Political Science 145-B Reading List
University of California San Diego
Conflict and Cooperation in International Politics
Political Science 145B
Dr. Michael P Byron
Winter 2001
Lectures: M/W 4:30 to 5:50 P.M.
Office hours: M/W 2:15 to 4:15 P.M.
Course Packet:
Viotti & Kauppi, International Relations Theory, Chapter 1 pp. 1-28 only.
Thucidydides: the Melian Dialogue, pp. 100-104 in Viotti & Kauppi, International Relations
Theory.
Machiavelli: On Princes and the Security of Their States, pp. 105-107 in Viotti & Kauppi:
International Relations Theory.
Hobbes: On the Natural Condition of Mankind, pp. 108-110 in Viotti & Kauppi, International
Relations Theory.
Gilpin: War and Change in World Politics, pp. 145-152 in Viotti & Kauppi, International
Relations Theory.
Doyle: Liberalism and World Politics, pp. 233-245 in Viotti & Kauppi, International Relations
Theory.
Goldstein and Keohane: Ideas and Foreign Policy, pp. 297-306 in Viotti & Kauppi, International
Relations Theory.
Haas: Knowledge and Power, pp. 319-330 in Viotti & Kauppi, International Relations Theory.
Course Packet:
D*Dougherty & Pfaltzgraf, Contending Theories in International Relations, Chapter 3, pp.
100-143.
Course Packet:
Walt: Alliance Formation, in Baum, Jones and Miller The Perils of Anarchy, pp. 249-286.
Gilpin: Political Economy of International Relations, Chapter 1, pp. 1-24, Chapter 2, pp. 25-54.
Krasner: International Regimes, Chapter 1, pp. 1-22.
Course Packet:
Wendt: Anarchy is What States Make of It, pp 434-458 in Viotti & Kauppi, International
Relations Theory.
Bull: Does Order Exist in World Politics? pp. 127-129 in Viotti & Kauppi, International
Relations Theory.
Waltz: Man, the State and War, Chapter 6, pp. 125-158.
Baldwin: Neoliberalism, Neorealism, and World Politics, Chapter 1, pp. 1-28 in Baldwin
Neoliberalism and Neorealism.
Axelrod and Keohane: Achieving Cooperation Under Anarchy: Strategies and Institutions,
Chapter 4, pp. 85-115 in Baldwin Neoliberalism and Neorealism.
Milner: The Assumption of Anarchy, Chapter 6, pp. 143-169, in Baldwin Neoliberalism and
Neorealism.
Course Packet:
D*Dougherty and Pfaltzgraf: Contending Theories in International Relations, Chapter 8 pp.
293-366.
Waltz: Explaining War, pp. 130-144 in Viotti & Kauppi, International Relations Theory.
Gilpin: War and Change in World Politics, pp. 145-152 in Viotti & Kauppi, International
Relations Theory.
Mansfield: Power, Trade and War, Chapter 2, pp. 34-70.
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*Dougherty and Pfaltzgraf: Chapter 10, pp. 418-456.
Snidal: The Game Theory of International Politics, pp. 25-57.
Downs, Rocke, and Siverson: Arms Races and Cooperation, pp. 118-146.
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Inglehart: Culture and Democracy, pp. 80-97, in Harrison and Huntington, Culture Matters.
Doyle: Kant, Liberal Legacies and Foreign Affairs, pp. 3-57, in Brown, Jones, and Miller,
Debating the Democratic Peace.
Owen: How Liberalism Produces Peace, pp. 116-156 in Brown, Jones, and Miller, Debating the
Democratic Peace.
Layne: Kant or Cant: the Myth of the Democratic Peace, pp. 202-238 in Brown, Jones, and
Miller, Debating the Democratic Peace.
Layne: On the Democratic Peace, pp. 358-363 in Brown, Jones, and Miller, Debating the
Democratic Peace.
Doyle: Reflections on the Democratic Peace and its Critics, pp. 364-373 in Brown, Jones, and
Miller, Debating the Democratic Peace.
Course Packet:
Cederman: Emergent Actors in World Politics, Chapters 1-3, pp. 1-71.
Axelrod: The Complexity of Cooperation, Chapter 4, pp. 67-94, Appendix A: Replication of
Agent Based Models, pp. 183-205.
D*Dougherty and Pfaltzgraf: Contending Theories in International Relations, Chapter 13, pp.
529-532.
Rosenau, Turbulent Change, pp. 459-468, in Viotti & Kauppi, International Relations Theory.
Course Packet:
Mansfield: Power, Trade and War, Chapter 7, pp. 226-254.
Axelrod: The Complexity of Cooperation, Chapter 7, pp. 145-180.
Dougherty and Pfaltzgraf: Contending Theories in International Relations, Chapter 13, pp.
541-580.