INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
POLITICAL SCIENCE 290 & 398
SYLLABUS--AUTUMN 1999
CHARLES LIPSON
Course: 9-10:20 Tuesday, Thursday
Prof. Lipson's office is Pick 418b
Teaching Assistants:
Professor Lipson’s office hours: Tuesday 3-4
E-mail: clipson@midway.uchicago.edu
This course has no prerequisites. It introduces major issues and theories in international politics.
Books are available at University of Chicago Bookstore and the Seminary Cooperative Bookstore.
All materials are on reserve in Harper. Articles are catalogued under special "Y" call numbers, which I have included here. Reserve readings for all courses are listed on the Web.
Undergraduates normally enroll in PS 290, grad students in PS 398, which requires additional readings.
All students receive letter grades unless they have advanced written permission from Prof. Lipson.
Grades for this course are based on a midterm and final. The final covers the entire course and counts slightly more. Students who participate regularly in sections will be given positive credit. Both exams are written in class without books, notes, or other aids. Foreign-language students will be given some additional time to complete these exams.
Undergraduate sections meet weekly. Sections will be assigned in Week 2.
There is a graduate section for students in the Committee on International Relations; other graduate students may attend. CIR students are graded by their preceptor, in cooperation with Prof. Lipson. Political Science graduate students are graded by Professor Lipson.
I. ANALYTIC FOUNDATIONS
A. INTRODUCTION SESSIONS 1 & 2
Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, "Anarchy and its Consequences," editors'
introduction in Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics
(4th ed.; NY: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 1-6.JX1395.I5760 1996 Harp (REQUIRED
BOOK)
Kenneth N. Waltz, "The Anarchic Structure of World Politics," in Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics (4th ed.; NY: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 49-69.JX1395.I5760 1996 Harp (REQUIRED BOOK)
Michael W. Doyle, "Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs," in Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics (4th ed.; NY: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 95-107.JX1395.I5760 1996 Harp (REQUIRED BOOK)
Charles Lipson and Benjamin J. Cohen, eds., Theory and Structure in International Political Economy: An International Organization Reader (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), pp. 1-8.(REQUIRED BOOK)
Required additional reading for graduate students (PS 398):
Helen V. Milner, "A Critique of Anarchy," in Robert J. Art and Robert
Jervis, eds., International Politics (4th ed.; NY: HarperCollins, 1996), pp.
70-80. (REQUIRED BOOK)
B. HISTORICAL SYSTEMS AND SYSTEM CHANGE SESSION 3
Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George, Force and Statecraft (3rd ed.; New
York: Oxford, 1995), pp. 3-51, 85-149.
D443.C730 1990 Gen (2nd ed.) (REQUIRED BOOK)C.
THE DEBATE OVER THEORY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SESSION 4
Robert O. Keohane, ed., Neorealism and its Critics (NY: Columbia University
Press, 1986), pp. 7-26; 47-69; 98-130.
JX 1391.N460 1986 (Gen)(Harp) (REQUIRED BOOK)
The assigned sections are excerpts from Robert Keohane's introduction and three chapters from Kenneth N. Waltz's Theory of International Politics (1979) JX1291.W370
Kenneth Oye, "The Conditions for Cooperation in World Politics," in Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics (4th ed.; NY: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 81-94. JX1395.I5760 1996 Harp (REQUIRED BOOK)
Required of graduate students (PS 398):
Robert O. Keohane, ed., Neorealism and its Critics (NY: Columbia University
Press, 1986), pp. 131-57; 322-45. The first section (pp. 131-57) is John Gerard
Ruggie's critique of Waltz and neorealism; the second section is Waltz's response.
(REQUIRED BOOK)
D. THE GREAT CHANGES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SESSION 5
John J. Mearsheimer, "Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the
Cold War," in Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller, eds., The Cold War
and After: Prospects for Peace (2nd ed.; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993). D843.C577250
1993 (REQUIRED BOOK)
This article is also available in the first edition (MIT Press, 1991) D843.C577250
1991 Gen
Originally in International Security 15 (Summer 1990), pp. 5-56. (journal: JX1901.I61).
Jack Snyder, "Averting Anarchy in the New Europe," in Sean M. Lynn-Jones
and Steven E. Miller, eds., The Cold War and After: Prospects for Peace (2nd
ed.; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993).
D843.C577250 1993 (REQUIRED BOOK)
Originally in International Security, 14 (Spring 1990), pp. 5-41. (journal:
JX1901.I61)
II. MILITARY SECURITY IN THE POST-WAR WORLD
A. THE ORIGINS AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR SESSIONS 6 & 7
John Lewis Gaddis, "The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar
International System," in Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller, eds.,
The Cold War and After: Prospects for Peace (2nd ed.; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1993).
D843.C577250 1993 (REQUIRED BOOK)
This article is also available in the first edition (MIT Press, 1991) D843.C57725
0 1991 Gen
Originally in International Security 10 (Spring 1986), pp. 99-142. (journal:
JX1901.I61)
Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas G. Brinkley, Rise to Globalism (8th ed.; Harmondsworth,
UK: Penguin Books, 1997), pp. 52-113.
E744 .A477 1997 Harp Gen (REQUIRED BOOK)
B. NUCLEAR WEAPONS: STRATEGY AND POLITICS SESSION 8
Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, "The Uses of Force," editors' introduction
in to Part Two, in Robert Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics
(4th ed.; NY: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 149-54.
JX1395.I5760 1996 Harp (REQUIRED BOOK)
Thomas C. Schelling, "The Diplomacy of Violence," in Robert J. Art
and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics (4th ed.; NY: HarperCollins,
1996), pp. 168-182.
JX1395.I5760 1996 Harp (REQUIRED BOOK)
Robert Jervis, "The Political Effects of Nuclear Weapons," International
Security 13 (Fall 1988), pp. , reprinted in Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E.
Miller, eds., The Cold War and After: Prospects for Peace (2nd ed.; Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1993).
D843.C577250 1993 (REQUIRED BOOK)
C. ARMS CONTROL AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION SESSION 9
Scott D. Sagan and Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate
(NY: W.W. Norton, 1995), pp. 1-91.
U264.S233 (REQUIRED BOOK)
D. AMERICAN SECURITY AND THE THIRD WORLD SESSION 10
Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas G. Brinkley, Rise to Globalism (8th ed.; Harmondsworth,
UK: Penguin Books, 1997), pp. 190-280, 381-428.
E744 .A477 1997 Harp Gen (REQUIRED BOOK)
E. NATIONALISM, ETHNICITY, AND WAR: THE BALKANS SESSION 11
Stephen Van Evera, "Hypotheses on Nationalism and War," in Robert
J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics (4th ed.; NY: HarperCollins,
1996), pp. 168-182.
JX1395.I5760 1996 Harp (REQUIRED BOOK)
Recommended for Graduate Students:
Barry R. Posen, "The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict," Survival
35 (Spring 1993), pp. 27-47. YP5498F.
MID-QUARTER EXAM SESSION 12
III. ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
A. INSTITUTIONS FOR COOPERATION IN THE WORLD ECONOMY SESSIONS 13 & 14
Joseph M. Grieco, "Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique
of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism" in Charles Lipson and Benjamin
J. Cohen, eds., Theory and Structure in International Political Economy: An
International Organization Reader (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), pp. 9-31.
(REQUIRED BOOK)
Originally in International Organization 42 (Summer 1988), pp. 485-507.
Charles Lipson, "International Cooperation in Economic and Security Affairs,"
in David Baldwin, ed., Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate
(NY: Columbia University Press, 1993), pp. 60-85.
JX1395.N3850 1993 (REQUIRED BOOK)
Originally in World Politics 37 (October 1984), pp. 1-23.
Robert Axelrod and Robert O. Keohane, "Achieving Cooperation Under Anarchy:
Strategies and Institutions," in David Baldwin, ed., Neorealism and Neoliberalism:
The Contemporary Debate (NY: Columbia University Press, 1993), pp. 85-115.
JX1395.N3850 1993 (REQUIRED BOOK)
B. WORLD TRADE: POLITICAL DIMENSIONS SESSION 15
Mark R. Brawley, Turning Points: Decisions Shaping the Evolution of the International
Political Economy (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press, 1998), pp.
145-60, 253-63, 333-46.
HF1359.B739 1998 Harp (REQUIRED BOOK)
C. NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS: MULTINATIONAL FIRMS & DEBT SESSION 16
Charles Lipson, Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 1985), pp. xi-xvii; 3-33; 140-194.
K3830.4.L560 1985 and XX K3830.4.L560 1985 (Gen)(Harp)(Law) (REQUIRED BOOK)
Mark R. Brawley, Turning Points: Decisions Shaping the Evolution of the International
Political Economy (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press, 1998), pp.
175-193.
HF1359.B739 1998 Harp (REQUIRED BOOK)
D. EUROPEAN UNITY? SESSION 17
Christopher Piening, Global Europe: The European Union in World Affairs (Boulder,
CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997), pp. 1-46, 193-204
D1058.P54 1997 (REQUIRED BOOK)
E. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SESSION 18
Per Magnus Wijkman, "Managing the Global Commons," in Robert J.
Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics (4th ed.; NY: HarperCollins,
1996), pp. 525-45.
JX1395.I5760 1996 Harp (REQUIRED BOOK)
originally in International Organization 36 (Summer 1982), pp. 511-36.
Ronald B. Mitchell, "Regime Design Matters: International Oil Pollution
and Treaty Compliance," in Charles Lipson and Benjamin J. Cohen, eds.,
Theory and Structure in International Political Economy: An International Organization
Reader (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), pp. 207-240.
(REQUIRED BOOK)
originally in International Organization 48 (Summer 1994), pp. 425-58.F.
FINAL EXAM SESSION 19
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REQUIRED BOOKS: All are paperbacks and available at both the University of Chicago Bookstore and the Seminary Coop Bookstore, as well as Harper Library Reserve.