MIRANDA HOUSE
UNIVERSITY OF
DELHI
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
BA (Prog) Introduction to International Relations
MDSC-5A
TUTORIAL SCHEDULE
Unit 1
Tutorial 1: Disciplinary history of IR
1. Grieco, Joseph, John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno, (2014)
Introduction to International Relations: Enduring Questions and
Contemporary Perspectives, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter
one, pp. 2-30.
2. Devetak, Richard, Anthony Burke and Jim George, (2007), An
introduction to International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, Introduction, pp. 1-18.
Tutorial 2: Debates: Idealism/Realism & Science/Classical Methods
and Inter-paradigm Debate
3. Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith, (eds.) (2013), International
Relations Theories, Discipline and Diversity, Oxford University Press:
UK, 3rd edition. Chapter one. pp. 1-13.
4. Mansbach, Richard W. and Kirsten L Taylor, (2008), Introduction to
Global Politics, New York: Routledge, Chapter one. pp 9-24.
5. Waever, O., (1996). The rise and fall of the inter-paradigm debate. In S.
Smith, K. Booth, & M. Zalewski (Eds.), International theory: Positivism
and beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 149-185.
Tutorial 3: Unit 2: Theories of IR
Realpolitik/Realism/Neo-
realism
6. Nirmal Jindal, (2020). Kautilya’s Realpolitik ’in Nirmal Jindal,
Kamal Kumar, (eds.) International Relations: Theory and Practice, Sage
Publications, India. Pp.151-170.
Tutorial 4:
Liberalism/Neo-
liberalism
7. Robert Jackson, Georg Sørensen (2019). ‘Liberalism ’in Introduction to
International Relations, Theories and Approaches, Oxford University
Press: New York, Chapter 4, pp.107- 142.
Tutorial 5:
Marxism/Neo-
Marxism
8. Wallerstein, I. (2000), “The Rise and Future Demise of World Capitalist
System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis”, in Michael Smith and
Richard Little (eds), Perspectives on World Politics, New York:
Routledge, pp. 305-317.
Tutorial
6:
Feminis
m
9. Ann Tickner, J., (2008). ‘Gender in World Politics’, in Baylis, J. and
Smith, (et al.). The Globalization of World Politics. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. pp. 262-277.
10. Peterson, V. Spike, ed. Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of
International Relations Theory. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1992.
Chapter one. pp. 31-64.
Unit 3: Concepts & Issues
Tutorial 7:
State and
Sovereignty
Navnita Chadha Behera, (2020). ‘State and Sovereignty, ’in Arlene B. Tickner
and Karen Smith, eds., International Relations from the Global South: Worlds
of Difference, London: Routledge: pp.139-160.
Reus-Smit, Christian, 2020, A Very short introduction to International
Relations, Oxford University Press, Chapter four, 87-112.
Tutorial
8: War
and
Peace
Joseph Grieco, G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno, (2015), Chapter
5 on “War and its Causes” and, Chapter 6 “Pathways to Interstate Peace,” in
Introduction to International Relations: Enduring Questions and
Contemporary Perspectives, London: Palgrave 2015, pp. 137-204.
Tutorial
9 :Hum
an
Rights
Baxi, Upendra (2002), “An Age of Human rights?” in Baxi, Upendra, The
Future of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, Delhi, pp. 1-32
Tutorial 10 :Global governance and climate
change negotiations
Weiss, Thomas G, (2013) “What is global governance” in Global
Governance: Why? What? Whither?, New York: Polity, 90-127
Agarwal, Anil and Sunita Narain (1991), Global Warming and Unequal
World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism, Centre for Science and
Environment, Delhi, pp. 81-91.
IR Beyond Eurocentrism
Non-Western Perspectives
Tutorial 11: Blaney, David L. and Inayatullah, Naeem (2009), “International
Relations from Below” in Christian Reus Smit and Duncan Snidal, (ed.), The
Oxford Handbook of International Relations, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2008, pp. 663-674.
Tutorial 12 : Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan, “Why is there no non-
Western international relations theory? An introduction”, International
Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 7:3, September 2007, pp- 287–312.
Indian
Contributions to
IR
Tutorial 13: Behera, N. C. (2013) “Introduction,” in India Engages the World.
(Political science: 4.) New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-55.
Tutorial 14: Book Reading
Baylis, John and Steve Smith (2001), The Globalisation of World Politics:
An Introduction to International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press
“Realism”, pp. 141-161.
“Liberalism”, pp. 162-181.
Hobden Stephen and Richard Wyn Jones (2014), “Marxist theories of
International Relations”, in John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (et.al),
The Globalization of World Politics, Sixth Edition, UK: Oxford, pp.116-129.
Brown, Chris, “Human Rights,” in Baylis, John and Steve Smith (2008), The
Globalisation of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, 4 th
Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 506-521.
