Part II

 

4. Constructivism in IR Theory: National Identity and 'Real' State Interests

 

Required

Walt , Stephen. 1998. 'International Relations: One World , Many Theories , ' Foreign Policy , Spring , pp. 29-46. - Business Source Premier

Huntington , Clash of Civilizations , pp. 29-39 - [PC] 909.829 HUN

Checkel , Jeffrey. 1998. 'The Constructivist Turn in International Relations Theory , ' World Politics 50:2 (January) , pp. 324-48 - Project Muse  

Recommended  

*Mearsheimer, John. 2011. 'Kissing Cousins: nationalism and realism,' working paper, University of Chicago.

*Checkel , J. 1999. 'Norms , Institutions and Identity in Contemporary Europe , ' International Studies Quarterly , Vol. 43 , No. 1 , pp. 83-114 - JSTOR

*Wendt , Alexander. 1992. 'Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics , ' International Organization , Vol. 46 , No.2 , pp. 391-425.

Guzzini , S. and A. Leander. 2006. Constructivism and International Relations ( London : Routledge)

Martha Finnemore. 1996. National Interests in International Society ( Ithaca , N.Y. : Cornell University Press)

Wendt , Alexander. 1999. Social Theory of International Politics ( Cambridge 1999)

Jepperson , Ronald L. , Alexander Wendt , and Peter J. Katzenstein. 1996. "Norms ,

Identity , and Culture in National Security , " in Peter J. Katzenstein , ed. The Culture

of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics ( New York :

Columbia University Press) , pp. 33-75

Katzenstein , Peter J. 1996. "Introduction: Alternative Perspectives on National

Security , " in Peter J. Katzenstein , ed. The Culture

of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics ( New York :

Columbia University Press) , pp. 1-32

Wendt , Alexander. 1994. 'Collective Identity Formation and the International State , ' American Political Science Review , Vol. 88 , No.2 , pp. 384-96. - more abstract/theoretical , some stuff on national id.

Mattern , Janice Bially. 2001. 'The Power Politics of Identity , ' European Journal of International Relations 7:3 (September) , pp. 349-97

Duffield , John. 1999. 'Political Culture and State Behavior , ' International Organization , Vol. 53 , No. 4 (Autumn) , pp. 765-803

Maja Zehfuss , “Constructivism and Identity: A Dangerous Liaison ,European Journal of International Relations 7:3 (September) , pp. 315-48

Iver B. Neuman , "Self and Other in International Relations , " European Journal of International Studies Vol. 2 , No. 2 (1996): 139-174

McSweeny , Bill. 1999. Security , Identity and Interests: A Sociology of International

Relations ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press)

Campbell , David. 1998. Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity ( Manchester : Manchester University Press) - poMO

Weldes , Jutta , Mark Laffey , Hugh Gusterson , and Raymond Duvall , eds. 1999. Cultures of Insecurity: States , Communities and the Production of Danger (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press , 1999)

John W. Meyer , John Boli , George M. Thomas , Fran cisco O. Ramirez , “World Society and the Nation-State ,American Journal of Sociology 103:1 (July) , pp. 144-81

 

Regional & Civilizational Cultures and Norms

Huntington , Samuel P. 1996. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order ( New York , NY : Simon and Schuster) [PC] 909.829 HUN

Moynihan, Daniel P. 1994. Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics (New York: Oxford University Press)

Tipson , Frederick S. 1997. 'Culture Clash-ification: A Verse to Huntington 's Curse , ' Foreign Affairs 76 , pp. 166-169.

Achar , Gilbert. 2002. The Clash of Barbarisms (Monthly Review Press)

Hemmer , Christopher and Katzenstein , Peter J. 2002. 'Why is There No NATO in Asia ? Collective Identity , Regionalism , and the Origins of Multilateralism , ' International Organization , Vol. 56 , Issue 3 , pp. 575-608

Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett , eds. 1998. Security Communities ( Cambridge : CUP)

Jonathan Fox. 2002. 'Ethnic Minorities and the Clash of Civilizations: A Quantitative Analysis of Huntington’s Thesis , ' British Journal of Political Science , 32 (3) , July , pp. 415-434 - SwetsWise

Jakobsen, T and J. Jakobsen. 2010. 'Birds of a Feather Flock Apart: Testing the Critique of the Clash of Civilizations Thesis,' Journal of Peace, Conflict and Development, Issue 15

 

Essay Question

·        Where do concepts of nationalism and ethnicity fit within the constructivist critique of IR theory?

 

5. IR II: National Identity and Foreign Policy

 

Required

Van Evera, Stephen. 1994. 'Hypotheses on Nationalism and War,' International Security, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Spring, 1994), pp. 5-39

 

Case: UK

Wallace , William. 1991. 'Foreign Policy and National Identity in the United Kingdom , ' International Affairs , Vol. 67 , Issue 1 , pp. 65-81 - JSTOR

 

Recommended

*Van Benthem Van den Bergh , G. 1966. 'Contemporary Nationalism in the Western World , ' Daedalus , 95 , pp. 828-61- [o/o]

*Posen, Barry. 1993. 'Nationalism, the Mass Army, and Military Power,' International Security, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Autumn), pp. 80-124

*Hall , Rodney Bruce. 1999. National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems  ( New York : Columbia University Press) , esp. chs 1 , 8 , 9

*Lapid , Yosef and Friedrich Kratochwil , "Revisiting the "National": Toward an identity agenda in neorealism?" in Yosef Lapid and Friedrich Kratochwil (eds.) The Return of Culture and Identity in IR Theory (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers , 1996) pp. 105-126

*Prizel , Ilya. 2003. National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland , Russia and Ukraine ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press) , esp. intro chapter

*Bloom , W. 1990. Personal Identity , National Identity and International Relations ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press) , chs. 4-5

*Stephen M. Saideman, The Ties That Divide: Ethnic Politics, Foreign Policy, and International Conflict, New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Telhami , Shibley and Michael Barnett (eds). 2002. Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press)

Hughes , C. 1997. Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: National Identity and Status in

International Society (Routledge: London )

Lynch , Marc. 1999. State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan 's Identity ( New York : Columbia University Press)

Schonberg, Karl K. 2009. Constructing 21st Century U.S. Foreign Policy: Identity, Ideology, and America’s World Role in a New Era (New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)

Rygiel , Kim. 1998. "Stabilizing Borders: The geopolitics of national identity construction in Turkey , " in Gearoid O Tuathail and Simon Dalby (eds.) , Rethinking Geopolitics ( London : Routledge)

Schubert , G. 2001. 'Nationalism and National Identity in Contemporary China : Assessing the Debate , ' Issues & Studies 37 (5): 128-156

Chung , C.P. 2000. The PRC's Changing Moral and Realist Perceptions Toward Territorial Disputes , ' Issues & Studies 36 (5): 176-196

Welsh , J. 2005. At Home in the World: Canada in the 21st Century ( Toronto : HarperCollins)

Lorenz , Joseph P. 1990. Egypt and the Arabs : Foreign Policy and the Search for National Identity ( Boulder : Westview Press)

Melvin , N. 1995. Russians Beyond Russia : the Politics of National Identity ( London : The Royal Institute of International Affairs/Pinter)

Burant , Stephen R. 1995. 'Foreign Policy and National Identity: a Comparison of Ukraine and Belarus , ' Europe-Asia Studies , Vol. 47 , Issue 7

Stent , A. 1990. 'The One Germany ' , Foreign Policy , Issue 81 , pp 53-71

National Foreign Policy Approaches to the European Union:

*Karp , R. 2003. 'Identities and Structural Change since the End of the Cold War: Germany , Europe , and the Limits of Integration , ' International Politics , Vol.40 , No.4 , pp.527-558 

Bach , J. 1999. Between Sovereignty and Integration : German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989 ( New York , NY : St. Martin ’s Press)

*Smith , D. 2003. ' "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea " ': European integration , national identity and foreign policy in post-communist Estonia , ' Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics , Vol.19 , No.3 , pp.156-177 

Schlevogt K. and Helmut Kohl. 2002. 'Supranational Visionary and Builder of Euroland: Former German chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl on the Euro's Significance for Germany and its Neighbors' , Academy of Management Executive 16 (1): 8-12

Kuus , M. 2002. 'European Integration in Identity Narratives in Estonia : A Quest for Security , ' Journal of Peace Research 39 (1): 91-108

Risse , Thomas. 2006. Neofunctionalism , European identity , and the Puzzles of European integration , Journal of European Public Policy , Vol. 12 , Issue 2 , pp. 291-310

 

Essay Question

·        What is the relationship between a state's national identity and its foreign policy?

 

6. IR III: Ethnic Diasporas and Foreign Policy

 

Required:

Huntington , Clash of Civilizations , ch. 11- [PC] 909.829 HUN

Shain , Y. and A. Barth. 2003. 'Diasporas and International Relations Theory , ' International organization , Vol.57 , No.3 , pp.449- 479  - SwetsWise

 

Case 1: The Hindu Diaspora & Hindu Nationalism

 

Mukta , P. & Bhatt , C. (2000) (eds) ‘Hindutva Movements in the West , Ethnic & Racial Studies Special Issue , 23 (3). - CE Library - I33 & Reference

 

Case 2: USA

 

Shain , Y . 1995. 'Ethnic Diasporas and U.S. Foreign Policy , ' Political Science Quarterly , Winter 1994-1995 , Vol.109 , No.5 , pp.811-842 

 

 

Recommended

Theory

*Esman , Milton. 2005. An Introduction to Ethnic Conflict ( Cambridge : Polity) , chapters on role of outsider governments and diasporas

*Stephen M. Saideman , The Ties That Divide: Ethnic Politics , Foreign Policy , and International Conflict , New York : Columbia University Press , 2001.

Lake , David and Donald Rothchild (eds.).1998. The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear , Diffusion and Escalation ( Princeton : Princeton University Press) , esp. introduction

Davis , D.R. , Moore , W.H. 1997. Ethnicity Matters: transnational ethnic alliances and foreign policy behavior , International Studies Quarterly , Mar 1997 , Vol.41 , No.1 , pp.171- 184 

King , C. and N.J. Melvin. 2000. 'Diaspora Politics: ethnic linkages , foreign policy , and security in Eurasia ' , International security , Winter 1999-2000 , Vol.24 , No.3 , pp.108- 138 

Outsider Governments: Case Studies

Byrne , Sean. 2000. 'Power Politics as Usual in Cyprus and Northern Ireland : Divided Islands and the Roles of External Ethno-Guarantors , ' Nationalism & Ethnic Politics Vol. 6 , no. 1 , pp. 1-23 - Reference only

Dixon , P. 2002. ' Northern Ireland and the International Dimension: The End of the Cold War , The USA and European Integration' , Irish Studies in International Affairs , 13

Kerr , M. 2006. The Politics of Intransigence: Consociational Government in Northern Ireland and Lebanon (forthcoming) , chapters on foreign involvement in Lebanese and Northern Ireland conflicts

Diaspora

Safran , William. 2006. 'Comparing Visions of the Nation: The Role of Ethnicity , Religion and Diaspora Nationalism in Armenian , Jewish , and Sikh Relations to the Homeland , ' unpublished paper delivered at IPSA meetings , Ottawa

Safran , William. 2006. 'The Jewish Diaspora in a Comparative and Theoretical Perspective' , Israel Studies , Volume 10 , Number 1 , Spring 2006 , pp. 36-60

*Gal, Allon, Athena Leoussi and Anthony Smith (ed) 2010. Call of the Homeland: Diaspora nationalisms, Past and Present (Biggleswade: Brill)

Abuza , Z. 2002. 'Tentacles of terror: Al Qaeda's Southeast Asian network , ' Contemporary Southeast Asia , Vol.24 , No.3 , pp.427-465 

Paul , R.A. 2000. 'Grassroots Mobilization and Diaspora Politics: Armenian interest groups and the role of collective memory , ' Nationalism and Ethnic Politics , Vol.6 , No.1 , pp.24-47 

Wilson, Ernest J. (ed.) 2004. Diversity and US Foreign Policy: A Reader (New York: Routledge)

Kurien , P. 2005. 'Multiculturalism , Immigrant Religion , and Diasporic Nationalism: The development of an American Hinduism , ' Social Problems , 51 (3): 362-385

* Huntington , S. 2005. Who Are We? The Cultural Core of American National Identity ( New York & London : Simon and Schuster) , ch. 10 ('Merging America With the World') - esp. section on diasporas

*Shain , Yossi. 1999. Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the U.S. and Their Homeland ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press)

*Smith , T. 2000. Foreign Attachments : the Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press)

Goldberg , J. 1996. Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment ( Reading , Mass. ; Harlow : Addison-Wesley)

*O' Day , A. 1999. 'Irish Diaspora Politics in Perspective: the United Irish leagues of Great Britain and America , 1900-14 , ' Immigrants and Minorities , Vol.18 , No.2-3 , pp.214- 239

Østergaard-Nielsen , E. 2003. 'The Democratic Deficit of Diaspora Politics: Turkish Cypriots in Britain and the Cyprus issue , ' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , July , Vol.29 , No.4 , pp.683-700

Pryke , S. 2003. 'British Serbs and Long Distance Nationalism , ' Ethnic and Racial Studies , Vol.26 , No.1 , pp.152-172 

Huntington , S.P. 1997. 'The Erosion of American National Interests , ' Foreign Affairs , 76 (5): 28-& SEP-OCT

Sandler , S. 2005. 'Towards a Conceptual Framework of World Jewish Politics: state , nation , and diaspora in a Jewish foreign policy' , Israel Affairs , Autumn-Winter 2005 , Vol.10 , No.1-2 , pp.301-312

De los Angeles Torres , M. 1995. 'Encuentros Y Encontronazos: homeland in the politics and identity of the Cuban diaspora , ' Diaspora , Fall 1995 , Vol.4 , No.2 , pp.211-238 

Dickson , D.A. 1996. 'American society and the African American foreign policy lobby: constraints and opportunities , ' Journal of Black Studies , Nov 1996 , Vol.27 , No.2 , pp.139-151 

Hertzberg , A. 1996. ' Israel and the Diaspora: a relationship reexamined , ' Israel Affairs , Vol.2 , No.3-4 , pp.169-183 

Croucher , S. and P. Haney. 1999. Review of Shain , Y.  'Marketing the American Creed Abroad' , Diaspora , Winter 1999 , Vol.8 , No.3 , pp.309-330

Chua , Amy.  2002.  World on Fire:  How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability ( New York :  Doubleday) – [ NIS ]

Kotkin , Joel. 1993. Tribes: How Race , Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy ( New York : Random House).

Irridentism

*Saideman , S. and W. Ayres. 2000. 'Determining the Causes of Irridentism: Logit Analyses of Minorities at Risk Data from the 1980s and 1990s' , Journal of Politics , Vol. 62 , No. 4 , pp. 1126-1144 - JSTOR

Ambrosio , T. 2001. Irridentism: Ethnic Conflict and International Politics ( New York , NY : Praeger) – [ NIS ]

Ayres , R. W. and Stephen M. Saideman. 2000. 'Is Separatism as Contagious as the Common Cold or as Cancer? Testing the International and Domestic Determinants of Secessionism , ' Nationalism and Ethnic Politics , Vol. 6 , No. 3 , pp. 92-114  - Reference only

 

Essay Question

·        How significant are ethnic and religious diasporas as foreign policy actors?

 

7. IR 4: Self-Determination , International Law and the International System

 

Required:

 

Smith, Anthony and John Hutchinson (eds), Nationalism (Oxford: OUP), pp. 241-253 - 320.54 NAT

Smith, Anthony and John Hutchinson (eds), Ethnicity (Oxford: OUP), pp. 316-25 - 305.8 ETH

Jackson-Preece, J. 1997. 'National Minority Rights vs. State Sovereignty: Changing Norms in International Relations?,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 3, part 3 - INGENTA

 

Case 1: Interwar

 

Cobban, A. 1969. The Nation State and National Self-Determination, (London: Fontana, 1969) Part I: relevant sections - I2(Cobban)

 

Case 2: Post Cold War

 

Mayall, J. 1991. 'Non-Intervention, Self-Determination and the 'New World Order',' International Affairs, (July 1991) – JSTOR

 

Recommended:

Sovereignty & Self-Determination

Manela, R. 2007. The Wilsonian Moment: self-determination and the international origins of anticolonial nationalism (Oxford University Press)

Mill, J.S. 1885. Considerations on Representative Government (London: Longman,Roberts & Green), ch. 6. - 321.8 MIL

*Beran, Harry 1984 'A Liberal Theory Of Secession,' Political Studies, XXXII, pp. 21-31 – Reference only

*Jackson, Robert. 1990. Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) - 341.26 JAC

*Hannum, Hurst. 1990. Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination. The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), pp. 3-121 - 320.15 HAN

*Heraclides, Alexis. 1992. The Self-Determination of Minorities in International Politics, ch. 2: The International Normative Framework, pp. 21-32 – 322.42 HER

*Horowitz, Donald L. 1997. 'Self-Determination: Politics, Philosophy, and Law,' in Ian Shapiro and Will Kymlicka (eds.), Ethnicity and Group Rights (New York: New York University Press) - 305.8 ETH

Manela, Rez. 2007. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (Oxford: OUP)

*Buchanan, Allen. 1991. Secession. The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec (Boulder, CO: Westview Press) – [NIS]

Henrard, K. (2000). Devising an adequate system of minority protection: Individual human rights, minority rights, and the right to self determination (The Hague: M. Nijhoff), pp. 3-15, 56-71, 141-146 – [NIS]

*Beitz, C. 1979. Political Theory and International Relations, (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Part II - 327.101 BEI [PC]

Binder, Leonard. 1996. 'The Moral Foundation of International Intervention and the Limits of National Self-Determination,' Nationalism and Ethnic Politics vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 325-359  - Reference only

Danspeckgruber, W. 2001. The Self-Determination of Peoples: Community, Nation and State in an Interdependent World (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner) – [NIS]

Thornberry, P. 1991. International Law and the Rights of Minorities, (Oxford: Clarendon Press) Part I - SBP [Tho]

Benôit-Rohmer, Florence. 1996. The Minority Question in Europe: Towards a Coherent System of Protection for National Minorities (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing) – [NIS]

Impact of the International States System

*Holsti, K.J. 2000. 'The Changing Nature of International Institutions: The Case of Territoriality,' IPSA Meetings, pp. 1-23 – [JNIS]

Smis, Stefaan and Gunther Lauwers. 2000. 'New Dimensions of the Right to Self-Determination: A Study of the International Response to the Kosovo Crisis,' Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 43-70 – Reference only

*Jackson Preece, J. 1998. National Minorities and the European Nation-States System (Oxford: Oxford University Press) - 323.14 PRE

*Margaret Moore (ed.). 1998. National Self-Determination and Secession (New York: Oxford University Press) - 341.26 NAT

*Gurr, T. and B. Harff. 2003. Ethnic conflict in world politics (2nd ed) (Boulder, CO: Westview Press), ch. 8  - KDJ [Gur]

Musgrave, T. D. (1997). Self determination and national minorities. (Oxford: Clarendon Press) – [NIS]

Hinsley, F.H. 1973. Nationalism and the International System (London: Hodder and Stoughton) - RIA [Hin]

*Mayall, James. 1990. Nationalism and International Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) - 320.54 MAY

Schulze, H. 1996. States, Nations and Nationalism (Oxford: Blackwell) - 940.2 SCH

Tilly, C. 1975. The Formation of National States in Western Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press) - MAB7 [For] [PC]

*Periwal, S. (ed). 1995. Notions of Nationalism, (Budapest: Central European University Press) chs. 4, 5 - 320.54 NOT

Chazan, N. (ed). 1991. Irridentism and International Politics (Twickenham: Adamantine) – [NIS]

Foreign Intervention

Saideman , S. 2001. The Ties That Divide ( New York , NY : Columbia University Press) – [ NIS ]

Rothchild , Donald. 1997. 'Unofficial Mediation and the Nigeria-Biafra War , ' Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 3 , no. 3 (1997): 37-65  - Reference only

Gow , James. 1997. The Triumph of the Lack of Will ( London : Hurst ) - 949.703 GOW

Almond , Mark. 1994. Europe 's Backyard War: The War in the Balkans ( London : Heinemann) – [ NIS ]

Bennett , Christopher. 1994. Yugoslavia 's Bloody Collapse: Causes , Course and Consequences ( New York : New York University Press/ London : Hurst ) - 949.702 BEN

 

Essay Question

·        What are the links between ethnicity, nationalism and the issue of self-determination in international law?