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PS 225 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY
 

Proposed Syllabus  

Description: This seminar provides M.A. and Ph.D. students with an overview of key concepts and approaches in the subfield of international relations theory. The first two sessions introduce the subject matter and provide an overview of “meta” debates concerning philosophy of science and methodology. The rest of the course focuses on the dominant approaches to international relations, including realism (classical, neo-, and neo-classical), liberalism (classical, neo-, and neo-liberal institutionalism), constructivism, the English school, decision-making, game theory, neo-Marxism, and post-modernism.

Required Readings:

  1. PS 225 Course Reader (2 Volumes)
  2. Kenneth Waltz (1954).  Man, the State, and War. New York: Columbia University Press.
  3. Kenneth Waltz (1979). Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw Hill, 1979).
  4. Robert Jervis. (1976) Perception and Misperception in International Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press
  5. Robert Koehane (1986).  Neorealism and Its Critics. New York: Columbia University Press.
  6. Robert Powell (2001).  In The Shadow of Power.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.