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Dept of War Studies | KCL | 2018-2019

5SSW2061 CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY

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General information

Module Convener Dr Nicholas Michelsen

Office Hours Check the departmental website

Contact Details K7.49

Email [email protected];

Module Credit 30

Semester Standard year (Semesters 1 & 2)

Information that can be found in this module handbook are:

➢ Aims of the module

➢ Learning outcomes

➢ Teaching methods

➢ Assessment and key link to student handbook

➢ Employment skills

➢ Teaching schedule

➢ Class details and reading

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AIMS

This course aims to provide students with advanced knowledge of theoretical controversies in the discipline of International Relations, and their significance for the analysis of policies, practices and issues in the global arena. The course synthesises, compares, and critically discusses advanced concepts, approaches and theoretical debates in International Relations through reading core texts. The module aims to improve analytical, problem-solving, academic and transferable skills through engagement with the selected readings in whole-class discussion, group tasks, writing assignments and exams.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will:

• Have developed the capacity to generate ideas through the analysis of advanced concepts and theories at the abstract level.

• Be able to identify, analyse and communicate advanced theoretical debates in International Relations, and exercise judgement in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of competing interpretations of world political events and issues.

• Have acquired specialised analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving skills through the judicious application of theoretical models, comparing and selecting appropriate methods, techniques, criteria and evidence.

• Act with limited supervision and direction, accepting responsibility for determining and achieving personal and group outcomes and adapting performance accordingly, showing awareness of professional codes of conduct.

• Have developed autonomous and group learning skills essential for progression to BA3 by undertaking research, both individually and as part of a team, to provide new information through identifying theoretical patterns and relationships in International Relations.

Teaching Methods

The module requires students to come prepared to seminars, having read and thought about the assigned readings in advance. The module will be taught over twenty-one weeks (there are 11 two-hour lectures and 10 two-hour seminars). Students are expected to attend all lectures and seminars. Every student is also obligated to participate in the two-hour group seminars. In these seminars, students will present research papers on questions that have been raised by the set reading, and then chair the ensuing discussion. All students -- not just the presenters -- should contribute to seminar discussions. All students are expected to have read the set readings in preparation for the seminar discussion, and to have developed in advance their own responses and questions raised.



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Seminar structure Each two-hour seminar will follow a standard format. In the first 50 minutes, the group presenting that week will introduce the core text(s) that form the subject of the seminar. This presentation can take a number of formats (power-point for example) but it, and the handout, should at least address these points: 1) What is the most important argument in the text, in your opinion? 2) How does the text support its case (what evidence does it draw on, how does it defend its main arguments)? 3) What are the potential weaknesses, contradictions, unresolved tensions, omissions in the argument, in your opinion? This should take the form of a (2-3) substantive questions or issues that you feel may be insufficiently answered or addressed in the book (which are different from the set discussion questions). The presenting group will then lead a discussion of these questions. After a 10 minute break, in the second 50 minutes, the seminar class will split into small groups (each lead by a presenter) to address the two provided discussion questions for each week, followed by whole-group feedback and debate. Students will need to read beyond the core text for these discussions, and are expected to have prepared short responses in advance – recommended further readings are suggested below.

Assessment and key link to student handbook Type of work Word limit Deadline % of Final Mark

Examination Essay

N/A 4,000 words

TBC TBC

50 40%

Seminar Presentations N/A N/A 10%

The exam is two hours long with students expected to answer two questions. The essay is 4000 words long and is on a question of the student’s choice. If in doubt about whether your chosen topic addresses well enough the syllabus, get in touch with your seminar leader. Supporting material will be provided on the course website in the folder ‘Writing your essay’. Your essay needs to develop an argument and not just describe situations, and provide reasonable evidence to support your ideas. You will need to select examples to support your arguments or use a case study more in-depth. All essays will need to be properly referenced. The submission date for the essay is the first day of spring term. Key information such as listed below can be found under the student handbook link

• Assessments deadlines and penalties

• Extension requests (Mitigating Circumstances)

• Exams timetable

• Plagiarism and Turn-it-in

• Marking Criteria and Procedures https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/stu/ws/Student-Handbook/Table-of-Contents.aspx

https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/stu/ws/Student-Handbook/Table-of-Contents.aspx



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Employment Skills

This course provides the student with a wide range of transferrable skills which will be invaluable

to a broad variety of workplace positions. In presenting work collectively, students will gain

important teamwork skills. Writing the essays and undertaking an examination will enable the

student to develop timekeeping and organisational skills as well as effective self-management. In

terms of future employability, this module provides a good grounding for both academic and non-

academic jobs which require robust critical analysis and innovation. These areas include

government, journalism and non-governmental organisation (NGO) positions.

Teaching Schedule

Module Structure and Content: The table below indicates the distribution and headline content of the module. Detailed descriptions of each session, coupled with readings, follow further down.

Date Topic Structure

Session 1 Introduction to the Module Lecture

Session 2 What’s the point of IR? Lecture

Session 3 What’s the point of IR? Seminar 1

Session 4 Security and Identity Lecture

Session 5 Security and Identity Seminar 2

Session 6 Decolonising IR Lecture

Session 7 Decolonising IR Seminar 3

Session 8 The fall of the Liberal World Order? Lecture

Session 9 The fall of the Liberal World Order? Seminar 4

Session 10 Queering IR Lecture

Session 11 Queering IR Seminar 5

Session 12 The Practice Turn Lecture

Session 13 The Practice Turn Seminar 6



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Session 14 Cultural Theory of International Relations Lecture

Session 15 Cultural Theory of International Relations Seminar 7

Session 16 Postcolonial Subject Lecture

Session 17 Postcolonial Subject Seminar 8

Sessions 18 The politics of life Lecture

Session 19 The politics of life Seminar 9

Session 20 Anthropology, ethics and International political sociology

Lecture

Session 21 Anthropology, ethics and International political sociology

Seminar 10

CLASS DETAILS AND READING Seminar 1:

1) What is unique about IR, for Justin Rosenberg?

2) What is ‘uneven and combined development’, and how does it offer a new direction for Contemporary IR Theory

CORE READING Justin Rosenberg: Rosenberg, Justin. "International Relations in the prison of Political Science." International Relations 30.2 (2016): 127-153. Dyvik, Synne L., Jan Selby, and Rorden Wilkinson, eds. What's the point of international relations?. Taylor & Francis, 2017. SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

• Blaney, David L., and Arlene B. Tickner. "International Relations in the prison of colonial modernity." International Relations 31.1 (2017): 71-75.

• Matin, Kamran, and Alexander Anievas. Historical sociology and world history: uneven and combined development over the longue durée. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016.

• Rioux, Sébastien. "Mind the (theoretical) gap: On the poverty of international relations theorising of uneven and combined development." Global Society 29.4 (2015): 481-509.

• Rosenberg, Justin. "Uneven and Combined Development." Historical Sociology and World History (2016): 17.



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• Rioux, Sébastien. "The collapse of ‘the international imagination’: A critique of the transhistorical approach to uneven and combined development." Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015. 85-112.

• van der Pijl, Kees. "The uneven and combined development of international historical sociology." Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015. 45-83.

• Powel, Brieg. "Deepening ‘multiplicity’: A response to Rosenberg." International Relations 32.2 (2018): 248-250.

• Rosenberg, Justin, and Chris Boyle. "Understanding 2016: China, Brexit and Trump in the history of uneven and combined development." Journal of Historical Sociology 32.1 (2019): e32-e58.

• Dunford, Michael, and Weidong Liu. "Uneven and combined development." Regional Studies 51.1 (2017): 69-85.

• Prichard, Alex. "Anarchy, anarchism and multiplicity: Preface to a fuller dialogue with Rosenberg." International Relations32.2 (2018): 246-248.

Seminar 2

1) Security = identity, do you agree? 2) Is the practice of international relations defined by our fear of difference?

CORE READING Campbell, D. (1998). Writing security: United States foreign policy and the politics of identity. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

• Weldes, J et al, Cultures of Insecurity: States, communities and the production of danger (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).

• Lebow, Richard Ned. "Identity and international relations." International Relations 22.4 (2008): 473-492.

• Walker, R. B. J. (1993). Inside/outside: international relations as political theory. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

• George, Jim, and David Campbell. "Patterns of dissent and the celebration of difference: critical social theory and international relations." International Studies Quarterly (1990): 269-293.

• Connolly, William E. Identity/difference: democratic negotiations of political paradox. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

• Bartelson, J. (1995). A genealogy of sovereignty. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

• Neumann, Iver B. "Self and other in international relations." European Journal of International Relations 2.2 (1996): 139-174.



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• Lebow, Richard Ned. The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

• Bloom, William. Personal identity, national identity and international relations. Vol. 9. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Seminar 3 1) What does it mean to decolonise IR? 2) What does Vitalis’s history of the Howard School actually tell us about the discipline? CORE READING Vitalis, Robert. White world order, black power politics: The birth of American international relations. Cornell University Press, 2015. SUGESTED FURTHER READING

• Tickner, J. Ann. "Revisiting IR in a time of crisis: Learning from indigenous knowledge." International Feminist Journal of Politics 17.4 (2015): 536-553.

• Sabaratnam, Meera. "IR in dialogue… but can we change the subjects? A typology of decolonising strategies for the study of world politics." Millennium 39.3 (2011): 781-803.

• Guilhot, Nicolas. "Imperial realism: post-war IR theory and decolonisation." The International History Review 36.4 (2014): 698-720.

• Hobson, John M. "Is critical theory always for the white West and for Western imperialism? Beyond Westphilian towards a post-racist critical IR." Review of International Studies 33.S1 (2007): 91-116.

• Mignolo, W (2011) The Darker Side of Western Modernity, Duke University Press

• Sabaratnam, Meera. Decolonising intervention: international statebuilding in Mozambique. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017.

• Capan, Zeynep Gulsah. "Decolonising International Relations?." Third World Quarterly 38.1 (2017): 1-15.

• Blaney, David L., and Arlene B. Tickner. "Worlding, ontological politics and the possibility of a decolonial IR." Millennium 45.3 (2017): 293-311.

• Taylor, Lucy. "Decolonizing international relations: perspectives from Latin America." International Studies Review 14.3 (2012): 386-400.

• Barkawi, Tarak. "Decolonising war." European Journal of International Security 1.2 (2016): 199-214.

• Shilliam, Robbie. "Intervention and colonial-modernity: decolonising the Italy/Ethiopia conflict through Psalms 68: 31." Review of International Studies 39.5 (2013): 1131-1147.

• Shilliam, Robbie. "Decolonising the grounds of ethical inquiry: A dialogue between Kant, Foucault and Glissant." Millennium39.3 (2011): 649-665.

• Zondi, Siphamandla. "Decolonising International Relations and Its Theory: A Critical Conceptual Meditation." Politikon 45.1 (2018): 16-31.



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• Acharya, Amitav, and Barry Buzan. "Preface: Why is there no non-Western IR theory: reflections on and from Asia285-286 and. "Conclusion: On the possibility of a non-Western IR theory in Asia.": 427-438. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 7.3 (2007)

• Buzan, Barry, and Richard Little. "World history and the development of non-Western international relations theory." Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives on and Beyond Asia 10 (2010): 197

• Entire. Acharya, Amitav, and Barry Buzan, eds. Non-Western international relations theory: perspectives on and beyond Asia. Routledge, 2009.

• Chen, Ching-Chang. "The absence of non-western IR theory in Asia reconsidered." International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 11.1 (2011): 1-23.

• Bilgin, Pinar. "Thinking Past ‘Western’ IR?." Third World Quarterly 29.1 (2008): 5-23.

• Shani, Giorgio. "Toward a Post‐Western IR: The Umma, Khalsa Panth, and Critical International Relations Theory." International Studies Review 10.4 (2008): 722-734.

• Hobson, John M. "Is critical theory always for the white West and for Western

• imperialism." Review of International Studies 33.S1 (2007): 91-116. Seminar 4

1) To what degree is the world order Liberal in crisis? 2) What is the significance of the variety in ‘Liberal’ International Relations Theories?

CORE READING Ikenberry, G. John. Liberal leviathan: The origins, crisis, and transformation of the American world order. Princeton University Press, 2012. SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

• Nye Jr, Joseph S. "Will the liberal order survive: The history of an idea." Foreign Aff. 96 (2017): 10.

• Ikenberry, G. John. "The future of the liberal world order: internationalism after America." Foreign affairs (2011): 56-68.

• Ikenberry, G. John. "Liberal internationalism 3.0: America and the dilemmas of liberal world order." Perspectives on Politics7.1 (2009): 71-87.

• Sørensen, Georg. A liberal world order in crisis: choosing between imposition and restraint. Cornell University Press, 2011.

• Ikenberry, G. John. "The end of liberal international order?." International Affairs 94.1 (2018): 7-23.

• Nye, Joseph S. "What new world order?." Foreign Affairs 71.2 (1992): 83-96.

• Ruggie, John Gerard. "International regimes, transactions, and change: embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order." International organization 36.02 (1982): 379-415.



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• Hoffmann, Stanley. Janus and Minerva: Essays in the theory and practice of international politics. Vol. 268. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987 p394-436.

• Robert O. Keohane 2002, Power and Governance in a partially globalised world, Routledge, London and New York (esp. chapters 1-3).

• Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the olive tree: Understanding globalization. Macmillan, 2000.

• Walt, Stephen M. "International relations: one world, many theories." Foreign policy (1998): 29-46.

• Moravcsik, Andrew. Liberalism and international relations theory. No. 92. Cambridge, MA: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1992.

• Lebow, Richard Ned, and Thomas Risse-Kappen. International Relations theory and the end of the Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

• Keohane, R. O. and J. S. Nye (2012). Power and interdependence. Boston, Longman.

• Doyle, Michael W. Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, And Socialism, WW Norton & Company." (1997): 560.

Seminar 5

1) What does it mean to Queer IR? 2) How is Queer IR distinct from Feminist IR theory?

CORE READING Weber, Cynthia. Queer international relations: Sovereignty, sexuality and the will to knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2016. SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

• Rao, Rahul. "The State of" Queer IR"." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 24.1 (2018): 139-149.

• Richter-Montpetit, Melanie. "Everything you always wanted to know about sex (in IR) but were afraid to ask: the ‘queer turn’in international relations." Millennium 46.2 (2018): 220-240.

• Sjoberg, Laura, Kelly Kadera, and Cameron G. Thies. "Reevaluating gender and IR scholarship: Moving beyond Reiter’s dichotomies toward effective synergies." Journal of Conflict Resolution 62.4 (2018): 848-870.

• Weber, Cynthia. "From queer to queer IR." International Studies Review 16.4 (2014): 596-601.

• Weber, Cynthia. "Why is there no queer international theory?." European Journal of International Relations 21.1 (2015): 27-51.

• Wilcox, Lauren. "Queer theory and the “proper objects” of international relations." International Studies Review 16.4 (2014): 612-615.

• Nayak, Meghana. "Thinking about queer international relations’ allies." International Studies Review 16.4 (2014): 615-622.



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• Weber, Cynthia. "Queer intellectual curiosity as International Relations method: Developing queer International Relations theoretical and methodological frameworks." International Studies Quarterly 60.1 (2016): 11-23.

• Sjoberg, Laura. "Queering the “territorial peace”? Queer theory conversing with mainstream International Relations." International Studies Review 16.4 (2014): 608-612.

• Ling, L. H. M. "Don’t flatter yourself: World politics as we know it is changing and so must disciplinary IR." What's the Point of International Relations?. Routledge, 2017. 135-146.

• Peterson, V. Spike. "Sex matters: a queer history of hierarchies." International Feminist Journal of Politics 16.3 (2014): 389-409.

• Lind, Amy. "“Out” in International Relations: Why Queer Visibility Matters." International Studies Review 16.4 (2014): 601-604.

• Leigh, Darcy. "Queer feminist international relations: uneasy alliances, productive tensions." Alternatif Politika 9.3 (2017): 343-360.

• Zalewski, Marysia. "“Women's Troubles” Again in IR." International Studies Review 5.2 (2003): 291-302.

• Sjoberg, Laura. "Introduction: Faking it in 21st century IR/global politics." (2016): 80-84.

• Thiel, Markus. "LGBTQ Politics and International Relations: Here? Queer? Used to It?." International Politics Reviews 2.2 (2014): 51-60.

• Steans, Jill. Gender and international relations. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

• JA Tickner, Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the post Cold-War Era, Colombia University ORess 2001

• Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Just war against terror: The burden of American power in a violent world. Basic Books, 2004.

• Sylvester, Christine. Feminist international relations: an unfinished journey. Vol. 77. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

• VS Peterson and AS Runyan, Global Gender Issues in the New Millenium Boulder, Westview Press (2010)

• Keohane, Robert O. "International relations theory: contributions of a feminist Standpoint." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 18.2 (1989): 245-253.

• Enloe, C. Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire University of Califorian press (2004)

Seminar 6

1) What is the significance of ‘practices’ for international relations? 2) Can the ‘practice turn’ unify diverse theories of international relations?

CORE READING



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Lechner, S., & Frost, M. (2018). Practice Theory and International Relations (Cambridge Studies in International Relations). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

• Navari, Cornelia. "The concept of practice in the English School." European Journal of International Relations 17.4 (2011): 611-630.

• Adler, Emmanuel, and Pouliot, Vincent eds, International Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Introduction

• Brown, Chris. "The ‘practice turn’, phronesis and classical realism: Towards a phronetic international political theory?." Millennium 40.3 (2012): 439-456.

• Kustermans, Jorg. "Parsing the practice turn: Practice, practical knowledge, practices." Millennium 44.2 (2016): 175-196.

• Adler, Emanuel, and Vincent Pouliot. "International practices." International Theory 3.01 (2011): 1-36.

• Pouliot, Vincent. "The logic of practicality: A theory of practice of security communities." International organization 62.2 (2008): 257-288.

• Frost, Mervyn. Ethics in international relations: a constitutive theory. No. 45. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

• Linklater, Andrew. The transformation of political community: ethical foundations of the post-Westphalian era. Univ of South Carolina Press, 1998.

• Brown, Chris. International relations theory: New normative approaches. Columbia University Press, 1992.

• Brown, Chris. "The ‘Practice Turn’, Phronesis and Classical Realism: Towards a Phronetic International Political Theory?." Millennium-Journal of International Studies 40.3 (2012): 439-456.

• Whitworth, Sandra. "The practice, and praxis, of feminist research in international relations." Critical theory and world politics (2001): 149-160.

• Walt, Stephen M. "The relationship between theory and policy in international relations." Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 8 (2005): 23-48.

• Cochran, Molly. Normative theory in international relations: a pragmatic approach. Vol. 68. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

• "Postmodernism, ethics and international political theory." Review of International Studies 21.03 (1995): 237-250.

• "The liberal ironist, ethics and international relations theory." Millennium-Journal of International Studies 25.1 (1996): 29-52.

• "A pragmatist perspective on ethical foreign policy." Ethics and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (2001): 55-73.

• Wapner, Paul Kevin, Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, and Richard A. Falk, eds. Principled world politics: the challenge of normative international relations. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000

Seminar 7

1) What defines a constructivist account of International Relations?



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2) What is the role of culture in International Relations, according to Lebow?

CORE READING

• Lebow, R. N. (2008). A cultural theory of international relations. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Ebook

SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

• Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood. World of our making: rules and rule in social theory and international relations. Routledge, (2012). Ebook

• Wendt, A. (1999). Social theory of international politics. Chapters 1-3. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Ebook owned

• Ruggie, John Gerard. Constructing the world polity: essays on international institutionalization. Vol. 5. Psychology Press, 1998. Ebook

• Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood. World of our making: rules and rule in social theory and international relations. Routledge, 2012. Ebook

• Hopf, Ted. "The promise of constructivism in international relations theory." International security 23.1 (1998): 171-200.

• Neumann, Iver B. "Beware of organicism: the narrative self of the state." Review of International Studies 30.02 (2004): 259-267.

• Guzzini, Stefano. "A reconstruction of constructivism in international relations." European Journal of International Relations 6.2 (2000): 147-182.

• Zehfuss, Maja. Constructivism in international relations: the politics of reality. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

• Finnemore, Martha, and Kathryn Sikkink. "Taking stock: the constructivist research program in international relations and comparative politics." Annual review of political science 4.1 (2001): 391-416.

• Guzzini, Stefano, and Anna Leander, eds. Constructivism and international relations: Alexander Wendt and his critics. Routledge, 2005.

• Kratochwil, Friedrich V., Rules, Norms, and Decisions: On the Conditions of Practical and Legal Reasoning in International Relations and Domestic Affairs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

• Barkin, J. Samuel. "Realist constructivism." International Studies Review 5.3 (2003): 325-342.

• Lebow, R. N. (2003). The tragic vision of politics: ethics, interests, and orders. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Ebook

• Guzzini, Stefano. Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: the continuing story of a death foretold. Routledge, 2013.

• Williams, Michael C. The realist tradition and the limits of international relations. Vol. 100. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

• Williams, Michael C. "Realism Reconsidered." The Legacy of HANS J. MORGENTHAU in International Relations, Oxford: University Press (2007).

• Buzan, Barry. "The timeless wisdom of realism?." International theory: positivism and beyond (1996): 47-65.



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• Bain, William. "Deconfusing Morgenthau: Moral inquiry and classical realism reconsidered." Review of International Studies 26.03 (2000): 445-464.

• Hutchings, Kimberly. International political theory: Rethinking ethics in a global era. Vol. 5. Sage, 1999.

• Frost, Mervyn. "Tragedy, ethics and international relations." International Relations 17.4 (2003): 477-495.

• Molloy, Sean. "Truth, Power, Theory: Hans Morgenthau's Formulation of Realism." Diplomacy and Statecraft 15.1 (2004): 1-34.

• Schmidt, Brian C. "Competing realist conceptions of power." Millennium-Journal of International Studies 33.3 (2005): 523-549.

• Lebow, R. N. (2010). Why nations fight : past and future motives for war. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (Ebook)

• De Mesquita, Bruce Bueno, and David Lalman. "Reason and war." The American Political Science Review (1986): 1113-1129.

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1) What is ‘the postcolonial subject’, and what is its significance for contemporary global politics?

2) How have racial and cultural differences been framed by the project of modernity? CORE READING Jabri, V. (2013). The postcolonial subject : claiming politics/governing others in late modernity. London, Routledge. SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

• Jabri, V. (2013). War and the transformation of Global Politics. London, Routledge

• Darby, Phillip, and Albert J. Paolini. "Bridging international relations and postcolonialism." Alternatives (1994): 371-397.

• Krishna, Sankaran, ed. Globalization and postcolonialism: Hegemony and resistance in the twenty-first century. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

• Geeta, Chowdhry, and Sheila Nair, eds. Power, postcolonialism and international relations: Reading race, gender and class. Routledge, 2013.

• Darby, Phillip, ed. At the edge of International Relations: postcolonialism, gender and dependency. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000.

• Barkawi, Tarak, and Mark Laffey. "The postcolonial moment in security studies." Review of International Studies 32.02 (2006): 329-352.

• Said, E. Orientalism, (1978), Harmondsworth, Penguin.

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1) What is ‘the postcolonial subject’, and what is its significance for contemporary global politics?

2) How have racial and cultural differences been framed by the project of modernity? CORE READING Leonie Ansems De Vries. Reimagining a politics of Life: From Governance of Order to Politics of Movement, Rowman and Littlefield, 2015 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

• Dillon, Michael, and Julian Reid. The liberal way of war: Killing to make life live. Routledge, 2009.

• Reid, Julian. "The biopolitics of the war on terror: Life struggles, liberal modernity, and the defence of logistical societies." (2013).

• Dillon, Michael, and Julian Reid. "Global governance, liberal peace, and complex emergency." Alternatives 25.1 (2000): 117-143.

• Evans, Brad, and Julian Reid. "Dangerously exposed: The life and death of the resilient subject." Resilience 1.2 (2013): 83-98.

• Dillon, Michael, and Andrew Neal, eds. Foucault on politics, security and war. Springer, 2015.

• Salter, Mark B. "The global visa regime and the political technologies of the international self: Borders, bodies, biopolitics." Alternatives 31.2 (2006): 167-189.

• Reid, Julian. "The biopolitics of the war on terror: Life struggles, liberal modernity, and the defence of logistical societies." (2013).

• Dillon, Michael, and Julian Reid. "Global liberal governance: Biopolitics, security and war." Millennium 30.1 (2001): 41-66.

• Rosenow, Doerthe. "Decentring global power: The merits of a Foucauldian approach to international relations." Global Society 23.4 (2009): 497-517.

• Dillon, Michael, and Luis Lobo-Guerrero. "Biopolitics of security in the 21st century: An introduction." Review of International Studies 34.2 (2008): 265-292.

• Lobo-Guerrero, Luis. Insuring security: biopolitics, security and risk. Routledge, 2010.

• Aradau, Claudia, and Tobias Blanke. "Governing circulation: A critique of the biopolitics of security." Security and Global Governmentality. Routledge, 2010. 56-70.

• Kiersey, Nicholas J., and Doug Stokes, eds. Foucault and international relations: New critical engagements. Routledge, 2013.

• Coleman, Mathew, and Kevin Grove. "Biopolitics, biopower, and the return of sovereignty." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27.3 (2009): 489-507.

• Jaeger, Hans-Martin. "UN reform, biopolitics, and global governmentality." International Theory 2.1 (2010): 50-86.



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• Vaughan-Williams, Nick. "The generalised bio-political border? Re-conceptualising the limits of sovereign power." Review of International Studies 35.4 (2009): 729-749.

• Foucault, Michel, Arnold I. Davidson, and Graham Burchell. The birth of biopolitics: lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979. Springer, 2008.

• Burke, Anthony. "Humanity after biopolitics: On the global politics of human being." Angelaki 16.4 (2011): 101-114.

• Selby, Jan. "Engaging Foucault: Discourse, liberal governance and the limits of Foucauldian IR." International Relations 21.3 (2007): 324-345.

• Hutchings, Kimberly. "Foucault and international relations theory." The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1997. 102-127.

• Edkins, Jenny, and Nick Vaughan-Williams, eds. Critical theorists and international relations. Routledge, 2009.

• Evans, Brad, and Julian Reid, eds. Deleuze & Fascism: Security: War: Aesthetics. Routledge, 2013.

• Acuto, Michele, and Simon Curtis. "Assemblage thinking and international relations." Reassembling international theory. Palgrave Pivot, London, 2014. 1-15.

Seminar 10

1) What can anthropological methods bring to IR Theory? 2) What is International Political Sociology

CORE READING Mc Cluskey, E. (2019) From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies. Montreal, Chicago, London: Mc Gill- Queens University Press SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

• Bigo, Didier, and Rob BJ Walker. "Political Sociology and the Problem of the International." Millennium 35.3 (2007): 725-739.

• Basaran, T., Bigo, D., Guittet, E. P., & Walker, R. B. (Eds.). (2016). International political sociology: Transversal lines. Routledge.

• Berling, Trine Villumsen. The International Political Sociology of Security: Rethinking Theory and Practice. Routledge, 2015.

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