Syllabus

TEXTBOOK

Students must BUY this book, available at the bookstore “Akademika”, Blindern campus.

The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (2016). Seventh edition. Edited by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198739852

Articles 

Available in printed compendia or electronic via the university library (requires UiO log on)

• Abrahms, Max. "Why terrorism does not work." International Security 31.2 (2006): 42-78. (https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publication/is3102_pp042-078_abrahms.pdf)
• Aistrope, Tim, and Roland Bleiker. "Conspiracy and foreign policy." Security Dialogue (2018): 0967010617748305 (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0967010617748305)
• Allison, Roy. Russian ‘deniable’intervention in Ukraine: how and why Russia broke the rules. International Affairs, 2014, 90.6.(http://commonweb.unifr.ch/artsdean/pub/gestens/f/as/files/4760/39349_202339.pdf)
• Aron, Leon. (2013). "The Putin Doctrine", Foreign Affairs. 8 Mar. 2013. Web. 10 Apr. 2014. (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2013-03-08/putin-doctrine)
• DEREK AVERRE, LANCE DAVIES; Russia, humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: the case of Syria, International Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 4, 1 July 2015, Pages 813–834,  (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-2346.12343)
• Ayres, Alyssa. "Will India Start Acting Like a Global Power?" Foreign Affairs. vol. 96, November/December 2017, pp 83-92 
• Avey, Paul C., and Michael C. Desch. "What do policymakers want from us? Results of a survey of current and former senior national security decision makers." International Studies Quarterly 58.2 (2014): 227-246. (https://doi.org/10.1111/isqu.12111)
• Bandarage, Asoka. “The‘Norwegian Model: Political Economy of NGO Peacemaking.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol. 17, no. 2, 2011, pp. 221–242.,(http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24590809.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A2c823a6ce3d0d7577e0e7d207ca0ada6)
• Bellamy, Alex J. 2011. “Libya and  the Responsibility to Protect: The Exception and the Norm.” Ethics & International Affairs 25 (3),(https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/3E26C89D5AF5E3A2ADB5CA5D8F2478A9/S0892679411000219a.pdf/libya_and_the_responsibility_to_protect_the_exception_and_the_norm.pdf)
• Braumoeller, Bear, Is War Disappearing? (August 27, 2013). APSA Chicago 2013 Meeting. Available at SSRN:  (https://ssrn.com/abstract=2317269)
• Busby, Josh (2015). 4 Things the US Can Do to Reinforce China’s Actions on Climate Change. Duck of Minerva (http://duckofminerva.com/2015/07/4-things-the-us-can-do-to-reinforce-chinas-actions-on-climate-change.html )
• Dov H. Levin; When the Great Power Gets a Vote: The Effects of Great Power Electoral Interventions on Election Results, International Studies Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, 1 June 2016, Pages 189–202 (https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/60/2/189/1750842)
• Draege, Jonas Bergan. "The formation of Syrian opposition coalitions as two-level games." The Middle East Journal 70.2 (2016): 189-210.(https://muse.jhu.edu/article/614792/pdf)
• Dyke, James. Don’t wait for global politics to fix climate change – we can do it ourselves. The Conversation. (https://theconversation.com/dont-wait-for-global-politics-to-fix-climate-change-we-can-do-it-ourselves-50687)
• Floyd, Rita. "Parallels with the hate speech debate: the pros and cons of criminalising harmful securitising requests." Review of International Studies 44.1 (2018): 43-63.(https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/554C13D6BA6CA4F02B2A9498D0EDA10D/S0260210517000328a.pdf/parallels_with_the_hate_speech_debate_the_pros_and_cons_of_criminalising_harmful_securitising_requests.pdf)
• Fravel, M. Taylor. "Shifts in Warfare and Party Unity: Explaining China's Changes in Military Strategy." International Security 42.3 (2018): 37-83.(https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/ISEC_a_00304)
• Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede. "Transnational dimensions of civil war." Journal of Peace Research 44.3 (2007): 293-309 (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022343307076637)
• Hansen Lene (2011), The politics of securitization and the Muhammad cartoon crisis: A post-structuralist perspective, Security Dialogue. Vol 42, Issue 4-5, pp. 357 – 369 (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0967010611418999)
• Höglund, Kristine, and Isak Svensson. "Mediating between tigers and lions: Norwegian peace diplomacy in Sri Lanka's civil war." Contemporary South Asia 17.2 (2009): 175-191 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09584930902870792#aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8wOTU4NDkzMDkwMjg3MDc5Mj9uZWVkQWNjZXNzPXRydWVAQEAw)
• Howard, Lise Morjé, and Alexandra Stark. "How Civil Wars End: The International System, Norms, and the Role of External Actors." International Security 42.3 (2018): 127-171. (https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/ISEC_a_00305)
• Jaffe, Amy Myers. "Green Giant." Foreign Affairs. March/April 2018.
• Kagan, Robert (2012). “Not fade away”. New Republic, January 11. (https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/not-fade-away-against-the-myth-of-american-decline/)
• Kaarbo, Juliet. (2015) A Foreign Policy Analysis Perspective on the Domestic Politics Turn in IR Theory. International Studies Review, (https://doi.org/10.1111/misr.12213)
• Kirshner, Jonathan. "The tragedy of offensive realism: Classical realism and the rise of China." European Journal of International Relations 18.1 (2012): 53-75.(http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1354066110373949)
• Khong, Yuen Foong. "Primacy or World Order? The United States and China's Rise—A Review Essay." (2014)(https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00147)
• Kohli, Atul. (2010). “Chapter 33: Politics and Redistribution in India”, in Jayal & Mehta (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Politics in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (bok)
• Kuchins, Andrew C., and Igor A. Zevelev. (2012). "Russian Foreign Policy: Continuity in Change." The Washington Quarterly 35:1, pp. 147-161.(https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwaq20/35/1?nav=tocList#aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8wMTYzNjYwWC4yMDEyLjY0Mjc4N0BAQDg=)
• Laursen, Finn. (2002). Theories of European Intergration. Background Paper, Graduate Institute of European Studies, Tamkang University.(http://eui.lib.tku.edu.tw/files/archive/49_31599d65.pdf)
• Mazarr, Michael J. "The Rise and Fall of the Failed-State Paradigm: Requiem for a Decade of Distraction." Foreign Affairs 93.1 (2014): 113-121. 
• Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen M. Walt. "Leaving theory behind: Why simplistic hypothesis testing is bad for International Relations." European Journal of International Relations 19.3 (2013): 427-457. (http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/Leaving%20Theory%20Behind%20EJIR.pdf)
• Milliken, Jennifer and Keith Krause (2002), “State Failure, State Collapse and State Reconstruction”, Development and Change 33(5): 753-774 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-7660.t01-1-00247)
• Monaco, Lisa. "Preventing the Next Attack." Foreign Affairs. Vol. 96 November/December 2017
• Pisarska, Katarzyna. "Peace Diplomacy and the Domestic Dimension of Norwegian Foreign Policy: The Insider's Accounts." Scandinavian Political Studies 38.2 (2015): 198-215. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9477.12042) 
• Putnam, Robert D. “Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games.” International Organization, vol. 42, no. 3, 1988, pp. 427–460.,(https://www.jstor.org/stable/2706785)
• Quek, Kai, and Alastair Iain Johnston. "Can China Back Down? Crisis De-escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition." International Security 42.3 (2018): 7-36.(https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00303)
• Robinson, David A. (2011a). “India’s Rise as a Great Power, Part One: Regional and Global Implications”.  Future Directions International – Associate Pape http://futuredirections.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FDI%20Associate%20Paper%20-%2007%20July%202011.pdf
• Robinson, David A. (2011b). “India’s Rise as a Great Power, Part Two: The Pakistan-China-India Dynamic”. Future Directions International – Associate Paper http://futuredirections.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FDI%20Associate%20Paper%20-%2014%20July%202011.pdf
• Sandler, Todd. "The analytical study of terrorism: Taking stock." Journal of Peace Research 51.2 (2014): 257-271.(http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022343313491277)
• Schweller, Randall L., and Xiaoyu Pu. "After unipolarity: China's visions of international order in an era of US decline." International Security 36.1 (2011): 41-72.(https://myweb.rollins.edu/tlairson/china/chinavisionusdecline.pdf)
• Sørli, Mirjam E., Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Håvard Strand. "Why is there so much conflict in the Middle East?." Journal of Conflict Resolution 49.1 (2005): 141-165.(http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022002704270824)
• Tannenwald, Nina. "The nuclear taboo: The United States and the normative basis of nuclear non-use." International organization 53.3 (1999): 433-468.(https://doi.org/10.1162/002081899550959)
• Valbjørn, Morten. “International Relations Theory and the New Middle East: Three Levels of a Debate.” Pomeps Studies 16: International Relations Theory and a Changing Middle East (2015): 74–79. (https://pomeps.org/2015/08/25/international-relations-theory-and-the-new-middle-east-three-clusters-of-a-debate/)
• Walt, Stephen M. (1998). “International Relations: One World, Many Theories,” Foreign Policy (110), 29-32+34-46. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1149275?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)
• Walt, Stephen M. "ISIS as Revolutionary State." Foreign Affairs. Vol 94 (2015): 42.
• Walt, Stephen "Yes, Trump and Kim Can Make a Deal That’s Good for Everyone" Foreign Policy April 25, 2018. (http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/25/heres-how-trump-and-kim-can-make-a-deal-thats-good-for-everyone/)
• Walter Barbara F. The Extremist’s Advantage in Civil Wars. International Security, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Fall 2017), pp. 7–39, (https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publication/ISEC_a_00292-Walter_proof3.pdf)
• Wohlforth, W., De Carvalho, B., Leira, H., & Neumann, I. (2018). Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking. Review of International Studies, 44(3), 526-546. doi:10.1017/S0260210517000560 Read online