ESPS1001 Introduction to European History, Law, International Relations, Politics and Philosophy
Preliminary Reading List
The seven sections are listed in the order in which they will be taught.
Political Science I: Key Issues & Problems in Politics
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Almond, G.A. et al. Comparative Politics Today. A World View, London, Longman, 2000 (7th
ed.).
Axford, B. et al. Politics. An Introduction. London: Routledge, 1997.
Bealy, F., Chapman, R.A., Sheehan, M. Elements in Political Science. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
U.P., 1999.
Caramani, D. (ed.), Comparative Politics, Oxford, OUP, 2008.
Cudworth, E., T. Hall, J. McGovern, The Modern State. Theories and Ideologies, Edinburgh,
Edinburgh UP, 2007.
D Dunleavy, P., O'Leary, B., Theories of the State. The Politics of Liberal Democracy,
Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1987.
Dyson, K., The State Tradition in Western Europe, Oxford, Oxford UP, 1980.
Minogue, K. Politics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.
Müller, W., Wright, V., The State in Western Europe: Retreat or Redefinition?, Portland, Frank
Cass, 1994.
Newton, K., van Deth, J.W., Foundations of Comparative Politics, Cambridge, CUP, 2010 (2ns
ed.).
Law
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Carl Stychin and Linda Mulcahy, Legal Method and Systems: Texts and Materials (Sweet &
Maxwell, 2007).
Andrew Clapham, Human Rights: A very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Robert Beckman and Dagmar Butte, Introduction to International Law, available at
http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/intlawintro.pdf.
Frances Nicholson and Patrick Twomey (ed.), Refugee Rights and Realities – Evolving
International Concepts and Regimes, (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
History I: History of Political Thought
General reading on the methodology of the History of Political Thought:
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Pocock, J. G. A., Political Thought and History. Essays on Theory and Method (Cambridge
2009).
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Richter, M., “Reconstructing the History of Political Languages: Pocock, Skinner, and the
Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe”, in History and Theory 29 (1990), p. 38-70.
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Skinner, Q., “Some Problems in the Analysis of Political Thought and Action”, in Political
Theory 2 (1974), p. 277-303.
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Skinner, Q., “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas” in Visions of Politics volume I.
Regarding Method (Cambridge 2002), p. 57-89.
Political Science II: Challenges to the State in World Politics
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Mingst, Karen A., and Jack Snyder, eds. 2008. Essential Readings in World Politics, 3rd
edition. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co.
Key contributions to major theoretical debates in IR:
Waltz, Kenneth N. 1979. Theory of International Politics. McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Russett, Bruce, and John Oneal. 2001. Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence,
and International Organizations. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in
International Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
On the state:
Tilly, Charles. 1985. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In Bringing the State
Back In, ed. Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press.
Herbst, Jeffrey. 1990. “War and the State in Africa,” International Security 14 (4): 117-139.
Armed challenges to the state from within and outside:
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Checkel, Jeffrey T., ed. 2013. Transnational Dynamics of Civil War. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press.
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Lawrence, Adria, and Erica Chenoweth. 2010, ed. Rethinking Violence: State and Non-State
Actors in Conflict. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Widely read book on globalization (written by a journalist):
Friedman, Thomas L. 2000. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. New
York: Anchor Books.
Introduction to IR textbook:
Baylis, John, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, eds. 2008. The Globalization of World Politics:
An Introduction to International Relations, 4th edition. Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press.
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History II: Explaining Modernity
Historical Theory:
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Tosh, John. The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods, and New Directions in the Study of Modern
History. 5th ed. London: Longman, 2010.
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Fulbrook, Mary, Historical Theory. London: Routledge, 2002.
Explaining Modernity I:
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Berman, Marshall, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. London: Penguin
Books, 1988.
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Gunn, Simon and James Vernon. eds. The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in imperial Britain.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. This book is available online at
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wj6r222
Explaining Modernity II
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Herf, Jeffrey, Reactionary Modernism. Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third
Reich. London: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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Chubarov, Alexander, Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and Post-Soviet
Eras. New York, London: Continuum, 2001.
Political Science III: Political Economy
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Shepsle, Kenneth (2010). Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions. New York:
Norton.
Mankiw, N. Gregory (2003). Principles of Economics. (Any year/edition will do). Chapters 1-4.
Gibbons, Robert. (1997). “An Introduction to Applicable Game Theory”. The Journal of
Economic Perspectives, 11(1), 127-149.
Miller, Gary and Thomas Hammond (1994). “Why Politics is More Fundamental Than
Economics”. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 6(1), 5-26.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. (2000). Economics of the Public Sector. 3rd Edition. New York: Norton
Chapters 3-6.
North, Douglass (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hall, Peter A. and David Soskice (2001). Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations
of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1.
Clark, William R., Matt Golder and Sona N. Golder (2012). Principles of Comparative Politics.
2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks: CQ Press.
Philosophy
Articles/Encyclopedia Entries available online via Google Scholar:
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Berlin, Isaiah. Two Concepts of Liberty. Four Essays on Liberty. Oxford University Press. 1969.
Brock, Gillian. 2015. “Global Justice.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by
Edward N. Zalta, Spring 2015. http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2015/entries/justice-global/.
Christiano, Thomas. 2006. “Democracy.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited
by Edward N. Zalta, Fall 2008. http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/democracy/.
Dagger, Richard. 2015. “Political Obligation.”
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/political-obligation/.
Nagel, Thomas. 2005. “The Problem of Global Justice.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 33 (2):
113–47.
Nussbaum, Martha. 2004. “Beyond the Social Contract: Capabilities and Global Justice. an Olaf
Palme Lecture, Delivered in Oxford on 19 June 2003.” Oxford Development Studies 32 (1): 3–
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Simmons, A. John. 1999. “Justification and Legitimacy.” Ethics 109 (4): 739–71.
Books (exact translation required, unless you can read the original language):
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Aristotle, and C. D. C. Reeve. 1997. Politics. Hackett Publishing.
-- read Book I, ch 1-2; Book III, ch 6, 9; Book VII, ch 1, 13
Locke, John. 1980. Second Treatise of Government. Edited by C. B. Macpherson. Indianapolis,
Ind: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Mill, J. S., 1861, Considerations on Representative Government, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus
Books, 1991.
Plato, and John M. Cooper. 2002. Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo.
Translated by G. M. A. Grube. 2nd Revised edition edition. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing
Co, Inc.
NB: Use the second edition Grube translation revised by Cooper, not the first edition
Grube.
- read Apology, Crito
- Crito only
Rawls, John. 2001. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. Edited by Erin Kelly. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Belknap Press.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 1987. Basic Political Writings. Hackett.
- read Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and The Social Contract
- The Social Contract only
Sen, A., 1999, Development as Freedom, New York: Knopf.
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June 2015