Week of September 14: Introduction
Week of September 21: Sun-tze and Lord Shang
The Art of War and The Book of Lord Shang
Suggested secondary readings:
McCready, Douglas M. "Learning from Sun Tzu." Military Review 83, no. 3 (2003): 85.
Warner, M., 2006. The divine skein: Sun Tzu on intelligence. Intelligence and National Security, 21(4), pp.483-492.
Spengler, Joseph J. "Kau?ilya, Plato, Lord Shang: Comparative Political Economy." proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1969): 450-457.
Week of September 28: Thucydides,
The Peloponnesian War, especially early discussion of origins of the war, as well as 1.21-3, 2.34-46 (Funeral Oration), 2.50-54 (The Plague), 3.36-49 (The Mytilenian Debate), 5.84-116 (The Melian Dialogue).
Suggested secondary readings:
Allison, Graham. "The Thucydides Trap: are the US and China headed for war?." The Atlantic 24 (2015).
Welch, David A. "Why International Relations theorists should stop reading Thucydides." Review of International Studies 29, no. 3 (2003): 301-319.
Forde, Steven. "Varieties of realism: Thucydides and Machiavelli." The Journal of Politics 54, no. 2 (1992): 372-393.
Lebow, Richard Ned. "Thucydides the constructivist." American Political Science Review 95, no. 3 (2001): 547-560.
Monten, Jonathan. "Thucydides and modern realism." International Studies Quarterly 50, no. 1 (2006): 3-25.
Week of October 5: Plato
The Republic, The Laws (Book 1)
Suggested secondary readings:
Kratochwil, Friedrich. "Thrasymmachos revisited: on the relevance of norms and the study of law for International Relations." Journal of International Affairs (1984): 343-356.
Arnopoulos, Paris. "Plato and Aristotle on War and Peace." Philosophia: Yearbook of the Research Center for Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens 27, no. 97-98 (1997): 142-152.
Week of October 12: Aristotle
The Politics
Suggested secondary readings:
Molloy, Seán. "Aristotle, Epicurus, Morgenthau and the political ethics of the lesser evil." Journal of International Political Theory 5, no. 1 (2009): 94-112.
Lunstroth, John. "Linking Virtue and Justice: Aristotle on the Melian Dialogue." Int'l Legal Theory 12 (2006): 99.
Week of October 19: Augustine and Aquinas
The City of God (Bks I, IV, VI [sections 17-24], XIX [sections 11-17]), Summa Theologica (II-II, Q 40; II-II, Q 64, articles 6-8)
Suggested secondary readings:
Loriaux, Michael. "The realists and Saint Augustine: Skepticism, psychology, and moral action in international relations thought." International Studies Quarterly 36, no. 4 (1992): 401-420.
Lee, Thomas H. "The Augustinian Just War Tradition and the Problem of Pretext in Humanitarian Intervention." Fordham Int'l LJ 28 (2004): 756.
Zwitter, Andrej, and Michael Hoelzl. "Augustine on War and Peace." Peace Review 26, no. 3 (2014): 317-324.
Johnson, James Turner. "Aquinas and Luther on War and Peace: Sovereign Authority and the Use of Armed Force." Journal of Religious Ethics 31, no. 1 (2003): 3-20.
Week of October 26: Machiavelli
The Prince (chapters 1-3, 5-6, 8-9, 15-19, 21, 24-26), The Discourses (I.2-14)
Suggested secondary readings:
Forde, Steven. "International realism and the science of politics: Thucydides, Machiavelli, and neorealism." International Studies Quarterly 39, no. 2 (1995): 141-160.
Cesa, Marco, ed. Machiavelli on International Relations. OUP Oxford, 2014.
Alker Jr, Hayward R. "The humanistic moment in international studies: reflections on Machiavelli and Las Casas: 1992 presidential address." International Studies Quarterly 36, no. 4 (1992): 347-371.
Wong, Benjamin. "Hans Morgenthau's Anti-Machiavellian Machiavellianism." Millennium 29, no. 2 (2000): 389-409.
Week of November 2: No class, midterm assignment due
Week of November 9:
Midterm; paper due November 13 via Moodle
Week of November 16
Vitoria and Erasmus
De Indis De Jure Belli, Dulce Bellum Inexpertis
Suggested secondary readings:
Cavallar, Georg. The rights of strangers: Theories of international hospitality, the global community and political justice since Vitoria. Routledge, 2017.
Anghie, Antony. "Francisco de Vitoria and the colonial origins of international law." Social & legal studies 5, no. 3 (1996): 321-336.
Week of November 23: Hugo Grotius
The Law of War and Peace
Suggested Secondary Readings:
Bull, Hedley. "The importance of Grotius in the study of international relations." In Grotius and Law, pp. 317-345. Routledge, 2017.
Cutler, A. Claire. "The ‘Grotain tradition’ in international relations." Review of International Studies 17, no. 1 (1991): 41-65.
Week of November 30: Samuel Pufendorf
On the Duties of Man and Citizen
Suggested Secondary Readings:
Devetak, Richard. "Between Kant and Pufendorf: humanitarian intervention, statist anti-cosmopolitanism and critical international theory." Review of international studies 33, no. S1 (2007): 151-174.
Boucher, David. "Resurrecting Pufendorf and capturing the Westphalian moment." Review of International Studies 27, no. 4 (2001): 557-577.
Week of December 7: Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan (esp. chaps 13-14, 17-18, 21)
Suggested Secondary Readings:
Williams, Michael C. "Hobbes and international relations: a reconsideration." International organization 50, no. 2 (1996): 213-236.
Bull, Hedley. "Hobbes and the international anarchy." Social Research (1981): 717-738.
Hanson, Donald W. "Thomas Hobbes's “highway to peace”." International Organization 38, no. 2 (1984): 329-354.
Skinner, Quentin. "Hobbes and the purely artificial person of the state." Journal of Political Philosophy 7, no. 1 (1999): 1-29.
Week of December 14: John Locke
Second Treatise (particularly chaps. 1-3, 7-9, 16)
Suggested Secondary Readings:
Cox, Richard Howard. Locke on war and peace (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960).
Williams, Howard. "John Locke and International Politics." In International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory, pp. 90-109. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1996.
Ward, Lee. "Locke on the moral basis of international relations." American Journal of Political Science 50, no. 3 (2006): 691-705.
Week of December 21: J.J. Rousseau
Second Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, The State of War, Comments on Treatise of the Abbe St. Pierre
Suggested Secondary Readings:
Williams, Michael C. "Rousseau, realism and realpolitik." Millennium 18, no. 2 (1989): 185-203.
Knutsen, Torbjørn L. "Re-reading Rousseau in the post-Cold War world." Journal of Peace Research 31, no. 3 (1994): 247-262.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Stanley Hoffmann, and David P. Fidler. "Rousseau on international relations." (1991).
Hoffmann, Stanley. "Rousseau on war and peace." American Political Science Review 57, no. 2 (1963): 317-333.
Week of December 28: Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace, Essay on Theory and Practice
Suggested Secondary Readings:
Hurrell, Andrew. "Kant and the Kantian paradigm in international relations." Review of International Studies 16, no. 3 (1990): 183-205.
Williams, Michael C. "Reason and Realpolitik: Kant's “Critique of International Politics”." Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 25, no. 1 (1992): 99-120.
Harrison, Ewan. "Waltz, Kant and systemic approaches to international relations." Review of International Studies 28, no. 1 (2002): 143-162.
Cederman, Lars-Erik. "Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the democratic peace as a macrohistorical learning process." American Political Science Review 95, no. 1 (2001): 15-31.
Week of January 4: V.I. Lenin
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Suggested Secondary Readings:
Halliday, Fred. "The pertinence of imperialism." In Historical Materialism and Globalisation, pp. 75-89. Routledge, 2016.
Willoughby, John. "Evaluating the Leninist theory of imperialism." Science & Society (1995): 320-338.
Bodenheimer, Susanne. "Dependency and imperialism: The roots of Latin American underdevelopment." Nacla Newsletter 4, no. 3 (1970): 18-27.
Marshall, Alexander. "Lenin's Imperialism Nearly 100 Years on: An Outdated Paradigm?." Critique 42, no. 3 (2014): 317-333.
McDonough, Terrence. "Lenin, imperialism, and the stages of capitalist development." Science & Society (1995): 339-367.
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