Session 3 (Wednesday 3:00-4:30 pm)

Realism & Liberalism

Required reading:
Wohlforth, William C. 2012. "Realism and foreign policy." In Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases, edited
by Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne, 35-53. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Doyle, Michael C. 2012. "Liberalism and foreign policy." In Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases, edited
by Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne, 54-77. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Further reading:
Beach, Derek. 2012. "System-Level Factors." In Analyzing Foreign Policy, 31-57. New York: Palgrave
MacMillan.
Elman, Colin. 1996. "Horses for Courses: Why not Neorealist Theories of Foreign Policy." Security
Studies no. 6 (1):7-53.
Heinze, Eric A. 2008. "The New Utopianism: Liberalism, American Foreign Policy, and the War
in Iraq." Journal of International Political Theory no. 4 (1):105-125.
Karns, Margaret P., and Karen A. Mingst. 1987. "International Organizations and Foreign Policy:
Influence and Instrumentality." In New Directions in the Study of Foreign Policy, edited by Charles F.
Hermann, Jr. Charles W. Kegley and James N. Rosenau. Boston: Allen & Unwin.
Keohane, Robert O., and Joseph S. Nye. 2011. "Power and Interdependence." In, 3-18. London:
Pearson.
Lipson, Charles. 1984. "International Cooperation in Security and Economic Affairs." World Politics
no. 37:1-23.
Lobell, Steven E., Norrin M. Ripsman, and Jeffrey W. Taliaferro. 2009. Neoclassical Realism, the State,
and Foreign Policy. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
Mearsheimer, John J. 1994. "The False Promise of International Institutions." International Security
no. 19 (3):5-49.
Morgenthau, Hans. 2005. A Realist Theory of International Politics. Edited by Hans J.
Ripsman, M. Norrin, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, and Steven E. Lobell. 2016. Neoclassical Realist Theory of
International Politics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Rose, Gideon. 1998. "Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy." World Politics no. 51
(1):144-172.
Waltz, Kenneth N. 1988. "The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory." Journal of Interdisciplinary
History no. 18 (4):615-628.