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. Meetings take place in 308 Gore Hall at 3:30. Click on the journal to download the article.

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.