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)