Class October 31st

 There is a practice job talk going on today. You all should attend it if you can. It is only a matter of time until you have to give one and it is important for the person giving the talk to have a real audience. As a result class will be starting at 3:15 rather than 2:30.

The job talk is in the Friedman room. Hope to see you all there.
Best,
Jairus

Political Economy

I went back and forth on which readings were most essential for this week. The result is a little Smith, a little Marx, and a lot of Keohane. Read Smith and Marx and figure out what you think Political Economy is from there see how Keohane adapts the insights from neo-classical economics to explain liberal institutionalism as an alternative to Realism.  For those interested in international regimes and institutions this is your week so dig in.

Smith-Wealth of Nations

Marx-Introduction to the Grundrisse

Keohane-After Hegemony

New Readings

Waltz-Theory of International Politics

Herz-Rise and Decline of the Territorial State

Morgenthau-Scientific Man

Week 8

I have cut down the readings some this week so we can focus in on the questions of the state and the rise of the system of states. In the readings below this is really a conversation about civil society in its relationship to internal sovereignty and whether a global civil society could constitute the basis of a global system or the end of international relations. Hegel and Kant are the intellectual tradition from which most Liberal IR theory emerges. The English school in particular finds its commitments to global order in the imaginary of Hegel. The Foucault reading provides alternative reading of the consolidation of power and the rise of civil society as a series crisis or problems rather than an organic unity with the state. The Hegel reading is not easy but put the time in as he best constructs how the matrix of civil society, state, and global state require one another for the possibility of something like international law. Enjoy and see you next week.

Hegel

Kant

Foucault

Week 7 The State Part 2

Foucault-Governmentality and Achille Mbembe are in the same reader. I included all of it because some of the other essays may be interesting to you. 

Tilly-State Making

Wendt-State as Person