Definitely top choice! Gender in International Relations (1992) Under this symbolic view of Beautiful Souls and Just Warriors, Jean Bethke Elshtain analyses how throughout Ancient Greece and contemporary times, gender stereotypes allowed society to function and gave reason for men to go to war and women to “serve a purpose”. It is an essential reading to easily understand the power dynamics and gendered connections between public and private lives, men and women relationships in times of peace and war. I always recommend this book to my feminist theory workshop students.
Goldsmith and Eric A.Wondering where to start learning gender perspectives on world affairs? Here is a top list of recommended books for you. Legalization and World Politics, Judith L. The Politics of International Law, Christian Reus-Smit Law and Colonial Cultures, 1400-1900, Lauren Bentonĭomestic Sources of International Environmental Policy, Elizabeth R. Political Theory and International Relations, Charles R. International Human Rights, Jack DonnellyĪctivists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in World Politics, Margaret E. The Rights of War and Peace, Richard Tuck These are some important recent texts tying together rigorous theorizing with concern for international law, human rights, and the environment. International Law/Human Rights/Environmental PoliticsĪddressing international relations requires theoretical attention to moral, legal, and policy issues in addition to focus on empirical questions of conflict and cooperation. Political Order in Changing Societies, Samuel Huntington Markets and States in Tropical Africa, Robert H. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Barrington MooreĮthnic Groups and Conflict, Donald L. States and Social Revolutions, Theda Skocpolĭemocracy and Development, Adam Prezworski, et. The Logic of Violence in Civil War, Stathis N.
These works, drawn from sociological, anthropological, historical, and especially political science perspectives address crucial questions of nationalism, democratization, and civil conflict in states around the world. International History/Comparative PoliticsĪt CIR, the study of international politics is not only a matter of classic IR and IPE theory, but also of important political phenomena in the world more generally. The Rational Design of International Institutions, Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, Duncan Snidalĭelegation and Agency in International Organizations, Darren G. International Trade and Political Conflict, Michael J. Power and Interdependence, Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye As with security studies, at CIR we ground our IPE curriculum in theoretically rigorous and empirically rich work the following texts are touchstones in the debates you are likely to encounter at CIR and beyond. International political economy - or IPE - is both the study of how specifically international economic processes affect and are affected by politics, as well as the study of global organization and institutionalization more broadly. Rational Theory of International Politics, Charles L. The Culture of National Security, Peter J.
War and Change in World Politics, Robert Gilpin Perception and Misperception in World Politics, Robert Jervis The Social Theory of International Politics, Alexander Wendt Theory of International Politics, Kenneth N. These are some of the most important classic and recent theoretical works, many of which deal with the fundamental problem of international politics: war and peace. The core of the study of international relations is, like any other social science discipline, rooted in theory. These books are also excellent places to begin for those who have little prior exposure to the academic literature on international relations. The following texts, which are broken into each of the four major subfields covered by CIR, represent a few of the works you will likely come across in our curriculum. CIR offers an opportunity for both a highly rigorous investigation into the classics of international relations, as well as exposure to cutting-edge empirical and theoretical work.