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Course description
Prescribed texts
Readings 
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Research skills
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Course description

This subject introduces students to the study of international relations and global politics, and provides a foundation for the Department's international offerings at Stages II and III and in postgraduate study. Topics include the historical emergence of states and the international system, the evolution of international norms, laws and organisations, and the global pursuit of power, security, order, prosperity, and emancipation. The focus is on how international organizations, states and non-state actors raise and address global challenges such as security and human insecurity, humanitarian intervention and peace-building, global gender, race, class, ethnic and other inequalities, development and poverty, economic governance in a globalized world, environmental degradation, and the achievement of respect for human rights and cultural diversity. The course is informed by and introduces a range of international relations theories.

Prescribed texts

Baylis, John, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, eds. The Globalization of World Politics: an Introduction to International Relations. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Library copies

Cullen, Anne, and Stuart Murray, eds. The Globalization of World Politics: Case Studies From Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific. Rev. ed. South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Library copies

Readings

Links are through to the Voyager record. Titles are cited according to the Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. 'bibliography' style.

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International Relations and Global Politics
Alternative Theoretical Approaches to International Relations: Thinking about Global Security and Insecurity
Introducing Realist and Liberal Theories in the Post Cold War World
The United Nations and the Environment in a Global Era
Global Trade and Finance and the Relationships with Poverty, Development and Aid
Marxism and Postcolonial Theories of International Relations Questions
Feminist International Relations Theories and Essay Writing Skills
Social Constructivism and International Human Rights
Terrorism and Nuclear Proliferation and Non-Proliferation
Humanitarian Intervention and Thinking Again About Global Security
Globalization and Political Community

International Relations and Global Politics

Essential

McGrew, Anthony. "Globalization and Global Politics." In The Globalization of World Politics: an Introduction to International Relations, edited by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, chap. 1. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Library copies

Cox, Michael. "From the Cold War to the War on Terror." In The Globalization of World Politics: an Introduction to International Relations, edited by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, chap. 4. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Library copies

Cullen, Anne. "The Changing Nature of International Relations: The International Whaling Commission and Japan." In The Globalization of World Politics: Case Studies for Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific. Rev. ed., edited by Anne Cullen & Stuart Murray, Case 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Library copies

Additional

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School. Covenant of the League of Nations (esp. articles 8 and 10-17).

Internet

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School. Charter of the United Nations (esp. chapters 1, 6 and 7).

Internet

Elrod, Richard B. "The Concert of Europe: A Fresh Look at an International System." World Politics 28, no. 2 (January 1976): 159-174.

Library copies | Journal article

George, Jim. Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical (Re) Introduction to International Relations. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner, 1994.

Library copy

Griffiths, Martin, ed. Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics. London: Routledge, 2005.

Library copy | E-book

Griffiths, Martin, and Terry O’Callaghan. International Relations: The Key Concepts. London: Routledge, 2002.

Library copy | E-book

Hinsley, F. J. Sovereignty. London: Watts, 1966. Chap. 1. pp. 1-27.

Library copy

Hobson, John M. The State and International Relations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Library copy | E-book

Hoffman, John. Sovereignty. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1998.

Library copy

Smith, Steve, Ken Booth, and Marysia Zalewski, eds. International Theory: Positivism and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Library copies

Alternative Theoretical Approaches to International Relations: Thinking about Global Security and Insecurity

Essential

Smith, Steve, and Patricia Owens. "Alternative Approaches to International Theory." In The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, edited by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, chap. 10. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Library copies

Baylis, John. "International and Global Security." In The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, edited by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, chap. 13. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Library copies

Additional

Barkawi, Tarak. "On the Pedagogy of ‘Small Wars'." International Affairs 80, no. 1 (January 2004): 19-37.

Library copies| Journal article

Barnett, Jon. The Meaning of Environmental Security: Ecological Politics and Policy in the New Security Era. New York: Zed Books, 2001.

Library copies

Bellamy, A., ed. International Society and Its Critics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Library copy | E-book

Berdal, M. and S. Economides, eds. United Nations Interventionism, 1994-2004. Rev. and updated ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Library copy

Booth, Ken. "Security and Emancipation." Review of International Studies 17, no. 4 (1991): 313-26.

Journal article

Booth, Ken, ed. Critical Security Studies and World Politics. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.

Library copies

Brown, Chris. Understanding International Relations. 2nd ed. rev. and updated. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.

Library copy | E-book

Buzan, B. "The Idea of the State and National Security." In Perspectives on World Politics: A Reader. 2nd ed., edited by Richard Little and Michael Smith, chapter 1.2, pp.36-46. London: Routledge, 1991.

Library copies

Buzan, Barry. People, States and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era. 2nd ed. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1991. chapter 1, 1-34.

Library copy

Campbell, D. National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity, and Justice in Bosnia Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press 1998.

E-book

Collins, Alan, ed. Contemporary Security Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Library copies

Devetak, Richard. "Critical Theory." Chap. 6 in Theories of International Relations. 3rd ed., by Scott Burchill, and others. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 2005.

Library copies

Edkins, J. Poststructuralism and International Relations: Bringing the Political Back In Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner 1999.

Not held

Edkins, J., and V. Pin-Fat. "Through the Wire: Relations of Power and Relations of Violence." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 34 no. 1 (2005): 1-24.

Fierke, K. Critical Approaches to International Security. Oxford: Polity, 2007.

Library copies

Jones, C. and C. Kennedy-Pipe, eds. International Security in a Global Age: Securing the Twenty-first Century. London: Frank Cass, 2000. chap. 9.

Library copy

Kaldor, Mary. "Iraq: The Wrong War." openDemocracy. 2005.

Internet

Linklater, Andrew, and Hidemi Suganami. The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Library copy | E-book

Makinda, Samuel M. "Sovereignty and Global Security." Security Dialogue 29, no.3 (1998): 281-292.

Malone, D.,ed. The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004.

Library copies

Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen M. Walt. "An Unnecessary War." Foreign Policy 82, no. 1 (January-February, 2003): 51-9.

Library copies | Journal article

Shaw, Martin. "Iraq: Risk Economy of a War." Chap. 5 in The New Western Way of War: Risk–Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq. Cambridge: Polity, 2005.

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Snyder, Craig A., ed. Contemporary Security and Strategy. London: Macmillan 1999.

Library copy

Terriff, Terry,  S. Croft, L. James, and P. Morgan. Security Studies Today. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999. 

Library copies

Tickner, J. Ann. Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Library copy

---. "Re-Visioning Security." In International Relations Theory Today, edited by Ken Booth and Steve Smith, 175-98. Cambridge: Polity, 1995.

Library copies

Waever, Ole, and others. Identity Migration and the New Security Agenda in Europe. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993. Chap. 2: 17-40.

Library copy

Walzer, Michael. Arguing About War. New Haven, Ct.: Yale University Press, 2004.

Library copy | E-book

White, Brian, Richard Little, and Michael Smith, eds. Issues in World Politics. 2nd ed. London: Palgrave, 2001. Chap. 6: 93-112.

Library copy

Introducing Realist and Liberal Theories in the Post Cold War World

Essential

Dunne, Tim, and Brian C. Schmidt John. "Realism." In The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, edited by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, chap. 5. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Library copies

Lamy, Steven L. "Contemporary Mainstream Approaches: Neo-Realism and Neo-Liberalism." In The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, edited by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, chap. 7. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Library copies

Ewing, J. Jackson. "Neorealism, Neoliberalism and the Formation of Timor Leste." In The Globalization of World Politics: Case Studies for Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific. Rev. ed., edited by Anne Cullen & Stuart Murray, Case 7. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Library copies

Additional

Baldwin, David, ed. Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Library copy

Library copy | Journal article

Brown, Chris "History Ends, Worlds Collide." Special issue, Review of International Studies 25, no. 5 (December 1999): 41-58.

Library copy | Journal article

Carr, Edward Hallett. The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. London: Macmillan, 1942. 95-114.

Library copy

Crockatt, Richard. The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941-1991. London: Routledge, 1995.

Library copy

Donnelly, Jack. Realism and International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Library copy | E-book

Doyle, Michael. Ways of War and Peace. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Library copy

Fukuyama, F. End of history, The National Interest, 16 (Summer 1989): 3-18.

Library copy

Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War. London: Allen Lane, 2005.

Library copy

Gray, J. Liberalism. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986. (2nd ed. listed in reading list)

Library copy

Hobsbawm, E. "Goodbye to All That." In After the Fall. The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism, edited by Robin Blackburn, 115-25. London: Verso 1991.

Library copy

Kagan, Robert. "Power and Weakness." Policy Review, no. 113 (June/July 2002): 3-29.

Library copies | Journal article

Kegley, Charles W. Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 1995.

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Keohane, R. O. International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1989.

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Keohane, Robert, and Joseph S. Nye. Power and Interdependence. 3rd ed. New York: Longman, 2001. 20-33.

Library copy

Krauthammer, Charles. "The Neoconservative Convergence." Commentary 120, no. 1 (July 5, 2005): 21-26.

Library copy | Journal article

Lieven, Anatol, and John. Hulsman. Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World. New York: Pantheon, 2006.

Library copy

Mearsheimer, John J. Hans Morgenthau and the Iraq War: Realism Versus Neo-Conservatism. openDemocracy. 2005

Internet

Mearsheimer, John J. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: Norton, 2003.

Library copy

Morgenthau, Hans J. Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. 7th ed., revised by Kenneth W. Thompson and W. David Clinton. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2006. 3-15.

Library copy

Nye, Joseph S., and John D. Donahue, eds. Governance in a Globalizing World. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2000.

E-book

Oberdorfer, Don. From the Cold War to a New Era. Rev. ed.Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Library copy

Reus-Smit, C. The Moral Purpose of the State: Culture, Social Identity and Institutional Rationality in International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Library copy | E-book

Richardson, James L. Contending Liberalisms in World Politics: Ideology and Power. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner, 2001.

Library copy

Russett, Bruce. Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Library copy | E-book

Steans, Jill, and Lloyd Pettiford, with Thomas Diez. Introduction to International Relations: Perspectives and Themes. 2nd ed. Harlow: Pearson/Longman, 2005. Chap. 7.

Library copy

Waltz, Kenneth. Man, the State and War: A Theoretical Analysis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.

Library copy

---. "Structural Realism After the Cold War." International Security 25, no. 1 (2000): 5-41.

Library copy | Journal article

---. Theory of International Politics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1979.

Library copy

The United Nations and the Environment in a Global Era

Essential

Taylor, Paul, and Devon Curtis. "The United Nations." In The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, edited by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, chap. 18. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Library copies

Vogler, John. "Environmental Issues." In The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, edited by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, chap. 20. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Library copies

Additional

Archer, Clive. International Organizations. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2001.

Library copy

Bernstein, Steven. The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Library copy

Bulkeley, Harriet, and Michele Betsill. Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance. London: Routledge, 2003.

Library copy

Burroughs, William James. Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Library copy | E-book

Clapp, Jennifer, and Peter Dauvergne. Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005.

Library copy

Dessler, Andrew E., and Edward A. Parson. The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Diehl, Paul F., ed. The Politics of Global Governance. 3rd ed. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2005.

Library copy

Dryzek, John. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Library copy

Elliott, Lorraine. The Global Politics of the Environment. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2004.

Library copy

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. IPCC, 2007.

Internet

Karns, Margaret, and Karen A. Mingst. International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2004).

Library copy

Mingst, Karen A., and Margaret Karns. "The Evolution of the United Nations System." Chap. 2 in The United Nations in the 21st Century. 3rd ed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2007. 27-53.

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O’Brien, R., A. M. Goetz, J. A. Scholte, and M. Williams. Contesting Global Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Library copy | E-book

Paterson, Matthew. Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance. New York: Macmillan, 2000.

Library copy

Princen, Thomas, and Matthias Finger. Environmental NGOs in World Politics: Linking the Local and the Global. London: Routledge, 1994.

Library copy

Stern, Nicholas. The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.HM Treasury.

Internet

Tharoor, Shashi. "Why America Still Needs the United Nations." Foreign Affairs 82 , no. 5 (2003): 67-80.

Library copies | Journal article

Thakur, Ramesh. The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Library copy | E-book

Vogler, J. "Environment'." In Issues in World Politics, edited by Brian White, Richard Little, and Michael Smith, 194-214. 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Wapner, Paul. "Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics." World Politics 47, no. 3 (April 1995): 311-340.

Library copy | Journal article

Weiss, Thomas G., and others. The United Nations and Changing World Politics. 5th ed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2007.

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