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University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Political Science
Fall 2009
M 9- 11:50, 3814 Ellison
Prof. Robert Rauchhaus
3707 Ellison Hall
(805) 893-7880
[email protected]

PS 225: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY
SYLLABUS





Description: This seminar provides M.A. and Ph.D. students with an overview of key concepts and
approaches in the subfield of international relations theory. The first two sessions introduce the
subject matter and provide an overview of meta debates concerning philosophy of science and
methodology. The rest of the course focuses on the dominant approaches to international relations,
including realism (classical, neo-, and neo-classical), liberalism (classical, neo-, and neo-liberal
institutionalism), constructivism, the English school, decision-making, game theory, neo-Marxism, and
post-modernism.

Requirements: Seminar participation (20%) and a final exam (80%). The participation grade is
determined by attendance, participation in class discussion, preparing outlines of reading
assignments, and making short class presentations. The three hour final is an in-class exam that
consists of two questions drawn from previous IR comprehensive exams.
Required Readings: The following books are available for purchase at the UCSB bookstore. The
reader is available at Alternative Copy, which is located 6556 Pardall Road in Isla Vista.

1. PS 225 Course Reader (2 Volumes)
2. Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State, and War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1954).
3. Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw Hill, 1979).
4. Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1976).
5. Robert Koehane, Neorealism and Its Critics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).
6. Robert Powell, In The Shadow of Power, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).


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Suggested Readings:

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses, translated in a single volume by David
Wootton (Indianapolis, MN: Hacket Publishing, 1995).
Christopher Lasch, Plain Style (UPenn Press, 2002), or William Strunk and E.B. White, The
Elements of Style (Longman Publishers, 2000).

Course Website: www.rauchhaus.com



SEMINAR CONTRACT

What I expect from you:

1) Academic Honesty.

2) Do not come to seminar late.

3) Attend each session.

4) Attend at lease two of my office hours.

5) Keep up with the readings.

6) Complete all assignments on time.

7) Finish the course (i.e., do not ask for an incomplete).


What To Expect From Me:

1) The seminar will be well prepared and organized.

2) I will see that your written work is graded promptly and accurately.

3) I will remain accessible throughout the quarter and hold office hours regularly.

4) While no one can claim to be completely objective or impartial about politics, I will always do
my best to be fair.

5) During the fourth week of class I will ask for anonymous evaluations to make adjustments
that improve the seminar.


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SEMINAR SCHEDULE AND READING ASSIGNMENTS

SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION, ADMIN AND LOGISTICS

SESSION 2: THEORY, ANALYTIC FRAMEWORKS, LEVELS-OF-ANALYSIS, AND
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Plato, Chapter VII: On Shadows and Realities in Education, The Republic (360B.C.), trans.
by Allan Bloom (New York: Basic Books, 1991).
Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press) Chapter 1.
Milton Friedman, The Methodology of Positive Economics, in Essays in Positive Economics
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), pp. 3-43.
Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York, NY: Addison-Wesley, 1979),
Chapter 1. (Book)
Barbara Geddes, Paradigms and Sand Castles (Michigan University Press, 2003), Chapter on
Big Questions, Little Answers, How the Questions You. Choose Affect the
Answers You Get, in Geddes
Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State, and War (New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2001),
Chapter 1. (Book)
Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics, Chapter 1. (Book)
Jack Snyder, One World, Rival Theories, Foreign Policy (November/December 2004).
Robert Jervis, Theories of War in an Era of Leading-Power Peace Presidential Address,
American Political Science Review (March 2002).

Recommended Readings On Causation, Theory Building, and Methodology:

Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed., Making Sense of International Relations Theory (Boulder, CO: Lynne
Reiner Publishers, 2006)
Peter Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, Stephen D. Krasner, International Organization and
the Study of World Politics, International Organization, vol. 52, no. 4 (Autumn 1998),
also available as Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics, ed. by
Katzenstein, Keohane, and Krasner (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).
John Lewis Gaddis, History, Science, and the Study of International Relations, in Ngaire
Woods, ed., Explaining International Relations since 1945 (Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 1996), chap. 2.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Benefits of a Social-Scientific Approach to Studying
International Affairs, in Woods, ed., Explaining International Relations since 1945, chap.
3.
Gary King, Sydney Verba, Robert Keohane, Designing Social Inquiry, pp. 1-49, 100-14, 124-49.
Henry Brady and David Collier, Editors, Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared
Standards (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004)
Jack S. Levy, Explaining Events and Developing Theories: History, Political Science, and
the Analysis of International Relations, in Colin and Miriam Elman, eds, Bridges and
Boundaries, pp. 39-83.
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Barbara Geddes, How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias
in Comparative Politics, in James Stimson, ed., Political Analysis, vol. 2, 1990, pp.
131-150.
David Collier and James Mahoney, Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative
Research, World Politics, vol. 49, October 1996, pp. 56-91.
James Fearon, Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science, World Politics,
vol. 43, January 1991, pp. 169-95.
Michael W. Doyle, Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism (New York:
Norton, 1997).


Recommended Readings That Provide an Overview of Theories of War:

Jack S. Levy, The Causes of War: A Review of Theories and Evidence, in Philip Tetlock,
et. al., (eds.), Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War.
Richard K. Betts, Must War Find a Way? A Review Essay, International Security (IS) 24, 2
(Fall 1999): 166-98.
Jack S. Levy, The Causes of War and the Conditions of Peace. In Polsby, Nelson, ed.,
Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 1, 1998, pp. 139-66.
Erik Gartzke, War Is in the Error Term, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 53 (Summer
1999).
Charles Glaser, The Political Consequences of Military Strategy, World Politics, vol. 44, no.
4 (July 1992).
Stephen Van Evera, The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War,
International Security, vol. 9, no. 1 (Summer 1984).
Jeffrey W. Legro, Military Culture and Inadvertent Escalation in World War II, International
Security, vol. 18 (1994), pp. 108-142.
Ted Hopf, Polarity, the Offense-Defense Balance, and War, American Political Science Review,
vol. 85, no. 2 (1991): 475-493.
Geoffrey Blainey, The Causes of War, 3
rd
ed. (New York: The Free Press, 1988).
Barry Posen, Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain and Germany Between the World Wars
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984).
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars.
Jack S. Levy, Theories of General War, World Politics, vol. 37, April 1985, pp. 344-74.
Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed., Making Sense of International Relations Theory (Boulder, CO: Lynne
Reiner Publishers, 2006)



SESSION 3: CLASSICAL REALISM, NEO-REALISM, AND NEO-CLASSICAL REALISM

Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue, & and other excerpts (431 BCE) in Robert B Strassler
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (NY: Free
Press, 1996), pp 350-357, Books I and V.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses, translated in a single volume by David
Wootton (Indianapolis, MN: Hacket Publishing, 1995), read Prince Chapters 5, 15, 17,
18, 19, and Discourses Chapter 2. (download from www.rauchhaus.com)
Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan (1660), Chapters XIII-XV.
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Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 6 (1787).
E. H. Carr, The Twenty Year Crisis 1919-1939 (New York, NY: MacMillian, 1939), chapters 2
and 5.
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations (New York: McGraw Hill, 1948), Ch 3 & 4.
Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York, NY: Addison-Wesley, 1979),
Chapters TBA.
Kenneth Waltz, Reflections on Theory of International Politics: Response to My Critics, in
Neo-realism and its Critics. (Book)
John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, Chapter 2.
Gideon Rose, Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy, World Politics, vol. 51,
October 1998, pp. 144-72.

Suggested Readings on Realism and the Security Dilemma:

Robert Gilpin, The Richness of the Tradition of Political Realism, International Organization
(Spring 1984).
Robert Jervis. Realism, Game Theory and Cooperation, World Politics (April 1988).
Robert Jervis. Realism in the Study of World Politics, International Organization, 52,
(Autumn, 1998).
Robert Jervis, Cooperation under the Security Dilemma, World Politics, vol. 30, no. 2
(January 1978): 167-214.
Charles L. Glaser, The Security Dilemma Revisited, World Politics, vol. 50, no. 1 (October
1997): 171-201.
Mancur Olson, Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1971).
Joseph Grieco, Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest
Liberal Institutionalism, International Organization, vol. 42, no. 3 (Summer 1988): 485-
507.
Robert Axelrod, Evolution of Cooperation (New York: Basic Books, 1984).
Robert Jervis, Was the Cold War a Security Dilemma?, Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 3
(Winter 2001).
Helen Milner, The Assumption of Anarchy in International Relations Theory: A Critique,
Review of International Studies, vol. 17 (January 1991).
Kenneth Waltz, Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory, Journal of International Affairs, vol.
44, Spring 1990, pp. 21-37
William Wohlforth, Realism and the End of the Cold War, International Security, vol. 19,
Winter 1994/95, pp. 91-129.
Randall Schweller and William Wohlforth, Power Test: Evaluating Realism in Response to
the End of the Cold War, Security Studies, vol. 9, Spring 2000, pp. 60-107.
Jeffrey Legro and Andrew Moravcsik, Is Anybody Still a Realist? International Security, vol.
24, Fall 1999, pp. 5-55 and the correspondence in ibid, vol. 25, Summer 2000, pp.
165-93.
Michael Mastanduno, David Lake, and John Ikenberry, Toward a Realist Theory of State
Action, International Studies Quarterly, vol. 33, December 1989, pp. 457-74.
Randall Schweller, Neorealism's Status Quo Bias: What Security Dilemma? Security Studies,
vol. 5, Spring 1996, pp. 90-121.
Charles Glaser, Realists as Optimists: Cooperation as Self-Help, Security Studies, vol. 5,
Spring 1996, pp. 122-66.
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Jeffrey Taliaferro, Security Seeking under Anarchy: Defensive Realism Revisited,
International Security, vol. 25, Winter 2000/01, pp. 128-61.

SESSION 4: LIBERALISM, NEO-LIBERALISM, AND NEO-LIBERAL INSTITUTIONALISM

Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795).
Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition
(Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1977), Chapter 2.
Zeev Maoz and Bruce Russet, Normative and Structural Causes of the Democratic Peace,
American Political Science Review (September 1993).
Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), Chapters TBA.
Helen Milner, International Theories of Cooperation Among Nations: Strengths and
Weaknesses World Politics Vol. 44, No. 3 (April 1992): 466-496.
Andrew Moravcsik, A Liberal Theory of International Politics, International Organization,
vol. 51, no. 4 (Autumn 1997): 513-53.
John Mearsheimer, The False Promise of International Institutions, International Security,
vol. 19, Winter 1995/96, pp. 5-49.

Recommended Readings on trade and international institutions:

Michael W. Doyle, Liberalism and World Politics, APSR, (December 1986): 1151-1169.
Dale Copeland, Economic Interdependence and War, International Security, 20, 1996.
Richard Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World
(New York, NY: Basic Books, 1966.
Stephen D. Krasner (ed.), International Regimes (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1983),
chapters by Krasner (intro & conclusion), Stein, and Keohane
Kenneth Oye, ed., Cooperation under Anarchy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1986), introduction and conclusion.
Lisa Martin and Beth Simons, Theories and Empirical Studies of International
Institutions, International Organization, vol. 52, Autumn 1998, pp. 729-57
Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, Power and Interdependence.
Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore. The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of
International Organizations. IO, 53, 4 (1999): 699-732.
Robert Gilpin, Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1987).
G. John Ikenberry, Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Persistence of American
Postwar Order, International Security 23, 3 (Winter 1998/99): 43-78.
Randall Schweller, The Problem of International Order Revisited, IS 26, 1 (Summer 2001):
161-86.

Recommended Readings on the Democratic Peace Thesis

Eric Gartzke, The Capitalist Peace, American Journal of Political Science 51 (January 2007).
John M. Owen, How Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace, International Security,
vol. 19, no. 2 (Fall 1994): 50-86.
Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder Democratization and the Danger of War IS 20, 1
(Summer 1995): 5-38.
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, James Morrow, Randolph Siverson, and Alastair Smith, An
Institutional Explanation of the Democratic Peace, American Political Science Review,
vol. 93 (December 1999).
James Fearon, Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes,
American Political Science Review, vol. 88 (September 1994).
Neta Crawford, A Security Regime among Democracies: Cooperation among Iroquois
Nations IO, 48, 3 (Summer 1994): 345-85.
John M. Owen, Liberal Peace, Liberal War, chapters 1,2,6,7.
James Lee Ray, Does Democracy Cause Peace?, Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 1
(1998).
Bruce Russett, Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1993).
Thomas Risse-Kappen, Democratic Peace Warlike Democracies? A Social Constructivist
Interpretation of the Liberal Argument, European Journal of International Relations, vo.
1, no. 4 (1995): 491-517.
Spencer R. Weart, Never at War, Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another (New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 1998).
Michael E. Brown, Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller, eds., Debating the Democratic
Peace (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995). This volume includes the works of Doyle,
Russett, Owen, Oren, Mansfield and Snyder, Layne, and others.
Kenneth Waltz, Kant, Liberalism, and War, American Political Science Review, vol. 56 (June
1992), pp. 331-340.
Christopher Layne, Kant or Cant: The Myth of the Democratic Peace, International Security,
vol. 19, no. 2 (Fall 1994), pp. 5-49.
Randall Schweller, Domestic Structure and Preventive War: Are Democracies More
Pacific? World Politics, vol. 44, no. 2 (January 1992), pp. 235-269.
David Lake, Powerful Pacifists: Democratic States and War, American Political Science Review,
vol. 86, no. 1 (March 1992), pp. 24-37.
Dan Reiter and Allan Stam, Democracy, War Initiation, and Victory, American Political
Science Review, vol. 92 (December 1999).
Erik Gartzke, Preferences and the Democratic Peace, International Studies Quarterly, vol. 44,
March 2000, pp. 191-212.
Randall Schweller, 2000. Democracy and the Post-Cold War Era. In The New World Order,
eds. Birthe Hansen and Bertel Heurlin. New York: St. Martin's Press. Pp. 46-80.
Kenneth Schultz, 1998. Domestic Opposition and Signaling in International Crises.
American Political Science Review, vol.92 no.4 (December 1998), pp. 829-844.
Kenneth Schultz, 1999. Do Democratic Institutions Constrain or Inform? Contrasting Two
Institutional Perspectives on Democracy and War. International Organization, vol.53
no.2 (Spring 1999), pp. 233-266.
Kurt Taylor Gaubatz, 1996. Democratic States and Commitment in International
Relations. International Organization, vol.50 no.1 (Winter 1996), pp. 109-139.
William R. Thompson, 1996. Democracy and Peace: Putting the Cart Before the Horse?
International Organization, vol.50 no.1 (Winter 1996), pp. 141-174.
Joanne Gowa, Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1999). All, esp. chs. 1, 2, 4-6.
Michael Doyle, Ways of War and Peace (New York: Norton, 1997), Chs. 6-8.
James Lee Ray, Democracy and International Conflict.
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Randall Schweller, Domestic Structure and Preventive War, World Politics, vol.44 (Jan.
1992), pp. 235-69.


SESSION 5: IDEALISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM

E. H. Carr, The Twenty Year Crisis 1919-1939 (New York, NY: MacMillian, 1939), Chapter 3.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, The State of War (c1755), reprinted from Chris Brown, Terry Nardin
and Nicholas Rengger, International Relations in Political Thought (Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Reread Kants Perpetual Peace
Norman Angell, The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage
(New York, NY: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1910), Ch. 3 of Part I.
Woodrow Wilson, 14 Points (January 8, 1918).
The Kellogg-Briand Pact (August 27, 1928).
Nicholas Onuf, Constructivism: A Users Manual, in Vendulka Kublkov et al.,
International Relations in a Constructed World, pp. 58-78. Armonk NY: M. E.
Alexander Wendt, Anarchy is What States Make of It, International Organization (Spring
1992).
John Mueller, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (New York, NY: Basic
Books, 1989), Chapter 1, pp. 3-13.
Judith Goldstein and Robert Keohane, eds., Ideas and Foreign Policy, (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press) Chapter 1.

Recommended Readings:

Ted Hopf. The Promise of Constructivism in IR Theory. International Security, 23, Summer
1998, pp. 171-200
Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders.
Michael Desch, Culture Clash: Assessing the Importance of Ideas in Security Studies,
International Security, 23, 1, Summer 1998, 141-170.
John Ruggie, What Makes the World Hang Together, IO 52, 4 (Fall 1998): 855-85.
Alexander Wendt, The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory,
International Organization, vol. 41, Summer 1987, pp. 35-73.
Forum on Wendt in Review of International Studies, vol. 26 (January 2000), comments by
Keohane, Krasner, Doty, Alker, Smith, and Wendt.
P.J. Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security, New York: Columbia University Press
chp. 2.
Dale Copeland, The Constructivist Challenge to Structural Realism: A Review Essay,
International Security, vol. 25, Fall 2000, pp. 187-212.
Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerard Ruggie. 1986. International Organization: A State of
the Art on an Art of the State. International Organization, vol.40, no.4 (Autumn 1986),
pp. 753-775.
Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1977).
Martha Finnemore, National Interests in International Society (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1996).
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Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press,
1999).
David Dessler, What's at Stake in the Agent-Structure Debate? International Organization,
vol. 43, no. 3 (Summer 1989): 441-473.
John Meyer, John Boli and George Thomas, World Society and the Nation-State, American
Journal of Sociology 103 (1998), pp. 144-181.
J. Meyer, Political Structure and the World Economy, Contemporary Sociology, (1982): 263-66.
J. Meyer, Review Essay: Kings and People, American Journal of Sociology 86,4 (January 1981):
895-99.
Elizabeth Kier, Imagining War: French and British Military Doctrine Between the Wars (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1997)
Friedrich Kratochwil, Constructing a New Orthodoxy? Wendt's 'Social Theory of
International Politics' and the Constructivist Challenge, Millennium, vol. 29, No. 1,
2000, pp. 73-101.
Ronen Palan, A World of Theory Making: An Evaluation of the Constructivist Critique in
International Relations, Review of International Studies, vol. 26, October 2000, pp. 575-
98.
Thomas Risse, 2000. Let's Argue: Communicative Action in World Politics. International
Organization, vol.54, no.1 (Winter 2000), pp. 1-39.
Jeffrey Checkel, 1998. The Constructivist Turn in International Relations Theory. World
Politics, vol.50, no.2 (January 1998); pp. 324-348.
Emanuel Adler, 1997. Seizing the Middle Ground: Constructivism in World Politics.
European Journal of International Relations (London), vol.3, no.3 (September 1997), pp.
319-363.


SESSION 6: CRITICAL THEORY (MARXISM, FEMINISM, AND POST-MODERNISM)

V.I. Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), Chapter 10.
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System:
Concepts for Comparative Analysis, Comparative Studies in Society & History
(September l974).
Helen Caldecott, Missile Envy (New York, NY: William Morrow & Co., 1984), Etiology
Chapter.
Ann Tickner, You Just Don't Understand: Troubled Engagements between Feminists and
IR Theorists International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 611-632
Alan Sokal, A Plea for Reason, Evidence and Logic, New Politics (Winter 1997).
Chip Morningstar, How To Deconstruct Almost Anything: My Postmodern Adventure.
Text Published at authors website, www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html (June
1993). (R)
Albert Doja, The Kind of Writing: Anthropology and the Rhetorical Reproduction of
Postmodernism, The Critique of Anthropology (2006). (R)
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1946)

Suggested:

V.I. Lening, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Entire book).
Immanuel Wallerstein, The World Capitalist System, Volume I (l974).
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Daniel Pipes, Communism: A Brief History.
Nicholar Onuf, Constructivism: A Users Manual, in Vendulka Kublkov et al.,
International Relations in a Constructed World, pp. 58-78. Armonk NY: M. E.


SESSION 7: DECISION-MAKING, POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND BUREAUCRATIC
POLITICS

Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1976), chapters 4, 6, and 8 (Book)
James Goldgeier and Philip Tetlock, Psychology and International Relations Theory,
Annual Review of Political Science, 2001, vol. 4, pp. 67-92.
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under
Risk, Econometrica l. 47, No. 2. (Mar., 1979), pp. 263-292
Jack S. Levy, International Relations: Political Psychology and Foreign Policy, (Chapter 8)
in Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, Sears, Huddy, and Jervis (eds.), Oxford Univ.
Press (2003).
Rose McDermott, The Feelings of Rationality: the Meaning of Neuroscientific Advances
for Political Science, Perspectives on Politics (2004), 2:4:691-706
Jonathan Mercer, Anarchy and Identity, International Organization (Spring 1995).
Graham Allison, Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis, American Political Science
Review (September 1969).

Recommended:

Kathleen McGraw, Contributions of Political Psychology, Political Psychology, 2000.
Robert Jervis, Political Psychology - Some Challenges and Opportunities Political Psychology,
vol. 10, no. 3 (1989).
Philip Tetlock, Social Psychology and World Politics, chap. 35 in D. GIlbert, S. Fiske & G.
Lindzey, eds., Handbook of Social Psychology (New York: McGraw Hill, 1998).
Philip E. Tetlock and Charles McGuire, Jr, Cognitive Perspectives on Foreign Policy, in
G. John Ikenberry (ed.), American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays (New York:
Longman, 1999).
John R. Alford and John R. Hibbing, The Origin of Politics: An Evolutionary Theory of
Political Behavior, Perspective on Politics (December 2004).
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, Choices, Values and Frames, American Psychologist,
April 1984.
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and
Biases, in D. Kahneman, P. Slovic and A. Tversky, eds., Judgement under Uncertainty:
Heuristics and Biases, chp.1.
Barry ONeill, Risk Aversion in International Relations Theory, International Studies
Quarterly , vol. 45 (December 2001).
Chaim D. Kaufmann, Out of the Lab and into the Archives: A Method for Testing
Psychological Explanations of Political Decision Making, International Studies
Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4 (December 1994): 557-586.
Barbara Farnham, Political Cognition and Decision-Making, Political Psychology, vol. 11,
March 1990, pp. 83-112.
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Jack S. Levy, Learning and Foreign Policy: Sweeping a Conceptual Minefield, International
Organization, vol. 48, Spring 1994, pp. 279-312.
Philip Tetlock, Faye Crosby, and Travis Crosby, Political Psychobiography, Micropolitics,
vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 191-213.
Rose McDermott, The Psychological Ideas of Amos Tversky and Their Relevance for
Political Science, Journal of Theoretical Politics, vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 5-33.
Shelley Taylor and Jonathon Brown, Illusion and Well-Being: A Social Psychological
Perspective on Mental Health, Psychological Bulletin, vol. 103, 1988, pp. 193-210.
Irving L. Janis, 1983. Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes, 2
nd
revised
and enlarged edition of Victims of Groupthink (1972). Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company. Intro, chs. 1, 10, 11.
John Steinbruner, The Cybernetic Theory of Decision: New Dimensions of Political Analysis
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974) Chs. 1-5.
Glenn Snyder and Paul Diesing, Conflict Among Nations: Bargaining, Decision Making, and System
Structure in International Crises (1977), Chs. 4-6.
Ole Holsti, 1989. Crisis Decision Making. In Behavior, Society and Nuclear War, edited by
Tetlock et al. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 8-84.
Jack S. Levy, 1996. Loss Aversion, Framing, and Bargaining: The Implications of Prospect
Theory for International Conflict. International Political Science Review, vol.17 no.2
(April 1996), pp. 179-195.
Alexander George, 1969. The 'Operational Code': A Neglected Approach to the Study of
Political Leaders and Decision-Making. International Studies Quarterly, vol.13 no.2
(June 1969), pp. 190-222.
Alex Mintz, and Nehemia Geva, eds., Decision-making on War and Peace.
Amos Tversky, and Richard Thaler. Preference Reversals. Journal of Economic Perspectives
(1990), vol. 4, pp. 201-11.
Johnathan Mercer, Reputation and International Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996),
Chs. 1-2.
Robert Jervis, Signaling and Perception: Drawing Inferences and Projecting Images. In
Political Psychology, edited by Kristen Monroe.
Richard Ned Lebow, Between Peace and War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).


SESSION 8: FORMAL RATIONAL CHOICE (EXPECTED UTILITY THEORY AND GAME
THEORY)

James Fearon, Rationalist Explanations for War, International Organization, vol. 49 (Summer
1995).
Robert Powell, In The Shadow of Power: States and Strategies in International Politics (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1999), Chapters 1, 2, & 3. (Book)
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, James Morrow, Randolph Siverson, and Alastair Smith, The Logic
of Political Survival (MIT Press, 2003), Chapter 1.
Stephen Walt, 1999. Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies.
International Security, vol.23, no.4 (Spring 1999), pp. 5-48.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Contribution of Expected Utility Theory to the Study of
International Conflict, in Manus Midlarsky, ed., Handbook of War Studies (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1993).

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Recommended:

Harrison Wagner, Bargaining and War, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 44, July 2000,
pp. 469-84.
Robert Powell, 1999. The Modeling Enterprise and Security Studies. International Security,
vol.24, no.2 (Fall 1999), pp. 97-106.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Principles of International Politics, most recent edition.
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Political Choice American Political Science Review 82,3 (1988): 719-36.
James Morrow, Game Theory for Political Scientists (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press,
1994), chp.10.
James Fearon, Signaling versus the Balance of Power and Interests, Journal of Conflict
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Branislav Slantchev, How Initiators End Their Wars: The Duration of Warfare and the
Terms of Peace, American Journal of Political Science (October 2004).
George Downs and David Rocke, Optimal Imperfection? Domestic Uncertainty and Institutions in
International Relations.
Robert Powell (1991), Absolute and Relative Gains in International Relations Theory,
American Political Science Review 85:4 (December).
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of War. International Studies Quarterly, vol.44, no.3 (September 2000), pp. 451-480.
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Notions. International Security, vol.24 no.2 (Fall 1999): 56-73.
Lisa L. Martin. 1999. The Contributions of Rational Choice: A Defense of Pluralism.
International Security, vol.24, no.2 (Fall 1999), pp. 74-83.
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Security, vol.24, no.2 (Fall 1999),pp. 84-96.
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Immediate Deterrence. AJPS
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pp. 107-114.
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1999), pp. 115-130.
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SESSION 9: MISCELLANEOUS: THE ENGLISH SCHOOL, TWO-LEVEL GAMES,
GEOPOLITICS AND DEMOGRAPHY

Hugo Grotius, The Law of War and Peace (1625), in Chris Brown, Terry Nardin and Nicholas
Rengger, International Relations in Political Thought (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2002).
Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (New York, NY: Columbia
University Press, 1977), Chapter 2.
Barry Buzan, Charles Jones, and Richard Little The Logic of Anarchy, (New York, NY:
Columbia University Press, 1993).
Robert D. Putnam, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games,
International Organization (Summer, 1988).
Peter Gourevitch, The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of Domestic
Politics, International Organization, vol. 32, no. 4 (Autumn 1978).
H.J. McKinder, The Geographical Pivot of History, The Geographical Journal (1904).
Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea Den Boer, A Surplus of Men, a Deficit of Peace: Security
and Sex Ratios in Asia's Largest States, International Security (Spring 2002), pp. 5-38.

Suggested:

Peter B. Evans, Harold K. Jacobson, and Robert D. Putnam, Double-Edged Diplomacy
(University of California Press, 1993).
Larry Diamond, Guns, Germans and Steal.
Halford Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and Reality (New York: W. W. Norton, 1919).
Charles Clover, "Dreams of the Eurasian Heartland," Foreign Affairs, 78 (March/April 1999).
Jean Gottman, "The Background of Geopolitics," Military Affairs, 6 (Winter 1942).
Alfred Vagts, "Geography in War and Geopolitics," Military Affairs, 7 (Summer 1943).
Colin S. Gray, "The Continued Primacy of Geography," Orbis, 40 (Spring 1996).
Christopher Fettweis, Sir Halford Mackinder, Geopolitics, and Policymaking in the 21st
Century, Parameters (Summer 2000), pp. 58-71.



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