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PRELIMINARY READING/TEXTBOOKS

Semester 1, 2011-12

Module

Reading List

IR5001
  • Paul Williams (2008) Security Studies: An Introduction, Routledge.
  • Alan Collins (2009) Contemporary Security Studies, OUP..

IR5003

 Buzan, Barry and Ole Waever (2003): Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

IR5029

Paul Van Tongeren, Hans Van De Veen and Juliette Verhoeven (eds), Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia: An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities (Project of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention) ( Lynne Rienner, 2002)

IR5151

O.P. Richmond ed., Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding: Critical developments and approaches Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010
J. Darby and R. Mac Ginty eds., Contemporary Peacemaking: Violence, Peace Processes and Post-war Reconstruction, 2nd edition, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008
R. Mac Ginty and A. Williams, Conflict and Development, London: Routledge, 2010
IR5406

IR5406 Theories of Friendship and Enmity (reading List)

Gabriella Slomp

For seminar discussions  students are strongly recommended to purchase the following collection of primary sources:

  • Michael Pakaluk,1991,  Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, Hackett Publishing (on short loan, limited copies in the library): BJ 1533.F8P2

General reading on Friendship ON SHORT LOAN:

  • Preston King and H. Devere (eds), The challenge to friendship in modernity, (BJ 1533.F8K56)
  • Graham Smith and Preston King (eds) Friendship in politics, (JA 71.F85) 
  • Schwarzenbach, Sybil, On Civic Friendship (HQ 1236.5U6S35) 
  • Blanchot, Maurice, Friendship (PQ 2603.L33A 6F97)
  • Lewis,  Four loves (BV4639.L48F77)

IR5501

Pauline Jones Luong The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independence (CUP, 2003)

Martha Brill Olcott Central Asia's Second Chance (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005)
IR5502 Dale Eickelman & James Piscatori, Muslim Politics (Princeton 2004)
Olivier Roy Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (Hurst 2004)
Gilles Kepel Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam I.B. Tauris 2004)
Frederic Volpi, Political Islam: A Critical Reader (Routledge 2009)

IR5510

Suggested Readings for MECASS 2010-11 IR5510 (Summer)

Pauline Jones Luong The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independence (CUP, 2003)

Martha Brill Olcott Central Asia's Second Chance (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005)

Other introductory texts are:

Allison, R. and Jonson, L. Central Asian Security. (Brookings Institution and RIIA, 2001), full text available at: http://brookings.nap.edu/books/0815701055/html/index.html

Olcott, Martha Brill, Central Asia's Second Chance (Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, 2005)
Roy, Olivier The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations (I.B. Tauris, 2000)

Gleason, Gregory, The Central Asian states : discovering independence (Westview Press, 1997).

Dannreuther,  Roland, Creating New States in Central Asia: the Strategic Implications

of the Collapse of Soviet Power in Central Asia (Adelphi Papers 288: 1994)

Hunter, Shireen, Central Asia since Independence (Praeger Publishers, 1996).

Olcott, Martha Brill, Central Asia's new states: Independence, foreign policy, and regional security. (United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996)

Anderson, John, The International Politics of Central Asia (Manchester University Press 1997)

Atabaki, Touraj and John O'Kane, Post-Soviet Central Asia (Tauris Academic Studies, 1998)

Rashid, A. Taliban: Islam, oil and the new great game (I.B. Tauris, 2000)

Rumer, Boris and Zhukov, S. , Central Asia: The challenges of independence (M.E. Sharpe, 1998)

Fiona Hill, The Eurasian Security Environment (2005), available at
            http://www.brookings.edu/views/testimony/hill/20050922.pdf

IR5520
  • Raymond Hinnebusch, International Politics of the Middle East, Manchester University Press, 2003
  • Raymond Hinnebusch and Anoushiravan Ehteshami, The Foreign Policies of Middle East States, Lynne Rienner Press, 2002
  • Louise Fawcett, International Relations of the Middle East (Oxford 2005)
  • Fred Halliday, The Middle East in international relations : power, politics and  ideology (Cambridge 2005)
  • Bahgat Korany, Paul Noble, Rex Brynen, The Many Faces of National Security in the Middle East  (Macmillan, 1993).
  • Gerd Nonneman, Analyzing Middle East Foreign Policies (Routledge, 2005)
IR5525 A Dowty, Israel/Palestine (Cambridge: Polity, 2008, 2nd ed)

J L Gelvin, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

W Laqueur & B Rubin, The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict (Penguin, 2007, 7th ed)

IR5701
  • Contemporary Conflict Resolution (3d edition) Oliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse and Hugh Miall,  Cambridge: Polity 2011,
  • Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Statebuilding and Peacebuilding, Oliver Richmond and Jason Franks, Edinburgh University Press, 2011

IR5151