International Relations Graduate Student Reading List
Books
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War.
Hugo Grotius, he Rights of War and Peace.
V.I. Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.
E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis (1939).
Karl Deutsch, Political Community and the North Atlantic Area (1957).
Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State and War (1959).
John H. Herz, International Politics in the Atomic Age (1959)
Inis Claude, Swords Into Plowshares (1959).
Inis Claude, Power and International Relations (1962).
Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict (1963).
Arnold Wolfers, Discord and Collaboration (1965).
Graham Allison, Essence of Decision (1971).
Ole Holsti, Crisis, Escalation, and War (1972).
Hans Morgenthau, Politics among Nations (4th ed., 1973).
John Burton, The Study of World Society: A London Perspective (1974).
Alexander George and Richard Smoke, Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (1974).
Klauss Knorr, The Power of Nations: The Political Economy of International Relations (1975).
Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Relations (1976).
Thomas Schelling, Arms and Influence (1976).
Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society (1977).
Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, Power and Interdependence (1977).
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World Economy (1979).
Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (1979).
J. David Singer, The Correlates of War (1979).
Stephen Krasner, Structural Conflict: The Third World Against Global Liberalism (1981). And Krasner (ed.), "International Regimes," special issue of International Organization 36, 2 (Spring 1982).
Robert Keohane, After Hegemony (1984).
Barry Posen, The Sources of Military Doctrine (1984).
Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations (1987).
David Baldwin, Economic Statecraft (1985).
Richard Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State (1986).
Kenneth Oye, Cooperation Under Anarchy (1986).
Stephen Walt, The Origins of Alliances (1987).
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and David Lalman, War and Reason (1992). Or Bueno de Mesquita, The War Trap (1981).
Manus Midlarsky (ed.), Handbook of War Studies (1989).
David Baldwin (ed.), Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate (1993).
Charles W. Kegley, Jr. (ed.), Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge (1995).
Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations (1997).
Articles
Jacob Viner, "Power Versus Plenty as Objectives of Foreign Policy," World Politics (October 1948), pp. 1-29.
Kenneth Waltz, "The Stability of a Bipolar World," Daedalus (Summer 1964), pp. 881-887, 899-902, 907-909.
Henry Kissinger, "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy," Daedalus (Spring 1966), pp. 503-529.
Kenneth Waltz, "International Structure, National Force, and the Balance of World Power," Journal of International Affairs, XXI (1967), pp. 215-231.
J. David Singer, "The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations," in Rosenau (ed.) International politics and Foreign Policy (1969), pp. 20-29, and Knorr and Verba (eds.), The International System (1981), pp. 77-92.
Stephen Krasner, "State Power and the Structure of International Trade," World Politics (April 1976), pp. 317-347.
Karl Deutch and J. David Singer, "Multipolar Power Systems and International Stability," World Politics (January 1979), pp. 390-406.
Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, Introduction and conclusion to Transnational Relations and World Politics (1970), pp. ix-xxix and 371-398.
Peter Gourevitch, "The Second Image Reversed," International Organization (Autumn 1978), pp. 881-912.
Josef Lapid, "The Third Debate: On the Prospects of International Theory in a Post-Positivist Era," International Studies Quarterly (1989), pp. 235-251.
Robert Jervis, "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma," World Politics, vol. 30, no. 2 (January 1978).
Alexander Wendt, "Anarchy is What States Makes of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics," International Organization, vol. 46, pp. 391-426.