The University of Edinburgh
School of Social & Political Science
Politics & International Relations Honours Option
“REALISM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS”
Spring Semester
2012
Lecture: Tuesday 12:10 -13:00
Venue: Room 3.D01 Forrest Hill
Tutorials: Tuesday, 14:00-14:50, 15:00-15:50, 17:1018:00 (if numbers are sufficiently large).
Course Convener:
Dr. Vassilios Paipais
Office: Room 5.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building
Email: v.paipais@ed.ac.uk
Telephone: ++44 (0)131 6504069
Administrative Support:
Susan Orr
Office: Room 1.11, Chrystal Macmillan Building.
Email: susan.orr@ed.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)131 650 4253.
Time and Location:
Lectures are held on Tuesdays from 12:10-13:00 in Room 3.D01, Forrest Hill. The
first lecture will be on Tuesday, January 17th 2012.
Tutorials will begin in Week 2. Students should sign up for a tutorial online, via WebCT.
Learning Outcomes:
This course is aimed at developing students' understanding of Realism in International
Relations, stimulating interest in the development of IR theory, and supporting students
in the development of their research, analytical, critical and communication skills. It is
expected that all students, on completion of this course, will have achieved a number of
learning outcomes:

Identify key realist concepts and the changes in these concepts over time.

Critically engage with the epistemology of IR theory.

Understand the relationship between Realism and the prevailing doctrines of
modernity.

Critically interrogate textbook interpretations of Realism in IR
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Have a greater understanding of the workings of international society.

Apply Realist theory to world politics.
Format:
The class meets for a 50-minute lecture each week, and students must also attend one
tutorial (lasting 50 minutes) each week. Tutorials begin in week 2.
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Students are expected to regularly attend lectures and tutorials, and are expected to
complete their coursework on time. It is expected that students will read all the
required readings and a selection of the recommended readings each week. All
students are expected to read in preparation for each tutorial so that they can
participate fully in class discussion, and particularly the debates. Please prepare at
least six key discussion points each week based on your reading in response to the
tutorial topic/question.
Web CT:
Relevant information concerning this course will be posted on the Web CT page.
Students should consult Web CT to check the time and place of tutorials, other
announcements relating to the administration of the course, and notices of relevant
events in and around the university. Some notices may also be sent out by email to
students’ university email addresses. All students have university email accounts. It is
your responsibility to check this regularly, even if it is not your usual email address. (If
this is not your usual address, you can set up an auto-forward facility to ensure all mail
sent to your university account is forwarded to you.) Students may also be interested in
the activities of the International Politics Research Group and the Transatlantic Seminar
Series. Details of events will be posted on the research group webpage.
Assessment:
Assessment for the course will be based on two pieces of work: one course essay and
one exam.
The exam:
Will be held as part of the April/May diet and will represent 60% of the mark for the
course. It will be designed to test knowledge and understanding acquired throughout
the course, in course readings, lectures, and tutorial discussions.
The essay:
Should be 2000 words in length (+/- 10% is acceptable) and is worth 40% of the final
mark. Essays significantly over the word length (i.e., more than 2200 words) will
incur a penalty of five marks.
The essay is intended to provide students with the opportunity to develop and apply
their research and writing skills in an in-depth analysis of one particular area of interest
covered in the first half of the course. Essay questions will be announced and posted
on WebCT .
Essays should be typed with 1.5 or double spacing, include a front page, clearly stating
the question being answered, and your examination number. Two copies of the essay
must be submitted to the Politics & IR essay box outside Room 1.11 CMB. Please note
that the late penalty takes effect immediately after 12 noon. In line with School
policy, the penalty for late submission of essays will be 5 marks per working day for up
to five days. Work submitted more than five days late will receive a mark of zero. Please
consult the Politics & IR Honours Handbook for details of guidelines and processes for
claiming a legitimate reason for late submission.
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Essay return and feedback:
Essays will be available for collection within three weeks of submission. Arrangements
for the return of essays will be announced in class and posted on Web CT towards the
end of the semester.
Good feedback on essays is an essential part of the learning experience. Essay feedback
will be provided on a standardised Essay Feedback form, which will provide a general
overview of the strengths and weaknesses of different aspects of the essay, as well as
particular comments on the quality of the essay. Students are also encouraged to consult
course conveners during their office hours to discuss essay feedback or concerns
regarding their work. This feedback is intended to support students in the development
of their future studies, and to inform students’ exam preparation. Students should note
that specific feedback is not provided on end of course exams.
Tutors and conveners use a common marking scheme when marking essays and exams
– the descriptors of these schemes are published in the Politics & IR Honours handbook
and students should refer to these when reflecting on their marks. Students may find it
useful to consult the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment (TLA), accessible at
http://www.tla.ed.ac.uk/, if they feel they need to improve their study and assessment
skills. Any students confronting problems or dissatisfaction with particular courses or
programmes may also communicate these to their student representatives on the StaffStudent Liaison Committee, and are always welcome to communicate issues directly to
the relevant course convener or to the Director of Undergraduate Teaching (Dr Neil
Thin).
Plagiarism:
Although discussion between students is encouraged, all written assignments are
accepted for assessment on the understanding that they are, in the end, the student's
own work. Copying out passages from books and articles without putting the passages
in quotation marks must be avoided. All sources must be properly acknowledged, with
appropriate referencing. Please see the Politics & IR Honours Handbook for further
information on plagiarism. Occasionally cases have come to light of copying from other
students' essays. This will not be tolerated. Serious cases of plagiarism will normally
lead to automatic failure on the whole course, and may also lead to action under the
University's Code of Discipline.
All essays must be accompanied by a signed plagiarism declaration.
ESSAY SUBMISSION CHECKLIST
 Submit two copies of your essay.
 Put only your Exam number on each copy of the essay
 Complete one only Essay Front Coversheet and be sure you complete the
Plagiarism Statement at the bottom of it
 Staple the first copy of the essay to the front cover sheet and paperclip the second
to both of them
 Post the completed essays into the Politics & IR essay box outside Room 1.11, CMB.
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 NOTE: All students should pay particular attention when completing the Plagiarism
segment of the Essay Front Coversheet. If it is not completed correctly, coursework
will not be marked until the student returns to the office to complete/correct the
section.
Further information:
For further information, students should consult the Politics & IR Honours Handbook. In
addition to general rules, regulations, guidance and degree information for Politics & IR
Honours students, it includes information on the extended marking scheme, plagiarism
and freedom of information rules.
Course Text:
The core text for the course, that all students will need a copy of, is Seán Molloy, The
Hidden History of Realism: A Genealogy of Power Politics (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan,
2006). The book is available at discount from Blackwell’s on South Bridge, just opposite
the School of Law at Old College.
Preliminary Readings:
Students are advised to familiarise themselves with the following readings before the
course begins in January 2012:
 E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis: Introduction to the Study of International Relations,
1919-1939 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001 [1939]).
 H.J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: the Struggle for Power and Peace [any
edition from the 1st (1948) up to the 5th (1972)].
 Robert O. Keohane, Neorealism and its Critics (New York: Columbia University Press,
1986).
Specific readings are assigned week-by-week over the following pages. Students should
note that many important readings for the course are available as PDF’s through Web
CT. Those readings available via Web CT are clearly marked over the following pages.
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Course Overview:
Week Date
Lecture
Tutorial
1
16/01
Introduction – Realism’s place in
International Relations theory
No tutorial
2
24/01
How should we think about
Realism? Paradigm, Tradition,
Genealogy?
Can Realism be reconciled with
the standards of the philosophy
of science?
3
31/01
Realism and modernity –
Realism as contra-modern
critique
Does Realism provide a
compelling critique of
modernity?
4
07/02
Clearing the ground for Realism
– E.H. Carr and the Twenty Years
Crisis
Is E.H. Carr an unequivocal
Realist?
5
14/02
The tragedy of power politics –
Morgenthau’s political Realism
Is Morgenthau’s world-view
defined by helpless pessimism?
6
21/02
7
28/02
Realism as historical-theoretical
tradition – Martin Wight’s three
traditions
Is Realism the controlling
disciplinary factor of
international society?
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06/03
The retreat from the Real? –
Kenneth Waltz’s Neorealism
Does Neorealism represent the
pinnacle of the Realist
tradition?
9
13/03
The end of Realism? – The Cold
War and after
Did the end of the Cold War
invalidate Realism?
10
20/03
Saving Realism? –
Reinterpretations of a tradition
Do we need to, and can we, save
Realism from itself?
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27/03
Beyond the revisionist outlook?
– Realism as an Ideology
Is reclaimed Realism becoming
the ‘official ideology of a
declining empire’, the ‘new
idealism’?
University Innovative Learning Week – no lecture or tutorial
Essay due date: end of week 8,
Friday 9th March, 5pm
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Week 1: Realism’s place in International Relations theory
The purpose of this week is to introduce Realism as a family of concepts that have had an
impact on how we theorise IR. Realism is examined in terms of its pre-history, its origins
and development in the twentieth century. What is particularly important in this session is
the critical examination of the supposed core of Realism is derived from textbook
definitions of this theory. The first four readings are typical examples of textbook
representations of Realism. The selections from Carr, Morgenthau and Wight are designed
to begin the process of problematising textbook readings of Realism.
Required readings:
 Brown, Chris. Understanding International Relations 3rd ed. (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005), pp. 26-33. WEB CT.
 Burchill, Scott (ed.). Theories of International Relations, 3rd ed. (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005), pp. 29-54. WEB CT.
 Baylis, John and Steve Smith (eds.). The Globalization of World Politics: An
Introduction to International Relations, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005),
pp. 161-185. WEB CT.
 Nicholson, Michael. International Relations: A Concise Introduction, 2nd ed.
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), pp. 90-98. WEB CT.
 Selections from Carr, Morgenthau, and Wight. WEB CT.
Week 2: How should we think about Realism – Paradigm, Tradition, Genealogy?
Required readings on the use of paradigm:
 Moravcsik, Andrew and Jeffrey Legro, ‘Is Anybody Still a Realist?’ International
Security Vol. 24, No. 2 (1999). E-JOURNAL
 Feaver, Peter et al. ‘Brother Can You Spare a Paradigm,’ International Security Vol. 25,
No. 1 (Summer 2000). E-JOURNAL.
Required readings on the use of tradition:
 Buzan, Barry. ‘The Timeless Wisdom of Realism?’ in Steve Smith et al. (eds.),
International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1997). WEB CT.
 Bell, D. (2009), ‘Introduction: Under an Empty Sky-Realism and Political Theory’ in
Bell, D. (ed.), Political Thought and International Relations: variations on a realist theme,
(Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press). WEB CT.
 Welch, David A. ‘Why International Relations Theorists Should Stop Reading
Thucydides,’ Review of International Studies Vol. 29 (2003), pp. 301-319. E-JOURNAL.
Required reading on the use of genealogy:
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 Molloy, Sean. The Hidden History of Realism, Introduction.
 Der Derian, James. ‘A Reinterpretation of Realism: Genealogy, Semiology, Dromology,’
in James Der Derian (Ed.), International Theory: Critical Investigations, (Basingstoke:
MacMillan, 1995). WEB CT.
Recommended readings on the use of paradigm:
 Badie, Bertrand. “Realism Under Praise, or Requiem? The Paradigmatic Debate in
International Relations,” International Political Science Review (2001), Vol. 22, No. 3.
 Brooks, Steven G. “Duelling Realisms,” International Organization (1997), Vol. 51, No.
3.
 Buzan, Barry, Charles Jones, and Richard Little. The Logic of Anarchy: NeoRealism to
Structural Realism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
 Donnelly, Jack. Realism and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000).
 Fozouni, Bahman. “Confutation of Political Realism,” International Studies Quarterly
(1995), Vol. 39, No. 4.
 Guzzini, Stefano. Realism in International Relations and International Political
Economy: The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold (London: Routledge, 1998).
 Krippendorf, Ekkehart. “The Dominance of American Approaches in International
Relations,” in The Study of International Relations: The State of the Art (London:
Macmillan, 1989).
 Kuhn, Thomas S. “A Response to my Critics,” in Criticism and the Growth of
Knowledge, ed. Imre Lakatos (London: Cambridge University Press, 1970).
 Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Chicago
University Press, 1970).
 Lane, Ruth. “Positivism, Scientific Realism and Political Science. Recent Developments
in the Philosophy of Science,” Journal of Theoretical Politics (1996), Vol. 8, No. 3.
 Mansbach, Richard and John A. Vasquez. In Search of Theory. A New Paradigm for
Global Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981).
 Nobel, Jaap. “Realism versus Interdependence. The Paradigm Debate in International
Relations,” Bulletin of Peace Proposals (1988), Vol. 19, No. 2.
 Vasquez, John A. The Power of Power Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1998).
 Vasquez, John A. “The Realist Paradigm and Degenerative Vs Progressive Research
Programs,” American Political Science Review (1997), Vol. 91, No. 4.
 Walt, Stephen. ‘The Progressive Power of Realism,’ The American Political Science
Review Vol. 91, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 931-935
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 Young, Oran A. “Aron and the Whale: A Jonah in Theory,” in Contending Approaches to
International Politics, ed. Klaus Knorr and James Rosenau (New Jersey: Princeton
University Press, 1969).
Recommended readings on the use of tradition:
 Gilpin, R. ‘War and Change in International Politics,’ Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1981
 Gilpin, R. ‘No One Loves a Political Realist,’ Security Studies, 5 (Spring): 3-26 1996
 Williams, Michael C. The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations
(Cambridge: CUP, 2005).
 Ashley, Richard K. ‘Political Realism and Human Interests,’ International Studies
Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, Symposium in Honor of Hans J. Morgenthau (Jun., 1981), pp.
204-236.
 Bain, William. ‘Deconfusing Morgenthau: Moral Inquiry and Classical Realism
Reconsidered,’ Review of International Studies (2000), 26: 445-464
 Yost, David S. ‘Political Philosophy and the Theory of International Relations,’
International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 70, No. 2 (Apr.,
1994), pp. 263-290
 Benjamin Frankel (ed.), Realism: Restatements and Renewal, (Ilford: Frank Cass & Co.
Ltd, 1996).
 Benjamin Frankel (ed.), Roots of Realism, (Ilford: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1996)
 Lebow, Richard Ned, The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders
(Cambridge: CUP, 2003).
 Schmidt, Brian C. The Political Discourse of Anarchy: a Disciplinary History of
International Relations, (1998)
 Vincent, John, "The Hobbesian Tradition in 20th Century Thought", Millennium 10, 2
(1981).
 Williams, Michael., "Rousseau, Realism and Realpolitik", Millennium 18 (1989).
 Williams, Michael, 'Hobbes and International Relations: A Reconsideration',
International Organization 50, 2 (Spring 1996).
 Smith, Michael, Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger (1986), chapters on Weber
and Morgenthau.
 Haslam, Jonathan, No Virtue like Necessity. Realist Thought in International Relations
since Machiavelli (2002).
 Schmidt, Brian C. ‘Realism as tragedy,’ Review of International Studies (2004), 30:
427-441.
Recommended readings on the use of genealogy:
 Der Derian, James. On Diplomacy: A Genealogy of Western Estrangement (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1987).
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 Bartelson, Jens . A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995).
 Smith, Steve. ‘The Self-Images of a Discipline: A Genealogy of International Relations
Theory,’ in Ken Booth and Steve Smith (eds.) International Relations Theory Today
(Oxford: Polity, 1995).
 Flynn, Thomas. ‘Foucault’s Mapping of History,’ in Gary Gutting (ed.), The Cambridge
Companion to Foucault, (Cambridge: CUP, 1994).
 Foucault, Michel. ‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,’ in Paul Rabinow (ed) The Foucault
Reader. An Introduction to Foucault’s Thought, (London: Penguin, 1991).
 Foucault, Michel. ‘Nietzsche, Marx, Freud,’ in James Faubion (ed.), Trans Robert
Hurley et al, Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, (London: Penguin, 1998).
 Foucault, Michel. ‘Truth and Power,’ in James D. Faubion (Ed), Power. Essential Works
of Foucault. Vol. 3, (The New Press, New York: 2000).
 Foucault, Michel. Society Must be Defended : Lectures at the Collège de France, 196576, Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana eds., trans. David Macey. London : Penguin,
2003. Especially Chapter 1.
 Mahon, Michael Foucault’s Nietzschean Genealogy. Truth, Power, and the Subject.
(Albany: SUNY Press, 1992).
 Nietzsche, Friedrich. ‘On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life’ in Untimely
Meditations, Ed. David Breazeale, Trans R.J. Hollingdale, (Cambridge: CUP, 1997).
 Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals: by Way of Clarification of My Last
Book Beyond Good and Evil. Trans Douglas Smith, (Oxford: OUP, 1996). Especially first
essay.
Week 3: Realism and Modernity – Realism as Contra-modern critique.
Required readings:
 Molloy, Sean. The Hidden History of Realism. A Genealogy of Power Politics (New York:
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006). Chapter 2.
 Adorno, Theodor W. and Max Horkheimer. Dialectic of Enlightenment (New York:
Continuum/Seabury Press, 1972). Chapter 1. WEB CT.
 Foucault, Michel. “What is Enlightenment?” in The Foucault Reader. An Introduction to
Foucault’s Thought, ed. Paul Rabinow (London: Penguin, 1991). WEB CT.
 Oakeshott, Michael. “Rationalism in Politics,” in Rationalism in Politics and Other
Essays (Indianapolis: Liberty, 1991). WEB CT.
 Selections from Carr’s Twenty Years Crisis; Morgenthau’s Scientific Man versus Power
Politics. WEB CT.
Recommended readings:
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 Bell, Duncan S.A. “Anarchy, Power and Death: Contemporary Political Realism as
Ideology,” Journal of Political Ideologies (2002), Vol. 7, No. 2.
 Carr, E.H. “Karl Mannheim,” in From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays
(Basingstoke, U.K.: MacMillan, 1980).
 Cox, R.W. “Social Forces, States, and World Orders,” in Neorealism and Its Critics, ed.
Keohane (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).
 Der Derian, James. “The Boundaries of Knowledge and Power in International
Relations,” in International/Intertextual Relations. Postmodern Readings of World Politics,
ed. James Der Derian and Michael Shapiro (New York: Lexington, 1989).
 Dunne, Tim. “Theories as Weapons: E.H. Carr and International Relations,” in E.H.
Carr: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Michael Cox (Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2000).
 Frei, Christoph. Hans J. Morgenthau: An Intellectual Biography (Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2001).
 Gismondi, Mark. “Tragedy, Realism, and Postmodernity: Kulturpessimus in the
Theories of Max Weber, E.H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, and Henry Kissinger,” Diplomacy
and Statecraft (2004), Vol. 15, No. 3.
 Haslam, Jonathan. The Vices of Integrity: E.H. Carr, 1892–1982 (London: Verso, 1998).
 Jones, Charles. “E.H. Carr: Ambivalent Realist,” in Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in
International Relations, ed. Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman (East Lansing: Michigan
State University Press, 1996).
 Kahler, Miles. “Rationality in International Relations,” International Organization
(1998), Vol. 52, No. 4.
 Morgenthau, Hans J. “The Limitations of Science and the Problem of Social Planning,”
Ethics (1944), Vol. 54, No. 3.
 Morgenthau, Hans J. “Science of Peace: A Rationalist Utopia,” Social Research (1975),
Vol. XLII.
 Petersen, E. U. (1999), ‘Breathing Nietzsche’s Air: New Reflections on
Morgenthau’s Concepts of Power and Human Nature’, Alternatives, vol. 24, no. 1,
pp. 83-118.
Week 4: Clearing the Ground for Realism – E.H. Carr and The Twenty Years’ Crisis.
Required readings:
 Molloy, Hidden History of Realism, Ch 3 & 4.
 Carr, E.H. The Twenty Years’ Crisis. An Introduction to the Study of International
Relations. (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001). This is the latest version, with an excellent
introduction by Mick Cox, but any will suffice.
 Wilson, Peter. “Radicalism for a Conservative Purpose: The Peculiar Realism of E.H.
Carr,” Millennium (2001), Vol. 30, No. 1. E-JOURNAL
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Recommended readings:
 Angell, Norman. “Who are the Utopians? And Who the Realists?” Headway in
Wartime, January 1940.
 Ashworth, Lucian M. “Did the Realist-Idealist Great Debate Really Happen? A
Revisionist History of International Relations,” International Relations (2002), Vol. 16,
No. 1.
 Bull, Hedley. “The Twenty Years’ Crisis Thirty Years On,” International Journal (1969),
Vol. 24, No. 4.
 Carr, E.H. “Karl Mannheim,” in From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays
(Basingstoke, U.K.: MacMillan, 1980).
 Carr, E.H. “An Autobiography,” in E.H. Carr: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Michael Cox
(Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2000).
 Carr, E.H. Britain: A Study in Foreign Policy from the Versailles Treaty to the Outbreak
of War (London: Longman Green, 1939).
 Carr, E.H. Conditions of Peace (London: MacMillan, 1942).
 Carr, E.H. Democracy in International Affairs, Cust Foundation Lecture, University
College Nottingham, 1945.
 Carr, E.H. Dostoevsky (1821–1881): A New Biography (London: Allen & Unwin, 1931).
 Carr, E.H. The Future of Nations: Independence or Interdependence? (London: Kegan
Paul, 1941).
 Carr, E.H. International Relations between the Two World Wars (London: Macmillan,
1947).
 Carr, E.H. Nationalism and After (London: Macmillan, 1946).
 Cox, Michael, Ken Booth, and Tim Dunne. “The Eighty Years’ Crisis,” special edition of
Review of International Studies, reprinted as The Eighty Years’ Crisis: International
Relations 1919–1999 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
 Cox, Michael. “Introduction,” in E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years’ Crisis (London: Palgrave,
2001).
 Cox, Michael. “Will the Real E.H. Carr Please Stand Up?” International Affairs (1999),
Vol. 75, No. 3.
 Cox, Michael. E.H. Carr: A Critical Appraisal (Basingstoke, U.K: Palgrave, 2000).
 Cox, R.W. “Social Forces, States, and World Orders,” in Neorealism and Its Critics, ed.
Keohane (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).
 Crossman, Richard. “Richard Coventry, ‘The Illusions of Power,’ ” The New Statesman
and Nation, November 25, 1939.
 Dunne, Tim. “Theories as Weapons: E.H. Carr and International Relations,” in E.H.
Carr: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Michael Cox (Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2000).
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 Dunne, Tim. Inventing International Society: A History of the English School
(Basingstoke, U.K.: MacMillan, 1998).
 Evans, Graham. “E.H. Carr and International Relations,” British Journal of
International Studies (1975), Vol. 1, No. 2.
 Gismondi, Mark. “Tragedy, Realism, and Postmodernity: Kulturpessimus in the
Theories of Max Weber, E.H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, and Henry Kissinger,” Diplomacy
and Statecraft (2004), Vol. 15, No. 3.
 Haslam, Jonathan. The Vices of Integrity: E.H. Carr, 1892–1982 (London: Verso, 1998).
 Hirst, Paul. “The Eighty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1989—Power,” Review of International
Studies (1998), Vol. 24, No. 5.
 Howe, Paul. “The Utopian Realism of E.H. Carr,” Review of International Studies
(1994), Vol. 20, No. 3.
 Johnston, Whittle. “E.H. Carr’s Theory of International Relations: A Critique,” Journal
of Politics (1967), Vol. 29, No. 4.
 Jones, Charles. “E.H. Carr: Ambivalent Realist,” in Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in
International Relations, ed. Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman (East Lansing: Michigan
State University Press, 1996).
 Jones, Charles. E.H. Carr and International Relations: A Duty to Lie (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998).
 Wilson, Peter. “The Myth of the First Great Debate,” Review of International Studies
(1998), Vol. 24, No. 5.
 Wilson, Peter. “Carr and His Early Critics: Responses to The Twenty Years’ Crisis,
1939–1946,” in E.H. Carr: A Critical Reappraisal, ed. Michael Cox (London: Macmillan,
2000).
 Wilson, Peter. “E.H. Carr: The Revolutionist’s
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 Wilson, Peter. “The New Europe Debate in Wartime Britain,” in Visions of European
Unity, ed. Philomena Murray and Paul Rich (Boulder: Westview, 1996).
 Wilson, Peter. The International Theory of Leonard Woolf: A Study in Twentieth
Century Idealism (New York: Palgrave, 2003).
 Woolf, Leonard. “Utopia and Reality,” The Political Quarterly (1940), Vol. 11, No. 2.
 Zimmern, Alfred. “A Realist in Search of a Utopia,” The Spectator, November 24, 1939.
Week 5: The Tragedy of Power Politics – Morgenthau’s Political Realism.
Required readings:
 Molloy, Hidden History of Realism Chapters 2 & 4.
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 Morgenthau, Hans J. ‘The Political Science of E.H. Carr,’ World Politics, 1 (Oct., 1948).
E-JOURNAL.
 Morgenthau, Hans J.‘The Evil of Politics and the Ethics of Evil,’ Ethics, 56 (October
1945). E-JOURNAL.
 Morgenthau, Hans J. ‘The Twilight of International Morality,’ Ethics, 58 (1948). EJOURNAL.
 Morgenthau, Hans J. Scientific Man versus Power Politics (Chicago: Chicago University
Press, 1946). Final Chapter. WEB CT.
 Oren, Ido. ‘The Unrealism of Contemporary Realism: The Tension between Realist
Theory and Realists’ Practice,’ Perspectives on Politics Vol. 7. No. 2 (June 2009), pp. 283301. E-JOURNAL.
Recommended readings:
 Bain, William. “Deconfusing Morgenthau: Moral Inquiry and Classical Realism
Reconsidered,” Review of International Studies (2000), Vol. 26, No. 3.
 Bell, Duncan S.A. “Anarchy, Power and Death: Contemporary Political Realism as
Ideology,” Journal of Political Ideologies (2002), Vol. 7, No. 2.
 Fromkin, David. “Remembering Hans Morgenthau,” World Policy Journal (1993), Vol.
10, No. 3.
 Gismondi, Mark. “Tragedy, Realism, and Postmodernity: Kulturpessimus in the
Theories of Max Weber, E.H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, and Henry Kissinger,” Diplomacy
and Statecraft (2004), Vol. 15, No. 3.
 Jervis, Robert. “Hans Morgenthau, Realism, and the Scientific Study of International
Politics,” Social Research (1994), Vol. 61, No. 4.
 Morgenthau, Hans J. “The Escape from Power,” Politics in the Twentieth Century
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971, abridged edition).
 Morgenthau, Hans J. “The Machiavellian Utopia,” Ethics (1945), Vol. 55.
 Morgenthau, ‘The Demands of Prudence’ in his Politics in the Twentieth Century Vol.3:
The Restoration of American Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962)
 Morgenthau, Human Rights and Foreign Policy (New York: Council on Religion and
International Affairs, 1979), pp. 17, 25, 36.
 Morgenthau, Hans J. ‘The Evil of Power,’ Review of Metaphysics, 3 (1949/1950)
 Morgenthau, ‘On Trying to be Just,’ Commentary, 35 (May 1963)
 Morgenthau, ‘Justice and Power,’ Social Research, 41 (Spring 1974)
 Morgenthau, ‘The Moral Dilemma of Political Action’ in Morgenthau, The Decline of
Democratic Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), p. 326.
 Morgenthau, Hans J. “The Moral Dilemma of Political Action,” in Politics in the
Twentieth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971, abridged edition).
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 Morgenthau, Hans J. “Thought and Action in Politics,” Social Research (1971), Vol.
XXXVII.
 Morgenthau, Hans J. ‘Death in the Nuclear Age,’ Commentary, 32 (September 1961).
 Murray, H.J.A. (1996), ‘The Moral Politics of Hans Morgenthau’, The Review of Politics,
vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 81-107.
 Neacsu, M. (2010), Hans J. Morgenthau’s Theory of International Politics:
Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
 Pichler, Hans-Karl. “The Godfathers of ‘Truth’: Max Weber and Karl Schmitt in
Morgenthau’s Theory of Power Politics,” Review of International Studies (1998), Vol. 24,
No. 2.
 Pin-Fat, Veronique. “The Metaphysics of the National Interest and the ‘Mysticism’ of
the Nation-State: Reading Hans Morgenthau,” Review of International Studies (2005),
Vol. 32, No. 2.
 Turner, S. & Mazur, G. (2009), ‘Morgenthau as a Weberian Methodologist’, European
Journal of International Relations, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 477-504.
 Williams, Michael C. “Why Ideas Matter in International Relations: Hans Morgenthau,
Classical Realism, and the Moral Construction of Power Politics,” International
Organisation (2004), Vol. 58, No. 4.
 Wong, B. (2000), ‘Hans Morgenthau’s Anti-Machiavellian Machiavellianism’,
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 389-409.
Week 6 – University Innovative Learning Week.
Week 7: Realism in Theoretical Context – Martin Wight’s Three Traditions.
Required readings:
 Molloy, Hidden History of Realism, ch. 5.
 Wight, Martin. “An Anatomy of International Thought,” Review of International
Studies (1987), Vol. 13, No. 3. WEB CT.
 Wight, Martin. “The Balance of Power,” in The World in March 1939, ed. A.J. Toynbee
and F.T. Ashton-Gwatkin (London: Oxford University Press, 1952). WEB CT.
 Wight, Martin. “The Balance of Power and International Order,” in The Bases of
International Order. Essays in Order of C.A.W. Manning, ed. A.M. James (London: Oxford
University Press, 1973). WEB CT.
 Wight, Martin. “Western Values in International Relations,” in Diplomatic
Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Politics, ed. Martin Wight and
Herbert Butterfield (London: Allen & Unwin, 1966). WEB CT.
 Wight, Martin. “Why Is there No International Theory?” in Diplomatic Investigations:
Essays in the Theory of International Politics, ed. Martin Wight and Herbert Butterfield
(London: Allen & Unwin, 1966). WEB CT.
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Recommended readings:
 Bull, Hedley. ‘Martin Wight and the theory of international relations’, British Journal
of International Studies, 1976, vol. 2, pp 101–116.
 Dunne, Tim. Inventing International Society: A History of the English School
(Basingstoke, U.K.: MacMillan, 1998).
 Dunne, Tim (2005), ‘System, State and Society: How Does It All Hang Together?’,
Millennium 34(1), 157-170.
 Dunne, Tim. ‘Sociological Investigations: Instrumental, Legitimist and Coercive
Interpretations of International Society’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 30,
no. 1 (2001): 67-91.
 Walker, R. B. J. Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory (Cambridge,
1993), ch. 2.
 Jackson, Robert ‘Martin Wight, International Theory, and the Good Life’, Millennium,
19 (1990), pp. 261–72;
 Epp, Roger. ‘Martin Wight: International Relations as Realm of Persuasion’, in Francis
Beer and Robert Hariman (eds.), Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International
Relations (East Lansing, MI, 1996).
 Roger Epp, The ‘Augustinian Moment’ in International Politics: Niebuhr, Butterfield,
Wight and the Reclaiming of a Tradition, International Politics Occasional Research
Paper, no. 10 (Aberystwyth, 1991).
 Pierre Hassner, ‘Beyond the three traditions’, International Affairs, 1994, vol. 70(4),
pp 737–756.
 Michael Howard, ‘Ethics and power in international policy’, International Affairs,
1977, vol. 53(3), pp 364–376.
 Suganami, Hidemi (2003) ‘British Institutuionalists, or the English School Twenty
Years On’ International Relations 17(3) 253-271.
 Robert H. Jackson, The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2000)
 Ole Wæver, ‘Four Meanings of International Society: A Transatlantic Dialogue’, in
International Society and the Development of International Relations Theory, ed. B. A.
Robertson (London: Pinter, 1998)
 Hall, Ian. “Challenge and Response: The Lasting Engagement of Arnold J. Toynbee and
Martin Wight,” International Relations (2003), Vol. 17, No. 3.
 Little, Richard. “The English School’s Contributions to the Study of International
Relations,” European Journal of International Relations (2000), Vol. 6, No. 3.
 Thomas, Scott M. “Faith, History and Martin Wight: The Role of Religion in the
Historical Sociology of the English School of International Relations,” International
Affairs (2001), Vol. 77, No. 4.
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 Watson, Adam. ‘Systems of states’, Review of International Studies, 1990, vol. 16, pp
99–109.
 Wight, Martin. “The Balance of Power,” in Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the
Theory of International Politics, ed. Martin Wight and Herbert Butterfield (London: Allen
& Unwin, 1966).
 Wight, Martin. “The Church Russia and the West,” Ecumenical Review (1948), Vol. 1,
No. 1.
 Wight, Martin. International Theory. The Three Traditions (Leicester: Leicester
University Press, 1991).
 Wight, Martin. Power Politics, 2nd ed. (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1978).
 Wight, Martin. Systems of States (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1977).
Week 8: The Retreat from the Real? – Kenneth Waltz’s Neorealism.
Required readings:
 Molloy, Hidden History of Realism, ch. 6.
 Waltz, Kenneth N. “Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory,” Journal of International
Affairs (1990), Vol. 44, No. 1. E-JOURNAL.
 Waltz, Kenneth N. Theory of International Politics (McGraw-Hill, 1979), chapters 5,
pp. 79-101. WEB CT.
 Keohane, Robert (ed.), Neorealism and Its Critics, (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1986), chapters 3, pp. 47-70. WEB CT.
 Ashley, R K, ‘The Poverty of Neorealism’, International Organization, vol. 38, no. 2,
Spring 1984. E-JOURNAL
Recommended readings:
 Duffield, John S. “Political Culture and State Behavior: Why Germany Confounds
Neorealism,” International Organization (1999), Vol. 53, No. 4.
 Goddard, Stacie E. and Daniel H. Nexon. “Paradigm Lost? Reassessing Theory of
International Politics,” European Journal of International Relations (2005), Vol. 11, No. 1.
 Kratochwil, Friedrich. “The Embarrassment of Changes: Neo-Realism as the Science
of Realpolitik without Politics,” Review of International Studies (1993), Vol. 19, No.1.
 Fred Halliday & Justin Rosenberg, ‘Interview with Ken Waltz’, Review of International
Studies, 24 (3), 1998.
 Glaser, Charles L. ‘Structural Realism in a more complex world,’ Review of
International Studies, Volume 29, Issue 03, Jul 2003, pp 403-414.
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 Powell, Robert ‘Anarchy in International Relations Theory: The Neorealist-Neoliberal
Debate,’ International Organization, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Spring, 1994), pp. 313-344
 Hall, Bruce Rodney & Friedrich V. Kratochwil, ‘Medieval Tales: Neorealist "Science"
and the Abuse of History,’ International Organization > Vol. 47, No. 3 (Summer, 1993),
pp. 479-491
 Powell, Robert. ‘Absolute and Relative Gains in International Relations Theory,’ The
American Political Science Review, Vol. 85, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 1303-1320.
 Buzan, Barry and Richard Little, ‘Reconceptualizing Anarchy: Structural Realism
Meets World History,’ European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 2, No. 4, 403-438
(1996)
 Copeland, Dale C. ‘The Constructivist Challenge to Structural Realism: A Review
Essay,’
International Security, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 187-212
 Schroeder, Paul. ‘Historical Reality vs. Neo-Realist Theory,’ International Security, Vol.
19, No. 1 (Summer, 1994), pp. 108-148
 Sterling-Folker, Jennifer. ‘Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting,
Reconstructing, or Rereading,’ International Studies Review 4 (1), (2002), pp. 73–97.
 Buzan, Barry et al, The Logic of Anarchy, (New York: Columbia University Press,
1993)
 Shimko, Keith L. ‘Realism, Neorealism and American Liberalism,’ Review of Politics,
vol. 54, Spring 1992, pp. 281-301.
 Baldwin, David, ed. Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Chapters by Baldwin and Milner.
 Burchill, Scott. ‘Realism and Neo-Realism’. Theories of International Relations. 2nd
Edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1996.
 Buzan, Barry, Charles Jones, and Richard Little. The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to
Structural Realism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
 John Lewis Gaddis, ‘International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War’.
International Security. 17 (1992/93): 5-58.
 Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1981).
 Little, Richard. ‘Neorealism and the English School’. European Journal of International
Relations. 1.1 (1995): 9-34.
 Mearsheimer, John. ‘Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War’.
International Security. 15.1 (1990): 5-56.
 John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. London: WW Norton, 2001.
 Milner, Helen. “The Assumption of Anarchy in International Relations Theory: A
Critique.” Review of International Studies. 17 (1991): 67-85.
 Snyder, Glenn. ‘Mearsheimer’s World—Offensive Realism and Struggle for Security’.
International Security. 27.1 (2002): 149-173.
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 Wendt, Alexander. ‘Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of
Power Politics,’ International Organization, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 391-425
 Rosenberg, Justin. The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of
International Relations (London: Verso, 1994).
 Ruggie, J.G. ‘The False Premise Of Realism,’ International Security, 1995, Vol. 20, No 1,
pp.62-70.
 Waltz, Kenneth N. “The Anarchic Structure of World Politics,” in R. Art and R Jervis
(eds), International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, (New York:
London : Pearson Longman, 2007).
 Waltz, Kenneth N. “Structural Realism after the Cold War,” International Security
(2000), Vol. 25, No. 1.
 Waltz, Kenneth N. “The Emerging Structure of International Relations,” International
Security (1993), Vol. 18, No. 2.
 Waltz, Kenneth N. “The New World Order,” Millennium: Journal of International
Studies (1993), Vol. 22, No. 2.
 Waltz, Kenneth N. “The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory,” Journal of
Interdisciplinary History (1988), Vol. 18, No. 4.
 Waltz, Kenneth N. Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979).
 Waltz, Kenneth N. “Evaluating Theories,” American Political Science Review (1997),
Vol. 91, No. 4.
Week 9: The End of Realism? – The Cold War and After.
Required reading:
 George Kennan (writing as ‘X’), ‘The Sources of Soviet Conduct,’ Foreign Affairs 25
(1946/1947). WEB CT.
 Lebow, Richard Ned ‘The Long Peace, the End of the Cold War, and the Failure of
Realism,’ International Organization, Vol. 48, No. 2. (Spring, 1994), pp. 249-277. EJOURNAL.
 Mastanduno, Michael ‘Preserving the Unipolar Moment: Realist Theories and U.S.
Grand Strategy after the Cold War (in U.S. Foreign Policy: Out of This World?),
International Security, Vol. 21, No. 4. (Spring, 1997), pp. 49-88. E-JOURNAL.
 Mearsheimer, John J. ‘Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War,’
International Security, Vol. 15, No. 1. (Summer, 1990), pp. 5-56. E-JOURNAL.
 Wohlforth, William C. ‘Realism and the End of the Cold War,’ International Security,
Vol. 19, No. 3. (Winter, 1994-1995), pp. 91-129. E-JOURNAL.
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Recommended reading:
 Gaddis, John Lewis ‘International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War,’
International Security, Vol. 17, No. 3. (Winter, 1992-1993), pp. 5-58.
 Houghton, Neal D. ‘A Case for Essential Abandonment of Basic U. S. Cold War
Objectives,’ The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2. (Jun., 1970), pp. 384-411.
 Ray, James Lee & Bruce Russett, ‘The Future as Arbiter of Theoretical Controversies:
Predictions, Explanations and the End of the Cold War,’ British Journal of Political
Science, Vol. 26, No. 4. (Oct., 1996), pp. 441-470.
 McCalla, Robert B.
‘NATO's Persistence after the Cold War,’ International
Organization, Vol. 50, No. 3. (Summer, 1996), pp. 445-475.
 Kegley, Jr. Charles W. & Gregory A. Raymond, ‘Must We Fear a Post-Cold War
Multipolar System?’ The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 36, No. 3. (Sep., 1992), pp.
573-585.
 Macdonald, Douglas J. ‘Communist Bloc Expansion in the Early Cold War: Challenging
Realism, Refuting Revisionism,’ International Security, Vol. 20, No. 3. (Winter, 19951996), pp. 152-188.
 Art, Robert J. ‘A Defensible Defense: America's Grand Strategy after the Cold War,’
International Security, Vol. 15, No. 4. (Spring, 1991), pp. 5-53.
 Ruggie, John Gerard ‘Third Try at World Order? America and Multilateralism after the
Cold War,’ Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 109, No. 4. (Autumn, 1994), pp. 553-570.
 Walt, Stephen M. ‘The Case for Finite Containment: Analyzing U.S. Grand Strategy (in
Defining and Defending American Interests),’ International Security, Vol. 14, No. 1.
(Summer, 1989), pp. 5-49.
 Zakaria, Fareed ‘The Reagan Strategy of Containment,’ Political Science Quarterly, Vol.
105, No. 3. (Autumn, 1990), pp. 373-395.
 Miller, Linda B. ‘American Foreign Policy: Beyond Containment?’ International Affairs
(Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 66, No. 2. (Apr., 1990), pp. 313-324.
 Kratochwil, Friedrich "The Embarassment of Changes: Neo-realism as the Science of
Realpolitik without Politics", Review of International Studies, Vol. 19, no. 1 (January
1993), pp. 63-80.
 Bowker, Mike and Robin Brown (eds). From Cold War to Collapse: Theory and World
Politics in the 1980s, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Week 10: Saving Realism? Reinterpretations of a Tradition.
Required readings:
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 Molloy, ‘From The Twenty Years’ Crisis to Theory of International Politics: A
Rhizomatic Reading of Realism,’ Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol.
13, 2010, pp. 378-404. Web-CT.
 Walker, R.B.J. ‘Realism, Change, and International Political Theory,’ International
Studies Quarterly, (1987), Vol. 31, No. 1. E-JOURNAL.
 Michael C. “Why Ideas Matter in International Relations: Hans Morgenthau, Classical
Realism, and the Moral Construction of Power Politics,” International Organization
(2004), Vol. 58, No. 4. E-JOURNAL.
 Scheuerman, W. E., (2009) "Morality, power and tragedy" from Scheuerman, W. E.,
Hans Morgenthau: realism and beyond pp.40-69,208-213, Cambridge: Polity Press .
WEBCT
 Steele, Brent, ‘Eavesdropping on Honored Ghosts: From Classical to Reflexive
Realism’, Journal of International Relations and Development, 10, 2007, pp. 272-300. EJOURNAL.
Recommended readings:
 Hayden, Patrick. ‘From Relations to Practice in the Empiricism of Gilles Deleuze,’ Man
and World Vol.28, pp. 283--302, 1995.
 Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari,. A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Vol. II (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987) – Plateau 1: Rhizome. WEB
CT.
 Lather, Patti, ‘Fertile Obsession: Validity After Poststructuralism,’ Sociological
Quarterly, 34:4 (1993:Nov.)
 Lebow Ned Richard (2003), The Tragic Vision of Politics: ethics, interests, orders,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
 Bogue, Ronald. ‘Gilles Deleuze: Postmodern Philosopher?’ Criticism, Vol. 32: 4
(1990:Fall).
 Colombat, André Pierre. ‘A Thousand Trails to Work with Deleuze,’ SubStance, Vol.
20, No. 3, Issue 66: Special Issue: Deleuze & Guattari (1991), pp. 10-23.
 Stivale, Charles J. 'Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Schizoanalysis & Literary
Discourse,’ SubStance, Vol. 9, No. 4, Issue 29 (1980), pp. 46-57
 Graafland, Arie. ‘Of Rhizomes, Trees,
Assemblage, No. 38 (Apr., 1999), pp. 28-41
and
the
IJ-Oevers
Amsterdam,’
 Rapaport, Herman. ‘Vietnam: The Thousand Plateaus,’ Social Text, No. 9/10, The 60's
without Apology (Spring, 1984), pp. 137-147
 Patton, Paul. ‘Conceptual Politics and the War-Machine in "Mille Plateaux,"’
SubStance, Vol. 13, No. 3/4, Issue 44-45: Gilles Deleuze (1984), pp. 61-80.
 Bain, W. (2000), ‘Deconfusing Morgenthau: moral inquiry and classical realism
reconsidered’, Review of International Studies, vol. 26, pp. 445-464.
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 Behr, H. & Heath, A. (2009), ‘Misreading in IR theory and ideology critique:
Morgenthau, Waltz and neo-realism’, Review of International Studies, vol. 35, pp. 327349.
 Cozette, M. (2008a), ‘Reclaiming the critical dimension of realism: Hans J.
Morgenthau on the ethics of scholarship’, Review of International Studies, vol. 34, pp. 527.
 Cozette, M. (2008b), ‘What Lies Ahead: Classical Realism on the Future of
International Relations’, International Studies Review, vol. 10, pp. 667-679.
 Griffiths, M. (1992), Realism, Idealism and International Politics: a reinterpretation,
(London; NY: Routledge).
 Scheuerman, E. W. (2011), The Realist Case for Global Reform, (Cambridge: Polity
Press).
 Scheuerman, E. W. (2009a), Morgenthau: realism and beyond, (Cambridge: Polity
Press).
 Scheuerman, E. W. (2009b), ‘A Theoretical Missed Opportunity? Hans J. Morgenthau
as Critical Realist’ in Bell, D. (ed.), Political Thought and International Relations:
variations on a realist theme, (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press).
 Scheuerman, E. W. (2008), ‘Realism and the Left: the case of Hans J. Morgenthau’,
Review of International Studies, vol. 34, pp. 29-51.
 Schuett, R. (2011), ‘Peace through Transformation? Political Realism and the
Progressivism of National Security’, International Relations, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 185-203.
 Schuett, R. (2010), ‘Classical realism, Freud and human nature in international
relations’, History of the Human Sciences, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 21-46.
 Schuett, R. (2007), ‘Freudian roots of political realism: the importance of Sigmund
Freud to Hans J. Morgenthau theory of international power politics’, History of the
Human Sciences, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 53-78.
 Tjalve Schou, V. (2008), Realist Strategies of Republican Peace: Niebuhr, Morgenthau
and the politics of patriotic dissent, (New York: Palgrave MacMillan).
 Tjalve Schou, V. (2009), ‘Realism and the Politics of (Dis)Enchantment’ in Bell, D.
(ed.), Political Thought and International Relations: variations on a realist theme, (Oxford;
New York: Oxford University Press).
 Williams, M. ed. (2007), Realism Reconsidered: the legacy of Hans Morgenthau in
international relations, (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press).
 Williams, M. (2005), The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations,
(Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press).
Week 11: Beyond the Revisionist Outlook? – Realism as Ideology
Required reading:
 Molloy, Hidden History of Realism, conclusion.
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 Bell, Duncan S.A. “Anarchy, Power and Death: Contemporary Political Realism as
Ideology,” Journal of Political Ideologies (2002), Vol. 7, No. 2. E-JOURNAL
 Williams, Michael, ‘What is the National Interest? The Neoconservative Challenge in
IR Theory’, European Journal of International Relations, 11(3), December 2005, pp. 307337. E-JOURNAL
 Guilhot, Nicolas, ‘One Discipline, Many Histories’ in Guilhot Nicolas, The Invention of
International Relations Theory, (New York: Columbia University Press), 2011, pp. 1-32.
E-BOOK via Library.
Recommended Reading:
 Molloy, Hidden History of Realism, conclusion.
 Freeden, Michael, Ideologies and Political Theory: a conceptual approach, (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1998)
 Vigneswaran D. & Quirk J., ‘Past Masters and Modern Inventions: Intellectual History
as Critical Theory’, International Relations, vol. 24, no. 2, 2010, pp. 107-131.
 Jahn, Beate, Classical Theory in International Relations, (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006).
 Williams, Michael, ‘Morgenthau now: Neo-conservatism, national greatness, and
realism’ in Williams, M. ed. (2007), Realism Reconsidered: the legacy of Hans Morgenthau
in international relations, (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press).
 Guilhot, Nicolas, ‘The Realist Gambit: Postwar American Political Science and the
Birth of IR Theory’ in Guilhot Nicolas, The Invention of International Relations Theory,
(New York: Columbia University Press), 2011
 Sørensen, Georg. "A Revised Paradigm for International Relations: The 'Old' Images
and the Postmodernist Challenge," Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 26 (1991), pp. 85-116.
 Porter, Tony. "Postmodern Political Realism and International Relations Theory's
Third Debate," in: Claire Turenne Sjolander, Wayne S. Cox (eds.), Beyond Positivism:
Critical Reflections on International Relations, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1994, pp.
105-128.
 Spegele, Roger D. "Political Realism and the Remembrance of Relativism," Review of
International Studies, Vol. 21 (1995), pp. 211-236.
 Richard K. Ashley "Political Realism and Human Interests," International Studies
Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2 (June 1981), pp. 204-236.
 Ashley, Richard K. "The Poverty of Neorealism," International Organization, Vol. 38,
No. 2 (Spring 1984), pp. 225-286.
 Ashley, Richard K. "The Achievements of Poststructuralism," in: Steve Smith, Ken
Booth, Marysia Zalewski (eds.), International Theory: Positivism & Beyond, Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1996, pp. 240-253.
 George, Jim. "Of Incarceration and Closure: Neo-Realism and the New/Old World
Order," Millennium, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1993), pp. 197-234
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 George, Jim. Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical (Re)Introduction to International
Relations, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1994.
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