Reading list

Introduction to International relations

Course
IR1121
First cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2024 (2024-09-02)
Decision date
2024-06-19

Books

Acharya, Amitav och Buzan, Barry. 2019. The Making of Global International Relations: Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dunne, Tim, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds) (2020),* International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity*, 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Zarakol, Ayşe (2022), Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Book Chapters

Angell, Norman (1913), ‘The Great Illusion’, in The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage, London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

Agius, Christine. 2011. 'Transformed beyond recognition? The politics of post-neutrality, Cooperation and Conflict 46(3): 370-395.

Barkawi, Tarak (2020), ‘War and World Politics’, in John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds), The Globalization of World Politics, 8th ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bayly, Martin (2021), ‘Imperialism: Beyond the “Re-turn to Empire” in International Relations’, in in Benjamin De Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez, and Halvard Leira (eds), Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations, Abingdon: Routledge

Enloe, Cynthia (1990), ‘Gender Makes the World Go Round’, in Bananas, Beaches and Bases, Berkeley: University of California Press).

de Carvalho, Benjamin (2021), ‘Sovereignty In Historical International Relations: Trajectories, Challenges, and Implications’, in Benjamin De Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez, and Halvard Leira (eds), Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations, Abingdon: Routledge.

McCarthy, Daniel 2018. Introduction: Technology and world politics. In: Daniel McCarthy (Eds). Technology and World Politics. An Introduction. London: Routledge, pp.11-24 (in the e-book version).

Ravenhill, John (2008), 'Global Political Economy', in Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Swanwick, Helena (2022), ‘From “Women and War”’, in Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutching and Sara C. Dunstan (eds). Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon. Cambridge University Press.

Articles

Acharya, Amitav (2019) 'Why International Ethics Will Survive the Crisis of the Liberal International Order', SAIS Review of International Affairs, 39(1): 5-20.

Bleiker, Roland. "The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory." Millennium 30.3 (2001): 509-33.

Einstein, Albert 1947. Atomic war or pace. The Atlantic. https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1947/11/180-5/132357029.pdf

Garver, Newton (2008), ’What Theory is’, Journal of Folklore Research, 45(1): 63-70.

Ikenberry, G. John (2022), ‘Why American Power Endures: The U.S.-Led Order Isn’t in Decline’, Foreign Affairs 101(6): 56–73.

Keohane, Robert O (1998) ‘International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?’, Foreign Policy 110: 82–96.

Keohane, Robert O., and David G. Victor (2016), ‘Cooperation and Discord in Global Climate Policy’, Nature Climate Change 6(6): 570–575.

Laffey, Mark and Jutta Weldes (2008), ‘Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis’, International Studies Quarterly 52(3): 555-577.

Mearsheimer, John J. (2021) ‘The Inevitable Rivalry: America, China, and the Tragedy of Great-Power Politics’, Foreign Affairs 100(6): 48–59.

Morgenthau, Hans J. (1949), ‘The Primacy of the National Interest’, The American Scholar 18(2): 207–12.

Sewell Jr., William H. (1992), ‘A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation’, American Journal of Sociology 98 (1): 1-29.

Tannenwald, Nina (1999), ‘The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use', International Organization, 53(3): 433-468.

Waltz, Kenneth (1988): The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18:4, 615-628.

Wendt, Alexander (1992), ‘Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics’, International Organization, 46 (2): 391-425.

Woolf, Leonard (1940), ‘Utopia and Reality’, The Political Quarterly 11(2): 167-182.

Wright, Quincy (1924), ’The Opium Question’, The American Journal of International Law, 18(2): 281-295.

Åhäll, Linda (2019) ‘Feeling Everyday IR: Embodied, affective, militarizing movement as choreography of war’, Cooperation and Conflict, 54(2): 149-166.

Other

Lenin, Vladimir (1916), ‘Imperialism as a Special Stage Of Capitalism’, in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, chap. 7. Available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm

Shaw, Malcolm (2023), ‘International Law’, Encyclopaedia Britannica,https://www.britannica.comhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/international-law

Wilson, Woodrow (1918), ‘Fourteen Points Address’, https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-woodrow-wilsons-14-points