Week 4

Key Concepts (I)

Session 07: Anarchy and the Security Dilemma

Required readings:

  • Milner, Helen. “The Assumption of Anarchy in International Relations Theory: A Critique.” Review of International Studies 17, no.1 (1991): 67–85.

Recommended readings:

  • Herz, John. “Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma.” World Politics 2, no.2 (1950): 157-80.
  • Wendt, Alexander. “Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics.” International Organization 46, no.2 (1992): 391-425.

Giovanni Battista Trotti, God Enthroned Surrounded by Saints, possibly 1585/1590. Pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper, 40.8 × 40.2 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Public domain.

Session 08: Sovereignty

Required readings:

  • Krasner, Stephen. “Chapter 1: Sovereignty and Its Discontents”. In Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy, pp. 3-42. 1999.

Recommended readings:

  • Biersteker, Thomas J. “State, Sovereignty and Territory.” In Handbook of International Relations, 2nd ed., edited by Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth A. Simmons, 245-72. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2012.
  • Deng, F. M. Sovereignty as Responsibility for the Prevention of Genocide. In P. Akhavan & R. Provost (Eds.), Confronting Genocide (Vol. 7, pp. 57–79). Springer Netherlands. 2010.