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