UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA
Department of International and European Studies
Master’s Program in International Public Administration
(MIPA)
International Relations Theory
Ilias Kouskouvelis, Professor in I.R. Theory
t: @kouskouvelis
The course offers an in depth knowledge of the International Relations theory. Through the study
of classical and internationally recognized texts, such as those of Thucydides, E.H. Carr, H.
Morgenthau, H. Bull, M. Wight, K. Waltz, J. Mearsheimer, R. Keohane, and others, the students
are familiarized with the dominant International Relations theories, concepts and methodological
approaches. It is expected, at the end of the course, that students will have developed the
necessary conceptual abilities and skills in order to approach critically the I.R. theoretical issues,
and to grasp the realities of international politics.
Readers:
Paul R. Viotti and Mark V. Kauppi (1999), International Relations Theory, 3rd edition, Boston:
Allyn and Bacon
Art, Robert J., Jervis, Robert (2005), International Politics: Enduring Concepts and
Contemporary Issues, 7th Edition, N. York: Pearson
Louis Henkin (1979), How Nations Behave: Law and Foreign Policy, N. York, Council on
Foreign Relations
Course entities – reading material
1 - 2.
- Thucydides, Historiae
- Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, 5th
Edition, Revised, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, pp. 4-15, “Six principles of Political
Realism.
- Ilias Kouskouvelis (2003), Introduction to International Relations, Piotita (in Greek)
- Bull, Hedley (1966), “International Theory: The Case for a Classical Approach”, World
Politics, 18 (3): 361-377.
- Bull, Hedley (1972), “The Theory of International Politics, 1919-1969”, in The Aberystwyth
Papers: International Politics, 1919-1969, edited by Brian Porter, 30-55. London: Oxford
University Press [for the University College of Wales].
- Gustafson, Lowell S., Thucydides' theory of international relations: a lasting possession, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
- Johnson, Laurie M., Thucydides, Hobbes and the interpretation of Realism, DeKalb, Northern
Illinois University Press, 1993.
3. Carr Edward (2001), The twenty years crisis 1919-1939. An introduction to the study of
International Relations, N. York, Perennial
- Clark, Ian (2009), “Towards an English School Theory of Hegemony”, European Journal of
International Relations, 15:2, 203-228.
- Herz, John H. (1981), “Political Realism Revisited”. International Studies Quarterly, 25(2):
182-197.
- Mearsheimer, John J. (2005), “E.H. Carr vs Idealism: The Battle Rages On”, International
Relations, 19(2): 139-152.
5. Bull Hedley (1977), The Anarchical Society, A study of order in World Politics, N. York,
Columbia University Press.
- Harris, Ian (1993), Order and Justice in “The Anarchical Society”, International Affairs, 69(4):
725-741.
- Lake, David (1996), “Anarchy Hierarchy and the Variety of International Relations”,
International Organization, 50(1): 1-33.
6. Waltz Kenneth (1959), Man, the State, and War, N. York, Columbia University Press.
Waltz Kenneth (1979), Theory of International Politics. Reading, Addison-Wesley.
- Buzan, Barry and Richard Little (1996), “Reconceptualizing Anarchy: Structural Realism
Meets World History”, European Journal of International Relations, 2:4, 403-38.
- James, Patrick (1995), “Structural Realism and the Causes of War”, Mershon International
Studies Review, 39(2): 181-208.
- Waever, Ole (2009), “Waltz's Theory of Theory”, International Relations, 23(2): 201-222.
- Waltz, Kenneth N. (2000), “Structural Realism after the Cold War”, International Security,
25(1): 5-41.
7. Mearsheimer J. John (2001), The Tragedy of Great Powers Politics, N. York, W. W.
Norton & Company.
- Mearsheimer, John J. (2009), “Reckless States and Realism”, International Relations, 23(2):
241-256.
- Schweller, Randall and Priess, David (1997), “A Tale of Two Realisms: Expanding the
Institutions Debate”, Mershon International Studies Review, 41(1): 1-32.
- Snyder, Glenn H. (2002), “Mearsheimer's World-Offensive Realism and the Struggle for
Security: A Review Essay”, International Security, 27(1): 149-173.
8. Keohane O. Robert & Nye S. Joseph, Power and interdependence, Little & Brown,
Boston, 1977.
Holsti Kale, ‘The Necrologists of International Relations’, Canadian Journal Of Political
Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol.18, pp.675-695.
- Gilpin, Robert (1971), “The Politics of Transnational Economic Relations”, International
Organization, 25(3): 398-419.
- Jervis, Robert (1998), “Realism in the Study of World Politics”, International Organization,
52(4): 971-991.
- Keohane, Robert O. (1998), “International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?”, Foreign
Policy, 110 (Special Edition): 82-96, 194.
- Keohane, Robert O. and Nye, Joseph S. Jr. (1998), “Power and Interdependence in the
Information Era”, Foreign Affairs, 77(5): 81-94.
- Keohane, Robert O. & Waltz, Kenneth N. (2000-2001), “The Neorealist and His Critic”,
International Security, 25(3): 204-205.
9. Integration theories
Ilias Kouskouvelis (2003), Introduction to International Relations, chapter 10 (in Greek).
11. International Organization and International Politics
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Conversations with History: John Mearsheimer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKFamUu6dGw&feature=relmfu
Conversations with History: John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSXZNm2jGVE
Conversations with History: Joseph S. Nye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeaFWKUzxbI
Conversations with History: Kenneth N. Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9eV5gPlPZg&feature=related
Conversations with History: Robert Jervis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmmXaSDFcSI
Conversations with History: Robert O. Keohane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5foxGFXNl-s
Conversations with History: Stephen D. Krasner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahps0QrHH4g