ProSeminar in International Relations Theory
Political Science 5300, Fall 2011
Professor Jennifer Sterling-Folker
Office Hours: Mon 11:30-1:00 & by apt.
http://www.advapp.uconn.edu/
Jennifer.sterling-folker@uconn.edu
Monteith 206
(860) 486-2535
This course explores, compares and contrasts the discipline‟s dominant analytical perspectives. It
provides an overview of 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.
Attend a day of the ISA-NE Conference in November. Write one short memo (1 page) analyzing a week‟s readings,
worth 10%. Write two short papers (5 pages) during the semester, each worth 20% 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, participation in
class discussions, and attendance at ISA-NE is worth 10%.
All papers must be double-spaced with reasonable margins and font. Memos are based on the week‟s assigned readings
and should summarize/analyze the readings. We will decide on memo orders during the first class. For other papers, 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.
The ISA-NE (International Studies Association-Northeast) annual conference is being held on 4-5 November (Friday &
Saturday) at the Providence Biltmore in Providence, Rhode Island. Since the location is close, this is a great opportunity
to see what a professional conference is like and see/meet some established scholars (particularly in the critical theory
tradition). There will also be a sizeable UConn presence at the conference. You should plan to attend at least one day of
the conference. We will discuss registration, car pooling, and other details as the conference draws nearer.
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 can be accessed via your HuskyCT page. For articles,
stable URLs are provided and can be read/downloaded from a UConn connected computer. PDFs of assigned chapters
can be found via HuskyCT under course readings (either listed individually or under the library resources link). The
required books are on reserve, or may be bought at the UConn Coop, borrowed via some other library venue (WorldCat,
Virtual Catalog online), or purchased (as hard copies or in some cases as ecopies) via an online vendor.
--J. Samuel Barkin (2010) Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory. Cambridge
University Press (ISBN: 978-0-521-12181-1)
--Daniel W. Drezner (2011) Theories of International Politics and Zombies. Princeton University Press (ISBN: 9780-691-14783-3)
--G. John Ikenberry (2011) Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World
Order. Princeton University Press. (ISBN: 978-0691125589)
--Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (2010) The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Science and its
Implications for the Study of World Politics, Routledge. (ISBN: 978-0-415-77627)
--Immanuel Wallerstein (2004) World Systems Analysis: An Introduction, Duke University Press (ISBN: 978-0822-334422)
--Kenneth Waltz, (2010) Theory of International Politics (Waveland Pr. Inc). Look for this more affordable recent
edition ($24 on Amazon). (ISBN: 978-1-577-666707)
A list of supplementary texts for each subject is provided at the end of the syllabus. None of the supplementary texts are
required reading, but consult them if you want to learn more about a subject. The lists are particularly helpful if you are
studying for exams, as they contain texts that were required reading in prior years and/or for Jeremy‟s version of
POLS5300.
COURSE READING SCHEDULE:
AUGUST 29 -- Introduction to the Course and One Another
SEPTEMBER 5 -- NO CLASS (LABOR DAY)
SEPTEMBER 12 – Classical Realism (Neoclassical/Defensive Realism)
Memos:
CLASS VISITOR: Jeffrey (Jeff) Taliaferro, Associate Professor, Tufts University. He is author of
Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (Cornell University Press, 2004), and
co-editor (and a contributor), along with Steven E. Lobell and Norrin P. Ripsman, of Neoclassical
Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2009). His research focuses on
international relations theories, security studies, international history and politics, the grand
strategies of the great powers, political psychology, and U.S. foreign policy. READ FOR CLASS:
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Steven E. Lobell, and Norrin M. Ripsman (2009) “Introduction: Neoclassical Realism, the State,
and Foreign Policy.” In Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge U. Press): 1-41. PDF
available on HuskyCT
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro (2009) “Neoclassical Realism and Resource Extraction: State Building for Future War.” In
Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge U. Press): 99-138. PDF available on HuskyCT
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro (forthcoming) “Strategy of Innocence or Calculated Provocation: The Roosevelt Administration's
Road to World War II.” In Broken Balances: Grand Strategy during the Interwar Period, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro,
Steven E. Lobell, and Norrin M. Ripsman, eds (Cambridge University Press). Author will supply a copy. PDF
available on HuskyCT
Wivel, Anders (2005) "Explaining Why State x Made a Certain Move Last Tuesday: The Promise and Limitations of
Realist Foreign Policy Analysis." Journal of International Relations and Development. 8: 4(December): 355-380.
PDF available on HuskyCT
SEPTEMBER 19 – Neorealism (Offensive Realism)
Memos:
Kenneth Waltz, (2010) Theory of International Politics (Waveland Pr. Inc). The book was published by McGraw-Hill in
1979 and has been VERY expensive ($80+new) to acquire. Finally a more affordable edition has come out ($24 on
Amazon). (ISBN: 978-1-577-666707). Read entire but concentrate on chs 4-6 in particular.
SEPTEMBER 26 -- -- Constructivism [First Paper Topic Out]
Memos:
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.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/stable/pdfplus/2706858.pdf
Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink (1998) “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change,” International
Organization 52(4), Special Issue, International Organization at Fifty: Exploration and Contestation in the Study of
World Politics (Autumn): 887-917. http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/stable/pdfplus/2601361.pdf
Introduction & chs 1-3 in Foreign Policy in a Constructed World, Vendulka Kubálková, ed. (M.E. Sharpe: 2001). PDFs
available on HuskyCT; The intro & chs 1-2 are in the first PDF, ch 3 is split across the PDFs
FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER (DATE TBA) – Realist Constructivism **FIRST PAPER DUE**
Memos:
NOTE: Class day for October 3 will change to accommodate the Class Visitor. Exact day and time
will be determined during our first class session in August.
CLASS VISITOR: Sammy Barkin, Associate Professor, University of Florida. He is author of Social
Construction and the Logic of Money (SUNY 2003) and Realist Constructivism (CUP 2010). His
research focuses on international relations theory, international environmental politics, international
monetary politics, and theories of sovereignty. READ FOR CLASS:
J. Samuel Barkin (2010) Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory. Cambridge University
Press (ISBN: 978-0-521-12181-1)
OCTOBER 10 -- Post-Modernism/Post-Structuralism
Memos:
CLASS VISITOR: Rosemary Shinko, Visiting Assistant Professor, Bucknell University. She is
author of numerous articles and book chapters on post-modernism, and she is currently writing a
book on Postmodern Approaches to the Study of IR. Her research focuses on deconstructive
approaches to the study of sovereignty, liberalism and the body. READ FOR CLASS:
Shinko, Rosemary E. (2008). “Agonistic Peace: A Postmodern Reading.” Millennium: Journal of
International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, Special Issue on Peace, 36(3), 473-491.
http://mil.sagepub.com.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/content/36/3/473.full.pdf+html
Shinko, Rosemary E. (forthcoming) "Genuises, Exiles and (Liberal) Postmodern Subjectivities," Journal of International
Relations and Development. Author will supply a copy. PDF available on HuskyCT
Shinko, Rosemary E. (in progress) "Theorizing Embodied Resistance Practices in International Relations." Author will
supply a copy. PDF available on HuskyCT
Shinko, Rosemary E. (forthcoming) “ Postmodernism: Seducing Humanity in the Iraq War,” In Making Sense of
International Relations Theory 2, Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed. (Lynne Reinner Publishers) PDF available on
HuskyCT
OCTOBER 17 -- Disciplinary Historiography (The “Great Debates”)
Memos:
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. PDF is available electronically on HuskyCT page, under Course
Materials, Course Readings, Library Resources.
Stanley Hoffmann (1977) “An American Social Science: International Relations” Daedalus 106 (3, Summer): 41-60.
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/stable/pdfplus/20024493.pdf
Ole Waever (2010) “Still a Discipline After All These Debates?” In International Relations Theories: Discipline and
Diversity, Tim Dunne, Milija Kurki and Steve Smith eds. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. PDF available on
HuskyCT
Markus Kornprobst (2009) “International Relations as Rhetorical Discipline: Toward (Re-)Newing Horizons,”
International Studies Review 11(1, March): 87-108
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2008.01826.x/pdf
OCTOBER 24 – Philosophy of Science in IR (Post-positivism & Critical Theory)
Memos:
CLASS VISITOR VIA VIDEOCONFERENCING (2-3:30PM): Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Associate
Professor, American University. He is author of Civilizing the Enemy: German Reconstruction and
the Invention of the West (UMichigan Press, 2006) and The Conduct of Inquiry in IR (Routledge
2010). His research interests include culture and agency, international relations theory (particularly
the intersection of realism and constructivism), scientific methodology, the role of rhetoric in public
life, civilizations in world politics, and the sociology of academic knowledge. READ FOR CLASS:
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (2010) The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Science and its
Implications for the Study of World Politics, Routledge. (ISBN: 978-0-415-77627)
OCTOBER 31 -- Feminism
Memos:
J. Ann Tickner (1997) “You Just Don‟t Understand: Troubled Engagements Between Feminists and IR Theorists,”
International Studies Quarterly 41 (4, December): 611-32
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/stable/pdfplus/2600855.pdf
J. Ann Tickner (2002) “Feminist Perspectives on 9/11,” International Studies Perspectives 3(4): 333-50.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1111/1528-3577.t01-1-00098/pdf
Brooke Ackerly and Jacqui True (2008) “Reflexivity in Practice: Power and Ethics in Feminist Research on International
Relations.” International Studies Review 10(December, 4): 693-707.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2008.00826.x/pdf
Marysia Zalewski (2007) “Do We Understand Each Other Yet? Troubling Feminist Encounters With(in) International
Relations,” British Journal of Politics and IR 9(2): 302-312
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2007.00287.x/pdf
NOVEMBER 4&5 (Friday&Saturday) -- ISA-NE Conference in Providence
NOVEMBER 7 -- The Sociology of Disciplinary (Post-Colonial) “Knowledge” [Second Paper Topic Out]
Memos:
Steve Smith (2000) “The Discipline of International Relations: Still an American Social Science?” British Journal of
Politics and International Relations 2(3): 374-402
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1111/1467-856X.00042/pdf
Arlene B. Tickner (2003) “Seeing IR Differently: Notes From the Third World,” Millennium: Journal of International
Studies, 32(June, 2): 295-324. http://mil.sagepub.com.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/content/32/2/295.full.pdf+html
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.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/content/33/3/827.full.pdf+html
Turan Kayaoglu (2010) “Westphalian Eurocentrism in IR Theory,” International Studies Review 12(2, June): 193-217.
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&hid=21&sid=a35be01a-6cd4449c-bb7e-fea2ef71c5fe%40sessionmgr10
NOVEMBER 14 -- Classical Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism & Democratic Peace Theory
**SECOND PAPER DUE**
G. John Ikenberry (2011) Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order.
Princeton University Press. (ISBN: 978-0691125589)
NOVEMBER 21 -- NO CLASS (THANKSGIVING)
NOVEMBER 28 -- World System Theory & Historical Materialism
Memos:
Immanuel Wallerstein (2004) World Systems Analysis: An Introduction, Duke
University Press (ISBN: 978-0-822-334422)
Stephen Gill and David Law (1989) “Global Hegemony and the Structural Power of
Capital,” International Studies Quarterly 33(Dec, 4): 475-99;
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/stable/pdfplus/2600523.pdf
DECEMBER 5 – Applying IR Theory and Its Relationship to Policy [Final Paper Topic Out]
Memos:
Daniel W. Drezner (2011) Theories of International Politics and Zombies. Princeton University Press (ISBN: 978-0-69114783-3)
Stephen M. Walt (2005) “The Relationship Between theory and Policy in International Relations,” Annual Review of
Political Science 8(June): 23-48.
http://www.annualreviews.org.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.polisci.7.012003.104904
George Lawson (2008) “For a Public International Relations,” International Political Sociology
2(March, 1): 17-37.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1111/j.17495687.2007.00031.x/pdf
**WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14 -- 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 should 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 November) 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 November 4-5 in Providence.
Supplementary Readings for POLS5300
A list of supplementary texts for each subject is provided below. None of the supplementary texts are required reading for
the course, but consult them if you want to learn more about a subject. The lists will be particularly helpful if you are
studying for Ph.D. exams, as they contain texts that were required reading in prior years and/or for Jeremy‟s version of
POLS5300.
IR Theory: Scott Burchill, et. al. (2009) Theories of International Relations, 4th 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 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).
Classical Realism Supplementary Readings: E. H. Carr. (1939 original; 2001 reprint). The Twenty Years Crisis: 19191939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations (Michael Cox ed) Palgrave Macmillan; Hans J. Morgenthau
(1947) Scientific Man vs. Power Politics (Latimer House); Walter Lippmann, (1948) “The Rivalry of Nations,” The
Atlantic (Monthly) 181, no. 2 (February): 17-20; Hans J. Morgenthau (1960) Politics Among Nations, 4th ed (NY: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1967), pp. 3-14, 97-105, 161-223 (chapters 1, 8, 11-15); 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); Michael C. Williams
(2005) The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations (Cambridge); Annette Freyberg-Inan, et. al., eds.
(2009) Rethinking Realism in IR: Between Tradition and Innovation (John Hopkins U Press); Brent J. Steele (2007)
“Eavesdropping on Honored Ghosts: From Classical to Reflexive Realism,” Journal of IR and Development
10(September, 3): 272-300.
Neoclassical Realism & Defensive Realism Supplementary Readings: Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in
International Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), pp. 58-113; 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; 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).
Neorealism: John J. Mearsheimer (2001) The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Norton), pp. 1-172, 234-238, 360-402;
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),
particularly chapters by John Ruggie and Richard Ashley; Paul Schroeder, “Historical Reality versus Neorealist Theory,”
(1994) International Security 19, no. 1 (Summer): 108-48; R. Harrison Wagner, “What was Bipolarity?” (1993)
International Organization 47, No. 1. (Winter): 77-106; Barry Buzan et al, (1993) The Logic of Anarchy (Columbia) pp.
22-80, 247-257.
Constructivism: 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; Alexander Wendt (1987) “The Agent-Structure Problem in
International Relations Theory,” International Organization 41(3, Summer): 335-70; Nina Tannenwald, (2005) “Ideas and
Explanation: Advancing the Theoretical Agenda,” Journal of Cold War Studies 7, No. 2 (Spring): 13-42; Nicholas Onuf,
(2002) “Worlds of Our Making: The Strange Career of Constructivism in International Relations,” in Visions of
International Relations, Donald J. Puchala, ed. (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press): 119-141.
Realist-Constructivism: Sterling-Folker, Jennifer (2002) "Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting,
Reconstructing, or Rereading." International Studies Review 4: 1(Spring): 73-100; J. Samuel Barkin (2003) “RealistConstructivism” International Studies Review 5(3 September): 325-42; Forum on Realist-Constructivism in International
Studies Review (2004), 6 (June, 2): 343-52 (contributers: Janice Bially Mattern, Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Sammy Barkin,
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Dan Nexon, and Richard Ned Lebow); Jennifer Sterling-Folker (2002) Theories of International
Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy (SUNY Press); Robert S. Snyder, (2005) “Bridging the Realist/Constructivist
Divide: The Case of the Counterrevolution in Soviet Foreign Policy at the end of the Cold War,” Foreign Policy Analysis 1:
55-71.
Post-Modernism: 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; 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 K. Ashley (1981) “Political Realism and Human Interest,”
International Studies Quarterly, 25(2): 204–36 (in the same issue, see also John Herz, “Comment,” pp. 237-241); 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); Rob Walker (1992) Inside/Outside: International Relations as
Political Theory (Cambridge); Pauline Rosenau (1990) "Once Again Into the Fray: International Relations Confronts the
Humanities," Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 19: 83-110; Jennifer Sterling-Folker and Rosemary E. Shinko
(2005) “Discourses of Power: Traversing the Realist-Postmodern Divide,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies
33(3, June): 637-664. http://mil.sagepub.com.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/content/33/3/637.full.pdf+html
Disciplinary Historiograph: 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‟s chapter 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
Post-Positivism, Critical Theory & Philosophy of Science in IR: 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; Jim George, Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical
(Re) Introduction to International Relations; Hayward R. Alker, (1996) “Review: After the Enlightenment: An
Accessible, Critical, Post-foundationalist 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); 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”: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=RIS&volumeId=33&issueId=S1&iid=1200444
Feminism: Charlotte Hooper (2001) Manly States: Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics,
Columbia U. Press (available electronically via Homer); Elizabeth Prügl (1999) The Global Construction of Gender:
Home-based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century (Columbia); Cynthia Enloe (2001) Bananas, Beaches and
Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (UCal Press); J. Ann Tickner (2001) Gendering World Politics:
Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era (Columbia); 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
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