ASTK15404U COURSE: Sociological approaches in International Relations

Week 1. Introduction

Week 2. Constructivism in IR

• Hollis, Martin and Steve Smith, Explaining and Understanding in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 1990) : 1-15, 45-91.

• Adler, Emanuel, “Constructivism and International Relations: Sources, Contribution, and Debates,” Handbook of International Relations edited by Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth A. Simmons (London: SAGE Publications, 2013) : 112-145.

• Fearon, James, and Alexander Wendt. "Rationalism v. Constructivism: A Skeptical View," Handbook of International Relations edited by Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth A. Simmons (London: SAGE Publications, 2002) : 52–72.

(113 pages)

Week 3. Pioneer 1: Alexander Wendt

• Wendt, Alexander. "The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory." International Organization 41, no. 3 (1987): 335–370.

• Wendt, Alexander. "Anarchy is What States Make of It : the Social Construction of Power Politics," International Organization 46, no. 02 (1992) : 391-425

• Wendt, Alexander. "On Constitution and Causation in International Relations," Review of International Studies 24, no. 05 (1998): 101–118

(86 pages)

Week 4. Pioneer 2:  John Gerrad Ruggie

• Ruggie, John G. “International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order,” International Organization 36, no. 2 (1982): 379–415.

• Ruggie, John G. “What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-Utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge,” International Organization 52 (1998): 855-885.

• Ruggie, John G., “Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations,” International Organization 46, no.1 (1993), 139–174.

(91 pages)

Week 5. The role of interactions

• Bourdieu, Pierre and Loïc Wacquant, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. The University of Chicago Pres, 1992. 1-47

• Bourdieu, Pierre. Outline of a Theory of Practice. (New York : New York University press, 1977) 1-10.

(47 pages)

Week 6.  An interactionist approach of International relations

• Mérand, Frédéric. European Defence Policy beyond the Nation State. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) : 113-135.

• Adler Nissen, Rebecca. ‘Symbolic Power in European diplomacy. The struggle between nation foreign services and the EU’s External Action Service,” Review of International Studies . 1-25.

• Sending, Ole Jacob, The Politics of Expertise : Competing for Authority in Global Governance (University of Michigan Press, 2015) : 1-41.

 (86 pages)

Week 7: The power of discourse

• Foucault, Michel,"The discourse on Language" in The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language (New York : Pantheon Books, 1972) : 215-230.

• Foucault, Michel, Disciplined and Punished. New York . (Vintage Books, 1995) : 1-31.

(44 pages)

Week 8:  Discourse analysis in IR

• Hansen, Lene. Security as Practice : Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War. London; New York: Routledge, 2006 : 84-101.  

• Hall, Rodney Bruce. "The Discursive Demolition of the Asian Development Model". International Studies Quarterly 47, no. 1 (2003): 71–99.

• Tannenwald, Nina. ‘The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use’. International Organization 53, no. 03 (1999): 433–468.

(80 pages)

Week 9. Governmentality

• Foucault, Michel, Security, Territory, population : lectures at the Collège de France (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) : 126-145.

• Miller, Peter and Nikolas Rose, 2008, Governing the Present. Cambridge.  Polity Press, 2008 : 1-51.

  (69 pages)

Week 10. The “governmentalisation” of International Relations

• Neumann and Sending, “Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power,” 2006, International Studies Quarterly : 651-672.

• Knafo, Samuel, The Making of Global Finance : Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard. New YorkRoutledge : 1-58.

(78 pages)

Week 11. International System

• Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. (Beacon Press, 2001) : 3-30.

• Reus-Smit, Christian, The Moral Purpose of the State (Princeton University Press, 1999) : 3-11, 26-39.

• Branch, Jordan. ‘Mapping the Sovereign State: Technology, Authority, and Systemic Change’. International Organization 65, no. 01 (January 2011): 1–36.

(83 pages)

Week 12: International Organisation

• Barnett, Michael, and Martha Finnemore. Rules For the World: International Organization in Global Politics. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004) : 16-72.

• Sending, Ole Jacob, The Politics of Expertise : Competing for Authority in Global Governance (University of Michigan Press, 2015) : 44-108.

(120 pages)

Week 13. International Markets

• MacKenzie, Donald. An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008) : 37-88.

• Fourcade, Marion, 2006, “The construction of a Global Profession. The Transnalization of Economics,”( American Journal of Sociology 112, vol 1) :145-194.

(100 pages)

(998 pages)

Week 14: Conclusion