SIS-701+IR+Proseminar

Aug 31: The Research Process / Sociology of the Discipline
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, “The Benefits of a Social-Scientific Approach to Studying International Affairs,” in Ngaire Woods (ed.) //Explaining International Relations Since 1945.//

Miles Kahler, “Inventing International Relations: International Relations Theory after 1945,” in Michael Doyle and G. John Ikenberry (eds.) New Thinking in International Relations Theory.

Kenneth Waltz, "Theory of International Politics" (in Robert O. Keohane, //Neorealism and// //Its Critics//, pp. 27—69).

Richard Jordan et al., “One Discipline or Many? TRIP Survey of International Relations Faculty in Ten Countries.” College of William and Mary. February 2009.

Sept 7: Conducting Social Scientific Research—Different Approaches
Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba, "Designing Social Inquiry" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994). ALL

Andrew Bennett and Alexander George, “Case Studies and Process Tracing in History and Political Science: Similar Strokes for Different Foci,” in Colin Elman and Miriam

Fendius Elman (eds.) //Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the// //Study of International Relations// (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 137—166. (TAKEN OUT)

Marc Trachtenberg, //The Craft of International History// (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), pp. 1-78, 140-255. (TAKEN OUT)

Sept. 14: Research Design
Discussant: All students will be responsible to discuss one chapter of the book

Barbara Geddes, "Paradigms and Sand Castles" (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003). ALL

Discussant 1: Hans Morgenthau, "Politics Among Nations" 7th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005). (read sections available on Blackboard)

Kenneth Waltz, "Theory of International Politics"(New York: Columbia University Press, 1979) (We’re using chapters published in Robert O. Keohane, ed. //Neorealism and Its Critics.// New York: Columbia University Press, 19XX).

John J. Mearsheimer, "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001), chs. 1-2

A.F.K. Organski and Jacek Kugler, "The War Ledger" (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), ch. 1 (“The Power Transition”)