Professor Michael J. Gilligan, Department of Politics, New York University
    Address: 715 Broadway 4th Floor
    Phone: (212) 998-8519
    Email. michael.gilligan@nyu.edu

    Required Texts and Articles

    The following books are required and can be purchased in the University Book Store:

    Kenneth Waltz. 1979. Theory of International Politics. New York: McGraw-Hill.

    Thucydides.  The Peloponnesian War. any edition

    Bruce Russett. 1994. Grasping the Democratic Peace. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

    Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz. 1995. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons. New York: Norton.

    Robert Gilpin. 1981. War and Change in World Politics. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
 
    In addition there are several articles are available off the Web at www.jstor.org. You must access these
    articles from a computer with an nyu.edu extension.  A few articles and book chapter that were not available
    on jstor are available in a reading packet.  This packet can be purchased later in the semester at Unique
    Copy Center, 252 Greene Street.  The readings are also available in the reserve reading room of Bobst
    Library.  We could not get permission to copy chapters of Inis Claude’s Power and International Relations
    so they are only available on reserve at Bobst.

    Course Requirements

    There are two in-class midterm exams each worth 25% of the final grade.  The first will be on October 19.
    The second will be on November 14.  There will be an in class final exam during the scheduled final exam
    period and it is worth 35% of the final grade.  Recitation section will have various requirements such as
    class participation and short essays. Those requirements account for 15% of the final grade, and the
    teaching assistants will give you more information about them in sections.

   Course Outline and Readings

    September 7 – 14 Introduction to the Social Science Method
          Kenneth Waltz. 1979. Theory of International Politics. New York: McGraw-Hill. Chapter 1.

 
    September 19 The Puzzle of War
          James Fearon. 1995. Rationalist Explanations for War. InternationalOrganization. 49: 379-414. .
                Available at www.jstor.org.

 
    September 21 Anarchy and the State
                    Kenneth Waltz. 1979. Theory of International Politics. New York: McGraw-Hill. Ch. 6.
          Inis Claude. 1962. Power and International Relations. New York: Random House. Chs. 6 and 7.  On
                reserve in Bobst Library.
         Realism: Balance of Power Theories
 

    September 26 Introduction: What is the Balance of Power?
                    Inis Claude. 1962. Power and International Relations. New York: Random House. Chs. 2 and 3.
    On reserve in Bobst Library.

 
    September 28 and October 3 Classical Realism
                    Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. Book I, entire, Book II § 1–65, Book III § 36-84, Book V §
          84-116, Book VI § 8-32, Book VII § 42-87.

 
    October 5 – 12 Neo-realism
                    Kenneth Waltz. 1979. Theory of International Politics. New York: McGraw-Hill. Chs. 5 – 8.

 
    October 17 Critiques
                          Ethan B. Kapstein. 1995. Is Realism Dead? The Domestic Sources of International
                Politics. International Organization. 49: 751-74. . Available at www.jstor.org.
                          Richard Ned Lebow. 1994. The Long Peace, the End of the Cold War and the Failure of
                Realism. International Organization. 48: 249-78. . Available at www.jstor.org.

 
    First exam Thursday October 19

 
    The Democratic Peace

    October 24 – 31
                    Bruce Russett. 1994. Grasping the Democratic Peace. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
          Michael W. Doyle. 1983.  Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs. Philosophy and Public
                Affairs, Vol. 12: 205-235. Available at www.jstor.org.

 
    Deterrence

    November 2 - 7
          Thomas Schelling. 1980. Strategy of Conflict. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
                Ch. 8. In the reading packet.
          Christopher Achen and Duncan Snidal. 1988. Rational Deterrence Theory and Comparative Case
                Studies. World Politics. Available at www.jstor.org.
          Paul Huth and Bruce Russett. 1993. General Deterrence between Enduring Rivals: Testing Three
                Competing Models. American Political Science Review. 87: 61 – 73. Available at
                www.jstor.org.

 
    November 9 Nuclear Proliferation
                    Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz. 1995. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons. New York: Norton.

 
    Second Exam Tuesday November 14

 
    Hegemonic Stability Theory

    November 16 - 28
                    Robert Gilpin. 1981. War and Change in World Politics. Princeton NJ: Princeton University
          Press.

 
    International Institutions

    November 30 – December 5
          Robert O. Keohane. 1982. The Demand for International Regimes. International Organization. 36:
                325 – 55. Available at www.jstor.org.
          Joseph Grieco. 1988. Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation. A Realist Critique of the Newest
                Liberal Institutionalism. International Organization. 42: 485 – 507. Available at www.jstor.org.
          William Durch. 1993. The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping. New York; St. Martins. Chs. 1-3. In the
                reading packet.

 
    December 7 Summing Up

 
    December 12 What Does the Future Hold?
                    John J. Mearsheimer. 1990. Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War.
          International Security. 15, 1. p. 5-56. In the reading packet.
                    Stanley Hoffmann, Robert Keohane and John J. Mearsheimer. 1990. Correspondence.
          International Security. 15, 2. p. 191-99. In the reading packet.
                    Bruce M. Russett and John J. Mearsheimer. 1990. Correspondence. International Security. 15, 3.
          p. 216-218, 219-222. In the reading packet.