ProSeminar in International Relations Theory Political Science 5300, Fall 2009 Professor Jennifer Sterling-Folker Jennifer.sterling-folker@uconn.edu Office Hours: Tues 10:30-1:30 Monteith 206 http://www.advapp.uconn.edu/ (860) 486-2535 This course explores, compares and contrasts the discipline s dominant analytical perspectives. It provides an overview of both the historical and current state of the field. Basic professional expectations, such as conference participation and publishing process, are also discussed. Course reading is a sampling of seminal, representative works from each perspective (for Ph.D. exams you should read the supplementary readings and get Professor Pressman s 5300 syllabi from alternate years). COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Do all readings. Attend and participate in class discussions. Write two short papers (3-5 pages) during the semester, each worth 25% of your final grade. Write one longer paper (10-12 pages) due at the end of the semester, worth 40% of your final grade. Regular attendance and participation in class discussions is worth 10%. All papers must be double-spaced with reasonable margins and font. A paper topic will be handed out one week before each paper is due. You will be expected to address, examine, and synthesize arguments and issues from class readings. No additional research or reading is required, but page limits are STRICTLY ENFORCED. Delineating complex arguments in short spaces is a skill you need to develop in order to publish academically. Papers are due at the start of class. As a professional courtesy, please notify me via email if you are unable to attend a class session. To make an appointment with me, please use UConn s online appointment system: http://www.advapp.uconn.edu COURSE MATERIALS: An electronic copy of this syllabus may be accessed via your HuskyCT page. For articles, stable URLs are provided and can be read/downloaded from a UConn connected computer. Assigned chapters are posted on HuskyCT. With the exception of Hooper and Waltz, the required books are on reserve, should be available at the UConn Coop, and/or may be borrowed via some other library venue (WorldCat, Virtual Catalog online). Less expensive, older and/or used editions may be available from online book vendors. --Hedley Bull (1977 original; reprint 2002) The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics Columbia U. Press. --E. H. Carr. (1939 original; 2001 reprint). The Twenty Years Crisis: 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations, Michael Cox ed, Palgrave Macmillan. --Branwen Gruffydd Jones, ed. (2006) Decolonizing International Relations. Rowan and Littlefield. --Robert O. Keohane. (1984 original; 2005 classic edition) After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy, Princeton. --Immanuel Wallerstein (2004) World Systems Analysis: An Introduction, Duke University Press --Special instructions Charlotte Hooper (2001) Manly States: Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics, Columbia U. Press. This book is available electronically via Homer (just click on its URL in Homer). There is also a hard copy on reserve. If you want your own hard copy, purchase one via an online book vendor --Special instructions--kenneth Waltz, 1979, Theory of International Politics (McGraw-Hill). This book is extremely expensive ($80+new) so I did not order it via the Coop. Look for a more reasonably priced used copy online, use one of the copies on reserve, or use WorldCat/Virtual Catalog online. Supplementary IR Theory Texts -- None of these are required, but they provide helpful overviews of IR theory and should be available at the library or via WorldCAT: Scott Burchill, et. al. (2009) Theories of International Relations, 4 th ed. (Palgrave Macmillan); James Der Derian, ed. (1995) International Theory: Critical Investigations (NYU Press); Michael W. Doyle and G. John Ikenberry, eds (1997) New Thinking in International Relations
Page 2 of 7 Theory (Westview Press); Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (2009) International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (Oxford); Ken Booth and Steve Smith (1995) International Relations Theory Today (Polity); Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed. (2006) Making Sense of IR Theory (Lynne Rienner). COURSE READING SCHEDULE: SEPTEMBER 1 -- Introduction to the Course and One Another SEPTEMBER 8 Disciplinary Historiography (The Great Debates ) Miles Kahler (1997) Inventing International Relations: International Relations Theory after 1945, In New Thinking in International Relations Theory, Michael W. Doyle and G. John Ikenberry, eds. (Westview Press), chapter 2. Chapter is available electronically at your POLS 5300 HuskyCT page, under Course Materials, Library Resources. Stanley Hoffmann (1977) An American Social Science: International Relations Daedalus 106 (3, Summer): 41-60. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024493.pdf Supplementary readings: Brian C. Schmidt (1988) The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations (SUNY); Brian C. Schmidt (1998) Lessons From the Past: Reassessing the Interwar Disciplinary History of International Relations International Studies Quarterly, 42(3, September): 433-59; Anna M. Agathangelou and L. H. M. Ling (2004) The House of IR: From Family Power Politics to the Poisies of Worldism, International Studies Review (6); Ole Waever in Steve Smith, et. al., eds. (1996) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge); Gerard Holden (2002) "Who Contextualize the Contextualizers? Disciplinary History and the Discourse About IR Discourse," Review of International Studies 28: 253-70. SEPTEMBER 15 Classical Realism (Neoclassical/Defensive Realism) E. H. Carr. (1939 original; 2001 reprint). The Twenty Years Crisis: 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations (Michael Cox ed) Palgrave Macmillan. Supplementary Readings: Hans J. Morgenthau (1947) Scientific Man vs. Power Politics (Latimer House); Hans J. Morgenthau (1960) Politics Among Nations, 3 rd ed. (Knopf); Hans J. Morgenthau (1952) Another Great Debate : The National Interest of the United States, The American Political Science Review 46 (4, December): 961-88; Hans J. Morgenthau (1995) The Intellectual and Political Functions of Theory, In International Theory: Critical Investigations, James Der Derian, ed. (NYU Press); John Herz (1950) Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma World Politics; R. B. J. Walker (1987) Realism, Change, and International Political Theory, International Studies Quarterly, 31 (1, March): 65-86; James Der Derian, Introduction, and A Reinterpretations of Realism: Genealogy, Semiology, Dromology, In International Theory: Critical Investigations, James Der Derian, ed. (NYU Press); Randall L. Schweller and David Priess (1997) A Tale of Two Realisms: Expanding the Institutions Debate, Mershon International Studies Review 41(1, May): 1-32; Gideon Rose (1998), Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy, World Politics (October); Jeffrey W. Taliaferro (2000) Security Seeking Under Anarchy: Defensive Realism Revisited, International Security 25(3, Winter): 128-61; Michael C. Williams (2005) The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations (Cambridge); Barry Buzan, et. al. (1993) The Logic of Anarchy (Columbia); Buzan in Steve Smith, et. al., (1996) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge); Steve Lobell, Norrin Ripsman, and Jeff Taliaferro, eds (2009) Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge). SEPTEMBER 22 -- Classical Liberalism [First Paper Topic Out] Michael W. Doyle (1986) Liberalism and World Politics American Political Science Review 80(Dec, 4):1151-69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1960861.pdf
Page 3 of 7 Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (1971) Introduction, (pp. ix-xxix) and Conclusion (p.371-398) in Transnational Relations in World Politics, Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr.eds. (Harvard U Press). Chapters are available electronically at your POLS 5300 HuskyCT page, under Course Materials, Library Resources. Wolfram F. Hanrieder (1978) Dissolving International Politics: Reflections on the Nation-State, American Political Science Review, 72(Dec, 4), pp. 1276-87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1954539 Supplementary Readings: Michael W. Doyle (1983) Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs, Part 1 Philosophy and Public Affairs, 12 (3,Summer): 205-35; Michael W. Doyle (1983) Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs, Part 2 Philosophy and Public Affairs, 12 (4,Autumn): 323-53; Michael W. Doyle (2005) Three Pillars of Liberal Peace American Political Science Review 99(August, 3); Mark W. Zacher (1992) The Decaying Pillars of the Westphalian Temple: Implications for International Order and Governance in Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics, James N. Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Czempiel, eds. (Cambridge U. Press), pp. 58-101; Mark W. Zacher, and Richard A. Matthew (1995) Liberal International Theory: Common Threads, Divergent Strands, in Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge, Charles W. Kegley, ed (St. Martin's Press), pp. 107-50; Robert Keohane (1990) International Liberalism Reconsidered, in The Economic Limits to Modern Politics, J. Dunn ed (Cambridge U Press); Emmanuel Adler, and Beverly Crawford, eds (1991) Progress in Postwar International Relations (Columbia University Press); Andrew Moravcsik (1997), Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics, International Organization (Autumn); Richard Little in Steve Smith, et. al., eds. (1996) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge); Miriam Fendius Elman (1999) The Never-Ending Story: Democracy and Peace, International Studies Review 1(3,): 87-103. SEPTEMBER 29 -- Neorealism (Offensive Realism) **FIRST PAPER DUE** Kenneth N. Waltz (1979) Theory of International Politics (McGraw-Hill). This book is extremely expensive ($80+new) so I did not order it via the Coop. Look for a more reasonably priced used copy online, use one of the copies on reserve, or use WorldCat/Virtual Catalog online. Concentrate on chs 4-6, skim the rest. Supplementary Readings: John J. Mearsheimer (2001) The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Norton); John J. Mearsheimer (1990) Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War, International Security (Summer); John J. Mearsheimer (1994/95) The False Promise of International Institutions, International Security 19(3,Winter): 5-49; Stephen G. Brooks, Dueling Realisms International Organization, (Summer 1997); Joseph M. Grieco (1990) Cooperation among Nations (Cornell); Joseph M. Grieco (1997) Realist International Theory and the Study of World Politics, In New Thinking in International Relations Theory, Michael W. Doyle and G. John Ikenberry, eds. (Westview Press); Robert Gilpin (1981) War and Change in World Politics (Cambridge); M. E. Brown, et. al., eds. (2004) Offense, Defense, and War (Cambridge); Robert O. Keohane, ed. (1986) Neorealism and its Critics (Columbia). OCTOBER 6 -- Neoliberalism Robert O. Keohane (1984 original; 2005 classic edition) After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy. Princeton University Press. Concentrate on Parts I, II, and IV (skim part III) Supplementary Readings: Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye (2001) Power and Interdependence 3rd ed. (Longman); Kenneth A. Oye, ed (1986) Cooperation Under Anarchy (Princeton); Stephen D. Krasner (1983) International Regimes (Cornell), may also be found online as a special issue of IO (1982); Robert Jervis (1999) "Realism, Neoliberalism and Cooperation: Understanding the Debate," International Security (Summer); Lisa Martin and Beth Simmons (1998) Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions, International Organization 52(4, Autumn): 729-57; Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal, eds. (2003) The Rational Design of International Institutions (Cambridge), also a 2001 IO issue: Lisa Martin and Beth Simmons, eds. (2001) International Institutions: An International Organization Reader (MIT); Lisa Martin (1992) Coercive Cooperation:
Page 4 of 7 Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions (Princeton); Daryl Hawkins, David Lake, Dave Nielson and Mike Tierney (2006) Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (Cambridge). OCTOBER 13 -- English School Hedley Bull (1977 original; reprint 2002) The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (Columbia). Read Parts I & III, Skim Part II Supplementary Readings: English School Website, www.leeds.ac.uk/polis/englishschool; Barry Buzan (1993) From International System to International Society: Structural Realism and Regime Theory Meet the English School, International Organization, 47(3, Summer): 327-52 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2706979: Timothy Dunne (1998) Inventing International Society: A History of the English School (Macmillan); H. Butterfield and M Wight, eds (1966) Diplomatic Investigations: Essay in the Theory of International Relations (Allen & Unwin); Barry Buzan (2004) From International to World Society (Cambridge); Timothy Dunne (1995) The Social Construction of International Society, European Journal of International Relations 1(3) 367-89; Barry Buzan (2001) The English School: An Underexploited Resource in IR, Review of International Studies 27(July, 3) 471-88; Martha Finnemore (2001) Exporting the English School? Review of International Studies 27(July,3) 509-13; Andrew Linklater and Hidemi Suganami (2006) The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment (Cambridge). OCTOBER 20 -- World System Theory Immanuel Wallerstein. 2004. World Systems Analysis: An Introduction, Duke University Press Robert A. Denemark (1999) World System History: From Traditional International Politics to the Study of Global Relations, International Studies Review 1(2, Summer) http://www.jstor.org/stable/3186380 Supplementary Readings: Immanuel Wallerstein (1995) The Inter-State Structure of the Modern World-System, In Steve Smith, Ken Booth, & Marysia Zalewski, eds. International Theory: Positivism and Beyond. (Cambridge); Immanuel Wallerstein (1979) The Capitalist World Economy (Cambridge/chs. 1-9); Christopher Chase-Dunn and Peter Grimes (1995) World-Systems Analysis Annual Review of Sociology ; Forum, Hegemony and Social Change, Mershon International Studies Review, vol. 38 (October); Ernie Keenes (1993) History and International Relations: Long Cycles of World Politics, Canadian Journal of Political Science; Christopher Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson (2005) The Historical Evolution of World Systems (Palgrave Macmillan); Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver (1999) Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (Minnesota). OCTOBER 27 -- Constructivism [Second Paper Topic Out] Alexander Wendt, 1992, "Anarchy is What States Make of It," International Organization 46(2, Spring): 391-425. (Also reprinted in Der Derian, ch. 7) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2706858 Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, 1998, International Norm Dynamics and Political Change, International Organization 52(4), International Organization at Fifty: Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics (Autumn 1998): 887-917. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2601361 Supplementary Readings: Vendulka Kubálková, Nicholas Onuf, and Paul Kowert, eds (1998) International Relations in a Constructed World (ME Sharp); Ted Hopf, The Promise of Constructivism in IR Theory International Security (Summer 1998); David Dessler, What s at Stake in the Agent-Structure Debate? International Organization (Summer 1989); Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Competing Paradigms or Birds of a Feather? Constructivism and Neoliberal Institutionalism Compared, International Studies Quarterly, (March 2000); Martha Finnemore (1996) National Interests in International Society (Cornell University Press); John Gerard Ruggie (1998) Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalization (Routledge); Alexander Wendt (1994) Collective Identity Formation and the International State, American Political Science Review 88(2, June): 384-96;
Page 5 of 7 Alexander Wendt (1987) The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory, International Organization 41(3, Summer): 335-70. NOVEMBER 3 -- Critical Theory/Post-Positivism **SECOND PAPER DUE** Hedley Bull (1966) International Theory: The Case for a Classical Approach, World Politics 18(April, 3): 361-77. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2009761 Yosef Lapid (1989) The Third Debate: On the Prospects of International Theory in a Post-Positivist Era International Studies Quarterly 33(3, September): 235-54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2600457 Nicholas Rengger and Ben Thirkell-White, eds (2007) Introduction: Still Critical After All These Years? The Past, Present, and Future of Critical Theory in IR, (pp. 3-24), Review of International Studies, Supplement S1(33, April). This link takes you to the entire Special Issue on Critical Theory (but just read intro): http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayissue?jid=ris&volumeid=33&issueid=s1&iid=1200444 Supplementary Readings: Jim George, Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical (Re) Introduction to International Relations; Hayward R. Alker, (1996) Review: After the Enlightenment: An Accessible, Critical, Postfoundationalist Reading of International Relations, Mershon International Studies Review (April); R. B. J. Walker (1989) History and Structure in the Theory of International Relations, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 18/2 (also ch. 12 in James Der Derian); Steve Smith, et al, (1996) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge U Press); Richard Wyn Jones, ed (2001) Critical Theory and World Politics (Lynne Rienner); Thomas Risse (2000) Let s Argue! Communicative Action in World Politics, International Organization 54 (1, Winter): 1-39; Colin Wight (2006) Agents, Structure, and International Relations: Politics as Ontology (Cambridge); Ken Booth and Steve Smith (1995) International Relations Theory Today (Polity); Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan-Williams, eds (2009) Critical Theories and International Relations (Routledge). NOVEMBER 10 -- Historical Materialism Robert W. Cox (1981) Social Forces, States, and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory Millennium 10(2, June): 126-55. Reprinted as Chapter 6 in Robert W. Cox, (1996) Approaches to World Order, with Timothy J. Sinclair (Cambridge). Chapter available electronically at your POLS 5300 HuskyCT page, under Course Materials, Library Resources. Mark Edward Rupert (1990) Producing Hegemony: State/Society Relations and the Politics of Productivity in the United States, International Studies Quarterly 34 (4, December): 427-56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2600606 Supplementary Reading: Ronen Palan and Barry Gills, eds. (1994) Transcending the State-Global Divide: A Neo- Structuralist Agenda in International Relations (Lynne Reinner) ; Robert M. Cox and Timothy Sinclair (1996) Approaches to World Order (Cambridge); Mark Rupert and H. Smith, eds. (2002) Historical Materialism and Globalisation (Routledge); Richard Wyn Jones, ed (2001) Critical Theory and World Politics (Lynne Rienner); Special Issue: Transnational Historical Materialism (Bastiaan van Apeldoorn), (2004) Journal of International Relations and Development 7(2, July); Stephen Gill and David Law (1989) Global Hegemony and the Structural Power of Capital, International Studies Quarterly 33(Dec, 4): 475-99; Stephen Gill, ed. (1993) Gramsci, Historical Materialism, and International Relations (Cambridge); Ronen Palan, ed. (2000) Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories (Routledge); Stephen Gill (2008) Power and Resistance in the New World Order 2 nd ed. (Palgrave Macmillan) NOVEMBER 17 -- Feminism Charlotte Hooper (2001) Manly States: Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics, Columbia U. Press. This book is available electronically via Homer (just click on its URL in Homer). There is also a hard copy on reserve. If you prefer your own hard copy, order one via an online book vendor.
Page 6 of 7 Supplementary Readings: Elizabeth Prügl (1999) The Global Construction of Gender: Home-based Work in the Political Economy of the 20 th Century (Columbia); Cynthia Enloe (2001) Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (UCal); J. Ann Tickner (2001) Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era (Columbia); J. Ann Tickner (1997) You Just Don t Understand: Troubled Engagements Between Feminists and IR Theorists, International Studies Quarterly vol. 41 (4,December): 611-32; Jarvis and Pettman chs in Robert M.A. Crawford & Darryl S. L. Jarvis, eds. (2000) International Relations: Still an American Social Science? Toward Diversity in International Thought (SUNY Press); V. Spike Peterson & Anne Sisson Runyan (1999) Global Gender Issues (Westview); Mary Caprioli (2004) Feminist IR Theory & Quantitative Methodology: A Critical Analysis, International Studies Review (6) 253-69; Enloe and Sylvester in Steve Smith, et. al, eds. (1996) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge); Fiona Robinson (1999) Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory, and International Relations (Westview). NOVEMBER 24 -- NO CLASS (THANKSGIVING) DECEMBER 1 -- Post-Modernism/Post-Structuralism [Final Paper Topic Out] Richard K. Ashley and R.B.J. Walker (1990) "Introduction: Speaking the Language of Exile: Dissidence in International Studies," 259-68. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2600569 Michael J. Shapiro (1990) "Strategic Discourse/Discursive Strategy: The Representation of 'Security Policy' in the Video Age," Special Issue, 34(3, September): 327-40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2600573 James Der Derian (2000) Virtuous War/Virtual Theory International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), 76(4, October): 771-88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2626459 Supplementary Readings: Pauline Rosenau (1990) "Once Again Into the Fray: International Relations Confronts the Humanities," Millennium Journal of International Studies; James Der Derian and Michael J. Shapiro, eds (1989) International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics (Lexington Books); James Der Derian (1997) Post-theory: The Eternal Return of Ethics in International Relations, In New Thinking in International Relations Theory, Michael W. Doyle and G. John Ikenberry, eds. (Westview Press); James Der Derian (2009) Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial Media-Entertainment Network (Routledge); Richard Ashley (1995) The Powers of Anarchy: Theory, Sovereignty and the Domestication of Global Life, In International Theory: Critical Investigations, James Der Derian, ed. (NYU Press); Ashley chapter in Smith, et. al, eds (1996) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond. (Cambridge); Jennifer Sterling-Folker and Rosemary E. Shinko (2005) Discourses of Power: Traversing the Realist-Postmodern Divide, Millennium: Journal of International Studies (3); Rob Walker (1992) Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory (Cambridge); DECEMBER 8 The Sociology of Disciplinary Knowledge (and Post-Colonialism) Branwen Gruffydd Jones, ed. (2006) Decolonizing International Relations (Rowan and Littlefield). Read the Introduction, all of Part I, ch 4, and the Conclusion, skim the rest Supplementary Readings: Ole Waever (1998) The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline: American and European Developments in International Relations, International Organization (Autumn); Arlene B. Tickner (2003) Seeing IR Differently: Notes From the Third World, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32/2: 295-324; Jorg Friedrich (2004) European Approaches to International Relations Theory: A House With Many Mansions (Routledge); Knud Erik Jorgensen and Tonny B. Knudsen, eds. (2006) International Relations in Europe (Routledge); Robert M. A. Crawford and Darryl S. L. Jarvis, eds (2000) International Relations: Still an American Social Science? Toward Diversity in International Thought SUNY Press; Beate Jahn, ed. (2006) Classical Theory in IR (Cambridge); Anna M. Agathangelou and L. H. M. Ling (2005) Power and Play Through Poisies: Reconstructing Self and Other in the 9/11 Commission Report, Millennium: Journal of International Studies (3) http://mil.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/33/3/827; Steve Smith (2000) The Discipline of International Relations: Still
Page 7 of 7 an American Social Science? British Journal of Politics and International Relations 2(3): 374-402; Hayward R. Alker, Jr. & Thomas J. Biersteker (1984) The Dialectics of World Order: Notes for a Future Archeologist of International Savoir Faire, International Studies Quarterly 28 (2, June): 121-42. [Also in Der Derian ch. 10]; William A. Callahan (2004) Nationalizing International Theory, Global Society 18(4): 305-23; Phillip Darby (2004) Pursuing the Postcolonial, Millennium 33(1): 1-32; Andreas Osiander (2001) Sovereignty, IR, and the Westphalian Myth, International Organization 55(2): 251-88; Shogo Suzuki (2005) Japan s socialization into Janus-Faced European International Society EJIR 11(1): 137-64. **TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 -- FINAL PAPER DUE BY 4PM ** ISA: The International Studies Association (ISA) is the professional organization for international relations and global studies scholars (more so than APSA). It produces six journals which its members receive as part of their dues: the International Studies Quarterly (ISQ), International Studies Review (ISR), and International Studies Perspective (ISP), Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), International Political Sociology (IPS), and International Interactions (II). Mark Boyer and myself are co-editors of ISR until 2012. Each of these journals has a particular focus, and the first journal listed above, ISQ, is a highly ranked IR journal reflecting the state of the American IR discipline. If you know that IR will be one of your major fields of study, you need to become a student member of ISA. Annual dues for students are $25 with electronic access to the journals ($35 if you want hard copies). Information on how to join ISA can be found at the association's website: www.isanet.org. If you are going to focus on IR you will also need to attend an ISA annual meeting (usually in February or March) at some point, but first go to its Northeast regional conference (ISA-NE, in October) to get a feel for what is expected at academic conferences. Expect to present at both these venues as you are working toward your doctorate. This year s ISA-NE will be held from October 2-3 in Baltimore; many UConn graduate students and faculty will be attending.