Module

Reading List

IR1006

• S. Smith, A. Hadfield and T. Dunne, Foreign Policy; Theories, Actors, Cases. OUP, 2008

Please note:

All students are advised to keep their sub-honours texts from previous semesters and years

IR2006

• M. Beeson and N. Bisley (Eds.), Issues in 21st Century World Politics, Palgrave 2010

Please note:

All students are advised to keep their sub-honours texts from previous semesters and years

IR3015

Religion, Politics and Democracy

• C.Wilcox, eds, Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2002); a set of case studies exploring religion and politics in various parts of the world - about 75% covers Christianity and Islam which are the main focus of this module
• T.Banchoff, ed, Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism
• J.Anderson, ed, Religion, Democracy and Democratisation (paperback edition, Routledge, 2005) -  essays on various aspects of the question, though not a comprehensive textbook
• J.Snyder, Religion and IR Theory (published at the end of 2011 and I have yet to see a copy, but have ordered it for the library and the contributing authors that I know are all good)

I hesitate to recommend that you buy any, because all of the above contains a handful of relevant chapters but none cover all the topics we discuss in the module. Maybe try and get secondhand copies or pool books with others in the module.

IR3027

American New World Orders in the Twentieth Century

Generally Useful Introductory Reading

• Andrew Williams, Failed Imagination?: Anglo-American New World Orders from Wilson to Bush, Manchester U.P., 2^nd edition, 2007. (henceforth ‘FI’). There is a first edition (1998) of this book also extant. I have also written a chapter for Stephen Chan and Jarrod Wiener (eds), Twentieth Century International History: A Reader, London, I.B. Tauris, “Ideas and the Creation of Successive World Orders ” pp. 47-64
• Andreas Osiander, The States System of Europe, 1640-1990,: Peacemaking and the Conditions of International Stability, Oxford University Press, 1994
• Robert W. Cox with Timothy J. Sinclair, Approaches to World Order, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• T.V. Paul and John A. Hall (eds) International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge U.P., 1999 Introduction
• John Hall, International Orders, Polity, 1996
• Nicholas Rengger, International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order, Routledge, 2000 Introduction
• Torbjǿrn L. Knutsen, The Rise and Fall of World Orders, Manchester U.P., 1999

IR3037

Central Asian Security

• Sally N Cummings, Understanding Central Asia: Politics and Contested Transformations.  Routledge, 2012 (paperback)
• S. Soucek, History of Inner Asia, CUP, 2000 (also available in the library)

IR3039

• Christopher Hill and Michael Smith, International Relations and the European Union (Oxford 2011).
• Roy Ginsberg, The European Union in International Politics (Rowman 2001).
• Michael E. Smith, Europe’s Foreign and Security Policy (Cambridge, 2004).
• Charlotte Bretherton and John Vogler, The European Union as a Global Actor (Routledge 2005).

IR3042

• Carolyn Nordstrom, A Different Kind of War Story, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. (£15.68; 4 library copies, 3 on short loan) [Required for Week 7, so best to get a jumpstart on reading it.] DT3398.N7 
• Kevin C. Dunn, Imagining the Congo, Palgrave 2002. DT653.3D8 (used from £15.81; 2 library copies, 1 on short loan; also available as E-book through SAULCAT) [Required for Week 8, so best to get a jumpstart on reading it.] DT653.3D8
• Scott Burchill et al., Theories of International Relations, 2^nd edition, Palgrave, 2001. (£20.69 for 2009 edition and £2005 used copies from 6.00; 3 library copies, 1 on short loan; also available as E-book through SAULCAT) JX1391.B9G0

IR3043

• Cortright, David and George Lopez, eds. 2007. Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat. MIT Press: London.
• Jackson, Richard; Marie Breen Smyth; and Jeroen Gunning. 2009. Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agenda. Routledge: London.
• Ganor, Boaz. 2011. The Counter-Terrorism Puzzle: A Guide for Decision Makers. Transaction: London.
• Gross, Michael L. 2009. Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

IR3045

ESSENTIAL READING

• J. L. Gelvin, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A Hundred Years of War (Cambridge, 2005)
• M. Glenny, The Fall of Yugoslavia (Penguin, 1992)
• M. Mulholland, The Longest War: Northern Ireland’s Troubled History (Oxford, 2002)
  Also published as
• M. Mulholland, Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford)]
• C. Tripp, A History of Iraq (Cambridge, 2007)

ADVANCED READING

• F. Haddad, Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity (Hurst, 2011)
• L. Silber and A. Little, The Death of Yugoslavia (Penguin, 1995, 1996)
• F. Wright, Northern Ireland: A Comparative Analysis (Gill and Macmillan, 1987)

IR3109

• Lust, Ellen, The Middle East
• Owen, Roger, State, Power & Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East,
• Nazih Ayubi, Overstating the Arab State: politics & Society in the Middle East
• James Bill & Robert Springborg, Politics in the Middle East
• M.E. Yapp, The Near East Since the First World War

Global Public Policy

Texts to Buy

• Rorden Wilkinson, (Ed.), Reader on Global Governance, Routledge, 2005.*
  At least 10 of 17 ‘readings’ from other established texts are excellent for this module.
• Lorraine Elliott, The Global Politics of the Environment, Palgrave, 2^nd ed. 2004.*
  At least 7 of the 10 chapters in this excellent introduction are useful for the empirical core of this module on environment as a public policy issue and climate issues in particular.

Supplementaries

• Philippe Sands, Lawless World, Penguin 2006. Tour d’horizon of what the author sees as a struggle to defend multilateralism from post 9/11 US pressure.
• Print Journals D. Held and A. McGrew, (Eds.) Governing Globalization, Polity, 2002.*

Political Islam and International Relations

There are no compulsory textbooks for purchase; nonetheless, the following books provide a good introduction to, and coverage of the issues examined in this module:

(easier)

• Peter Mandaville, Global Political Islam (Routledge, 2007)
• Frédéric Volpi, Political Islam: A Critical Reader (Routledge, 2010)

• Olivier Roy, Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (Columbia, 2004)
• Frédéric Volpi, Political Islam Observed (Columbia 2010)

IR4528

Foreign Policy of Modern China

The primary text for the module, available from the University bookshop, will be;

• Marc Lanteigne, Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 2009).

Books which may be useful for introductory background reading on Chinese politics include;

• June Teufel Dreyer,  China's Political System: Modernization and Tradition (New York: Pearson Longman, 2008).
• Kenneth Lieberthal,  Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform (New York: W.W. Norton, 2004).
• Tony Saich,  Governance and Politics of China (London: Palgrave, 2011).

IR4530

Genocide

The module’s required readings consist of book chapters and journal articles, available via MMS and the Library. Hence there is no module textbook. However, may wish to purchase a copy of the following book which will be read in its entirety:

• Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved (London: Abacus, 1989).

The module booklet, uploaded on MMS, lists each week’s readings.  The following reading is required for Week 1:

• UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, online at:  http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/x1cppcg.htm
• Raphael Lemkin, ‘Genocide’, in Alexander L. Hinton (ed.), Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), pp. 27-42. [MMS]
• Martin Shaw, ‘Chapter 6: From Intentionality to a Structural Concept’, in What is Genocide? (Cambridge: Polity, 2007), pp. 81-96. [MMS]
• Scott Straus, ‘Contested Meanings and Conflicting Imperatives: A Conceptual Analysis of Genocide’, Journal of Genocide Research, 3/3 (2001): 359-375. [MMS]

IR4535

Theories of Friendship and Peace

For  tutorial  discussions  students are strongly recommended to purchase the following inexpensive collection of primary sources available from Blackwell:

• Michael Pakaluk, 1991,  Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, Hackett Publishing (for students in financial difficulties there are copies  on short loan in the library: BJ 1533.F8P2

Other readings:

• 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)

IR4536

Warmongers and Peacemakers: Religious Actors and Conflict

To prepare for this module, please browse through:

• Appleby, RS, The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation (2000)
• Fox, J & Sandler, S, Bringing Religion into International Relations (2004)
• Haynes, J, Introduction to International Relations and Religion (2007)

IR4538

Identity, Belonging and Others

Week One Required reading:

• Volkan, Vamik (2009) “Large-Group Identity: ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Polarizations in the International Arena” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society Vol. 14(1), pp. 4-15.

Additional reading:

• Duijzings, Ger (2000) “Kosovo as Ethnic Shatter Zone” in Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo (New York: Columbia University Press), pp. 1-36.

Week Two Required reading:

• Özkirimli, Umut (2000) Theories of Nationalism (London: Palgrave), Chpts. 1-3, pp. 1-85 (especially Chapter 2,pp. 12-63).

Additional reading:

• Breuilly, John (1993) “Prelude to Nationalism: Religious and National Oppositions in Early Modern Europe” in Nationalism and the State (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp. 75-94.

It is recommended that the following texts be purchased and are available at Blackwell’s University Bookstore.  All are also available in the library.

• Özkirimli, Umut (2000) Theories of Nationalism (London: Palgrave).
• Anderson, Benedict (1991) Imagined Communities (London: Verso).
• Hroch, Miroslav (2000) Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe (New York: Columbia University Press).
• Comaroff, John and Jean Commaroff (2009) “Commodifying  Descent, American Style” in Ethnicity, Inc., (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
• Žižek, Slavoj (2008) Violence (London: Profile Books).
• Vertovec, Steven and Susanne Wessendorf, eds., (2010.) The Multicultural Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices (London: Routledge).