*Readings new to the fourth edition.
Chapter 1. Thinking About IR Theory: Images and Interpretive Understandings
The IR Field in an Age of Globalization Epistemology, Methodology, and Ontology
What Is Theory?
Images
Interpretive Understandings
Summation
Selected Readings
James N. Rosenau, Thinking Theory Thoroughly
Kenneth N. Waltz, Explaining War: The Levels of Analysis
*Max Weber, On Interpretive Understanding
Suggestions for Further Reading
PART I. IMAGES
Chapter 2. Realism: The State and Balance of Power
Major Actors and Assumptions
Intellectual Precursors and Influences
Power
System
Globalization and Interdependence
Realists and International Cooperation
Change
Realists and Their Critics
Selected Readings
Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue
Machiavelli, On Princes and the Security of Their States
Thomas Hobbes, Of the Natural Condition of Mankind
Jean Jacques Rousseau, The State of War
*Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Hard and Soft Power in American Foreign Policy
*John J. Mearsheimer, Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 3. Liberalism: Interdependence and Global Governance
Major Actors and Assumptions
Intellectual Precursors and Influences
Integration
Transnationalism
Interdependence
International Regimes
Neoliberal Institutionalism
Global Governance
Economic Interdependence and Peace
The Democratic Peace
Decisionmaking
Change and Globalization
Liberals and Their Critics
Selected Readings
Michael W. Doyle, Liberalism and World Politics
*Robert O. Keohane, From Interdependence and Institutions to Globalization and Governance
*Stephen G. Brooks, Producing Security
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 4. Economic Structuralism: Global Capitalism and Postcolonialism
Major Actors and Assumptions
Intellectual Precursors and Influences
Dependency Theorists
The Capitalist World-System
Change and Globalization
Postcolonialism
Economic Structuralists and Their Critics
Selected Readings
J.A. Hobson, The Economic Taproot of Imperialism
*Immanuel Wallerstein, Gramsci, Hegemony, and International Relations
*Robert W. Cox, The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 5. The English School: International Society and Grotian Rationalism
Major Actors and Assumptions
Intellectual Precursors and Influences
The Divergence of British and American Scholarship
The Genesis of the English School
Levels of Analysis and Theory
Change
The English School, Liberals, and Social Constructivists
The English School And Its Critics
Selected Readings
Hugo Grotius, War, Peace, and the Law of Nations
*Hugo Grotius, Freedom of the Seas
*Tim Dunne, Inventing International Society
Hedley Bull, Does Order Exist in World Politics?
Suggestions for Further Reading
PART II.INTERPRETIVE UNDERSTANDINGS
Chapter 6. Constructivist Understandings
Major Actors and Assumptions
Intellectual Precursors
Intersubjectivity
Structure, Rules, and Norms
Agents
Identity
Logic of Appropriateness
Interests
The Diversity of Social Constructivist Thought
Wendt's Naturalist Constructivism
Constructivist Affinities in the Broader IR Field
Constructivists and Their Critics
Selected Readings
*Alexander Wendt, Constructing International Politics
*John Locke, On War and Maintaining the Peace
*Alexander Wendt, The Lockean Culture
*Martha Finnemore, Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 7. Positivism, Critical Theory and Postmodern Understandings
Positivism
Intellectual Precursors: Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
critical Theory: Major Assumptions
Postmodernism: Major Assumptions
Critical Theory, Postmodernism and Their Critics
Summation
Selected Readings
*Ken Booth, Critical Explorations and the Highway of Critical Security Theory
*Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman, Realism and Rhetoric in International Relations
*David Campbell, Writing Security
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 8. Feminist Understandings
Intellectual Precursors and Influences
Major Assumptions
Strands of Feminism in IR
Gender, War and Security Studies
Gender and International Organizations
Gendered Understandings and IR Theory
Feminists and Their Critics
Selected Readings
*Iris Marion Young, The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State
*J. Ann Tickner, Why Women Can't Rule the World: International Politics According to Francis Fukuyama
Suggestions for Further Reading
PART III. NORMATIVE UNDERSTANDINGS
Chapter 9. Normative IR Theory: Ethics and Morality
Norms, Ethics, and Morality
Normative Theory: Alternative Perspectives
The Levels of Analysis
Moral Relativism
Secular Bases for Moral or Ethical Choice
Justice and War
Justice and Human Rights
Armed Intervention and State Sovereignty
Alternative Images and Foreign Policy Choice
Rationality and Foreign Policy Choice
Values, Choices, and Theory
Selected Readings
Immanuel Kant, Morality, Politics, and Perpetual Peace
E.H. Carr, The Nature of Politics
*Robert E. Williams, Jr. and Dan Caldwell, Jus Post Bellum: Just War Theory and the Principles of Just Peace
Suggestions for Further Reading
