Fall 1999

Wednesday 2-4 p.m.

Department of Politics, New York University
G53 1700 – International Politics


 

Prof. William Roberts Clark

Department of Politics

Room 449

Tel: 212-998-8525

Office Hours: TBA

Prof. Andrew Moravcsik

(Visiting from Harvard University)

<moravcs@fas.harvard.edu>

Department of Politics

Phone, Office, and Hours: TBA

The Substance of the Course

This seminar serves as a graduate level introduction to the field of International Relations. It is divided into two parts. In the first four weeks, we deal with a few large questions at a high level of abstraction: What is “International Politics”? How ought we best to study it? What are the main theoretical approaches? After addressing (but not likely resolving) these “big questions”, we will examine a set of issues that scholars have addressed in order to see what, if anything, they have learned about substantively and theoretically important research questions. The goal of this survey is to provide the student with a flavor for important debates in the field, identify areas where progress has been made, and help the student determine areas where they might like to concentrate future class work and research during their graduate study. No attempt has been made to be comprehensive; the readings instead reflect a main stream of systematic research in International Relations. To complement other courses in the department, it focuses disproportionately, but not exclusively, on security studies rather than international organization or international political economy. Note also that, unlike many of its kind, this course has not been oriented around a comparison of “approaches,” methodologies, levels of analyses, etc.Rather, the bulk of the reading is aimed at answering specific research questions; we believe that it is ultimately in such concrete settings that alternative approaches can be most fruitfully compared. 

Requirements of the Course

Students will be required to write three short papers, between 5 and 7 double-spaced pages (no more than 2000 words) each. Each paper will be due on the Monday before class by 5 p.m. It is to be sent in the body of a simultaneous e-mail to both professors, with the word count included at the upper left.Late papers or papers with no word count will be graded down. The first paper will be due on Monday, Sept. --th at 5 p.m. It is to be an essay critically discussing political realism and the scientific method; further details will be distributed by the second class meeting. The remaining papers will be a critical review essay and a proposed research design – each dealing with one week’s readings. The critical review will summarize and critically engage at least two readings from the week in question. The research design will use at least one of the research papers as a jumping off point and lay out a plan for addressing an empirical question the author feels has been inadequately answered in the assigned readings. In addition to written work, students are expected to do all the readings in a thoughtful and timely fashion and participate actively in the seminar discussion. If a student has not completed a reading, he or she should inform both professors at the start of class; otherwise the student is fully responsible for all readings. One or two missed readings over the semester, if the professors are informed before the start of class, are permitted; under any other circumstances, any student who has not done reading, or is absent without excuse, will receive a zero for that session. Written work will make up 60% of your grade and class participation 40%. Students writing either research designs or critical essays on a week’s readings will be viewed as “firsts among equals” – our expectation is that you will be particularly prepared to lead the discussion that week. Consequently, 25% (10% of the final grade) of your participation grade will derive from your performance of this role. The remaining 75% (30% of the final grade) derives from general class participation. 

Books Available for Purchase

Charles Lave and James G. March. Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences. University Press of America, 1991 [1975]. H61 L342

Robert Keohane, ed., Neo-Realism and its Critics. Columbia University Press, 1986. JX 1391.

N 46 

Robert Baldwin, ed., Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate. Columbia University Press, 1993.

Hans Morgenthau. Politics Among NationsKnopf, 1985 [1948 ]. JX 1391.M6

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and David Lalman. War and Reason. Yale University Press, 1992. JX 1391. B83 

Robert Keohane. After Hegemony. Princeton University Press, 1984. HF 1411. K 442 

Michael Gilligan. Empowering Exporters: Reciprocity, Delegations, and Collective Action in

American Trade Policy, University of Michigan Press, 1997.HF 1455. G 488

Stephen Walt. The Origins of Alliances. Cornell University Press, 1987. 

Ronald Rogowski. Commerce and Coalitions. Princeton University Press, 1989. 

Schedule

Week 1 – September 8 – Introduction: Defining International Politics

Week 2 – Sept. 15 – The Science of International Politics: Evaluative Criteria

Required

Carl G. Hempel, Philosophy of Natural Science. Prentice-Hall, 1966. Chap. 4. (pp. 33-46) (Packet)

Thomas Kuhn “The Historical Structure of Scientific Discoveries,” 

Imre Lakatos, "Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs." In Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave, eds., Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge University Press, 1970, pp. 91-138. (Packet) 

Charles Lave and James G. March Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences. Harper and Row, 1975 or University Press of America, 1991, Chapters 1-3, pp. 1-84. (Packet) 

David Dessler, “What’s at Stake in the Agent-Structure Debate?” International Organization 43:3 (Summer 1989), pp. 441-473.(JSTOR)

Gary King, Robert O. Keohane and Sidney Verba, eds., Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 1-33, 99-114, 208-230. (for purchase).

Fearon, James D.1991. “Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science” World Politics 43(1): 169-95. 

Recommended:

James D. Fearon, "Causes and Counterfactuals in Social Science: Exploring an Analogy between Cellular Automata and Historical Processes," in Philip E. Tetlock and Aaron Belkin, eds., Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics: Logical, Methodological and Psychological Perspectives. Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 39-67. 

Peter J. McClelland, Causal Explanation and Model Building in History, Economics and the New Economic History. Cornell University Press, 1975, pp. 65-104.

Martin Hollis and Steve Smith. Explaining and Understanding International Relations. Oxford University Press, 1990.

Morton A. Kaplan. 1966. The New Great Debate: Traditionalism vs. Science in International Relations World Politics 19: 1 (October 1966), pp. 1-20.

Week 3 – Sept. 22 – Realism and its Variants

Required

Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War, Penguin Edition, 1954, Book Five, Sections 84-116. (pp. 400-408) (Packet)

Hans Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. 3rd edition. Knopf, 1960, Chaps. 1, 3, 8, 15, 31. (pp. 3-15, 27-37, 101-109, 227-232, 539-551) (for purchase)

Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics, selected chapters reprinted in Robert Keohane, ed. Neo-Realism and its Critics. Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 27-132 ) (for purchase)

Robert G. Gilpin. “The Richness of the Tradition of Political Realism” in Keohane, ed., Neorealism and its Critics, pp. 301-321. (for purchase)

Jeffrey Legro and Andrew Moravcsik, “Is Anybody Still a Realist?” International Security 24:2 (Fall 1999), 49 pp. (Packet).

Recommended:

Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War. Penguin Edition, 1954, pp. 35-49 (Book I/1-23), 72-87 (Book I/66-88), 103-108 (Book I/118-125), 118-123 (Book I/139-146), 143-164 (Book II/34-65), 212-223 (Book III/36-50), 236-245 (Book III/69-85), 400-408 (Book V/84-116).

E.H. Carr The Twenty Years’ Crisis 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. Macmillan, 1939.

Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State, and War. Columbia University Press, 1959. 

R. Harrison Wagner. “Economic Interdependence, Bargaining Power and Political Influence” International Organization 42:3 (Summer 1988), pp. 461-483.

 

Week 4 – Sept. 29 – Realism and its Critics

Required:

Robert Keohane, “Realism, Neo-Realism, and the Study of World Politics,” and “Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond,” in Keohane, ed., Neo-Realism and its Critics, pp. 1-26, 158-203. (for purchase)

Joseph Grieco, “Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism”; Duncan Snidal, “Relative Gains and the Pattern of International Cooperation”; Stephen Krasner, “Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto Frontier,” in David A. Baldwin, ed., Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate. Columbia University Press, 1993, pp. 116-142, 170-208, 234-249. (for purchase)

Robert Powell, "Anarchy in International Relations Theory: The Neorealist-Neoliberal Debate," International Organization 48 (Spring 1994), pp. 313-344.(Jstor)

Andrew Moravcsik, “Taking Preferences Seriously: Liberalism and International Relations Theory” International Organization (Autumn 1997), pp. 513-554. (Packet)

John Ruggie, “Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity: Toward a Neorealist Synthesis,” in Keohane, ed., Neorealism and its Critics, pp. 98-130.(For purchase)

Alex Wendt,“Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics,” International Organization46 (Spring 1992), pp. 391-426. (Jstor) 

William Roberts Clark, "Agents and Structures: Two Views of Preferences, Two Views of Institutions," International Studies Quarterly 42:2 (June 1998), pp. 245-270. (Packet)

Recommended

Robert W. Cox, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory,” in Keohane, ed., Neorealism and its Critics, pp. 204-254.

Richard K. Ashley. “The Poverty of Neorealism,” in Keohane, ed., Neorealism and its Critics, 255-300.

John Vasquez, The Power of Power Politics : From Classical Realism to Neotraditionalism. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

John Vasquez, “Coloring it Morgenthau: New Evidence for an Old Thesis on Quantitative International Politics,” British Journal of International Studies 5:3 (October1979), pp. 210-228.

Robert Keohane, After Hegemony: Discord and Collaboration in World Politics. Princeton University Press, Chaps. 1-2. (pp. 5-30)

Week 5 – October 6 – Applied Realism I: The Balance of Power

Required

* Inis Claude, Power and International Relations. Random House, 1962. Ch. 1-3. (pp. 3-93)(Packet)

* Hans Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations, 3rd ed. Knopf, 1960. Part IV. (pp. 167-220) (for purchase)

* Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics. Addison-Wesley, 1979, pp. 116-28. (In Keohane, ed. Neorealism and its Critics)

* Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and David Lalman, War and Reason. Yale University Press, 1992, Chap. 6. (pp. 181-217) (for purchase)

* Stephen M. Walt, The Origins of Alliances. Cornell University Press, 1987, Chapters 1-2, 5-6, 8 (pp. 1-49, 147-217, 262-285). (for purchase)

Dan Reiter, "Learning, Realism, and Alliances: The Weight of the Shadow of the Past," World Politics 46 (July 1994), pp. 490-526.(Jstor)

John A. Vasquez, "The Realist Paradigm and Degenerate versus Progressive Research Programs: An Appraisal of Neotraditional Research on Waltz's Balancing Proposition,” American Political Science Review, 91:4 (December 1997), pp. 899-912, and replies by Kenneth Waltz (“Evaluating Theories”), pp. 913-917; Thomas Christensen and Jack Snyder (“Progressive Research on Degenerate Alliances”), pp. 919-922; Colin Elman and Miriam Elman (“Lakatos and Neorealism: A Reply to Vasquez”) pp. 923-926; Randall Schweller (“New Realist Research on Alliances: Refining, not Refuting, Waltz's Balancing Proposition”) pp. 927-930; and Stephen Walt, (“The Progressive Power of Realism”) pp. 931-935. (Packet)

Recommended

R. Harrison Wagner, "The Theory of Games and the Balance of Power," World Politics 38 (July 1986), pp. 546-76. 

R. Harrison Wagner, "Peace, War, and the Balance of Power," American Political Science Review 88 (September 1994), pp. 593-607.

Emerson Niou, Peter Ordeshook, and Gregory Rose. The Balance of Power. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Emerson M. S. Niou, Peter C. Ordeshook. “Stability in Anarchic International Systems,” American Political Science Review 84:4 (December 1990), pp. 1207-1234.

Robert Powell, "Stability and the Distribution of Power," World Politics 48 (January 1996), pp. 239-67.

J. David Singer, Stuart Bremer, and John Stucky, "Capability Distribution, Uncertainty, and Major Power War, 1820-1965," in John A. Vasquez and Marie T. Henehan, eds., The Scientific Study of Peace and War. Macmillan/Lexington Books, 1992. Chap. 2.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, “Risk, Power Distributions, and the Likelihood of War,” International Studies Quarterly 25:4 (December 1981), pp. 541-568.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and David Lalman, "Empirical Support for Systemic and Dyadic Explanations of International Conflict," World Politics 41 (October 1988), pp. 1-20.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, James D. Morrow, James and Ethan R. Zorick, “Capabilities, Perception, and Escalation,” American Political Science Review 91:1 (March 1997), pp. 15-27.

Alastair Smith, "Alliance Formation and War." International Studies Quarterly 39 (December 1995), pp. 405-25.

* Alastair Smith, "To Intervene or Not to Intervene: A Biased Decision," Journal of Conflict Resolution 40:1 (March 1996), pp. 16-40. 

James D. Morrow, "Alliances and Asymmetry: An Alternative to the Capability Aggregation Model of Alliances," American Journal of Political Science 35:4 (November 1991), pp. 904-933.

Mancur Olson and Richard Zeckhauser, “An Economic Theory of Alliances,” Review of Economics and Statistics48:3 (August 1966), pp. 266-79.

Jack S. Levy, "Alliance Formation and War Behavior: An Analysis of the Great Powers, 1495-1975," Journal of Conflict Resolution 25 (December 1981), pp. 581-613.

Suzanne Werner and Douglas Lemke, "Opposites Do Not Attract: The Impact of Domestic Institutions, Power, and Prior Commitments on Alignment Choices," International Studies Quarterly 41:3 (September 1997), pp. 529-46.

 

Week 6 – Oct. 13 – Applied Realism II: Deterrence and Crisis Bargaining

Required:

Christopher Achen and Duncan Snidal, "Rational Deterrence Theory and Comparative Case Studies," World Politics 41 (January 1989), pp. 143-69. (Jstor)

George W. Downs, "The Rational Deterrence Debate," World Politics 41 (January 1989), pp. 225-37. (Jstor)

Alexander George and Richard Smoke, "Deterrence and Foreign Policy," World Politics 41 (January 1989), pp. 170-82. (Jstor)

Robert Jervis, "Rational Deterrence: Theory and Evidence," World Politics 41 (January 1989), pp. 183-207. (Jstor)

Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Stein, "Rational Deterrence Theory: I Think, Therefore I Deter." World Politics 41 (January 1989), pp. 208-24. (Jstor)

George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, “Tacit Bargaining and Arms Control,” World Politics 39:3 (April 1987), pp. 297-325.(Jstor)

James D. Fearon, "Signaling versus the Balance of Power and Interests: An Empirical Test of a Crisis Bargaining Model," Journal of Conflict Resolution 38 (June 1994), pp. 236-69. (Packet)

Recommended

Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict. Harvard University Press, 1980, Chapters 1-4.

Steven J. Brams and Walter Mattli, "Theory of Moves: Overview and Examples," Conflict Management and Peace Science 12: (Spring 1993), pp. 1-39.

James D. Morrow, "Signaling Difficulties with Linkage in Crisis Bargaining," International Studies Quarterly 36 (March 1992), pp. 153-72.

George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, Tacit Bargaining, Arms Races, and Arms Control. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

James D. Morrow, "A Spatial Model of International Conflict," American Political Science Review 80 (December 1986), pp. 1131-50

Paul Huth and Bruce Russett, "General Deterrence between Enduring Rivals: Testing Three Competing Models," American Political Science Review 87 (March 1993), pp. 61-73.

Week 7 – Oct. 20 – Applied Realism III: Hegemony, Polarity, and Power Transitions

Required

John J. Mearsheimer, “Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War,” International Security 15:1 (Summer 1990), pp. 5-56. Interchange among John Mearsheimer, Stanley Hoffmann and Robert O. Keohane, International Security 15 (Fall 1990), pp. 191-199. (Packet).

Jacek Kugler and A.F.K. Organski, "The Power Transition: A Retrospective and Prospective Evaluation," in Manus Midlarsky, ed., Handbook of War Studies. London: Unwin-Hyman, 1989. Chap. 7. (pp. 171-194)(Packet).

Bueno de Mesquita and Lalman, War and Reason. Yale University Press, 1992, Chap. 7. (pp. 219-243)

Woosang Kim and James D. Morrow, “When do power shifts lead to war?” American Journal of Political Science 36:4 (November 1992), pp. 896-922.(Jstor)

Douglas Lemke and Suzanne Werber, “Power Parity, Commitment to Change, and War International Studies Quarterly 40:2 (June 1996), pp. 235-260.(Packet)

Levy, Jack and Jonathon DiCicco“ ,” JCR (forthcoming).

Recommended

James E. Alt, Randall L. Calvert and Brian D. Humes, “Reputation and Hegemonic Stability: A Game-Theoretic Analysis,” American Political Science Review 82:2 (June 1996 ), pp. 445-466.

Douglas Lemke and Jacek Kugler, "The Evolution of the Power Transition Perspective”; John A. Vasquez, "When Are Power Transitions Dangerous? An Appraisal and Reformulation of Power Transition Theory"; Randolph Siverson and Ross A. Miller, "The Power Transition: Problems and Prospects," in Jacek Kugler and Douglas Lemke, ed., Parity and War. University of Michigan Press, 1996, Chaps. 1-3. 

Daniel S. Geller, "Capability Concentration, Power Transition, and War," International Interactions 17:3 (May 1992), pp. 269-84.

Robert Gilpin, "The Theory of Hegemonic War," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18 (Spring 1988), pp. 591-614.

Robert Gilpin, War & Change in World Politics. Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 1-49, 85-105, 156-210.

Edward D. Mansfield, "The Concentration of Capabilities and the Onset of War," Journal of Conflict Resolution 36 (March 1992), pp. 3-24.

Week 8 – Oct. 27 – Applied Realism IV: Trade, War and Polarity

Required

Stephen Krasner, “State Power and the Structure of International Trade,” World Politics 28:3 (April 1976), pp. 317-343.(Jstor)

Robert Keohane, After Hegemony, Chapters 3, 4, 8. (pp. 31-64, 135-181).(For purchase) 

Edward Mansfield, Power, Trade and War. Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 3-33. (Packet)

David A. Lake, "Leadership, Hegemony, and the International Economy: Naked Emperor or Tattered Monarch with Potential?" International Studies Quarterly 37 (December 1993), pp. 459-489.(Packet)

David Lake, “International Economic Structures and American Foreign Economic Policy.” World Politics 35 (June 1983), pp. 517-543. (Jstor)

Timothy McKeown, “A Liberal Trade Order?The Long-Run Pattern of Imports to the Advanced Capitalist States,” International Studies Quarterly 35 (July 1991), pp. 151-172. (Packet).

Recommended:

Joseph S. Nye , Jr., Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power. Basic Books, 1990.

Week 9 – Nov. 3 – Applied Institutionalism I: Cooperation and Conflict in Anarchy

Required:

Thomas C. Schelling, "The Reciprocal Fear of Surprise Attack," In Schelling, Strategy of Conflict. Harvard University Press, 1960, Chap. 9. (pp. 207-229) (Packet).

James Fearon “Rationalist Explanations for War” International Organization 49 (Summer 1995) 49:3, pp. 379-414. (Packet).

Smith and McGillivray (Packet)

Robert Jervis, "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma," World Politics 30 (January 1978), pp. 167-186. (Jstor)

Kenneth A. Oye, "Explaining Cooperation under Anarchy," World Politics 38 (October 1985), pp. 1-24. (Jstor)

Robert Axelrod. The Evolution of CooperationBasic Books, 1984, Chaps. 1, 4 and 9. (pp. 3-26, 73-87, 169-191) (Packet)

Arthur A. Stein, “The Hegemon's Dilemma: Great Britain, the United States, and International conomic Order,” International Organization 38: 2 (Spring 1984), pp. 355-386. (Jstor)

Keohane, After Hegemony, Chap. 5. (pp. 65-84)(for purchase)

Recommended

Jonathan Bendor, “In Good Times and Bad: Reciprocity in an Uncertain World,” American Journal of Political Science 31:3 (August 1987), pp. 531-558.

Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics, Princeton University Press, 1976, Chap. 3 (pp. 58-113, especially pp. 62-78 on the spiral model).

Kenneth A. Oye, ed., Cooperation Under Anarchy. Princeton University Press, 1986.

Week 10 – Nov. 10Applied Institutionalism II: 

International Regimes and Compliance with International Agreements

Required:

Stephen D. Krasner, “Structural Causes and Regime Consequences,” and “Regimes and the Limits of Realism,” in Krasner, ed., International Regimes. Cornell University Press, 1982, pp. 1-21, 355-368.Also in International Organization 36(2) (1982) 185-205, 497-510 respectively.(Jstor)

Keohane, After Hegemony, Chaps. 6, 7 and 9?

Lisa Martin, "Interests, Power, Multilateralism," International Organization 46 (Autumn 1992), pp. 765-792.(Jstor)

James Fearon, “Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation,” International Organization 52 (Spring 1998), 269-306.(Packet)

Charles A. Kupchan and Clifford A. Kupchan, “Concerts, Collective Security, and the Future of Europe,” International Security 16: 1 (Summer 1991), pp. 114-161.(Packet)

* Abraham Chayes and Antonio Handler Chayes, “On Compliance,” International Organization 47 (Winter 1993), pp. 175-205. (Jstor)

* George Downs, David Rocke and Peter Barsoom, “Is the Good News about Compliance Good News about Cooperation?” International Organization 50 (Winter 1996), pp. 379-406. (Jstor)

Peter Haas, “Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control,” International Organization 43 (Summer 1989), pp. 377-405. (Jstor)

Robert D. Putnam, "Diplomacy and Domestic Politics," International Organization 42 (Summer 1988), pp. 427-461. (Jstor)

Recommended

George Downs and David Rocke, Optimal Imperfection. Princeton University Press,1995.

Lisa Martin, “Credibility, Costs, and Institutions: Cooperation on Economics Sanctions,” World Politics 45.3 (April 1993), pp. 406-432.

Oran Young. International Governance: Protecting the Environment in a Stateless Society. Cornell University Press, 1994.

Robert O. Keohane, International Institutions and State Power. Westview Press, 1989.

Helen Milner and B. Peter Rosendorff. “Trade Negotiations, Information, and Domestic Politics,” Economics and Politics 8:2 (July 1996), pp. 145-89.

Andrew Moravcsik, “Introduction: Integrating International and Domestic Theories of International Bargaining,” in Peter Evans, Harold Jacobson, and Robert Putnam, eds., Double-Edged Diplomacy. University of California Press, 1993, pp. 3-43.

William Roberts Clark and Erick Duchesne, “Executive-Legislative Relations and ‘the Schelling Conjecture’: a Limited Information Rubinstein Bargaining Model of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement,” MS.

 

 

Week 11 – Nov. 17 – Applied Institutionalism III: Regional Integration

Required:

Ernst B. Haas, "Technocracy, Pluralism and the New Europe," in Stephen Graubard, ed. The New Europe. Houghton Mifflin, 1964, pp. 62-88.(Packet)

Stanley Hoffmann, "Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation State and the Case of Western Europe," Daedalus 95 (Summer 1966), pp. 892-908. (Packet)

Andrew Moravcsik, "Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community," International Organization 45:1 (Winter 1991), pp. 19-56. (Jstor) (Packet)

Anne-Marie Burley and Walter Mattli, "Europe before the Court: A Political Theory of Legal Integration," International Organization 47 (Winter 1993), pp. 41-76. (Jstor)

Exchange between Geoffrey Garrett and Mattli/Slaughter, International Organization 49:1 (Winter 1995), pp. 171-190.(Jstor)

Paul Pierson, "The Path to European Union: An Historical Institutionalist Account," Comparative Political Studies 29:2 (April 1996), pp. 123-164. (Packet)

George Tsebelis, "The Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda-Setter," American Political Science Review 88 (March 1994), pp. 128-142. (Jstor

Giandomenico Majone, Regulating Europe. Routledge, 1996, pp. 61-79, 289-301. (Packet)

Recommended:

Andrew Moravcsik, The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht. Cornell University Press, 1998.

Andrew Moravcsik, ed. Centralization or Fragmentation? Europe facing Deepening, Diversity and Democratization. Council on Foreign Relations/Brookings Institution, 1998.

Wayne Sandholtz and Alec Stone-Sweet, eds. European Integration and Supranational Governance. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Peter Stirk and David Weigall, eds. The Origins and Development of European Integration: A Reader and Commentary. Pinter, 1999.

Joseph H. H. Weiler, The European Constitution. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Week 12 – Nov. 24 – NO CLASS 

Week 13 – Dec. 1 – Applied Liberalism I: Domestic Institutions and Values

Required:

Morgenthau, Politics among Nations. 3rd edition., pp. 145-148, 552-555. (for purchase)

Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, “Democratization and the Danger of War,” International Security 20:1 (Summer 1995), pp. 5-38. (Packet)

Michael Doyle, “Liberalism and World Politics,” American Political Science Review 80(December 1986), pp. 1151-1169. (Jstor)

Zeev Maoz and Bruce Russett, "Normative and Structural Causes of Democratic Peace, 1946-1986," American Political Science Review 87 (September 1993), pp. 624-638. (Jstor)

Bueno de Mesquita and Lalman, War and Reason., Chap. 5. (pp. 145-177) (for purchase)

* James D. Fearon, “Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes,” American Political Science Review88 (September1995), pp. 577-92. (Jstor)

* Kenneth A. Shultz, “Do Democratic Institutions Constrain or Inform? Contrasting Two Institutional Perspectives on Democracy and War,” International Organization 53 (Spring 1999), pp. 233-266.(Packet)

Stephen Van Evera, "Primed for Peace: Europe after the Cold War," International Security 15:3 (Winter 1990/91), pp. 7-57. (Packet)

Recommended

BruceRussett. Grasping the Democratic Peace. Princeton University Press, 1993. Chaps 1-2. 

David Lake “Peaceful Pacifists,” American Political Science Review 86:1 (March 1992), pp. 24-37.

Henry S. Farber and Joanne Gowa, “Polities and Peace,” International Security 20 (Fall 1995), pp. 123-46.

T. Clifton Morgan and Sally Howard Campbell. “Domestic Structure, Decisional Constraints, and War: So Why Kant Democracies Fight?” Journal of Conflict Resolution. 35/2(June 1991), pp. 187-211. 

Harvey Starr, “Democracy and War: Choice, Learning and Security Communities,” Journal of Peace Research. 29:2 (May 1992), 207-213. 

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and David Lalman, “Domestic Opposition and Foreign War,” American Political Science Review 84:3 (September 1990), pp. 747-765.

 

Week 14 – Dec. 8 – Applied Liberalism II: The Preference for International Trade and Monetary Policy

Required

Helen Milner, “Trading Places: Industries for Free Trade.” World Politics(1988). (Jstor)

Jeffrey Frieden and Ronald Rogowski, “The Impact of the International Economy on National Policies: An Analytical Overview,” in Robert O. Keohane and Helen V. Milner, eds., Internationalization and Domestic Politics. Cambridge University Press, 1996, 25-47. (Packet)

Ronald Rogowski, Commerce and Coalitions. Princeton University Press, 1989, Chs. 1, 4, 6-7 (pp. 3-20, 88-128, 163-180). (for purchase)

Michael Gilligan, Empowering Exporters: Reciprocity, Delegations, and Collective Actions in American Trade Policy.University of Michigan Press, 1997. (Chapters TBA).

Susanne Lohmann and Sharon O’Halloryn “Divided Government and U.S. Trade Policy,” International Organziation 48 (Autumn 1994), (Jstor)

Joanne Gowa, “Public Goods and Political Institutions: Trade and Monetary Policy Processes in the United States,” International Organization 42 (Autumn 1988), pp. 15-32. (Jstor)

Jeffry A. Frieden, “Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance,” International Organization 45 (Summer 1991), pp. 425-452. (Jstor)

John Gerard Ruggie, “International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order,” in Krasner, ed. International Regimes, pp. 195-231. Also in International Organization 36:2 (1982) 379-415. (Jstor)

Recommended

James E. Alt, Jeffry Frieden, Michael J. Gilligan, Dani Rodrik, and Ronald Rogowski, “The Political Economy of International Trade: Enduring Puzzles and an Agenda for Inquiry,” Comparative Political Studies 29 (December 1996), pp. 689-717., (Packet)