Evolution of Global Political Order

Week 1 ‘The Problem of Order’
Seminar 1
Introduction
Seminar2
Robert Cox, ‘Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory’, in Robert Keohane ed. Neorealism and Its Critics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).
N.J. Rengger, ‘International Relations Theory and the Problem of Order’ in International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order: Beyond International Relations Theory? (London: Routledge, 2000): 1-33.
Week 2 Out of Europe
Seminar 3
Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001): 98-178.
Geddes W. Rutherford, ‘Spheres of Influence: An Aspect of Semi-Suzerainty’, The American Journal of International Law, 1926, 20/2: 300-325
Seminar 4
John M. Hobson and J. C. Sharman,’ The Enduring Place of Hierarchy in World Politics: Tracing the Social Logics of Hierarchy and Political Change’,European Journal of International Relations, 2005: 11-63
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001): 161-182.
Week 3 The ‘twenty years largely wasted’
Seminar 5
E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years’ Crisis (London: Macmillan, 1946): 22-94.
Hans Morgenthau, Scientific Man vs. Power Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946): 1-40, 204-223.
Seminar 6
Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer: 413-509.
Week 4 The End of Politics?
Seminar 7
John P. McCormick, ‘Fear, Technology, and the State: Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and the Revival of Hobbes in Weimar and National Socialist Germany’, Political Theory, 1994, 22/4: 619-652.
Todd Samuel Presner, ‘The End of Sex and the Last Man: On the Weimar Utopia of Ernst Jünger’s “Worker”’ Qui Parle, 2001, 13/1: 103-136
Seminar 8
Jean-Michel Besnier, ‘Georges Bataille in the 1930s: A Politics of the Impossible’, Yale French Studies,1990, 78: 169-180
Gérard de Puymège, ‘The Good Soldier Chauvin’, in Pierre Nora et al, Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997): 333-362.
Week 5 Fascism and Totalitarianism
Seminar 9
Michael Mann, Fascists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 11-91
Seminar 10
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, 1976): 267-302, 460-479.
Week 6 The Holocaust
Seminar 11
Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989): 1-30, 83-116.
Seminar 12
Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz : the witness and the archive (New York : Zone Books, 1999)
Week 7 Post-WWII Settlement
Seminar 13
Stephen D. Krasner, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999): 1984-219.
Gerry Simpson, Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in International Legal Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 165-193.
Seminar 14
George Kennan, American Diplomacy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951): 107-154.
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982): 1-88.
Week 8 Cold war
Seminar 15
Stanley Hoffmann, ‘Will the Balance Balance at Home?’ Foreign Policy, 1972, 7: 60-87.
Hans Morgenthau, ‘The New Diplomacy of Movement’, Encounter, 1974, August: 52-57.
Hans Morgenthau, ‘Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State’, Encounter, 1974, November: 57-61.
Seminar 16
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (New York: BasicBooks, 1977): 86-108.
Michael Mann, ‘Communist Cleansing: Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot’ in The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005): 318-352.
Week 9 The end of the cold war
Seminar 17
John Mearsheimer, ‘Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War’, International Security, 15, 1: 5-56.
William Wohlforth, ‘Realism and the end of the Cold War’, International Security, 19, 3: 91-129.
Seminar 18
Richard Ned Lebow, ‘The long peace, the end of the cold war, and the failure of realism’, International Organization, 48, 2: 249-277.
K.M. Fierke, Changing games, changing strategies: critical investigations in security (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998): 1-13, 154-209.
Week 10 Post-cold war settlement?
Seminar 19
Stephen Gill, ‘Theorizing the interregnum: the double movement and global politics’, in Louise Amoore ed. The Global Resistance Reader (London: Routledge, 2005): 54-64.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire: 1-66.
Seminar 20
R.B.J. Walker, ‘Social movements/world politics’, Global Resistance: 136-149.
Roland Bleiker, ‘Political boundaries, poetic transgressions’, Global Resistance: 411-422.
Week 11’The Problem of Order’ revisited
Seminar 21
Fred Dallmayr, ‘Conversation across boundaries: Political theory and global diversity’, Millennium, 2001, 2.
Robert Cox, ‘Thinking about civilizations’, Review of International Studies, 2000, 5-217.
Seminar 22
Toni Erskine, ‘”Citizen of nowehere” or “the point where circles intersect”? Impartialism and embedded cosmopolitanisms’, Review of International Studies, 2002, 3: 457-478.
Jean Bethke Elshtein, ‘Sovereignty, Identity, Sacrifice’ in Critical Concepts: 1880-1893.
Week 12
Concluding discussion