Introduction to International Relations Political Science S1601Q Columbia University Summer 2013

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1 Introduction to International Relations Political Science S1601Q Columbia University Summer 2013 Instructor: Sara Bjerg Moller Office Hours: Prior to each class or by appointment. Please note I am only in town Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. All meetings will have to take place on one of those days. MW 6:15-9:25 PM 311 Fayerweather Prerequisites: There are no formal prerequisite for this class however students are expected to follow current events and read the New York Times on a daily basis. Students are also encouraged to consult the Economist. Course Description: Designed as an introductory survey course to the field of international relations, this course has three main aims: First, to provide an overview of the major theories, concepts, and debates in international relations; Second, to provide students with the necessary background to the major events of the 20 th century (WWI, WWII, and the Cold War); And third, to encourage students to grapple with the global challenges of the coming century. The course will tackle questions such as: Is there an enduring logic to international politics? How should we study international relations? And, what are the causes of war and peace? Course Requirements: Students are expected to come prepared to class having done all of the readings. Student participation in class discussions will count for a significant portion (25%) of your grade. To facilitate this discussion, students will be required to submit discussion questions prior to each session. Failure to do so will result in a grade penalty. In addition, students will write five inclass quizzes and one final exam (on the last day of class). The quizzes will be administered during the first 15 minutes of class and are intended to test student s knowledge of the readings and lecture material. A Warning: The reading load for this class is quite heavy, around 100 pages per class. To do well in this (or any) class, students must engage in active reading. Reading without taking notes is a futile exercise. This is an introductory class meaning I do not expect you to understand all of the complex concepts and theories being introduced the first time around. However, I do expect you to do the work. To facilitate your learning, students will be expected to submit discussion questions prior to each class meeting (beginning with the second class). The questions can be of the clarification kind (i.e. stemming from concepts you found difficult to understand,) or intended to provoke discussion among your fellow students in class. The main thing is that the questions engage with the readings assigned. Questions should be ed to the instructor at sbm2145@columbia.edu no later than 5 p.m. the day before the class meeting. Grading Breakdown: Class Participation (10%) Discussion Questions (15%) Quizzes (35%) Final Exam (40%) 1

2 Textbooks: The required textbook for this class is: Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues (11th ed.; NY: Pearson, 2012). (The tenth addition has all of the assigned readings and may be substituted for the newer edition.) NB: The page numbers listed below refer to the 10 th edition, please consult the 11 th edition for the equivalent page numbers. and is available for purchase at Book Culture (536 West 112 th Street). Additional readings listed on the syllabus can be accessed online or via reserves at Butler Library. PART I: INTRODUCTION Class 1: Introduction to International Relations Theory Joseph Nye and David Welch, Chapter 1: Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics? in Understanding International Conflict: An Introduction to Theory and History, 8 th ed. (Pearson, 2011), pp Henry R. Nau, Introduction, in Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011), pp Stephen Walt, International Relations: One World, Many Theories, Foreign Policy, Spring 1998, pp Class 2: Anarchy and Its Consequences Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, Anarchy and its Consequences, AJR 10: pp.1-7; 11:1-7 Kenneth N. Waltz, The Anarchic Structure of World Politics, AJR 10: pp ; 11: John J. Mearsheimer, Anarchy and the Struggle for Power, AJR 10: pp ; (see electronic reserves) Alexander Wendt, Anarchy Is What States Make of It, AJR 10: pp ; 11: The Mitigation of Anarchy Robert Jervis, Offense, Defense, and the Security Dilemma, AJR 10: pp ; 11: Charles Glaser, The Security Dilemma Revisited, World Politics 50 (October 1997), pp PART II. HOW SHOULD WE STUDY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS? Class 3: Levels of Analysis and Explanations *QUIZ #1* The First Image Kenneth N. Waltz, Introduction and The First Image: International Conflict and Human 2

3 Behavior, in Man, the State, and War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), pp *SKIM* Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack, "Let Us Now Praise Great Men: Bringing the Statesman Back In," International Security, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Spring 2001), pp The Second Image Kenneth N. Waltz, International Conflict and the Internal Structure of States in Man, the State, and War, pp *SKIM* Michael W. Doyle, Kant, Liberal Legacies and Foreign Affairs, in Debating the Democratic Peace (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999), pp The Third Image Kenneth N. Waltz, International Conflict and International Anarchy and Examples from Economics, Politics, and History, in Man, the State, and War, pp THE ISMS Class 4: Realism Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue, AJR 10: pp. 9-15; 11: 8-14 Jack Snyder, One World, Rival Theories, Foreign Policy (Nov/Dec 2004), pp John Mearsheimer, Introduction, and Anarchy and the Struggle for Power, in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001), pp Jeffrey W. Legro and Andrew Moravcsik, Is Anybody Still a Realist? International Security, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Fall 1999), pp Liberalism John M. Owen, "How Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace." International Security, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Fall 1994), pp Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder, Democratization and War, Foreign Affairs, (May/June 1995), pp Andrew Moravcsik, Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics, International Organization 51, 4 (Autumn 1997), pp Constructivism Jeffrey T. Checkel, The Constructivist Turn in International Relations Theory, World Politics 50 (January 1998), pp John G. Ruggie, What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-Utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge, International Organization 52, 4 (Autumn 1998), pp PART III. FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Class 5. Causes of War: WWI and WWII *QUIZ #2* Jack S. Levy, The Causes of War and the Conditions of Peace, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 1, No. 1 (June 1998), pp

4 Nye and Welch, Chapter 2: Origins of Great 20th Century Conflicts and Chapter 3: Balance of Power and World War I. Understanding International Conflict. Stephen Van Evera, The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War, International Security, Vol. 9, No.1 (Summer 1984), pp Scott D. Sagan, The Origins of the Pacific War, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Spring 1988), pp Jeffrey L. Hughes, The Origins of World War II in Europe: British Deterrence Failure and German Expansionism, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Spring 1988), pp Class 6. Dilemmas of Cooperation Robert Keohane, "Realism, Institutionalism, and Cooperation," in After Hegemony (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp Kenneth Oye, "The Conditions for Cooperation in World Politics," AJR 10: pp ; 11:76-90 G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), Chapter 1 (Problem of Order), pp David A. Lake, Beyond Anarchy: The Importance of Security Institutions, International Security, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Summer 2001), pp Class 7: The Uses of Force *QUIZ #3* Robert J. Art, The Four Functions of Force, AJR 10: pp ; 11: Robert J. Art, The Fungibility of Force, AJR 10: pp ; 11: Thomas C. Schelling, The Diplomacy of Violence, AJR 10: pp ; 11: Joseph Nye, The Future of Power, (New York: Perseus Books), pp Bruce Hoffman, What is Terrorism? AJR 10: pp ; 11: Robert A. Pape, The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, AJR 10: pp ; 11: PART IV: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Class 8: Introduction to International Political Economy (IPE) Jeffrey Frieden and Lisa Martin International Political Economy: The State of the Sub- Discipline, in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, Political Science: The State of the Discipline (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), pp (Available at: cipline.pdf) Joseph M. Grieco and John Ikenberry, The Economics of International Trade, in Grieco and Ikenberry, State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), pp Joanne Gowa and Edward D. Mansfield, Power Politics and International Trade, American 4

5 Political Science Review 87, 2 (1993): Michael D. Bordo, Barry Eichengreen, and Douglas A. Irwin Is Globalization Today Really Different Than Globalization a Hundred Years Ago? NBER Working Paper No Joseph Stiglitz, Freefall, in Karen Mingst and Jack Snyder, eds. Essential Readings in World Politics, 4th ed. (New York: Norton, 2011), pp One more reading (TK) Class 9: International Institutions and their Interaction with Domestic Politics *QUIZ #4* Robert Putnam. Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games, International Organization 42:3 (1988), pp John Gerard Ruggie. International regimes, transactions, and change: embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order, International Organization 36:2 (1982), pp Mansfield, Edward D., Helen V. Milner, and B. Peter Rosendorff. Why Democracies Cooperate More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements, International Organization 56:3 (2002), pp Class 10: The Cold War & Its Aftermath PART V: THE FUTURE OF WORLD POLITICS Henry Nau, Chapter 5: The Origins and End of the Cold War, and Chapter 6: From 11/9 to 9/11 The World of the 1990s in Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011), pp Robert Jervis, "The Future of World Politics: Will It Resemble the Past." International Security 16 (Winter 1991/92), pp Joseph S. Nye, Jr., "Conflicts after the Cold War," Washington Quarterly 19 (Winter 1996), pp Class 11: The Post-9/11 Era *QUIZ #5* Robert Jervis, An Interim Assessment of September 11: What has Changed and What has not, Political Science Quarterly 117,1 (2002), pp Melvyn Leffler and Jeffrey Legro, Introduction in To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp G. John Ikenberry, The Rise of China and the Future of the West, Foreign Affairs, (January/February 2008), pp Jeffrey W. Legro, What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power, Perspectives on Politics Vol. 5, No. 3 (September 2007), pp Scott Sagan, Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?: Three Models in Search of a Bomb, International Security 21,3 (Winter 1996/1997), pp

6 Kenneth Waltz and Scott Sagan, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003), esp. chapters 1,2,4,5. *SKIM* Barry Posen and Andrew Ross, Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy, International Security 23(3) (Winter 1996/1997), pp Stephen Van Evera, A Farewell to Geopolitics, in Melvyn Leffler and Jeffrey Legro, eds., To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp Class 12: **IN-CLASS FINAL EXAM** 6