International Relations Theory in the Cyber Age

Readings

[B] = Braman, Sandra. Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power. MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262513241. [Preview with Google Books]

[C] = Choucri, Nazli. Cyberpolitics in International Relations. MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262517690. [Preview with Google Books]

[CH] = Choucri, Nazli, ed. Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. MIT Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780262531344. [Preview with Google Books]

[K] = Katzenstein, Peter J., Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner, eds. Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262611442. [Preview with Google Books]

[KE] = Keohane, Robert O., ed. Neorealism and Its Critics. Columbia University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780231063494.

[KR] = Kratochwil, Friedrich, and Edward D. Mansfield, eds. International Organization: A Reader. Longman, 1997. ISBN: 9780065012149.

[M] = Mingst, Karen A., and Jack L. Snyder, eds. Essential Readings in World Politics. 2nd ed. W. W. Norton and Company, 2004. ISBN: 9780393924060.

[MI] = ———. Essential Readings in World Politics. 4th ed. W. W. Norton and Company, 2010. ISBN: 9780393935349.

[MU] = Mueller, Milton L. Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance. MIT Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780262518574.

[N] = North, Robert Carver. War, Peace, Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis. Westview Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780813306827.

[NY] = Nye, Jr., Joseph S. The Future of Power. PublicAffairs, 2011. ISBN: 9781610390699. [Preview with Google Books]

Note: The recommended readings are required for graduate students.

SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
Part I: Structure And Process In International Relations
1	The Classics—Concepts and Contexts	Required [N] Chapter 1: “The Contemporary World and Its Problems.” [NY] Chapter 1: “What Is Power in Global Affairs?” Jackson, Robert J. “Competing Theories, Methods, and Intellectual Debates About Global Politics.” Chapter 3 in Global Politics in the 21st Century. Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780521756532. Williams, Phil, Donald M. Goldstein, et al., eds. “The Structure of the International System.” Chapter 2 in Classic Readings in International Relations. 2nd ed. Wadsworth Publishing, 1998, pp. 71–92. ISBN: 9780155055438. ———. “The Actors in International Politics.” Chapter 3 in Classic Readings in International Relations. 2nd ed. Wadsworth Publishing, 1998, pp. 105–18. ISBN: 9780155055438. Recommended [M] Walt, Stephen M. “International Relations: One World, Many Theories.” [M] Gaddis, John Lewis. “History, Theory, and Common Ground.” [MI] Snyder, Jack. “One World, Rival Theories.”
2	International Relations—Construction of Cyberspace	Required [C] Chapter 1: “Introduction.” [C] Chapter 2: “Theory Matters in International Relations.” [N] Chapter 2: “The Individual in Primal Environments.” [N] Chapter 3: “The Growth and Development of States.” [NY] Chapter 2: “Military Power.” [NY] Chapter 3: “Economic Power.” Abbott, Kenneth W., and Duncan Snidal. “Hard and Soft Law in International Governance.” In Legalization and World Politics. Edited by Judith L. Goldstein, Miles Kahler, et al. MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262571517. [Preview with Google Books] Jackson, Robert, and Georg Sørensen. “Why Study IR?” Chapter 1 in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches. 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199694747. Recommended [K] Kahler, Miles. “Rationality in International Relations.” Dodge, Martin, and Rob Kitchin. “Introducing Cyberspace.” Chapter 1 in Mapping Cyberspace. Routledge, 2000, pp. 7–31. ISBN: 9780415198844. ———. “Geographies of Cyberspace.” Chapter 3 in Mapping Cyberspace. Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415198844.
3	Cyberspace and the State System—New Challenges	Required [B] Chapter 1: “An Introduction to Information Policy.” [B] Chapter 2: “Forms and Phases of Power: The Bias of the Informational State.” [C] Chapter 3: “Cyberspace: New Domain of International Relations.” [C] Chapter 5: “The State System: National Profiles and Cyber Propensities.” [N] Chapter 4: “State Decision-making.” [NY] Chapter 4: “Soft Power.” [NY] Chapter 5: “Diffusion and Cyberpower.” Jackson, Robert, and Georg Sørensen. “IR as an Academic Subject?” Chapter 2 in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches. 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199694747. Recommended Clark, David D. “An Insider’s Guide to the Internet - Version 2.0, July 25, 2004.” (PDF) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kratochwil, Friedrich. “Of Systems, Boundaries, and Territoriality: An Inquiry into the Formation of the State.” World Politics 39, no. 1 (1986): 27–52.
4	Globalization and Emergent Dynamics	Required [C] Chapter 4: “Cyber Content: Leveraging Knowledge and Networking.” [CH] Skolnikoff, Eugene B. Chapter 7: “Science and Technology: The Sources of Change.” [N] Chapter 8: “The Structure of the Global System.” [NY] Chapter 6: “Power Transition: The Question of American Decline.” [NY] Chapter 7: “Smart Power.” Cerny, Philip G. “Globalization and the Changing Logic of Collective Action.” International Organization 49, no. 4 (1995): 595–625. Gourevitch, Peter. “The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of Domestic Politics.” International Organization 32, no. 4 (1978): 881–912. Recommended [KR] Kratochwil, Friedrich. “Regimes and Organizations.” [KR] Yarbrough, Beth V., and Robert M. Yarbrough. “International Institutions and the New Economics of Organization.” [KR] Conybeare, John A. C. “International Organization and the Theory of Property Rights.” [KR] Mansfield, Edward D. “The Concentration of Capabilities and International Trade.” Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. “Introduction: An Interview of the Knowledge Commons.” Chapter 1 in Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. MIT Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780262516037. ———. “A Framework for Analyzing the Knowledge Commons.” Chapter 3 in Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. MIT Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780262516037.
Part II: Theories of International Relations
5	Power and Security—Realism and Neo-Realism	Required [K] Jervis, Robert. “Realism in the Study of World Politics.” [KE] Keohane, Robert O. Chapter 7: “Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond.” [MI] Morgenthau, Hans J. “A Realist Theory of International Politics.” [MI] Mearsheimer, John J. “Anarchy and the Struggle for Power.” [MI] Snyder, Jack. “One World, Rival Theories.” Grieco, Joseph M. “Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism.” International Organization 42, no. 3 (1988): 485–507. Recommended [KE] Ashley, Richard K. Chapter 9: “The Poverty of Neorealism.”
6	Governance and Order—Institutionalism and Neo-Institutionalism	Required [K] Martin, Lisa L., and Beth A. Simmons. “Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions.” Choucri, Nazli, Stuart Madnick, et al. “Institutions for Cyber Security: International Responses and Global Imperatives.” Informational Technology for Development 20, no. 2 (2014): 96–121. Keohane, Robert O. “International Institutions: Two Approaches.” International Studies Quarterly 32, no. 4 (1988): 379–96. Shepsle, Kenneth A. “Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 1, no. 2 (1989): 131–47. Recommended [KR] Mansfield, Edward D. “The Role of Regimes.” [KR] Krasner, Stephen D. “Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables.” [KR] Young, Oran R. “The Politics of International Regime Formation: Managing Natural Resources and the Environment.” [KR] Haas, Peter M. “Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control.”
7	Perceptions and Expression—Constructivism	Required [K] Ruggie, John Gerard. “What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge.” [KE] Cox, Robert W. Chapter 8: “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory.” [MI] Wendt, Alexander. “Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics.” [N] Chapter 3: “The Growth and Development of States.” Recommended [KR] Snidal, Duncan. “Coordination Versus Prisoners’ Dilemma: Implications for International Cooperation and Regimes.” [KR] Wendt, Alexander. “Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics.” Ostrom, Elinor. “A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997.” American Political Science Review 92, no. 1 (1988): 1–22.
8	Growth and Expansion—Lateral Pressure	Required [C] Chapter 8: “The Global System: Pressures of Growth and Expansion.” [CH] Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. Chapter 3: “Growth, Development, and Environmental Sustainability: Profile and Paradox.” [N] Chapter 6: “The International Configuration.” Choucri, Nazli, and Charlotte Mathieu. “Basic versus Complex Logic in International Relations.” Chapter 19 in Mapping Sustainability: Knowledge e-Networking and the Value Chain. Edited by Nazli Choucri, Dinsha Mistree, et al. Springer, 2007. ISBN: 9789400799851. Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. “Lateral Pressure in International Relations: Concept and Theory.” Chapter 12 in Handbook of War Studies. Edited by Manus I. Midlarsky. Routledge, 2011, pp. 289–304, and 308–26. ISBN: 9780415611008. Recommended Haas, Peter M. “The Fourth Image Reversed: Epistemic Communities and Knowledge Based Bargaining as a Response to Uncertainty.” Prepared for delivery at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 30-September 3, 1989. Waltz, Kenneth N. “Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power.” Chapter 6 in Theory of International Politics. Waveland Press Incorporated, 2010. ISBN: 9781577666707.
9	Cyberpolitics in International Relations	Required [B] Chapter 3: “Bounding the Domain: Information Policy for the Twenty-first Century.” [C] Chapter 6: “The International System: Cyber Conflicts and Threats to Security.” [C] Chapter 7: “The International System: Cyberpolitics of Cooperation and Collaboration.” [NY] Chapter 6: “Power Transition: The Question of American Decline.” Recommended [CH] Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. Chapter 15: “Global Accord: Imperatives for the Twenty-First Century.”
Part III: Strategic Issues
10	International Conflict and War	Required [MU] Chapter 8: “Security Governance on the Internet.” [N] Chapter 7: “Deterrence, Crisis, and War.” Choucri, Nazli, Robert C. North, et al. “Lateral Pressure and Japan.” Part I in The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After. Routledge, 1992. ISBN: 9780415075893. ———. “Postwar Japan: Reconstruction, Growth, Expansion.” Part IV in The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After. Routledge, 1992. ISBN: 9780415075893. Levy, Jack S. “The Causes of War: A Review of Theories and Evidence.” Chapter 4 in Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War, Volume I. Edited by Philip E. Tetlock, Jo L. Husbands, et al. University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780195057669. Pollins, Brian M., and Randall L. Schweller. “Linking the Levels: The Long Wave and Shifts in U. S. Foreign Policy, 1790–1993.” American Journal of Political Science 43, no. 2 (1999): 431–64. Recommended [M] Krasner, Stephen D. “Sovereignty.”
11	International Cooperation and Global Agenda	Required [C] Chapter 10: “Conclusion: Lateral Realignment and the Future of Cyberpolitics.” [K] March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. “The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders.” [MU] Chapter 1: “A Battle for the Soul of the Internet.” [MU] Chapter 10: “Critical Internet Resources.” [N] Chapter 9: “Global Competition and Violence.” Waltz, Kenneth N. “The Management of International Affairs.” Chapter 9 in Theory of International Politics. Waveland Press Incorporated, 2010. ISBN: 9781577666707. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended North, Douglass C. “Institutions and a Transaction-Cost Theory of Exchange.” Chapter 7 in Perspectives on Positive Political Economy. Edited by James E. Alt and Kenneth A. Shepsle. Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521398510. [Preview with Google Books]
12	Contending Authority—Principles and Practice	Required Caral, Jose M. A. Emmanuel A. “Lessons from ICANN: Is Self-Regulation of the Internet Fundamentally Flawed?” International Journal of Law and Information Technology 12, no. 1 (2004): 1–31. Cowey, Peter, and Milton Mueller. “Delegation, Networks, and Internet Governance.” Chapter 9 in Networked Politics: Agency, Power and Governance. Edited by Miles Kahler. Cornell University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780801474767. Hall, Rodney Bruce, and Thomas J. Biersteker, eds. “The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance.” Chapter 1 in The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance. Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780521523370. Mueller, Milton, and Mawaki Chango. “Disrupting Global Governance: The Internet Whois Service, ICANN, and Privacy.” Journal of Information Technology and Politics 5, no. 3 (2008): 303–25. Recommended [KR] Dessler, David. “What’s At Stake in the Agent-Structure Debate?” Ostrom, Elinor. “New Horizons in Institutional Analysis.” American Political Science Review 89, no. 1 (1995): 174–8.
13	Alternative Futures—21st Century Challenges	Required [CH] Haas, Peter M., and Jan Sundgren. Chapter 12: “Evolving International Environmental Law: Changing Practices of National Sovereignty.” [CH] Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. Chapter 15: “Global Accord: Imperatives for the 21st Century.” Recommended Modelski, George. “Evolutionary Paradigm for Global Politics.” International Studies Quarterly 40, no. 3 (1996): 321–42.