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Thursday, August 03, 2017

Readings: International Relations

Prelim Period

Week 1

(History of IR and basic concepts - lecture)

Week 2

(using the simulator and differentiating IR from Compa - In-Class Educational Technology Assisted Learning)

Week 3 (Start of Recitations)

Knicl (2014) - The Black Rose

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/black-rose-2014-05-21

Slaughter (2011) - International Relations, Principal Theories

http://www.princeton.edu/~slaughtr/Articles/722_IntlRelPrincipalTheories_Slaughter_20110509zG.pdf

Tamaki (2015) - Levels of Analysis of the International System

https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/17287/3/Tamaki%20Ashgate%20Textbook%20Chapter%204%20v2.0.pdf


Week 4

Morgenthau (Politics Among Nations) -
"A Realist Theory of International Politics"
"Political Power"
"The Balance of Power"

https://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjryYmI_MfOAhXEn5QKHd6UAEsQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.1.sqspcdn.com%2Fstatic%2Ff%2F1385000%2F21639490%2F1358198233217%2F327ESSEssentialReadingsI&usg=AFQjCNH4usYfEltOL89yIqbGgx3SIL_j1A&sig2=DXwdyf-HYZUqIjDxhfHwnA

Note: The previous link "Essential Readings in World Politics" will contain majority of readings, many of them are permitted reprints of the originals.  Subsequent topics can be found in this ebook.


Week 5

Jervis - Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma -  (see Link Week 4 above)

Kant - Perpetual Peace (Sections 1 and 2 / see Link Week 4)

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1795_1.pdf


Week 6

Doyle - Liberalism and World Politics (see Link Week 4 above)

Wallerstein - The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System (see Link 4 above)

Week 7

Krasner - Sovereignty (see Link Week 4 above)

Huntington - The Clash of Civilizations
http://users.metu.edu.tr/utuba/Huntington.pdf


Week 8

Game of Thrones (episode to be announced in class)


Post Prelims (Finals Period)

Week 1

(Lecture on International Law)

Week 2 (Start if Recitations)

Hard Power
https://www.cfr.org/interview/japans-hard-power-play

Soft Power
http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/content/articles/speakers/detailed/erkki-tuomioja/erkki-tumioja_-_the-role-of-soft-power-in-eu-common-foreign-policy.pdf?Interview-with-Erkki-Tuomioja-Former-Finnish-Foreign-Minister

Week 3


Just War Theory http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3192&context=facpubs


Week 4

Geopolitics - Maritime Power

https://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/e7dabb3b-333d-4af1-8eb3-b98d311c470d/Command-of-the-Sea--An-Old-Concept-Surfaces-in-a-N

Week 5

Political Economy

Hardin
http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles_pdf/tragedy_of_the_commons.pdf

Ostrom
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/5876/Coping%20with%20tragedies%20of%20the%20commons.pdf


Week 6

http://www.c-r.org/downloads/Accord16_13Therelationshipbetweentrackone_2005_ENG.pdf

https://www.arcjournals.org/pdfs/ijmsr/v4-i7/1.pdf


Week 7

Economic and Political Cooperation

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mercosur-south-americas-fractious-trade-bloc

https://www.cfr.org/blog/president-trumps-unlikely-effect-us-eu-tech-relationship

Week 8

The Legend of Korra