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Module POL3207 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3207: Realism in International Security
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (New York: Knopf, 1978 (5th ed.)), esp. pp. 4-15 (‘Six Principles of Political Realism’)
Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York: Random House, 1979)
John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: Norton, 2001)
Charles L. Glaser, Rational Theory of International Politics: The Logic of Competition and Cooperation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010)
Nuno P. Monteiro, Theory of Unipolar Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008)
Patrick Porter, The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015)
Keir A. Lieber, War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005)
Daryl G. Press, Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005)
Robert Jervis, ‘Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma’, World Politics 30:2 (January 1978), pp. 167-214.
Robert Jervis, The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989)
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (London: Penguin, 2000 (431 B.C.))
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (London: Penguin, 2003 [1532])
Edward Hallett Carr, The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001 [1939])
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 [1651])