International Relations Reading/Discussion Group

 

Seventh Meeting:

May 20, 2005, Noon-1:30

Room 273

Topic: Democracy and international trade

 

Bliss, Harry and Bruce Russett. (1998) “Democratic Trading Partners: The Liberal Connection, 1962-1989.” Journal of Politics 60(4): 1126-47.

Mansfield, Edward D., Helen V. Milner and B. Peter Rosendorff. (2002) “Why Democracies Cooperate More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements.” International Organization 56(3): 477-513.

Milner, Helen V. and Keiko Kubota. (2005) “Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing Countries.” International Organization 59(1): 107-143.

 

 

Sixth Meeting:

April 22, 2005, Noon-1:30

Room 273

Topic: The impact of domestic politics on military effectiveness

 

Rosen, Stephen Peter (1995).  "Military Effectiveness: Why Society Matters."  International Security 19(4): 5-31.
 
Reiter, Dan and Allan C. Stam (1998).  Democracy and Battlefield Military Effectiveness. Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(3): 259-277.
 
Biddle, Steve and Scott Long (2004).  Democracy and military effectiveness - A deeper look. Journal of Conflict Resolution 48(4): 525-546. 

 

Fifth Meeting:

January 28, 2005, Noon-1:30

Room 1261 (note room Change)

Topic: Is the best defense a good offense?

Offensive Realism versus Defensive Realism

and its implications for policy in the 21st Century

 

Glenn H. Snyder 2002. Mearsheimer’sWorld—Offensive Realism and the Struggle for Security International Security 27( 31): 149–173.

 

Jeffrey Taliaferro 2000. Seeking Security Under Anarchy - Defensive Realism Revisted. International Security 25(3): 128-161.

 

Stephen Van Evera 1998. Offense, defense, and the causes of war.International Security. 22(4): 5-43.

 

 

Fourth Meeting:

January 14, 2005, Noon-1:30

Room 273

Topic: State Building

 

Krasner, Stephen. 2004. Sharing Sovereignty: New Institutions for Collapsed and Failing States, International Security, 29(2): 85-120.

Owen, John M. 2002. The Foreign Imposition of Domestic Institutions, International Organization, 56(2): 375-409.

Gourevitch, Peter. 1978. The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of Domestic Politics, International Organization, 32(4):881-912.

 

Third Meeting:

December 10, 2004, Noon-1:30

Room 273

Topic: Intelligence Failures

Readings:

Robert Axelrod 1979. The Rational Timing of Surprise, World Politics, 31(2): 228-246.

Uri Bar-Joseph and Arie W. Kruglansky 2003. Intelligence Failure and Need for Cognitive Closure: On the Psychology of the Yom Kippur Surprise, Political Psychology, 24(1): 75-99.

Richard Wangraham 1999. Is Military Incompetence Adaptive? Evolution and Human Behavior, 20(1): 3-17.
 

 

Second Meeting:

November 12, 2004, Noon-1:30

International mediation

Room 273

Topic: Economic Sanctions

Readings:

Robert Hart: "Democracy and the Successful Use of Economic Sanctions," Political Research Quarterly, June 2000: 267-284.

Robert Pape,  "Why Economic Sanctions Still Don't Work," International Security, Summer 1998: 66-77.
 

 

First Meeting:

October 29, 2004, Noon-1:30

International mediation

Room 273

Topic: International Mediation

Readings:

1. Philip A. Schrodt and Deborah J. Gerner.  2004.  "An Event Data Analysis of Third-Party Mediation."

Journal of Conflict Resolution.  48(3): 310-330.

 

2. Andrew Kydd.  2003. "Which Side are You on?  Bias, Credibility and Mediation." 

American Journal of Political Science.  47(4):597-611.

 

3. Jonathan Wilkenfeld et al.  2003.   "Mediation International Crises: Cross-national and Experimental Perspectives."

Journal of Conflict Resolution.  47(3): 279-301.

 

 

Copies of readings are in the copy room