Reading List
Available at the bookstore “Akademika”, Blindern campus:
Main Textbook:
John Baylis. Steve Smith & Patricia Owens (eds.) (2011), The Globalization of World Politics: An
Introduction to International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(For Library purposes the 2011 edition is given as standard, but the 2014 edition may be used instead)
Available in compendium:
Allison, Graham. (2012). “The Cuban Missile Crisis”, in Smith, Hadfield & Dunne (eds.), Foreign Policy:
Theories, Actors, Cases. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 256-267.
Aron, Leon. (2013). "The Putin Doctrine", Foreign Affairs. 8 Mar. 2013. Web. 10 Apr. 2014.
Buzan, Barry. (2010). “China in International Society: Is ‘Peaceful Rise’Possible?”. The Chinese Journal
of International Politics, 3(1), 5-36.
de Carvalho, Benjamin, Halvard Leira, and John M. Hobson. (2011). “The Big Bangs of IR: The
Myths That Your Teachers Still Tell You about 1648 and 1919”. Millennium Journal of International Studies 39 (3): 73558.
Gray, Colin S. (2005), “Conclusions: A Warlike Future: The Long Running Story” in
Another Bloody Century. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 370-399
Hoffman, Bruce (2006) “Ch. 1: Defining terrorism” in Inside Terrorism. New York:
Columbia University Press. Pp. 1-41
ICISS. (2001). The Responsibility to Protect. Ottawa: International Development Center), pp. XI – XIII,
1-38.
Kagan, Robert (2012). “Not fade away”. New Republic, January 11.
Keck, Margaret E. and Kathryn Sikkink (1998), Chapter 1 “Introduction”, in Activists
Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics, Cornell University. pp.
1-38.
Kohli, Atul. (2010). “Chapter 33: Politics and Redistribution in India”, in Jayal & Mehta (eds.), The
Oxford Companion to Politics in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kuchins, Andrew C., and Igor A. Zevelev. (2012). "Russian Foreign Policy: Continuity in Change." The
Washington Quarterly 35:1, pp. 147-161.
Laursen, Finn. (2002). Theories of European Intergration. Background Paper, Graduate Institute of
European Studies, Tamkang University.
McKinney, Jared. (2015). “China-US: Avoiding the ‘Improbable War’”. The Diplomat. April 10.
Milliken, Jennifer and Keith Krause (2002), “State Failure, State Collapse and State
Reconstruction”, Development and Change 33(5): 753-774
Mochizuki, Mike M. & Parkinson Porter, Samuel. “Japan under Abe: toward Moderation or
Nationalism?”. The Washington Quarterly 36:4, pp. 25–41.
Mulgan, Aurelia G. (2005) “Why Japan still matters”. Asia-Pacific Review
12:2, pp. 104-121.
Noonan, Norma C. (2012). “The Global Leadership of the USA and the
Emerging Powers”, in Nadkarni & Noonan (eds.), Emerging
Powers in a Comparative Perspective: The Political and Economic Rise of the
BRIC Countries. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Norwegian MFA. (2009). “Interests, Responsibilities and Opportunities — The main features of
Norwegian foreign policy”. Report No. 15 to the Storting, pp. 5-23, 30-39.
Robinson, David A. (2011a). “India’s Rise as a Great Power, Part One: Regional and Global Implications”.
Future Directions International – Associate Paper
Robinson, David A. (2011b). “India’s Rise as a Great Power, Part Two: The Pakistan-China-India
Dynamic”. Future Directions International – Associate Paper
Rotberg, Robert (2002). “The New Nature of State Failure”. Washington Quarterly 25
(1): 85-96