Contemporary Theories of World P0litics

Supplemental Readings
 

Realism

• E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939, 2nd ed. (1945), chaps. 1-6. (pdf)
• Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (1979), chaps. 1, 4-6. (pdf)

Liberalism

• David Mitrany, "The Functional Approach to World Organization," International Affairs 24 (July 1948): 350-363. (pdf)
• Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984), chaps. 1-7. (pdf)
• Bruce Russett and John R. Oneal, Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations (2001), chaps. 1-3, 8. (pdf)
• Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New World Order (2004), intro., chaps. 4-6. (pdf)

Radical IR Theory

• Andre Gunder Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America (1967), chap. 1 (pgs. 1-28, 98-120). (pdf)
• Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis," Comparative Studies in Society and History 16 (September 1974): 387-415. (pdf)
• Robert W. Cox, "Social forces, States, and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory," Millennium: Journal of International Studies 10 (1981): 126-155. (pdf)
• Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (2000), chaps. 3, 5-7. (pdf)

Constructivism

• Daniel Deudney, "Binding Sovereigns: Authorities, Structures, and Geopolitics in Philadelphian Systems," in Thomas Biersteker and Cynthia Weber, eds., State Sovereignty as Social Construct (1996). (pdf)
• John Gerard Ruggie, "What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-Utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge," International Organization 52 (Fall 1998): 855-885. (pdf)

Normative IR Theory

• Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, 4th ed. (2006), chaps. 1-6, 8-9, 16-17. (pdf)
• Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization (2002), chaps. 4-5. (pdf)

Scientific IR

• Michael Nicholson, Rationality and the Analysis of International Conflict (1992), chaps. 2-4. (pdf)
• James D. Fearon, "Rationalist Explanations for War," International Organization 49 (Summer 1995): 379-414. (pdf)
• Stephen M. Walt, "Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies," International Security 23 (Spring 1999): 5-48. (pdf)
• Joseph Lepgold and Miroslav Nincic, Beyond the Ivory Tower: International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance (2002), chaps. 1-3. (pdf)

Post-Positivist IR

• Ido Oren, Our Enemies and US: America's Rivalries and the Making of Political Science (2002), intro., chap. 1. (pdf)
• Richard K. Ashley, "The Poverty of Neorealism," International Organization 38 (Spring 1984): 225-286. (pdf)
• Jean Bethke Elshtain, Women and War (1995), chaps. 5-7. (pdf)
• J. Ann Tickner, "You Just Don't Understand: Troubled Engagements between Feminists and IR Theorists," International Studies Quarterly 41 (December 1997): 611-632. (pdf)