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POLI 330 / INTR 330: International and Global Politics (Rev. 6/2) Report a Broken Link

Political Science/International Relations 330: International and Global Politics is a three-credit, intermediate-level university course that introduces the main theoretical approaches to world politics and the main historical and contemporary contexts for international relations. 

Unit 1: Approaching International Relations and Global Politics

Krasner, S. (1995/1996). Compromising Westphalia. International Security, 20(3), 115–151. 

Unit 2: The Historical Context of International Relations

Segal, G. (1990). Chapter 1: Spreading around the rim. In Rethinking the Pacific (pp. 21–34). Clarendon Press.
Segal, G. (1990). Chapter 2: 1500–1850: Discovery and rivalry. In Rethinking the Pacific (pp. 35–54). Clarendon Press.
Ruggie, J. G. (1982). International regimes, transactions, and change: Embedded liberalism in the postwar economic era. International Organization, 36(2), 379–415. 

Unit 3: Theories of International Relations

Wendt, A. (1992). Anarchy is what states make of it: The social construction of power politics. International Organization, 46(2), 391–425.

Unit 4: International Security

Jervis, R. (1988). War and misperception. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 18(4), 675–700.
Kalyvas, S. N., & Balcells, L. (2010). International system and technologies of rebellion: How the end of the Cold War shaped internal conflict. American Political Science Review, 104(3), 415–429.
Gilli, A., & Gili, M. (2014). The spread of military innovations: Adoption capacity theory, tactical incentives and the case of suicide terrorism. Security Studies, 23(3), 513–547. 

Unit 5: International Political Economy and Development

Krasner, S. D. (1976). State power and the structure of international trade. World Politics, 28(3), 317–47. 
Easterly, W. (2005, March 13). A modest proposal. Washington Post. 
Clifford, B. (2002). Political process theory and transnational movements: Dialectics of protest among Nigeria’s Ogoni minority. Social Problems, 49(3), 395–415. 
Sheppard, E. (2020). What’s next? Trump, Johnson, and globalizing capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(4), 679–687.

Unit 6: Governance in a Globalized Era

Oloka-Onyango, J. (2020). Unpacking the African backlash to the International Criminal Court (ICC): The case of Uganda and Kenya. Strathmore Law Journal, 4, 41–67.
Duffield, M. (2016). The resilience of the ruins: Towards a critique of digital humanitarianism. Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, 4(3), 147–165.