Seminar and lecture programme
Part I Issues and concepts in International Relations
Weeks 1-2 The classical agenda
Week 1Lecture 1a Introductory lecture: why we study IR (Martin Shaw)
(with explanation of the research exercise to be submitted in week 5)
Lecture 1b War, peace, states and security (Martin Shaw)
Seminar Introductory meeting with tutor
Week 2
Lecture 2a Economic and social issues: the rise of international political economy (Martin Shaw)
Seminar:
What is the role of war and peace in the classic 'realist' issue agenda of IR?
How and why has the classic agenda concerning conflict changed - can the demands of human rights be reconciled with those of security?
Essential readings
Booth, K. 'Security and Emancipation', Review of International Studies, 17, 4, 1991, 313-26
Brown, C. Understanding International Relations, 2nd edition. London: Macmillan 2001, Chapters 4 and 5, 'The State and Foreign Policy' and 'Power and Security', 68-105
Buzan, B. People, States and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era Hemel Hempstead: Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1991, Chapter 1, 1-34
Clark, I. Globalization and Fragmentation. Oxford: OUP, 1997, Chapter 1, 16-33
James, A. 'The Realism of Realism: The State and the Study of International Relations.' Review of International Studies. 15, July 1989, 215-229.
Kaldor, M. New and Old Wars. Cambridge: Polity, 1999, Chapters 1 and 2
Tickner, J. 'Re-visioning security' in K. Booth and S. Smith, eds., International Relations Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity, 1995, 175-98
Supplementary readings
Baylis, J. 'International Security in the Post-Cold War Era', in J. Baylis and S. Smith, eds., The Globalization of World Politics, 2nd edition. Oxford: OUP 2001
Booth, K. ed. The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions. London: Cass, 2001
Cohen, S. States of Denial. Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering. Cambridge: Polity, 2001, Chapter 1, The elementary forms of denial
<http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/105cohen.pdf>Cox, M. 'The end of the Cold War and why we failed to predict it', in A. Hunter, ed., Rethinking the Cold War, Philadelphia: Temple, 1998, 157-74
Duffield, M. Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security. London: Pluto, 2001, Chapter 2, 'The merging of development and security'
Dunne, T. and Wheeler, N., eds., Human Rights in World Politics, Cambridge; CUP, 1999
Fukuyama, F. The End of History and the Last Man. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992.
Lebow, R. N. 'The Rise and Fall of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective.' Review of International Studies. 25, Special Issue, December 1999, 21-39.
Mearsheimer, J. 'Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War.' International Security, 15, 1991, 5-56.
Nicholson, M. International Relations: A Concise Introduction. London: Macmillan, 1998, Chapter 4.
Rosenberg, J. The Empire of Civil Society. London: Verso, 1994, Chapter 1, 'The Trouble with Realism', 9-37
Shaw, M. Global Society and International Relations, Cambridge: Polity, 1994, Chapter 4, '"There is no such thing as society": beyond the individual-statism dilemma in international relations' <
http://www.martinshaw.org/global4.htm>, 87-116, also in Review of International Studies, 19, 1993, 159-175Snyder, C., ed. Contemporary Security and Strategy, London: Macmillan 1999
Waever, O. et al., Migration and the New Security Agenda in Europe, London: Pinter, 1993, Chapter 2, 17-40
Waltz, K. 'The Emerging Structure of International Politics.' International Security. 18, 44-79
Waltz, K. Man, the State and War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959, 80-124.
Waltzer, M. Just and Unjust Wars. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
Weeks 2-3 The new agenda
Week 2Lecture 2b Globalization, governance and integration (Martin Shaw)
Lecture 3a Essay writing (Libby Assassi)
Week 3
Lecture 3b New wars, human rights and global order (Martin Shaw)
Seminar:
How are economic, social and environmental issues linked to the rise of international political economy?
How fundamental a change is 'globalization' and what does it mean for the way we think about international relations?
Essential readings
Jackson, R. and Sorenson, G. Introduction to International Relations. Oxford: OUP, 1999, Chapters 6, 'IPE', 175-216, and 8, 'New Issues in IR', 249-70
Tooze, R. 'International Political Economy in an Age of Globalization'; Scholte, J.A. 'The globalization of world politics'; and Part Four, 'International Issues', in J. Baylis and S Smith, eds., The Globalization of World Politics, 2nd edition. Oxford: OUP 2001
Scholte, J.A. Globalization: A Critical Introduction, London: Macmillan, 1999, especially 'Core theses', 8-9
Held, D. et al., eds., Global Transformations Reader, Cambridge: Polity, 2000, chapters by A. Giddens, M. Mann, S. Strange, A. Smith, P. Hirst and G. Thompson, C. Brown, O. O'Neill, 54-60, 92-98, 136-47, 148-55, 239-48, 274-86, 442-52, 453-61
Supplementary readings
Brown, C. Understanding International Relations. London: Macmillan, 1997, Chapters 8, 9, 10
Brenton, T. The Greening of Machiavelli: The Evolution of International Environmental Politics. London: Earthscan, 1994.
Gill, S. and D. Law. The Global Political Economy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988, 1-80.
Gilpin, R. 'Three Ideologies of Political Economy.' The Political Economy of International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987, 25-64.
Held, D., A. McGrew, D. Goldblatt, and J. Perraton. Global Transformations. Cambridge: Polity, 1999, Chapters 5, 6 and 8.
Hirst, P. and G. Thompson. Globalisation in Question. Cambridge: Polity, 1999, Chapter 1.
Hurrell, A. 'International Political Theory and the Global Environment.' International Relations Theory Today. Eds. K. Booth and S. Smith. Cambridge: Polity, 1995.
Hurrell, A. and B. Kingsbury, eds. The International Politics of the Environment. Oxford: OUP, 1992, esp. Chapter 1.
Krasner, S. D. 'International Political Economy: Abiding Discord.' Review of International Political Economy 11, Spring 1994, 13-20; and S. Strange, 'Wake up, Krasner! The World Has Changed.' Review of International Political Economy. 12, 209-219.
O'Brien, R. 'International Political Economy and International Relations: Apprentice or Teacher?' in J. MacMillan and A. Linklater. Boundaries in Question: New Direction in International Relations. London: Pinter, 1995, 89-106
Porter, G., and J. Brown. Global Environmental Politics. Boulder: Westview, 1991.
Rowlands, I. H., and M. Greene, eds. Global Environmental Change and International Relations. London: Macmillan, 1992.
Rosenberg, J. The Follies of Globalisation Theory. London: Verso, 2000, Chapter 1, Introduction, 1-16 <
http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/012rosenberg.htm>Ruggie, J. G. 'International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order.' International Organisation. 35:2, Spring 1982, 295-231.
Shaw, M. Theory of the Global State. Cambridge: CUP, 2000, Chapter 1, 'Globality: historical change in our time' <
http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/012shaw.htm>Strange, S. 'Political Economy and International Relations' in K. Booth and S. Smith, eds., International Relations Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity, 1995, 154-74; The Retreat of the State. Cambridge: CUP, 1996, Chapter 1, 'The declining authority of states', 1-13 (reprinted in Held et al., Global Transformations Reader)
Tickner, J. A. 'On the Fringes of the World Economy: A Feminist Perspective.' The New Political Economy. Eds. C. N. Murphy and R. Tooze. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1991, 191-206
Vogler, J. 'The Politics of the Global Environment.' Global Politics: An Introduction. Eds. C. Bretherton and G. Ponton. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Youngs, G. International Relations in a Global Age. Cambridge: Polity, 1999, Chapter 6.
Week 4 Concepts and theories
Lecture 4a Facts, concepts and historical knowledge (Martin Shaw)
Lecture 4b Theory, science and ideology (Martin Shaw)
Seminar:
What are concepts and theories and do they help us to understand 'empirical' international relations?
What are the implications of the diversity of theoretical approaches? Can we ever 'know' or 'understand' anything, or do we just express a point of view?
Essential readings
Hollis, M. and S. Smith. 'The Growth of the Discipline.' Explaining and Understanding International Relations. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990, 16-44.
Jackson, R. and Sorenson, G. Introduction to International Relations. Oxford: OUP, 1999, Chapter 7, 'Methodological debates', 217-48
Lapid, Y. 'The third debate :on the prospects of international theory in a post-positivist era', International studies quarterly, 33, 3,1989 (Reserve)
MacLean, J. 'Political theory, international theory and problems of ideology', Millennium, 10, 2, 1981
Mann, M. The Sources of Social Power. Cambridge: CUP, 1993, Chapter 21, 'Empirical culmination - over the top: Geopolitics, class struggle and World War I', 740-802
Rosenberg, J. 'The international imagination: IR theory and `Classic social analysis', Millennium
, 23, 1, Spring 1994Supplementary readings
Hocking, B. and M Smith. World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations. London: Prentice Hall/Harvester, 1995, Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Holsti, K.J. The Dividing Discipline: Hegemony and Diversity in International Relations. London: Allen & Unwin, 1985 .
Keat, R. and J. Urry. Social theory as science, London : Routledge, 1982
Keohane, R., ed. Neorealism and Its Critics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
Little R. and M. Smith, eds. 'Introduction.' Perspectives on World Politics. 2nd edition. London: Routledge, 1991, 1-21.
McGrew, A. G. and P. G. Lewis Global Politics Cambridge: Polity, 1992 .
Mills, C.W. The Sociological Imagination. London: Penguin, 1959
Morgenthau, H. Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. 6th edition. New York: Knopf, 1985 .
Nicholson, M. International Relations: A Concise Introduction. London: Macmillan, 1998, Chapter 1.
Nicholson, M. Rationality and the analysis of international conflict, Cambridge: CUP, 1992, Final chapter
Peterson, V. S. and A. S. Runyan. Global Gender Issues. Boulder: Westview, 1993, 1-16.
Rosenau, J.N. Turbulence in World Politics. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990, Chapter 2, 21-46
Smith, S., ed. International Relations: British and American Perspectives. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985.
Strange, S. 'What About International Relations?' The Theory and Practice of International Relations, 8th edition. Ed. W C. Olson. London: Prentice Hall, 1991, 4-13.
Taylor, T., ed. Approaches and Theory in International Relations. London: Longman, 1978, Chapter 1.
Woods, N., ed. Explaining International Relations Since 1945. Oxford: OUP, 1996, Chapter 1 and 2.
Week 5 Ideas and power
Lecture 5a Power in social and international relations (Martin Shaw)Lecture 5b Interests and values (Martin Shaw)
Seminar:
What are the different ways in which we can think about power and interests in international relations?
If actors' interests always enter in, can there be ethical international action? Discuss in relation to Kosovo.
Essential readings
Barry, B. 'Can States be Moral'; 'Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective' and 'And Who is My Neighbour' in Democracy, Power and Justice, Oxford: Clarendon,1991
Booth, K. ed. The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions. London: Cass, 2001
Brown, C. International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993, Introduction and Chapter 5
Chomsky, N. The new military humanism: lessons from Kosovo. London: Pluto, 1999 or Rogue States. London: Pluto 2000. London: Pluto, 1999 or Rogue States. London: Pluto 2000
Lukes, S. Power: A Radical View. London: Macmillan, 1974
Walzer, M. Just and Unjust Wars. 2nd edition, NY: Basic Books, 1992. Chapters 1, 'Against "Realism"', 3-20, and 16, 'Supreme Emergency', 251-68
Wheeler, N. Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society. Oxford: OUP 2000, Introduction, 1-13, and Chapter 1, Humanitarian Intervention and International Society <
http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/012wheeler.pdf>, 21-54Supplementary readings
Beitz, C. Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Beitz, C. 'Sovereignty, Morality and International Affairs.' Political Theory Today. Ed. D. Held. Cambridge: Polity, 1994.
Bossuyt, M. 'International Human Rights Systems: Strengths and Weaknesses.' Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century: A Global Challenge. Eds. Mahoney and Mahoney. 1993.
Donnelly, J. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989, parts IV and V.
Ellis, A., ed. Ethics and International Affairs. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986.
Elshtain, J.B. 'Reflections on War and Political Discourse: Realism, Just War and Feminism in a Nuclear Age.' Just War Theory. Ed. J.B. Elshtain. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
Falk, R. Human Rights and State Sovereignty. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1981, parts IV and V.
Forbes, I. and M. Hoffman, eds. Political Theory, International Relations and the Ethics of Intervention. London: MacMillan, 1993.
Geras, N. The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy after the Holocaust. London: Verso, 1998
Held, D. Dermocracy and Global Order, Cambridge: Polity, 1995, Chapter 12, 'Cosmopolitan democracy and the new international order', 267-86
Held, V. Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society and Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, Chapter 3.
Hoffman, M. 'Normative International Theory: Approaches and Issues.' Contemporary International Relations: A Guide to Theory. Eds. A.J.R. Groom and M. Light. London: Pinter, 1994.
Linklater, A. Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations. 2nd edition. London: Macmillan, 1990, Chapters 1 and 2.
Lukes, S. Essays in Social Theory. London: Macmillan, 1977.
Nagel, T. Equality and Partiality. Oxford: OUP, 1991.
Nardin, T. 'Ethical Traditions in International Affairs' in Traditions of International Ethics. Eds. T. Nardin and D. Mapel. Cambridge: CUP, 1992, 1-22.
Nicholson, M. International Relations: A Concise Introduction. London: Macmillan, 1998, Chapter 10.
O'Neill, O. 'Justice, Gender and International Boundaries.' International Justice and the Third World. Ed. R.Attfield and B.Wilkins. London: Routledge, 1992.
Pettman, J. J. Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics. London: Routledge, 1996, 208-211.
Renteln, A. D. International Human Rights: Universalism vs. Relativism. London: Sage Publications, 1992.
Smith, S. 'The Forty Years Detour: The Resurgence of Normative Theory in International Relations.' Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 21:3, 489-506.
Vincent, R.J. Human Rights and International Relations. Cambridge: CUP, 1986, Chapters 6,7, 8.
Youngs, G. International Relations in a Global Age. Cambridge: Polity, 1999, ch. 4.
Part II: Conceptualizing structures and actors
Week 6 Systems and societies
Lecture 6a Systems: international and world (Martin Coward)
Lecture 6b Societies, cultures and networks (Martin Coward)
Seminar:
What does it mean to say that there is a 'structure' in world politics?
How do you evaluate the main competing concepts of system, society and power network?
Essential reading
Baylis, J. and S Smith, eds., The Globalization of World Politics, 2nd edition. Oxford: OUP 2001, Chapters by Robert Jackson, 'The Evolution of International Society', and Steve Hobden and Richard Wynne Jones, 'World-System Theory'
Bull, H. The Anarchical Society. London: Macmillan, 1977, part 1
Giddens, A. The constitution of society: outline of the theory of structuration Cambridge: Polity, 1984
Hollis, M. and S. Smith. 'The International System.' Explaining and Understanding International Relations. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990, 92-118.
Mann, M. The Sources of Social Power. Volume 1. Cambridge: CUP, 1986, Chapter 1, 'Societies as organized power networks', 1-33
McGrew, A.G. and P.G. Lewis, eds., Global politics: globalization and the nation-state. Cambridge: Polity,1992, Ch. 1
Waltz, K. Theory of International Politics. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979, 60-78.
Supplementary reading
Shaw, M. Global Society and Internaitonal Relations, Cambridge: Polity, 1994, Chapter 5
Bull, H. 'International Theory: The Case for a Classical Approach.' Classics of International Relations. Ed. J Vasquez. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1986, 90-95
Brown, C. Understanding International Relations. London: Macmillan, 2001, Chapters 2 and 3.
Frank, A.G. and Gills, B., eds., The World System. London: Routledge, 1993, Chapter 1, 'The 5,000-year world system: an interdisciplinary introduction', 3-58
Giddens, A. The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity, 1991, Chapter 1, 1-54
Held, D. 'Sovereignty, National Politics and the Global System.' Political Theory and the Modern State. Cambridge: Polity, 1989, 214-242
Hollis, M. and Smith, S. 'Beware of gurus: structure and action in international relations', Review of International Studies 17(4) 1991: 393-410.
Hollis, M. and Smith, S. 'Two stories about agency and structure', Review of International Studies 20(3) 1994: 214-251.
Little, R. 'Structuralism and Realism.' International Relations: Handbook of Current Theory. Eds. M. Light and J. Groom.
McGrew, A.G. 'A Global Society.' Global Politics, Globalisation and the Nation-State. Eds. A. McGrew and P. Lewis. Cambridge: Polity, 1992, Chapter 1.
Nicholson, M. International Relations: A Concise Introduction. London: Macmillan, 1998, Chapter 6.
Robertson, R. Globalisation: Social Theory and Global Culture. London: Sage, 1992, Chapters 1, 3, 12
Rosenau, J.N. Turbulence in World Politics. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990, Chapter 1, 3-20
Ruggie, J.G. 'Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations.' International Organisation. 47, Winter 1993, 139-74.
Scholte, J. A. 'Order and Agency in World-Systemic Dynamics of Change.' International Relations of Social Change. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993, 119-130.
Taylor, T., ed. Approaches and Theory in International Relations. Chapter 9.
Thompson, W.R. Contending Approaches to World System Analysis Beverly Hills: Sage, 1983, 7-24.
Wallerstein, I. 'Societal Development or Development of the World System?' International Sociology. 1, 1986: 3-17.
Wendt. A. 'The Agent-Structure Problem in IR Theory.' International Organisation, 41:3, 1987.
Week 7 Social and international structure
Lecture 7a Social action and social domains (Martin Shaw)
Lecture 7b The international and other spatially defined domains (Martin Coward)
Seminar:
What are the issues raised for international relations by dividing up society into economy, civil society, state, military, ideology, etc?
In what sense is the international sphere distinct from the domestic, transnational and global?
Essential reading
Giddens, A. The Nation-State and Violence. Cambridge: Polity, 1985, Chapter 11, 'Modernity, Totalitarianism and Critical Theory', 294-341
Halliday, F. 'State and Society in International Relations' in State and Society in International Relations.' Eds. M. Banks and M. Shaw. London: Harvester, 1991, 191-209 and in Millennium 16, Summer 1987: 215-229.
Mann, M. The Sources of Social Power, Volume II. Cambridge: CUP, 1993, Chapter 2, 'Economic and ideological power relations', 23-43
Marx, K. 'Preface' to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1971, 19-26 (and many other editions)
Strange, S. States and Markets. London: Pinter 1988, Chapter 2, 'Power in The World Economy', 23-42
Wendt, A. Social Theory of International Politics. Cambridge: CUP, 1999, Chapter 1, 'Four sociologies of international relations', 1-46
Supplementary reading
Alexander, J.C. Real Civil Societies, London: Sage, 1998, 'Introduction'
Castells, A. The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996
Dandeker, C. Surveillance, Power and Modernity. Cambridge: Polity, 1990, Ch. 3, 'Military Power, Capitalism and Surveillance', 66-109
Held, D. et al., Global Transformations. Cambridge: Polity, 1999, 1.2 'The Emergence of Global Politics', 49-61
Garnett, J. C. 'States, State-Centric Perspectives and Interdependence Theory.' Dilemmas of World Politics. Eds. J. Bayliss and N. Rengger. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.
Howard, M. Clausewitz. Oxford: OUP, 1981, Chapter 3, 'Ends and means in war', 34-46
Kaldor, M. 'Warfare and Capitalism', in New Left Review, ed., Exterminism and Cold War, London: Verso, 1982, 261-88
Keohane, R. and J. Nye. Transnational Relations and World Politics. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1972, IX-XXIX
Larain, J. The Concept of Ideology. London: Hutchinson, 1979.
Polanyi, K. The Great Transformation. NY: Beacon, 1957. Chapter 6, 'The self-regulating market', 68-76
Rosenberg, J. The Empire of Civil Society. London: Verso, 1994, Chapter 2, 38-58
Shaw, M. Global Society and International Relations, Cambridge: Polity, 1994, Chapter 1, 'The Challenge of Global Society' <
http://www.martinshaw.org/global1.htm>Thompson, J.B. Ideology and Modern Culture, Cambridge: Polity, 1990, Chapter 1, 'The Concept of Ideology', 28-73
Week 8 State, nation and international organization
Lecture 8a Nations and nation-states (Martin Coward)Lecture 8b State power and international organizations (Martin Shaw)
What are states and nations: under what circumstances can we identify the nation with the state?
What is the relationship between the 'internationalization of the state' and the growth of international organizations?
Essential readings
Anderson, B. Imagined Communities. London: Verso, 1983, Chapter 3, 'The Origins of National Consciousness', 41-49
Cox, R.W. Production, Power and World Order. New York: Columbia UP, 1987, section on 'The internationalisation of the state'
Mann, M. The Sources of Social Power. Cambridge: CUP, 1993, Chapter 1, 'A Theory of the Modern State', 44-92
Murphy, C.N. International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance Since 1850. Cambridge: Polity, 1994, Chapter 1
Smith, A. National Identity, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991, Chapter 1, 'National and other identities', 1-18; Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era. Cambridge: Polity, 1995, Chapter 6, 'In defence of the nation', 147-60
Halliday, F. Rethinking International Relations. London: Macmillan, 1994, Chapter 4, 'State and Society in International Relations', 74-93
Supplementary readings
Archer, C. International Organisations. London: Routledge, 1992, Chapters. 1 and 2.
Bourantonis, D. and J. Wiener, eds. The United Nations in the New World Order. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995, esp. Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6.
Craig Calhoun, ‘Nationalism and Civil Society’, International Sociology, 8, 293-316
Cederman, L-E. Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997, Chapters 1 and 6
Colley, L. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837. London: Pimlico, 1992, Introduction, 1-10
Giddens, A. The Nation-State and Violence. Cambridge: Polity, 1985, Chapter 1, 'State, Society and Modern History', 7-34
Guibernau, M. Nationalism. Cambridge: Polity, 1996.
Held, D., A. McGrew, D. Goldblatt, and J. Perraton. Global Transformations. Cambridge: Polity, 1999, Chapter 1:3.
Hobsbawm, E. Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Cambridge: CUP, 1992, Chapter 6.
Jackson, R. H. Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World. Cambridge: CUP, 1993, Chapters 1 and 5.
Keohane, R., and J. Nye, 'Transgovernmental Relations and International Organisations.' World Politics. 27 October 1974, 39-62.
Keohane, R. International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory. Boulder: Westview, 1989, Chapters 1, 7.
Lee, K. 'A Neo-Gramscian Approach to International Organisation.' Boundaries in Question: New Direction in International Relations. Eds. John MacMillan and Andrew Linklater. Pinter: London, 1995, 144-162.
Mann, M. States, War and Capitalism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988, Chapter 1, 'The autonomous power of the state' (also in Archives europeennes de sociologie, XXV, 1984, 185-213)
Mann, M. 'Has Globalisation Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?' Review of International Political Economy. 4:3, Autumn 1997, 472-96.
Roberts, A. and B. Kingsbury, eds. United Nations, Divided World. 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993, esp. Chapters 1 and 2.
Shaw, M. 'The State of Globalization'. Review of International Political Economy. 4:3, Autumn 1997, 497-513.
Shaw, M. Theory of the Global State. Cambridge: CUP, 2000, Part III
Weiss, L. 'Globalisation and National Governance: Antimony or Interdependence?' Review of International Studies. 25, Special Issue, December 1999, 59-88.
Weiss, T., D. Forsythe, D. and R. Coate. The United Nations and Changing World Politics. Boulder: Westview, 1994, esp. Chapter 4.
Williams, M. International Economic Organisations and the Third World. New York: Wheatsheaf, 1994, 26-50.
Week 9 Capital, class and movement
Lecture 9a Capital, firms and classes (Martin Shaw)Lecture 9b New social movements, international non-governmental organizations and civil society (guest lecturer: Professor Ronnie Lipschutz, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Seminar:
What are the roles of social classes in international relations?
How strong are the radical 'promises' of social movements and civil society in world politics?
Essential readings
Cox, R. Production, Power and World Order, NY: Columbia UP 1987 Chapter 10, 'The formation of classes and historic blocs', 355-91
Halliday, F. Revolutions and World Politics. London: Macmillan, 1999, Chapter 1, 1-26
Mann, M. The Sources of Social Power. Cambridge: CUP, 1993, Chapter 20, 723-39, 'Theoretical conclusions: classes, states, nations, and the sources of social power'
RA Falk, 'The Global Promise of Social Movements: Explorations at the Edge of Time', Alternatives, April 1987, 173-96
Millennium, 23, 3, Winter 1994, Special issue, ‘Social Movements and World Politics’, chapters by Martin Shaw and RBJ Walker, 647-68 and 669-700
Scott, A. Ideology and the New Social Movements. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990, Chapter 1, 'New social movements - major themes', 13-36
Supplementary readings
Black, M. A Cause for our Times: Oxfam: the first 50 years. Oxford: OUP, 1992.
Colas, A. J. ‘The Promises of International Civil Society’, Global Society: Interdisciplinary Journal of International Relations 11, 3, September 1997, 261-277
Cox, R. 'Social forces, states and world order', Millennium, Summer 1981; 'Civil Society at the turn of the millennium: prospects for an alternative world order', Review of International Studies 25 (1): 3-28, 1999
Falk, R. 'The Infancy of Global Civil Society', in G. Lundestad and O. Westad, eds. Beyond the Cold War: New Dimensions in International Relations 1992
Falk, R. On Humane Governance. Cambridge: Polity, 1995
Fisher, J. The Road from Rio: Sustainable Development and the Nongovernmental Movement in the Third World. Westport: Praeger, 1993.
Gilpin, R. US Power and the Multinational Corporation. London: Macmillan, 1976
Holmen, H. and Jirstrom, M. Ground Level Development: NGOs, Co-Ops and Local Organisations in the Third World. 1994.
Keane, J., ed. Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives, London: Verso, 1988, esp 1-32 and 73-99
Macdonald, L. 'Globalising Civil Society: Interpreting International NGOs in Central America', Millennium, 23 Summer 1994, 267-85
McCormick, J. Reclaiming Paradise: The Global Environmental Movement. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Mann, M. ‘Authoritarian and Liberal Militarism: A Contribution from Historical Sociology’ in Steve Smith, Ken Booth and Marysia Zalewski, eds. International Theory: Positivism and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996
Marx, K. Capital, Volume 1. Chapter 1, Section 4.
Peterson, M. 'Transnational Activity, International Society and World Politics' and R. Lipschutz, 'Reconstructing World Politics: The Emergence of Global Civil Society', Millennium, 21, 3, Winter 1992, 371-88 and 389-420
Shaw, M. Civil Society, in Lester Kurtz, ed, Encyclopaedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, San Diego: Academic Press, 1999; <www.martinshaw.org/cs.htm>
Shaw, M. Civil Society and Media in Global Crises. London: Pinter, 1996. Chapter 1, 'Distance, Representation and Global Civil Society', 1-16.
Shaw, M. Theory of the Global State. Cambridge: CUP, 2000. Part II, 'History and Agency', 101-72
Skocpol, T. States and Social Revolutions. Cambridge: CUP, 1979, Chapter 1, 3-46
Strange, S. 'Rethinking Structural Change in the International Political Economy: States, Firms and Diplomacy', in R. Stubbs and G. Underhill, eds., Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, London: Macmillan, 1994, 103-15
Van der Pijl, K. Transnational Classes and International Relations. London; Routledge, 1998, Chapter 4, 'Transnational class formation and historical hegemonies', 98-135
Van der Pijl, K. The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, London: Verso, 1984
Walzer, M. Toward a global civil society, Leamington Spa: Berghahn, 1995
Willetts, P., ed. Pressure Groups in the Global System: The Transnational Politics of Issue-Orientated Non-Governmental Organizations Pinter 1982
Zunes, S. et al., eds. Nonviolent Social Movements. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000
Week 10 Identity and gender
Lecture 10a Culture and identity in world politics (Martin Coward)Lecture 10b Sex, gender and world politics (Martin Coward)
Seminar:
How and why are culture and identity important in contemporary international relations?
Why is the gendering of international relations important: are women actors victims and/or actors in them?
Essential readings
Brown, C. International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993, Introduction and Chapter 5.
Featherstone, M. 'Global culture: an introduction', and Smith, A., 'Towards a global culture?', in Featherstone, ed., Global Culture, London: Sage, 1990, 1-14 and 171-92
Lapid, Y. 'Culture's ship: returns and departures in international relations theory' in Y. Lapid and F. Krachtowil, eds. The Return of Culture and Identity in International Relations, London: Lynne Reiner, 1997, 3-20
Zalewski, M. and C. Enloe. 'Questions about Identity in International Relations.' International Relations Theory Today. Eds. K. Booth and S. Smith. Cambridge: Polity, 1995.
Cockburn, C. 'The gendered dynamics of armed conflict and political violence', in C. Moser & F. Clark, eds. Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? London: Pluto, 2001, 13-29
Enloe, C. 'Gender Makes the World Go Round,' and 'Conclusion.' Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Since of International Relations. London: Pandora, 1989, 1-18 and 195-201.
Supplementary readings
Alternatives: Special Edition: Feminists Write International Relations. 18:1, 1993.
Brah, A. 'Re-Framing Europe: En-Gendered Racisms, Ethnicities and Nationalisms in Contemporary Western Europe.' Feminist Review. 45, 9-29.
Calhoun, C., ed. Social Theory and the Politics of Identity. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994
Connolly, W. E. 'Identity and Difference in Global Politics.' International/Intertextual Relations. Eds. J. Der Derian and M. Shapiro. New York: Lexington, 1989.
Elshtain, J.B. Women and War. Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1987.
Enloe, C. Does Khaki Become You?: The Militarization of Women's Lives. London: Pandora, 1994
Eschle, C. Global Democracy, Social Movements and Feminism. Boulder: Westview, 2001
Grant, R. 'The Sources of Gender Bias in International Relations Theory.' Gender and International Relations. Eds. R. Grant and K. Newland. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991.
Huntington, S.P. 'The Clash of Civilizations' Foreign Affairs, 72, 1996, 22-49 or The Clash of Civilizations. Simon and Schuster: New York, 1996
Keith, M. and S. Pile, eds. Place and the Politics of Identity. London: Routledge, 1993.
Millennium: Special Issue on Gender and International Relations, Winter 1988.
Moghadem, V. Identity Politics and Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective. Oxford: Westview, 1993, Chapter 1.
Peterson, V. S. Gendered States: Feminist Re-Visions of International Relations Theory. London: Lynne Rienner, 1992.
Peterson, V. S. and A. S. Runyan. Global Gender Issues. Boulder: Westview, 1993, Chapters 1 and 2.
Peterson, V. S. 'Transgressing Boundaries: Theories of Knowledge, Gender and International Relations.' Millennium. 21, 183-206.
Peterson, V. S. 'The Politics of Identity in International Relations.' The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. 17, 1-12.
Rich, P. 'European Identity and the Myth of Islam.' Review of International Studies. 25:3, July 1999, 435-51.
Pettman, J. J. Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics London: Routledge 1996 .
Steans, J. Gender and International Relations Cambridge: Polity 1998.
Sylvester, C. Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
Sylvester, C. 'Hans Morgenthau's Political Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation.' Millennium. 17.
Tickner, J. A. Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Waever, O., 'Societal security', in Waever, B. Buzan, M. Kelstrup and P. Lemaitre. Identity, Migration and the New Security Agenda in Europe. London: Pinter, 1993, 21-40.
Youngs, G. International Relations in a Global Age. Cambridge: Polity, 1999, 135-40.
Zalewski, M. 'The Women/'Women' Question in International Relations.' Millennium. 23, 407-23.