Contact: Pola Zafra, ptz@aber.ac.uk ; Marisha Tardif, mat40@aber.ac.uk
ABER-SRG Reading Group Reading List
2:30pm-4:00pm, Meetings Room
Week 1 Classical Security: Geopolitics and Strategy
Wednesday, 6th of March 2013
(Mandatory) Review Article:
Duedney, D. (1999) Bringing Nature Back In: Geopolitical Theory from the Greeks to the Global Era
(http://millenniumjournal.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/geo-bringingnaturebackin.pdf)
(Choose 1) Seminal Articles/Authors:
*Mackinder, H.J. (1904), “The Geographical Pivot of History”, The Geographic Journal, 23:Pp.421-37.
Montesquieu (1748) , “Book XVIII. OF Laws in Relations They Bear to the Nature of the Soil”, in Spirit
of the Laws.
*Spykman,N.J. (1938), “Geography and Foreign Policy I”, American Political Science Review, 32(1):2850
Week 2 Cold War Security Studies: Rationality and Deterrence
Thursday, 28th of March 2013
(Mandatory) Review Article:
Huth, P. K. (1999), "Deterrence and International Conflict: Empirical Findings and Theoretical
Debate", Annual Review of Political Science 2: pp. 25–48
(Choose 1) Seminal Articles:
*Schelling, T. C. (1966), "2", The Diplomacy of Violence, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 1–34
*Snyder, J.L. (1978) “Rationality at the Brink: The role of cognitive processes in failures of
deterrence”., World Politics, 30(3):345-65
Zagare, Frank C. (2004), "Reconciling Rationality with Deterrence: A Re-examination of the Logical
Foundations of Deterrence Theory", Journal of Theoretical Politics 16 (2): pp. 107–141
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Contact: Pola Zafra, ptz@aber.ac.uk ; Marisha Tardif, mat40@aber.ac.uk
Week 3 Critical Schools of Security
Wednesday, 17th of April 2013
(Mandatory, Pick one) Review Article:
Waever, O. (2004), “Aberystwyth, Paris, Copenhagen : New 'Schools' in Security Theory and their
Origins between Core and Periphery”
*Krause, K. (1998), “Critical Theory and Security Studies The Research Programme of Critical Security
Studies” , Cooperation and Conflict, 33(3):298-333
(Choose 1) Seminal Articles:
*Bigo, D. (2000), “When Two Become One: Internal and External Securitizations in Europe” in M.
Kelstrup and M. Williams (eds.) International Relations Theory and the Politics of European
Integration: Power, Security and Community. [Note: Bigo’s contribution actually started in the 1980s,
but prior to 2000 all of his articles are written in French]
*Booth, K. (1991), “Security and Emancipation”, Review of International Studies,17(4): Pp. 313-327
*Waever, O. (1995), “Securitization and DeSecuritization”, In R.D. Lipschutz (ed.), On Security, New
York: Columbia University Press, Pp. 46-86
Week 4 Security Studies Post-9/11 : Order, Risk and Institutions
Thursday, 9th of May 2013
(Mandatory) Review Article:
Rasmussen, V.M. (2004) “’It Sounds Like a Riddle’: Security Studies, the War on Terror and Risk”,
Millenium-Journal of International Studies, 41(2)
(Choose 1) Seminal Articles:
Posen, B. (2003), “Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of US Hegemony”,
International Security, 28(2): Pp.5-46
Slaughter, A.M. (2009), “America’s Edge: Power in the Networked Century”, 88 Foreign Affairs (94):
94-113
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