Weeks 1 - 2:

• The Nature and Objectives of International Relations;
• The Nature of Theory in International Relations;
• The Levels of Analysis: Normative Theory;
• The Traditional and Contemporary Paradigms

• Utopianism: A Normative Theory of International Relations
• Woodrow Wilson and International Order
• Utopianism in U.S. Foreign Policy
• The Behavioralist-Traditionalist Controversy
• The Level of Analysis Problem in International Relations Theory
• The Role of Normative Theory in the Study of International Relations

Basic Readings:
 
 

Carr, E.H.

* The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 (New York: Harper Torchback, paperback), pp.1-63

Dougherty, James E. and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.

*Contending Theories of International Relations, 3rd ed. (New York: Harper and Row, 1990), Chapters 1 and 13

Ferguson, Yale H. and Richard W. Mansbach

* The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988), pp.3-48; 111-142; 186-222.

Holsti, K.J.

* The Dividing Discipline (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987) pp.1-60; 82-150

Lee, James R.

"The New World Order and the Study of International Relations: Has Anything Changed?" in Olson, William, The Theory and Practice of International Relations (Prentice Hall, 1994)

Rosenau, James N.

"The Reallocation of Authority in a Shrinking World," in Olson, William, The Theory and Practice of International Relations (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1994)

Angell, Norman

America's Dilemma: Alone or Allied? (New York: Harper Brothers, 1940)

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After All (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951)

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The Great Illusion: The Relation of Military Power to National Advantage (New York: Putnam Press, 1913)

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Let the People Know (New York: Viking Press, 1942)

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The Political Conditions of Allied Success (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1918)

Bailey, S.R.

International Studies in Modern Education (London: Oxford University Press, 1938)

Bailey, Thomas A.

Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace (New York: Macmillan, 1944)

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Wilson and the Peacemakers (New York: Macmillan, 1947)

Blum, John

Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956)

Buehrig, Edward H.

Woodrow Wilson and the Balance of Power (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955)

Dunn, Frederick

The Present Course of International Relations Research, World Politics, Vol. 2 (October 1949)

Fox, William T.R.

Interwar International Relations Research, World Politics, (October 1949)

Gurian, Waldemar

The Study of International Relations, The Review of Politics, Vol. 8, No. 3 (July 1946)

Herz, John

Political Realism and Political Idealism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951)

Kirk, Grayson.

The Study of International Relations in American Colleges and Universities (New York: Council on Foreign Relations)

Levin, N. Gordon, Jr.

Woodrow Wilson and World Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968)

Link, Arthur S.

Wilson the Diplomatist (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1957)

Mannheim, Karl

Ideology and Utopia (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World)

Morgenthau, Hans J.

"Reflections on the State of Political Science," Review of Politics, Vol. XVII (October 1955)

Nicholson, Sir Harold

Peacemaking 1919 (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1939)

Niebuhr, Reinhold

"The Illusion of World Government," Foreign Affairs (April 1949)

Parkinson, F.

The Philosophy of International Relations: A Study in the History of Thought (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1977)

Russell, Frank M.

Theories of International Relations (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1936)

Schuman, Frederick L.

The Commonwealth of Man (New York: Knopf, 1952)

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"The Study of International Relations in the United States," Contemporary Political Science: A Survey of Methods Research and Training (Paris: United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 1959)

Ware, Edith E.

The Study of International Relations in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1937)

Zimmern, Alfred, ed.

University Teaching of International Relations (Paris: International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, League of Nations, 1939)

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The Study of International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931)

Brown, Robert

Explanation in Social Science (Chicago: Aldine Press, 1963)

Haas, Michael, ed.

International System: A Behavioral Approach (New York: Chandler Publishing Co., 1974)

Kerlinger, Fred N.

Foundations of Behavioral Research (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967)

Lerner, D. and H.D. Lasswell, eds

The Policy Sciences (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1951)

O'Leary, Michael K. and William D. Coplin

Quantitative Techniques in Foreign Policy Analysis and Forecasting (New York: Praeger, 1975)

Rose, Arnold M.

Theory and Method in the Social Sciences (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1954)

Rosenau, James N.

International Studies and the Social Sciences: Problems, Priorities, and Prospects in the United States (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1973)