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Utopian Liberalism
2.01. “The World War I Document Archive” contains official documents, conventions, treaties and memorials related to the First World War. The site is hosted by Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.
2.02. Click here to read Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. The site is hosted by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
2.03. In this article, in African Studies Quarterly, Korwa G. Adar explores “the Wilsonian conception of democracy and human rights”.
2.04. In this paper, Mohammed Ben Jelloun provides an analysis of post-Cold War idealism. The site is hosted by Swans.
2.05. Click here to access the Northwestern University Library’s “Research Guide to League of Nations Documents and Publications”.
2.06. Click here to read a short biography of Norman Angell and an introduction to his most important works. The text is from Nobel Lectures.
2.07. Click here to read the full text of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. The text is provided by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
2.08. Click here to read more about the Wall Street crash in 1929 and the following Great Depression. The essay is written by Christina Romer, Professor in Economics at University of California, Berkeley.
Realism
2.09. Here, the Virtual War College provides a thorough introduction to realism.
2.10. Click here to read an excerpt (chapter 4 and 5) of The Twenty Year’s Crisis which contains E. H. Carr’s famous critique of utopian liberalism as well as a presentation of realist thought. The text is provided by the University of Arizona.
2.11. Click here to read John Mearsheimer’s tribute to E. H. Carr, a memorial lecture delivered at Aberystwyth on 14 October 2004.
2.12. Click here to read an extract from Hans J. Morgenthau’s Politics among Nations. The extract is provided by History News Network.
2.13. This site contains a comprehensive list of documents, public speeches, and treaties from World War II, including the Yalta Agreement and the Atlantic Charter. The site is maintained by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
Behavioralism
2.14. Click here to read a thorough introduction to behavioralism. The introduction is provided by Oxford Research Encyclopedias.
2.15. Click here to read a paper on “Empirical-Quantitative Approaches to the Study of International Relations”, written by Bear F. Braumoeller and Anne E. Sartori of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University.
2.16. In his paper “The Discipline’s Community: The Effects of Method and Market on Research Relevance” Tim Duvall analyses the effects of behavioralism on political science.
Neoliberalism
2.17. Here, Susan George provides “A Short History of Neoliberalism”. The site is maintained by Transnational Institute.
2.18. Click here to see the official website of the European Union.
2.19. The homepage of OECD contains documents, news and statistics from the organization.
2.20. Click here to read documents and news from the World Trade Organization (WTO).
2.21. Click here to read Mark A. Pollack’s paper “International Relations theory and European Integration”. The paper is provided by the European University Institute.
2.22. Click here to read the article “Power and Interdependence in the Information Age”, written by Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. The article was published in Foreign Affairs.
2.23. In this paper, published in Alternatives, Hüseyin Işiksal analyses the challenge of complex interdependence to structural realism.
2.24. Click here to read an essay which discusses the effect of democratization on the nature of international relations. The essay is provided by Harvard University and University of Chicago.
2.25. In this short review, G. John Ikenberry summarizes Michael Doyle’s view on liberalism. The review was published in Foreign Affairs.
2.26. Click here to read the paper “Liberalism and World Politics”, written by Michael Doyle. The article is provided by Memorial University, Canada.
2.27. In “The Strange Death of Liberal International Theory”, Christian Reus-Smith explores new developments within liberal IR theory. The paper is published in The European Journal of International Law.
2.28. As stated by the author Jan-Werner Müller, “this paper focuses on Liberalism after the Cold War”. The paper is provided by Princeton University
Neorealism
2.29. Click here for the full text of Kenneth Waltz’ paper “The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Better” on nuclear deterrence in a bipolar world. The site is maintained by Mount Holyoke College.
2.30. In this interview, Kenneth Waltz gives an account of his book Man, the State, and War as well as other research work.
2.31. Click here for a historical perspective on different forms of polarity. The site is maintained by Robert M. Cutler.
2.32. In this paper on marginal states, Doug Lieb explores “The Limits of Neorealism”. The paper was published in Harvard International Review.
2.33. Here, several scholars discuss the future of realism as an independent paradigm. The site is hosted by Princeton University.
International Society
2.34. On this site, E-International Relations gives an introduction to the English School and provides links to other resources about the English School.
2.35. Click here to read a paper on “Hedley Bull and International Security”, written by Samuel M. Makinda. The paper is provided by the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, Australian National University.
2.36. The homepage of the United Nations provides information about the UN as well as links to institutions operating within the UN framework.
2.37. Click here for access to a comprehensive collection of official UN documents, hosted by the UN itself.
2.38. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides information about the concept of human rights as well as links to other Internet resources on human rights.
2.39. This site contains information about the UN’s view of human rights, including the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The site is maintained by the UN.
2.40. Here, the International Committee of the Red Cross provides a list of customary rules of international humanitarian law.
International Political Economy
2.41. Britannica provides an introduction to IPE and several links to other articles on the subject.
2.42. Layna Moss, University of North Carolina, hosts a website with a big collection of publications on international political economy.
2.43. “The Third World Network” provides information about all kinds of issues related to the Global South.
2.44. Click here to get an introduction to Marxism in International Relations. The page is provided by E-International Relations.
2.45. This website, maintained by Rogers State University, provides links to several Internet resources on Immanuel Wallerstein and his World System Theory.
2.46. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Click here to read the full text of Adam Smith’s famous work, provided by the Library of Economics and Liberty.
2.47. For a historical overview of economic neoliberalism, click here to read the essay “A Primer on Neoliberalism”.
2.48. “The ‘Manchester School’ was the term the British politician Benjamin Disraeli used to refer to the 19th Century free trade movement in Great Britain”. Click here for a brief introduction to the Manchester School and an overview over the difference strands of economic liberalism. The site is maintained by the think tank Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF).
2.49. Here, University of Delaware provides a short historical outline of mercantilism.
2.50. Click here to read an online version of Friedrich List’s The National System of Political Economy. The text is provided by JSTOR and published by Taylor & Francis.
2.51 Global Policy Forum provides access to articles on economic globalization as well as information about e.g. international trade, transnational corporations and international financial institutions.
2.52. In this paper, Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson analyse “The Limits to Economic Globalization”. The paper is provided by Polity.
Post-Positivism
2.53. This paper, written by Mark Neufeld, “examines the prospects for the development of theoretically reflexive theory in the discipline of international relations”. The paper is provided by York University.
2.54. “This essay contributes to the growing critique of policy science’s dominant neopositivist methodologies”. The essay is written by Frank Fischer and is provided by Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.
2.55. Click here to read the paper “Models, numbers, and cases: Methods for Studying International Relations”, written by Detlef F. Sprinz and Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias. The paper presents theoretical and empirical studies that address central methodological issues as they have emerged in substantive subfields of international relations research.
2.56. In this paper on “The Poverty of Neorealism”, published in 1984 in the journal ‘International Organization’, Richard Ashley criticizes what he terms ‘neorealist structuralism’ and poses an alternative perspective with inspiration from sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jürgen Habermas. The article is provided by JSTOR, published in International Organization, Vol. 38, No. 2.
Integrating International and Domestic Factors
2.57. This Wikipedia page contains an extended description of Kenneth Waltz’s seminal Man, The State, and War.
2.58. In this paper, published in World Politics, David Singer reviews Man, The State, and War and formulates the idea about three levels of analysis.
2.59. In this paper, Peter Katzenstein & Rudra Sil, “defines, operationalizes, and illustrates the value of analytic eclecticism in the social sciences”. The article is provided by Social Science Research Network.
2.60. In this paper, published in the Annual Review of Political Science, James Fearon discusses ways to integrate international and domestic factors.
Links to current affairs
The magazine Foreign Policy has an online platform where several well-known IR scholars blog. See for example Stephen M. Walt’s blog for a neorealist take on currents events.
Project Syndicate provides commentaries on a wide range of topics, from economic policy and development strategies to religion and human rights. Contributors include scholars such as Joseph S. Nye, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Jeffrey D. Zachs.
E-International Relations is one of the leading website for students and scholars of international politics. The site publishes a daily range of articles; student essays and features including book reviews and interviews.
The World Today is a bi-monthly magazine published by the independent policy institute Chatham House. The magazine presents authoritative analysis and up-to-date commentary on current topics. Articles from the current issue are open-access.