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This course introduces concepts, theoretical arguments, and theoretical applications of theories of international relations. The primary focus is the mainstream theories in IR. At the beginning of the course, we will go through basic concepts in the field of IR. In the following weeks, students will study the major debates between different IR theories. In addition to the mainstream theories, we will discuss feminism, foreign policy decision-making, and the English school. These theoretical debates carry our field forward and improve the validity and reliability of IR research. Students are expected to provide critical reviews on class materials. Students are also expected to express their reflections in the class.
能力項目說明
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
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)
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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.
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.
Thucydides, ‘The Melian Dialogue’
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.
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.
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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.
Mattern, Janice Bially, “The Concept of Power and the (Un)discipline of International Relations”, in The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. OUP Oxford.
Krasner, Stephen D. Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton University Press, 1999. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7s9d5., Chapter 1, pp.1-42.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Barnett, Michael, and Raymond Duvall. “Power in International Politics.” International Organization 59, no. 01 (2005): 39–75. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818305050010.
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.
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.
Reiter, Dan. 2015. “Should We Leave Behind the Subfield of International Relations?” Annual Review of Political Science 18 (1): 481–99.
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Gourevitch, Peter. “The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of Domestic Politics.” International Organization 32, no. 4 (ed 1978): 881–912.
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.
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.
Powell, Robert. 1991. “Absolute and Relative Gains in International Relations Theory.” The American Political Science Review 85 (4): 1303–20.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Christensen, Thomas J., and Jack Snyder. 1990. “Chain Gangs and Passed Bucks: Predicting Alliance Patterns in Multipolarity.” International Organization 44 (2): 137–68.
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.
Lemke, Douglas. 2002. Regions of War and Peace. Cambridge Studies in International Relations ; 80. Cambridge University Press. CH2
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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.
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.
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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
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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..
Saunders, Elizabeth N. “Transformative Choices: Leaders and the Origins of Intervention Strategy.” International Security 34, no. 2 (October 1, 2009): 119–61.
McDermott, Rose. 2004. “Prospect Theory in Political Science: Gains and Losses From the First Decade.” Political Psychology 25 (2): 289–312.
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.
Fravel, M. Taylor. “The Limits of Diversion: Rethinking Internal and External Conflict.” Security Studies 19, no. 2 (May 21, 2010): 307–41..
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)
Keohane, Robert O., and Joseph S. Nye. “The End of the Long American Century: Trump and the Sources of U.S. Power,” June 2, 2025. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/end-long-american-century-trump-keohane-nye.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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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.
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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.
Haftel, Yoram Z., and Bar Nadel. “Economic Crises and the Survival of International Organizations.” The Review of International Organizations 19, no. 4 (October 1, 2024): 665–90.
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Farrell, Henry, and Abraham L. Newman. 2019. “Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion.” International Security 44 (1): 42–79.
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Mansfield, Edward D., and Nita Rudra. 2021. “Embedded Liberalism in the Digital Era.” International Organization 75 (2): 558–85.
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.
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.
Goldfien, Michael A., Michael F. Joseph, and Roseanne W. Mcmanus. “The Domestic Sources of International Reputation.” American Political Science Review 117, no. 2 (May 2023): 609–28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000855.
Urdinez, Francisco. “Undermining U.S. Reputation: Chinese Vaccines and Aid and the Alternative Provision of Public Goods during COVID-19.” The Review of International Organizations 19, no. 2 (April 1, 2024): 243–68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-023-09508-1.
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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.
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.
Ferry, Lauren, and Cleo O’Brien-Udry. “The Possibilities and Limits of International Status: Evidence from Foreign Aid and Public Opinion.” The Review of International Organizations, April 24, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-024-09543-6.
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Finnemore, M., & Wendt, A. (2024). When “Old” Constructivism Was New: Reflections on Classical Constructivism. Perspectives on Politics, 22(4), 1248–1268.
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Hopf, Ted. 1998. “The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory.” International Security 23 (1): 171–200.
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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
please refer to the reading list