Required reading (29 pages)

a) Waltz, Kenneth. 1995. “Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory.” In Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge. Ed. Charles Kegley. New York: St. Martin’s Press: 67-81.

b) Waltz, Kenneth. 1979. Theory of International Politics. New York: McGraw-Hill: 88-101.

Optional reading:

a) Gilpin, Robert. 1988. War and Change in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 9-15 and 211-230. 

b) Ashley, Richard. 1986. “The Poverty of Neorealism.” In Neorealism and Its Critics. Ed. Robert Keohane. New York: Columbia University Press: 267-293. 

c) Grieco, Joseph. 1997. “Realist International Theory and the Study of World Politics.” In New Thinking in International Relations Theory. Eds. Michael Doyle and John Ikenberry. Boulder: Westview: 177-191