Module POC1022 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC1022: Violence in World Politics
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
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.
J. Baylis and S. Smith (1997) The Globalisation of World Politics: An Introduction to IR.
Edkins, Jenny, and Maja Zehfuss. Global politics: a new introduction. Routledge, 2013.
Smith, Dunne and Kirki (2007). International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity. Oxford University Press
Zιzek, Slavoj. "Violence: Six sideways reflections." (2008).
Axelrod, Robert, and Robert O. Keohane. "Achieving cooperation under anarchy: Strategies and institutions." World politics 38.01 (1985): 226-254.
Howard, Michael. War and the liberal conscience: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures in the University of Cambridge, 1977. Anaya-Spain, 1986.
Shepherd, Laura J. Gender, violence and security: Discourse as practice. Zed Books, 2008.
Cromartie, Alan, ed. Liberal Wars: Anglo-American Strategy, Ideology and Practice. Routledge, 2015.
Vaughan-Williams, Nick. Europe's border crisis: biopolitical security and beyond. Oxford University Press, USA, 2015.
Huntington, Samuel P. "The clash of civilizations?." Foreign affairs (1993): 22-49.
Sheikh, Mona Kanwal. "How does religion matter? Pathways to religion in International Relations." Review of International Studies 38.02 (2012): 365-392.
Barkawi, Tarak, and Mark Laffey. "The imperial peace: democracy, force and globalization." European Journal of International Relations 5.4 (1999): 403-434.
Mearsheimer, John J. "Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West’s Fault." Foreign Affairs 93.5 (2014): 77-89.
