Produce an essay of 2,000 words on one of the following questions:
Is liberal institutionalism a successful explanation of international cooperation?
The purpose of this assignment is for students to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the debates around a particular theoretical perspective on international relations. It is intended to provide a theoretical foundation for the second piece of work.
Reading
Scott Burchill, Liberalism, in Burchill, Linklater et al, Theories of International Relations.
Question 1
Martin Ceadal, The Founding Text of International Relations? Norman Angell’s Seminal Yet Flawed The Grand Illusion, Review of International Studies, vol.37, no.4, (October 2011), p1671.
Michael Doyle, Ways of War and Peace (1997)
David Mitrany, A Working Peace System (1966)
Paul Rich, Reinventing Peace: David Davies, Alfred Zimmern and Liberal Internationalism in Interwar Britain, International Relations, vol.16, no.1, (2001), p117
Questions 2 and 3
Robert Axelrod, The Complexity of Cooperation (1997)
David A. Baldwin (ed), Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate (1993), esp. chapters 1, 2, 4, and 11
Robert Keohane, After Hegemony: Co-operation and Discord in the World Political Economy, (1984)
Robert Keohane, Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World, (2002)
John J. Mearsheimer, The False Promise of International Institutions, International Security, vol.19, no.3 (Winter 1994/95) – available from http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0021.pdf
Andrew Moravcsik, Liberal International Relations Theory: A Scientific Assessment in Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman (eds), Progress in International Relations Theory (2002) – available via http://www.princeton.edu/~amoravcs/publications.html
Andrew Moravcsik, Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics, International Organization, vol.51, no.4 (1997) – available as above
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