12/10/20 International Relations Theory | University of Kent International Relations Theory View Online 305 items 1: Introduction to IR theory and the structure of the course (16 items) This session looks at IR as a discipline and how it relates to political theory more generally. It considers some historical background and focuses on Martin Wight’s claim that IR theory is the poor ‘twin’ of political theory. Is there anything unique about IR theory? How does it inform political practice? Core Texts (2 items) Why is there no international theory - Wight, M. Chapter | Core (Must Read) | Chap: 2 The intellectual and political functions of theory - Morgenthau, H. Chapter | Core (Must Read) Recommended Reading (14 items) Understanding international relations - Brown, Chris, Ainley, Kirsten, 2009 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 1 Introduction - Burchill, S. Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) International relations theories: discipline and diversity - Dunne, Timothy, Kurki, Milja, Smith, Steve, c2007 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Please read introduction International politics and political theory - Elshtain, J. Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) An American Social Science: International Relations - Stanley Hoffmann Article | Recommended (Should Read) Classical and modern thought on international relations: from anarchy to cosmopolis - Jackson, Robert H., 2005 Book | Recommended (Should Read) R. Jackson, ‘Is There A Classical International Theory?’ Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) Introduction to international relations: theories and approaches - Jackson, Robert H., Sørensen, Georg, c2007 1/24
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12/10/20 International Relations Theory | University of Kent
International Relations Theory View Online
305 items
1: Introduction to IR theory and the structure of the course (16 items)This session looks at IR as a discipline and how it relates to political theory more generally.It considers some historical background and focuses on Martin Wight’s claim that IR theoryis the poor ‘twin’ of political theory. Is there anything unique about IR theory? How does itinform political practice?
Core Texts (2 items)
Why is there no international theory - Wight, M.Chapter | Core (Must Read) | Chap: 2
The intellectual and political functions of theory - Morgenthau, H.Chapter | Core (Must Read)
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Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chaps. 1 and 2
Is Anyone Listening? International Relations Theory and the Problem of Policy Relevance -Lepgold, J.
Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
International theory: critical investigations - James Der Derian, 1995Book | Recommended (Should Read) | H. Morgenthau ‘The Intellectual and Political
Functions of Theory’
What's the use of international relations - Nicholson, M., 2000Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Power of truth: A reply to William Wallace - Smith, S., 1997Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Ten self-images of a discipline - Smith, S.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 1
International Relations: One World, Many Theories - Stephen M. WaltArticle | Recommended (Should Read)
2: Origins of the discipline and the classical tradition of realism (48 items)This session explores how international relations emerged as a discipline after the FirstWorld War with its first ‘great debate’ between the largely Liberal writers of the post-WW1era and the originator of Realism (but was he a Realist?) E.H. Carr
Core readings (2 items)
The twenty years' crisis, 1919-1939: an introduction to the study of international relations- Carr, Edward Hallett, Cox, Michael, 2001
Book | Core (Must Read) | ‘The Realist Critique’
Utopia and Reality - LEONARD WOOLF, 2009-09Article | Core (Must Read)
Recommended Reading (46 items)
Inter-war Idealism (9 items)
Reclaiming the Utopian imaginary in IR theory - SHANNON BRINCAT, 2009-7Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Creating international studies: Angell, Mitrany, and the liberal tradition - Lucian M.Ashworth, 1999
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Where are the idealists in interwar International Relations? - LUCIAN M. ASHWORTH,
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The nature and sources of liberal international order - DEUDNEY, DANIEL; IKENBERRY, G.JOHN, 2000/09/08
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Sovereignty and freedom: Immanuel Kant's liberal internationalist ‘legacy’ - ANTONIOFRANCESCHET, 2001-4
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma - John H. Herz, 1950Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Kantian Peace: The Pacific Benefits of Democracy, Interdependence, and InternationalOrganizations, 1885-1992 - John R. Oneal and Bruce Russett, 1999
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
International politics: enduring concepts and contemporary issues - Robert J. Art, RobertJervis, c2013
Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Oye, K.A. 'The Conditions for Cooperation inWorld Politics'
Constructing the world polity: essays on international institutionalization - John GerardRuggie, 1998
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Winning the peace: America and world order in the new era - John Gerard Ruggie, 1996Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Traditions of International Ethics - Terry Nardin, David R. Mapel, 1992Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Smith, M.J. 'Liberalism and International
Reform'
Political theories of international relations: from Thucydides to the present - Boucher,David, 1998
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 7
International relations in political thought: texts from the ancient Greeks to the First WorldWar - Brown, Chris, Nardin, Terry, Rengger, N. J., 2002
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The timeless wisdom of realism - Buzan, BChapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Classical theories of international relations - Clark, Ian, Neumann, Iver B., St. Antony'sCollege (University of Oxford), 1996
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
International politics and political theory - Elshtain, J.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 12
International political theory: rethinking ethics in a global era - Hutchings, Kimberly, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Forum on American realism - 2003Article | Recommended (Should Read)
American diplomacy, 1900-1950 - Kennan, George F., 1952 [c1951]Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Scientific man vs. power politics - Morgenthau, Hans Joachim, 1965Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Classical realism, Freud and human nature in international relations - R. Schuett,2010-04-01
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Chasing Morgenthau, or: What Is Political Realism? - Robert Schuett, 2012-03Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The security dilemma in theory - Wheeler, N. and Booth, K.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 1
The realist tradition and the limits of international relations - Williams, Michael C., 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Discord and collaboration: essays on international politics - Wolfers, Arnold, 1962Book | Recommended (Should Read)
4: Positivism and Post-Positivism: The Second and Third “Debates” (18items)This session looks at two debates in IR. The Second debate concerns the behaviouralistchallenge to classical IT theory and the search for scientific grounds. The Third debate isstill on-going (sort of), but we will focus here on the rise of various approaches thatchallenge the positivist ascendancy and the so-called inter-paradigm debate.
The rise and fall of the inter-paradigm debate - Waever, O.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Incommensurability and Cross-Paradigm Communication in International Relations Theory- Wight, C., 1996
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Philosophy if social science and IR - Wight, C.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 2
6: Neorealism and liberalism (31 items)Kenneth Waltz’s Theory of International Politics claims to introduce a more scientificversion of realism, sometimes called structural or neo-realism. This session looks at hismethodological and epistemological claims, assessing the extent to which neo-realismremains within the positivist framework. This session also introduces neo-liberalism andlooks at the neo-neo debate.
Core Texts (2 items)
Realist thought and neorealist theory - Waltz, Kenneth N, 1990Journal | Core (Must Read)
Neorealism and its critics - Keohane, Robert O, 1986Book | Core (Must Read) | ‘Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond’
Recommended Reading (29 items)
The poverty of Neo-realism - Ashley, R.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Neorealism and neoliberalism: the contemporary debate - Baldwin, David A., 1993Book | Recommended (Should Read)
People, states and fear: an agenda for international security studies in the post-coldwarera - Barry Buzan, 1991
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Various editions held in Library
The nature and sources of liberal international order - Deudney, D. and Ikenberry, J.G.,1999
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
International relations theories: discipline and diversity - Dunne, Timothy, Kurki, Milja,
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The theory of international politics - Bull, H.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 8
The Expansion of international society - Bull, Hedley, Watson, Adam, 1984Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Sovereignty, rights, and justice: international political theory today - Brown, Chris, 2002Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 4
Understanding international relations - Brown, Chris, Ainley, Kirsten, 2009Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 2 Various editions held in Library
The twenty years' crisis, 1919-1939: an introduction to the study of international relations- Carr, Edward Hallett, Cox, Michael, 2001
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. The beginnings of science
The hierarchy of states: reform and resistance in the international order - Clark, Ian, Clark,Ian, 1989
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chaps. 5 and 8
Liberalism - Dunne, T.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | chapter 6 in n J Baylis & S Smith (eds) The
Globalization of World Politics (5th ed.)
Inventing international society: a history of the English school - Dunne, Tim, St. Antony'sCollege (University of Oxford), 1998
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 2
Society and hierarchy in international relations - Dunne, T., 2003Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The social construction of international society - Dunne, T., 1995Article | Recommended (Should Read)
International relations theories: discipline and diversity - Dunne, Timothy, Kurki, Milja,Smith, Steve, c2007
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 7
Explaining and understanding international relations - Hollis, Martin, Smith, Steve, 1991Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 2 The growth of a discipline
Classical and modern thought on international relations: from anarchy to cosmopolis -Jackson, Robert H., 2005
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The political theory of international society - Jackson, R.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 5
Saving strangers: humanitarian intervention in international society - Wheeler, Nicholas J.,Oxford University Press, 2000
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
English School of International Relations Theory at the University of LeedsWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
8. Critical Theory and Marxism (28 items)Another challenge to the positivist bias of the discipline comes from critical theory which inturn draws upon various forms of Marxism – particularly that of the Frankfurt School andGramsci. Here we look at Cox’s distinction between critical theory and problem solving aswell as the claims critical theory makes about the nature of the social world.
Core readings (2 items)
Social forces, States and world orders. - Cox, R., 1981Article | Core (Must Read)
Still critical after all these years? The past, present and future of Critical Theory inInternational Relations - NICHOLAS RENGGER, BEN THIRKELL-WHITE, 2007-4
9. Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism (22 items)This session discusses the post-structural turn and its relation to IR. It raises questionsabout the boundaries of the discipline and its focus on traditional concerns like states andsovereignty. It looks at the challenges to the power structure of politics and IR throughprojects like deconstruction and genealogy.
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1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Michel Foucault (1984) ‘What is Enlightenment?’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Society must be defended: lectures at theCollege de France, 1975-76 - Foucault, Michel, Bertani, Mauro, Ewald,Francois, Fontana, Alessandro, 2004
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | (SEE CHAPTER 11 ON THE CONCEPT OFBIOPOLITICS)
L. Hansen ‘Post Structuralism’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Special Issue - 1990Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Feminist theory and international relations in a postmodern era - Sylvester, Christine, 1994Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Inside/outside: international relations as political theory - Walker, R. B. J., 1993Book | Recommended (Should Read)
MetaCampbell: the epistemological problematics of perspectivism - Wight, C., 1999Article | Recommended (Should Read)
10. IR constructivism (23 items)Constructivism argues that the world of international relations is not a given, but issomething that is continually recreated through human interaction. Constructivists tend toshift from a focus on power to an interest in constitutive language, law and norms ofbehaviour. After looking at the general concerns of constructivists we turn to AlexanderWendt’s controversial attempts to marry the concerns of Neorealism with the idea of socialconstruction. In the seminar we discuss whether or not Wendtian constructivism offers anadvance on the English School.
Core Texts (2 items)
The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory - Hopf, T, 1998Article | Core (Must Read)
Anarchy is what states make of it: The social construction of power politics. - Wendt, A,1992
Dangerous Liaisons?: Critical International Theory and Constructivism - Price, R. andReus-Smit, C., 1998
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
"Let's Argue!": Communicative Action in World Politics - Thomas Risse, 2000Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Social theory of international politics - Wendt, Alexander, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Constructing International Politics - Wendt, A., 1995Article | Recommended (Should Read)
11: Ethics in IR (20 items)This seminar looks at normative theory and its relation to the post-positivist turn. It raisesquestions about the traditional basis of the discipline, its focus on facts rather than norms,and what the goals of political science are
Core Texts (2 items)
A turn not taken: Ethics in IR at the millenium - Frost, M., 1998Article | Core (Must Read)
Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme - Duncan Bell,2009
Book | Core (Must Read) | Molloy, S ' ‘Hans J. Morgenthau versus E. H. Carr: ConflictingConceptions of Ethics in International Relations,’
Recommended Reading (18 items)
International ethics - Beitz, Charles R., Alexander, Lawrence A., 1985Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Political theory and international relations - Beitz, Charles R., 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme - Bell, Duncan,2009
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
International relations theory: new normative approaches - Brown, Chris, 1992Book | Recommended (Should Read)
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The politics of ethical foreign policy: A responsibility to protect whom? - D. Bulley,2010-09-01
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Normative theory in international relations: a pragmatic approach - Cochran, Molly, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)
T. Erskine ‘Normative IR Theory’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Ethics in international relations: a constitutive theory - Frost, Mervyn, 1996Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Migrants, civil society and sovereign states: Investigating an ethical hierarchy. - Frost, M.,1998
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme - Duncan Bell,2009
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | S. Molloy, ‘Hans J. Morgenthau versus E. H. Carr: Conflicting Conceptions of Ethics inInternational Relations’
Norms and ethics in IR - Hurrell, A.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Chap: 7
Normative international relations theory: approaches and issues. - Hoffmann, M.Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Please read pp. 27-45
Duties beyond borders: on the limits and possibilities of ethical international politics -Hoffmann, Stanley, 1981
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
International political theory: rethinking ethics in a global era - Hutchings, Kimberly, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Dialogic politics and the civilising process - Linklater, A., 2005Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Law, morality and the relations of states - Nardin, Terry, 1983Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Justice, community and dialogue in international relations - Shapcott, Richard, 2001Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Just and unjust wars: a moral argument with historical illustrations - Walzer, Michael, 2006Book | Recommended (Should Read) | 3rd edition unavailable in library
Beyond the Three Traditions: The Philosophy of War and Peace in Historical Perspective -Pierre Hassner, 1994
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
International relations theory today - Ken Booth, Steve Smith, 1995Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Smith, S 'The Self-Images of a Discipline'
The Reason of states: a study in international political theory - Michael D. Donelan, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Savigear, P 'International Relations Theory and
Philosophy of History' & George, S 'Schools of Thought in International Relations'
International political thought: a historical introduction - Edward Keene, 2005Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Reason of states: a study in international political theory - Michael D. Donelan, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Stephen George, ‘Schools of Thought in
International Relations’
International theory: the three traditions - Martin Wight, Gabriele Wight, Brian Porter, RoyalInstitute of International Affairs, 1996
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
International relations in political theory - Howard Ll Williams, 1992Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Political theories of international relations: from Thucydides to the present - David Boucher, 1998
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
International relations in political thought: texts from the ancient Greeks to the First WorldWar - Chris Brown, Terry Nardin, N. J. Rengger, 2002
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Hugo Grotius and international relations - Hedley Bull, Benedict Kingsbury, Adam Roberts,1990
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
International political theory: rethinking ethics in a global era - Kimberly Hutchings, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Basic texts in international relations: the evolution of ideas about international society -1992
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
International Relations: Poetry, Prescription or Science? - R. C. Ogley, 1981-06-01