Comp Reading List (IR Fall 2014 - All Syllabi)
Comp Reading List (IR Fall 2014 - All Syllabi)
Comp Reading List (IR Fall 2014 - All Syllabi)
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
This list is not exclusive; it is only a baseline guide. You should also make use of the citations
contained in these works to develop a full understanding of the field.
Current Literature: Students are expected to be up to date on the current literature, by reading
through the articles published in the last five years in the main international relations journals
(such as IO, ISQ, JCR, WP, and EJIR) and the IR articles published in the general purpose
journals (APSR and AJPS). This holds true for all subfields.
IR Theory
Classical Realism
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V, The Melian Dialogue.
Immanuel Kant, "To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch," in Perpetual Peace and other
Essays on Politics, History and Morals.
Michael Doyle, "Liberalism and World Politics," American Political Science Review
(December 1986).
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Patrick McDonald, The Invisible Hand of Peace: Capitalism, the War Machine and
International Relations Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Selections to be
determined.
Robert Jervis, "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma," World Politics 30 (January
1978).
Kenneth Abbott and Duncan Snidal, “Why States Act through Formal International
Organizations.” Journal of Conflict Resolution. (1998).
Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson and Duncan Snidal, (2001) “The Rational Design of
International Institutions” International Organization 55/4 Autumn, 761-799.
Constructivism
Alexander Wendt, "Anarchy is What States Make of It," International Organization (Spring
1992), pp. 391-426.
John Ikenberry and Charles Kupchan (1990) “Socialization and Hegemonic Power”
International Organization 44/3 (Summer), 283-315.
Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore (1999) "The Politics, Power and Pathologies of
International Organizations," International Organization 53/4 (Autumn): 699-732.
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Communities" International Organization 62(2): 257-288.
Ted Hopf (2010) “The Logic of Habit in International Relations” European Journal of
International Relations June.
Strategic Interaction
Kenneth Oye, ed., Cooperation Under Anarchy, Introduction and Conclusion, skim case
studies.
Stephen Krasner, "Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto
Frontier," World Politics (April 1991), pp. 336-66.
Martin, “Interests, Power, and Multilateralism.” International Organization, Vol. 46, No.
4, (Autumn 1992), pp. 765-792
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action, chs. I, II, & IV.
Robert Jervis, "Realism, Game Theory and Cooperation," World Politics 40 (April 1988).
Hegemony
Stephen Krasner, "State Power and the Structure of International Trade," World Politics (April
1976).
William Wohlforth, "The Stability of a Unipolar World," International Security (Summer 1999)
pp. 5-41.
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Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations.
Robert Putnam, "Diplomacy and Domestic Politics," International Organization (Summer 1988).
Graham T. Allison, “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” American
Political Science Review, Vol. 63, No. 3 (September 1969), pp. 689-718.
Andrew MacIntyre, “Institutions and Investors: The Politics of the Economic Crisis in
Southeast Asia,” International Organization 55, 1 (Winter) 2001, pp. 81-122.
Michael Hiscox, “Class Versus Industry Cleavages: Inter-Industry Factor Mobility and
the Politics of Trade,” International Organization 55 (Winter 2001), pp. 1-46.
Julia Gray, The Company States Keep: International Economic Organization and
Sovereign Risk in Emerging Markets.
International Order
Monteiro, Nuno. “Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful.” International Security
(Winter 2011/2012): 9-40.
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Lake, David. “Escape from the State of Nature: Authority and Hierarchy in World Politics.”
International Security (Summer 2007): 47-79.
Nexon, Daniel and Thomas Wright. “What’s at Stake in the American Empire Debate?”
American Political Science Review (May 2007): 253-271.
Branch, Jordan. “Mapping the Sovereign State: Technology, Authority, and Systematic Change.”
International Organization (January 2011): 1-36.
Ikenberry, John G., Michael Mastanduno and William C. Wohlforth. “Introduction: Unipolarity,
State Behavior, and Systemic Consequences.” World Politics (January 2009): 1-27.
Fearon, James. “Rationalist Explanations for War.” International Organization (Summer 1995):
379-414.
Reiter, Dan. “Exploring the Bargaining Model of War.” Perspectives on Politics (March 2003):
27-43.
Gartzke, Erik. “The Capitalist Peace.” American Journal of Political Science (January 2007):
166-191.
Dafoe, Allan. “Statistical Critiques of the Democratic Peace: Caveat Emptor.” American Journal
of Political Science (April 2011): 247-262.
Lieber, Keir. “The New History of World War I and What It Means for International Relations
Theory,” International Security (Fall 2007): 155-191.
Slantchev, Branislav. “Borrowed Power: Debt Refinancing and the Resort to Arms.” American
Political Science Review (November 2012): 787-809.
Goemens, Hein and Giacomo Chiozza. “International Conflict and the Tenure of Leaders: Is War
Still Ex-Post Inefficient?” American Journal of Political Science (July 2004): 604-619.
Weeks, Jessica. “Strongmen and Straw Men: Authoritarian Regimes and the Initiation of
International Conflict.” American Political Science Review (May 2012): 326-347.
Gartzke, Erik and Yonatan Lupu. “Trading on Preconceptions: Why World War I Was Not a
Failure of Economic Interdependence.” International Security (Spring 2012): 115-150.
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Crisis Behavior
Fearon, James. “Signaling Foreign Policy Interests: Tying Hands versus Sinking Costs.” Journal
of Conflict Resolution (February 1997): 68-90.
Kroenig, Matthew. “Nuclear Superiority and the Balance of Resolve: Explaining Nuclear Crisis
Outcomes.” International Organization (January 2012): 141-171.
Weeks, Jessica. “Autocratic Audience Costs: Regime Type and Signaling Resolve.”
International Organization (January 2008): 35-64.
Snyder, Jack and Erica D. Borghard. “The Cost of Empty Threats: A Penny, Not a Pound.”
American Political Science Review (August 2011): 437-456.
Trager, Robert. “Diplomatic Calculus in Anarchy.” American Political Science Review (May:
2010): 347-368.
Press, Daryl. “The Credibility of Power: Assessing Threats during the Appeasement Crisis of the
1930s.” International Security (Winter 2004/2005): 136-169.
Reiter, Dan and Allan Stam. “Understanding Victory: Why Political Institutions Matter.”
International Security (Summer 2003): 168-179.
Downes, Alexander B. “How Smart and Tough Are Democracies? Reassessing Theories of
Democratic Victory in War.” International Security (Spring 2009): 9-51.
Reiter, Dan, Allan Stam, and Alexander B. Downes. “Correspondence: Another Skirmish in the
Battle over Democracies and War.” International Security (Fall 2009): 194.
Kahl, Colin. “In the Crossfire or the Crosshairs? Norms, Civilian Casualties, and U.S. Conduct in
Iraq.” International Security (Summer 2007): 7-46.
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Downes, Alex. “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: The Causes of Civilian Victimization in
War.” International Security (Spring 2006): 152-195.
Beckley, Michael. “China’s Century? Why America’s Edge Will Endure.” International Security
(Winter 2011/2012): 41-78.
Johnston, Alastair, I. “Is China a Status Quo Power?” International Security (Spring 2003): 5-56.
Drezner, Daniel. “Bad Debts: China's Inflated Financial Power in Great Power Politics.”
International Security (Fall 2009): 7-45.
Jervis, Robert. “Thinking Systemically About China.” International Security (Fall 2006): 206-
208.
Christensen, Thomas. “Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China and U.S.
Policy toward East Asia.” International Security (Summer 2006): 81-126.
Nuclear Proliferation
Kroenig, Matthew. “Importing the Bomb: Sensitive Nuclear Assistance and Nuclear
Proliferation,” Journal of Conflict Resolution (April 2009): 161-180.
Kroenig, Matthew. “Exporting the Bomb: Why States Provide Sensitive Nuclear Assistance,”
American Political Science Review (February 2009): 113-133.
Press, Daryl, Scott Sagan, and Benjamin Valentino. “Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence
on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons.” American Political Science
Review (February 2013): 188-206.
Hymans, Jacques. “Veto Players, Nuclear Energy, and Nonproliferation: Domestic Institutional
Barriers to a Japanese Bomb,” International Security (Fall 2011): 154-189.
Bluth, Christopher, et al. “Correspondence: Civilian Nuclear Cooperation and the Spread of
Nuclear Weapons,” International Security (Summer 2010): 184-200. (Read Kroenig’s critique
and Fuhrmann’s response only).
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Terrorism and Insurgency
Pape, Robert. “The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.” American Political Science Review
(August 2003): 343-361. Frankie
Lyall, Jason and Isaiah Wilson II. “Rage against the Machines: Explaining Victory in
Counterinsurgency Wars.” International Organization (January 2009): 67-107.
Blair, Graeme, Christine Fair, Neil Malhotra, and Jacob Shapiro. “Poverty and Support for
Militant Politics in Pakistan.” American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming, available at
online first.
Abrahms, Max. “Why Terrorism Doesn’t Work.” International Security (Fall 2006): 42-78.
Lyall, Jason. “Are Coethnics More Effective Counterinsurgents? Evidence from the Second
Chechnyan War.” American Political Science Review (February 2010): 1-20.
Chenoweth, Erica. “Democratic Competition and Terrorist Activity.” Journal of Politics (January
2010): 16-30.
Vreeland, James Raymond. “Political Institutions and Human Rights: Why Dictatorships Enter
into the United Nations Convention Against Torture.” International Organization (January
2008): 65-101 .
Simmons, Beth and Allison Danner. “Credible Commitments and the International Criminal
Court.” International Organization (April 2010): 225-256.
Von Stein, Jana. “Do Treaties Constrain or Screen? Selection Bias and Treaty Compliance.”
American Political Science Review (November 2005): 611-622.
International Trade
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Tomz, Michael, Judith L. Goldstein, and Douglas Rivers. “Do We Really Know that the WTO
Increases Trade? Comment.” American Economic Review (December 2007): 2005-2018.
Mansfield, Edward D., Helen V. Miller, and Peter Rosendorff, “Why Democracies Cooperate
More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements.” International Organization (June
2002): 477-513.
Kono, Daniel. “Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency.” American
Political Science Review (August 2006): 369-384.
Milner, Helen V. and Dustin Tingley. “Who Supports Global Economic Engagement? The
Sources of Preferences in American Foreign Economic Policy.” International Organization
(Winter 2011): 37-68.
International Finance
Schultz, Kenneth and Barry Wingast. “The Democratic Advantage: Institutional Foundations of
Financial Power in International Competition.” International Organization (Winter 2003): 1-40.
Archer, Candace, Glen Biglaiser, and Karl DeRouen Jr. “Sovereign Bonds and the ‘Democratic
Advantage’: Does Regime Type Affect Credit Rating Agency Ratings in the Developing
World?” International Organization (Spring 2007): 341-365.
Bach, David and Abraham Newman. “Transgovernmental Networks and Domestic Policy
Convergence: Evidence from Insider Trading Regulation.” International Organization (July
2010): 505-528.
Robert J. Beck, Anthony Clark Arend & Robert D. Vander Lugt, eds, International Rules:
Approaches from International Law and International Relations (1996).
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Theoretical Approaches to International Law
Hugo Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Prolegomena, in Beck, Arend & Vander Lugt, pp. 38-53
Hans Kelsen, "The Nature of International Law," from Law and Peace in International
Relations, in Beck, Arend & Vander Lugt, pp. 60-74.
H.L.A. Hart, “Law as the Union of Primary and Secondary Rules,” and "International Law,"
from The Concept of Law, in Beck, Arend & Vander Lugt, pp. 75-92
Arend, Legal Rules and International Society, Chapters One, Two & Three
George Kennan, "Diplomacy in the Modern World," from American Diplomacy, in Beck, Arend
& Vander Lugt, pp. 99-106
Dean Acheson, Remarks before the American Society of International Law, in Beck, Arend &
Vander Lugt, pp. 107-108
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Beck, Arend & Vander Lugt, "The New Haven School," pp. 110-112
John Norton Moore, "Prolegomenon to the Jurisprudence of Myres McDougal and Harold
Lasswell"
Myres S. McDougal & Harold D. Lasswell, "The Identification and Appraisal of Diverse
Systems of Public Order," in Beck, Arend & Vander Lugt, pp. 113-141
Neo-Liberal Institutionalism
Robert Keohane, "International Institutions: Two Approaches," in Beck, Arend & Vander Lugt,
pp. 187-205
Stephen Krasner, "Structural Causes and Regime- Consequences: Regimes as Intervening
Variables," in Beck, Arend & Vander Lugt, pp. 167-186
Constructivism
Beck, Arend & Vander Lugt, "The New Stream," pp. 227-229
David Kennedy, "A New Stream of International Law Scholarship," Lectures I & III, in Beck,
Arend & Vander Lugt, pp. 230-250
Feminist Approaches
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Introduction to International Security
Stephen M. Walt, “The Renaissance of Security Studies,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol.
35, No. 2 (June 1991), pp. 211-239.
Richard K. Betts, “Should Strategic Studies Survive,” World Politics, Vol. 50, No. 1 (October
1997), pp. 7-33.
Richard K. Betts, “Is Strategy an Illusion?” International Security, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Fall 2000),
pp. 5-50.
David Ekbladh, “Present at the Creation: Edward Mead Earle and the Depression-Era
Origins of Security Studies,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Winter 2011/12), pp. 107-
141.
David Ekbladh, “Present at the Creation: Edward Mead Earle and the Depression Era Origins of
Security Studies,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Winter 2011/12), 107-141.
David Baldwin, “Security Studies and the End of the Cold War,” World Politics, Vol. 48, No. 1
(October 1995), 117-141.
Richard K. Betts, “Should Strategic Studies Survive?” World Politics, Vol. 50, No. 1 (October
1997), 7-33.
Richard Ullman, “Redefining Security,” International Security, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Summer 1983),
129-53.
Roland Paris, “Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?” International Security, Vol. 26, No.
2 (Fall 2001), 87-102.
Richard K. Betts, “Is Strategy an Illusion?” International Security, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Fall 2000), 5-
50.
Stephen G. Brooks, G. John Ikenberry, and William C. Wohlforth, “Don’t Come Home,
America: The Case against Retrenchment,” International Security, Vol. 37, No. 3
(Winter/2012/13), pp. 7-51.
Barry R. Posen, “Pull Back: The Case for a Less Activist Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs, Vol.
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92, No. 1 (January/February 2013), pp. 116-128.
Richard K. Betts, American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), chaps. 1-2.
Balancing
John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001),
chaps. 1-2, 5-9.
Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson, “Balancing on Land and at Sea: Do States Ally
against the Leading Global Power?” International Security, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Summer 2010), pp.
7-43.
Galen Jackson, “The Offshore Balancing Reconsidered: Realism, the Balance of Power in
Europe, and America’s Decision for War in 1917,” Security Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3 (July 2012),
pp. 455-489.
Davide Fiammenghi, “The Security Curve and the Structure of International Politics,”
International Security, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Spring 2011), pp. 126-154.
Stephen Van Evera, “The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War,”
International Security, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Summer 1984), pp. 58-107.
Charles L. Glaser and Chaim Kaufmann, “What is the Offense-Defense Balance and Can
We Measure It?” International Security, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Spring 1998), pp. 44-87.
Keir A. Lieber, “Grasping the Technological Peace,” International Security, Vol. 25, No. 1
(Summer 2000), pp. 71–104.
Keir A. Lieber, “The New History of World War I and What It Means for International
Relations Theory,” International Security, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Fall 2007), pp. 155–191.
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“Debating Charles L. Glaser’s Rational Theory of International Politics,” Security Studies, Vol.
20, No. 3 (July-September 2011), pp. 416-489. [Short articles by Jervis, Mearsheimer, Fearon,
Copeland, Lieber, Schweller, and Glaser.]
Unipolarity
William C. Wohlforth, “The Stability of a Unipolar World,” International Security, Vol. 24, No.
1 (Summer 1999), 5-41.
Martha Finnemore, “Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being
a Unipole Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be,” WP 61/1 (January 2009), 58-85.
Randall Schweller and Xiaoyu Pu, “After Unipolarity: China’s Visions of International Order in
an Era of U.S. Decline,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Summer 2011), 41-72.
Michael Beckley, “China’s Century? Why America’s Edge Will Endure,” International Security,
Vol. 36, No. 3 (Winter 2011/12), pp. 41-78.
Eugene Gholz, Daryl G. Press, and Harvey M. Sapolsky, “Come Home, America: The Strategy
of Restraint in the Face of Temptation,” International Security, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Spring 1997), 5-
48.
Stephen G. Brooks, G. John Ikenberry, and William C. Wohlforth, “Don’t Come Home,
America: The Case against Retrenchment,” International Security, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Winter
2012/13), 7-51.
William C. Wohlforth, “Unipolarity, Status Competition, and Great Power War,” World
Politics, Vol. 61, No. 1 (January 2009), pp. 28-57.
Robert Jervis, “Unipolarity: A Structural Perspective,” World Politics, Vol. 61, No. 1 (January
2009), pp. 188-213.
Christopher Layne, “This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana,”
International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 203-213.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., “The Twenty-First Century Will Not Be a ‘Post-American’ World,”
International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 215-217.
William C. Wohlforth, “How Not to Evaluate Theories,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol.
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56, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 219-222.
Nuno P. Monteiro, “Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful,” International Security,
Vol. 36, No. 3 (Winter 2011/12), pp. 9-40.
Bargaining
James D. Fearon, “Rationalist Explanations for War,” International Organization, Vol. 49, No.
3 (Summer 1995), pp. 379-414.
David A. Lake, “Two Cheers for Bargaining Theory: Assessing Rationalist Explanations of
the Iraq War,” International Security, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Winter 2010/11), pp. 7-52.
Jonathan D. Kirshner, “Rationalist Explanations for War?” Security Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1
(Autumn 2000), pp. 143-150.
Barbara F. Walter, “Bargaining Failures and Civil War,” Annual Review of Political Science,
Vol. 12 (2009), pp. 243-261.
Ron E. Hassner, “The Path to Intractability: Time and the Entrenchment of Territorial
Disputes,” International Security, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Winter 2006/07), pp. 107-138.
Audience Costs
James D. Fearon, “Domestic Audience Costs and the Escalation of International Disputes,”
American Political Science Review, Vol. 88, No. 3 (September 1994), pp. 577-592.
Kenneth Schultz, “Looking for Audience Costs,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 45, No. 1
(February 2001), pp. 32-60.
Jack Snyder and Erica D. Borghard, “The Cost of Empty Threats: A Penny, Not a Pound,”
American Political Science Review, Vol. 105, No. 3 (August 2011), pp. 437-456.
Marc Trachtenberg, “Audience Costs: An Historical Analysis,” Security Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1
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(January-March 2012), pp. 3-42.
Regime Type
Sebastian Rosato, “The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory,” American Political Science
Review, Vol. 97, No. 4 (November 2003), pp. 585-602.
David Kinsella, “No Rest for the Democratic Peace,” American Political Science Review, Vol.
99, No. 3 (August 2005), pp. 453-457.
Michael W. Doyle, “Three Pillars of the Liberal Peace,” American Political Science Review,
Vol. 99, No. 3 (August 2005), pp. 463-466.
Sebastian Rosato, “Explaining the Democratic Peace,” American Political Science Review, Vol.
99, No. 3 (August 2005), pp. 467-472.
Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey, “The Imperial Peace: Democracy, Force, and
Globalization,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 5, No. 4 (December 1999), pp.
403-34.
Civil-Military Relations
Samuel P. Huntington, The Soldier and the State (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957),
pp. 7-79, 464-466.
Eliot A. Cohen, “Civil-Military Relations,” Orbis, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Spring 1997), pp. 177-187.
Peter D. Feaver, “The Right to Be Right: Civil-Military Relations and the Iraq Surge
Decision,” International Security, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Spring 2011), pp. 87-125.
Richard K. Betts, Michael C. Desch, Peter D. Feaver, “Civilians, Soldiers, and the Iraq Surge
Decision,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Winter 2011/12), pp. 179-199.
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Economics and Security
Erik Gartzke and Yonatan Lupu, “Trading on Preconceptions: Why World War I Was Not a
Failure of Economic Interdependence,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Spring 2012),
115-150.
Peter Liberman, “The Spoils of Conquest” International Security, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Autumn 1993),
125-53.
Daniel W. Drezner, “Military Primacy Doesn’t Pay (Nearly As Much as You Think),”
International Security, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Summer 2013), 52-79.
Christina L. Davis, “Linkage Diplomacy: Economic and Security Bargaining in the Anglo-
Japanese Alliance, 1902–23,” International Security, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Winter 2008/09), pp. 143-
179.
Daniel W. Drezner, “Bad Debts: Assessing China’s Financial Influence in Great Power
Politics,” International Security, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall 2009), pp. 7-45.
Rise of China
John J. Mearsheimer, “China’s Unpeaceful Rise,” Current History, Vol. 105, No. 690 (April
2006), pp. 160-162.
Thomas J. Christensen, “Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China and
U.S. Policy toward East Asia,” International Security, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Summer 2006), pp. 81-
126.
Robert S. Ross, “China’s Naval Nationalism: Sources, Prospects, and the U.S. Response,”
International Security, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall 2009).
Randall L. Schweller and Xiaoyu Pu, “After Unipolarity: China’s Visions of International
Order in an Era of U.S. Decline,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Summer 2011), pp. 41-
72.
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Michael Beckley, “China’s Century? Why America’s Edge Will Endure,” International Security,
Vol. 36, No. 3 (Winter 2011/12), pp. 41-78.
John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001),
Chapters 1-2.
Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson, “Balancing on Land and at Sea: Do States Ally against
the Leading Global Power?” International Security, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Summer 2010), 7-43.
Stacie E. Goddard, “When Might Makes Right: How Prussia’s Rhetoric Overturned the Balance
of Power,” IS 33/3 (Winter 2008/09), 110-42.
Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent, “Graceful Decline? The Surprising Success of Great
Power Retrenchment,” IS 35/4 (Spring 2011), 7-44.
Timothy W. Crawford, “Preventing Enemy Coalitions: How Wedge Strategies Shape Power
Politics,” International Security, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Spring 2011), 155-189.
David C. Kang, “Getting Asia Wrong: The Need for New Analytical Frameworks,” International
Security, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Spring 2003), 57-85
Robert Jervis, “Cooperation under the Security Dilemma,” World Politics, Vol. 30, No. 2
(January 1978), 167-214.
Stephen Van Evera, “The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War,”
International Security, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Summer 1984), 58-107.
Keir A. Lieber, “Grasping the Technological Peace: The Offense-Defense Balance and
International Security,” International Security, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Summer 2000), 71–104.
Kenneth N. Waltz, “The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary
History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Spring 1988), 615-628.
Robert Gilpin, “The Theory of Hegemonic War,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol.
18, No. 4 (Spring 1988), 591-613.
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Jack S. Levy, “Declining Power and the Preventive Motivation for War,” World Politics, Vol.
40, No. 1 (October 1987), 82-107.
Robert Powell, “War as a Commitment Problem,” International Organization, Vol. 60, No. 1
(Winter 2006), 169-204.
James D. Fearon, “Rationalist Explanations for War,” International Organization, Vol. 4, No. 3
(Summer 1995), 379-414.
Dan Reiter, “Exploring the Bargaining Model of War,” Perspective on Politics, Vol. 1, No. 1
(March 2003), 27-43.
David A. Lake, “Two Cheers for Bargaining Theory: Assessing Rationalist Explanations of the
Iraq War,” International Security, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Winter 2010/11), 7-52.
Barbara F. Walter, “Bargaining Failures and Civil War,” Annual Review of Political Science,
Vol. 12 (2009), 243-261.
Ron E. Hassner, “The Path to Intractability: Time and the Entrenchment of Territorial Disputes,”
International Security, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Winter 2006/07), 107-138.
Jonathan D. Kirshner, “Rationalist Explanations for War?” Security Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1
(Autumn 2000), 143-50.
Daryl G. Press, “The Credibility of Power: Assessing Threats During the Appeasement Crises of
the 1930’s,” International Security, Vol. 29, No. 3 (2004), 136-69.
Jonathan Mercer, “Emotion and Strategy in the Korean War,” International Organization, Vol.
67, No. 2 (Spring 2013), 221-252.
Barbara F. Walter, “Building Reputation: Why Governments Fight Some Separatists but Not
Others,” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 50, No. 2 (April 2006), 313-330.
James D. Fearon, “Signaling Foreign Policy Interests: Tying Hands Versus Sinking Costs,”
Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 1997), 68-90.
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Dustin H. Tingley and Barbara F. Walter, “Can Cheap Talk Deter? An Experimental Analysis,”
Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 55, No. 6 (December 2011), 996-1020.
John R. Oneal and Bruce M. Russett, “The Classical Liberals Were Right: Democracy,
Interdependence, and Conflict, 1950-1985,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 2
(June 1997), 267-294.
Sebastian Rosato, “The Flawed Logic of the Democratic Peace,” American Political Science
Review, Vol. 97, No. 4 (November 2003), 585-602.
Replies to Rosato by Kinsella, Slantchev, et al., and Doyle (and Rosato’s rejoinder) in American
Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No. 3 (August 2005), 453-472.
Randall L. Schweller, “Domestic Structure and Preventive War: Are Democracies More
Pacific?” World Politics, Vol. 44, No. 2 (January 1992), 235-269.
James D. Fearon, “Domestic Audience Costs and the Escalation of International Disputes,”
American Political Science Review, Vol. 88, No. 3 (September 1994), 577-592.
Jessica L. Weeks, “Autocratic Audience Costs: Regime Type and Signaling Resolve,”
International Organization, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Winter 2008), 35-64.
Jack Snyder and Erica D. Borghard, “The Cost of Empty Threats: A Penny, Not a Pound,”
American Political Science Review, 105/3 (August 2011), 437-456.
Robert Jervis, “Security Regimes,” International Organization, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Spring 1982),
357-378.
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G. John Ikenberry, “Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Persistence of American Postwar
Order,” International Security, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Winter 1998/99), 43-78.
Erik Voeten, “The Political Origins of the UN Security Council's Ability to Legitimize the Use
of Force,” International Organization, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Summer 2005), 527-557.
Brian C. Rathbun, “Before Hegemony: Generalized Trust and the Creation and Design of
International Security Organizations,” International Organization, Vol. 65, No. 2 (April 2011),
243-273.
John J. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International Institutions,” IS 19/3 (1994), 5-49.
Sebastian Rosato, “Europe’s Troubles: Power Politics and the State of the European
Project,” International Security, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Spring 2011), pp. 45-86.
Nina Tannenwald, “The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear
Non-Use,” International Organization, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Summer 1999), 433-468.
Ronald R. Krebs and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, “Twisting Tongues and Twisting Arms: The
Power of Political Rhetoric,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 13, No. 1
(March 2007), 35-66.
Jack Snyder, “Anarchy and Culture: Insights from the Anthropology of War,” International
Organization, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Winter 2002), 7-45.
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Nuclear Weapons
Scott D. Sagan, “Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons? Three Models in Search of a Bomb,”
International Security, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Winter 1996/97), 54-86.
Jacques Hymans, “Veto Players, Nuclear Energy, and Nonproliferation: Domestic Institutional
Barriers to a Japanese Bomb,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Fall 2011), 154-189.
Kenneth N. Waltz, “Nuclear Myths and Political Realities,” American Political Science Review,
Vol. 84, No. 3 (September 1990), 731-45.
Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press, “The End of MAD? The Nuclear Dimension of U.S.
Primacy,” International Security, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Spring 2006), 7-44.
Francis Gavin, “Same As It Ever Was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War,”
International Security, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Winter 2009/10), 7-37.
Matthew Kroenig, “Nuclear Superiority and the Balance of Resolve: Explaining Nuclear Crisis
Outcomes,” International Organization, Vol. 67, No. 1 (January 2013), 141-171.
Todd S. Sechser, “Crisis Bargaining and Nuclear Blackmail,” International Organization, Vol.
67, No. 1 (January 2013), 173-195.
Nina Tannenwald, “Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo,” International
Security, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Spring 2005), pp. 5-49.
John Mueller, “Think Again: Nuclear Weapons,” Foreign Policy, No. 177 (January/February
2010), pp. 38-44.
Hal Brands and David Palkki, “Saddam, Israel, and the Bomb: Nuclear Alarmism Justified?”
International Security, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Summer 2011), pp. 133-166.
Military Effectiveness
Dan Reiter and Allan C. Stam, III, “Democracy and Battlefield Military Effectiveness,” Journal
of Conflict Resolution, Vol, 42, No. 3 (June 1998), 259-277.
Alexander B. Downes, “How Smart (and Tough) Are Democracies Anyway? Reassessing
Theories of Democratic Victory in War,” International Security, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Spring 2009), 9-
51.
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Jason Lyall, “Do Democracies Make Inferior Counterinsurgents? Reassessing Democracy’s
Impact on War Outcomes and Duration,” International Organization, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Winter
2010), 167-92.
Jason Lyall and Isaiah Wilson, “Rage Against the Machines: Explaining Outcomes in
Counterinsurgency Wars,” International Organization, Vol., 63, No. 1 (Winter 2009), 67-106.
Stephen Biddle, Jeffrey A. Friedman, and Jacob N. Shapiro, “Testing the Surge: Why Did
Violence Decline in Iraq in 2007?” International Security, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Summer 2012), 7-40.
Peter D. Feaver, “The Right to Be Right: Civil-Military Relations and the Iraq Surge Decision,”
International Security, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Spring 2011), 87-125.
Richard K. Betts, Michael C. Desch, Peter D. Feaver, “Civilians, Soldiers, and the Iraq Surge
Decision,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Winter 2011/12), 179-199.
Tanisha Fazal, “State Death in the International System,” International Organization, Vol. 58,
No. 4 (Winter 2004), 311-344.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and George W. Downs, “Intervention and Democracy,” International
Organization, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Summer 2006), 627-649.
Alexander B. Downes and Jonathan Monten, “Forced to be Free: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime
Rarely Leads to Democratization,” International Security, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Spring 2013), 90-131.
Alan J. Kuperman, “The Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the
Balkans,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 1 (March 2008), 49-80.
Virginia Page Fortna, “Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace? International Intervention and the
Duration of Peace after Civil War,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 (June 2004),
269-292.
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Sub-field C: International Political Economy
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Grossman, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman. 1994. Protection for Sale. American Economic
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Mansfield, Edward D. and Marc L. Busch. 1995. The Political Economy of Nontariff Barriers: A
Cross-National Analysis. International Organization 49 (4):723-749.
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American Trade Policy: Politics, Coalitions, and International Trade. World Politics 49 (3):309-
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Trade Policy- international institutions and their interaction with domestic institutions
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liberalism in the postwar economic order.International Organization 36 (2):379-415.
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Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs. Economics and
Politics 2, no. 1 (1990): 1-23.
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Paper No. 4962. (Published in G.M. Grossman and K. Rogoff, eds., Handbook of International
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Domestic Commitments? Economics and Politics 11 (2):109-44.
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Busch, Marc and Eric Reinhardt. 2002. Testing International Trade Law: Empirical Studies of
GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement. In Daniel Kennedy (ed.) The Political Economy of
International Trade Law: Essays in Honor of Robert Hudec. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
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Cooperate More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements. International
Organization 56 (3):477–513.
Hollyer, James and B. Peter Rosendorff. 2011. PTAs and Leader Survival. Paper prepared for
presentation at the 4th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International
Organizations, Zurich, January 27-29.
Davis, Christina. 2011. The WTO. Paper prepared for presentation at the 4th Annual Conference
on the Political Economy of International Organizations, Zurich, January 27-29.
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Liberalization. International Organization 53 (4):669-698.
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Games. International Organization 42 (3):427-460.
Goldstein, Judith and Lisa Martin. 2000. Legalization, Trade Liberalization, and Domestic
Politics: A Cautionary Note. International Organization 54 (3):603-632.
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Economic Review 94 (1):98-114.
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International Capital Mobility
Neely, Christopher J. 1999. An Introduction to Capital Controls. Federal Reserve Bank of St.
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Financial System. New York: Cornell University Press.
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Management in an Age of Global Markets. World Politics 46 (1):50-82.
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Economy of Capital Controls. NBER Working Paper No. W4353. Available at SSRN:
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Perspectives 13 (4):65-84.
McNamara, Kathleen. 1999. Consensus and Constraint: Ideas and Capital Mobility in European
Monetary Integration. Journal of Common Market Studies 37 (3):455-476.
Quinn, Dennis and Carla Inclan. 1997. The Origins of Financial Openness: A Study of Current
and Capital Account Liberalization.American Journal of Political Science 41 (3):771-813.
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Diffusion in the International Political Economy.American Political Science Review 98 (1):171-
189.
Quinn, Dennis P. 2003. Capital Account Liberalization and Financial Globalization, 1890-1999:
A Synoptic View. International Journal of Finance and Economics 8 (3): 189-204.
Gartzke, Erik, Quan Li, and Charles Boehmer. 2001. Investing in the Peace: Economic
Interdependence and International Conflict.International Organization 55 (2):391-438.
Way, Christopher R. 2005. Political Insecurity and the Diffusion of Financial Market
Regulation. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 598 (1):125-
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Capital Mobility, Exchange Rates, & Macroeconomic Policy
Frieden, Jeffry. 1991. Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World
of Global Finance. International Organization 45 (4):425-451.
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Capital Mobility over the Long Run. NBER Working Paper No. 5960 (Also Reprint No. r2212).
Published: The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the
Twentieth Century. Bordo, Michael D., Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, eds., pp. 353-402
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Interwar Years. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. chap. 4.
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Policy. International Organization 49 (4):657-687.
Oatley, Thomas. 1999. How Constraining is Capital Mobility? The Partisan Hypothesis in an
Open Economy. American Journal of Political Science 43 (4):1003-1027.
Clark, William Roberts and Mark Hallerberg. 2000. Mobile Capital, Domestic Institutions, and
Electorally Induced Monetary and Fiscal Policy. American Political Science Review 94 (2):323-
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Bernhard, William, J. Lawrence Broz, and William Roberts Clark. 2002. The Political Economy
of Monetary Institutions. International Organization 56 (4):693-723.
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Discipline. American Economic Review 86 (2):159-163.
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Bretton Woods System. NBER Working Paper No. 9971. Published: Dooley, Michael P., David
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Finance and Economics, 2004, v9(4,Oct), 307-313.
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Mundell, R. A. 1963. Capital Mobility and Stabilization Policy under Fixed and Flexible
Exchange Rates. The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne
d'Economique et de Science politique 29 (4):475-485.
Bernhard, William and David Leblang. 1999. Democratic Institutions and Exchange Rate
Commitments. International Organization 53 (1):71-97.
Frankel, Jeffrey and Andrew Rose. 2002. An Estimate of the Effect of Common Currencies on
Trade and Income. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (2):437-466.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. 1999. No Single Currency Regime is Right for All Countries or at all Times.
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Scheve, Kenneth. 2004. Public Inflation Aversion and the Political Economy of Macroeconomic
Policymaking. International Organization 58 (1):1-34.
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Gold Standard, 1870-1913.Journal of International Economics 66 (2):385-406.
Leblang, David and Shanker Satyanath. 2006. Institutions, Expectations, and Currency
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Li, Quan and Adam Resnick. 2003. Reversal of Fortunes: Democratic Institutions and Foreign
Direct Investment Inflows to Developing Countries. International Organization 57 (1):175-211.
Jensen, Nathan M. 2006. Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy
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Borensztein, E., J. De Gregoriob and J-W. Leec. 1998. How does foreign direct investment affect
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Görg, Holger and David Greenaway. 2004. Much Ado about Nothing? Do Domestic Firms
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Tomz, Michael. 2007. Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three
Centuries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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IPE and Political Regime
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Balancers and Peer Competitors: America and China; “Soft Balancing”
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Daniel Drezner, “Military Primacy Doesn’t Pay (Nearly As Much As You Think,”
International Security, Summer 2013 (especially pages on “The Public Goods Benefits of
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An Obama Doctrine?
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