教學大綱 Syllabus

每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

教學週次Course Week	彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week	彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type
16+2週16+2 weeks	第 17 週 Week 17	自主總整學習Capstone self-learning
	第 18 週 Week 18	自主總整學習Capstone self-learning

Class Organization

The course is designed as a reading-intensive seminar. There will be no lectures. Students should be prepared to critically discuss all of the assigned reading each week. Attendance in class is mandatory, as is regular participation in class discussion. There is a reading list for each week. It is the responsibility of the students to FINISH the required readings before the class. Students should develop critical thinking while reading the materials. In the class, the assigned discussion leaders will lead the discussion by raising questions and critique on the readings. The rest of the students should join the discussion accordingly and provide critical thinking to these works. The instructor will intervene and guide the direction of discussion if necessary. 

While you are reading, please constantly think about the following questions: 

• Why does the author want to write this article?
• What debate does the author intend to participate in and make a contribution?
• What puzzle the author tries to solve? 
• What are the dependent variables and independent variables? What does the causal mechanism look like?
• How convincing are the author’s empirical strategy and use of evidence? Could a different strategy be more convincing? 
• What are possible counter-arguments that could be made?

Grading Policy

Class participation: 30% 

Discussion leader and presentation: 20%

Response paper: 20%

Final exam: 30%

Quiz: 10% (if applicable, counting as part of class participation)

 

Grade Scale:

100-90  A+   89-85   A    84-80   A-     

79-77    B+   76-73   B    72-70   B-

70 and below F

Attendance and Class Activities

• Students are required to attend class regularly unless excused in advance or you have proof of emergency. I will accept notes from the student attesting to the date of the illness as an excused absence. A student may also use the university’s online system to register an excused absence. 
• A student who experiences a prolonged absence or an illness preventing attendance is required to provide written documentation of the illness from the relevant healthcare provider, verifying the dates of the treatment and the period during which the student was unable to meet academic responsibilities.
• Religious observances: Please let me know in advance if a religious observance will cause you to miss a class. Provided you give advance notice. You will have the opportunity to make up exams or other assignments. 

Ethics

• I have zero tolerance for plagiarism. Students should not plagiarize when writing every assignment or exam in this course. I frequently upload student papers to Turnitin service to check plagiarism. Once confirmed, the assignment will receive a failing grade. Meanwhile, I will inform the student’s mentor at the department or program.
• I have given failing grades to graduate and undergraduate students due to plagiarism. I do not work with students who have a record of plagiarism. 
• AI policy:  AI-generated contents are easily recognizable and so far lacked the intellectual depth of a graduate student. Please write your own papers. Do not ask AI to write it for you. This course is an opportunity to develop your writing and critical thinking skills. You are welcome to consult AI to give you suggestions, summarize important points, and obtain feedback through dialogue. At the end of the day, you are learning from this course, not AI. 

Class materials

• The online learning system Moodle contains all the required book chapters, the articles, and recommended reading materials. Please inform the instructor if there is any problem with the reading materials. 
• Please be aware of copyright regulations and do not reprint these works. Students are encouraged to gather a course pack together. 
• graduate students must know: 
  • 【論文寫作攻略坊】學位論文Word排版全攻略（完整版）https://youtu.be/j1twGXuPR0c 
  • 李燕秋 用WORD寫論文，你不知道的密技

https://youtu.be/gQ7K2hSHqcg

• 書目管理軟體EndNote20基礎班課程[臺大圖書館20211116]

https://youtu.be/u3COUN_M614 

• 劉正山 Zotero使用簡介 

https://youtu.be/IDSf7nooIPI

 

Assignments 

• All assignments and exams use English.
• Write your own paper. Do not ask someone else to write it for you.

 

Response paper: 

• Starting from the week on classical realism, each student will select ONE week to write a response paper. The student will also serve as a discussion leader.
• PhD students: write TWO response papers and present them in two separate weeks.
• Each paper should be at least 3-pages long (Times New Roman font size of 12, double space), including SUMMARIES and CRITIQUE. Summary should not take more than half of the response paper. The quality of the response paper is primarily based on critique, not summaries. A response paper with too many summaries and too little critique will receive B- or below. 
• Do not use bullet points. Your response paper should read like an essay. The flow of the argument is also part of the grade.
• At the end of the paper, students will propose TWO QUESTIONS for class discussion. 
• NO COPY & PASTE from the text (especially the summaries). ALWAYS PARAPHRASE! 
• The discussion leader is required to write one response paper, which is due one night before the class (10PM). The discussion leader will upload his/her response paper to a shared folder on Moodle. 
• Please read this to help you write a response paper: Thomas J. Donahue Writing Response Papers, https://sites.google.com/site/tjdonahu/home/writing-response-papers

 

Presentation:

• The authors of response papers serve as discussion leaders for the same week. The discussion leaders will take 20-30 minutes to present and discuss his/her paper at the beginning of the class. No slides for presentation. Students coordinate their presentations if there are more than one student presenting. 
• PhD students: present twice during the semester.

Quiz:

• There will be random quizzes during the semester. Each quiz asks questions related to reading materials. Sometimes the questions are related to current events. Quizzes are meant to train students’ ability to digest the reading materials and apply them to international affairs. 

Final exam: 

• TBA:  It will be a comprehensive exam on IR theory. The format and date will be finalized before the exam.

Readings

Week 1 (9/12): Introduction to the course, setting up presentation dates, about IR theory: where we are?

Desch, Michael C. 2019. “How Political Science Became Irrelevant.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 27, 2019. https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Political-Science-Became/245777

Cobbett, Elizabeth, and Ra Mason. “Djiboutian Sovereignty: Worlding Global Security Networks.” International Affairs 97, no. 6 (Spring 2021): 1767–84. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab181.

Risse, Thomas, Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar, and Frank Havemann. “IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis.” International Studies Review 24, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): viac029. doi:10.1093/isr/viac029. READ Fig 1 & 2  only

*Recommended 

Lake, David A. 2011. “Why ‘Isms’ Are Evil: Theory, Epistemology, and Academic Sects as Impediments to Understanding and Progress.” International Studies Quarterly 55 (2): 465–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00661.x.

Kahler, Miles. “Inventing International Relations,” in Michael Doyle and John Ikenberry, eds., New Thinking in International Relations (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997): 20-53

Walt, Stephen M. “The Relationship Between Theory And Policy In International Relations,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 8 (2005): 23–48

Lake, David A.” Theory is Dead, Long Live Theory: The End of the Great Debates and the Rise of Eclecticism in International Relations”, European Journal of International Relations 19, 3 (2013), pp.567-587

Kaldor, Mary. 2018. “Cycles in World Politics.” International Studies Review 20 (2): 214–22. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viy038.

Reiter, Dan. 2015. “Should We Leave Behind the Subfield of International Relations?” Annual Review of Political Science 18 (1): 481–99. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-053013-041156.

Whyte, Christopher. “Can We Change the Topic, Please? Assessing the Theoretical Construction of International Relations Scholarship.” International Studies Quarterly 63, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 432–47. doi:10.1093/isq/sqy050.

Tickner, J. Ann. 1997. “You Just Don’t Understand: Troubled Engagements between Feminists and IR Theorists.” International Studies Quarterly 41 (4): 611–32.

Sil, Rudra, and Peter Joachim Katzenstein. 2010. Beyond Paradigms: Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kristensen, Peter Marcus. 2018. “International Relations at the End: A Sociological Autopsy.” International Studies Quarterly. Accessed May 14, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqy002.

 

Week 2 (9/19): Concepts in IR 

Thucydides, ‘The Melian Dialogue’

Tang, Shiping. “The Security Dilemma: A Conceptual Analysis.” In A Theory of Security Strategy for Our Time: Defensive Realism, edited by Shiping Tang, 33–71. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106048_3.

Beckley, Michael. “The Power of Nations: Measuring What Matters.” International Security 43, no. 2 (November 1, 2018): 7–44. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00328.

*Recommended 

Krasner, Stephen D. Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton University Press, 1999. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7s9d5., Chapter 1, pp.1-42.

Carter, Jeff, and Douglas Lemke. “Birth Legacies and State Failure.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, July 6, 2022, 00220027221111746. doi:10.1177/00220027221111746.

Fazal, Tanisha M. 2004. “State Death in the International System.” International Organization 58 (2): 311–44. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818304582048.

Carter, David B., and Paul Poast. “Why Do States Build Walls? Political Economy, Security, and Border Stability.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 61, no. 2 (February 1, 2017): 239–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002715596776.

Milner, Helen. “The Assumption of Anarchy in International Relations Theory: A Critique.” Review  of International Studies 17, no. 01 (1991): 67–85. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026021050011232X.

Scott F. Abramson, “The Economic Origins of the Territorial State,” International Organization 71, no. 1 (ed 2017): 97–130, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818316000308.

Carter, David B., and H. E. Goemans. “The Making of the Territorial Order: New Borders and the Emergence of Interstate Conflict.” International Organization 65, no. 2 (April 2011): 275–309. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818311000051.

Drezner, Daniel. 2021. “Power and International Relations: A Temporal View.” European Journal of International Relations 27 (1): 29–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066120969800.

Powell, Robert. 1991. “Absolute and Relative Gains in International Relations Theory.” The American Political Science Review 85 (4): 1303–20.

Holsti, Kalevi J. “Change in International Politics: The View from High Altitude.” International Studies Review 20, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 186–94. doi:10.1093/isr/viy030.

Goemans, Hein. 2006. “Bounded Communities: Territoriality, Territorial Attachment, and Conflict.” Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization, 25–61.

Mattern, Janice Bially, “The Concept of Power and the (Un)discipline of International Relations”, in The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. OUP Oxford.

Baldwin, David. “Power and International Relations”. In Carlsnaes, Walter, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons, eds. 2012. Handbook of International Relations. 2 edition. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Dahl, Robert A. “The Concept of Power.” Behavioral Science 2, no. 3 (January 1, 1957): 201–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/bs.3830020303.

Lee, Melissa M. 2018. “The International Politics of Incomplete Sovereignty: How Hostile Neighbors Weaken the State.” International Organization 72 (2): 283–315. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818318000085.

Grieco, “Understanding the Problem of International Cooperation,” in Baldwin, David A. 1993. Neorealism and Neoliberalism : The Contemporary Debate. New Directions in World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, Ch5.

Snidal, Duncan. 1991. “International Cooperation among Relative Gains Maximizers.” International Studies Quarterly 35 (4): 387–402.

Barnett, Michael, and Raymond Duvall. “Power in International Politics.” International Organization 59, no. 01 (2005): 39–75. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818305050010.

Reus-Smit, Christian. “The Constitutional Structure of International Society and the Nature of Fundamental Institutions.” International Organization 51, no. 4 (ed 1997): 555–89. https://doi.org/10.1162/002081897550456.

Wohlforth, William C. “The Perception of Power: Russia in the Pre-1914 Balance.” World Politics 39, no. 3 (April 1987): 353–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/2010224.

Brian Schmidt, On the History and Historiography of International Relations, in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons, eds., Handbook of International Relations (Second Edition) (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2013), pp.3-28.

Week 3 (9/26): Classical Realism, balance of power, alliance politics

Hans J. Morgenthau & Kenneth Thompson. Politics among Nations: the Struggle for Power and Peace, sixth edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985, Ch1 “A Realist Theory of International Politics”, Ch11 “the Balance of Power”. 

Johnson, Jesse C. “The Cost of Security: Foreign Policy Concessions and Military Alliances.” Journal of Peace Research 52, no. 5 (September 2015): 665–79. doi:10.1177/0022343314565434.

Nye, Joseph S. “Soft Power: The Evolution of a Concept.” Journal of Political Power 14, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 196–208. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1879572.

*Recommended 

Brett Ashley Leeds and Burcu Savun, “Terminating Alliances: Why Do States Abrogate Agreements?,” Journal of Politics 69, no. 4 (2007): 1118–32, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2007.00612.x.

Carr, Edward Hallett. 1964. The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. 450th ed. edition. New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial. Ch5-6

Edry, Jessica, Jesse C. Johnson, and Brett Ashley Leeds. “Threats at Home and Abroad: Interstate War, Civil War, and Alliance Formation.” International Organization, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818321000151.

Lobell, Steven E. “A Granular Theory of Balancing.” International Studies Quarterly 62, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 593–605. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqy011.

Walt, Stephen M. 1987. The Origins of Alliances. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Snyder, Glenn. 1997. Alliance Politics. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Weitsman, Patricia A. 2004. Dangerous Alliances : Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War. Edited by Anonymous. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.

Leeds, B.A. 2003. “Do Alliances Deter Aggression? The Influence of Military Alliances on the Initiation of Militarized Interstate Disputes.” American Journal of Political Science 47 (3): 427–439.

Smith, Alastair. “Alliance Formation and War.” International Studies Quarterly 39, no. 4 (December 1, 1995): 405–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/2600800.

Morrow, James D. 1991. “Alliances and Asymmetry: An Alternative to the Capability Aggregation Model of Alliances.” American Journal of Political Science 35 (4): 904–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/2111499.

Schweller, Randall L. “New Realist Research on Alliances: Refining, Not Refuting, Waltz’s Balancing Proposition.” The American Political Science Review 91, no. 4 (1997): 927–30.

Olson, Mancur, and Richard Zeckhauser. “An Economic Theory of Alliances.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 48, no. 3 (August 1, 1966): 266–79. https://doi.org/10.2307/1927082.

Haas, Melinda, and Keren Yarhi-Milo. “To Disclose or Deceive? Sharing Secret Information between Aligned States.” International Security 45, no. 3 (January 1, 2021): 122–61. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00402.

Paul, T. V. “Soft Balancing in the Age of U.S. Primacy.” International Security 30, no. 1 (2005): 46–71.

 

Week 4 (10/3): Neorealism (I), hierarchy in IR

Waltz, Kenneth Neal. 1979. Theory of International Politics. Addison-Wesley Series in Political Science. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. Skim chapters 1-2, and read chapters 3-9. (Yes, read the whole book)

Lake, D.A. 2009. Hierarchy in International Relations. Cornell Univ Pr, Ch2

Skim Waltz, Kenneth N. 2000. “Structural Realism after the Cold War.” International Security 25 (1): 5–41. 

*Recommended 

Shifrinson, Joshua, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bilahari Kausikan, Robert O. Keohane, William C. Wohlforth, and Stephen G. Brooks. “The Long Unipolar Moment? Reviews and Responses.” Foreign Affairs 102, no. 6 (2023): 161–75.

Krauthammer, C. 1990. “The Unipolar Moment.” Foreign Affairs 70 (1): 23–33.

Dillon Savage, Jesse. “Common-Pool Hierarchy: Explaining the Emergence of Cooperative Hierarchies.” International Studies Quarterly 65, no. 3 (7 2021): 712–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqab020.

Keohane, Robert O., and N. Waltz Kenneth. 2000. “The Neorealist and its Critic.” International Security 25 (3): 204–5.

Wæver, Ole. 2009. “Waltz’s Theory of Theory.” International Relations 23 (2): 201–22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117809104635.

Feaver, Peter D., Gunther Hellmann, Randall L. Schweller, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, William C. Wohlforth, Jeffrey W. Legro, and Andrew Moravcsik. 2000. “Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm?(Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?).” International Security 25 (1): 165–193.

Singer, J. David. “The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations.” World Politics 14, no. 1 (October 1961): 77–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/2009557.

Art, Robert J., and Kenneth Neal Waltz. The Use of Force: Military Power and International Politics. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

Kang, David C. “International Order in Historical East Asia: Tribute and Hierarchy Beyond Sinocentrism and Eurocentrism.” International Organization 74, no. 1 (ed 2020): 65–93. doi:10.1017/S0020818319000274.

MacKay, Joseph. “Legitimation Strategies in International Hierarchies.” International Studies Quarterly 63, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 717–25. doi:10.1093/isq/sqz038.

Baldwin, David A. Neorealism and Neoliberalism : The Contemporary Debate. New Directions in World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Keohane, Robert O. Neorealism and Its Critics. Political Economy of International Change. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

Week 5 (10/10)  National Holiday, no class

Week 6 (10/17): Neorealism (II) defensive realism, power transition theory

Christensen, Thomas J., and Jack Snyder. 1990. “Chain Gangs and Passed Bucks: Predicting Alliance Patterns in Multipolarity.” International Organization 44 (2): 137–68.

Lemke, Douglas. 2002. Regions of War and Peace. Cambridge Studies in International Relations ; 80. Cambridge University Press. CH2

*Recommended 

Organski, A. F. K., and Jacek Kugler. 1980. The War Ledger. Edited by Anonymous. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Niou, Emerson M. S., Peter C. Ordeshook, and Gregory F. Rose. 1989. The Balance of Power : Stability in International Systems, Cambridge University Press.

Allison, Graham. Destined for War： Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap？. Boston New York, 2018.

Adams, Karen Ruth. “Attack and Conquer? International Anarchy and the Offense-Defense-Deterrence Balance.” International Security 28, no. 3 (2003): 45–83.

Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics. Edited by Anonymous. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Jervis, Robert. 1978. “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma.” World Politics 30 (2): 167–214.

Vasquez, John A. “The Realist Paradigm and Degenerative versus Progressive Research Programs: An Appraisal of Neotraditional Research on Waltz’s Balancing Proposition.” The American Political Science Review 91, no. 4 (1997): 899–912.

Glaser, Charles L., and Chaim Kaufmann. “What Is the Offense-Defense Balance and Can We Measure It?” International Security 22, no. 4 (1998): 44–82.

Evera, Stephen van. “Offense, Defense, and the Causes of War.” International Security 22, no. 4 (1998): 5–43.

Reed, William. “Information, Power, and War.” American Political Science Review 97, no. 04 (2003): 633–41. doi:10.1017/S0003055403000923.

Glaser, Charles L. “Realists as Optimists: Cooperation as Self-Help.” International Security 19, no. 3 (1994): 50–90. https://doi.org/10.2307/2539079.

王元綱。樂觀的現實主義：國際關係守勢現實主義之評析。國際關係學報，18 期，民92.12，頁41-58。

Week 7 (10/24):Neoclassical realism

Rose, Gideon. 1998. “Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy.” World Politics 51 (1): 144–72. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887100007814.

Lobell, Steven E., Norrin M. Ripsman, and Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, eds. 2009. Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy. 1 edition. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. Ch1 

Schweller, Randall L. 2006. Unanswered Threats : Political Constraints on the Balance of Power. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, Ch2

*Recommended 

Paul, T. V. “Soft Balancing in the Age of U.S. Primacy.” International Security 30, no. 1 (2005): 46–71.

Narizny, Kevin. 2017. “On Systemic Paradigms and Domestic Politics: A Critique of the Newest Realism.” International Security 42 (2): 155–90.

Taliaferro, Jeffrey W., Steven E. Lobell, and Norrin M. Ripsman. “Is Peaceful Change in World Politics Always Desirable? A Neoclassical Realist Perspective.” International Studies Review 20, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 283–91. doi:10.1093/isr/viy023. 

Kupchan, Charles. 1994. The Vulnerability of Empire. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Ch 1-2. 

Ripsman, Norrin M., Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, and Steven E. Lobell. 2016. Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics. 1 edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Brawley, Mark R. 2013. Political Economy and Grand Strategy: A Neoclassical Realist View. 1 edition. London: Routledge.

Copeland, Dale C. The Origins of Major War. Cornell University Press, 2001.

Snyder, Jack L. (1991). Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Chs. 1, 2, and 8.

Week 8 (10/31):  foreign policy decision making, diversionary thesis

Levy, Jack S. “Prospect Theory, Rational Choice, and International Relations.” International Studies Quarterly 41, no. 1 (March 1, 1997): 87–112. https://doi.org/10.1111/0020-8833.00034

Yarhi-Milo, Keren. 2013. “In the Eye of the Beholder: How Leaders and Intelligence Communities Assess the Intentions of Adversaries.” International Security 38 (1): 7–51. https://doi.org/10.1162/ISEC_a_00128.

Fravel, M.  Taylor. “The Limits of Diversion: Rethinking Internal and External Conflict.” Security Studies 19, no. 2 (May 21, 2010): 307–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/09636411003795731.

 

*Recommended

Katagiri, Azusa, and Eric Min. “The Credibility of Public and Private Signals: A Document-Based Approach.” American Political Science Review 113, no. 1 (February 2019): 156–72. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055418000643.

Holsti, Ole R., and James N. Rosenau. “The Structure of Foreign Policy Attitudes among American Leaders.” The Journal of Politics 52, no. 1 (February 1990): 94–125. https://doi.org/10.2307/2131421.

Goldsmith, Benjamin E., Yusaku Horiuchi, and Kelly Matush. “Does Public Diplomacy Sway Foreign Public Opinion? Identifying the Effect of High-Level Visits.” American Political Science Review 115, no. 4 (November 2021): 1342–57. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000393.

Saunders, Elizabeth N. “Transformative Choices: Leaders and the Origins of Intervention Strategy.” International Security 34, no. 2 (October 1, 2009): 119–61. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec.2009.34.2.119.

McDermott, Rose. 2004. “Prospect Theory in Political Science: Gains and Losses From the First Decade.” Political Psychology 25 (2): 289–312. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2004.00372.x.

Horowitz, Michael C., and Allan C. Stam. 2014. “How Prior Military Experience Influences the Future Militarized Behavior of Leaders.” International Organization 68 (3): 527–59. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818314000046

Week 9 (11/7):Offensive Realism, hedging 

Mearsheimer, John J. 2001. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.  New York: Norton. Read Ch 1-6, 10, Skim Ch 7-9 (Yes, read the whole book)

Koga, Kei. “The Concept of ‘Hedging’ Revisited: The Case of Japan’s Foreign Policy Strategy in East Asia’s Power Shift.” International Studies Review 20, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 633–60. doi:10.1093/isr/vix059.

*Recommended 

Kuik, Cheng-Chwee. 2016. “How Do Weaker States Hedge? Unpacking ASEAN States’ Alignment Behavior towards China.” Journal of Contemporary China 25 (100): 500–514. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2015.1132714.

Mearsheimer, John J. 1990. “Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War.” Atlantic (0276-9077) 266 (2): 35.

Snyder, H. Glenn. 2002. “Mearsheimer’s World-Offensive Realism and the Struggle for Security: A Review Essay.” International Security 27 (1): 149–73.

Zakaria, Fareed. 1999. From Wealth to Power : The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Ch2

Gartzke, Erik. 1999. “War Is in the Error Term.” International Organization 53 (3): 567–87. https://doi.org/10.1162/002081899550995.

Week 10 (11/14): Liberalism, democratic peace. 

Schultz, Kenneth A. “Do Democratic Institutions Constrain or Inform? Contrasting Two Institutional Perspectives on Democracy and War.” International Organization 53, no. 2 (ed 1999): 233–66. https://doi.org/10.1162/002081899550878.

Rosato, Sebastian. 2003. “The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory.” American Political Science Review 97 (4): 585–602.

Lake, David A., Lisa L. Martin, and Thomas Risse. 2021. “Challenges to the Liberal Order: Reflections on International Organization.” International Organization 75 (2): 225–57. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818320000636.

 

*Recommended

Doyle, Michael W. 2005. “Three Pillars of the Liberal Peace.” American Political Science Review null (03): 463–466. 

Moravcsik, Andrew. 1997. “Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics.” International Organization 51 (4): 513–53. https://doi.org/10.1162/002081897550447.

Simmons, Beth A., and Hein E. Goemans. “Built on Borders: Tensions with the Institution Liberalism (Thought It) Left Behind.” International Organization 75, no. 2 (ed 2021): 387–410. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818320000600.

Christian Reus-Smit, “The Strange Death of Liberal IR Theory,” European Journal of
International Law, 12, 3 (2001): 573-93

Mesquita, Bruce Bueno de, James D. Morrow, Randolph M. Siverson, and Alastair Smith. 1999. “An Institutional Explanation of the Democratic Peace.” American Political Science Review 93 (4): 791–807. https://doi.org/10.2307/2586113. 

Hyde, Susan D., and Elizabeth N. Saunders. “Recapturing Regime Type in International Relations: Leaders, Institutions, and Agency Space.” International Organization 74, no. 2 (ed 2020): 363–95. doi:10.1017/S0020818319000365.

Dafoe, A. 2010. “Statistical Critiques of the Democratic Peace: Caveat Emptor.” American Journal of Political Science. 

Oneal, John R., and Bruce Russett. “The Kantian Peace: The Pacific Benefits of Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, 1885-1992.” World Politics, 1999, 1–37.

Oneal, John R., and Bruce Russett. Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations. 1st ed. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.

Oneal, John R, and Bruce M Russett. 1997. “The Classical Liberals Were Right: Democracy, Interdependence, and Conflict, 1950–1985.” International Studies Quarterly 41 (2): 267–94.

Gartzke, Erik. 2007. “The Capitalist Peace.” American Journal of Political Science 51 (1): 166–91

Ikenberry, G. John. 2018. “The End of Liberal International Order?” International Affairs 94 (1):7–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix241.

Jeffry A. Frieden, “Actors and Preferences in International Relations,” in David A. Lake and Robert Powell, eds., Strategic Choice and International Relations (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 39–76.

Mearsheimer, John J. “Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order.” International Security 43, no. 4 (April 1, 2019): 7–50. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00342.

Week 11 (11/21): Neoliberal institutionalism, interdependence 【AMUN, Webex】

Mansfield, Edward D., and Nita Rudra. 2021. “Embedded Liberalism in the Digital Era.” International Organization 75 (2): 558–85. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818320000569.

Milner, Helen V. “Is Global Capitalism Compatible with Democracy? Inequality, Insecurity, and Interdependence.” International Studies Quarterly 65, no. 4 (December 17, 2021): 1097–1110. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqab056.

Farrell, Henry, and Abraham L. Newman. 2019. “Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion.” International Security 44 (1): 42–79. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00351.

 

*Recommended 

Stein, Arthur. 1993. “Coordination and Collaboration: Regimes in an Anarchic World” in Neorealism and Neoliberalism : The Contemporary Debate. New Directions in World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. Ch2

Krasner, Stephen D. 1983. International Regimes. Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Ch1

Keohane, Robert O. 1984. After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 

Reus-Smit, Christian. 1997. “The Constitutional Structure of International Society and the Nature of Fundamental Institutions.” International Organization 51 (4): 555–89. https://doi.org/10.1162/002081897550456. 

Keohane, O. Robert. 1998. “International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?” Foreign Policy, no. 110: 82–96+194.

Ruggie, John Gerard. “International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order.” International Organization 36, no. 2 (1982): 379–415.

Legro, Jeffrey W., and Andrew Moravcsik. “Is Anybody Still a Realist?” International Security 24, no. 2 (1999): 5–55. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228899560130.

Keohane, Robert O. 1989. Power and Interdependence. Edited by Anonymous. Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Series in Political Science. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman.

Koremenos, Barbara, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal. 2001. “The Rational Design of International Institutions.” International Organization 55 (04): 761–799.

Week 12 (11/28): status,  reputation, foreign policy

Røren, Pål. “The Belligerent Bear: Russia, Status Orders, and War.” International Security 47, no. 4 (January 4, 2023): 7–49. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00458.

Mercer, Jonathan. “The Illusion of International Prestige.” International Security 41, no. 4 (April 1, 2017): 133–68. https://doi.org/10.1162/ISEC_a_00276.

Croco, Sarah E. “The Decider’s Dilemma: Leader Culpability, War Outcomes, and Domestic Punishment.” American Political Science Review 105, no. 3 (August 2011): 457–77. doi:10.1017/S0003055411000219.

 

*Recommended

Jervis, Robert, Keren Yarhi-Milo, and Don Casler. “Redefining the Debate Over Reputation and Credibility in International Security: Promises and Limits of New Scholarship.” World Politics 73, no. 1 (January 2021): 167–203. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887120000246.

Sechser, Todd S. 2016. “Reputations and Signaling in Coercive Bargaining.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 62 (2): 318–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002716652687. 

Wohlforth, William C. 2009. “Unipolarity, Status Competition, and Great Power War.” World Politics 61(1): 28–57.

Weisiger, Alex, and Keren Yarhi-Milo. “Revisiting Reputation: How Past Actions Matter in International Politics.” International Organization 69, no. 2 (ed 2015): 473–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818314000393.

Sundaram, Sasikumar S. 2020. “The Practices of Evaluating Entitlements: Rethinking ‘Reputation’ in International Politics.” International Studies Quarterly 64 (3): 657–68. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaa041.

Pu, Xiaoyu. “Status Signalling in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Spinning, Military Posturing, and Vaccine Diplomacy.” The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, February 13, 2024, 13691481241230862. doi:10.1177/13691481241230862.

Ward, Steven Michael. “Lost in Translation: Social Identity Theory and the Study of Status in World Politics.” International Studies Quarterly 61, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 821–34. doi:10.1093/isq/sqx042.

Larson, Deborah Welch, and Alexei Shevchenko. “Response: Lost in Misconceptions about Social Identity Theory.” International Studies Quarterly 63, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 1189–91. doi:10.1093/isq/sqz071.

Week 13 (12/5):Constructivism (I)

Wendt, Alexander. 1992. “Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics.” International Organization 46 (02): 391–425. 

Hopf, Ted. 1998. “The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory.” International Security 23 (1): 171–200. 

Chia, Colin. “Social Positioning and International Order Contestation in Early Modern Southeast Asia.” International Organization 76, no. 2 (ed 2022): 305–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818321000321.

 

*Recommended

Hopf, Ted. 2017. “Change in International Practices.” European Journal of International Relations, August, 1354066117718041. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066117718041.

Johnston, Iain. 2007. Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, Ch1

Wendt, Alexander. 1999. Social Theory of International Politics. Cambridge University Press.

Hurd, Ian. “Legitimacy and Authority in International Politics.” International Organization 53, no. 2 (ed 1999): 379–408. https://doi.org/10.1162/002081899550913.

Mercer, Jonathan. “Anarchy and Identity.” International Organization 49, no. 02 (1995): 229–52. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818300028381.

Chubb, Andrew. “The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia.” Journal of Contemporary China 0, no. 0 (March 21, 2022): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2022.2052437.

 

Week 14 (12/12):  Constructivism (II) , norm, non-state actors 

Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Cornell University Press, Read preface, Ch1, Ch 4.

Hyde, Susan D. “Catch Us If You Can: Election Monitoring and International Norm Diffusion.” American Journal of Political Science 55, no. 2 (2011): 356–69. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00508.x.

Luis L Schenoni et al., “The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas,” International Studies Quarterly 68, no. 2 (June 1, 2024): sqae047

*Recommended

Finnemore, Martha,. National Interests in International Society. Cornell University Press, 1996.

Hall, Nina, Hans Peter Schmitz, and J. Michael Dedmon. “Transnational Advocacy and NGOs in the Digital Era: New Forms of Networked Power.” International Studies Quarterly 64, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 159–67. doi:10.1093/isq/sqz052.

Gilardi, Fabrizio. “Transnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas, and Policies.” In Handbook of International Relations, 2:453–477. Sage Thousand Oaks, CA, 2012.

Finnemore, Martha, and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change.” International Organization 52 (04): 887–917.

Goldstein, Judith and Robert Keohane, “Ideas and Foreign Policy: An Analytical Framework,”in Judith Goldstein and Robert Keohane, eds., Ideas and Foreign Policy (Cornell: Cornell University Press, 1993): 3-30

Moravcsik, Andrew. 2000. “The Origins of Human Rights Regimes: Democratic Delegation in Postwar Europe.” International Organization 54 (2): 217–52. https://doi.org/10.1162/002081800551163.

Hall, Rodney Bruce and Thomas J. Biersteker. “The Emergence of Private Authority in the International System.” In The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, ed. Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker, 3-22. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Haufler, Virginia. “Corporations in Zones of Conflict: Issues, Actors, and Institutions.” Chapter 4 in Avant, Finnemore, and Sell, Who Governs the Globe?, 2010, Cambridge University Press.

Finnemore, Martha, and Kathryn Sikkink. 2001. “Taking Stock: The Constructivist Research Program in International Relations and Comparative Politics.” Annual Review of Political Science 4 (1): 391–416.

Risse, Thomas. “Transnational Actors and World Politics”. Carlsnaes, Walter, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons, eds. 2012. Handbook of International Relations. 2 edition. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Klotz, Audie. “Norms Reconstituting Interests: Global Racial Equality and U.S. Sanctions against South Africa.” International Organization 49, no. 3 (ed 1995): 451–78. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818300033348.

Week 15 (12/19): feminist theory, English School 

Sjoberg, Laura. “Gender, Structure, and War: What Waltz Couldn’t See.” International Theory 4, no. 1 (March 2012): 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1017/S175297191100025X.

Little, Richard. “The English School’s Contribution to the Study of International Relations.” European Journal of International Relations 6, no. 3 (September 1, 2000): 395–422. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066100006003004.

Kreutzer, Willow, and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. “The Three R’s of CEDAW Commitment: Ratification, Reservation, and Rejection.” International Interactions 0, no. 0 (2024): 1–30. doi:10.1080/03050629.2024.2327996.

*Recommended

Buzan, Barry. From International to World Society?: English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Ch 1-2

Thomas, Jakana L. “Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Assessing the Effect of Gender Norms on the Lethality of Female Suicide Terrorism.” International Organization 75, no. 3 (ed 2021): 769–802. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818321000035.

Schwartz, Joshua A., and Christopher W. Blair. 2020. “Do Women Make More Credible Threats? Gender Stereotypes, Audience Costs, and Crisis Bargaining.” International Organization 74 (4): 872–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818320000223.

Webster, Kaitlyn, Chong Chen, and Kyle Beardsley. 2019. “Conflict, Peace, and the Evolution of Women’s Empowerment.” International Organization 73 (2): 255–89. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818319000055. 

Tickner, J. Ann, and Jacqui True. 2018. “A Century of International Relations Feminism: From World War I Women’s Peace Pragmatism to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.” 

Buzan, Barry, and Richard Little. 2000. International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations. Oxford University Press, USA, Ch2, 3, & part II.

International Studies Quarterly. Accessed May 14, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqx091.

Bull, Hedley. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. Macmillan International Higher Education, 2012.

Buzan, Barry. “The English School: An Underexploited Resource in IR.” Review of International Studies 27, no. 3 (July 2001): 471–88. doi:10.1017/S0260210501004715.

Buzan, Barry, David Held, and Anthony McGREW. “Realism vs Cosmopolitanism.” Review of International Studies 24, no. 3 (July 1998): 387–98. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210598003878.

 

Week 16 (12/26): Final exam. format to be announced.

Week 17 (1/2) self-study 

the Chinese school

秦亚青。国际关系理论中国学派生成的可能和必然，《世界经济与政治》2006年 第3期。

秦亚青。 国际关系理论的核心问题与中国学派的生成。《中国社会科学》2005年(3), 165-176.

Wang, Jiangli, and Barry Buzan. “The English and Chinese Schools of International Relations: Comparisons and Lessons.” The Chinese Journal of International Politics 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 1–46. doi:10.1093/cjip/pot017.

Ren, Xiao. “Grown from within: Building a Chinese School of International Relations.” The Pacific Review 33, no. 3–4 (July 3, 2020): 386–412. doi:10.1080/09512748.2020.1728573.

Week 18 (1/9)  self-study:

 rational choice theory

Morrow, James D. "The Strategic Setting of Choices: Signaling, Commitment, and Negotiation" in Lake, David, and Powell, Robert, Eds. 1999. Strategic Choice and International Relations. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Pp. 77-114.

Schelling, Thomas C. Arms and Influence. Yale Univ Pr, 2008.

Kydd, Andrew H. 2015. International Relations Theory: The Game-Theoretic Approach. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. Ch2

Green, Donald, and Ian Shapiro. 1996. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science. Yale University Press, especially Ch3

Wagner, R. Harrison. “The Theory of Games and the Balance of Power.” World Politics 38, no. 4 (July 1986): 546–76. https://doi.org/10.2307/2010166.

Kahler, Miles. “Rationality in International Relations.” International Organization 52, no. 04 (1998): 919–41. https://doi.org/10.1162/002081898550680.

Fearon, James. “Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation.” International Organization 52, no. 2 (1998): 269–305.

Wagner, R.H. “Bargaining and War.” American Journal of Political Science, 2000, 469–84.

Fearon, J., and A. Wendt. “Rationalism v. Constructivism: A Skeptical View.” Handbook of International Relations, 2002, 52–72.

Fearon, James. “Rationalist Explanations for War.” International Organization 49, no. 3 (1995): 379–414.

Fearon, James. “Signaling Foreign Policy Interests: Tying Hands versus Sinking Costs.” The Journal of Conflict Resolution 41, no. 1 (1997): 68–90.

Slantchev, B.L. Military Threats: The Costs of Coercion and the Price of Peace. Cambridge Univ Pr, 2011.