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1 जव हरल ल न हर वव ववद य JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY School of International Studies M.A. IN POLITICS (INTERNATIONAL STUDIES): MONSOON SEMESTER 2015 IS 402 N: Theory of International Relations Course Teacher: Professor Varun Sahni Classroom: Room 229, SIS-II (New Building) Class Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10:00 to 11:00 AM Office: Room 102, Convention Centre Office Hours: Friday, 3:00 to 5:00 PM Course Description This course is intended to introduce postgraduate students to theoretical endeavour in the discipline of International Relations. The objective is to deal with the major theoretical orientations in the discipline and to give students an appreciation of the major intellectual tools available to them in analysing world affairs. Students are expected to go through the assigned reading before coming to class. Although this is an introductory course, it is at the postgraduate level. For this reason, almost all the assigned readings are original theoretical contributions, not textbooks. Examinations and Grading There will be one mid-semester examination and a final examination, of two hours and three hours duration respectively. The mid-semester examination will be held on or around 20 September Since this is an introductory course, there will be no term papers or classroom assignments. The final grade will be computed with 40% weight to the mid-semester examination and 60% to the final examination. Spot tests, worth 5% each, will be held if attendance in the classroom falls below a particular threshold. In case spot tests are conducted, the weight assigned to the mid-semester examination will be correspondingly reduced. 31 July: Introduction to the Course Course Outline and Reading List Week One 3 August: What is Theory? Kenneth N. Waltz, Laws and Theories, in Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979), pp August: The Three Images/Levels of Analysis Kenneth N. Waltz, Man, the State and War: A Theoretical Analysis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1954), pp. 1-15,

2 The page ranges are merely to orient; these classics deserve to be read in full. 7 August: Levels of Analysis Kenneth N. Waltz, Reductionist and Systemic Theories, in Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979), pp Week Two 10 August: Structural Realism Kenneth N. Waltz, Political Structures, in Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979), pp August: Testing Structural Realism Paul Schroeder, Historical Reality vs. Neo-realist Theory, International Security 19 (1), Summer 1994: August: Critique of Defensive Realism John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001), pp Week Three 17 August: Critique of Neorealism Robert O. Keohane, Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond, in Robert O. Keohane, ed., Neorealism and Its Critics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), pp August: Classical Realism Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (New York: McGraw- Hill, 1993 [1948]), pp August: Realism from Antiquity to WWII Kautilya, The Arthashastra (trans. L.N. Rangarajan) (New Delhi: Penguin, 1992), pp Sun Tzǔ, The Art of War (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981), pp Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue, in History of the Peloponnesian War (trans. Rex Warner) (London: Penguin, 1954), pp Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (trans. George Bull) (London: Penguin, 1961), pp Edward Hallett Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis, : An Introduction to the Study of International Relations (New York: Harper & Row, 1964 [1939]), pp Week Four 24 August: Classical Realism Richard Ashley, Political Realism and Human Interests, International Studies Quarterly 25 (2), June 1981: August: Domestic Politics and International Behaviour Robert D. Putnam, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two Level Games, International Organization 42 (3), Summer, 1988: August: Domestic Politics and International Behaviour Robert D. Putnam, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two Level Games, International Organization 42 (3), Summer, 1988:

3 Week Five 31 August: Liberal Institutionalism: Complex Interdependence Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence, 2 nd edn. (New York: Longman: 1989), pp September: Liberal Institutionalism: Cooperation Under Anarchy Kenneth A. Oye, Explaining Cooperation under Anarchy: Hypotheses and Strategies, World Politics 38 (1), October 1985: September: Cooperation Under Anarchy: A Critique Joseph M. Grieco, Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism, International Organization 42 (3), Summer 1988: Week Six 7 September: Liberal Institutionalism: Regime Theory Stephen D. Krasner, Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables, International Organization 36 (2), Spring 1982: September: Security Regimes Robert Jervis, Security Regimes, International Organization 36 (2), Spring 1982: September: Economic Regimes John Gerard Ruggie, International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order, International Organization 36 (2), Spring 1982: Week Seven 14 September: The Four Great Debates Fred Halliday, Rethinking International Relations (London: Macmillan Press, 1994), pp. 1-22, David A. Lake, Theory is dead, long live theory: The end of the Great Debates and the rise of eclecticism in International Relations, European Journal of International Relations 19 (3), 2013: September: Social Constructivism Alexander Wendt, Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics, International Organization 46 (2), Spring 1992: September: Social Constructivism Alexander Wendt, Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics, International Organization 46 (2), Spring 1992: Week Eight 21 September: International Society/English School Alex J. Bellamy, Introduction: The English School and International Society, in Alex J. Bellamy (ed.), International Society and its Critics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp September: International Society/English School Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp September: Holiday Eid-ul-Zuha 3

4 Week Nine 28 September: Marxism in International Relations Vendulka Vubálková and Albert Cruickshank, Marxism and International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), pp. 1-24, September: Marxism in International Relations Alex Callinicos, Does capitalism need the state system? Cambridge Review of International Affairs 20 (4), 2007: Andrew Davenport, Marxism in IR: Condemned to a Realist fate? European Journal of International Relations 19 (1), 2013: October: Holiday Gandhi Jayanti Week Ten 5 October: Marxism in International Relations Robert W. Cox, Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 12, 1983: October: Post-Positivism: Critical Theory Richard Devetak, Critical Theory, in Scott Burchill and Andrew Linklater, eds., Theories of International Relations (London: Macmillan Press, 1996), pp October: Feminism in International Relations J. Ann Tickner, Hans Morgenthau s Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 17 (3), 1988: Week Eleven 12 October: Feminism in International Relations Jacqui True, Feminism, in Scott Burchill and Andrew Linklater, eds., Theories of International Relations (London: Macmillan Press, 1996), pp October: Feminism in International Relations Carol Cohn, Sex and Death in the Rational World of the Defense Intellectuals, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 12 (4), Summer 1987: October: Critical Security Studies Ken Booth, Security and Self: Confessions of a Fallen Realist, in Keith Krause and Michael C. Williams, eds., Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases (London: UCL Press, 1997), pp Week Twelve 19 October: Dependency Theory Cristóbal Kay, Reformist and Marxist Approaches to Dependency, in Cristóbal Kay, Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment (London: Routledge, 1989), pp Joseph A. Kahl, The New Sociology in Latin America, in Joseph A. Kahl, Modernization, Exploitation and Dependency in Latin America: Germani, González Casanova and Cardoso (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1976), pp October: Dependency Theory Theotonio Dos Santos, The Structure of Dependence, The American Economic Review 60 (2), May 1970:

5 23 October: Non-Alignment K.P. Misra, Towards Understanding Non-Alignment, International Studies 20 (1-2), January-June 1981: pp M.S. Rajan, Institutionalization of Non-Alignment: Widening Gulf between the Belief and the Prospect, International Studies 20 (1-2), January-June 1981: pp Week Thirteen 26 October: Subaltern Realism Mohammed Ayoob, Subaltern Realism: International Relations Theory Meets the Third World, in Stephanie Neuman, ed., International Relations Theory and the Third World (London: Macmillan, 1998), pp October: Subaltern Realism Mohammed Ayoob, The Third World in the System of States: Acute Schizophrenia or Growing Pains? International Studies Quarterly 33 (1), March 1989: October: Peripheral Realism Carlos Escudé, How Peripheral Realism Differs from Complex Interdependence, in Carlos Escudé, Foreign Policy Theory in Menem s Argentina (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997), pp Week Fourteen 2 November: Third World Security Studies Amitav Acharya, The Periphery as the Core: The Third World and Security Studies, in Keith Krause and Michael C. Williams, eds., Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases (London: UCL Press, 1997), pp November: Ancient Chinese Thought and International Relations Theory Yan Xuetong, A Comparative Study of Pre-Qin Interstate Political Philosophy, in Yan Xuetong [Daniel A. Bell and Sun Zhe, eds., Edmund Ryden, trans.], Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), pp November: Ancient Indian Thought and International Relations Theory Deepshikha Shahi and Gennaro Ascione, Rethinking the absence of post-western International Relations theory in India: Advaitic monism as an alternative epistemological resource, European Journal of International Relations, 2015: Week Fifteen 9 November: Islamic Thought and International Relations Theory Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, International relations theory and the Islamic worldview, in Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan, eds., Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives on and beyond Asia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), pp November: Holiday Diwali 13 November: Revision for Final Examination 16 November: Revision for Final Examination 18 November: Revision for Final Examination 20 November: Revision for Final Examination Week Sixteen 5

6 Further Readings Students of IR should get to know the following books. Most are classics; hence, no publication details are given. Brian Fay, Social Theory and Political Practice Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery Martin Hollis and Steve Smith, Explaining and Understanding International Relations Kautilya, Arthashastra Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society Barry Buzan, Charles Jones, and Richard Little, The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State and War Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace F.H. Hinsley, Power and the Pursuit of Peace Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society Chris Brown, International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches Peter B. Evans, Harold K. Jacobson and Robert D. Putnam, Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, eds., Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition Robert O. Keohane, International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory Nicholas Onuf, World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations James Der Derian, Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War R.B.J. Walker, Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System, various volumes Robert Cox, Production, Power, and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History Kenneth Oye, Cooperation Under Anarchy Steven Gill, ed., Gramsci and International Relations Friedrich Kratochwill, Rules, Norms and Decisions: On the Conditions Practical and Legal Reasoning in International Relations and Domestic Affairs Andrew Linklater, Beyond Realism and Marxism: Critical Theory and International Relations 6

7 V. Spike Peterson, ed., Gendered States V.R. Mehta, The Foundations of Indian Political Thought Key International Relations journals include World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, International Security, Security Studies, International Organization, International Interactions, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Security Dialogue, Millennium, Orbis, Review of International Studies, International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, American Political Science Review, and Alternatives. Even though this is an introductory course, it is never too early to fall into the good habit of regularly reading the best learned journals in your field of study. They are all accessible on the Internet, so take full advantage of JNU s electronic subscription. Textbooks are actively discouraged in this course. In the examinations, you will be tested for your knowledge and understanding of the original theoretical writings. However, for those students who find it impossible to cut the umbilical cord, some of the latest and better textbooks in IR Theory are listed below. Each student would be expected to have a distinct comfort level with different textbooks. Students are therefore advised to sample the textbooks listed below and choose those that they find the most helpful. Do remember that not all topics are covered equally well in a single textbook. Baylis, John, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds.) (2011), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (5 th edn.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brown, Chris and Kirsten Ainley (2005), Understanding International Relations (3 rd edn.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Burchill, Scott et al. (2001), Theories of International Relations (2 nd edn.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Calvocoressi, Peter (2008), World Politics Since 1945, 9 th edn., New York: Routledge. Dunne, Tim, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith (eds.) (2013), International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 3 rd edn., Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edkins, Jenny and Maja Zehfuss (eds.) (2009), Global Politics: A New Introduction, New York: Routledge. Griffiths, Martin et al. (2008), International Relations: The Key Concepts (2 nd edn.), New York: Routledge. Mazlish, Bruce and Akire Iriye (eds.) (2005), The Global History Reader, New York: Routledge. McWilliams, Wayne C. and Harry Piotrowski (2009), The World since 1945: a History of International Relations (7 th edn.), London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Reus-Smit, Christian and Duncan Snidal (eds.) (2008), The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Viotti, Paul R. and Mark Kauppi (2007), International Relations and World Politics (3 rd edn.), New Delhi: Pearson. Weber, Cynthia (2010), International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction (3 rd edn.) London: Sage. Students who are more comfortable in Hindi could consult the textbook below. Again, please remember that you will be examined on the original theoretical writings, not the contents of textbooks: क म र, अजय (2011), अन तर र य स ब ध क सद ध : एक प रचय, New Delhi: Pearson. 7