Reading List, International Relations, Yale

Yale University
Department of Political Science
International Relations Reading List
2007
GENERAL THEORY
Axelrod, Robert (1984). The Evolution of Cooperation, New York: Basic Books, pp. 3-105, 145-91.
Bull, Headley. 1977. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. Columbia U. Press., chs. 1,2,10.
Fearon, James (1991). “Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science,” World Politics, 43 (2), January: 169-95.
Finnemore. 1996. National Interests in International Society. Cornell U. Press, introduction and conclusion.
Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981), ch. 1.
Glaser, Charles L. “The Security Dilemma Revisited.” World Politics 50:1 (October 1997): 171-201.
Hopf, Ted. 2002. Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow 1955 and 1999. Cornell U. Press, ch. 1
Huntington, Samuel. 1993. “The Clash of Civilizations,” Foreign Affairs 72(3).
Jervis, Robert. “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma,” World Politics, 1978.
Keohane, Robert, ed. Neorealism and Its Critics. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), chs. 6,7.
Keohane, Robert and Judith Goldstein (1993). Ideas and Foreign Policy, Cornell University Press, chs. 1, 7.
Krasner, Stephen. 1999 Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. 1-42 and 153-219.
Lake, David. 1996. “Anarchy, Hierarchy, and the Variety of International Relations,” International Organization, 50(1).
Lake, David, and Robert Powell, eds. 1999. Strategic Choice and International Relations (Princeton U. Press), chs by Lake and Powell, Frieden, and Rogowski.
Levy, Jack (1992). “Learning and Foreign Policy: Sweeping Through a Conceptual Minefield” International Organization, 48, 2, Spring, 279-312. (Review)
Moravcsik, Andrew. 1997. “Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics.” International Organization Vol. 51 No. 4: 513-53.
Martin, Lisa. 2000. Democratic Commitments. Chapters 1-3 and 7, 8.
Morgenthau, Hans. 1985. Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (6th ed.), Knopf, pp. 1-51.
Osiander, Andreas. 2001. “Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth” International Organization 55 (2): 251-287.
Powell, Robert. 1991. “Absolute and Relative Gains in International Relations Theory.” APSR 85(4).
Ruggie, John Gerard. 1998. Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalization. New York: Routledge. Chapters 1-5, 7.
Schelling, Thomas. 1963. The Strategy of Conflict. 1-52, 83-161.
Snyder, Jack. 2002. “Anarchy and Culture: Insights from the Anthropology of War,”
International Studies Quarterly 56 (winter).
Spruyt, Hendrik, 1994. The Sovereign State and Its Competitors. 22-57, 67-95.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. Book 1, paras 1-23, 66-88, 118-24, 140-46; Book 4, paras 37-51; BookV, Melian dialogue; Book 6, paras 84-116.
Tilly, Charles. 1975. “Reflections on the History of European State-Making,” in Tilly, ed., The Formation of National States in Western Europe. Princeton U. Press. Pp. 3-50.
Walt, Stephen 1999. “Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies,” International Security, 23, 4, 5-48, and responses in 24, 2, 56-73, 97-106.
Walt, Stephen. The Origins of Alliances, chs 1,2.
Waltz, Kenneth. 1979. Theory of International Politics, chs. 4-8.
Wendt, Alexander. 1999. Social Theory of International Politics, Cambridge University Press. Ch.1, 5-8.
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IPE
Alt, James E. and Michael Gilligan, “The Political Economy of Trading States: Factor Specificity, Collective Action Problems, and Domestic Political Institutions,” Journal of Political Philosophy 2:2 (1994), 165-192.
Alt, James E., Jeffry Frieden, Michael Gilligan, Dani Rodrik, and Ronald Rogowski. “The Political Economy of International Trade: Enduring Puzzles and an Agenda for Inquiry.” Comparative Political Studies Vol. 29 No. 6 (December): 689-717.
Bailey, Michael, Judith Goldstein, and Barry R. Weingast, “The Institutional Roots of American Trade Policy: Politics, Coalitions, and International Trade,” World Politics 49, no. 3 (April 1997): 309-338.
Broz, J. Lawrence and Jeffry A. Frieden, “The Political Economy of International Monetary Relations,” Annual Review of Political Science¸ volume 4, 2001.
Feenstra, Robert. 2004. "Political Economy of Trade Policy" (Chapter 9) in Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence, Princeton University Press, pp. 300-337.
Frieden, Jeffrey. 1991. “Invested interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance.” International Organization Vol. 45, 4: 425-51.
Garrett, Geoffrey.“The Causes of Globalization,” Comparative Political Studies 33, 6/7 (2000), 941-92.
Gourevitch, Peter. 1986. Politics in Hard Times. Chapters 1, 2, and 3.
Grossman, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman. “Protection for Sale.” American Economic Review Vol. 84 No. 4 (September): 833-850.
Hirschman, Albert O. National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1969), pp. 3-70.
Hiscox, Michael. "The Magic Bullet? The RTAA, Institutional Reform, and Trade Liberalization," International Organization 53, no. 4 (Autumn 1999), 669-698.
Katzenstein, Peter. 1985. Small States in World Markets. Chapters 1 and 2.
Keohane, Robert O. After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 5-135.
Kindleberger, Charles P. The World in Depression 1929-1939, revised and enlarged edition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 288-305.
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Krasner, Stephen D. 1983. International Regimes. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, introductory and concluding chapters, ch. by Haas.
Krasner, Stephen D. (1991). “Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto Frontier,” World Politics, 43, April, pp. 336-66.
Lake, David A. 1993. “Leadership, Hegemony, and the International Economy.” International Studies Quarterly 37:459-89.
Mansfield, Edward D. and Helen V. Milner, “The New Wave of Regionalism,” International Organization 53, no. 3 (Summer 1999), 589-626.
Mayda, Anna Maria, and Dani Rodrik. 2005. "Why are some people (and countries) more protectionist than others?" European Economic Review 49 (6):1393-1691.
Milgrom, Paul R., Douglas C. North, and Barry Weingast, “The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs.” Economics and Politics 2, no. 1 (1990): 1-23.
Milner, Helen V. Interests, Institutions, and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), 3-128.
Mitchell, Ronald. “Regime Design Matters: Intentional Oil Pollution and Treaty Compliance,” International Organization 48, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 425-58.
Moravscik, Andrew. 1991. “Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community.” International Organization Vol. 45 No. 1 (Winter):19-56.
Polyani, Karl. The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985), chs. 1, 2 11-21.
Putnam, Robert. 1988. “Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games.” International Organization Vol. 42 No. 3 (Summer):427-460.
Quinn, Dennis and Carla Inclan. “The Origins of Financial Openness: A Study of Current and Capital Account Liberalization.” American Journal of Political Science Vol. 41 No. 3 (July):771-813.
Rodrik, Dani. 1997. Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (Chapters 1-5).
Rogowski, Ronald. 1987. “Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade.” American Political Science Review 81, 1121–1137.
Rogowski, Ronald. “Trade and the Variety of Democratic Institutions,” International Organization 41, no. 2 (Spring 1987), 203-223.
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