Comprehensive Examination Reading List

University of Notre Dame

Department of Government and International Studies

International Relations Subfield

Fall 2001

Guidance

This reading list is designed to help graduate students prepare for their comprehensive examination in the political science subfield of international relations. Mastery of this list is sufficient preparation with respect to the literatures and main debates in the field of international relations. Students preparing for this examination should also be methodologically astute, able to write clearly, and able to make arguments.

We want our international relations students to be well versed in IR-related current events and historical developments for two reasons. First, they should be able to apply theoretical knowledge to real world issues. Second, students should develop their own stands on the main debates in international relations. A principal way of demonstrating their own point of view is to make informed and theoretical arguments about currents events and historical issues. Because of this, almost all of our examination questions ask students to demonstrate their arguments with reference to current events and historical issues.

Students preparing for this examination may also find it useful to review the last several years' (or decades, for the eager) issues of the principal journals in international relations, including International Organization, International Security, and World Politics. Review of field seminar syllabi from schools that offer field seminars and talking with your international relations professors are also encouraged.

Preparation for this exam is a chance to build a broader and more integrated view of the field of international relations. You should try to knit together theories, themes, and arguments from your courses and outside readings so that they form a more coherent whole, and you should try to integrate international relations with your other field(s). This exam is part of the passage from being a student consuming international relations courses to a professional producing political science knowledge. The international relations examination is first and foremost part of your intellectual development.

The exam is also our chance to gauge your progress in our program. Success means that we certify you as a competent scholar in international relations. If we pass you, it means we believe that you could teach Introduction to International Relations, and that you could hold your own in general international relations discussions at conferences or at a job interview. Our field, our department, our university, and your peers on the job market have a vested interest in maintaining high standards.

1.THEORY

a.Methodology/Analytical theory

Art, Robert and Robert Jervis (eds) International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues (latest edition)

Baldwin, David (ed) Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate (1993)

Doyle, Michael, Ways of War and Peace (1997)

George, Alexander, "Case Studies and Theory Development" Diplomacy: New Approaches in History, Theory, and Policy (1979)

Gilpin, Robert, Political Economy of International Relations (2001)

Katzenstein, Peter, Robert Keohane, and Stephen Krasner, Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics (1999)

Keohane, Robert, Gary King and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry (1994)

Milner, Helen, Interests, Institutions and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations (1997)

b.Realism

Carr, E.H., Twenty Years' Crisis (1946)

Gilpin, Robert, War and Change in World Politics (1981)

Keohane, Robert (ed) Neorealism and Its Critics (1986)

Machiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince (any edition)

Mearsheimer, John, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001)

Morgenthau, Hans, Politics among Nations (any edition)

Waltz, Kenneth, Man, the State, and War (1959)

Waltz, Kenneth, Theory of International Politics (1979)

c.Institutionalism

Axelrod, Robert, Evolution of Cooperation (1984)

Bull, Hedley, Anarchical Society, (1977)

Ikenberry, John. After Victory ((2001)

Robert Jackson, The Global Government (2000)

Keohane, Robert, After Hegemony (1984)

Keohane, Robert, International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations

Theory (1989)

Knight, Jack, Institutions and Social Conflict (1992)

Krasner, Stephen, International Regimes (1983)

Olson Jr., Mancur, The Logic of Collective of Action (1971)

Ostrom, Elinor, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions of Collective Action

(1990)

Oye, Ken, Cooperation Under Anarchy (1986)

d. Liberalism

Hoffmann, Stanley, "Liberalism and International Affairs," in Janus and Minerva

Essays in the Theory and Practice of International Politics (1987)

Kant, Immanuel, Perpetual Peace (any edition)

Katzenstein, Peter, Between Power and Plenty: Foreign Economic Policies of Advanced

Industrial States (1978)

Moravcsik, Andrew, "A Liberal Theory of International Politics," International Organization

(Autumn 1997)

Parkinson, F., chapter 4 in The Philosophy of International Relations: A Study in the History of

Thought (1977).

Wolfers, Arnold and Laurence Martin (eds) The Anglo-American Tradition in Foreign Affairs

(1956)

e. Constructivism and Ideas

Goldstein, Judith and Robert Keohane (eds) Ideas and Foreign Policy (1993)

Katzenstein, Peter, Culture of National Security (1996)

Wendt, Alexander, Social Theory of International Politics (1999)

f. Normative Theory and Ethics

Charles Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations (1979)

Hoffman, Stanley, Duties Beyond Borders (1981)

Nardin, Terry (ed) The Ethics of War and Peace (1996)

Nardin, Terry and David Mapel (eds) Traditions of International Ethics (1992)

Walzer, Michael, Just and Unjust Wars (1977)

2.INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

a.Trade

Hirschman, Albert, National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (1945)

Katzenstein, Peter, Small States in World Markets (1985)

Milner, Helen, Resisting Protectionism (1988)

Rogowski, Ronald, Commerce and Coalitions (1989)

b.Finance

Cohen, Benjamin J., The Geography of Money (1998)

Eichengreen, Barry, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System

(1996)

Simmons, Beth, Who Adjusts? (1994)

c.Globalization

Ian Clark, Globalization and International Relations Theory (1999)

Held, David et al., Global Transformations. Politics Economics and Culture (1999).

Keohane, Robert and Helen Milner (eds) Internationalization and Domestic Politics (1996)

Rodrik, Dani, Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (1997)

c.Regionalism Integration

Moravcsik, Andrew, The Choice for Europe (1998)

Solingen, Etel, Regional Orders at Century's Dawn : Global and Domestic Influences on Grand

Strategy (1998)

d.Development

Amsden, Alice, The Rise of "The Rest:". Challenge to the West from Late Industrializing

Economies (2001)

Brewer, Anthony, Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey (1990)

Haggard, Stephan, Pathways from the Periphery (1990)

Sen, Amartya, Development As Freedom (2000).

3.INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS and GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

a.Historical International Orders

Ferguson, Yale and Richard Mansbach, Polities (1996)

Huntington, Samuel, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

Kennedy, Paul, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers (1987)

Polanyi, Karl, The Great Transformation (1944)

Wallerstein, Immanuel, The Essential Wallerstein (2000)

b.International Institutions

Claude, Jr., Inis, Swords into Plowshares (1971)

Falk, Richard, On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics (1995)

Keohane, Robert, "International Institutions" International Studies Quarterly (1988)

Krasner, Stephen, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (1999)

Weiss, Thomas, David Forsythe and Roger Coate, The United Nations and Changing World

Politics (2001)

Young, Oran, Governance in World Affairs (1999)

c.

d.International Law

Akehurst, Michael, A Modern Introduction to International Law (1987)

Chayes, Abram and Antonia Handler Chayes, The New Sovereignty (1995)

Donnelly, Jack, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (1989)

e.Transnational Actors and Interdependence

Keck, Margaret and Katherine Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders (1998)

Keohane, Robert and Joseph Nye, Power and Interdependence (1989)

Risse-Kappen, Thomas, Bringing Transnational Relations Back In (1995)

4.INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

a.Power and Security

Art, Robert and Kenneth Waltz (eds) The Use of Force (1999)

Sagan, Scott and Kenneth Waltz, Spread of Nuclear Weapons (1995)

Schelling, Thomas, The Strategy of Conflict (1960)

b.Causes of War, Collective Violence, and Peace

Appleby, Scott, The Ambivalence of the Sacred : Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation (2000)

Betts, Richard, Conflict after the Cold War (1994)

Blainey, Geoffrey (ed) The Causes of War (1998)

Brown, Michael et al., America's Strategic Choices (2000)

Brown, Michael, Ethnic Conflict and International Security (1993)

Brown, Michael (ed) Theories of War and Peace: An International Security Reader (1998)

Brown, Michael, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller (eds) Debating the Democratic

Peace (1993).

Brown, Michael and Sean Lynn-Jones, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict (1997)

Brown, Michael, Sean Lynn-Jones and Steven Miller (eds) The Perils of Anarchy (1995)

Geller, Daniel S. and J. David Singer, Nations at War: A Scientific Study of International

Conflict (1998)

Jervis, Robert, "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma" World Politics (1978)

Jervis, Robert, Perception and Misperception in International Politics (1976)

Levy, Jack, "The Causes of War: A Review of Theories and Evidence," in Philip Tetlock, et al.,

Behavior, Society and Nuclear War, Vol I (1989)

Van Evera, Stephen, Causes of War (1999)

Walt, Stephen, Origins of Alliances (1987)

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6.FOREIGN POLICY

a.Theories

Allison, Graham and Philip Zelikow, Essence of Decision (1999)

Evans, Peter, Harold Jacobsen and Robert Putnam (eds) Double Edged Diplomacy (1993)

Ikenberry, G. John (ed) American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays, 3 ed. (1999)

Khong, Yuen Foong, Analogies at War (1992)

Zakaria, Fareed, From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role

(1998)

b.History and Cases

Gaddis, John Lewis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War (1972)

Gaddis, John Lewis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997)

George, Alexander and Richard Smoke, Deterrence and American Foreign Policy (1974)

Kennan, George F., American Diplomacy, expanded ed. (1984)

Lynn-Jones, Sean and Steven Miller, The Cold War and After (1991)

Pastor, Robert, A Century's Journey. How Great Powers Shape the World (1999)

Tessler, Mark, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1994)