Yale University Department of Political Science International Relations Reading List 2005-06 GENERAL THEORY Axelrod, Robert (1984). The Evolution of Cooperation, New York: Basic Books, pp. 3-105, 145-91. Bull, Headley. 1977. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. Columbia U. Press., chs. 1,2,10. Fearon, James (1991). Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science, World Politics, 43 (2), January: 169-95. Finnemore. 1996. National Interests in International Society. Cornell U. Press, introduction and conclusion. Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981), ch. 1. Glaser, Charles L. The Security Dilemma Revisited. World Politics 50:1 (October 1997): 171-201. Gourevitch, Peter. The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of Domestic Politics International Organization, 32:4 (Autumn 1978): 881-911. Hopf, Ted. 2002. Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow 1955 and 1999. Cornell U. Press, ch. 1 Huntington, Samuel. 1993. The Clash of Civilizations, Foreign Affairs 72(3). Ikenberry, John. 2001. After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars, pp. 3-20, 215-73. Jervis, Robert. The Security Dilemma, World Politics, 1978. Keohane, Robert, ed. Neorealism and Its Critics. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), chs. 6,7. Keohane, Robert and Judith Goldstein (1993). Ideas and Foreign Policy, Cornell University Press, chs. 1, 7. Krasner, Stephen (1977). Defending the National Interest, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 5-54.
Lake, David. 1996. Between Anarchy and Hierarchy, International Organization, 50(1). Lake, David, and Robert Powell, eds. 1999. Strategic Choice and International Relations (Princeton U. Press), chs by Lake and Powell, Frieden, and Rogowski. Levy, Jack (1992). Learning and Foreign Policy: Sweeping Through a Conceptual Minefield International Organization, 48, 2, Spring, 279-312. (Review) Moravcsik, Andrew. 1997. Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics. International Organization Vol. 51 No. 4: 513-53. Morgenthau, Hans. 1985. Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (6 th ed.), Knopf, pp. 1-51. Powell, Robert. 1991. Absolute and Relative Gains in International Relations Theory. APSR 85(4). Ruggie, John Gerard. 1998. Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalization. New York: Routledge. Chapters 1-5, 7. Snyder, Jack. 2002. Anarchy and Culture: Insights from the Anthropology of War, International Studies Quarterly 56 (winter). Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. Book I, introduction; BookV, Melian dialogue. Tilly, Charles. 1975. Reflections on the History of European State-Making, in Tilly, ed., The Formation of National States in Western Europe. Princeton U. Press. Pp. 3-50. Walt, Stephen 1999. Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies, International Security, 23, 4, 5-48, and responses in 24, 2, 56-73, 97-106. Walt, Stephen. The Origins of Alliances, chs 1,2. Waltz, Kenneth. 1979. Theory of International Politics, chs. 4-8. Wendt, Alexander. 1999. Social Theory of International Politics, Cambridge University Press. Ch.1, 5-8. IPE Alt, James E. and Michael Gilligan, The Political Economy of Trading States: Factor Specificity, Collective Action Problems, and Domestic Political Institutions, Journal of Political Philosophy 2:2 (1994), 165-192.
Alt, James E., Jeffry Frieden, Michael Gilligan, Dani Rodrik, and Ronald Rogowski. The Political Economy of International Trade: Enduring Puzzles and an Agenda for Inquiry. Comparative Political Studies Vol. 29 No. 6 (December):689-717. Bailey, Michael, Judith Goldstein, and Barry R. Weingast, The Institutional Roots of American Trade Policy: Politics, Coalitions, and International Trade, World Politics 49, no. 3 (April 1997): 309-338. Broz, J. Lawrence and Jeffry A. Frieden, The Political Economy of International Monetary Relations, Annual Review of Political Science volume 4, 2001. Frieden, Jeffrey. 1991. Invested interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance. International Organization Vol. 45, 4: 425-51. Garrett, Geoffrey. 1992. International Cooperation and Institutional Choice: The European Community s Internal Market. International Organization 46:533-60. Garrett, Geoffrey. The Causes of Globalization, Comparative Political Studies 33, 6/7 (2000), 941-92. Gourevitch, Peter. 1986. Politics in Hard Times. Chapters 1, 2, and 3. Grossman, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman. Protection for Sale. American Economic Review Vol. 84 No. 4 (September):833-850. Hirschman, Albert O. National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1969), pp. 3-70. Hiscox, Michael. "The Magic Bullet? The RTAA, Institutional Reform, and Trade Liberalization," International Organization 53, no. 4 (Autumn 1999), 669-698. Katzenstein, Peter. 1985. Small States in World Markets. Chapters 1 and 2. Keohane, Robert O. After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 5-135. Kindleberger, Charles P. The World in Depression 1929-1939, revised and enlarged edition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 288-305. Krasner, Stephen D. 1983. International Regimes. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, introductory and concluding chapters, ch. by Haas. Krasner, Stephen D. (1991). Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto Frontier, World Politics, 43, April, pp. 336-66.
Lake, David A. 1993. Leadership, Hegemony, and the International Economy. International Studies Quarterly 37:459-89. Mansfield, Edward D. and Helen V. Milner, The New Wave of Regionalism, International Organization 53, no. 3 (Summer 1999), 589-626. Mayda, Anna and Dani Rodrik. 2002. Why Are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist Than Others? Harvard University Working Paper. Milgrom, Paul R., Douglas C. North, and Barry Weingast, The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs. Economics and Politics 2, no. 1 (1990): 1-23. Milner, Helen V. Interests, Institutions, and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), 3-128. Mitchell, Ronald. Regime Design Matters: Intentional Oil Pollution and Treaty Compliance, International Organization 48, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 425-58. Moravscik, Andrew. 1991. Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community. International Organization Vol. 45 No. 1 (Winter):19-56. Polyani, Karl. The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985), chs. 1, 2 11-21. Putnam, Robert. 1988. Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games. International Organization Vol. 42 No. 3 (Summer):427-460. Quinn, Dennis and Carla Inclan. The Origins of Financial Openness: A Study of Current and Capital Account Liberalization. American Journal of Political Science Vol. 41 No. 3 (July):771-813. Rodrik, Dani. 1997. Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (Chapters 1-5). Rogowski, Ronald. 1987. Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade. American Political Science Review 81, 1121 1137. Rogowski, Ronald. Trade and the Variety of Democratic Institutions, International Organization 41, no. 2 (Spring 1987), 203-223. Rogowski, Ronald, and Mark Kayser. 2002. "Majoritarian Electoral Systems and Consumer Power: Price-Level Evidence from the OECD Countries." American Journal of Political Science Vol. 46 No. 3 (July):526-539. Scheve, Kenneth, and Matthew Slaughter. 2001. "What Determines Individual Trade- Policy Preferences?" Journal of International Economics 54, no. 2 (August): 267-
292. Simmons, Beth. Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), chap. 4. Vreeland, James. 2003. The IMF and Economic Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, chs 4, 5. International conflict CONFLICT AND WAR Allison, Graham, and Philip Zelikow. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, Longman, 2 nd ed., chs. 1,3,5 Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, Alastair Smith, Randolph Siverson, and James Morrow. 2003. The Logic of Political Survival, chs. 1-3, 5, 6. MIT Press. DiCicco, Jonathan, and Jack Levy. 2003. The Power Transition Research Program: A Lakatosian Analysis, in Colin Elman and Mirium Fendius Elman, eds., Progress in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field. MIT Press. Diehl, Paul, and Gary Goertz. 2000. War and Peace in International Rivalry (U. of Michigan Press), pp. 15-65, 143-81, 221-39. Fearon, James. 1994. Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes. APSR 88(3). Fearon, James. Signaling vs. the Balance of Powers and Interests. Journal of Conflict Resolution 38(2): 236-69. Fearon, James. 1995. Rationalist Explanations for War. International Organization 49(3). Gaddis, John Lewis. 1992. The Long Peace, pp. 215-45. Gelpi, Christopher. 1997. Crime and Punishment: The Role of Norms in International Crisis Bargaining. APSR 91(2). Gleditsch, Kristian, and Michael Ward. 2000. War and Peace in Space and Time: The Role of Democratization, International Studies Quarterly 44(1). Goldstein, Joshua. 2001. War and Gender. Cambridge U.P., chs. 1,4,7.
Goldstein, Joshua, and Jon Pevehouse. 1997. Reciprocity, Bullying, and International Cooperation: Time-Series Analysis of the Bosnian Conflict. APSR 91(3). Gowa, Joanne. Ballots and Bullets (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1999), chs. 4-7. Holsti, Ole. 1989. Crisis Decision Making. In Phillip Tetlock, et al.eds., Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War. Huth, Paul, and Todd Allee. 2002. Domestic Political Accountability and the Escalation and Settlement of International Disputes, Journal of Conflict Resolution, December, pp. 754-90. Huth, Paul, Christopher Gelpi, and D. Scott Bennett. 1993. The Escalation of Great Power Militarized Disputes: Testing Rational Deterrence Theory and Structural Realism. APSR 87(3). Huth, Paul, and Bruce Russett. 1993. General Deterrence between Enduring Rivals: Testing Competing Models. APSR 87(1). Jervis, Robert. 1996. Perception and Misperception in International Politics, pp. 217-72. Johnston, Alastair Iain. 1996. Cultural Realism. Ch. 1,2 Levy, Jack. 1997. Prospect Theory, Rational Choice, and International Relations. International Studies Quarterly 41(1) Maoz, Zeev. 1990. National Choices and International Processes. Pp. 9-36, 463-8, 499-540. Mearsheimer, John. 2002. The Future of the American Pacifier, Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct. Organski, A.F.K., and Jacek Kugler. 1983. The War Ledger, chs 1,2. Nincic, Miroslav, and Donna Nincic. 2002. Race, Gender, and War, Journal of Peace Research, September, 547-68. Pape, Robert. 2003. The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, American Political Science Review 97(4). Powell, Robert. 1996. Uncertainty, Shifting Power, and Appeasement. American Political Science Review. v. 90 Dec. 1996 p. 749-64. Reiter, Dan. 1995. Exploding the Powder Keg Myth: Premptive Wars almost Never Happen. International Security 29 (Fall).
Reiter, Dan, and Allan C. Stam. 2002. Democracies at War. Princeton, Princeton U.P, chs. 1-3, 6-8. Russett, Bruce and John Oneal. 2001. Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence and International Organizations, chs. 1-6. W.W. Norton. Schultz, Kenneth. 1998. Domestic Opposition and Signaling in International Crises. American Political Science Review, 92(4). Schultz, Kenneth. Do Democratic Institutions Constrain or Inform? International Organization 53 (1999): 23-66. Smith, Alastair, 1995. Alliance Formation and War, International Studies Quarterly 39(4). Smith, Alastair. 1996. Diversionary Foreign Policy in Democratic Systems. International Studies Quarterly 40(1) Smith, Alastair, 1996. To Intervene or Not to Intervene: A Biased Decision. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 40(1). Wagner, R. Harrison, War and Expected Utility Theory, World Politics, vol.36, April 1984, pp. 407-23. Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars, chs 8-17. Internal war Betts, Richard. The Delusion of Impartial Intervention, Foreign Affairs 73:6 (November-December 1994) 20-33. Collier, Paul, and Anke Hoeffler. 2004. Aid, Policy and Growth in Post-Conflict Countries. European Economic Review 48: 1125-45. Fearon, James, and David Laitin. 2003. Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War, APSR 97(4). Gurr, Ted Robert. Why Men Rebel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), pp. 3-58, 155-92, 317-359. Hegre, Håvard, Tanja Ellingsen, Scott Gates, and Nils Petter Gleditsch. Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816 1992, American Political Science Review 2001, 95: 33-48.
Lake, David and Donald Rothschild, eds., 1998, The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), pp. 3-32; 107-27; 203-226. Lichbach, Mark. The Rebel s Dilemma. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 2-34, 279-344. Sambanis, Nicholas, Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature, World Politics 52 (July 2000). Sambanis, Nicholas, Using Case Studies to Expand Economic Models of War, Political Perspectives, June 2004. Tilly, Charles. From Modernization to Revolution (Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1978), chs. 2, 5, 7. Walt, Stephen M. Revolution and War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996)., pp. 1-45; 269-351. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ORGANIZATIONS Abbott, Kenneth W., Robert O. Keohane, Andrew Moravcsik, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Duncan Snidal. 2000. The Concept of Legalization. International Organization Vol. 54 No. 3 (Summer):401-419. Abbot, Kenneth, and Duncan Snidal. 1998. Why States Act through Formal International Organizations. Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(1) Adler, Emanuel and Michael Barnett. 1998. eds., Security Communities, Cambridge University Press, chs. 1,2. Barnett, Michael. 1997. Bringing in the New World Order: Liberalism, Legitimacy, and the United Nations. World Politics 49 (July). Barnett, Michael and Martha Finnemore. 1999. The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations, International Organization, 53, 4, September. Burley, Anne-Marie. 1993. International Law and International Relations Theory. American Journal of International Law 87. Dixon, William. 1996. Third-Party Negotiating Techniques for Preventing Conflict Escalation and Promoting Peaceful Settlement. International Organization 50,4 Doyle, Michael and Nicholas Sambanis, International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis, American Political Science Review (Dec. 2000), 779-802.
Finnemore, Martha and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. International Norm Dynamics and Political Change, International Organization, 52, 4, Autumn, 887-918. Finnemore, Martha. 2000. The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force. Cornell U. Press, introduction and conclusion. Hathaway, Oona. 2002. Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference? Yale Law Journal 111: 1935-2042. March, John G. and Johan P. Olsen. 1998. The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Order. International Organization Vol. 52 No. 4 (Autumn):943-969. Mearsheimer, John J. (1994/95). The False Promise of International Institutions. International Security, 19, 3, Winter, 5-93 (includes responses by Keohane and Martin and by Wendt). Moravcsik, Andrew. 1998. The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Chapters 1,2. Moravcsik, Andrew. 1999. A New Statecraft? Supranational Entrepreneurs and International Cooperation, International Organization, 53, 2, Spring, 267-306. Morrow, James. 1994. Modelling the Forms of International Cooperation: Distribution vs. Information. International Organization 48(3). Paris, Roland, 1977. Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism. International Security, 22(2). Pevehouse, John. 2002. Democracy from Outside? International Organizations and Democratization, International Organization, summer. Russett, Bruce, ed. 1997. The Once and Future Security Council, chs. 2-4, 7, 8. Simmons, Beth A. International Law and State Behavior: Commitment and Compliance in International Monetary Affairs, American Political Science Review 94, 4 (December 2000). Spruyt, Hendrik (1994). Institutional Selection in International Relations, International Organization, 48, 4, Autumn, pp. 527-58. Sweet, Alec Stone and Thomas L. Brunnell. 1998. Constructing a Supranational Constitution: Dispute Resolution and Governance in the European Community. American Political Science Review Vol. 92 No. 1 (March):63-81.