Department or Interdisciplinary Programme Master of International Affairs

Academic year 2011 - 2012 Course title Introduction to International Relations Fall Semester

PROFESSOR / LECTURER Thomas Biersteker thomas.biersteker@graduateins titute.ch +41 22 908 58 07 Office hours: Tuesdays 16:30-18:30 (RT016)

ASSISTANT (if relevant) Number of ECTS credits: 6 To be determined Firstname Name Firstname.name@graduateinsti tute.ch +41 22 908 00 00 Office hours: Fridays 00:00-00:00 (CV000)

Syllabus In this course, major intellectual contributions to international relations during the past century will be placed in their historical contexts, and the emergence of challenges and new theoretical syntheses will be examined. Theories about international security and international political economy will be given particular attention, but the formation of political community (at different levels sub-national, national, regional and global) and global environmental issues will also be considered. The course will proceed through the twentieth century in approximate chronological order, beginning at the end of the nineteenth century and continuing up through efforts to define the post Cold War period, the aftermath of the attacks of 11 September, and other developments in the first decade of the twenty-first century. There will be no secondary texts or textbooks assigned. Instead, we will read original texts, dating from the periods under study. We will be engaged in a recovery of "lost" texts, that is, works that are frequently cited (and often dismissed superficially by their successors), but rarely read any longer in their original editions. Most of these texts are out of print, hence we will make extensive use of specially prepared course packets. The pedagogical objectives of the course include: (1) sensitizing participants to the contextual setting of theoretical work, (2) providing a basis for a more sophisticated understanding of contemporary theoretical work (and an ability to differentiate what is genuinely new from what is not), (3) illustrating how new theoretical work emerges, and (4) debunking the faddishness that plagues much of contemporary international relations theorizing. Course requirements consist of a mid-term take home examination and a short term paper reviewing the literature on an important topic. The mid-term will be due during the first week of November and

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the short paper will be due on December 20. Further details about the exam and the paper will be provided in class. TEXTS: Available at TBA Seminar sessions and assigned readings: 20 September, Introduction: Approaches to International Relations 27 September, Geopolitics and the Age of Imperialism Captain A. T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, Chapter VII, pp. 254-280, 1895. Sir Halford Mackinder, The Geographical Pivot of History, The Geographical Journal, pp. 421444, 1904. http://www.jstor.org/view/00167398/ap020136/02a00000 Jules Ferry, Speech to the French Chamber of Deputies, 1885. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook34.html Norman Angell, The Great Illusion, Chapters II and III, pp. 15-48, 1910. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook34.html John A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study, Introductory and Chapter VI, pp. 1-13 and 76-99, 1902. 4 October, The Imperialism Debate and the Formation of the League of Nations V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, Introduction and Chapters 1-7, 1916. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1916lenin-imperialism.html Joseph Schumpeter, The Sociology of Imperialisms, in Imperialism and Social Classes, pp. 3-7 and 64-98, 1919. John A. Hobson, Towards International Government, Chapter 1, pp. 11-27, 1915. Henry Noel Brailsford, The War of Steel and Gold, Chapter 1, pp. 9-46, 1916. http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment/Brailsford/AP01.htm Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points Speech, 1918. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918wilson.html 11 October, From Reparations to the Great Depression, Keynesianism, and the Origins of the Welfare State John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapters I, III, and IV, 1920. http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/keynes/peace.htm Georges Clemenceau, Grandeur and Misery of Victory, Chapters XI and XVI, pp. 170-192 and 277-285, 1930. Sir Arthur Salter, The Future of Economic Nationalism, Foreign Affairs, V. 11, N. 1, pp. 8-20, October 1932. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, Chapters 1, 2, and 24, pp. 3-22 and 372-384, 1936. F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, Chapter 7, pp. 97-111, 1944. 18 October, Socialist and Fascist Alternatives Maurice Dobb, Russian Economic Development Since the Revolution, Chapters One and Twelve, pp. 5-24 and 373-400, 1928. Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed, Appendix, 1936. http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1936-rev/index.htm Benito Mussolini, What is Fascism? http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, Chapter 20, pp. 237-248, 1944.

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Albert Hirschman, Foreign Trade as an Instrument of National Power, National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade, Chapter II, pp. 13-40, 1945. 25 October, The Breakdown in Europe and the Emergence of Postwar Realism Arnold J. Toynbee, Things Not Foreseen at Paris, Foreign Affairs, V. 12, N. 3, pp. 472-482, April 1934. Alfred Zimmern, The League of Nations and the Rule of Law, Part III, Chapter IV, pp. 480-496, 1936. E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939, Chapter Four, The Harmony of Interests, 1939. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/carr.htm Harold Lasswell, The Garrison State, American Journal of Sociology, pp. 455-468, 1940. http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992411/99p0671i Hans Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations, Chapters 1 through 7, pp. 3-69, 1948. 1 November, Containment, Nuclear Strategy, and Regionalism George F. Kennan, X, The Sources of Soviet Conduct, Foreign Affairs, July 1947. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar/x.htm Henry Kissinger, Force and Diplomacy in the Nuclear Age, Foreign Affairs, V. 34, N. 3, pp. 349366, April 1956. Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, Chapters 1 and 3, pp. 3-20 and 53-80, 1960. David Mitrany, The Functional Approach to World Organization, International Affairs, July 1948. http://www.jstor.org/view/00205850/di012317/01p13374 Karl Deutsch et. al., Political Community and the North Atlantic Area, in International Political Communities, pp. 1-24, 1957. Ernst B. Haas, The Uniting of Europe, Chapter 1, pp. 3-31, 1958. 8 November, Behavioralism: The New 'Science' of International Politics Bruce M. Russett, The Calculus of Deterrence, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1963. http://www.jstor.org/view/00220027/ap010031/01a00010 Morton A. Kaplan, System and Process in International Politics, Chapter 2, pp. 21-53, 1967. J. David Singer, The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations, in James N. Rosenau (ed.) International Politics and Foreign Policy, Chapter 3, pp. 20-29, 1969. Selection from the Kaplan Bull debate 15 November, Transnational Analyses Joseph Nye and Robert Keohane, Transnational Relations and World Politics, Introduction, pp. ixxxix, 1971. Theotonio Dos Santos, The Structure of Dependence, American Economic Review, pp. 231-236, May 1970. http://www.jstor.org/view/00028282/di950422/95p0036o Johan Galtung, A Structural Theory of Imperialism, Journal of Peace Research, 1971. http://www.jstor.org/view/00223433/ap020031/02a00010 F.H. Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America, Preface to the English Edition, pp. vii-xxv, 1979 (original text in Spanish in 1967). Robert Gilpin, U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation, Chapter I, pp. 20-43, 1975. 22 November, Theories of International Society: the English School Martin Wight, Why is There No International Theory? in Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight (eds.), Diplomatic Investigations, 1966. Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society, Chapters 1-2, pp. 3-52, 1977.

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Hedley Bull and Adam Watson, The Evolution of International Society, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), Chapters 1 and 25. Christian Reus-Smit, "The Constitutional Structure of International Society and the Nature of Fundamental Institutions" International Organization Vol. 51 No. 4, 1997, pp. 555-89. Stable URL: Andrew Hurrell, On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), Chapter 1, pp 1-24 29 November, Neorealism and Hegemonic Stability Theory Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics, reprinted in Keohane, Neorealism and Its Critics, Chapters 2-5, 1979. Charles P. Kindleberger, The World in Depression, Chapter 14, pp. 291-308, 1973. Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics, Chapter 1, pp. 9-49, 1981. 6 December, Liberal Institutionalism and Rational Choice Theory Stephen Krasner, International Regimes, pp. 1-21, 1981. Robert Keohane, After Hegemony, Chapter 6, pp. 85-109, 1984. Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation, Chapter 4, pp. 73-87, 1984. Kenneth Oye, Cooperation Under Anarchy, Chapter 1, pp. 1-24, 1986. Robert Keohane, "International Institutions: Two Approaches," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 379-396, 1988. 13 December, Post-Modernism, the Inter-Paradigm Debate, and Constructivism Richard Ashley, The Poverty of Neo-Realism, reprinted as Chapter 9 in Keohane (ed.), Neorealism and Its Critics, pp. 255-300, 1984. Yosef Lapid, The Third Debate: On the Prospects of International Theory in a Post-Positivist Era, International Studies Quarterly, pp. 235-254, 1989. http://www.jstor.org/view/00208833/di012078/01p0272i Alexander Wendt, The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory, International Organization, Vol. 41, Number 3, pp. 335-370, Summer 1987. http://www.jstor.org/view/00208183/dm980259/98p0152c Emanuel Adler, Constructivism and International Relations, Chapter 5 in Handbook of International Relations, 2002. 20 December, Defining the Post Cold War World and After Francis Fukuyama, The End of History? The National Interest, pp. 3-18, Summer 1989. Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations, Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993. http://www.alamut.com/subj/economics/misc/clash.html Ann Tickner, Feminist Perspectives on International Relations Chapter 14 in Handbook of International Relations, 2002. David Rapoport, The Four Waves of Modern Terrorism, in Audrey Cronin and James Ludes (eds.) Attacking Terrorism, 2004. Didier Bigo and Anastasia Tsoukala, Terror, Liberty, Insecurity: Illiberal practices of liberal regimes. Routledge Liberty Security Collection, Chapter 1, 2007.

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