Introductory course
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Roberts, Adam: Towards a World Community? The United Nations and International Law, 1998. pp. 305-318 in Howard, Michael and Wm. Roger Loius (eds.). The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press,.
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Snyder, Jack: From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict, 2000. pp. 15-43..
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Waltz, Kenneth N.: The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory, pp 615-28 in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 18, no. 4: 1988.
Walzer, Michael: Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, 2000. pp. 51-108 in Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. 3rd. Edition, . .