Mark Doyle
Reading List for Comps
End of Empire to Globalization
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism. (Verso, 1991).
Anderson, Benedict. “The New World Disorder.” New Left Review, May/June 1992, p.
3-14.
Block, Fred L. The Origins of International Economic Disorder: A study of United States
international monetary policy from World War II to the Present. (Univ. of
California, 1977).
Cain, P. J. and Hopkins, A. G. British Imperialism. I: Innovation and expansion, 16881914 and II: Crisis and deconstruction, 1914-1990 (Harlow, 1993).
Cronin, James. The World the Cold War Made. (Routledge, 1996).
Davidson, Basil. The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State.
(Times Books, 1992)
Fukuyama, Francis. “The End of History?” The National Interest, (Summer, 1989). p.
3-18.
Fukuyama, Francis, “Second Thoughts: The Last Man in a Bottle.” The National
Interest, (Summer, 1999). p. 16-33.
Gerschenkron, Alexander. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of
Essays. (The Belknap Press, 1962).
Gifford, Prosser, and Wm. Roger Louis, ed. Decolonization and African Independence:
The Transfers of Power, 1960-1980. (Yale Univ. Press, 1988).
Gowan, Peter, and Perry Anderson, ed. The Question of Europe. (Verso, 1997).
Guillén, Mauro F. “Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive or Feeble? A Critique of
Five Key Debates in the Social-Science Literature.” Annual Review of Sociology.
Vol. 27, 2001.
Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. Empire. (Harvard Univ. Press, 2000).
Hobsbawm, E. J. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, myth, reality.
(Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990).
Hobsbawm, E. J. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991. (Vintage,
1994).
Holland, R. F. European Decolonization 1918-1981: An introductory survey. (St.
Martin’s Press, 1985).
Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.
(Touchstone, 1996).
Jackson, Robert. “The Weight of Ideas in Decolonization: Normative Change in
International Relations.” Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and
Political Change. Ed. Judith Goldstein and Robert O. Keohane. (Cornell Univ.
Press, 1993). p. 111-138.
Jackson, Robert. Quasi-States: Sovereignty, international relations, and the Third
World. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990).
Katzenstein, Peter J., ed. Between Power and Plenty: Foreign economic policies of
advanced industrial states. (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1978).
Kennedy, Paul. Preparing for the Twenty-first Century. (Vintage, 1993).
Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. (Vintage, 1987).
Keohane, Robert O. After Hegemony: Cooperation and discord in the world political
economy. (Princeton Univ. Press., 1984).
Louis, William Roger. Imperialism at Bay: The United States and the Decolonization of
the British Empire, 1941-1945. (Oxford, 1978).
Louis, William Roger. The British Empire in the Middle East: Arab Nationalism, the
United States, and Postwar Imperialism. (Oxford, 1984).
Louis, William Roger. “American Anti-colonialism and the Dissolution of the British
Empire.” International Affairs. (Summer, 1985). p. 395-420
Sassen, Saskia. Globalization and its Discontents (The New Press, 1998).
White, Nicholas J. “The business and politics of decolonization: the British experience in
the twentieth century.” Economic History Review, LIII, 3 (2000), pp. 544-564.