Advances in international relations theory

Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session

Part I: Foundations and Contexts

Part II: New Challenges and Critical Applications

Beitz, Charles R. Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1999.

Choucri, Nazli, ed. Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.

Katzenstein, Peter J., Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner, eds. Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999.

Mingst, Karen., and Jack Snyder, eds. Essential Readings in World Politics. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.

Waltz, Kenneth N. Theory of International Politics. Reading, Mass. Addison Wesley, 1979.

Rawls, John. The Law of Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

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