Comprehensive Examination Reading List
Department of Government and International Studies
International Relations Subfield
Fall 2004
Guidance
This reading list is designed to help graduate students prepare for their
comprehensive examination in the political science subfield of international
relations. Since it is impossible to
provide a truly comprehensive list of all of the important works in the field
of IR, 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. Students preparing for this examination
should also be methodologically astute, able to write clearly, and able to make
compelling 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.
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)
Axelrod, Robert, Evolution of Cooperation
(1984)
Baldwin, David (ed) Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate (1993)
Carlsnaes, Walter et al. 2002. Handbook of International Relations (Sage Publications).
Doyle, Michael, Ways of War and Peace (1997)
Fearon, James (1991). “Counterfactuals and
Hypothesis Testing in Political Science,” World
Politics, 43 (2), January: 169-95.
Fearon, James D. 1998. “Bargaining, Enforcement,
and International Cooperation.” International Organization. 52: 269-305.
George, Alexander, "Case Studies and Theory Development" Diplomacy:
New Approaches in History, Theory, and Policy (1979)
Gourevitch, Peter. “The Second Image Reversed: The
International Sources of Domestic Politics” International
Organization, 32:4 (Autumn 1978): 881-911.
Hirschman, Albert, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970)
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. 1998. “Rationalizing Politics: the Emerging Synthesis of
International, American, and Comparative Politics,” International Organization, 52, 4, 759-88.
Olson Jr., Mancur, The
Logic of Collective of Action (1971)
Putnam, Robert. 1988. “Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of
Two-Level Games.” International
Organization Vol. 42 No. 3 (Summer):427-460.
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
Bull, Hedley, Anarchical Society, (1977)
Ikenberry, John. After Victory ((2001)
Keohane, Robert, After Hegemony (1984)
Keohane, Robert, International Institutions and
State Power: Essays in International RelationsTheory
(1989)
Knight, Jack, Institutions and Social Conflict (1992)
Krasner, Stephen, International Regimes
(1983)
Mearsheimer, John J. (1994/95). “The
False Promise of International Institutions.” International Security,
19, 3, Winter, 5-93 (includes responses by Keohane
and Martin and by Wendt).
Morrow, James. 1994. “Modelling the Forms of
International Cooperation: Distribution vs. Information.” International
Organization 48(3).
Ostrom, Elinor, Governing
the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions of Collective Action(1990)
Oye, Ken, Cooperation Under
Anarchy (1986)
d. Liberalism
Hoffmann,
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)
Milner, Helen, Interests, Institutions and Information: Domestic Politics
and International Relations (1997)
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)
Ruggie, John Gerard, Constructing the World
Polity: Essays on International Institutionalization (1998)
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
Alt, James E. and Michael Gilligan, “The Political Economy of Trading
States: Factor Specificity, Collective Action Problems, and Domestic Political
Institutions,” Journal of Political
Philosophy 2:2 (1994), 165-192.
Alt, James E., Jeffry Frieden, Michael Gilligan, Dani Rodrik, and Ronald Rogowski.
“The Political Economy of International Trade: Enduring Puzzles and an Agenda
for Inquiry.” Comparative Political
Studies Vol. 29 No. 6 (December):689 717.
Bailey, Michael, Judith Goldstein, and Barry R. Weingast,
“The Institutional Roots of American Trade Policy: Politics, Coalitions, and
International Trade,” World Politics
49, no. 3 (April 1997): 309-338.
Hiscox, Michael. "The Magic Bullet? The RTAA, Institutional Reform, and Trade Liberalization," International Organization 53, no. 4 (Autumn 1999), 669-698.
Katzenstein, Peter, Small States in World
Markets (1985)
Milgrom, Paul R., Douglas C. North, and Barry Weingast, “The Role of Institutions in the Revival of
Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the
Milner, Helen, "Trading
Places: Industries for Free Trade" World Politics. April, 1988, pp. 350-76.
Rogowski, Ronald. 1987. “Political Cleavages and
Changing Exposure to Trade.” American
Political Science Review 81, 1121–1137.
Scheve,
Kenneth, and Matthew Slaughter. 2001. "What Determines Individual
Trade-Policy Preferences?" Journal
of International Economics 54, no. 2 (August): 267-292.
b.Finance
Broz,
J. Lawrence and Jeffry A. Frieden,
“The Political Economy of International Monetary Relations,” Annual Review of Political Science¸
volume 4, 2001.
Cohen, Benjamin J., The Geography of
Money (1998)
Eichengreen, Barry, Globalizing Capital: A
History of the International Monetary System (1996)
Frieden, Jeffery A. (1991) “Invested Interests:
the Politics of National Economic Policies in A World
of Global Finance.” International
Organization, 45(4):425-451.
Helleiner, Eric. (1994) States and the
Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to
the 1990s,
Leblang, David and William Bernhardt. (1999) “Democratic Institutions and Exchange Rate Commitments,” International Organization 53:71-97.
Obstfeld, Maurice. 1998. “The Global Capital
Market: Benefactor or Menace?” International
Organization 12, 4:9-30.
Quinn, Dennis and Carla Inclan.
“The Origins of Financial Openness: A Study of Current and Capital Account
Liberalization.” American Journal of Political Science Vol. 41 No. 3
(July):771-813.
Simmons, Beth, Who Adjusts?
c.Global
and Regional Integration
Ian Clark, Globalization and International Relations Theory (1999)
Garrett, Geoffrey. (1998) “Global Markets and National Politics: Collision
Course or Virtuous Circle?” International Organization pp. 787-824.
Garrett, Geoffrey. (2000) “The Causes of Globalization,” Comparative Political Studies
33:941-991.
Held, David et al., Global Transformations.
Politics Economics and Culture (1999).
Keohane, Robert and Helen Milner (eds) Internationalization and
Domestic Politics (1996)
Krasner, Stephen D. (1991). “Global Communications
and National Power: Life on the Pareto Frontier,” World Politics, 43, April, pp. 336-66.
Rodrik, Dani, Has
Globalization Gone Too Far? (1997)
Moravcsik, Andrew, The
Choice for
Moravscik, Andrew. 1991. “Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community.” International Organization Vol. 45 No. 1 (Winter):19-56.
Mosley, Layna. 2000. “International Financial
Markets and National Welfare States,” International
Organization 54, 4:737-74.
c.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
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
Abbot, Kenneth, and Duncan Snidal.
1998. “Why States Act through Formal International Organizations.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(1) 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,
c.International
Law
Abbott, Kenneth W., Robert O. Keohane, Andrew Moravcsik, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Duncan Snidal. 2000. “The Concept of Legalization.” International Organization Vol. 54 No. 3 (Summer):401-419.
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)
Goldstein, Judith L., Miles Kahler, Robert O. Keohane and Anne-Marie Slaughter. 2000. Introduction: Legalization and World Politics International Organization Vol. 54 No. 3 (Summer): 385 – 399.
Kahler, Miles. 2000. Conclusion: The Causes and Consequences of Legalization International Organization Vol. 54 No. 3 (Summer): 661 – 683.
Kahler, Miles. 2000. Legalization as Strategy: The Asia-Pacific Case International Organization Vol. 54 No. 3 (Summer):549 – 571.
Simmons, Beth A. 2000. “International
Law and State Behavior: Commitment and Compliance in International Monetary
Affairs,” American Political Science
Review 94, 4 (December 2000).
d.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.,
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)
Fearon, James. 1994. “Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes.” APSR 88(3).
Fearon, James. “Signaling vs. the Balance of Powers and Interests.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 38(2): 236-69.
Fearon, James. 1995. “Rationalist Explanations for
War.” International
Organization 49(3).
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)
Reiter, Dan. 2003. “Exploring the
Bargaining Model of War,” Perspectives on
Politics 1 (March): 27-43.
Van Evera, Stephen, Causes of War (1999)
Walt, Stephen, Origins of Alliances (1987)
5.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
(1998)
b.History
and Cases
Gaddis, John Lewis, The
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)