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International Relations Theory

By AminSadeghi

  • Classics to read

    Thucydides
    St Thomas Aquinas
    Hugo Grotius
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Immanuel Kant

  • Wilson's 14 Points

  • [S] Wilson's Liberal Internationalism

  • [B] The Economic Consequences of the Peace

    by John Maynard Keynes

  • Wilson Chair in International Politics is established

    Major David Davies, MP, donates £20,000
    to establish the Wilson Chair in International Politics
    in a letter to Sir John Williams,
    President of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

  • [B] Moral Man and Immoral Society

    Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
    by Reinhold Niebuhr

  • [B] The Twenty Years' Crisis

    by E. H. Carr
    argued that the Munich Agreement was just and moral attempt to undo the great wrong done to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles

  • [B] The Great Transformation

    by Karl Polanyi

  • [B] Politics Among Nations

    by Hans Morgenthau
    and Kenneth W. Thompson
    A realist view of power politics

  • [S] Morgenthau's Modern Realism

  • [B] The Breakdown of Nations

    by Leopold Kohr In The Breakdown of Nations Leopold Kohr shows that, throughout history, people living in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. Leopold Kohr was an economist, jurist and political scientist known both for his opposition to the "cult of bigness" in social organization and as one of those who inspired the small is beautiful movement.

  • [B] Man, the State, and War

    by Kenneth Waltz
    Offer a typology of different theories of war (i.e., locating them either in the nature of man, the characteristics of states, or the anarchic international system)
    The three “images” (aka “levels of analysis.”)

  • [B] Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City

    by Robert A. Dahl

  • [B] Arms and Influence

    by Thomas Schelling
    Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2005)

  • [B] A Theory of Justice

    by John Rawls

  • [B] The Best and the Brightest

    by David Halberstam
    An account of how the brightest of people in charge didn't know what they were doing.

  • [B] Perception and Misperception in International Politics

    by Robert Jervis

  • [B] The Anarchical Society

    by Hedley Bull A founding text of the English School, uses a dialectic discourse between realism and idealism to approach world problems in his seminal book.

  • [B] Theory of International Politics

    by Hedley Bull, Herbert Butterfield, and Kenneth Waltz
    First Neorealist theory of IR

  • [B] States and Social Revolutions

    by Theda Skocpol

  • [B] White House Years & Years of Upheaval

    by Henry A. Kissinger

  • [B] War and Change in World Politics

    by Robert Gilpin

  • [B] Imagined Communities

    Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
    by Benedict Anderson

  • [B] Nations and Nationalism

    by Ernst Gellner

  • [B] After Hegemony

    by Robert Keohane
    Neo-liberal school of international Relations Bible

  • [B] States and Markets

    by Susan Strange

  • [B] Democracy and Its Critics

    by Robert A. Dahl

  • [B] Theology of Discontent

    by Hamid Dabashi

  • [B] The End of History and the Last Man

    by Francis Fukuyama

  • Keohane vs Mearsheimer

    M., Q4, 1994: The False Promise of International Institutions
    K., Q2, 1995: The Promise of Institutionalist Theory
    M., Q2, 1995: A Realist Reply

  • [B] The Clash of Civilizations

    by Samuel P. Huntington
    The Clash of Civilizations is a hypothesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world.

  • [B] Guns, Germs, and Steel

    by Jared Diamond
    Explains why small differences in climate, population, agronomy, and the like turned out to have far-reaching effects on the evolution of human societies and the long-term balance of power.

  • [B] The Pity of War

    The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
    by Niall Ferguson This controversial book
    is highly critical of those who argue that the first world war had to happen. It directly attacks inevitability theorists and is a fresh way of rethinking 1914.

  • [A] Structural Realism after the Cold War

    by Kenneth Waltz
    Q2, 2000: Structural Realism after the Cold War

  • [B] The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

    by John Mearsheimer

  • [B] Iran: A People Interrupted

    by Hamid Dabashi