Dr D Anand Course guide 2011-12 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (1): THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES (Semester One)

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Course code: 1ISP7A3 Module leader: Dr Dibyesh Anand (DA) Email: d.anand@wmin.ac.uk Office location: Room 501, Wells Street (WS) Office hours: Monday 1300-1500 and Tuesday 1300-1400 Co-convenors Professor Roland Dannreuther (RD) Email:r.dannreuther@westminster.ac.uk Office location: WS 511 Professor David Chandler Email: d.chandler@westminster.ac.uk Office location: WS 504 Dr Frands Pedersen (FP) Email: F.Pedersen01@westminster.ac.uk Office location: WS 514 Teaching Location: Tuesday (1000-1300) Lecture 1000-1200 (LTS - Little Titchfield Street - 2.05c) Seminar 1200-1300 (Group 1 LTS2.06a; Group 2 - LTS2.06b; Groups 3 LTS2.12)

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES International Relations 1 1ISP7A3 7 20 School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages Politics and International Relations 1 semester Dr Dibyesh Anand 7601 MA International Relations (IR), MA IRGC, MA IRDP, MA IRS, MA IREP None None 2 essays of 2,500 words (50% each) The module introduces students to the competing bodies of thought in IR theory, the debates they have triggered, and the way that IR theory has developed as a consequence of those debates.

Module Aims This course charts the development of International Relations as an academic discipline, locating the dominant theoretical perspectives within their historical and political contexts. The central theme is the analysis of how a broad range of theories reflect changes in the subject of IR theory - the sovereign state. It looks at the role of theory in IR, the historical development of the discipline, and focuses on competing theories. The course aims to familiarise students with the rich debate within the discipline and allow them to make up their own mind about their choice of theories.

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Learning Outcomes By the end of this module students will be able to: 1. critically evaluate theoretically and empirically-oriented materials, and apply concepts, theories and methods used in the study of international relations in order to apply them to an analysis of both historical and contemporary practices and policy processes involved in international relations; 2. demonstrate competence in a range of transferable skills, including critical, analytical, communication and independent study skills; 3. gather, organize and deploy evidence, data and information from a variety of secondary and primary sources so as to be able to engage confidently and effectively in academic communication with others on issues and processes in international relations; 4. deliver clearly-presented oral and written reports and presentations on the substance and processes of international relations that are structured by reasoned argument, that synthesize relevant information, and exercise critical judgement at an advanced level. Syllabus Content 1. Overview; History of IR as a discipline; The Sovereignty problematic (DA) 2. The role of theory (DA) 3. Realism (RD) 4. Liberalism (RD) 5. Historical Sociology, Marxism and Critical Theory (RD) 6. English School and Constructivism (DC) 7. Postmodernism (DA) 8. Feminism (DA) 9. Postcolonial IR (DA) 10. Revisiting key concepts and themes in IR theories (DA) 11. Globalization (FP) 12. Independent Study Teaching and Learning Methods Weekly three-hour sessions including lecturers and seminars Self-study Use of Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard), electronic databases and libraries for research Assessment Rationale The essays give students the opportunity to develop critical approaches to the material introduced in the module based upon comprehensive reading. Assessment Criteria The essays should demonstrate that students have understood the issue they are addressing, made themselves familiar with the appropriate literature, and demonstrated the ability both to assess the arguments on all sides of the debate, and to formulate a rationale for their own position. In marking students written work, tutors will consider: the quality of content: the breadth and depth of analysis, the quality of critical comment; the structure: logical development and coherence of the argument; the range of literature used in making the argument; the presentation and layout and the competence with which sources are referenced.1

1 Please follow a recognised and consistent system of referencing. Preference is for in-text Harvard system (Author, Year and page number). This Course guide mixes different formats of bibliographical entries -- please do not take this as an example or encouragement to be careless with mixing styles.

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100% coursework: 2 essays (2,500 words each) worth 50% each of total marks. Key Sources Introductory Reading (Students are advised to buy these two) *Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steven Smith (eds) International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 2nd Ed.. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) [referred henceforth as Dunne et al 2010] - you may also use the first edition for most weeks John Baylis and Steve Smith The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations 4th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) [referred henceforth as Baylis and Smith 2008] Essential Reading Cynthia Weber, International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge, 2001) Chris Brown Understanding International Relations 3rd ed. (London: Palgrave, 2005). Robert Jackson and Georg Srensen Introduction to International Relations 2nd ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Scott Burchill et al, Theories of International Relations 2nd ed (London: Palgrave, 2001). Ken Booth and Steve Smith, (eds) International Relations Theory Today (Oxford: Polity Press: 1995). S. Smith, K. Booth and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). David Bucher, Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Chris Brown, Terry Nardin and Nicholas Rengger (eds) International Relations in Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). E. H. Carr The Twenty Years Crisis 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations (London: Macmillan, 1946). Hans J. Morgenthau Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (New York: Knopf, 1978). James Der Derian (ed.) International Theory: Critical Investigations (London: Macmillan, 1995). Martin Wight, Why Is There No International Theory?, in Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight (eds), Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Relations (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966), pp.17-34. Martin Wight International Theory: The Three Traditions (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1991). Hedley Bull The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1995 (1977)). Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977) Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State and War: A Theoretical Analysis (New York: Columbia Press, 1959). Kenneth Waltz Theory of International Politics (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979). Joseph Nye, Neorealism and Neoliberalism World Politics, Vol.40, No.2, pp.235-251 4

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Robert W. Cox, Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory, Millennium, Vol.10 (1981), pp.126-155. Robert W. Cox, Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations Millennium, Vol. 12 (1983) pp.162-175. Steve Smith (2001) The Discipline Of International Relations: Still An American Social Science?, British Journal Of Politics And International Relations 2, 3: 374402 James Der Derian and Michale Shapiro (eds) (1989) International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings In world Politics, Lexington: D c Heath. Cynthia Enloe (2001) Bananas, Beaches And Bases: Making Feminist Sense Of International Politics, Berkeley, CA: University of California. Jan Jindy Pettman (1996) Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics, London: Routledge. Marysia Zalewski and Jane Parpart (eds) (1998) The Man Question in International Relations, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Geeta Chowdhry and Shiela Nair (eds) (2002) Power in a postcolonial world: race, gender and class in IR, London: Routledge Edward Said (1978) Orientalism, London: Penguin Roxanne Doty (1996) Imperial encounters, London: University of Minnesota Press. Andrew Linklater The Transformation of Community: Ethical Foundations of the Post-Westphalian Era (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998). Beate Jahn, 'One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back: Critical Theory as the Latest Edition of Liberal Idealism' in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, (1998), Vol.27, No.3. Justin Rosenberg The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations (London: Verso, 1994). Alexander Wendt, Anarchy is what States Make of It International Organization, Vol. 46, No.2 (1992), pp.394-419. Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink (eds) The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Chris Brown, Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today (Cambridge: Polity, 2002). R. B. J. Walker, Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Richard K. Ashley, Untying the Sovereign State: A Double Reading of the Anarchy Problematique, Millennium, Vol.17 (1988), pp.227-262. Justin Rosenberg, The Follies of Globalisation Theory (London: Verso, 2002). TEACHING PROGRAMME Week 1. (DA) Overview: History of IR as a discipline; The Sovereignty problematic

Questions for Discussion: 1. What do you mean by the international? 2. What makes IR a discipline? 3. Why is there a question over the subject matter and theory of international relations? 4. Is it correct to conceptualise IR as revolving around the problematic of sovereignty? 5. How is sovereignty linked with the anarchy problematic? Essential reading: 1

Dr D Anand Introduction in Dunne et al 2010 Introduction in Baylis and Smith 2008 Smiths article on Blackboard

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Recommended reading: David Armstrong, A Turbulent World: An Uncertain IR, Journal of International Relations and Development, (2003), Vol.6, No.4, pp.358-371. David Bucher, Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) esp. Chapter 16: Identity, Human Rights, and the Extension of the Moral Community: The Political Theory of International Relations in the Twentieth Century Chris Brown, Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today (Cambridge: Polity, 2002) esp. Chapter 10: Cultural Diversity and International Political theory and Chapter 11: Post-Westphalian International Political Theory Martin Wight International Theory: The Three Traditions (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1991) esp Chapter 1: The Three Traditions; Chapter 2: Theory of Human Nature; Chapter 3: Theory of International Society; Chapter 4: Theory of Mankind: barbarians Review of International Studies, Special Issue, How Might We Live? Global Ethics in a New Century, Vol.26 (2000), esp. Introduction by editors Ken Booth, Tim Dunne and Michael Cox Ken Booth, Human Wrongs and International Relations, International Affairs, Vol.71, No.1, pp.103-26. The Sovereignty Problematic Article by Sheehan from Blackboard (get the referencing details from http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/111.1/sheehan.html Biersteker, T. and Weber, C. (eds.) (1996) State Sovereignty As Social Construct, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Martin Wight, Why Is There No International Theory?, - in Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight (eds), Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Relations (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966), pp.17-34. - in James Der Derian (ed.) International Theory: Critical Investigations (London: Macmillan, 1995). R. B. J. Walker, International Relations and the Concept of the Political, in Ken Booth and Steve Smith, (eds) International Relations Theory Today (Oxford: Polity Press: 1995) Chris Brown Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today (Cambridge: Polity, 2002): Chapter 2: The Westphalia System: the Law of Nations and the Society of States and Chapter 3: Enlightenment and Post-Enlightenment International Thought David Held Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995): Chapter 2: The Emergence of Sovereignty and the Modern State and Chapter 4: The Inter-State System Christopher Clapham Sovereignty and the Third World State Political Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3 (1999) Robert Jackson, Quasi States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) Chris Brown Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today (Cambridge: Polity, 2002): Chapter 1: Introduction: Sovereignty, Rights and Justice Ian Clark Globalization and International Relations Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999): Chapter 4: The Sovereign State G. Srensen Sovereignty: Change and Continuity in a Fundamental Institution Political Studies, Vol. 47 (1999) J. A. Camilleri and J. Falk The End of Sovereignty (Aldershot: Edward Edgar, 1992) 4

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Ian Clark Globalization and International Relations Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) Annan, K. (1999) Two Concepts Of Sovereignty, The Economist, 18 September: 81-82. Ashley, R. (1988) Untying The Sovereign State: A Double Reading Of The Anarchy Problematique, Millennium 17, 2: 231-267. Ashley, R. (1995) The Powers Of Anarchy: Theory, Sovereignty, And The Domestication Of Global Life, in J. Der Derian (ed.) International Theory: Critical Investigations, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Beyond International Society (1992), Special Issue, Millennium 21, 3. Biersteker, T. and Weber, C. (eds.) (1996) State Sovereignty As Social Construct, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bull, H. (1995) Society And Anarchy In International Relations, in J. Der Derian (ed.) International Theory: Critical Investigations, Basingstoke: Macmillan Caporaso, J. A. (2000) Changes In The Westphalian Order: Territory, Public Authority, And Sovereignty, International Studies Review 2, 2: 1-28. Clark, I. (1988) Making sense of sovereignty, Review of International Studies 14, 4: 30307. Fowler, M. R. and Bunck, J. M. (1996) What Constitutes The Sovereign State?, Review of International Studies 22, 4: 381-404. Halliday, F. (1987) State And Society In International Relations, Millennium 16, 2: 215-229 Hinsley, F. H. (1967) The Concept Of Sovereignty And The Relations Between States, Journal Of International Affairs 21, 2: 242-252. Hinsley, F. H. (1986) Sovereignty Jackson, R. H. (1989) Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations And The Third World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. James, A. (1989) Sovereign Statehood: The Basis Of International Society Kegley, C. W. (ed.) (1995) Controversies In International Relations Theory: Realism And The Neo-Liberal Challenge Lauterpacht, E. (1997) Sovereignty: myth or reality?, International Affairs November. Spruyt, H. (1994) The Sovereign State And Its Competitors: An Analysis Of Systems Change, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Thomson, J. E. (1995) State Sovereignty In International Relations: Bridging The Gap Between Theory And Empirical Research, International Studies Quarterly 39: 213-233. Walker, R. B. J. (1991) State Sovereignty And The Articulation Of Political Space/Time, Millennium 20, 3: 445-461 Weber, C. (1992) Reconsidering Statehood: Examining The Sovereignty/Intervention Boundary, Review Of International Studies 18, 3: 199-216 Weber, C. (1995) Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, The State And Symbolic Exchange, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bartleson, J. (1995) A Genealogy Of Sovereignty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mayall, J. Non-Intervention, Self-determination and the New World Order International Affairs, July, 1993. History of IR as a Discipline Dunne et al 2007, chapter 2. Baylis and Smith 2004, chapters 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Chris Brown, Terry Nardin and Nicholas Rengger (eds) International Relations in Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002): Chapter 1: eg. Thucydides; Chapter 5: eg. Machiavelli; Chapter 7: eg. Immanuel Kant Robert Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). 1

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David Bucher Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998): Part 1: Empirical Realism and Part 2: Universal Moral Order Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (ed.) Q. Skinner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) Norman Angell, The Great Illusion (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1910/ reissued 1933) Hans J. Morgenthau Scientific Man versus Power Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946). Christian Lous Langes Presentation Speech awarding the 1933 Nobel Peace Prize to Norman Angell http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1933/press.html Wilson, P. (1998) The Myth Of The First Great Debate, Review of International Studies 24, Special Issue: 1-16 Week 2. 1. 2. 3. The role of theory (DA)

Questions for Discussion What are the key concepts in IR? What do the following mean: State, Sovereignty, Structure, Actors Why do we need theory for studying IR? Essential reading Zalewski, M. (1996) All these theories and yet the bodies keep piling up: theory, theorists, theorising, in S. Smith, K. Booth, and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism And Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dunne et al 2010, chapter 1 Recommended reading Robert Cox, Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, (1981), Vol.10, pp.126-155. ALSO IN Howard Williams, Moorhead Wright and Tony Evans (eds) A reader in International Relations and Political Theory (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992), chapter 21. AND Robert W. Cox with Timothy J. Sinclair (ed.) Approaches to World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), chapter 6. Introductions of : K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International relations theory today, Cambridge: Polity Press. S. Smith, K. Booth, and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism And Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. C. Weber (2001) International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction, London: Routledge. S. Burchill and A. Linklater (eds.) (2001) Theories of International Relations, Rev. Ed., London: Palgrave. Week 3. Realism (RD)

Questions for Discussion 1. Why is the concept of sovereignty central to realism? 2. What is the difference between realism and neo-realism? 3. Can China rise peacefully according to realist theory? Essential reading: 4

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Recommended reading E. H. Carr The Twenty Years Crisis 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations (London: Macmillan, 1946) Hans J. Morgenthau Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (New York: Knopf, 1978): esp. Chapters 1 3] Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State and War: A Theoretical Analysis (New York: Columbia Press, 1959) Tim Dunne and Brian C. Schmidt, Realism, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds) The Globalization of World Politics Jack Donnelly Realism and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000): Chapter 1 Scott Burchill et al Theories of International Relations: Chapter 3: Scott Burchill: Realism and Neo-Realism Kenneth Waltz Theory of International Politics (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979) Robert Keohane (ed.) Neorealism and its Critics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986) Andrew Linklater, Neo-Realism in Theory and Practice, in Ken Booth and Steve Smith, (eds) International Relations Theory Today (Oxford: Polity Press: 1995) Jack Donnelly Realism and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) Scott Burchill et al Theories of International Relations: Chapter 3: Scott Burchill: Realism and Neo-Realism Robert Jackson and Georg Srensen Introduction to International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999): Chapter 3: Realism T. Schelling The Strategy of Conflict (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1980) Week 4. 1. 2. 3. Liberalism (RD)

Questions for Discussion: How is neo-liberalism different from neo-realism? What is liberal about liberal IR? Does liberal institutionalism provide a viable framework for building peace among states? Essential reading: Dunne et al 2007, ch 5 and 6. Baylis and Smith 6, 7 Recommended reading: Justin Rosenberg The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations (London: Verso, 1994) Scott Burchill, Liberalism, in Scott Burchill et al, Theories of International Relations Robert Jackson and Georg Srensen Introduction to International Relations: Chapter 3: Realism and Chapter 4: Liberalism M. W. Doyle Liberalism and World Politics American Political Science Review, Vol. 80, No.4, pp.1151-69 Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977) Joseph Nye Neorealism and Neoliberalism World Politics, Vol. 40, No.2, pp.235-251 1

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Robert Keohane (ed.) Neorealism and its Critics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986) John Baylis and Steve Smith The Globalization of World Politics: Chapter 9: Steven L. Lamy: Contemporary Mainstream Approaches: Neo-Realism and Neo-Liberalism Ole Wver, The Rise and Fall of the Inter-Paradigm Debate, in S. Smith, K. Booth and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Robert Jackson and Georg Srensen Introduction to International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999): Chapter 4: Liberalism David A. Baldwin Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993) Robert Keohane International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory (Boulder: Westview Press) K. W. Deutsch et al Political Community and the North Atlantic Area (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957) Week 5. Historical Sociology, Marxism and Critical Theory (RD)

Questions for Discussion: 1. Does historical sociology sucecsssfully bring back history in IR theory? 2. Discuss the American war in Iraq (2003 and the aftermath) from a Marxist perspective. 3. Are Marxist analyses of international relations relevant in the post-Cold war period? Essential reading: Dunne et al. 2010, ch. 8 Baylis and Smith 2008, ch. 8 George Lawson (2007), Historical Sociology in International Relations, International Politics, vol. 44, no.4 Recommended reading Marxism and Critical Theory Justin Rosenberg The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations (London: Verso, 1994) Gerry Simpson, Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Chomsky, N. (1994) World Orders, Old And New, London: Pluto Press. His other books on international politics too are interesting readings. The Noam Chomsky Archive On The Internet. Online. Available @ http://www.worldmedia.com/archive/index.html. Halliday, F. (1994) Rethinking international relations, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Hobden, S. and Jones, R. W. (2001) Marxist Theories In International Relations in J. Baylis and S. Smith (eds) Globalization Of World Politics: An Introduction To International Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Linklater, A. (2001/1996) Marxism, in S. Burchill and A. Linklater (eds.) Theories of International Relations, Rev. Ed., London: Palgrave. Smith, H. (1996) The Silence Of The Academics: International Social Theory, Historical Materialism And Political Values, Review Of International Studies, 22: 191-212 Wallerstein, I. (1996) The Inter-State Structure Of The Modern World-System, in S. Smith, K. Booth, And M. Zalewski (Eds) International Theory: Positivism And Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Booth, K. (2001) Security And Self: Reflections Of A Fallen Realist, In K. Krause And M. Williams (Eds) Critical Security Studies, Boulder: Lynne Rienner. 4

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Devetak, R. (2001) Critical Theory, in S. Burchill and A. Linklater (eds.) Theories of International Relations, Rev. Ed., London: Palgrave. Linklater, A. (1996) The achievements of Critical Theory, in S. Smith, K. Booth, and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism And Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sjolander, C. and Cox, W. (1994) (eds.) Beyond Positivism: Critical Reflections On International Relations, Boulder: Lynne Rienner. Robert Jackson and Georg Srensen Introduction to International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999): Chapter 6: International Political Economy OR: 2nd ed. Chapter 6: International Political Economy: Classical Theories and Chapter 7: International Political Economy: Contemporary Debates Susan Strange, Political Economy and International Relations, in Ken Booth and Steve Smith, (eds) International Relations Theory Today (Oxford: Polity Press: 1995) Immanuel Wallerstein, The Inter-State Structure of the Modern World-System, in S. Smith, K. Booth and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Stephen Krasner, The Accomplishments of International Political Economy, in S. Smith, K. Booth and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Robert W. Cox Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations Millennium, Vol. 12 (1983) pp.162-175 Robert Gilpin The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001 (1987)) Stephen Hobden and Richard Wyn Jones, Marxist Theories of International Relations, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds) The Globalization of World Politics Ngaire Woods, International Political Economy in an Age of Globalization, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds) The Globalization of World Politics Susan Strange States and Markets: An Introduction to International Political Economy (London: Pinter, 1988) Robert Cox and T. Sinclair, Approaches to World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Stephen Gill (ed.) Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Antony Brewer Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey (London: Routledge, 1980) John Hobson The State in International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000): Chapter 4 V. I. Lenin Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (first published 1917) http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ T. R. Shannon An Introduction to the World System Perspective (Boulder, Co.: Westveiw, 1996) Denemark et al World System History (London: Routledge, 2000) J. MacLean Marxism and International Relations: A Strange Case of Mutual Neglect Millennium, Vol. 17 (1988) pp. 295-331 Chris Brown Understanding International Relations 2nd ed. (London: Palgrave, 1997 (2001)): Chapter 8: International Political Economy Jeffrey Frieden and David A. Lake (eds) International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth (New York: St. Martins Press, 2000 (1994)) Andrew Linklater, Marxism, in Scott Burchill et al Theories of International Relations 2nd ed (London: Palgrave, 2001) John S. Ordell, Negotiating the World Economy (Cornell University Press, 2000) B. Hettne, Development Theory and the Three Worlds (Harlow: Longman, 1995) 1

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R. Stubbs and G. R. D. Underhill (eds) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (London: Macmillan, 1994) Susan Strange Mad Money (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998) Andrew Linklater, The Achievements of Critical Theory in S. Smith, K. Booth and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Richard Devetak, Critical Theory, in Scott Burchill et al Theories of International Relations 2nd ed (London: Palgrave, 2001) Beate Jahn, 'One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back: Critical Theory as the Latest Edition of Liberal Idealism' in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, (1998), Vol.27, No.3. Mark Hoffman, Critical Theory and the Inter-Paradigm Debate, Millennium, Vol.16 (1987), No.2, pp.231-249. ALSO IN Hugh C. Dyer and Leon Mangasarian (eds) The Study of International Relations: The State of the Art (Basingstoke: Macmillan/ Millennium), chapter 4. Ken Booth, Security and Emancipation, Review of International Studies, Vol.17 (1991), pp.313-26. Andrew Linklater, The Question of the Next Stage in International Relations Theory: A CriticalTheoretical Point of View, Millennium, Vol.22 (1992), pp.77-98. Richard Falk, On Humane Governance: Towards a New Global Politics (Cambridge: Polity, 1995) J. Ann Tickner, Revisioning Security in Ken Booth and Steve Smith, (eds) International Relations Theory Today (Oxford: Polity Press: 1995) Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Community: Ethical Foundations of the Post-Westphalian Era (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998) Andrew Linklater, Citizenship and Sovereignty in the Post-Westphalian European State in Daniele Archibugi, David Held and Martin Khler (eds) Re-imagining Political Community: Studies in Cosmopolitan Democracy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998) Ken Booth, Three Tyrannies, in Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler (eds) Human Rights in Global Politics (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999) David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention: Chapter 4: The Limits of Human Rights Theory David Chandler, Universal Ethics and Elite Politics: The Limits of Normative Human Rights Theory International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 5, No. 4 (2001) Andrew Linklater, Marxism, in Scott Burchill et al Theories of International Relations 2nd ed (London: Palgrave, 2001) Nicholas J. Wheeler Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) Ian Clark Globalization and International Relations Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999): Chapter 7: The Normative State Tom Bentley and Daniel Stedman Jones (eds) The Moral Universe (London: Demos, 1991) How Might We Live? Global Ethics in a New Century Review of International Studies, Special Issue, Vol. 26, December 2000. Andrew Linklater, Beyond Realism and Marxism (London: Macmillan, 1990) Historical Sociology Roland Dannreuther, Historical Sociology in Sociology: British Decline and US Hegemony, International Politics 44:4, 2007 Roland Dannreuther, International Security: the Contemporary Agenda (Polity, 2007), ch 3 Roland Dannreuther, Understanding the Middle East Peace Process: A Historical Institutionalist Approach, European Journal of International Relations (forthcoming, 2010) Week 6. English School; Constructivism and IR (DC) 4

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Essential Reading Dunne et al 2010 ch7 and ch 9 Baylis et al 2008 ch 11, 12 and pp. 276-8 Wendt, A. (1992) Anarchy Is What States Make Of It: The Social Construction Of Power Politics, International Organisation 46, 2. Also reprinted in J. Der Derian (ed.) (1995) International Theory: Critical Investigations, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Recommended Reading The English School website, hosted by Leeds University, includes documents, papers, conference and working group information http://www.leeds.ac.uk/polis/englishschool/papers.htm Robert Jackson and Georg Srensen Introduction to International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999/2003): Chapter 5: International Society Andrew Linklater, Rationalism, in Scott Burchill et al, Theories of International Relations 2nd ed (London: Palgrave, 2001) H. Bull and A. Watson (eds) The Expansion of International Society (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984) Robert H. Jackson, The Political Theory of International Society, in K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International Relations Theory Today (Oxford: Polity Press: 1995) R. J. Vincent, Grotius, Human Rights, and Intervention, in H. Bull, B. Kingsbury and A. Roberts (eds) Hugo Grotius and International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990) Robert Jackson, Is There a Classical International Theory, in S. Smith, K. Booth and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Hedley Bull The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1995 (1977)) Martin Wight International Theory: The Three Traditions (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1991) Martin Wight Power Politics (edited by Hedley Bull and Carsten Holbraad, 2nd edition) (London: Penguin, 1978). Wendt, A. (1987) The Agent-Structure Problem In International Relations Theory, International Organisation 41, 3: 335-370. Wendt, A. (2000) The Social Theory Of International Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Christian Reus-Smit, Constructivism, in Scott Burchill et al Theories of International Relations 2nd ed (London: Palgrave, 2001). David Chandler, Constructing Global Civil Society, in Gideon Baker and David Chandler (eds) Global Civil Society: Contested Futures (London: Routledge, 2005). http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/docs/CSDChandlerCGCS9draft.doc Ronen Palan, A World of their Making: An Evaluation of the Constructivist Critique in International Relations, Review of International Studies, Vol.26 (2000), pp.575-598. Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink (eds) The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (Cambridige: Cambridge University Press, 1999) Introduction Kathryn Sikkink, Human Rights, Principled Issue-Networks, and Sovereignty in Latin America, International Organization, Vol.47 (1993), pp.411-441. Christian Reus-Smit, Imagining Society: Constructivism and the English School, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.4, No.3 (2002), pp.487-509. 1

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Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Cornell University Press, 1998) Edward Newman Human Security and Constructivism International Studies Perspectives, Vo. 2, No. 3, (2001) pp.239-251 James Heartfield, Marxism and Social Construction, in Suke Wolton (ed) Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory (London: Macmillan, 1996) Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink (eds) The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (Cambridige: Cambridge University Press, 1999) Michael Nicholson International Relations: A Concise Introduction 2nd ed. (Palgrave, 2002 (1998)): Chapter 7 Alexander Wendt Constructing International Politics International Security, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1995) F. Kratochwil Rules, Norms, and Decisions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) P. Katzenstein (ed.) The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996) Week 7. 1. 2. 3. Postmodernism

Questions for Discussion: Does postmodernism offer a useful perspective of international relations? Discuss Foucaults notion of power-knowledge nexus. How does seeing the world in terms of discourse offer a different way of studying IR? Essential reading: Dunne et al. 2010, ch. 11 Baylis and Smith 2008, ch. 10 Recommended reading: Jorgensen, K. E. (2000) Continental IR Theory: The Best Kept Secret, European Journal of International Relations 6, 1: 9-42 Lapid, Y. (1989) The Third Debate: On The Prospects Of International Theory In A Post-Positivist Era, and the responses by K. J. Holsti, T. Biersteker, and J. George, International Studies Quarterly 33, 3. Ashley, R. (1996) The achievements of post-structuralism, in S. Smith, K. Booth, And M. Zalewski (Eds) International Theory: Positivism And Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Campbell, David (1998) Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy And The Politics Of Identity, Manchester: Manchester University Press. Der Derian, J. and Shapiro, M J. (eds) (1989) International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings In world Politics, Lexington: D c Heath. Devetak, R. Postmodernism, in S. Burchill and A. Linklater (eds.) Theories of International Relations, Rev. Ed., London: Palgrave. George, J. (199?) Discourses Of Global Politics: A Critical (Re)Introduction To International Relations Walker, R. B. J. (1993) Inside/Outside: International Relations As Political Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Richard Devetak, Postmodernism, in Scott Burchill et al Theories of International Relations 2nd ed (London: Palgrave, 2001) Richard K. Ashley, Untying the Sovereign State: A Double Reading of the Anarchy Problematique, Millennium, Vol.17 (1988), pp.227-262. 4

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R. B. J. Walker, Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) R. B. J. Walker, International Relations and the Concept of the Political, in Ken Booth and Steve Smith, (eds) International Relations Theory Today (Oxford: Polity Press: 1995) James Der Derian, The art of war and the construction of peace: toward a virtual theory of international relations, in Morten Kelstrup and Michael C. Williams (eds) International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration (London: Routledge, 2000) Richard Ashley, The Achievements of Post-Structuralism, in S. Smith, K. Booth and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) R. B. J. Walker Europe is not where it is supposed to be, in Morten Kelstrup and Michael C. Williams, (eds) International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration (London: Routledge, 2000), pp.14-32. Hazel Smith, Why is There no International Democratic Theory?, in Hazel Smith (ed.) Democracy and International Relations (London: Macmillan, 2000) Kimberly Hutchings, Modelling Democracy, in Hazel Smith (ed.) Democracy and International Relations Vivienne Jabri, Discourse Ethics, Democratic Practice and the Possibility of Intercultural Understanding, in Hazel Smith (ed.) Democracy and International Relations. Michael Nicholson International Relations: A Concise Introduction 2nd ed. (Palgrave, 2002 (1998)): Chapter 7 Robert Jackson and Georg Srensen Introduction to International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999): Chapter 7: Methodological Debates / 2nd ed. Chapter 9 D. Campbell National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity, and Justice in Bosnia (Minneapolis, 1998) Stephen Hobden and John M. Hobson (eds) Historical Sociology of International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Week 8. Feminism

Questions for Discussion 1. Is Feminism relevant for IR? 2. Discuss some key issues from world politics and the role of gender in them. Essential reading Dunne et al. 2010 chapter 10 Smith et al 2008 chapter 10 and 15 Recommended reading Cynthia Enloe, Margins, Silences and Bottom Rungs: How to Overcome the Underestimation of Power in the Study of International Relations, in S. Smith, K. Booth and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Christine Sylvester, The Contributions of Feminist Theory to International Relations, in S. Smith, K. Booth and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) J. Bethke Elshtain, International Politics and Political Theory, in Ken Booth and Steve Smith, (eds) International Relations Theory Today (Oxford: Polity Press: 1995) Marysia Zalewski and Cynthia Enloe, Questions about Identity in International Relations, in Ken Booth and Steve Smith, (eds) International Relations Theory Today (Oxford: Polity Press: 1995) Jacqui True, Feminism, in Scott Burchill et al Theories of International Relations 1

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Christine Sylvester Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Sense of International Relations (London: Pandora Press, 1989) J. B. Elshtain Women and War (New York: Basic Books, 1987) Steans, J. and Pettiford, L. (2001) International Relations: Perspectives And Themes, London: Pearson. (at least chapter 5 and 6) Weber, C. (2001) Gender: Is Gender A Variable?, in International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction, London: Routledge Feminists Write International Relations (1993) Special issue. Alternatives 18, 1. Women and International Relations (1988) Special issue. Millennium 17, 3. Enloe, C. (1996) Margins, Silences And Bottom Rungs: How To Overcome The Underestimation Of Power In The Study Of International Relations, in S. Smith, K. Booth, And M. Zalewski (Eds) International Theory: Positivism And Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Elshtain, J. B. (1995) Feminist Themes And International Relations, in J. Der Derian (ed.) International Theory: Critical Investigations, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Elshtain, J. B. (1991) Sovereignty, Identity, Sacrifice, Millennium 20, 3: 395-406. Enloe, C. (1993) The Morning After: Sexual Politics At The End Of The Cold war, London: University of California Press. Enloe, C. (2001) Bananas, Beaches And Bases: Making Feminist Sense Of International Politics, Berkeley, CA: University of California. Grant, R. and Newland, K. (eds) (1991) Gender And International Relations, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Marchand, M. H. (1996) Reconceptualizing Gender And Development In An Era Of Globalization Millennium 25, 3: 577-603. Meyer, M. K. and Prugl, E. (eds) (1999) Gender Politics In Global governance, Oxford: rowman and Littlefield. Peterson, V. S. and Runyan, A. S. (1999) Global Gender Issues, 2nd Ed., Boulder, CO: Westview. Peterson, V. Spike, ed., Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1992. Pettman, Jan Jindy, Gender Issues in J. Baylis and S. Smith (eds) Globalization Of World Politics: An Introduction To International Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pettman, J. J. (1996) Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics, London: Routledge. Scott, J. W. (1986) Gender: A Useful Category Of Historical Analysis American Historical Review 91, 4: 1053-1075. Sylvester, Christine, The Contributions Of Feminist Theory To International Relations, in S. Smith, K. Booth, and M. Zalewski (eds) International Theory: Positivism And Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sylvester, C. (1994) Feminist Theory And International Relations In A Postmodern Era, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Sylvester, C. (2002) Feminist International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tickner, J. A. (1996) Hans Morgenthaus Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation, in J. Der Derian (ed.) (1995) International Theory: Critical Investigations, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Tickner, J. A. (1988) Hans Morgenthaus Principles Of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation, Millennium 17, 3: 429-440. Tickner, J. A. (1993) Gender In International Relations: Feminist Perspectives On Achieving Global Security, NY: Columbia University Press, 1993. 4

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True, J. (2001) Feminism, in S. Burchill and A. Linklater (eds.) Theories of International Relations, Rev. Ed., London: Palgrave. Zalewski, M. (1995) Well, What Is The Feminist Perspective On Bosnia? International Affairs 71, 2: 339-356. Zalewski, M. and Parpart, J. (eds) (1998) The Man Question in International Relations, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Two debates within feminist IR: 1]Keohane, R. O. (1989) International Relations Theory: Contributions Of A Feminist Standpoint, Millennium 18, 2: 245-253. Weber, C. (1994) Good Girls, Little Girls And Bad Girls: Male Paranoia In Robert Keohanes Critique Of Feminist International Relations, Millennium 23, 2: 245-253. 2] Jones, A. (1996) Does Gender Make The World Go Round? Feminist Critiques Of International Relations, Review Of International Studies 22, 4: 405-429. Carver, T., Cochran, M., and Squires, J. (1998) Gendering Jones: Feminisms, Irs, Masculinities, Review Of International Studies 24, 2: 283-297. Hooper, C. (1999) Masculinities, IR And The Gender Variable: A Cost-Benefit Analysis For (Sympathetic) Gender Sceptics, Review Of International Studies 25, 3: 475-491. Some relevant websites for feminism and IR: The Feminist Theory Website: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/enin.html Feminist Majority Foundation Online: http://www.feminist.org/ International Womens Websites: http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_intl.html WomenWatch: http://www.un.org/womenwatch A large selection of relevant Internet sites: http://www.aviva.org/resndex.htm Week 9 Postcolonial IR; IR as a discipline of the state or a disciplining of the state? (DA) Questions for Discussion 1. What does Eurocentrism mean? 2. What does Orientalism mean? 3. Does IR discipline the state? Essential Reading Dunne et al. 2010, ch. 12 Short introduction to Orietalism at http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Orientalism.html and at: http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/orientalism.htm Wallerstein on Eurocentrism from http://fbc.binghamton.edu/iweuroc.htm Smith, S. (2000) The Discipline Of International Relations: Still An American Social Science?, British Journal Of Politics And International Relations 2, 3: 374-402 Recommended reading Said, E. (2001), The Clash of Ignorance, The Nation, October 22. Available at http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20011022&s=said Huntington, S. P. (1993) The Clash of Civilization, Foreign Affairs, 72, 3. Available at: http://www.alamut.com/subj/economics/misc/clash.html Chowdhry, G. and Nair, S. (2002) Power in a postcolonial world: race, gender and class in IR, London: Routledge Ling, L. H. M. (2001) Postcolonial International Relations, London: Politico. A chapter is available at: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/faculty/gmbonham/Ling_Chapter2.pdf Darby, P. (1997) At the edge of international relations: postcolonialism, gender and dependency, London: Continuum 1

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Hoogvelt, A. (1997) Globalisation and the postcolonial world: the new political economy of development, London: Macmillan Said, E. (1978) Orientalism Doty, R. L. (1996) Imperial encounters: the politics of representation in NorthSouth relations, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Krishna, S. (1993) The importance of being ironic: a postcolonial view on critical international relations theory, Alternatives 18: 385-417. Week 11 Revisiting key concepts and themes in IR theories No new prior reading required. Students are expected to re-read all the essential readings from week 1-10 11. Globalization (FP) Questions for discussion: 1. How does globalisation challenge the central precepts of IR? 2. In the light of the literature on Globalization, what do you believe will be its likely impact on conceptual developments within IR theory in the future? Essential reading Baylis and Smith 2008 31, 32 Dunne et al 2010, ch. 14 Recommended reading Lemert, Charles et al (2010), Part Six Global Futures: Time and Tense, 1980-2010, and Beyond, Globalization, a reader, (London: Routledge). Justin Rosenberg, Globalisation Theory: A Post-Mortem, International Politics, Vol.42, No.1 (2005). Justin Rosenberg, The Follies of Globalisation Theory (London: Verso, 2002). Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson Globalization in Question (London: Polity, 1996) Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000) David Held and Anthony McGrew The End of the Old Order? Globalization and the Prospects for World Order, Review of International Studies, Volume 24, Issue 05, December 1998, pp 219-245. Ian Clark, Globalization and International Relations Theory (Oxford: OUP, 1999) David Held and Anthony McGrew Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance (London: Polity, 2002) Martin Shaw (ed.) Politics and Globalization (London: Routledge, 1999). Chris Brown Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today (Cambridge: Polity, 2002): Chapter 11: Post-Westphalian Political Theory Lechner, Frank J. (2009), Globalization. The making of World Society, (Oxford: WileyBlackwell). Ritzer, George (2010), Globalization. A Basic Text, (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell) Week 12 Independent Study Set out below are some Independent Study activities and tasks that relate the theoretical material considered in the module to contemporary questions within IR today.
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Stephen Walt, IR theory for Lovers, Foreign Policy. Read Stephen Walts blog at the Foreign Policy website: Do you accept the framework he is presenting about the need for bipolarity within the International system? Does the metaphor of IR as a marriage between partners trivialise IR? http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/02/13/ir_theory_for_lovers_a_valentines_guide 4

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Watch Chomskys Manufacturing Consent from http://video.google.com/videoplay? docid=4054523048548733881&ei=EDnSStiuO4uW-AaGwJX8CQ&hl=en#docid=5631882395226827730 (or search on goggle video for Chomsky Manufacturing Consent). Note down his main arguments and his filters. Do you think his arguments hold true for the media in YOUR country today? Think of 3-5 filters that, in your view, shape how international news in reported by the mainstream media in your country. Coursework The essays are based on your course work and materials. They are 2,500 words MAXIMUM (this includes everything except the bibliography). Please use turnitin to submit online. Make sure the submission is BEFORE the deadline. Any submission after the deadline will be marked as late and incur penalty as set out in the course guidelines (10% deduction if it is late by a minute to 24 hours and ZERO if it is delayed by more than 24 hours) Essay Questions 1 from each set Set One (Deadline Monday 7 November 2011 10am) 1) Critically analyse a key concept [you can choose any concept, but you need to justify why it is important] of IR? How do different theories (use at least two theories) engage with the concept chosen by you? 2) It is Liberalism, not Realism, that offers a more realistic understanding of contemporary international relations. Do you agree? Why/Why not? 3) Does liberal institutionalism provide a viable framework for building peace among states? 4) Critically assess the implications of Karl Marxs claim that the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. Discuss in relation to Marxist analyses of world politics. 5) Is the distinction between problem-solving theory and critical theory a valid one? Consider in relation to Robert Cox's claim that "theory is always for someone and for some purpose". Set Two (Deadline Monday 9 January 2011 10am) 1) What are the main contributions of EITHER English School OR Constructivism OR Postmodernism to the study of international relations? In comparison to the mainstream theories of Realism and Liberalism, what are the strengths and weaknesses of the theory of your choice (English School OR Constructivism OR Postmodernism)? 2) Identify three main concerns that affect the majority of the worlds population. What do IR theories tell us about those concerns? 3) Is it correct to state that: Feminism has nothing to tell us about the reality of war, conflict and hard, cold facts? Discuss in relation to international relations and IR theory. 4) Critically analyse an international conflict by using different IR theories (one of which must be postcolonial IR). 5) It is fragmentation, not globalization, that characterises the first decade of the 21st century. Do you agree? Why/Why not?