Readings in International Relations » (1st Edition)

Joshua S. Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at American University, Nonresident Sadat Senior Fellow at the University of Maryland's CIDCM, and Research Scholar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jon C. Pevehouse is Associate Professor at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.

Edited by noted authors and scholars Joshua Goldstein and Jon Pevehouse, Readings in International Relations pairs writings on international relations theory with writings on current events to help students explore the relationship between concept and application.

Covering the key topics discussed in many international relations courses, this text offers generous excerpts of classic and contemporary theory readings followed by real world examples that support or challenge them. Designed to provide students with a more relevant and critical introduction to the field’s original scholarship, Readings in International Relations not only features broad theoretical and topical diversity, it demonstrates how the field explains and is informed by headlines in the news.

CHAPTER 1. THE GLOBALIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Theory: Stephen Walt, “One World, Many Theories”

Application: Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, “Globalization: What’s new? What’s Not? (And So What?)”

CHAPTER 2. POWER POLITICS

Theory: Hans Morgenthau, Chapter 1 from Politics Among Nations

Application: Michael J. Mazarr, “George W. Bush, idealist”

CHAPTER 3. ALTERNATIVES TO POWER POLITICS

Theory: Bruce Russett and John Oneal, “International Systems: Vicious Circles and Virtuous Cycles”

Application: Saikiko Fukuda-Parr, “Gender, Globalization and New Threats to Human Security”

CHAPTER 4. FOREIGN POLICY

Theory: Graham Allison, “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis”

Application: Howard J. Wiarda, “Beyond the Pale: the Bureaucratic Politics of United States Policy in Mexico”

CHAPTER 5. INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT

Theory: Barry Posen, “The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict”

Application: Stephen Biddle, “Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon”

CHAPTER 6. MILITARY FORCE AND TERRORISM

Theory: Andrea Kurth Cronin, “Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism”

Application: Deborah Avant, “The Privatization of Security: Lessons from Iraq”

CHAPTER 7. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, LAW, AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Theory: Richard Steinberg and Jonathan Zasloff, “Power and International Law”

Application: Scott Straus, “Darfur and the Genocide Debate”

CHAPTER 8. INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Theory: Robert Gilpin, “Three Ideologies of international Political Economy”

Application: Jennifer Clapp, “WTO Agriculture Negotiations: Implications for the Global South”

CHAPTER 9. MONEY AND BUSINESS

Theory: Theodore Cohn, “International Monetary Relations”

Application: Dennis Rondinelli, “Transnational Corporations: International Citizens or New Sovereigns?”

CHAPTER 10. INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION

Theory: Ernst B. Haas, “Functionalism”

Application: Andrew Moravcsik, “A Too Perfect Union? Why Europe Said No”

CHAPTER 11. ENVIRONMENT AND POPULATION

Theory: Thomas homer-Dixon, “On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict”

Application: Nicholas Eberstadt, “Russia, the Sick Man of Europe”

CHAPTER 12. THE NORTH-SOUTH GAP

Theory: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, “Dependent Capitalist Development in Latin America”

Application: Stephan Klasen, “Bridging the Gender Gap To Promote Economic and Social Development”

CHAPTER 13. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Theory: Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, and Arvind Subramanian, “How to Help Poor Countries”

Application: Ngaire Woods, “The Shifting Politics of Foreign Aid”