. KeohaneChapter

Neoliberalism, Neorealism, and World Politics - David A. BaldwinChapter

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, c2009Book | Chapter 7 (pp. 127-144 only).

Understanding international relations - Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley, 2009Book | Chapter 7 (pp. 127-144 only).

The anarchical society: a study of order in world politics - Hedley Bull, 1995Book

Society and Anarchy in International Relations - Hedley BullChapter

The English School: An Underexploited Resource in IR - Barry Buzan, 2001Article

The Nature and Sources of Liberal International Order - Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry,1999

Article

The End of History? - Francis Fukuyama, 1989Article

The End of History? - Francis FukuyamaChapter

The End of History? - Francis FukuyamaChapter

Constitutionalizing Inequality and the Clash of Globalizations. - Stephen Gill, 2002Article

Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest LiberalInstitutionalism - Joseph M. Grieco

Chapter

Liberalism since the Cold War: An Enemy to Itself? - Geoffrey Hawthorn, 1999Article

The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism - Stanley Hoffmann, 1995Article

Realism, Neoliberalism, and Cooperation: Understanding the Debate - Robert Jervis, 1999Article

Perpetual Peace - Immanuel Kant

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Chapter | [Originally published in 1795]

Perpetual Peace - Immanuel KantChapter | [Originally published in 1795]

Power and interdependence - Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye, c2001Book

The Evolving Spheres of International Justice - Andrew Linklater, 1999Article

The English School's Contribution to the Study of International Relations - Richard Little,2000

Article

Democracies Don't Fight: A Case of the Wrong Research Agenda? - John Macmillan, 1996Article

Democratization and the Danger of War - Reinhard Wolf, Erich Weede, Andrew J. Enterline,Edward D. Mansfield, Jack Snyder, 1996

Article

Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War - John J. Mearsheimer, 1990Article

Old wine in new bottles: Democratic peace as empowerment of states in conflict resolution- Frank R. Pfetsch, 2006

Article

International Society, the International Criminal Court and American Foreign Policy - JasonRalph, 2005

Article

Grasping the democratic peace: principles for a post-Cold War world - Bruce M. Russett,William Antholis, c1993

Book

Is democracy a good idea? - Lucy TaylorChapter

A Tale of Two Democratic Peace Critiques - William R. Thompson, Richard Tucker, 1997Article

International relations theory: a critical introduction - Cynthia Weber, 2001Book | Chapter 3

Hedley Bull's Pluralism of the Intellect and Solidarism of the Will - Nicholas J. Wheeler,Timothy Dunne, 1996

Article

President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (1918) - Woodrow Wilson

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Webpage

Week 4 The Environment (44 items)This week we consider the challenges of environmental issues for the understanding ofInternational Relations. Some might say that the current trends in climate change are thegreatest threat to human kind, even more so than terrorism or weapons of massdestruction. This session will analyse how environmental issues have been conceived of inthe theories of International Relations and critically analyse how the environment has beenaddressed in world politics.

Seminar Questions:1. Does an exploration of environmental issues require a fundamental reassessment of thecore theories and concepts of International Relations?2. Are sustainability and development irreconcilable?3. Is climate change a question of international social justice?

Essential reading (3 items)

What happens if we don’t take nature for granted? - Simon DalbyChapter

Seeking justice: International environmental governance and climate change - JouniPaavola, 2005

Article

Mrs. Brundtland's Disenchanted Cosmos - Shiv Visvanathan, 1991Article | Article available as PDF on your Moodle course

Supplementary reading (40 items)

Ecological politics in an age of risk - Ulrich Beck, 1995Book

The earth brokers: power, politics and world development - Pratap Chatterjee, MatthiasFinger, 1994

Book

Steady-state economics - Herman E. Daly, 1992Book

Can we save the planet? - Karl DeathChapter

Green political thought - Andrew Dobson, 2007Book

Earth, power, knowledge: towards a critical global environmental politics - Peter DoranChapter

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Debating the Earth: the environmental politics reader - David Schlosberg, John S. Dryzek,2004

Book

The politics of the Earth: environmental discourses - John S. Dryzek, 2013Book

Whose common future?: reclaiming the commons - Earthscan, 1993Book

The global politics of the environment - Lorraine M. Elliott, 2004Book

The global politics of the environment - Lorraine M. Elliott, 1998Book

The ecological revolution: making peace with the planet - John Bellamy Foster, c2009Book

Ecology as politics -Andre Gorz, 1980

Book

Social constructivism and the evolution of multilateral environmental governance - PeterM. Haas

Chapter

Global environmental history: The long view - J. Donald Hughes, 2005Article

Global environmental politics: concepts, theories and case studies - GabrielaKutting, 2011

Book

Global environmental politics: concepts, theories and case studies - Gabriela Kütting, 2011Book

International relations theory and ecological thought: towards a synthesis - EricLaferriere, Peter J. Stoett, 1999

Book

From Stockholm to Kyoto and beyond: A review of the globalization of global warmingpolicy and North–South relations - Björn-Ola Linnér, Merle Jacob, 2005

Article

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Global environmental politics: power, perspectives, and practice - Ronnie D. Lipschutz,c2004

Book | Chapter 1

Environmental political economy, technological transitions and the state - JamesMeadowcroft, 2005

Article

The death of nature: women, ecology, and the scientific revolution - Carolyn Merchant,1990

Book

The death of nature: women, ecology, and the Scientific Revolution - Carolyn Merchant,1982

Book

Ecofeminism - Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva, 2014Book

Ecofeminism - Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva, c1993Book

Humanity at the crossroads: The globalization of environmental crisis - Jan Oosthoek, BarryK. Gills, 2005

Article

Understanding global environmental politics: domination, accumulation, resistance -Matthew Paterson, 2000

Book | Especially Chapter 1.

Understanding global environmental politics: domination, accumulation, resistance -Matthew Paterson, 2000

Book | Especially Chapter 1.

The roots of modern environmentalism - David Pepper, John Perkins, Martyn Youngs, 1989Book

The roots of modern environmentalism - David Pepper, John Perkins, Martyn Youngs, c1984Book

Global environmental politics - Gareth Porter, Janet Welsh Brown, Pamela S. Chasek, 2000Book

Sustainable development: exploring the contradictions - Michael Redclift, 1989Book

Sustainable development: exploring the contradictions - Michael Redclift, 1987Book

Social theory and the global environment - Michael Redclift, Ted Benton, 1994Book

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Social theory and the global environment - Michael Redclift, Ted Benton, 1994Book

International relations, social ecology and the globalisation of environmental change -Julian Saurin

Chapter

The greening of the global reach - Vandana ShivaChapter

Capitalism and ecological sustainability: the shaping of environmental policies - AndrianaVlachou, 2004

Article

International Political Economy and GEC - Marc WilliamsChapter

Our common future - Gro Harlem Brundtland, World Commission on Environment andDevelopment, 1987

Book

Week 5 Development and Inequality (34 items)This week will consider the importance of inequality in the contemporary global economyand its consequences for international relations. We will focus on the contested nature ofthe term ‘development’ and the extent of global inequality. In particular, we will focus onliberal theory and its reliance on the market, institutionalist scholars who call for anincreasing role for the state and critical approaches that tend to focus on the structures ofglobal capitalism.

Seminar Questions:1. Where is the Third World today?2. Is Chang correct to call for developing economies to adopt activist industrial and tradepolicies?3. Are you more convinced by the reformist or transformist solutions (as outlined byThomas) to the challenges of development?

Essential reading (4 items)

Why are some people better off than others? - Paul CammackChapter

Kicking away the ladder: development strategy in historical perspective - Ha-Joon Chang,2002

Book | Chapter 4

Kicking away the ladder: development strategy in historical perspective - Ha-Joon Chang,2003

Book | Chapter 4

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Where Is the Third World Now? - Caroline Thomas, 1999Article

Supplementary reading (29 items)

Worlds apart: the North-South divide and the international system - Nassau A. Adams,1993

Book

Critique, Rediscovery and Revival in Development Studies - Murat Arsel, Anirban Dasgupta,2015

Article

Redefining Poverty as Risk and Vulnerability: shifting strategies of liberal economicgovernance - Jacqueline Best, 2013

Article

The Governance of Global Capitalism: A New Materialist Perspective - Paul Cammack, 2003Article

Spreading the Wealth - David Dollar, Aart Kraay, 2002Article

Development as Zombieconomics in the Age of Neoliberalism - Ben Fine, 2009Article

International development in transition - Sophie Harman, David Williams, 2014Article

The Discourse of Development: has it reached maturity? - Dhammika Herath, 2009Article

Globalization and the postcolonial world: the new political economy of development -Ankie M. M. Hoogvelt, 2001

Book | Especially Chapters 2, 3 and 10.

The new political economy of development: globalization, imperialism, hegemony - RayKiely, 2007

Book

Poverty Reduction through Liberalisation? Neoliberalism and the Myth of GlobalConvergence - Ray Kiely, 2007

Article

Orthodoxy and its Alternatives in Contemporary Development - Martin Minogue, UmaKothari

Chapter

Orthodoxy and its Alternatives in Contemporary Development - Martin Minogue, UmaKothari

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Rethinking the Emerging Post-Washington Consensus - Ziya Onis, Fikret Senses, 2005Article

How can we end poverty? - Mustapha Kamal PashaChapter

The global politics of unequal development - Anthony Payne, 2005Book

Development - Anthony Payne, Nicola Phillips, 2010Book

From 'Structural Adjustment' to 'Comprehensive Development Framework': Conditionalitytransformed? - John Pender, 2001

Article

Remapping development in light of globalisation: From a territorial to a social cartography- William I Robinson, 2002

Article

Development as freedom - Amartya Sen, 2001Book

The challenge to the South - Julius K. Nyerere, South Commission, 1990Book

Poverty, Politics and Aid: is a reframing of global poverty approaching? - Andy Sumner,2013

Article

Development as practice in a liberal capitalist world. - Alan Thomas, 2000Article

Global governance, development and human security: the challenge of poverty andinequality - Caroline Thomas, 2000

Book

Global governance, development and human security: the challenge of poverty andinequality - Caroline Thomas, 2000

Book

Human development report: work for human development, 2015 - United NationsDevelopment Programme, 2016

Book | Published annually since 1990 - check library catalogue for previous years.

Does Inequality Matter? - Robert Hunter Wade, 2005Article

US Hegemony and the World Bank: The Fight over People and Ideas - Robert Hunter Wade,

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2002Article

Reconstituting the ‘Third World’? poverty reduction and territoriality in the global politicsof development - Heloise Weber, 2004

Article

Week 6 “Anarchy is what states make of it” - the Question of Identity inInternational Relations (36 items)Constructivists such as Alexander Wendt argue that to understand international politicsone needs to look not just at states’ geopolitical interests and materialcapacities, but at the identity that they have constructed for themselves. This session willexplain this perspective in relation to one specific issue: the upholding of the expansion ofNATO after the end of the Cold War. Constructivists usually explain this event by referringto the change of NATO’s identity from a security alliance to an alliance that is used forcivilising purposes.

Seminar Questions:1. Is the concept of identity essential for the study of international relations?2. "NATO has no role to play in the 21st century and should therefore be dissolved."Discuss in relation to questions of identity?3. Can you think of an event in global politics where a state's or organisation's identity hasbeen crucial?

Essential reading (3 items)

Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics - AlexanderWendt, 1992

Article

From Alliance to Security Community: NATO, Russia, and the Power of Identity - M. C.Williams, I. B. Neumann, 2000

Article

From vicious to virtuous circle: Moralistic trust, diffuse reciprocity, and the Americansecurity commitment to Europe - B. C. Rathbun, 2012

Article

Supplementary reading (32 items)

Security communities - Emanuel Adler, Michael N. Barnett, 1998Book

Review: The Constructivist Turn in International Relations Theory - Jeffrey T. Checkel, 1998Article

The state has a mind: Alexander Wendt’s Social Theory of International Politics - AlanChong

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Review: Constructivism within a Positivist Social Science - David Dessler, 1999Article

Critical approaches to international security - Karin M. Fierke, 2015Book | Book available at Bodleian, or contact Doerthe Rosenow for a copy. E-book

ordered for Brookes Library.

National interests in international society - Martha Finnemore, 1996Book

A Reconstruction of Constructivism in International Relations - Stefano Guzzini, 2000Article

The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory - Ted Hopf, 1998Article

Is China a Status Quo Power? - Alastair Iain Johnston, 2003Article

Cultural norms and national security: police and military in postwar Japan - Peter J.Katzenstein, 1996

Book

The culture of national security: norms and identity in world politics - Peter J. Katzenstein,1996

Book

Rules, norms and decisions: on the conditions of practical and legal reasoning ininternational relations and domestic affairs - Friedrich V. Kratochwil, 1989

Book

Interpretation and the 'Science' of International Relations - Mark Neufeld, 1993Article

Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics - Richard Price, 2008Article

The moral purpose of the state: culture, social identity, and institutional rationality ininternational relations - Christian Reus-Smit, c1999

Book

Cooperation Among Democracies The European Influence On Us Foreign Policy - ThomasRisse-Kappen, 1995

Book | Book available at Bodleian only.

Constructing the world polity: essays on international institutionalization - John GerardRuggie, 1998

Book | Introduction – ‘What makes the world hang together?’

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Review: Bridging the Theory/Meta-Theory Gap in International Relations - Alexander Wendt, 1991

Article

Levels of Analysis vs. Agents and Structures: Part III - Alexander Wendt, 1992Article

On Constitution and Causation in International Relations - Alexander Wendt, 1998Article

Social theory of international politics - Alexander Wendt, 1999Book

FOR DEBATES OVER CONSTRUCTIVISM (7 items)

Forum on Alexander Wendt, in Review of International Studies Vol. 26, No. 1, 2000 - 2000Journal

Debate between Keohane, Mearsheimer, Ruggie and Wendt in International Security, 20(1), 1995 - 1995

Article

Constructivism meets critical realism: Explaining Pakistan's state practice in the aftermathof 9/11 - Nazya Fiaz, 2014

Article

The Dialectic of Globalisation: A Critique of Social Constructivism - Benno Teschke,Christian Heine

Chapter

Constructing a New Orthodoxy? Wendt's `Social Theory of International Politics' and theConstructivist Challenge - Friedrich Kratochwil, 2000

Article

Liberal-Idealism: A Constructivist Critique - Brent J. Steele, 2007Article

Between 'isses' and 'oughts': IR constructivism, Critical Theory, and the challenge ofpolitical philosophy - Martin Weber, 2014

Article

ON CONSTRUCTIVISM AND NATO (4 items)

Why Is There No NATO in Asia? Collective Identity, Regionalism, and the Origins ofMultilateralism - Christopher Hemmer, Peter J. Katzenstein, 2002

Article

Civilizing the Enemy: German reconstruction and the invention of the West - PatrickThaddeus Jackson, 2006

Book | Book available at Bodleian only.

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Turkey's Contribution to NATO's Role in Post-Cold War Security Governance: The Use ofForce and Security Identity Formation. - Kınacıoğlu Müge, Aylin G. Gürzel, 2013

Article

NATO's new mission: projecting stability in a post-Cold War world - Rebecca R. Moore,2007

Book

Week 7 Identity, Difference, and Exclusion - Identity Revisited (25 items)While “mainstream” constructivists such as Alexander Wendt are mainly interested inusing the concept of identity to explain the behaviour of states and internationalorganisations, so-called critical constructivists are more interested in how “identity” at avariety of levels (e.g. gender, ethnicity, religion, race), is used to exclude and eliminatewhat is perceived as “different” to oneself. This session will introduce thiscritical perspective in relation to a variety of issues in global politics, such as ethnicconflicts, the war on terror, and humanitarian intervention.

Seminar Questions:1. Is identity always based on exclusion? What does this mean for global politics?2. Is gender as an identity issue relevant for the study of global politics?3. What is the role of discourse in identity-politics?

Essential reading (3 items)

Who do we think we are? - Annick T. R. WibbenChapter

Identity and Difference in Global Politics - William E ConnollyChapter

Constructivism, U.S. foreign policy and the War on Terror - Richard Jackson, M. McDonaldChapter

Supplementary reading (21 items)

Violence, Justice, and Identity in the Bosnian Conflict - David CampbellChapter

National deconstruction: violence, identity, and justice in Bosnia - David Campbell, 1998Book | NB Bodleian Library Only

Apartheid Cartography: the Political Anthropology and Spatial Effects of InternationalDiplomacy in Bosnia - David Campbell, 1999

Article | Hard copy journal shelved in Library Basement at J 910.132/P

Writing security: United States foreign policy and the politics of identity - David Campbell,1998

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Book | Especially Introduction

'Women and Children First': Gender, Norms, and Humanitarian Evacuation in the Balkans1991-95 - R. Charli Carpenter, 2003

Article

Forget Trauma? Responses to September 11 - Jenny Edkins, 2002Article

Who speaks? Discourse, the subject and the study of identity in international politics -Charlotte Epstein, 2011

Article

Constructivism or the eternal return of universals in International Relations. Why returningto language is vital to prolonging the owl's flight - Charlotte Epstein, 2013

Article

Questions of cultural identity - Paul Du Gay, Stuart Hall, 1996Book

Questions of cultural identity - Stuart Hall, Paul Du Gay, 1996Book

The ethics of care: personal, political, and global - Virginia Held, 2006Book

'Hell Is the Other': Conceptualising Hegemony and Identity through Discourse Theory - E.Herschinger, 2012

Article

Gender Identity and the Subject of Security - Gunhild Hoogensen, Svein V. Rottem, 2004Article

The Making of an International Convention: Culture and Free Trade in a Global Era -Valentine M. Moghadam, Dilek Elveren, 2008

Article

Captured by the camera's eye: Guantánamo and the shifting frame of the Global War onTerror - Elspeth Van Veeren, 2011

Article

International politicsJournal | See also the contributions to the Special Issue ‘American power and identities

in the age of Obama’ in International Politics, 48 (2-3), 2011. [Bodleian Library Only]

The State of Feminist Security Studies: Continuing the Conversation - Laura J. Shepherd,2013

Article

International Studies PerspectivesJournal | See also the contributions to the Forum “The State of Feminist Security

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Studies: Continuing the Conversation” in Vol. 14 Issue 4 2013 of this journal.

Feminist Interrogations of Terrorism/Terrorism Studies - Laura Sjoberg, 2009Article

An introduction to international relations theory: perspectives and themes - Jill Steans,Lloyd Pettiford, Jill Steans, Thomas Diez, Imad El-Anis, 2010

Book | Chapter 5: Postmodernism, pp. 129-154

An introduction to international relations theory: perspectives and themes - Jill Steans,Lloyd Pettiford, Thomas Diez, Imad El-Anis, Jill Steans, 2010

Book | Chapter 5: Postmodernism, pp. 129-154

Week 8 The Past and Present of Colonialism (37 items)Few would dispute the argument that the legacy of colonialism has wide-reachingimplications for global relations of power today, including the way the world is ordered,and the vast inequalities to be found between “developed” and “developing” states.However, it is disputed to what extent our colonial past can account for present problemsin the so-called Global South, and to what extent we can speak of the existence of aneo-colonial global regime. This session will engage with these questions, but it will alsounravel the impact of colonialism on the discipline of international studies itself, byshowing how it is informed by what postcolonial scholars call a Eurocentric view of theworld.

Seminar Questions:1. Is colonialism primarily to be blamed for existing inequalities between the Global Northand the Global South?2. Is there a Eurocentric bias in global politics and its study? Discuss in relation tocontemporary examples.3. Is the category of "race" useful for explaining global politics?

Essential reading (3 items)

How does colonialism work? - Sankaran KrishnaChapter

Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations - Sankaran Krishna, 2001Article

The Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies - Tarak Barkawi, Mark Laffey, 2006Article

Supplementary reading (33 items)

Do colonialism and slavery belong to the past? - Kate ManzoChapter

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POSTCOLONIAL PRIMARY LITERATURE AND COMMENTARIES (16 items)

The location of culture - Homi K. Bhabha, 1994Book

The location of culture - Homi K. Bhabha, 2004Book

The nation and its fragments: colonial and postcolonial histories - Partha ChatterjeeBook | NB Bodleian Library only

Empire and nation revisited: 50 years after Bandung - Partha Chatterjee, 2005Article

Edward Said and Contrapuntal Reading: Implications for Critical Interventions inInternational Relations - Geeta Chowdhry, 2007

Article

Black skin, white masks - Frantz Fanon, 2008Book

Black skin, white masks - Frantz Fanon, 2008Book

Black skin, white masks - Frantz Fanon, 1986Book

The wretched of the earth - Frantz Fanon, 2001Book

Can the subaltern speak?: reflections on the history of an idea - Rosalind C. Morris, GayatriChakravorty Spivak, c2010

Book

The Historiographical Operation: Memory and History - Ranabir Samaddar, 2006Article

Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 2003Book

Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 2003Book

Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 1995Book

A critique of postcolonial reason: toward a history of the vanishing present - GayatriChakravorty Spivak, c1999

Book

Unsettling the coloniality of being/power/truth/freedom: towards the human, after man, its

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overrepresentation - an argument - Sylvia Wynter, 2003Article | NB Bodleian Library only

POSTCOLONIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (16 items)

The Remainders of Race - Ash Amin, 2010Article

‘Idea-shift’: how ideas from the rest are reshaping global order - Amitav Acharya, 2016Article

The evolution of international law: Colonial and postcolonial realities - Antony Anghie, 2006Article

Brown Britain: post-colonial politics and grand strategy - Tarak Barkawi, Shane Brighton,2013

Article

The 'Western-Centrism' of Security Studies: 'Blind Spot' or Constitutive Practice? - P. Bilgin,2010

Article

States of Exception on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Security, “Decisions”, and Civilian BorderControls - Roxanne L. Doty, 2007

Article | Journal at Bodleian Library only

Is critical theory always for the white West and for Western imperialism? BeyondWestphilian towards a post-racist critical IR - John M. Hobson, 2007

Article

Solidarity and Spheres of Culture: The Cosmopolitan and the Postcolonial - Vivienne Jabri,2007

Article

The postcolonial politics of development - Ilan Kapoor, 2008Book

Beyond the anarchical society: Grotius, colonialism and order in world politics - EdwardKeene, 2002

Book

Redeeming the universal: Postcolonialism and the inner life of Eurocentrism - KamranMatin, 2013

Article

Theorizing from the Borders: Shifting to Geo- and Body-Politics of Knowledge - W. D.Mignolo, 2006

Article

A Postcolonial Critique of State Sovereignty in

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: the contradictory legacy of a ‘West-centric’ discipline - Navid Pourmokhtari,2013

Article

Nomadic life's counter-attack: moving beyond the subaltern's voice - Doerthe Rosenow,2013

Article

Decolonising the Grounds of Ethical Inquiry: A Dialogue between Kant, Foucault andGlissant - Robbie Shilliam, 2011

Article

International relations and non-western thought : imperialism, colonialism, andinvestigations of global modernity - Robbie Shilliam, 2011

Book | Bodleian Library only

Week 9 Securitization (19 items)This week looks at questions concerning the deepening and widening of the securityagenda in the post-Cold War period. It is concerned with the question of what makes anissue a security issue and the processes involved when an issue is moved from the realmof ‘politics as usual’ to the realm of ‘exceptional politics’ (i.e. to a matter of nationalsecurity). It will also examine the implications of this – particularly, but not exclusively, asit pertains to non-traditional security issues such as the environment or disease.

Seminar Questions:1. What does it mean to understand security as a 'speech act' and how does this challengetraditional conceptualisations of security?2. Is 'more security' always better?3. What is the problem of 'security studies' as a subdiscipline of IR? (see particularlyreading 3: Coleman and Rosenow, 2016)

Essential reading (3 items)

Securitization and Desecuritization - Ole WaeverChapter | pp. 46-58 *only*.

What's in an act? On security speech acts and little security nothings - Jef Huysmans, 2011Article

Coleman, Lara Montesinos, and Doerthe Rosenow (2016) 'Security (studies) and the limitsof critique: why we should think through struggle. Critical Studies on Security 4:2, 202-220.[copy will be provided by Doerthe Rosenow]

Supplementary reading (15 items)

Blair's Africa: The Politics of Securitization and Fear - Rita Abrahamsen, 2005

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Article

Risk and the War on Terror - Louise Amoore, Marieke de Goede, 2008Book

Security and Emancipation - Ken Booth, 1991Article

Sovereign safety - Nina Boy, 2015Article

Security: a new framework for analysis - Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver, Jaap de Wilde, 1998Book

Writing security: United States foreign policy and the politics of identity - David Campbell,1998

Book

Contesting an Essential Concept: Reading the Dilemmas in Contemporary SecurityDiscourse - Simon Dalby

Chapter

Should HIV/AIDS Be Securitized? The Ethical Dilemmas of Linking HIV/AIDS and Security -Stefan Elbe, 2006

Article

The European Union and the Securitization of Migration - Jef Huysmans, 2000Article

Minding Exceptions: The Politics of Insecurity and Liberal Democracy - Jef Huysmans, 2004Article

Security! What Do You Mean?: From Concept to Thick Signifier - J. Huysmans, 1998Article | Bodleian Library only

Securitization and Desecuritization: Female Soldiers and the Reconstruction of Women inPost-Conflict Sierra Leone - Megan MacKenzie, 2009

Article

Beyond Strategy: Critical Thinking on the New Security Studies - David MutimerChapter

The Contested Concept of Security - Steve SmithChapter

Constructing National Interests - J. Weldes, 1996Article | Bodleian Library only

Week 10 Migration/Asylum (18 items)

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This week we will build upon questions raised in week 9 – specifically considering the‘securitisation of migration’ that has arguably taken place in Western states in the wake ofthe war on terror. We will also revisit previous discussions you have had in this modulerelated to questions of the identity, sovereignty and conceptualisations of threat/risk.

Seminar Questions:1. What do 'we' owe 'them'?2. How can we begin to make sense of this question? What is implied within its terms? Arethere alternatives? And how do we ground or un-ground any of this theoretically and/orethically?3. How might we think about the question of migration in Europe/the UK in the light ofBrexit?

Essential reading (3 items)

Why is People’s Movement Restricted? - Roxanne DotyChapter

Arab Springs making space: territoriality and moral geographies for asylum seekers in Italy- Glenda Garelli, Martina Tazzioli, 2013

Article

Racism, multiculturalism and Brexit - Robbie ShilliamWebpage

Supplementary reading (14 items)

Biometric borders: Governing mobilities in the war on terror - Louise Amoore, 2006Article

Governing Through Migration Control: Security and Citizenship in Britain - Mary Bosworth,Mhairi Guild, 2008

Article

Sovereignty and the Nation: Constructing the Boundaries of National Identity - RoxanneDoty

Chapter

Embodying Risk: Using Biometrics to Protect the Borders - Charlotte EpsteinChapter

The Migration-Security Nexus: International Migration and Security Before and After 9/11 -Thomas Faist

Chapter

Politics of Exception and Unease: Immigration, Asylum and Terrorism in ParliamentaryDebates in the UK - Jef Huysmans, Alessandra Buonfino, 2008

Article

The European Union and the Securitization of Migration - Jef Huysmans, 2000

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Article

Abject Cosmopolitanism: the politics of protection in the anti-deportation movement -Peter Nyers, 2003

Article

No One is Illegal Between City and Nation - Peter Nyers, 2011Article

White Nationalism, Illegality and Imperialism: Border Controls as Ideology - NanditaSharma

Chapter

White Nationalism, Illegality and Imperialism: Border Controls as Ideology - NanditaSharma

Chapter

Migration and Security - William WaltersChapter

Putting the Migration-Security Complex in Its Place - William WaltersChapter

Border/Control - William Walters, 2006Article

Week 11 Power and Resistance (26 items)It is one thing to recognize that states and national interests are socially constructed, butquite another to examine the processes by which interests are constituted andreconstituted – i.e., the processes by which change takes place and dominantunderstandings of state, citizenship, place and ‘our’ responsibility as local/global actors areconceptualized and contested. This week will examine the issue of power/resistance in IRwith a specific focus on the question of agency.

Seminar Questions:1. Why does Cynthia Enloe argue that IR scholars need to move their attention beyondformal acts of politics and political violence to the margins and to the bedrooms in order tounderstand "the amounts and varieties of power it takes to sustain any given sets ofrelations between states"? Is this convincing?2. How are the ways we conceptualize power linked to the ways we conceptualizeresistance?3. What are the possibilities for agency/resistance?

Essential reading (5 items)

Margins, Silences and Bottom Rungs: How to Overcome the Underestimation of Power inInternational Relations - Cynthia Enloe

Chapter

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Margins, Silences and Bottom Rungs: How to Overcome the Underestimation of Power inInternational Relations - Cynthia Enloe

Chapter

Why Does Occupy Matter? - Jenny Pickerill, John Krinsky, 2012Article

Why the Occupy Movement Failed - Alasdair Roberts, 2012Article

Uniting States of Americans: We are the 99%! - Cynthia Weber, 17 September 2012Webpage

Supplementary reading (20 items)

Subverting Discourses of Risk in the War on Terror - Susan Bibler CoutinChapter

‘Workers of the World, Unite’? Globalisation and the Quest for Transnational Solidarity -Andreas Bieler, 2012

Article

Occupy - Noam Chomsky, 2012Book

Why do We Obey? - Jenny EdkinsChapter

Security, Territory and Population - Michel FoucaultChapter

The Subject and Power - Michel FoucaultChapter

The Birth of Biopolitics - Michel FoucaultChapter

Power and resistance in the new world order - Stephen Gill, 2008Book | Especially Chapter 13

Multitude: war and democracy in the age of empire - Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, 2006Book

Multitude: war and democracy in the Age of Empire - Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, 2004Book

Spaces of global capitalism - David Harvey, 2006Book

Negotiating Power and Difference within the 99% - Jeffrey S. Juris, Michelle Ronayne,

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Firuzeh Shokooh-Valle, Robert Wengronowitz, 2012Article

Lessons from #Occupy in Canada: Contesting Space, Settler Consciousness and Erasureswithin the 99% - Konstantin Kilibarda, 2012

Article

Gender, agency and war: the maternalized body in US foreign policy - Tina Managhan,2012

Book

Abject Cosmopolitanism: the politics of protection in the anti-deportation movement -Peter Nyers, 2003

Article

What Happened to Class? - Neil Smith, 2000Article

Globalisation and resistance: struggles over common sense in the global political economy- Matthew Stephen, 2011

Article

Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism: Muslim Women and Feminist Engagement -Jasmin Zine

Chapter

Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism: Muslim Women and Feminist Engagement -Jasmin Zine

Chapter

Multiculturalism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism - Slavoj Žižek, 1997Article

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