Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL1027: Strategic Theory and Contemporary International Conflict

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Peter Ackerman and Christopher Kruegler. 1994. Strategic nonviolent conflict: the dynamics of people power in the twentieth century. Forewords by Gene Sharp and Thomas C. Schelling London: Praeger.

Tarak Barkawi, Mark Laffey. The Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies. Review of International Studies. 2006; 32(2):329.

John Baylis, James Wirtz, and Colin Gray (eds). 2018. Strategy in the Contemporary World. Sixth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Booth, Ken. 2007. Theory of World Security, Cambridge Studies in International Relations Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chenoweth, Erica, and Adria Lawrence. 2010. Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict. Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press.

Thomas G. Mahnken and Joseph A. Maiolo. 2008. Strategic studies: a reader London: Routledge

Thomas Schelling. 1966. Arms and Influence. New Haven, Yale University Press. Chapters 2-3

M.L.R SMITH. 2011. Strategic Theory: What it is…and just as importantly, what it isn’t. APR 28 . e-IR: https://www.e-ir.info/2011/04/28/strategic-theory-what-it-is%E2%80%A6and-just-as-importantly-what-it-isn%E2%80%99t/

Kenneth Waltz. 1979. Theory of International Politics. London. Addison Wesley.