Current Debates in International Relations

- Each section ends with a Visual Review
- Each part ends with Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions
Part One: Studying International Relations
Main Perspectives: Their Evolution and Relevance Today (Editorial Introduction)
Section 1: Introducing the Field
· 1.1. Huntington, Samuel (1993). The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs. Summer, Vol. 72, no. 3 (Summer), pp. 22-49.
· 1.2. Katzenstein, Peter J. (2010). "Walls" Between "Those People"? Contrasting Perspectives on World Politics. Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 8, no. 1 (March), pp. 11-25.
· 1.3. Krasner, Stephen (2001). Sovereignty. Foreign Policy, no. 122, January/February, pp. 20-29.
· 1.4. Susanna P. Campbell. Journal of Global Security Studies (2017) 2 (1): 89-101. Ethics of Research in Conflict Environments.
Section 2: Historical Context I: Realism and Sovereign States
· 2.1. Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan (1660). Chapter XIII of The Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery. The 1994 edition. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Classics, pp. 74-79.
· 2.2. Carr, Edward (2001). The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939. New York: Perennial.
· 2.3. Morgenthau, Hans (1978). Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, Fifth Edition, Revised. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, pp. 4-15.
· 2.4. Kenneth Waltz. An Interview on a Theory of International Relations and the Role of Structure.
· 2.5. Mearsheimer, John J. (2006). China's Unpeaceful Rise, Current History, Vol. 105, no. 690 (April), pp. 160-162.
· 2.6. V. Zubok and William C. Wohlforth (2017). An abiding antagonism: realism, idealism and the mirage of western-Russian partnership after the Cold War, International Politics Volume 54, Issue 4 (July), pp 405-419
Section 3: Historical Context II: Liberalism and International Organizations
· 3.1. Kant, Immanuel (1795). Perpetual Peace. Excerpts. From: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays. 1983. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Classics, pp. 107-144.
· 3.2. Angell, Norman. The Great Illusion (1910). Excerpts. London, UK: Forgotten Books (2012).
· 3.3. Doyle, Michael (1986). Liberalism and World Politics. The American Political Science Review, December, Vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 1151-1169.
· Keohane, Robert (2012). Twenty Years of Institutional Liberalism. International Relations, 26, no. 2, pp. 125-138.
Section 4: Historical Context III: Exploring Alternatives: Class, Gender, and Values
· 4.1. Wallerstein, Immanuel (2010). Structural Crises. New Left Review, Vol. 62, (March/ April), pp 133-142.
· 4.2. Wendt, Alexander (1995). Constructing International Politics. International Security, Vol. 20, no. 1 (Summer), pp. 71-81.
· 4.3. Tickner, J. Ann (2004). The Growth and Future of Feminist Theories in International Relations. Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 10, no. 2 (Winter/Spring), pp. 47-56.
· 4.4. Shue, Henry (1999).Global Environment and International Inequality. International Affairs, Vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 531-545.
· 4.5. Etzioni, Amitai (2008). The Kennedy Experiment Revisited. Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 61, no. 1 (March), pp. 20-24.
· 4.6. McDermott, Rose (2007). The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo. Political Psychology, Vol. 28, no. 5 (October), pp. 644-646.
Part Two: Three Facets of the Global World
International Contexts: Security, Law, and Political Economy (Editorial Introduction)
Section 5: War, Security, and Terrorism
· 5.1. Lind, William S. Et al. "The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation."
· 5.2. Wieviorka, Michel (2007). From Classical Terrorism to "Global" Terrorism. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, Vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 92-104.
· 5.3. Boot, Max (2013). The Guerilla Myth. The Wall Street Journal. January 18.
· 5.4. Kello, Lucas (2013). The Meaning of the Cyber Revolution: Perils to Theory and Statecraft. International Security, Vol. 38, no. 2 (Fall), pp. 7-40.
· 5.5. Kassab, Hannah Samir, "In Search of Cyber Stability: International Relations, Mutually Assured Destruction and the Age of Cyber Warfare," in: Jan-Frederik Kremer, Benedikt Mueller, eds., Cyberspace and International Relations. Theory, Prospects and Challenges (Springer, 2014)
· 5.6. History of ISIS International Affairs (2017) 93 (3): 742-744.
Section 6: Law and International Community
· 6.1. Neff, Stephen (2006) A Short History of International Law. In Malcolm Evans (ed.), International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, pp 3-30.
· 6.2. Huth, Paul, Croco, Sarah, and Appel, Benjamin. (2011). Does International Law Promote the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes? Evidence from the Study of Territorial Conflicts since 1945. American Political Science Review, Vol. 105, no. 2, pp 415-436.
· 6.3. Yoffie, Adam. (2011) The Palestine Problem: The Search for Statehood and the Benefits of International Law. The Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 497-511.
· 6.4. d'Aspremon, Jean. The International Court of Justice and the Irony of System-Design.
· 6.5. Brekoulakis , Stavros. "Systemic Bias and the Institution of International Arbitration: A New Approach to Arbitral Decision-Making."
Section 7: International Political Economy: From the North-South Divide to Globalization
· 7.1. Keohane, Robert (2009). The Old IPE and the New. Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 34-46.
· 7.2. Keynes, John Maynard (1965). Concluding Notes on the Social Philosophy Towards Which the General Theory Might Lead. In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
· 7.3. Friedman, Milton (1968) International Financial and Trade Arrangements. In Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
· 7.4. Arrighi, Giovanni and Zhan, Li (2011). Beyond the Washington Consensus: A New Bandung? In Jon Shefner and Patricia Fernández-Kelly (eds.), Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations of Global Power and Its Alternatives. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, pp. 25-57.
· 7.5. Birdsall, Nancy and Fukuyama, Francis (2011). The Post-Washington Consensus: Development After Crisis. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 45-53.
Part Three: Twenty-First Century Challenges
Environmental Challenges, Human Rights Protection and Development, Culture and Nationalism, and Forecasting the World of 2025 (Editorial Introduction)
Section 8: Environmental Challenges and Policies
· 8.1. Pereira, Joanna Castro. Environmental issues and international relations, a new global (dis)order - the role of International Relations in promoting a concerted international system.
· 8.2. Goldstein, Joshua. "Climate Change as a Global Security Issue."
· 8.3. Alden, Edward. "Immigration and the Environment: Making the Right-and Wrong-Arguments about Reducing Migration."
· 8.4. Carroll, Clint. "Protecting the South China Sea: Chinese Island Building and the Environment."
Section 9: Human Rights in the World: Their Protection and Development
· 9.1. Cowley, Jason (2011). Ethical Dimensions of an Interventionist Foreign Policy. An essay by John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859, offers keen insight into the thinking behind today's policies. New Statesman, March 24.
· 9.2. Hafner-Burton, Emilie M. (2008). Sticks and Stones: Naming and Shaming the Human Rights Enforcement Problem. International Organization, Vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 689-716.
· 9.3. Evans, Hon Gareth (2012). The Responsibility to Protect After Libya and Syria. Presented at the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference, Melbourne, July 20.
· 9.4. Luck, Edward C. (2010). The Responsibility to Protect: Growing Pains or Early Promise? Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 349-365.
· 9.5. Mchangama, Jacob and Verdirame, Guglielmo (2013). The Danger of Human Rights Proliferation: When Defending Liberty Less Is More. Foreign Affairs, July 24.
· 9.6. Ahuja, Amrita. "When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming."
Section 10: Hearts and Minds: Culture and Nationalism
· 10.1. Smith, Anthony. "National Identity and the Idea of European Unity."
· 10.2. Alston, Philip. "The Populist Challenge to Human Rights."
· 10.3. Mölder, Holger (2011). The Culture of Fear in International Politics--a Western-Dominated International System and Its Extremist Challenge. ENDC Proceedings, Vol. 14, pp. 241-263.
· 10.4. Muller, Jerry Z. (2008). Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism. Foreign Affairs, March/April, Vol. 87, no 2, pp. 18-35.
· 10.5. Torbakov, Igor (2011). History, Memory and National Identity: Understanding the Politics of History and Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Lands. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 209-232.
Section 11: Global Forecasting: The World of 2025
· 11.1. Ward, Michael. "Can We Predict Politics? Toward What End?"
· 11.2. Wendt, Alexander (2003). Why a World State Is Inevitable. European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 491-542.
· 11.3. Ikenberry, G. John (2014). The Illusion of Geopolitics: The Enduring Power of the Liberal Order. Foreign Affairs. May/June, Vol. 93, no 3, pp. 80-90.
· 11.4. Goldstone, Jack (2010). The New Population Bomb. The Four Megatrends That Will Change the World. Foreign Affairs, January/February, Vo. 89, no 1, pp. 31-43.
· 11.5. George Friedman's "The Next 100 Years; A Forecast for the 21st Century." Reviewed by Bill Marmon, The European Institute. Online at
<a href="http://www.europeaninstitute.org/index.php/93-european-affairs/february--march-2010/962-george-friedmans-the-next-100-years-a-forecast-for-the-21st-century">http://bit.ly/1yFyj41</a>.

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Eric B. Shiraev is a researcher and professor at George Mason University. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of twelve books and numerous publications, including Russian Government and Politics (2010) and Counting Every Vote: The Most Contentious Elections in American History (2008).

Vladislav M. Zubok is a professor at the London School of Economics. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including the prize-winning Inside the Kremlin's Cold War (1996) and A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War (2007).

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