FIELD SEMINAR ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Overview
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Week 4 (Feb 25) Domestic Society and Institutions
Response by Ben
with comments by Andy
and Al
Week 5 (Mar 3) The International System, Evolution, and Transnational
Socialization
Week 6 (Mar 10) Power and Conflict
Week 7 (Mar 17) Offense-Defense, Power Transition and Preventive War
Week 8 (Mar 24) Domestic Institutions and Conflict
Week 9 (Apr 7) Balance of Power, Institutions and Alliances
Week 10 (Apr 14) Cooperation Theory and Collective Action
Week 11 (Apr 28) Information, Institutions and Cooperation
Week 12 (May 5) Ideas, Identity, Norms and Cooperation
*King,
Gary, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research.
Princeton:
Sprinz,
Detlef F. and Yael N. Wolinsky (eds., under review): Cases, Numbers, Models: International Relations Research Methods Volume introduction, introduction to
each section, plus one additional chapter from each section according to
interest.
Summary by Alex *
Summary by Susan Hans Morgenthau, Politics among
Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (New York: Knopf, 1960), pp. 3-15,
228-235.
Summary by Siddharth * Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (Reading,
MA: Addison-Wesley, 1979) Chapters 4, 5, 6.
Summary by Sam * Mearsheimer, John J. 2001. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
Summary by Paul * Robert O. Keohane, After
Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton University Press, 1984). Chapter 1.
Summary by Llewelyn **
Andrew Moravcsik, "Taking
Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics," International
Organization (Fall 1997), 512-553.
Summary by Erin ** Jervis, Robert. 1978. Cooperation under the Security
Dilemma. World Politics 30 (2):167-214.
Summary
by Ed * Jervis, Robert. 1976. Perception and Misperception in International
Politics. Princeton:
Summary
by Dean Robert
Jervis, Political
Implications of Loss Aversion,
in Barbara Farnham, ed. Avoiding
Losses/Taking Risks: Prospect Theory and International Conflict (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan, 1994), pp. 23-40.
Summary
by Siddharth Stephen P. Rosen, 2001 Emotions,
Memory, and Decision Making
unpublished manuscript. (63 pp.)
Summary
by Alex *
Alastair Iain Johnston, Cultural Realism:
Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton 1995),
Summary
by Sam * Wendt, Alexander. 1999. Social Theory of International Politics.
Summary
by Llewelyn **
Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, International
Norm Dynamics and Political Change, International Organization 52, no. 4
(Autumn 1998), pp. 887-917.
Summary
by Alex * Frieden, Jeffry A. 1999. Actors
and Preferences in International Relations. In Strategic Choice and International Relations, edited by D. A. Lake
and R. Powell. Princeton:
Summary
by Ben * Ronald Rogowski, Institutions as Constraints on Strategic
Choice, in
Summary
by Siddharth **
Graham Allison, Conceptual
Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis, American
Political Science Review 63 (September 1969), pp. 689-718.
Summary by Sara
Summary
by Susan ** Michael Doyle, Kant,
Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs, Part I, Philosophy
and Public Affairs, vol. 12, no. 3 (Summer, 1983), pp. 205-235.
Summary
by Ed * Helen V. Milner, Interests, Institutions, and Information:
Domestic Politics and Information (Princeton University Press, 1997),
Chapters 3 and 4. (pp. 67-134)
Summary by Paul **
John Owen, How
Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace, International
Security 19:2 (Fall 1994), pp. 87-125.
Summary
by Sara ** Philip G. Roeder, Soviet
Policies and Kremlin Politics, International Studies
Quarterly, vol. 28 (1984), pp. 171-193.
Summary
by Siddharth **
Peter Alexis Gourevitch, The
Second Image Reversed, International Organization, vol. 32, no.
4, (Autumn, 1978), pp. 881-912.
Summary
by Dean *
Robert O. Keohane and Helen V. Milner, eds., Internationalization and Domestic Politics (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1996), Chs. 1-3, 5, 7. (pp. 3-75, 108-136, 159-185)
Summary
by Llewelyn ** Jeffry A. Frieden, Invested
Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global
Finance, International Organization vol. 45, no.
4 (Autumn 1991), pp. 425-51.
Summary
by Paul ** Ronald Rogowski, Political
Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade, American
Political Science Review 81, no. 4 (December 1987), pp. 1121-38.
Summary
by Dean Wendt, Alexander. 1999. Social Theory of International Politics.
Summary
by Tatsuya **Price,
Richard. 1998. Reversing the Gun Sights:
Transnational Civil Society Targets Land Mines.
International Organization 52
(3):613-644.
Summary
by Sara * Margaret E. Keck
and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond
Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell
University Press, 1998), Chs. 1, 3. (pp. 1-38, 79-120)
Summary
by Dean Kahler,
Miles. 1999. Evolution, Choice and International Change. In Strategic Choice and International Relations,
edited by D. A. Lake and R. Powell. Princeton:
Summary
by Erin **Cederman,
Lars-Erik. 2001. Modeling the Democratic Peace as a
Kantian Selection Process. Journal of Conflict Resolution 45 (4):470-502.
Summary
by Sam Spruyt, Hendrik. 1994. The
Sovereign State and its Competitors.
Princeton:
Summary by Sara ** David A. Baldwin, Power
Analysis and World Politics, World Politics 31
(January 1979), pp. 161-194.
Summary
by Erin ** Stephen D. Krasner, State
Power and the Structure of International Trade, World
Politics vol. 28, no. 3 (April 1976), pp. 317-347.
Summary
by Paul * Kalevi J. Holsti, Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International Order 1648-1989 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 1-24, 306-334.
Summary by Sam *
Mearsheimer, John J. 2001. The Tragedy of
Great Power Politics.
Summary by Alex *
Schelling, Thomas C. 1960. The Strategy
of Conflict.
Summary by Susan *
Schelling, Thomas C. 1966. Arms and Influence.
Summary by Sara *
Blainey, Geoffrey. 1988. The Causes of
War. Third ed.
Summary
by Llewelyn Fearon,
James D. 1995. Rationalist Explanations for War.
International Organization 49
(3):379-414.
Summary
by Alex * James Morrow, The Strategic Setting of Choices: Signaling,
Commitment, and Negotiation in International Politics, in
Summary
by Tatsuya Powell, Robert. 1999. In the Shadow of Power. Princeton:
Summary
by Sara Branislav
L. Slantchev, The Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict with
Completely Informed States, American Political Science Review (February 2003), pp. 123-133.
Summary
by Ben Robert
Powell, "Bargaining and Learning While
Fighting", American Journal of Political Science (April 2004) Vol 48, No. 2
pp.334-361
Summary
by Ben Darren Filson and
Suzanne Werner.A Bargaining
Model of War and Peace: Anticipating the Onset, Duration, and Outcome of War. American Journal of Political Science (October 2002) Vol 46,
No. 4, pp 819-838.
Summary
by Llewelyn Stephen
Van Evera, The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War,
in Steven E. Miller, ed., Military
Strategy and the Origins of the First World War, Princeton University
Press, 1984, pp. 58-107. Dean claims
that this article in International
Security Vol. 9, No. 1. (Summer, 1984), pp. 58-107 is identical.
Summary
by Siddharth Sagan,
Scott D. 1986. 1914 Revisited: Allies, Offense and
Instability. International Security 11 (2):109-133.
(Also in Miller, Military Strategy and
the Origins of the First World War.)
Summary
by Erin Marc Trachtenberg, The
Meaning of Mobilization in 1914, International Security 15, no. 3 (Winter
1990-91).
Summary
by Ed Stephen Van Evera, Causes of War: Power and the Roots of
Conflict (Cornell, 1999),
Summary
by Sam * Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 1998),
(up to the Pentecontaetia). According to Sam, this means up to I.73. Here is a
link to a different
translation
that could be justified on convenience grounds.
Summary by Dean Organski, A. F. K., and Jacek
Kugler. 1980. The War Ledger.
Summary by Alex Robert Gilpin, War and Change in
International Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 1-49,
85-105, 156-210.
Summary
by Ben Copeland, Dale. 2000. The
Origins of Major War.
Summary
by Ben Powell, Robert. 1999. In
the Shadow of Power. Princeton:
Summary
by Tatsuya Schweller,
Randall L. 1992. Domestic Structure and Preventive
War: Are Democracies More Pacific? World Politics 44 (2):235-69.
Summary
by Susan Posen,
Barry R. 1993. The Security Dilemma and Ethnic
Conflict. Survival 35 (1):27-47.
Summary
by Susan Fearon,
James D. 1998. Committment Problems and the Spread
of Ethnic Conflict. In The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict, edited by D. A. Lake
and D. Rothchild. Princeton:
Summary by Erin ** James Fearon, Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International
Disputes, American Political Science
Review 88, no. 3 (Sept. 1994), pp. 577-592.
Summary
by Ben **
Kenneth A. Schultz, Domestic
Opposition and Signaling in International Crises, American
Political Science Review 92, no. 4 (December 1998), pp. 829-44.
Summary by Sara ** Dan Reiter and Alan C. Stam, 2002, Democracies at War, Princeton:
Summary
by Alex ** Robert D. Putnam, Diplomacy
and Domestic Politics, International Organization, vol. 42, no.
3 (Summer, 1988), pp. 427-461.
Summary
by Paul Peter Evans,
Harold K. Jacobson, and Robert Putnam, eds. Double-Edged
Diplomacy: International Politics and Domestic Politics (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1993), Chapters by Odell, Kahler, Evans. (pp. 233-264,
363-394, 397-430)
Summary by
Susan ** Morgan, T. Clifton, and
Sally H. Campbell. 1991 Domestic Structure, Decisional
Constraints, and War: So Why Kant Democracies Fight? Journal of Conflict
Resolution, vol. 35, pp. 187-211.
Summary
by Siddharth Bear F. Braumoeller, Deadly
Doves: Liberal Nationalism and the Democratic Peace in the Soviet Successor
States, International Studies
Quarterly, vol. 41 #3 (1997), pp. 375-402.
Summary
by Llewelyn **
Kenneth A. Schultz, Do
Domestic Institutions Constrain or Inform? Contrasting Two Institutional
Perspectives on Democracy and War, International Organization 52, no. 2
(Spring 1999), pp. 233-66.
Summary by Sara Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, James D. Morrow, Randolph M.
Siverson, and Alastair Smith. 1999. An Institutional Explanation of the
Democratic Peace. American Political Science Review 93 (4):791-807.
Summary
by Ed ** Karl Deutsch and J. David Singer, Multipolar
Power Systems and International Stability, World Politics 16:3 (1964): 390-406.