Lecture 1: structuralism/realism/balance of power

Lecture 1: STRUCTURALISM/REALISM/BALANCE OF POWER


Kenneth Waltz, The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory,@ J. of Interdisciplinary History 18, 4 (Spring 1988).


James D. Fearon , Rationalist Explanations for War,@ International Organization, Vol. 49, No. 3. (Summer, 1995), pp. 379-414.


Lecture 2: NEO-LIBERAL INSTITUTIONALISM, DEMOCRACY, AND DEMOCRATIC PEACE


Robert Keohane, After Hegemony, Chapter 6


James Fearon, “Domestic Political Audience Costs and the Escalation of International Disputes,” American Political Science Review 88, 3 (1994)


Robert O. Keohane, Stephen Macedo, and Andrew Moravcsik, “Democracy-Enhancing Multilateralism,” International Organization 63, Winter 2009, pp, 1-31


Lecture 3: April 13 CONSTRUCTIVISM


Alexander Wendt, Anarchy is What States Make It,@^ International Organization (1992).


Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, International Norm Dynamics and Political Change,@ International Organization (1998)


Lecture 4: SOVEREIGNTY AND HIERARCHY

Stephen Krasner, “The Durability of Organized Hypocrisy,” in Quentin Skinner ed., Sovereignty in Fragments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).


David A. Lake, “Escape from the State of Nature: Authority and Hierarchy in World Politics,” International Security, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Summer 2007).


Lecture 5: FAILED STATES AND STATE-BUILDING


Jackson, R. H. and C. G. Rosberg, "Why Africa's Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood." World Politics 35 (October 1982).


Francis Fukuyama, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004) Ch. 1


"Sharing Sovereignty New Institutions for Collapsed and Failing States," International Security 29, 2 (Fall 2004).