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Classics to read
Thucydides
St Thomas Aquinas
Hugo Grotius
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Immanuel Kant -
Wilson's 14 Points
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[S] Wilson's Liberal Internationalism
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[B] The Economic Consequences of the Peace
by John Maynard Keynes -
Wilson Chair in International Politics is established
Major David Davies, MP, donates £20,000
to establish the Wilson Chair in International Politics
in a letter to Sir John Williams,
President of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth -
[B] Moral Man and Immoral Society
Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
by Reinhold Niebuhr -
[B] The Twenty Years' Crisis
by E. H. Carr
argued that the Munich Agreement was just and moral attempt to undo the great wrong done to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles -
[B] The Great Transformation
by Karl Polanyi -
[B] Politics Among Nations
by Hans Morgenthau
and Kenneth W. Thompson
A realist view of power politics -
[S] Morgenthau's Modern Realism
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[B] The Breakdown of Nations
by Leopold Kohr In The Breakdown of Nations Leopold Kohr shows that, throughout history, people living in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. Leopold Kohr was an economist, jurist and political scientist known both for his opposition to the "cult of bigness" in social organization and as one of those who inspired the small is beautiful movement. -
[B] Man, the State, and War
by Kenneth Waltz
Offer a typology of different theories of war (i.e., locating them either in the nature of man, the characteristics of states, or the anarchic international system)
The three “images” (aka “levels of analysis.”) -
[B] Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City
by Robert A. Dahl -
[B] Arms and Influence
by Thomas Schelling
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2005) -
[B] A Theory of Justice
by John Rawls -
[B] The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
An account of how the brightest of people in charge didn't know what they were doing. -
[B] Perception and Misperception in International Politics
by Robert Jervis -
[B] The Anarchical Society
by Hedley Bull A founding text of the English School, uses a dialectic discourse between realism and idealism to approach world problems in his seminal book. -
[B] Theory of International Politics
by Hedley Bull, Herbert Butterfield, and Kenneth Waltz
First Neorealist theory of IR -
[B] States and Social Revolutions
by Theda Skocpol -
[B] White House Years & Years of Upheaval
by Henry A. Kissinger -
[B] War and Change in World Politics
by Robert Gilpin -
[B] Imagined Communities
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by Benedict Anderson -
[B] Nations and Nationalism
by Ernst Gellner -
[B] After Hegemony
by Robert Keohane
Neo-liberal school of international Relations Bible -
[B] States and Markets
by Susan Strange -
[B] Democracy and Its Critics
by Robert A. Dahl -
[B] Theology of Discontent
by Hamid Dabashi -
[B] The End of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama -
Keohane vs Mearsheimer
M., Q4, 1994: The False Promise of International Institutions
K., Q2, 1995: The Promise of Institutionalist Theory
M., Q2, 1995: A Realist Reply -
[B] The Clash of Civilizations
by Samuel P. Huntington
The Clash of Civilizations is a hypothesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. -
[B] Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond
Explains why small differences in climate, population, agronomy, and the like turned out to have far-reaching effects on the evolution of human societies and the long-term balance of power. -
[B] The Pity of War
The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
by Niall Ferguson This controversial book
is highly critical of those who argue that the first world war had to happen. It directly attacks inevitability theorists and is a fresh way of rethinking 1914. -
[A] Structural Realism after the Cold War
by Kenneth Waltz
Q2, 2000: Structural Realism after the Cold War -
[B] The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
by John Mearsheimer -
[B] Iran: A People Interrupted
by Hamid Dabashi