This comprehensive and smartly organized reader showcases the very best, most engaging international relations scholarship and political debate: over 90 carefully edited readings representing the field’s central traditions as well as important contemporary debates that capture new challenges and trace the development of the scholarship. But this is more than just a mere collection of readings: International Politics is purpose-bulit to help instructors and students engage critically, and in the spirit of intellectual pluralism, with some of the world’s most challenging and provocative questions.
The reader’s substantial part headnotes put each of the selections into context and also into conversation with one another, and Handler consciously models good critical analytic questions throughout. At the end of each part header, there is a set of robust discussion questions that serve to guide discussion of the readings or provide the basis for essay questions. Throughout, International Politics emphasizes the importance of intellectual pluralism in reaching conclusions about the world’s most pressing problems, and the selections have been chosen in order to best represent the full scope of topics and approaches. Unique to this reader are selections in each part focused specifically on ethical issues, which invite readers to engage in and make complex decisions about world dilemmas.
The book’s four main parts—theoretical traditions, war and peace, international political economy, and emerging issues—dovetail with how most IR courses are taught. In Part I, the major traditions covered include introductions to realism, liberalism, constructivism, their major variants, social scientific and theoretical analysis, and decision-making models. In Part II, topical coverage includes the security dilemma, balance of power, deterrence, bargaining models, theories of democracy and war, civil conflict, terrorism, and the ethics of war. Part II features selections on international political economy, with readings on international trade, hegemony and trade, domestic politics and trade, international monetary affairs, and ethics and IPE. The fourth part of the book looks at emerging issues, including power and inequality, state-building, failed states, foreign aid, international law, the environment, international order, and ethics and development assistance.
Class-tested over several years at the United States Military Academy and elsewhere, International Politics was built from the ground up to introduce students to the traditions and new foundations of international relations as well to the principles of intellectually rigorous thought.
Priced for value, the reader offers nearly twice the number of readings as other leading IR readers and a much broader choice of topics, but at the same price.
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
Over 90 selections make this the most comprehensive reader on the market.
Edited by Scott P. Handler and class tested over several years at the United States Military Academy, the reader has been proven successful in providing the foundations for understanding the field as well as enabling students to engage critically with challenging global questions.
Well-edited selections introduce the reader to the “heart” of the debate, without any loss of important context or content.
Each part features selections that are specifically focused on ethical issues, challenging students to engage in debates about major world dilemma.
Substantial part headnotes give the historical and scholarly context for each of the selections, and also help put the selections into conversation with one another.
Lists of discussion questions at the ends of each of the parts provide grounding for in-class discussion and debate.
Priced for value, the reader offers nearly twice the number of readings as other leading IR readers and a much broader choice of topics, but at the same price.
Table of Contents
Contents
Part I. Theoretical Traditions in International Relations
1. Introduction
1.1 Joseph S. Nye, What is International Politics?
1.2 Henry Farrell, “Good Writing in Political Science: An Undergraduate Student’s Short Illustrated Primer V.1.01”
2. Social Scientific and Theoretical Analysis
2.1 Kenneth R. Hoover and Todd Donovan, The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking
2. 2 Kenneth N. Waltz, Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
3. Realism I
3.1 Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery”
3.2 Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince
3.3 Hans Morgenthau, “A Realist Theory of International Politics”
3.4 Joseph S. Nye, “The Peloponnesian War”
4. Realism II
4.1 Kenneth N. Waltz, “The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory”
4.2 John Mearsheimer, “Anarchy and the Struggle for Power”
4.3 Robert Kagan, “Why the World Needs America”
5. Liberalism I
5.1 John Locke, “Of the State of Nature, Of the State of War, and Of the Ends of Political Society and Government”
5.1 Immanuel Kant, “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch”
5.3 Michael W. Doyle, “Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs”
6. Liberalism II
6.1 Joseph S. Nye, “Liberalism Revived”
6.2 Richard Rosencrance, “The Worlds of International Relations: The Military-Political World, the Trading World”
6.3 Dale C. Copeland, “Economic Interdependence and War: A Theory of Trade Expectations”
6.4 Robert O. Keohane, “Harmony, Cooperation, and Discord”
6.5 Woodrow Wilson, “Fourteen Points”
7. Constructivism I
7.1 Ted Hopf, “The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory”
7.2 Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change”
7. 3 Nina Tannenwald, “Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo”
8. Constructivism II
8.1 J. Ann Tickner, “Dealing with Difference: Problems and Possibilities for Dialogue in International Relations”
8.2 Amartya Sen, “The Violence of Illusion”
9. Decision-Making Models
9.1 Graham T. Allison, “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis”
10. Ethical Traditions in International Relations
10.1 Thucydides, “The Melian Dialogue”
10.2 James Fieser, “Normative Ethics”
10.3 Joseph S. Nye, “Ethical Questions and International Politics”
Part II. War and Peace
11. The Security Dilemma
11.1 Robert Jervis, “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma”
11.2 Dan Reiter, “Exploding the Powder Keg Myth: Preemptive Wars Almost Never Happen”
11.3 Jack S. Levy, “Preventive War and Democratic Politics”
12. Balance of Power
12.1 Hans Morgenthau, “The Balance of Power”
12.2 Stephen M. Walt, “Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power”
12.3 Robert A. Pape, “Soft Balancing against the United States”
13. Deterrence
13.1 Thomas C. Schelling, “The Diplomacy of Violence”
13.2 Barry R. Posen, “A Nuclear-Armed Iran: A Difficult But Not Impossible Policy Problem”
13.3 Robert J. Lieber and Amatzia Baram, “Containment Breach”
14. Bargaining and War
14.1 Dan Reiter, “Exploring the Bargaining Model of War”
14.2 James Shinn and James Dobbins, “Afghan Peace Talks: A Primer”
14.3 David Rohde, “It’s Time for America to Negotiate with the Taliban”
15. Theories of Democracy and War
15.1 Bruce Russett, “The Fact of the Democratic Peace” and “Why The Democratic Peace?”
15.2 Henry S. Farber and Joanne Gowa, “Polities and Peace”
15.3 Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, “Democratization and War”
16. Civil Conflict
16.1 Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy M. Weinstein, “Who Fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War”
16.2 Barbara F. Walter, Committing to Peace
16.3 Edward N. Luttwak, “Give War a Chance”
17. Terrorism
17.1 David C. Rapoport, “The Four Waves of Rebel Terror and September 11”
17.2 Martha Crenshaw, “The Causes of Terrorism”
17.3 Andrew H. Kydd and Barbara F. Walter, “The Strategies of Terrorism”
18. The Ethics of War
18.1 Thomas Nagel, “War and Massacre”
18.2 John Rawls, “The Moral Duties of Statesmen”
18.3 Jim Holt, “Morality, Reduced to Arithmetic”
Part III. International Political Economy
19. Introduction to International Political Economy
19.1 Jeffrey Frieden, David Lake, and Lawrence Broz, “International Politics and International Economics”
20. International Trade
20.1 Paul R. Krugman, “What Do Undergrads Need to Know About Trade?”
20.2 Arvind Panagariya, “International Trade”
20.3 Dani Rodrik, “Trading in Illusions”
20.4 Moisés Naím, “The Free-Trade Paradox: Why Is Trade Booming While Trade Talks Are Crashing?”
21. Hegemony and Trade
21.1 Stephen D. Krasner, “State Power and the Structure of International Trade”
21.2 Robert O. Keohane, “Hegemony in the World Political Economy”
21.3 Andres Velasco, “Dependency Theory”
22. Domestic Politics and Trade
22.1 Robert D. Putnam, “Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games”
22.2 Ronald Rogowski, “Why Changing Exposure to Trade Should Affect Political Cleavages”
22.3 Witold J. Henisz and Edward D. Mansfield, “Votes and Vetoes: The Political Determinants of Commercial Openness”
23. International Monetary Affairs
23.1 Beth A. Simmons, “The Legalization of International Monetary Affairs”
23.2 N. Gregory Mankiw, “The Trilemma of International Finance”
23.3 Andrew Moravcsik, “Europe After the Crisis: How to Sustain a Common Currency”
24. Ethics and International Political Economy
24.1 Robert W. McGee, “Minimal Ethical and Legal Absolutes in Foreign Trade”
24.2 Ethan B. Kapstein, “Does Globalization Have an Ethical Problem?”
24.3 Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, “Two Cheers for Sweatshop”
Part IV. Emerging Issues in International Relations
25. Poverty and Inequality
25.1 Terry Lynn Karl, “The Vicious Cycle of Inequality in Latin America”
25.2 Paul Collier, “What’s the Issue? and On Missing the Boat: The Marginalization of the Bottom Billion in the World Economy”
25.3 Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton L. Root, “The Political Roots of Poverty: The Economic Logic of Autocracy”
26. State-Building
26.1 Paul Collier, “State Building and Nation Building”
26.2 Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast, “Violence and the Rise of Open-Access Orders”
26.3 Francis Fukuyama, “Nation-Building and the Failure of Institutional Memory”
27. Failed States
27.1 Robert H. Jackson and Carl G. Rosberg, “Why Africa’s Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood”
27.2 Tanisha M. Fazal, “State Death in the International System”
27.3 Stephen D. Krasner and Carlos Pascual, “Addressing State Failure”
28. Foreign Aid
28.1 Jeffrey D. Sachs, “The Development Challenge”
28.2 William Easterly, “The Utopian Nightmare”
28.3 Steven Radelet, “Bush and Foreign Aid”
29. International Law
29.1 Kenneth W. Abbott, Robert O. Keohane, Andrew Moravcsik, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Duncan Snidal, “The Concept of Legalization”
29.2 Steven R. Ratner, “International Law: The Trials of Global Norms”
29.3 Jack Goldsmith and Stephen D. Krasner, “The Limits of Idealism”
30. The Environment and Climate Change
30.1 The Economist, “Let them Eat Pollution”
30.2 The Economist, “Pollution and the Poor”
30.3 Detlef Sprinz and Tapani Vaahtoranta, “The Interest-Based Explanation of International Environmental Policy”
30.4 Ruth Greenspan Bell, “What to Do About Climate Change”
31. A New International Order?
31.1 Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?”
31.2 Benjamin R. Barber, “Jihad vs. McWorld”
31.3 Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”
32. Ethics and Development Assistance
32.1 Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”
32.2 Garrett Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”
Perspectives on International Relations, 3e + International Politics
Handler, Nau
ISBN: 978-1-4522-7915-2, $135
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Bueno de Mesquita, Handler
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