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Jackson & Sørensen: Introduction to International Relations 3e

Chapter 02

Utopian Liberalism

2.01. "The World War I Document Archive" contains official documents, conventions, treaties and memorials related to the First World War. The site is hosted by Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.
www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

2.02. Click here to read Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. The site is hosted by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wilson14.htm

2.03. In this article, printed in African Studies Quarterly, Korwa G. Adar explores "the Wilsonian conception of democracy and human rights".
web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v2/v2i2a3.htm

2.04. In this paper, Mohammed Ben Jelloun provides an analysis of post-Cold War idealism. The site is hosted by Swans.
www.swans.com/library/art10/jelloun1.html

2.05. Click here to access the Northwestern University Library's "Research Guide to League of Nations Documents and Publications".
www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/league/background.html

2.06. Here, Samuel Brittan provides a short introduction to Norman Angell's The Great Illusion.
www.samuelbrittan.co.uk/text160_p.html

2.07. Click here to read the full text of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. The text is provided by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/kbpact.htm

2.08. Click here to find out more about the Wall Street crash in 1929 and the following Great Depression. The site is maintained by Kyle Wilkison, Collin County Community College.
iws.ccccd.edu/kwilkison/Online1302home/20th%20Century/DepressionNewDeal.html

2.09. In this paper, Darshan Vigneswaran and Joel Quirk " move beyond existing critiques of a First Debate by exploring the manner in which the story became part of disciplinary orthodoxy".
eprints.anu.edu.au/archive/00002898/01/04-1.pdf

Realism

2.10. Here, the Virtual War College provides a thorough introduction to realism.
www.geocities.com/virtualwarcollege/ir_realism.htm

2.11. Click here to read an excerpt (chapter 4 and 5) of The Twenty Year's Crisis which contains E. H. Carr's famous critique of utopian liberalism as well as a presentation of realist thought. The text is provided by Mount Holyoke College.
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/carr.htm

2.12. Click here for a discussion of E. H. Carr's works. The site is maintained by The Global Site.
www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/012wilson.htm

2.13. Click here to read an extract from Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics among Nations. The extract is provided by History News Network.
hnn.us/articles/1301.html

2.14. This site contains a comprehensive list of documents, public speeches, and treaties from World War II, including the Yalta Agreement and the Atlantic Charter. The site is maintained by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm

Behavioralism

2.15. Here, Erkki Berndtson provides a thorough introduction to behavioralism and its origins. The site is hosted be University of Helsinki.
www.valt.helsinki.fi/vol/tutkimus/julkaisut/verkko/behavior.htm

2.16. Click here to read a paper on "Empirical-Quantitative Approaches to the Study of International Relations", written by Bear F. Braumoeller and Anne E. Sartori. The paper is provided by the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bfbraum/EQA.pdf

2.17. In his paper "The Discipline's Community: The Effects of Method and Market on Research Relevance" Tim Duvall analyses the effects of behavioralism on political science.
www.cddc.vt.edu/tps/e-print/apsa98.doc

Neoliberalism

2.18. Here, Susan George provides "A Short History of Neoliberalism". The site is maintained by Global Policy Forum.
www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/histneol.htm

2.19. Click here to see the official website of the European Union.
europa.eu.int/

2.20. The homepage of OECD contains documents, news and statistics from the organization.
www.oecd.org/

2.21. Click here to read documents and news from the World Trade Organization (WTO).
www.wto.org/

2.22. Click here to read Mark A. Pollack's paper "International Relations theory and European Integration". The paper is provided by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/00_55.pdf

2.23. Click here to read the paper "Power and Interdependence in the Information Age", written by Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. The article is provided by the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
www.ksg.harvard.edu/prg/nye/power.pdf

2.24. In this paper, published in Alternatives, Hüseyin Işiksal analyses the challenge of complex interdependence to structural realism.
www.alternativesjournal.net/volume3/number2/huseyin5.pdf

2.25. Click here to read an essay which discusses the effect of democratization on the nature of international relations. The essay is provided by Yahoo! GeoCities.
www.geocities.com/lylbf/essays/democrat.html

2.26. In this essay, Susan Hamilton summarizes Michael Doyle's view of liberalism. The essay is provided by Harvard University.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~goodrich/IRnotes/Week04/Doyle_summary.pdf

2.27. Click here to read the paper "Liberalism and World Politics", written by Michael Doyle. The article is provided by University of California, Berkeley.
www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gobev/fp/readings/Doyle.txt

2.28. In "The Strange Death of Liberal International Theory" Christian Reus-Smit explores new developments within liberal IR theory. The paper is published in The European Journal of International Law.
www.ejil.org/journal/Vol12/No3/art1-01.html

2.29. As stated by the author, "this paper focuses on the resurgence of Liberalism after the Cold War". The paper is provided by Yahoo! GeoCities.
www.geocities.com/virtualwarcollege/ir_liberal.htm

Neorealism

2.30. Click here for the full text of Kenneth Waltz' paper "The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Better" on nuclear deterrence in a bipolar world. The site is maintained by Mount Holyoke College.
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/waltz1.htm

2.31. In this interview, Kenneth Waltz gives an account of his book Man, the State, and War and other research work.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Waltz/waltz-con0.html

2.32. Click here for a historical perspective on different forms of polarity. The site is maintained by Robert M. Cutler.
www.robertcutler.org/ar00ij.htm

2.33. In this paper on marginal states, Doug Lieb explores "The Limits of Neorealism". The paper was published in Harvard International Review.
hir.harvard.edu/articles/1211/

2.34. Here, several scholars discuss the future of realism as an independent paradigm. The site is hosted by Princeton University.
www.princeton.edu/~amoravcs/library/brother.pdf

International Society

2.35. On this site, University of Leeds provides access to English School papers and other documents as well as information about English School conferences and working groups.
www.leeds.ac.uk/polis/englishschool/

2.36. The essay "Hedley Bull and the Sociology in International Relations Theory: International Society Revisited", written by Erol Hofmans, focuses on the main elements in Hedley Bull's theory of International Society, that is international order, international institutions, and the concept of international society itself. The essay is provided by IYOCO.
www.iyoco.org/hedleybull.pdf

2.37. Click here to read a paper on "Hedley Bull and International Security", written by Samuel M. Makinda. The paper is provided by the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
rspas.anu.edu.au/ir/pubs/work_papers/97-3.pdf

2.38. The homepage of the United Nations provides information about the UN as well as links to institutions operating within the UN framework.
www.un.org

2.39. Click here for access to a comprehensive collection of official UN documents, hosted by the UN itself.
www.un.org/documents/index.html

2.40. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides information about the concept of human rights as well as links to other Internet resources on human rights.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/

2.41. This site contains information about the UN's view of human rights, including the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The site is maintained by the UN.
www.un.org/rights/index.html

2.42. Here, the International Committee of the Red Cross provides information about international humanitarian law.
www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList2/Humanitarian_law?OpenDocument#

International Political Economy

2.43. Drake University hosts a site with several links to websites on international political economy.
www.drake.edu/artsci/PolSci/ipe/IPELinks.html

2.44. Another comprehensive collection of links to websites on international political economy is hosted by Middlebury College.
community.middlebury.edu/~rosenber/DR-personal-homepage/ipesites.html

2.45. "The Third World Network" provides information about all kinds of issues related to the Third World.
www.twnside.org.sg/

2.46. Click here for a short introduction to neo-Marxism. The site also provides a comprehensive list of neo-Marxist writers.
cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/neomarx.htm

2.47. This website, maintained by Rogers State University, provides links to several Internet resources on Immanuel Wallerstein and his World System Theory.
www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Wallerstein/index.htm

2.48. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations. Click here to read the full text of Adam Smith's famous work, provided by the Library of Economics and Liberty.
www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN.html

2.49. For a historical overview of economic neoliberalism, click here to read the essay "A Primer on Neoliberalism".
www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/FreeTrade/Neoliberalism.asp

2.50. The 'Manchester School' was the term the British politician Benjamin Disraeli used to refer to the 19th Century free trade movement in Great Britain. Click here for information about the Manchester School and a comprehensive collection of links to other web resources on economic liberalism. The site is maintained by New School University.
cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/manchester.htm

2.51. You can read more about mercantilism in the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilist

2.52. Click here to read an online version of Friedrich List's The National System of Political Economy. The text is provided by University of Bristol.
www.ecn.bris.ac.uk/het/list/index.htm

2.53. Global Policy Forum provides access to articles on economic globalization as well as information about e.g. international trade, transnational corporations and international financial institutions.
www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/

2.54. In this paper, Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson analyse "The Limits to Economic Globalization". The paper is provided by Polity.
www.polity.co.uk/global/pdf/GTReader2eHirstThompson.pdf

Post-Positivism

2.55. This paper, written by Mark Neufeld, "examines the prospects for the development of theoretically reflexive theory in the discipline of international relations". The paper is provided by York University.
www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/WP04-Neufeld.pdf

2.56. "This essay contributes to the growing critique of policy science's dominant neopositivist methodologies". The essay is written by Frank Fischer and is provided by Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.
www.cddc.vt.edu/tps/e-print/PETER.htm

2.57. Click here to read the paper "In Between Positivism and Post-positivism. A Personal Defence of Empirical Approaches to Social Sciences", written by Olivia Rusu-Toderean.
www.polito.ubbcluj.ro/EAST/East6/toderean.htm

2.58. Here, several scholars discuss whether dialogue and synthesis between positivism and post-positivism are possible in IR.
www.internationalorganizations.org/ISR_Forum_on_Synthesis.pdf