17.418 | Fall 2011 | Graduate, Undergraduate

Field Seminar: International Relations Theory

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SES # TOPICS
1 Introduction and Organization
2 Overview of the Field
3 Material Approaches
4 Rationalist Approaches
5 Ideational and Identity-Based Approaches
6 Cognitive and Bureaucratic Approaches
7 Domestic Institutions and Preferences
8 War and Conflict
9 Peace and International Cooperation
10 War, Peace, and Domestic Institutions
11 Nuclear Proliferation and Deterrence
12 Unipolarity
13 Rationalism Revisited