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Week 1: War and Peace in International Relations, Part I

Levy, J. S. (1998). The causes of war and the conditions of peace. Annual Review of Political Science, 1, 139–165.
Newman, E. (2004). The “new wars” debate: A historical perspective is needed. Security Dialogue, 35(2), 173–189.
Richmond, O. P. (2008). Reclaiming peace in international relations. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 36(3), 439–470.

Week 2: War and Peace in International Relations, Part II

Richmond, O. P. (2016). Peace in international relations theory. In O. P. Richmond, S. Pogodda, & J. Ramović (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of disciplinary and regional approaches to peace (pp. 57–68). Palgrave Macmillan.
Parashar, S. (2013). What wars and “war bodies” know about international relations. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26(4), 615–630.
Gleditsch, N. P., Nordkvelle, J., & Strand, H. (2014). Peace research—Just the study of war? Journal of Peace Research, 51(2), 145–158.

Week 3: Realism

Waltz, K. N. (1988). The origins of war in neorealist theory. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 18(4), 615–628.
Lebow, R. N. (1994). The long peace, the end of the cold war, and the failure of realism. International Organization, 48(2), 249–277.
Taliaferro, J. W., Lobell, S. E., & Ripsman, N. M. (2018). Is peaceful change in world politics always desirable? A neoclassical realist perspective. International Studies Review, 20(2), 283–291.

Week 4: Liberalism and Democratic Peace

Parmar, I. (2013). The “knowledge politics” of democratic peace theory. International Politics, 50(2), 231–256.
Kharisma, M. W. (2017). The philosophical worth of “liberal” peacebuilding. Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional, 19(1), 1–15.
Levin, J., MacKay, J., Jamison, A. S., Nasirzadeh, A., & Sealey, A. (2021). A test of the democratic peacekeeping hypothesis: Coups, democracy, and foreign military deployments. Journal of Peace Research, 58(3), 355–367.

Week 5: Feminism, Woman, and Peace

Elshtain, J. B. (2009). Woman, the state, and war. International Relations, 23(2), 289–303.
Tickner, J. A., & True, J. (2018). A century of international relations feminism: From World War I women's peace pragmatism to the women, peace and security agenda. International Studies Quarterly, 62(2), 221–233.
Sapiano, J. (2025). What is feminist peace? Half the answer is asking the right question. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 27(1), 255–261.

Week 6: International Law, Sovereignty, and Colonialism

Anghie, A. (2006). The evolution of international law: Colonial and postcolonial realities. Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 739–753.
Pourmokhtari, N. (2013). A postcolonial critique of state sovereignty in IR: The contradictory legacy of a “West-centric” discipline. Third World Quarterly, 34(10), 1767–1793.
Shrinkhal, R. (2021). “Indigenous sovereignty” and right to self-determination in international law: A critical appraisal. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 17(1), 71–82.

Week 7: Culture

Snyder, J. (2002). Anarchy and culture: Insights from the anthropology of war. International Organization, 56(1), 7–45.
Uz Zaman, R. (2009). Strategic culture: A “cultural” understanding of war. Comparative Strategy, 28(1), 68–88.
Bräuchler, B. (2018). The cultural turn in peace research: Prospects and challenges. Peacebuilding, 6(1), 17–33.

Week 8: Psychology of War and Peace

Goldgeier, J. M., & Tetlock, P. E. (2001). Psychology and international relations theory. Annual Review of Political Science, 4(1), 67–92.
Christie, D. J., & Montiel, C. J. (2013). Contributions of psychology to war and peace. American Psychologist, 68(7), 502–513.
Gildea, R. J. (2020). Psychology and aggregation in international relations. European Journal of International Relations, 26(1), 166–183.

Week 9: Race

Vucetic, S. (2011). A racialized peace? How Britain and the US made their relationship special. Foreign Policy Analysis, 7(4), 403–421.
Azarmandi, M. (2018). The racial silence within peace studies. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 30(1), 69–77.
Henderson, E. A. (2024). Racism and global war in world politics: As obvious as it is ignored. International Politics, 61(2), 413–442.

Week 10: Humanitarian Intervention

Goodman, R. (2006). Humanitarian intervention and pretexts for war. The American Journal of International Law, 100(1), 107–141.
Bargués, P. (2020). Peacebuilding without peace? On how pragmatism complicates the practice of international intervention. Review of International Studies, 46(2), 237–255.
Van Offelen, C., & Smith,  M. L. R. (2020). Agonising choices: Tragedy and international relations—a tragic vision of humanitarian intervention in the Bosnian war. Review of International Studies, 46(4), 495–513.

Week 11: Education

Sears, N. A. (2018). War and peace in international relations theory: A classroom simulation. Journal of Political Science Education, 14(2), 222–239.
Gibson, I. (2011). Flowers in the cracks: War, peace and Japan’s education system. Journal of Peace Education, 8(2), 101–126.
Terepyshchyi, S. (2021). In search of peacebuilding strategies for the global civilization: From “education for war” to “education for peace.” Philosophy and Cosmology, 27, 153–162.

Week 12: Global Governance of War and Peace

Dillon, M., & Reid, J. (2000). Global governance, liberal peace, and complex emergency. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 25(1), 117–143.
Richmond, O. P. (2010). Foucault and the paradox of peace-as-governance versus everyday agency. International Political Sociology, 4(2), 199–202.
Belloni, R. (2012). Hybrid peace governance: Its emergence and significance. Global Governance, 18(1), 21–38.

Week 13: Writing, Narratives, and Media

Gouse, V., Valentin-Llopis, M., Perry, S., & Nyamwange, B. (2019). An investigation of the conceptualization of peace and war in peace journalism studies of media coverage of national and international conflicts. Media, War & Conflict, 12(4), 435–449.
Jackson, S. T. (2019). A turning IR landscape in a shifting media ecology: The state of IR literature on new media. International Studies Review, 21(3), 518–534.
Freistein, K., Gadinger, F., & Groth, S. (2024). Studying narratives in international relations. International Studies Perspectives, 26(4), 434–455.

Week 14: AI and Technology

Shaw, I. G. (2017). Robot wars: US empire and geopolitics in the robotic age. Security Dialogue, 48(5), 451–470.
Garcia, D. (2018). Lethal artificial intelligence and change: The future of international peace and security. International Studies Review, 20(2), 334–341.
Sticher, V. (2024). War and peace in the age of AI. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 27(2), 542–550.

Assignment: Critical Engagement with Two Toward Peace YouTube-Channel Videos

Toward Peace. YouTube.

Assignment: Book Review

Pourmokhtari, N. (2024). Toward a paradigm shift in international relations studies: (Re)claiming world peace. Palgrave Macmillan.