International Relations Theory

(NOTE: Each chapter includes "Notes" and "Selections for Further Readings and Reference.") 1. Theory, Images, and International Relations: An Introduction. What Is Theory? Alternative Images. The Levels of Analysis. Scientific Understanding. Summation. Selected Readings. Thinking Theory Thoroughly, James N. Rosenau. Positivism and Beyond, Steve Smith. 2. Realism: The State, Power, and the Balance of Power. Major Actors and Assumptions: A Summary. Intellectual Precursors and Influences. Power. System. Interdependence. Change. Realists and Their Critics: An Overview. Selected Readings. The Melian Dialogue, Thucydides. On Princes and the Security of Their States, Machiavelli. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind, Thomas Hobbes. The State of War: Confederation as Means to Peace in Europe, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Does Order Exist in World Politics? Hedley Bull. Explaining War, Kenneth N. Waltz. War and Change in World Politics, Robert Gilpin. Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond, Robert O. Keohane. The Accomplishments of International Political Economy, Stephen Krasner. 3. Pluralism: Decision Making, Transnationalism, and Interdependence. Major Actors and Assumptions: A Summary. Intellectual Precursors and Influences. Decision Making. Transnationalism. System. Change. Pluralists and Their Critics: An Overview. Selected Readings. Liberalism and World Politics, Michael W. Doyle. Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics, Andrew Moravcsik. Perception and Misperception in International Politics, Robert Jervis. Crisis Decision Making, Ole R. Holsti. Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Graham T. Allison. Ideas and Foreign Policy, Judith Goldstein and Robert O. Keohane. Realism and Complex Interdependence, Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Multilateralism, Knowledge, and Power, Ernst B. Haas. Multilateralism: The Anatomy of an Institution, John Gerard Ruggie. 4. Globalism: Dependency and the Capitalist