UDIRT - The UD International Relations Theory Reading Group

The University of Delaware International Relations Theory Reading Group meets a few times each semester on a Friday afternoon to discuss a set of readings chosen by consensus from within the group.

Spring 2013

The IR Theory Reading Group (UDIRT) will meet on Friday, Feb. 22 from 12:30pm - 2pm in Smith 348 to discuss the following items from the January 2013; 41 (2) issue of Millennium:

• Christine Sylvester, "The Elusive Arts of Reflexivity in the ‘Sciences’ of International Relations"
• Colin Wight, "The Dualistic Grounding of Monism: Science, Pluralism and Typological Truncation"
• Fred Chernoff, "Science, Progress and Pluralism in the Study of International Relations"

Fall 2008

• October 10^th Readings:

Carsten Stahn, Responsibility to Protect: Political Rhetoric or Emerging Legal Norm?", The American Journal of International Law, 101(1), January 2007, pp. 99-120.

Alan J. Kuperman, "The Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Balkans," International Studies Quarterly, 52 (1), March 2008.

• November 21^st Readings:

Sjoberg, Laura. (2008). Scaling IR Theory: Geography's Contribution to Where IR Takes Place. International Studies Review, Volume 10 Issue 3, Pages 472 - 500.

Neumann, Iver B. & Sending, Ole Jacob. (2007). 'The International' as Governmentality. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Volume 35 No. 3, Pages 677-701.

Spring 2008

• April 11^th Readings:

Deborah Boucoyannis, "The International Wanderings of a Liberal Idea, or Why Liberals Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Balance of Power," Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 5, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 703-727.

Daniel H. Deudney, "The Philadelphian System: Sovereignty, Arms Control, and Balance of Power in the American State System, Circa 1787-1861," International Organization, Vol. 49, No. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 191-228.

Fall 2007

• October 12^th Readings:

David A. Lake, "Escape from the State of Nature: Authority and Hierarchy in World Politics," International Security, 32/1 (Summer 2007): 47-79.

Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, "Power in International Politics," International Organization, 59/1 (Winter 2005): 39-75.

• November 2^nd Readings:

Jack Donnelly, "Sovereign Inequalities and Hierarchy in Anarchy: American Power and International Society," European Journal of International Relations, 12/2 (June 2006): 139-170.

Daniel Nexon and Thomas Wright, "What's at Stake in the American Empire Debate," American Political Science Review, 101/2 (May 2007): 253-271.