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International Politics - 030:260 Spring 2001 -
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
030:260Professor R.B. Hall
Spring 2001359 Schaeffer Hall
T 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.phone: 335-2249
337 Schaeffer Hallemail:
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:
AN INTRODUCTION FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
DESCRIPTION: The course is designed to provide a strong theoretical survey of the literature in international politics for graduate students, with wide ranging topical and empirical illustrations. Major theoretical schools of international relations developed in the course include Classical and Structural Realism, Neoliberal Institutionalism, Gramscian and World Systems Theoretic Marxism, Grotian perspectives and the English School, Constructivism, Post-Structuralism, and Feminist IR Theory. The course focuses topically on three major sub-disciplines of international relations; international security studies, international political economy, and international organization; and generates excursions into more recent topical debates in global environmental politics and issues of gender and international relations.
REQUIREMENTS: Attendance is mandatory. Every student is expected to have performed a critical reading of assigned materials before each classand demonstrate familiarity with assigned materials in class. I will often lecture briefly, but the majority of the course will be taught socratically. I will expect each student to be fully prepared to respond to questions I will ask, and to critically analyze assigned materials in class. 20% of the course grade will be based upon this participation. 40% will be based on a take home mid-term examination. The remaining 40% will be based on a take home final examination.
TEXTS:The following books will be used extensively in the course and are available for purchase at Iowa Book & Supply at 8 S. Clinton St. (337-4188). At least two copies of the remaining readings are available on reserve in the Main Library unless they are (and I have checked for you) available online. Readings labeled [JSTOR] may be downloaded from the university library’s “Journal Storage” facility on-line without cost to University of Iowa students. Readings marked [EBSCO] and [Cambridge Journals Online] many be downloaded from the university library’s web page, similarly located on the online “power reference shelf” at no cost to the student. Still other readings are available on the internet in public domain archives and are available at no cost to the student.
- Cox, Robert W. Production, Power, and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of
History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987).
-Hall, Rodney Bruce. National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).
-Hall, Rodney Bruce and Thomas J. Biersteker (eds.) The Emergence of Private Authority: Forms of Private Authority and Implications for Global Governance (book manuscript, under review by Cambridge University Press) [provided by instructor]
-Hasenclever, Andreas, Peter Mayer and Volker Rittberger. Theories of International Regimes, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
-Keohane, Robert O. (ed.), Neorealism and Its Critics, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).
-Kratochwil, Friedrich. Rules, Norms and Decisions. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
-Pauly, Louis W. Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1997).
-Strange, Susan. The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
-Wendt, Alexander. Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.)
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Course Readings
1.The Realist Tradition:
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan [1651] Chapter 13.
Classical Realism:
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, (fourth ed.), Knopf, New York, 1967, Chapters 1-2 and 11-14, pp.3-22 and 161-215. [RESERVE]
John Herz, "The Rise and Demise of the Territorial State", World Politics, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1957. pp.473-93. [JSTOR]
Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981) Chapters 1 and 5, pp. 1-49 and 186-210. [RESERVE]
Quantifying Realism:
A.F.K. Organski and Jacek Kugler, The War Ledger (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980): Intro and Ch. 1, pp. 1-63. [RESERVE]
Structural (Neo) Realism:
Kenneth N. Waltz, "Reductionist and Systemic Theories" in Robert O. Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and Its Critics, Columbia University Press, New York, 1986. pp.47-69.
Kenneth N. Waltz, "Political Structures" in Robert O. Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and Its Critics, Columbia University Press, New York, 1986. pp. 70-97.
Kenneth N. Waltz, "Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power" in Robert O. Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and Its Critics, Columbia University Press, New York, 1986. pp.98-130.
Debate on Realism as a Degenerating Research Program:
John A. Vasquez, “The Realist Paradigm and Degenerative versus Progressive Research Programs: An Appraisal of Neotraditional Research on Waltz’s Balancing Proposition” American Political Science Review, 91 (4) (December 1997): 899-912. [JSTOR]
Kenneth N. Waltz, “Evaluating Theories,” American Political Science Review, 91 (4) (December 1997): 913-17. [JSTOR]
- Neoliberalism and Neoliberal Institutionalism:
Foundational Texts
Immanuel Kant, “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch,” [1795]
Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence : World Politics in Transition, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977), Ch. 3, “Realism and Complex Interdependence”. [RESERVE]
Collective Action and Game Theory: Private and Public Goods
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, (Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 1965): 1-22, 33-65. [RESERVE]
John Conybeare, “Trade Wars: A Comparative Study of Anglo-Hanse, Franco-Italian, and Hawley-Smoot Conflicts,” in Kenneth Oye (ed.) Cooperation Under Anarchy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986): 146-72. [RESERVE]
Neoliberal Institutionalism:
Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984): 85-132 (Chs 6-7) [RESERVE]
Robert Axelrod and Robert Keohane, “Achieving Cooperation Under Anarchy: Strategies and Institutions,” World Politics, Vol. 38, No. 1, 1985, pp. 226-54. [JSTOR]
Helen Milner, "The Assumption of Anarchy in International Relations Theory: A Critique", Review of International Studies, Vol. 17, 1991, pp.67-85. [RESERVE]
Andrew Moravcsik. “Taking Preferences Seriously: A Positive Liberal Theory of International Politics” International Organization, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Fall 1997) pp. 513-53. [EBSCO]
- Marxian and Gramscian Critical Traditions.
Foundational Texts - - Marx, Engels and Gramsci:
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (preface only)
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party
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Antonio Gramsci, Selections From the Prison Notebooks: (New York: International Publishers, 1971): selections from chapters on “Notes on Italian History,” “State and Civil Society”, and “Americanism and Fordism” : 52-90, 210-253, & 277-318 respectively. [RESERVE]
World Systems Theory:
Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis", in I. Wallerstein, The Capitalist World-Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1979, pp. 1-36. [RESERVE]
Gramscian Marxist IR Theory:
Robert W. Cox, “Social Forces, States, and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory” in Robert O. Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and Its Critics, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986): 204-54.
Robert W. Cox, Production, Power, and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), pp. 11-34 and Chapters 7-8, “Pax Americana”, “The World Economic Crisis: Impact on State and World-Order Structures”, & “Mutations in the Social Structure of Accumulation”, pp. 211-353.
Stephen Gill, “The Global Panopticon? The Neoliberal State, Economic Life and Democratic Surveillance”, Alternatives, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan-Mar 1995), pp. 1-49. [RESERVE]
Materialist Intersubjectivity:
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Justin Rosenberg, The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations (Intro. and Chs 1-2 & 5): 1-58, 123-158. [RESERVE]
- The Grotian Tradition: International Society.
Foundational Texts - - The English School:
Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace [1625]
Hedley Bull, “The Grotian Conception of International Society,” in H. Butterfield and M. Wight (eds.) Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Relations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966): 35-50. [RESERVE]
Hedley Bull, “Society and Anarchy in International Relations,” in H. Butterfield and M. Wight (eds.) Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Relations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966): 75-93. [RESERVE]
The English School
Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977): 1-24,40-52. [RESERVE]
Barry Buzan, “The English School Meets American Theories” International Organization 47 (3) (Summer 1993): 327-52. [JSTOR]
5.Constructivism
Richard K. Ashley, "The Poverty of Neorealism", in Robert O. Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and Its Critics, Columbia University Press, New York, 1986. pp .255-300.
Alexander Wendt, “The Agent-Structure Debate in International Relations Theory” International Organization 41 (3) (Summer 1987): 337-70. [JSTOR]
David Dessler, "What is at Stake in the Agent-Structure Debate?", International Organization, Vol. 43. Summer, 1989, pp. 441-74. [JSTOR]
Friedrich V. Kratochwil, Rules, Norms, Decisions: On the Conditions of Practical and Legal Reasoning in International Relations and Domestic Affairs, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989):21-154.
Alexander Wendt, "Anarchy is What States Make of It", International Organization, Vol. 46. No. 2., 1992, pp. 391-425. [JSTOR]
Finnemore, Martha. “Norms, Culture, and World Politics: Insights from Sociology’s Institutionalism”, International Organization, Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring 1996, pp. 325-47. [RESERVE]
Emmanuel Adler, “Seizing the Middle Ground: Constructivism in World Politics” European Journal of International Relations 3 (3) (September 1997): 319-63.
Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.)
Friedrich Kratochwil, “Constructing a New Orthodoxy? Wendt’s ‘Social Theory of International Politics’ and the Constructivist Challenge” Millennium 21 (1) (2000): 73-101. [RESERVE]
Keohane, Krasner, Doty, Alker, Smith, and Wendt “Forum on Social Theory of International Politics” Review of International Studies 26 (1) (January 2000): 123-80.[Cambridge Journals Online]
- Sovereignty and International Systems: Explaining History:
Medieval-to-Modern Transition:
John Gerard Ruggie, "Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity: Toward a Neorealist Synthesis", in Robert O. Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and Its Critics, Columbia University Press, New York, 1986. pp.131-57.
Markus Fischer "Feudal Europe, 800 - 1300: Communal Discourse and Conflictual Practices", International Organization, Vol. 46, No. 2, 1992, pp. 426-66. [JSTOR]
Rodney Bruce Hall and Friedrich V. Kratochwil, "Medieval Tales: Neorealist 'Science' and the Abuse of History", International Organization, Vol. 47, No. 3, 1993, pp. 479-91. [JSTOR]
Rodney Bruce Hall , "Moral Authority as a Power Resource", International Organization, Vol. 51, No. 4. , 1997, pp. 591-622. [RESERVE OR EBSCO]
Benno Teschke, “Geopolitical Relations in the European Middle Ages”, International Organization, Vol. 52, No. 2. , 1997, pp. 325-58. [EBSCO]
Transitions in Sovereignty:
Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber, “The Social Construction of State Sovereignty” in Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber (eds.). State Sovereignty as Social Construct, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997): 1-21. [RESERVE]
John Gerard Ruggie, "Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations", International Organization, Vol. 47, No. 1. 1993, pp.139-74. [JSTOR]
Daniel Philpott, “The Religious Roots of Modern International Relations,” World Politics, Jan2000, 62 (2): 206-46. [RESERVE]
Stephen D. Krasner, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999). (selections) [RESERVE]
Rodney Bruce Hall, National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999). Chs. 1-9: 1-271.
Explaining the End of the Cold War:
John Lewis Gaddis, "International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War", International Security, Vol. 17, No. 3, (Winter 1992/93) pp.5-58. [RESERVE]
Friedrich Kratochwil, "The Embarrassment of Changes: Neo-realism as the Science of Realpolitik Without Politics", Review of International Studies, Vol. 19, 1993. pp.63-80. [RESERVE]
Rodney Bruce Hall, National Collective Identity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999) Ch. 10: 279-92.
- International Security Studies: Past, Present, and Future:
Arnold Wolfers, “National Security as an Ambiguous Symbol”, in Arnold Wolfers (ed.), Discord and Collaboration, (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962), pp. 147-65. [RESERVE]
Robert S. McNamara, The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office, (New York: Harper & Row, 1968). Chs 1-2, 9, pp. 3-31, 141-58. [RESERVE]
Robert Jervis, “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma”, World Politics, Vol. 30, No. 2, (January 1978), pp. 167-214. [JSTOR]
Robert Jervis, "Deterrence and Perception," International Security , Vol. 7, No. 3. (Winter 1982/83), pp. 3-30 [RESERVE]
Stephen M. Walt, “The Renaissance of Security Studies”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2, (June 1991), pp. 211ff. [RESERVE]
Edward Kolodziej, “Renaissance in Security Studies? Caveat Lector!”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4, (December 1992), pp. 421ff. [RESERVE]
James Der Derian, “The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudriallard”, in Ronnie D. Lipschutz, (ed.), On Security, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), pp. 24-45. [RESERVE]
Ole Waever, “Securitization and Desecuritization”, in Ronnie D. Lipschutz, (ed.), On Security, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), pp. 46-86. [RESERVE]
K. Krause, and Williams, M. "Broadening the Agenda of Security Studies," Mershon International Studies Review, (Vol. 40, 1996) pp. 229-54. [RESERVE]
Ronald L. Jepperson, Alexander Wendt, and Peter J. Katzenstein, “Norms, Identity and Culture in National Security”, in Peter J. Katzenstein, (ed.) The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996) pp. 33-75. [RESERVE]
Richard Price, and Nina Tannenwald, “Norms and Deterrence: The Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Taboos”, in Peter J. Katzenstein, (ed.) The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996) pp. 114-52. [RESERVE]
- International Political Economy:
Globalization of Fianance and Production:
Saskia Sassen, Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996). (selections) [RESERVE]
Lou Pauly, "Capital mobility, state autonomy and political legitimacy," Journal of International Affairs 48:2 (Winter 1995) pp. 369-88. [EBSCO]
Louis W. Pauly, Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1997).
The IMF and the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997:
Martin Feldstein, “Refocusing the IMF”, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 77, No. 2, (Mar/Apr 1998), pp. 20-32.[EBSCO]
Robert Wade and Frank Veneroso, “The Asian Crisis: The High Debt Model Versus the Wall Street-Treasury-IMF Complex,” New Left Review, Number 228, March/April 1998, pp. 3-24.[RESERVE]
Stanley Fischer, “In Defense of the IMF”, Foreign Affairs, 77 (4) (July/August 1998): 103-6.[EBSCO]
Joseph Stiglitz, “Must Financial Crises Be This Frequent and This Painful?” McKay Lecture, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1998.
Joseph Stiglitz, “What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis” The New Republic (April 17/24, 2000): 56-60.[EBSCO]
Steven Radelet and Jeffrey D. Sachs, “The East Asian Financial Crisis: Diagnosis, Remedies, Prospects” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1: (1998): 1-98. [EBSCO]
Private Authority and Global Governance:
Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker (eds.) The Emergence of Private Authority: Forms of Private Authority and Implications for Global Governance (book manuscript, under review by Cambridge University Press)
- International Organization(s): International Regimes and Multilateralism:
Joseph Grieco, "Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation," International Organization, V. 42, No. 3, 1988.pp. 485-50. [JSTOR]
International Regimes: Regime Formation and Maintenance and Epistemic Communities
Stephan Haggard and Beth A. Simmons, “Theories of International Regimes”, International Organization, Vol. 41, 1987, pp. 491-517. [JSTOR]
Stephen D. Krasner, "Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables” International Organization Vol. 36, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 325-55. [JSTOR]
Robert O. Keohane, “The Demand for International Regimes” International Organization Vol. 36, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 185-205. [JSTOR]
John Gerard Ruggie, “International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order”, International Organization, Vol. 36, Spring 1982, pp. 195-231. [JSTOR]
Andreas Hasenclever, Peter Mayer and Volker Rittberger. Theories of International Regimes, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Peter M. Haas, “Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control,” International Organization 43 (1989): 377-404. [JSTOR]
Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerard Ruggie, “International Organization: A State of the Art on an Art of the State,” International Organization 40 (1986): 753-75. [JSTOR]
Robert W. Cox, “Multilateralism and World Order “, in Cox with Timothy J. Sinclair, Approaches to World Order, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996): 494-523. [RESERVE]
10.Critical Theory: Post-Positivism, Feminism and Eco-politics:
Post-Positivist Critical Theory and Inter-Paradigm Debates:
Richard K. Ashley, "The Poverty of Neorealism", in Robert O. Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and Its Critics, Columbia University Press, New York, 1986. pp.255-300.
Yosef Lapid, “The Third Debate: On the Prospects of International Theory in a Post-Positivist Era,” International Studies Quarterly, 1989: 235-54. [RESERVE]
R.B.J. Walker, Inside / Outside: International Relations as Political Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993): especially chps. 2, 4,5 : 26-49, 81-124. [RESERVE]
Global Enviornmental Politics:
R., Kates, B.L. Turner, W. Clark, “The Great Transformation”, in Turner et. al. (eds.) The Earth As Transformed by Human Action, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, pp. 1-17. [RESERVE]
Karen Litfin, "Eco-regimes: Playing Tug of War with the nation state" in R. Lipschutz and K. Conca, The State and Social Power in The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics (New York: Columbia 1993) pp. 94-118. [RESERVE]
T. Homer-Dixon, “On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict”, International Security, V. 16, No. 2, 1991, pp. 76-116. [RESERVE]
Eric Lafererriére, “Emancipating International Relations Theory” An Ecological Perspective”, Millennium, Vol. 25, No. 1. 1996, pp. 53-75. [RESERVE]
Feminist Critical Theory:
J. Ann Tickner, “You Just Don’t Understand: Troubled Engagements between Feminists and IR Theorists,” International Studies Quarterly (December 1997): 611-632. [RESERVE]
Francis Fukuyama, “Women and the Evolution of World Politics,” Foreign Affairs 77 (5) (1998): 24-40. [EBSCO]
Barbara Eichenreich et. al., “Fukuyama’s Follies: So What if Women Ran the World?” Foreign Affairs 78 (1) (1999): 118-29. [EBSCO]
J. Ann Tickner, “Why Women Can’t Run the World: International Politics According to Francis Fukuyama” International Studies Review 1 (3) (Fall 1999): 3-11. [RESERVE]
James H. Mittleman and Ashwini Tambe, Ch 4, “Global Poverty and Gender” in James H. Mittleman, The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000):74-89. [RESERVE]
Cynthia Weber, “Good Boys, Bad Girls…..
Judith Butler, “Merely Cultural”, New Left Review, No. 227, (Jan/Feb 1998): 72-87. [RESERVE]