Global Politics

Week 1: Introducing Global Politics
Core Questions: What is global politics? Is global politics changing? Why a geopolitical approach can be risky? Does space matter in global politics? What space(s)?

Meeting 1: Turbulence or Tempest? Is global politics changing?
Suggested Readings
Wagner, R. Harrison. 1993. "What Was Bipolarity?" International Organization 47(1): 77-106
Monteiro, Nuno P. "Unrest assured: Why unipolarity is not peaceful." International Security 36, no. 3 (2011): 9-40.
Further Readings
Buzan, Barry, and George Lawson. "The global transformation: The nineteenth century and the making of modern international relations." International Studies Quarterly57, no. 3 (2013): 620-634.
Carr, E. H., "The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 ,1939
Gilpin, Robert. War and change in world politics. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Kentikelenis, Alexander, and Erik Voeten. "Legitimacy challenges to the liberal world order: Evidence from United Nations speeches, 1970-2018." The Review of International Organizations 16, no. 4 (2021): 721-754.
Lake, David A., Lisa L. Martin, and Thomas Risse. "Challenges to the liberal order: Reflections on international organization." International organization 75, no. 2 (2021): 225-257.
Meijer, Hugo, and Stephen G. Brooks. "Illusions of autonomy: Why Europe cannot provide for its security if the United States pulls back." International Security 45, no. 4 (2021): 7-43.
Milner, Helen V., and Erik Voeten. "International regime uncertainty." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 40, no. 2 (2024): 269-281.Modelski, George. "The long cycle of global politics and the nation-state." Comparative studies in society and history 20, no. 2 (1978): 214-235.
Modelski, George. "Is world politics evolutionary learning?." International organization 44, no. 1 (1990): 1-24.
Rosenau, James N. Turbulence in world politics: A theory of change and continuity. Princeton University Press, 2018.
Rosecrance, Richard. "Long cycle theory and international relations." International organization 41, no. 2 (1987): 283-301.
Waltz, Kenneth N, Theory of International Politics, New York ,1979.

Meeting 2: Global Politics or Geopolitics?
Required Reading
Agnew, John. "The territorial trap: the geographical assumptions of international relations theory." Review of international political economy 1, no. 1 (1994): 53-80.
Suggested Reading
Harvey Starr, "Territory, Proximity, and Spatiality: The Geography of International Conflict," International Studies Review, Sept. 2005
Further Readings
Altman, Dan. "The Evolution of Territorial Conquest After 1945 and the Limits of the Territorial Integrity Norm." International Organization 74, no. 3 (2020): 490-522.
Fettweis, Christopher J. "On heartlands and chessboards: Classical geopolitics, then and now." Orbis 59, no. 2 (2015): 233-248.
Gottman, Jean. "Geography and International Relations",World Politics. (1951).
Hansen, David G. "The immutable importance of geography." Parameters 27, no. 1 (1997): 55.
O'Loughlin, John. "Responses: geography as space and geography as place: the divide between political science and political geography continues." Geopolitics 5, no. 3 (2000): 126-137.
Spykman, Nicholas J. "Geography and foreign policy, I." The American Political Science Review 32, no. 1 (1938): 28-50.
Spykman, Nicholas J. "Geography and foreign policy, II." American Political Science Review 32, no. 2 (1938): 213-236.

Week 2: States, Sovereignty & Borders
Core Questions: What is the core actor in the international system? Are borders and sovereignty constitutive elements of the international system?

Meeting 3: States & sovereignty
Required Readings
Krasner, Stephen D. Chapter 1: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Sovereignty: organized hypocrisy. Princeton university press, 1999.
Suggested Readings
Lake, David A. "The State and International Relations." In The Oxford Handbook of International Relations.
Further Readings
Barkin, J. Samuel, and Bruce Cronin. "The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations." International organization 48, no. 1 (1994): 107-130.
Caporaso, James A. "Changes in the Westphalian order: Territory, public authority, and sovereignty." International Studies Review 2, no. 2 (2000): 1-28.
Carter, David B., and Paul Poast. "Why do states build walls? Political economy, security, and border stability." Journal of conflict resolution 61, no. 2 (2017): 239-270.
Biersteker, Thomas J. "State, sovereignty and territory." Handbook of international relations (2002): 157-176.
Spruyt, Hendrik. "Institutional selection in international relations: state anarchy as order." International Organization48, no. 4 (1994): 527-557.

Spruyt, Hendrik. "The origins, development, and possible decline of the modern state." Annual review of political science5, no. 1 (2002): 127-149.

Meeting 4: Borders & State Deaths
Required Readings
Fazal, Tanisha M. "State death in the international system." International Organization 58, no. 2 (2004): 311-344.
Suggested Readings
Carter, David B., and H. E. Goemans (2011). The Making of the Territorial Order: New Borders and the Emergence of Interstate Conflict. International Organization. 65(2): 275-309.
Further readings
Barkin, J. Samuel, and Bruce Cronin. "The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations." International organization 48, no. 1 (1994): 107-130.
Carter, David B., and Paul Poast. "Why do states build walls? Political economy, security, and border stability." Journal of conflict resolution 61, no. 2 (2017): 239-270.



Week 3: Anarchy and Power in Global Politics
Core Questions: Is anarchy the main "engine" of international politics? Does anarchy imply absence of hierarchy? What is power? How does power's distribution affect international relations ? How do we measure power?

Meeting 5 Anarchy & Hierarchy
Required Readings:
Wendt, Alexander. "Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics." International organization 46, no. 2 (1992): 391-425.
Lake, David A. "Anarchy, hierarchy, and the variety of international relations." International organization 50, no. 1 (1996): 1-33.

Suggested Reading
Milner, Helen. "The Assumption of Anarchy in International Relations Theory: A Critique." Review of International Studies 17, no. 1 (January 1991): 67-85
Mattern, Janice Bially, and Ayşe Zarakol. "Hierarchies in World Politics." International Organization 70, no. 03 (2016): 623-654.

Further Readings
David A. Lake, "Escape from the State of Nature: Authority and Hierarchy in World Politics." International Security 32.1 (2007): 47-79.
Fearon, James D. "Cooperation, Conflict, and the Costs of Anarchy." International Organization (2018): 1-37.
Fiammenghi, Davide. ""Anarchy is what states make of it": true in a trivial sense; otherwise, wrong." International Politics 56 (2019): 17-32.
Robert Jervis, "Cooperation under the Security Dilemma," World Politics, Vol. 30, No. 2 (1978), pp. 167-214;

Meeting 6 : Power and International Politics: Concepts and Measures
Required Readings
Barnett, Michael N., and Raymond Duvall (2005). Power in International Politics. International Organization. 59(1): 39-75
Nye, Joseph S. "Soft power." Foreign policy 80 (1990): 153-171.

Suggested Reading
Michael Beckley. 2018. The Power of Nations: Measuring What Matters. International Security Fall 2018, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 7-44
Robert W Cox, "Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method," Millennium-Journal of International Studies 12, no. 2 (1983): 162-75
Further Readings
Anders, Therese, Christopher J. Fariss, and Jonathan N. Markowitz. "Bread before guns or butter: introducing Surplus Domestic Product (SDP)." International Studies Quarterly 64, no. 2 (2020): 392-405.
Baldwin, David A. (2012). Power and International Relations. In Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth A. Simmons (Eds.), Handbook of International Relations (2nd ed., pp. 273-298). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Barnett, Michael N., and Martha Finnemore. "The politics, power, and pathologies of international organizations." International organization 53, no. 4 (1999): 699-732.
Barnum, Miriam, Christopher J. Fariss, Jonathan N. Markowitz, and Gaea Morales. "Measuring Arms: Introducing the Global Military Spending Dataset." Journal of Conflict Resolution (2024): 00220027241232964.
Fariss, Christopher J., Therese Anders, Jonathan N. Markowitz, and Miriam Barnum. "New estimates of over 500 years of historic GDP and population data." Journal of Conflict Resolution 66, no. 3 (2022): 553-591.
Gannon, J. Andrés. "Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities." International Studies Quarterly 67, no. 4 (2023): sqad081.
Souva, Mark. "Material military power: A country-year measure of military power, 1865-


Week 4 : Balancing or Hegemonizing?

Core Questions: Is military power the only form of power that matters ? How do states balance power? What is hegemonic stability?
Meeting 7 Balance of Power

Required Reading
Randall Schweller. 2016. "The Balance of Power in World Politics" in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics.

Suggested Readings
Waltz, Kenneth N. "The stability of a bipolar world." Daedalus(1964): 881-909.

Meeting 8 Hegemonic Stability
Required Reading
Snidal, Duncan. 1985. "The Limits of Hegemonic Stability Theory," International Organization 39 (4): 579-614

Suggested Reading
Gilpin 1981 Change and war in the contemporary world , in War and change in world politics. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Further Readings
Haas, Ernst B. "The balance of power: prescription, concept, or propaganda?." World Politics 5, no. 4 (1953): 442-477.
Nexon, Daniel H. "The Balance of Power in the Balance." World Politics 61, no. 02 (2009): 330-359.
Wohlforth, William C. et al. "Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History." European Journal of International Relations 13, no. 2 (2007): 155-185.
R. Harrison Wagner, "The Theory of Games and the Balance of Power," WP 38:4 (July 1986): 546- 576
Wohlforth, William C. (1999). The Stability of a Unipolar World. International Security. 24(1): 5-41








Week 5 : International Alliances & War
Core Questions: Why do states need alliances? How do alliances affect balance of power? Why does war occur? Is rational to wage war? What is the role of uncertainty?

Meeting 9 Alliances

Required Readings
Walt, Stephen M. "Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power." International Security 9, no. 4 (Spring 1985): 3-43
Suggested Readings
Morrow, James D. "Alliances: Why write them down?." Annual Review of Political Science 3, no. 1 (2000): 63-83.
Further Readings
Christensen, Thomas J., and Jack Snyder. "Chain Gangs and Passed Bucks: Predicting Alliance Patterns in Multipolarity." International Organization 44, no. 02 (1990): 137-68.
Olson, Mancur, and Richard Zeckhauser. "An Economic Theory of Alliances." The Review of Economics and Statistics 48, no. 3 (August 1966): 266-79.
Snyder, Glenn H. "Review: Alliances, Balance, and Stability." International Organization 45, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 121-42.
Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson, "Balancing on Land and at Sea: Do States Ally Against the Leading Global Power?" International Security, 35, 1 (Summer 2010): 7-43
Reiter, Dan. "Learning, Realism, and Alliances: The Weight of the Shadow of the Past." World Politics 46, no. 04 (1994): 490-526.

Meeting 10: War, Rationality & Uncertainty

Required Reading
James D. Fearon, "Rationalist Explanations for War," International Organization 49.3 (1995): 379-414

Suggested Reading
Jervis, Robert. "War and misperception." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18, no. 4 (1988): 675-700.
Levy, Jack S. "Prospect theory and international relations: Theoretical applications and analytical problems." Political Psychology (1992): 283-310.
Waltz, Kenneth N. "The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory." Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1988, 615-628.

Further Readings
Alexandre Debs and Nuno P. Monteiro, "Known Unknowns: Power Shifts, Uncertainty, and War," International Organization, Vol. 68, No. 1 (2014), pp. 1-31;
Glaser, Charles "The Security Dilemma Revisited," World Politics, 50.1 (1997): 171-201
Jack S. Levy, "The Causes of War and the Conditions of Peace," Annual Review of Political Science 1 (1998): 139-165.
Levy, Jack S. "Misperception and the causes of war: Theoretical linkages and analytical problems." World Politics36, no. 1 (1983): 76-99.
Powell, Robert. "Bargaining theory and international conflict." Annual Review of Political Science 5, no. 1 Gartzke, Erik. "War is in the Error Term." International Organization 53, no. 3 (1999): 567-587 (2002): 1-30.


Week 6 : International Institutions, Trade & Globalization
Core Questions: How do international institutions work? Are international organizations (IOs) mere executers of states' interests? What are the patterns of international trade? Is there an international political economy? What are the causes and effects of globalization?

Meeting 11: International Institutions

Required Readings
Koremenos, Barbara, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal. "The Rational Design of International Institutions." International Organization 55, no. 04 (2001): 761-99.

Suggested Readings
Katzenstein, Peter J., Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. "International organization and the study of world politics." International organization 52, no. 4 (1998): 645-685.
Further readings
Abbott, Kenneth W., and Duncan Snidal. "Why States Act through Formal International Organizations." The Journal of Conflict Resolution 42, no. 1 (February 1998): 3-32.
Ruggie, John Gerard (1982). International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order. International Organization. 36(2): 379-415.
Martin, Lisa L. (1992). Interests, Power, and Multilateralism. International Organization. 46(4): 765-792.
Axelrod, Robert, and Robert O. Keohane. "Achieving Cooperation under Anarchy: Strategies and Institutions." World Politics 38, no. 1 (October 1985): 226-54.
Lipson, Charles. "International Cooperation in Economic and Security Affairs." World Politics 37, no. 01 (1984): 1-23.
Keohane, Robert O., and Lisa L. Martin. "The Promise of Institutionalist Theory." International Security 20, no. 1 (Summer 1995): 39-51.
Simmons, Beth A. "International Law and State Behavior: Commitment and Compliance in International Monetary Affairs." The American Political Science Review 94, no. 4 (December 2000): 819-35.
Mearsheimer, John J. "The False Promise of International Institutions." International Security 19, no. 3 (Winter 1994-1995): 5-49.

Meting 12: Trade & Globalization
Required readings
Walter, Stefanie. "The backlash against globalization." Annual Review of Political Science 24 (2021): 421-442.

Suggested Readings
Milner, Helen V. "The political economy of international trade." Annual review of political science 2, no. 1 (1999): 91-114.
Further Readings
Broz, J. Lawrence, and Jeffry A. Frieden. "The political economy of international monetary relations." Annual Review of Political Science 4, no. 1 (2001): 317-343.
Baccini, Leonardo. "The economics and politics of preferential trade agreements." Annual Review of Political Science 22 (2019): 75-92.
Fajgelbaum, Pablo D., and Amit K. Khandelwal. "The economic impacts of the US-China trade war." Annual Review of Economics 14 (2022): 205-228.
Pandya, Sonal S. "Political economy of foreign direct investment: Globalized production in the twenty-first century." Annual Review of Political Science 19 (2016): 455-475.
Strange, S. (1970). International economics and international relations: a case of mutual neglect. International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), 304-315.
Monographic Part: On Internationalism

Week 7 : Internationalism: what is it?

Core Questions: What is internationalism? Are there different histories of internationalism? What is dead and what is still alive?

Meeting 13: What is internationalism?

Required reading
Halliday, Fred. "Three concepts of internationalism." International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) 64, no. 2 (1988): 187-198.

Suggested Readings
Lynch, Cecelia . "The Promise and Problems of Internationalism," Global Governance 5, no. 1 (January-March 1999): 83-102

Further Readings

Anderson, Perry. "Internationalism: A Breviary" , New Left Review 14 Mar/Apr 2002

De Orellana, Pablo, and Nicholas Michelsen. "Reactionary Internationalism: the philosophy of the New Right." Review of International Studies 45, no. 5 (2019): 748-767.

Dogliani, Patrizia. "The Fate of Socialist Internationalism." Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History (2017): 38-60.

Dunne, Tim, and Matt McDonald. "The politics of liberal internationalism." International Politics 50 (2013): 1-17.

Or Rosenboim. " Internationalism and Globalism in Mid-Twentieth-Century Political Thought". In: Rise of the International. Edited by: Richard Devetak and Tim Dunne, Oxford University Press. 2024

Steffek, Jens. "Fascist internationalism." Millennium 44, no. 1 (2015): 3-22.

Trubowitz, Peter, and Brian Burgoon. "The retreat of the west." Perspectives on Politics 20, no. 1 (2022): 102-122.

Trubowitz, Peter, and Brian Burgoon. Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture. Oxford University Press, 2023










Meeting 14: Where does internationalism come from?

Required reading
Sluga, Glenda, and Patricia Clavin, Rethinking the History of Internationalism pp3-12 in Internationalisms: a twentieth-century history. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Suggested Readings

Beiner, Ronald. "1989: Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Nairn-Hobsbawm Debate." European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie 40, no. 1 (1999): 171-184.

Brown, Stephen J., 'Catholic Internationalism', Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 14, 55 (1925), 476-9

Gerstle, Gary. The rise and fall of the neoliberal order: America and the world in the free market era. Oxford University Press, 2022.

Goswami, Manu. "Imaginary futures and colonial internationalisms." The American Historical Review 117, no. 5 (2012): 1461-1485.

Hetherington, Philippa, and Glenda Sluga. "Liberal and illiberal internationalisms." Journal of World History 31, no. 1 (2020): 1-10.

Doyle, Michael W. "Kant and liberal internationalism." Rethinking toward perpetual peace and other writings on politics, peace, and history (2006): 201-237.

Laqua, Daniel. "Democratic Politics and the League of Nations: The Labour and Socialist International as a Protagonist of Interwar Internationalism." Contemporary European History 24, no. 2 (2015): 175-192.

Sluga, Glenda. Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.


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Week 8 : Internationalism: alternatives and instruments?

Core Questions: What are the alternative and challenges to different forms of internationalisms? And what are the instruments developed to implement internationalism?

Meeting 15: What is the alternative to internationalism?


Required reading:
Mearsheimer, John J. "The False Promise of International Institutions." International Security 19, no. 3 (1994): 5-49.
Suggested readings:

Börzel, Tanja A., and Michael Zürn. "Contestations of the liberal international order: From liberal multilateralism to postnational liberalism." International organization 75, no. 2 (2021): 282-305.

Lee, Pak K., Anisa Heritage, and Zhouchen Mao. "Contesting liberal internationalism: China's renegotiation of world order." Cambridge Review of International Affairs 33, no. 1 (2020): 52-60.

Further readings:
De Vries, Catherine E., Sara B. Hobolt, and Stefanie Walter. "Politicizing international cooperation: The mass public, political entrepreneurs, and political opportunity structures." International Organization 75, no. 2 (2021): 306-332.

Barnett, Michael N., and Martha Finnemore. "The politics, power, and pathologies of international organizations." International organization 53, no. 4 (1999): 699-732.

Hoffmann, Stanley. "The crisis of liberal internationalism." Foreign Policy 98 (1995): 159-177.

Zürn, Michael. "Contested global governance." Global Policy , no. 1 (2018): 138-145.

Jahn, Beate. "Liberal internationalism: historical trajectory and current prospects." International Affairs 94, no. 1 (2018): 43-61.

Meeting 16: What are the instruments for internationalism?

Required reading:

Morse, Julia C., and Robert O. Keohane. "Contested multilateralism." The Review of international organizations 9 (2014): 385-412.

Suggested Reading
Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Mette, and Oliver Westerwinter. "The global governance complexity cube: Varieties of institutional complexity in global governance." The Review of International Organizations 17, no. 2 (2022): 233-262.

Further Readings
Abbott, Kenneth W., and Duncan Snidal. "Why states act through formal international organizations." Journal of conflict resolution 42, no. 1 (1998): 3-32.

Abbott, Kenneth W., and Benjamin Faude. "Hybrid institutional complexes in global governance." The Review of International Organizations 17, no. 2 (2022): 263-291.

Ruggie, John Gerard. "What makes the world hang together? Neo-utilitarianism and the social constructivist challenge." International organization 52, no. 4 (1998): 855-885.

Ruggie, John Gerard., "Multilateralism: The Anatomy of an Institution," International Organization 46, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 561-598

Stephen, Matthew D. "Emerging powers and emerging trends in global governance." Global governance (2017): 483-502.


Week 9 : Internationalism & Structural Challenges

Meeting 17: International Challenge I: Climate Change

Core questions: Is climate change triggering new tensions and conflicts? Can we predict if global politics will change as climate will vary?

Required Reading
Von Uexkull, Nina, and Halvard Buhaug. "Security implications of climate change: A decade of scientific progress." Journal of Peace Research 58, no. 1 (2021): 3-17.

Suggested Reading
Koubi, Vally. "Climate change and conflict." Annual review of political science 22 (2019): 343-360.

Further Readings

Mach, Katharine J., W. Neil Adger, Halvard Buhaug, Marshall Burke, James D. Fearon, Christopher B. Field, Cullen S. Hendrix et al. "Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict." Earth's Future (2020).

Böhmelt, Tobias, Thomas Bernauer, Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Theresa Tribaldos, and Gerdis Wischnath. "Demand, supply, and restraint: determinants of domestic water conflict and cooperation." Global Environmental Change29 (2014): 337-348.

Dinar, Shlomi, David Katz, Lucia De Stefano, and Brian Blankespoor. "Climate change, conflict, and cooperation: Global analysis of the effectiveness of international river treaties in addressing water variability." Political Geography 45 (2015): 55-66.
Vogler, Anselm. "Tracking climate securitization: Framings of climate security by civil and defense ministries." International Studies Review 25, no. 2 (2023): viad010.









Meeting 18: International Challenge II: Demography & Migrations

Core Questions: Do demographic changes matter for global politics? Can demography be weaponized?


Required Reading:
Brooks, Deborah Jordan, Stephen G. Brooks, Brian D. Greenhill, and Mark L. Haas. "The demographic transition theory of war: why young societies are conflict prone and old societies are the most peaceful." International Security 43, no. 3 (2019): 53-95.

Suggested Reading
McNamee, Lachlan, and Anna Zhang. "Demographic Engineering and International Conflict: Evidence from China and the Former USSR." International Organization 73, no. 2 (2019): 291-327.

Further Readings
Sciubba, Jennifer D. "Population aging as a global issue." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. 2020.

Brunborg, Helge, and Henrik Urdal. "The demography of conflict and violence: An introduction." Journal of Peace Research 42, no. 4 (2005): 371-374.

Meeting 18 : Migration and Forcible Displaced People

Required Reading:
Salehyan, Idean, and Burcu Savun. "Strategic Humanitarianism: Host States and Refugee Policy." Annual Review of Political Science 27 (2024).

Suggested Reading
Blair, Christopher W., Guy Grossman, and Jeremy M. Weinstein. "Forced displacement and asylum policy in the developing world." International Organization 76, no. 2 (2022): 337-378.

Further Readings
Arias, Sabrina B., and Christopher W. Blair. "Changing tides: public attitudes on climate migration." The Journal of Politics84, no. 1 (2022): 560-567.
Blair, Christopher W., Guy Grossman, and Jeremy M. Weinstein. "Liberal displacement policies attract forced migrants in the global south." American Political Science Review 116, no. 1 (2022): 351-358.
Bove, Vincenzo, and Tobias Böhmelt. "Does immigration induce terrorism?." The Journal of Politics 78, no. 2 (2016): 572-588.
Braithwaite, Alex, Idean Salehyan, and Burcu Savun. "Refugees, forced migration, and conflict: Introduction to the special issue." (2019): 5-11.
Briggs, Ryan C., and Omer Solodoch. "Changes in perceptions of border security influence desired levels of immigration." Journal of Conflict Resolution (2023): 00220027231195066.
Costalli, Stefano, Jessica Di Salvatore, and Andrea Ruggeri. "Do UN peace operations help forcibly displaced people?." Journal of Peace Research (2023): 00223433231186448.
Turkoglu, Oguzhan, and Sigrid Weber. "When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey." International Studies Quarterly 67, no. 2 (2023): sqad033.


Week 10 : Internationalism & Conflictual Challenges
Meeting 19: International Challenge III: Inequalities and Transnational Capitals
Core Questions: Has internationalism brought wealth? And inequalities? Can internationalism fix uneven development or not? Can demography be weaponized?

Required Reading:
Milanovic, Branko. "The three eras of global inequality, 1820-2020 with the focus on the past thirty years." World Development 177 (2024): 106516.

Suggested Reading:
Jongen, Hortense, and Jan Aart Scholte. "Inequality and legitimacy in global governance: an empirical study." European Journal of International Relations 28, no. 3 (2022): 667-695.

Further Readings:
Arel-Bundock, Vincent, and André Blais. "Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?." International Studies Quarterly 67, no. 2 (2023): sqad012.

Ban, Cornel, and Kevin Gallagher. "Recalibrating policy orthodoxy: The IMF since the great recession." Governance28, no. 2 (2015): 131-146.

Christensen, Rasmus Corlin, and Martin Hearson. "The new politics of global tax governance: Taking stock a decade after the financial crisis." Review of International Political Economy26, no. 5 (2019): 1068-1088.

Centeno, Miguel A., and Joseph N. Cohen. "The arc of neoliberalism." Annual review of sociology 38, no. 1 (2012): 317-340.

Deeg, Richard, and Mary A. O'Sullivan. "The political economy of global finance capital." World Politics 61, no. 4 (2009): 731-763.

Drezner, Daniel W. "The system worked: Global economic governance during the Great Recession." World Politics 66, no. 1 (2014): 123-164.

Haftel, Yoram Z., and Bar Nadel. "Economic crises and the survival of international organizations." The Review of International Organizations (2024): 1-26.

Hearson, Martin, and Todd N. Tucker. ""An Unacceptable Surrender of Fiscal Sovereignty": The Neoliberal Turn to International Tax Arbitration." Perspectives on Politics 21, no. 1 (2023): 225-240.

Lockwood, Erin. "The international political economy of global inequality." Review of International Political Economy 28, no. 2 (2021): 421-445.

Moschella, Manuela. "The institutional roots of incremental ideational change: The IMF and capital controls after the global financial crisis." The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 17, no. 3 (2015): 442-460.

Rixen, Thomas, and Brigitte Unger. "Taxation: A regulatory multilevel governance perspective." Regulation & Governance16, no. 3 (2022): 621-633.



Meeting 20: International Challenge III: Conflict Resolution & Peace

Core Questions: Is conflict and international affair? Are policies born from internationalism successful or not to manage conflict? Can be peace an aim of internationalism?

Required Reading:
Gowan, Richard. "The Treatment of Civil Wars in a Fragmenting International Order." Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 30, no. 2 (2024): 203-213.

Suggested Reading:
Paris, Roland. "The past, present, and uncertain future of collective conflict management: Peacekeeping and beyond." Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 17, no. 3 (2023): 235-257.

Further Readings:

Bove, Vincenzo, Chiara Ruffa, and Andrea Ruggeri. Composing peace: Mission composition in UN peacekeeping. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Costalli, Stefano, Jessica Di Salvatore, and Andrea Ruggeri. "Do UN peace operations help forcibly displaced people?." Journal of Peace Research (2023): 00223433231186448.

Fearon, James D. "Civil war & the current international system." Dædalus 146, no. 4 (2017): 18-32.

Gowan, Richard, and Stephen John Stedman. "The international regime for treating civil war, 1988-2017." Daedalus 147, no. 1 (2018): 171-184.

Karreth, Johannes, Jaroslav Tir, Jason Quinn, and Madhav Joshi. "Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements." Journal of Peace Research (2024): 00223433231211766.

Jahn, Beate. "Liberal internationalism." Richmond; Visoka, The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation (2021): 31-41.

Lee, Melissa M. "International statebuilding and the domestic politics of state development." Annual Review of Political Science 25, no. 1 (2022): 261-281.

Lundgren, Magnus, and Isak Svensson. "The surprising decline of international mediation in armed conflicts." Research & Politics 7, no. 2 (2020): 2053168020917243.

Paris, Roland. "Peacebuilding and the limits of liberal internationalism." International security 22, no. 2 (1997): 54-89.

Rohner, Dominic. "Mediation, military, and money: The promises and pitfalls of outside interventions to end armed conflicts." Journal of Economic Literature 62, no. 1 (2024): 155-195.

Walter, Barbara F., Lise Morje Howard, and V. Page Fortna. "The extraordinary relationship between peacekeeping and peace." British Journal of Political Science 51, no. 4 (2021): 1705-1722.