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Department
of Political Science
Case Western
Reserve University
(Revised September 2003)
I. TEXTBOOKS
M.A. students who have not taken
an undergraduate overview course in international relations should read one or
two of the following textbooks in order to familiarize themselves with the
debates in this subfield.
Kegley/Wittkopf, World Politics: Trend and Transformation. Thomson/Wadsworth,
Ninth Edition.
Karen Mingst, Essentials of International Relations. Norton, Second
Edition.
Rourke, International Politics on the World Stage. McGraw Hill/Dushkin,
Eighth Edition.
Papp, Contemporary International Relations:
Frameworks for Understanding. Allyn
and Bacon, Fifth Edition.
Balaam and Veseth, Introduction to
International Political Economy. Prentice
Hall, 1996.
II. MAJOR WORKS
M.A students are expected to be able to explain, critique, integrate,
and apply the arguments in the works listed below. Prior to reviewing
these materials, students should seek advice about reading efficiently
from faculty members in the International Relations subfield.
TRADITIONAL REALIST THOUGHT
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War. {read the Melian Dialogue}
Edward Hallett Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction
to the Study of International Relations (New York: Harper Torchbooks,
1939, rep. 1964).
George F. Kennan ["X"], "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs 25
(July 1947), 566-82.
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations (5th ed. Rev.;
New York: Knopf, 1978). {read chapter 1}
Kenneth N. Waltz, Man, the State and War (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1954).
Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley,
1979).
Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1981).
CHALLENGES TO REALIST THOUGHT
Robert O. Keohane and Joseph Nye, Power and Interdependence (3rd ed.: New
York: Longman, 2001). {read the first chapters, eliminate case studies}
Terence K. Hopkins et al., "Patterns of Development in the Modern World-System,"
in World-Systems Analysis: Theory and Methodology, ed. Terence K.
Hopkins et al. (Beverly Hills, Calif: Sage, 1982).
Alexander Wendt, "Anarchy is What States make of It:
The Social Construction of Power Politics," International Organization, 46:2
(Spring 1992).
Robert D. Putnam, "Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of 2-Level
Games," International Organization 42:3 (Summer 1988) 427-69.
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Robert O. Keohane, After
Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World
Political Economy. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984).
Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations. Princeton
University Press, 1987.
Benjamin Cohen. The Geography of Money. (Ithaca,
New York: Cornell
University Press, 1998).
NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES
Thomas C. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven, Conn.: Yale
University Press, 1966).
S. Walt, "The Renaissance of Security Studies," International Studies
Quarterly 35 (1991), 211-239.
NON-STATE ACTORS
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists
Beyond Borders: Advocacy
Networks in International Relations (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1998).
Paul
Wapner, "Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World
Civil Politics," World Politics (April 1995).
STUDY QUESTIONS
IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
These questions are to help you learn the material. Exam questions
may differ substantially.
1) What were the major issues surrounding the Cold War, and its end?
2) What was the US policy of containment,
and how did it operate?
3) How has the contemporary international system changed, and remained
constant, through the last hundred years?
4) What are three current trends in world politics?
5) What is gained from studying international relations at the macro-level,
as opposed to the micro-level?
6) How do meanings people attach to facts about the world shape events?
7) What is political realism?
8) What is the idealist tradition in international
relations?
9) How is world systems theory/dependency theory different from the realist
and idealist approaches?
10) What are the three main levels of analysis used in the study of international
politics?
11) What is a hegemonic war, and why is World War II considered hegemonic?
12) Why are some countries classified as the Global South? What characteristics
do they share?
13) How have the main approaches to the study of world politics included
considerations of international organizations?
14) What are non-state actors, and how do they influence world politics?
15) What are the main institutions of the global political economy?
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