Reading list

Introduction to International relations

Introduktion till Internationella relationer

Course
IR1121
First cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2026 (2026-08-31)
Decision date
2026-06-15

Books

Acharya, Amitav och Buzan, Barry. 2019. The Making of Global International Relations: Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dunne, Tim, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds), 2024: International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fanon, Frantz (2001) The Wretched of the Earth, Penguin Books.

Book Chapters

Angell, Norman (1913), ‘The Great Illusion’, in The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage, London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

Bayly, Martin (2021), ‘Imperialism: Beyond the “Re-turn to Empire” in International Relations’, in in Benjamin De Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez, and Halvard Leira (eds), Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations, Abingdon: Routledge

Berenskoetter, Felix (2016), ‘Unpacking Concepts’, in Felix Berenskoetter (ed), Concepts in World Politics, London: Sage, pp. 1-19.

Carr, Edward, H. 1964. The Realist Critique,” in The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919–1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. New York: Harper and Row.

El-Ojeili, Chamsy & Hayden, Patrick (2022).'The Clash of Interpretations: World-Systems Analysis and International Relations Theory.' In: Zak Cope & Immanuel Ness (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism. Oxford: OUP.

Enloe, Cynthia (1990), ‘Gender Makes the World Go Round’, in Bananas, Beaches and Bases, Berkeley: University of California Press).

Flint, Colin 2021 (4th ed.). Introduction to geopolitics. Routledge [potentially chapters 1 and 2]

Moravcsik, Andrew. 2008. “The New Liberalism.” In Oxford Handbook of International Relations, edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal, 234–53.

Simmons, Beth A. ‘International Law’. In Handbook of International Relations, edited by Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons, 352–78. London: Sage, 2013.

Articles

Agius, Christine. 2011. 'Transformed beyond recognition? The politics of post-neutrality, Cooperation and Conflict 46(3): 370-395.

Bleiker, Roland. "The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory." Millennium 30.3 (2001): 509-33.

Du Bois, W.E.B. (1925), ‘Worlds of Color’, Foreign Affairs3(3): 423-444.

Dugard John, 2023. ‘The Choice before Us: International Law or a “Rules-Based International Order”?’ (2023) 36 Leiden Journal of International Law 223 <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156523000043>

Garver, Newton (2008), ’What Theory is’, Journal of Folklore Research, 45(1): 63-70.

Ikenberry, G. John (2022), ‘Why American Power Endures: The U.S.-Led Order Isn’t in Decline’, Foreign Affairs 101(6): 56–73.

Keohane, Robert O., and David G. Victor (2016), ‘Cooperation and Discord in Global Climate Policy’, Nature Climate Change 6(6): 570–575.

Laffey, Mark and Jutta Weldes (2008), ‘Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis’, International Studies Quarterly 52(3): 555-577.

Mearsheimer, John J. 2009. Reckless States and Realism. International Relations 23 (2), (pp. 241- 256). https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117809104637

Morgenthau, Hans J. (1949), ‘The Primacy of the National Interest’, The American Scholar 18(2): 207–12.

Shepherd, Laura, J. 2006. Veiled references: Constructions of gender in the Bush administration discourse on the attacks on Afghanistan post-9/11. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 8(1), pp.19-41.

Tannenwald, Nina (1999), ‘The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use', International Organization, 53(3): 433-468.

Tickner, J. Ann. "Hans Morgenthau's principles of political realism: A feminist reformulation." Millennium 17.3 (1988): 429-440.

Waltz, Kenneth (1988): The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18:4, 615-628.

Wendt, Alexander (1992), ‘Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics’, International Organization, 46 (2): 391-425.

Åhäll, Linda (2019) ‘Feeling Everyday IR: Embodied, affective, militarizing movement as choreography of war’, Cooperation and Conflict, 54(2): 149-166.

Other

Dua, Jatin 2018. Chokepoint sovereignty. LIMN 10. https://limn.press/article/chokepoint-sovereignty/

Kant, Immanuel. 1795. Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, 106–142 (Section 1 and 2): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50922/50922-h/50922-h.htm#Page_106

Thucydides: “The Melian Dialogue”. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War/Book_5#Sixteenth_Year_of_the_War_-_The_Melian_Conference_-_Fate_of_Melos

Wilson, Woodrow (1918), ‘Fourteen Points Address’, https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-woodrow-wilsons-14-points