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Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Introduction to the course |
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| 2) |
Great Power Politics |
• John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pp. 1-82
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• Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 1979, pp. 60-128.
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| 3) |
Regional Powers and Regions |
• Michael Handel, Weak States in the International System, London: Frank Cass, 1981, pp. 1-65.
• Yasemin Bilgel, Regional Power Politics after the Cold War, The University of Chicago dissertation, pp. 19-29.
• Robert Stewart-Ingersoll and Derrick Frazier, Regional Powers and Security Orders, New York: Routledge Press, 2013, pp. 1-40.
• T.V. Paul, “Regional Transformation in International Relations,” in International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation, ed. by T.V. Paul, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 3-21.
• Barry Buzan, “How Regions Were Made and the Legacies for World Politics: An English School Reconnaissance,” in International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation, ed. by T.V. Paul, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 22-48.
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| 4) |
Regional Powers’ Security: Goal of Regional Hegemony? |
• Dale C. Copeland, “Realism and Neorealism in the Study of Regional Conflict,” in International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation, ed. by T.V. Paul, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 49-73.
• Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, “Neoclassical Realism and the Study of Regional Order,” in International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation, ed. by T.V. Paul, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 74- 106.
• Robert Stewart-Ingersoll and Derrick Frazier, Regional Powers and Security Orders: A Theoretical Framework, New York: Routledge Press, 2013, pp. 41-94.
• Miriam Prys, “Hegemony, Domination, Detachment: Differences in Regional Powerhood,” International Studies Review, 12:4, Summer 2010, pp. 479-504.
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| 5) |
Regional Powers During the Cold War |
• Michael Handel, Weak States in the International System, London: Frank Cass, 1981, pp. 169-216. |
| 6) |
Regional Powers After the Cold War |
• William C. Wohlforth, “The Stability of a Unipolar World,” International Security, 24:1, Summer 1999, pp. 5-41.
• Robert A. Pape, “Soft Balancing Against the United States,” International Security, 30:1, Summer 2005, pp. 7-45.
• Nuno P. Monteiro, “Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity is not Peaceful,” International Security, 36:3, Winter 2011-2012, pp. 9-40.
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| 7) |
Regional Power Politics from the Perspective of Regional Powers |
• Yasemin Bilgel, Regional Power Politics after the Cold War, The University of Chicago dissertation, pp. 30-62. |
| 8) |
Midterm |
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| 9) |
Regional Powers and Nuclear Weapons |
• Scott D. Sagan, “Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?: Three Models in Search of a Bomb,” International Security, 21:3, Winter 1996-1997, pp. 54-86.
• T. V. Paul, Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, Quebec: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000, pp. 3-61.
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| 10) |
Americas: Uniqueness of the United States |
• Fareed Zakaria, From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 3-43, 90-127.
• Michael Beckley, Unrivaled: Why America will Remain the World’s Sole Superpower, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018, pp. 1-32.
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| 11) |
Europe and Regional Power Politics |
• John J. Mearsheimer, “Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War,” International Security, 15:1, Summer 1990, pp. 5- 56.
• John S. Duffield, “Explaining the Long Peace in Europe: The Contributions of Regional Security Regimes,” Review of International Studies, 20:4, 1994, pp. 369-388.
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| 12) |
The Middle East and Regional Power Politics |
• Rashid Khalidi, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East, Boston: Beacon Press, 2009, pp. 70-100, (recommended pp. 101-158).
• Svante E. Cornell, “What Drives Turkish Foreign Policy?” Middle East Quarterly, 19:1, Winter 2012, pp. 13-24.
• Yasemin Bilgel, “Turkey’s Activism in the Middle East: The Role of Structural Factors,” in Turkey in Transition: Politics, Society and Foreign Policy, ed. by Ebru Canan-Sokullu, Berlin: Peter Land, 2020, pp. 193-208.
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| 13) |
Africa and Regional Power Politics |
• Elizabeth Schmidt, Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 18-34, 120, 193-230.
• Miriam Prys, “Regional Hegemon or Regional Bystander: South Africa’s Zimbabwe Policy 2000-2005,” Politikon, 36:2, 2009, pp. 193-218.
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| 14) |
Asia and Regional Power Politics: The Rise of China |
• Mohammed Ayoob, “India as Regional Hegemon: External Opportunities and Internal Constraints,” International Journal, 56:3, 1991, pp. 420-448.
• Michael Auslin, “Japan’s New Realism,” Foreign Affairs, 95:2, March/April 2016, pp. 125-134.
• John J. Mearsheimer, “The Gathering Storm: China’s Challenge to US Power in Asia,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 3:4, 2010, pp. 381-396.
• Charles Glaser, “Will China’s Rise Lead to War?” Foreign Affairs, 90:2, March 2011, pp. 80-91.
• Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, “The Once and Future Superpower: Why China Won’t Overtake the United States,” Foreign Affairs, 95:3, May/June 2016, pp. 91-104.
• Recommended: Michael Beckley, Unrivaled: Why America will Remain the World’s Sole Superpower, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018, pp. 98-134.
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