Postgraduate Module Descriptor


POLM144: The West, Civilisations and World Order

This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 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.

Transatlantic Relations

Abelson, Donald E. and Brooks, Stephen (eds.) (2022), Transatlantic Relations: Challenge and Resilience (London: Routledge).

Alcaro, Riccardo, Peterson, John, and Greco, Ettore (eds.) (2016), The West and the Global Power Shift: Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).

Hanhimäki, Jussi M. (2021), Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

The West

Bell, Duncan (2020), Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press).

Hellmann, Gunther and Herborth, Benjamin (eds.) (2017), Uses of 'the West': Security and the Politics of Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Lehti, Marko, Pennanen, Henna-Riikka, and Jouhki, Jukka (eds.) (2019), Contestations of Liberal Order: The West in Crisis? (Basignstoke: Palgrave MacMillan).

O’Hagan, Jacinta (2002), Conceptualizing the West in International Relations: From Spengler to Said (Houndmills, N.Y.: Palgrave).

The West and World Order

Acharya, Amitav (2018), The end of American world order (2nd edn.; Cambridge: Polity).

Buzan, Barry and Lawson, George (2015), The global transformation: history, modernity and the making of international relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Cooley, Alexander and Nexon, Daniel (2020), Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (New York: Oxford University Press).

Ikenberry, G. John (2020), A world safe for democracy: Liberal internationalism and the crises of global order (New Haven and London: Yale University Press).

Mearsheimer, John J. (2018), The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (Yale University Press).

Vitalis, Robert (2015), White world order, black power politics: The birth of American international relations (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).

Zarakol, AyÅ?e (2022), Before the West: The rise and fall of Eastern world orders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).