SUN 2006 Course: Globalization, Governance and International Relations Theory

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

July 17 – 28, 2006

 

Course Syllabus

 

 

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Topic 1:  International Relations Theory in a Highly Globalized World

 

Monday, July 17

9.00-10:30        Globalization, Governance and IR Theory: Introductions and Logistics

Introduction of resource persons and participants to each other and to the

            nature and format of the course

Readings:

Donald J. Puchala, "International Relations Theory in Perspective," in Donald J. Puchala, Theory & History in International Relations (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 14−32. [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Yale Ferguson and Richard Mansbach, “Paradigms and Theoretical Growth in Global Politics,” in Yale Ferguson and Richard Mansbach, The Elusive Quest Continues: Theory and Global Politics (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003), pp. 1−18 and 225−229. [Reading Link]

Robert O. Keohane, “Introduction: From Interdependence and Institutions to Globalization and Governance,” in Robert Keohane, Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 1−23. [Reading Link]

Tanja Brühl and Volker Rittberger, "From International to Global Governance: Actors, Collective Decision-Making, and the United Nations in the World of the Twenty-first Century," in Volker Rittberger, ed., Global Governance and the United Nations System (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2002), pp. 1–47: [Reading Link]

10.30-11.00       Break

11.00-12:30      Globalization and Its Critics

                          Lecture and discussion of competing definitions and critiques of globalization and the implications for understanding the nature of globalization processes in international relations and world politics

Readings:

James H. Mittelman, "Introduction," in James H. Mittelman, The Globalization Syndrome (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 3−14. [Reading Link]

James H. Mittelman, “Mapping Globalization,” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, vol. 22, no. 3 (2001): 212−218. [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Mark R. Brawley, "Defining Globalization," in Mark R. Brawley, The Politics of Globalization (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2003), pages 11-20. [Reading Link]

Fred Riggs, “Globalization: Key Concepts” [Reading Link]

12.30-14.00       Lunch

14.00-15.30       Workshop: Designing a Research Program

Small group structured exercise in how to design a research agenda and carry out a coherent and cohesive research program

15.30-17.00       Computer Lab and Library Tours

17.00-18.30       Welcome Reception

 

Tuesday, July 18

9.00-10:30       Globalization, Ideology and Human Security: Reworking the “Washington

                         Consensus”

                         Presentation and discussion of the nature and roles of control, autonomy and

agency in international relations

Readings:

James H. Mittelman, "The Power of Globalization" and "Ideologies and the Globalization Agenda" in James H. Mittelman, Whither Globalization? The Vortex of Knowledge and Ideology (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 3–11 and 47–55. [Reading Link] [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Robert W. Cox, "A Perspective on globalization," in James H. Mittelman, Globalization: Critical Reflections (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996), pp. 21−30. [Reading Link]

Caroline Thomas, “Global Governance, Development and Human Security: Exploring the Links," Third World Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2(2001):159–175. [Reading Link]

Vidya S. A. Kumar, “A Critical Methodology of Globalization: Politics of the 21st Century?” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol.  10, no. 2 (2003) 87-111: [Reading Link]

10.30-11.00       Break

11.00-12.30            Globalization, Anti-globalizations and Human Security

Seminar focused on identifying the forces and tensions that underlie structures and processes of globalization and the implications for IR theory

Readings:

Majid Tehranian, “Globalization and Governance: An Overview,” in Esref Aksu and Joseph A. Camilleri, eds., Democratizing Global Governance (New York: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 3−27. [Reading Link]

Recommended:

James H. Mittelman, “Globalization: Captors and Captive,” Third World Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 6 (2000): 917−929. [Reading Link]

Anti-globalization,” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-globalization_movement]

Roland Paris, "Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?" International Security vol. 26, no. 2(Fall 2001):87–102. [Reading Link]

Edward Newman, "Human Security and Constructivism," International Studies Perspectives, vol. 2(2001):239–251. [Reading Link]

12.30-14.00       Lunch

14.00-15.30       'Globalization and Its Discontents': Screening of an interview with Joseph

Stiglitz

[http://info.worldbank.org/etools/bSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=325&EID=145]

Critical reflections: Mittelman and Shaw

Readings:

Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalism’s Discontents,” The American Prospect, vol. 13, issue 1(January 1–14, 2002) [Reading Link]  

15.30-16.00      Break

16.00-17.00     Workshop: Establishing Research Groups and Networks

                        This session will be devoted to an open exchange of participants’

                        intellectual interests and assisting participants to self-select into small groups

                        according to their research and teaching interests

 

Wednesday, July 19

9.00-10:30        Globalization, Peace, and Conflict

                          In depth discussion of geostrategic issues related to globalization and what needs

to be done to bridge the geoeconomic and geostrategic gulf

Readings:

Howard H. Lentner, "Globalization and Power," in Howard H. Lentner, Power and Politics in Globalization: The Indispensable State (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 33−51. [Reading Link]

Recommended:

 James H. Mittelman and Christine N. Chin, "Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalization," in James H. Mittelman, The Globalization Syndrome (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 165−178. [Reading Link]

Karen T. Muraoka, “A Survey of Globalization Theories,” Toda Institute webpage: [http://www.toda.org/Default.aspx?PageID=151]

“Globalization Theories,” The Globalization Website: [http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/theories01.html]

Justin Rosenberg, “The Problem of Globalisation theory” and Sholte’s Folly,” in Justin Rosenberg, The Follies of Globalization Theory (London: Verso, 2000): [Reading Link]  

10.30-11.00       Break

11.00-12:30       Panel: The Political Economy of Globalization – “Cui bono?”

                          Moderator: Coate

                          Panelists: Shaw, Mittelman

                          Panel discussion of the moral debates about globalization and the future of

critical globalization studies

Readings:

Ngaire Woods, "The Political Economy of Globalization," in The Political Economy of Globalization (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), [Reading Link]  

Recommended:

Ben Rosamond, “Babylon and On? Globalization and International Political Economy,” Review of International Political Economy, vol. 10, no. 4 (November 2003): 661−671. [Reading Link]  

Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, “The Future of Globalization,” Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 37, no. 3(2002):247−265. [Reading Link]

Martin Shaw, “The State of Globalisation: Towards a Theory of State Transformation,” Review of International Political Economy vol. 4, no. 3(1997):497−513. [Reading Link]  

12.30-14.00       Lunch

14.00-15.30       Workshop: The Internet as a Research and Grant-seeking Tool

Interactive exercise exploring the various strategies and techniques for using the

Internet as a tool for conducting social science and policy research and for grant-

seeking activities.  Lab # 1.

15.30-16.00       Tutorials/Office Hours

16.00-17.00       Forum Session/Independent Research

 

Topic 2:  IR Theory in Regional Context

 

Thursday, July 20

9.00-10:30         “New Regionalism” and IR Theory

Lecture and discussion the evolving nature and role of regionalism in IR theory

Readings:

James H. Mittelman, "The 'New Regionalism'," in James H. Mittelman, The Globalization Syndrome (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 111−130. [Reading Link]

Timothy M. Shaw, "African foreign Policy in the New Millennium: From Coming Anarchies to Security Communities? From New Regionalisms to New Realisms?" in Kevin C. Dunn and Timothy M. Shaw, eds., Africa’s Challenge to International Relations Theory (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 204−238. [Reading Link] [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Takashi Inoguchi, "The End of Geography" and "The World Economy," in Global Change: A Japanese Perspective (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 45–56 and 147–173. [Reading Link]

Shaun Breslin, “IR, Area Studies and IPE: Rethinking the Study of China’s International Relations,” Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation Working Paper No. 94/02, April 2002. [Reading Link]

Stephen Castles, “Development, Social transformation and Globalisation,” Presented at the Centre for Asian Pacific Social transformation Studies Workshop, June 23–25, 1999; [Reading Link]  

10.30-11.00       Break

11.00-12:30       Challenges to IR Theory: The New Europe

Seminar exploration into the implications of new developments in Europe for IR theory

Readings:

Mark A. Pollack, “Theorizing the European Union: International Organization, Domestic Polity, or Experiment in New Governance?” Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 8(June 2005):357–398. [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Mark A. Pollack, “International Relations Theory and European Integration,” European University Institute RSC Working Paper No. 2000/55. [Reading Link]

Anders Wivel, "The Power Politics of Peace: Exploring the Link between Globalization and European Integration from a Realist Perspective," Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 39, no. 1(2004):5–25. [Reading Link]

Gary Marks and Marco Steenbergen, “Understanding Political Contestation in the European Union,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 35, no. 8(October 2002):879–892. [Reading Link]

Joseph Jupille, James Caporaso and Jeffrey T. Checkel, "Integrating Institutions: Rationalism, Constructivism and the Study of the European Union", Comparative Political Studies Vol.36, Nos.1-2 (February/March 2003):7–40. [Reading Link]

Jacek Czaputowicz, “The English School of International Relations and its approach to European Integration,” Studies and Analyses, Vol.II No.2 (2003). [Reading Link]

12.30-14.00       Lunch

14.00-17.00       Office Hours/Individual Research Project Consultations

 

Friday, July 21

9.00-10:30         African Challenges to IR Theory

Lecture and discussion on African conceptualizations and theorizing about globalization, governance and human security and development

Readings:

Assis Malaquias, "Reformulating International Relations theory: African Insights and Challenges," in Kevin C. Dunn and Timothy M. Shaw, eds., Africa’s Challenge to International Relations Theory (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 11–28. [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Anthony Leysens, "Critical theory, Robert Cox and Southern Africa," in Peter Vale, Larry A. Swatuk and Bertil Oden, eds., Theory, Change and Southern Africa’s Future (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 219–236. [Reading Link]

Kevin C. Dunn, "MadLib #32: The (Blank) African State: Rethinking the Sovereign State in International Relations Theory," in Kevin C. Dunn and Timothy M. Shaw, eds., Africa’s Challenge to International Relations Theory (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 46–63. [Reading Link]

10.30-11.00       Break

11.00-12:30       Universal Particularisms: Class, Nation and Identity in IR Theory 

Seminar exploration into role of class, nation and other identities in theorizing about globalization, governance and human security and development

Readings:

Stephen Hopgood, “Socialising IR,” Global Security and Cooperation Quarterly, no. 10(Fall 2003): [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Kathleen Collins, “Clans, Pacts and Politics in Central Asia,” Journal of Democracy, vol. 13, no. 3 (2002): 137-152: [Reading Link]

Bjørn Møller, "National, Societal and Human Security: A General Discussion with a Case Study of the Balkans," First International Meeting of Directors of Peace Research and Training Institutions: “What Agenda for Human Security in the Twenty-first Century?” Proceedings, Paris, November 27−28, 2000, 41–62. [Reading Link]

T.K. Oommen, “Recognizing Multiple Modernities: A Prelude to Understanding Globalization,” [Reading Link]

12.30-14.00       Lunch

14.00-17.00       Office Hours/Individual Research Project Consultations

 

Topic 3:  Challenges of Global Governance to IR Theory

 

Monday, July 24

9.00-10:30         Dynamics of Globalization and Challenges to Governance -- Rosenau

                          Seminar presentation exploring the dynamics of globalization and the challenges

posed to traditional globalization, security and nation-state paradigms

Readings:

James N. Rosenau, “Governing the Ungovernable: The Challenge of a Global Disaggregation of Authority,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, Tucson, September 30−October 3, 2004. [Reading Link]

Recommended:

James H. Mittelman, “What is Critical Globalization Studies?” International Studies Perspectives, vol. 5 (2004):219−230. [Reading Link]

Peter H. Koehn and James N. Rosenau, “Transnational Competence in an Emergent Epoch,” International Studies Perspectives Vol. 3 (2002): 105−127. [Reading Link]

James N. Rosenau, “An Emerging Epoch” and “Governance in Fragmegrative Space” in Distant Proximities Dynamics Beyond Globalization Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), pp. 317 and 390401. [Reading Link]

10.30-11:00       Break

11.00-12:30       International Political Theory: Problems of Order and Justice in World

                          Politics

                          Seminar exploring the central themes which animate contemporary debates and

theories about world order, global justice and world politics 

Readings:

N.J. Rengger, "Introduction" and "Epilogue," in International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order: Beyond International Relations Theory (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 1−33 and 189−207. [Reading Link] [Reading Link] [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Steve Smith, "US Democracy Promotion: Critical Questions," in Michael Cox, G. John Ikenberry and Takashi Inoguchi, eds., American Democratic Promotion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 64−82. [Reading Link]

Barry Gills, "American Power, Neo-liberal Economic Globalization, and Low-Intensity Democracy: An Unstable Trinity," in Michael Cox, G. John Ikenberry and Takashi Inoguchi, eds., American Democratic Promotion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 326−344. [Reading Link]

William Robinson, "Promoting Capitalist Polyarchy: The Case of Latin America," in Michael Cox, G. John Ikenberry and Takashi Inoguchi, eds., American Democratic Promotion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 308−325. [Reading Link]

12.30-14.30       Lunch

14.30-16:00       'World on Fire': Screening of an interview with author Amy Chua

[http://info.worldbank.org/etools/bspan/PresentationView.asp?PID=1075&EID=557]

Roundtable: Critical Reflections on Democratic Promotion and Liberal Market

Economics

Readings:

Michelle Goldberg, “Review of ’World on Fire’ by Amy Chua,” [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Tony McGrew, “Transnational Democracy: Theories and Prospects,” [Reading Link]

 

16.00−18.00      Special forum Session with Professor Rosenau

        Readings:

        James N. Rosenau, “Declaration of Interdependence” [Reading Link]

 

Tuesday, July 25

9.00-10.30         The English School and Its Critics

                          Lecture and discussion of the English School of IR Theory and its critics.

Readings:

Tim Dunn, The English School,” Inventing International Society (London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1998), pp. 1–22. [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Balkan Devlen, İ Özgür Özdamar and Patrick James, “The English School as a Scientific Enterprise,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, March 16−20, 2004. [Reading Link]  

Barry Buzan, “The English School as a Research Program: An Overview, and a Proposal for Reconvening,” English School website: [Reading Link]

Richard Shapcott, “Practical Reasoning: Constructivism, Critical Theory and the English School,” English School website: [Reading Link]

English School papers: [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/polis/englishschool/papers.htm]

10.30-11.00       Break

11.00-12:30       Stability, Stasis and Security: Reflections on Superpower Leadership

Rosenau

                          Seminar discussion further probing the challenges of American hegemony for IR

theory building. Comments by special guest.

Readings:

James N. Rosenau, “Stability, Stasis, and Change: A Fragmegrating World,” The Global Century: Globalization and National Security, Volume I (Washington, DC: National Defense University, 2001), pp. 127–153. [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Philip S. Golub, “Imperial Politics, Imperial Will and the Crisis of US Hegemony,” Review of International Political Economy, vol. 11, no. 4(October 2004):763−786. [Reading Link]

Steve Smith, “The United States and the Discipline of International Relations: ‘Hegemonic Country, Hegemonic Discipline’,” in Mustapha Kamal Pasha and Craig N. Murphy, eds., International Relations and the New Inequality (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 67−85. [Reading Link]

Steve Smith, “The End of the Unipolar Moment: September 11 and the Future of World Order,” Social Science Research Council Essays: [http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/smith.htm]

Adam Watson, “International Relations & The Practice Of Hegemony,” Notes for a lecture given at the CSD Encounter with Adam Watson, University of Westminster, June 5, 2002: [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/polis/englishschool/watson-hegemony02.doc]

James N. Rosenau, "Toward an Ontology for Global Governance," in Martin Hewson and Timothy Sinclair, eds., Approaches to Global Governance Theory (SUNY Press, 1999), pp. 287−301. [Reading Link]

12.30-14.00       Lunch

14.00-17:00       Pre-panel Research Presentation Consultations

17:00-18.30       Distinguished Scholar Reception in honor of James N. Rosenau

 

Topic 4:  Research Responding to the Challenges to IR Theory

 

Wednesday, July 26

  9.00-10.00       Pre-panel Research Presentation Consultations

10.00-12:00       Participants’ Research Panel Presentations

Session A – Chaired by Lindstrom

Session B – Chaired by Coate

12.00-14.00       Lunch

14.00-16.00       Participants’ Research Panel Presentations

Session C – Chaired by Lindstrom

Session D – Chaired by Coate

16.00-17.00       Library research/panel preparation time

 

Thursday, July 27

  9.00-10.00       Pre-panel Research Presentation Consultations

10.00-12:00       Participants’ Research Panel Presentations

Session E – Chaired by Lindstrom

Session F – Chaired by Coate

12.00-14.00       Lunch

14.00-16.00       Participants’ Research Panel Presentations

Session G – Chaired by Lindstrom

Session H – Chaired by Coate

16.00-17.00       Rapporteurs’ Reports and Evaluations – Moderated by Coate

17.00-18.30       Post-conference Forum Session

 

Friday, July 28

9:00-10.30         Panel: Globalization, Governance and IR Theory in the 21st Century

                        Moderator: Coate

                        Panelist: Five participants to be selected from the class

Readings:

Yale Ferguson and Richard Mansbach, “The End of the Elusive Quest?” and “The Quest Continues,” in Yale Ferguson and Richard Mansbach, The Elusive Quest Continues: Theory and Global Politics (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003), pp. 191−208, 209−224 and 260−266. [Reading Link]

Recommended:

Donald J. Puchala, "Liberal Theory and Linear History," in Donald J. Puchala, Theory & History in International Relations (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 189−213. [Reading Link]

Stephen M. Walt, “The Relationship between Theory and Policy in International Relations,” Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 8(2005):23−48. [Reading Link]

A. Nuri Yurdusev, “Civilizations and International Systems: Toynbee, Wight and Bull,” [Reading Link]

Mathias Albert, “On the Modern Systems Theory of Society and IR: Contacts and Disjunctures between Different Kinds of Theorizing,” [Reading Link]

Martin Shaw, “The Global Transformation of the Social Sciences,” Global Civil Society Yearbook 2003 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 35-44. [Reading Link] 

10.30-11.00       Course Evaluation

11:00-17:00       Library Research/Post Conference Research Consultations

18.00-21.30       Dinner and awards ceremony

 

Selected Bibliography:

Esref Aksu and Joseph A. Camilleri, eds., Democratizing Global Governance (New York: Palgrave, 2002).

Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, eds., Power in Global Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2004).

"Bibliography on Human Security, Prepared by the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research," August 2001.

Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber, eds., State Sovereignty as Social Construct (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

William Ernest Blatz, Human Security: Some Reflections (London: University of London Press, 1967.).

Morten Boasm, Marianne H. Marchand and Timothy Shaw, eds., New Regionalism in the New Millennium (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Mark Brawley, The Politics of Globalization: Gaining Perspective, Assessing Consequences Toronto: Broadview Press, 2003).

Robin Brood, ed.., Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002).

Michael E. Brown et al., eds., New Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004).

Scott Burchill et. al., Theories of International Relations (New York: Palgrave, 2001).

Barry Buzan, From International to World Society?: English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

_________, Ole Wǽver and Jaap de Wilde, Security: A New Framework for Analysis (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998).

Hedley Bull. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (London: Macmillan, 1977).

__________ and A. Watson, eds., The Expansion of International Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984).

John Burton, World Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972).

Martin Carnoy, Globalization and Educational Reform:  What Planners Need to Know (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1999).

Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (New York: Doubleday, 2003).

Ian Clark, Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Andrew F. Cooper, John English, and Ramesh Thakur, eds., Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy (Tokyo: UN University Press, 2002).

Michael Cox, G. John Ikenberry and Takashi Inoguchi, eds., American Democratic Promotion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Robert W. Cox ed., The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order (London: Macmillan for UNU Press, 2000).

____________, Production, Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978).

____________ and Timothy J. Sinclair, eds., Approaches to World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Sheila L. Croucher, Globalization and Belonging: The Politics of Identity in a Changing World (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004).

Francois Debrix, ed., Language, Agency and Politics in a Constructed World (New York: Sharp, 2003).

James Der Derrian et al., Global Voices: A Dialogue in International Relations (Boulder: Westview, 1993).

___________ and Michael J. Shapiro, eds., International/Intertextual Relations: Post-modern Readings in World Politics (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1989).

James E. Dougherty and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., Contending Theories of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey, Fifth Edition (New York: Longman, 2001).

Kevin C. Dunn and Timothy M. Shaw, Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001).

Tim Dunn, Inventing International Society (London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1998).

Hugh C. Dyer, Moral Order/World Order: The Role of Normative Theory in the Study of International Relations (New York: St. Martin’s, 1997).

Tony Evans and Caroline Thomas, The Politics of Human Rights: A Global Perspective (New York: Pluto Press, 2001).

Mike Featherstone, ed., Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization, and Modernity (London: Sage, 1990).

Yale Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach, The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988).

_______________,  The Elusive Quest Continues: Theory and Global Politics (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003).

_________________, Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996).

____________, “Political Space and Westphalian States in a World of “Polities”: Beyond Inside/Outside,” Global Governance 2 (1996).

Ann M. Florini, ed., The Third Force (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000).

Jonathan Friedman, Cultural Identity and Global Processes (London: Sage Publications, 1994).

Anthony Giddens, Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives (New York: Routledge, 2000).

Stephen Gill, ed., Globalization, Democratization, and Multilateralism (London: Macmillan for UNU press, forthcoming).

__________, Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

__________ and James Mittelman, eds., Innovation and Transformation in International Studies Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Barry K. Gills, ed., Globalization and the Politics of Resistance, (New York: Palgrave, 2001).

David T. Graham and Nana K. Poku, eds., Migration, Globalization and Human Security (London: Routledge, 2000).

Norman A. Graham, “Globalization and Civil Society in Hungary and the Czech Republic.” Paper prepared for delivery at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, San Jose, Costa Rica, 25-27 June 1997.

Isabelle Grunbert and Sarbuland Khan, Globalization:  The United Nations Development Dialogue (Finance, Trade, Poverty, Peace-building) (UNU Policy Perspectives 4, United Nations University Press, 2000).

Ernst Haas, Beyond the Nation State (Stanford: Stanford University, 1964).

__________, When Knowledge is Power  (University of California Press, 1990).

Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker, eds., The Emergence of Private Authority in global Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

David Held, Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004).

__________, Democracy and the Global Order Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995).

_________ and Anthony McGrew, eds., Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalizations Debate, Second Edition (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003).

_____________, Globalization/Anti-globalization (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002).

_____________, eds., Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002).

Hans-Henrik Holm and Georg Sorensen, eds., Whose World Order? (Westview Press, 1995).

Bjorn Hettne, Andras Inotai and Osvaldo Sunkel, eds., Globalism and the New Regionalism, (New York and London: St. Martin’s Press, Inc. and Macmillan Press, 1999).

Martin Hewson and Timothy Sinclair, eds., Approaches to Global Governance Theory (SUNY Press, 1999).

Richard Higgott and Anthony Payne, eds., The New Political Economy of Globalisation: Vol. I, Theories, Concepts and the State (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2000).

____________, eds., The New Political Economy of Globalisation: Vol. II, New Governance, New Actors, New Norms, New Issues (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2000).

Richard Higgott, Geoffrey RD Underhill and Andeas Bieler, Non-State Actors and Authority in the Global System (London: Routledge, 2000).

Thomas Homer-Dixon and Jessica Blitt, eds., Ecoviolence: Links among Environment, Population and Security (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999).

Ankie Hoogvelt, Globalization and the Postcolonial World (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2001).

Eivind Hovden and Edward Keene, The Globalization of Liberalism, (New York: Palgrave, 2002).

Andrew Hurrell and Ngaire Woods, eds., Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Takashi Inoguchi, Global Change: A Japanese Perspective (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).

Naeem Inayatullah and David Blaney, The One and the Many: International Relations and the Problem of Difference (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi, eds., The Cultures of Globalization (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998).

Deborah Johnston, "Constructing the Periphery in Modern Global Politics," in Craig Murphy and Roger Tooze, eds., The New International Political Economy  (Boulder:  Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1991).

R.J. Barry Jones, Globalisation and Interdependence in the International Political Economy: Rhetoric and Reality (London: Pinter Publishers, 1995).

Richard Wyn Jones, Security, Strategy and Critical Theory (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999).

Cristóbal Kay, ed., Globalization, Competitiveness and Human Security (London: Frank Cass, 1997).

Charles W. Kegley, The New Global Terrorism: Characteristics, Causes and Controls (New York: Prentice Hall, 2003).

_____________, ed., Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995).

_____________, and Gregory Raymond, Exorcising the Ghost of Westphalia: Building World Order in the New Millennium (New York: Prentice Hall, 2002),

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