Essay 1500 words

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (4PIRS009W)

INITIAL SOURCES FOR THE ESSAY This is a list of initial academic sources which will help you to answer your essay question. You will not need to read everything on the list, but you should use these sources as your starting point. One important “ingredient” of a university essay is the engagement with (some of) the academic literature which speaks to the question you have been set. You should begin your research journey with these sources and use them to branch out and to find additional academic sources as you progress. All these sources are available electronically, and they can be accessed via the online reading list. (NOTE: you will see below that the list is set out using the Westminster Harvard referencing system. You will be expected to do the same in all your work at university.) What does “decolonising IR” mean, and how should we go about it? These readings can all be accessed via the online reading list, under Week 2 Barkawi, T. (2016). Decolonising war. European Journal of International Security, 1 (2), 199-214. Barkawi, T. and Laffey, M. (2006). The postcolonial moment in security studies. Review of International Studies, 32 (2), 329-352. Capan, Z. (2017). Decolonising International Relations? Third World Quarterly, 38 (1), 1-15. Haffner, D. (2018). Contesting coloniality in International Relations’ reading lists. London: LSE. Henderson, E. (2013). Hidden in plain sight: racism in international relations theory. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26 (1), 71-92. Jones, B. G. (2006). Decolonizing International Relations. Lanham, MD.: Rowman and Littlefield. Krishna, S. (2012). Decolonizing International Relations. E-International Relations, 8 October. Kwoba, B. et al. (2018). Rhodes must fall: the struggle to decolonise the racist heart of empire. London: Zed Books. Laffey, M. and Weldes, J. (2008). Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis. International Studies Quarterly, 52 (3), 555-577. Odoon, I. and Andrews, N. (2017). What/who is still missing in International Relations scholarship? Situating Africa as an agent in IR theorising. Third World Quarterly, 38 (1), 42-60. Pal, M. and Rosenow, D. (2018). Decolonising International Relations: some pedagogical reflections. The Disorder of Things, 4 March. Salter, M. (2002). Barbarians and civilization in International Relations. London: Pluto Press.

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (4PIRS009W)

Vitalis, R. (2010). The noble American science of imperial relations and its laws of race development. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 52 (4), 909-938. Vitalis, R. (2016). White world order, Black power politics: the birth of American International Relations. New York: Cornell University Press. Critically assess the concept of EITHER “anarchy” OR “democratic peace” These readings can all be accessed via the online reading list, under Weeks 3 and 4 Barkawi, T. and Laffey, M. (1999). The imperial peace: democracy, force and globalisation. European Journal of International Relations, 5 (4), 403-434. Barkawi, T. and Laffey, M. (2006). The postcolonial moment in security studies. Review of International Studies, 32 (2), 329-352. Chomsky, N. (2015). Year 501: the conquest continues, 2nd ed. London: Pluto Press. Crawford, N. (1994). A security regime among democracies: cooperation among Iroquois Nations. International Organization, 48 (3), 345-385. Henderson, E. (2013). Hidden in plain sight: racism in international relations theory. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26 (1), 71-92. Knox, R. (2013). Civilizing interventions? Race, war and international law. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26 (1), 111-132. Layne, C. (1994). Kant or cant? The myth of the democratic peace. International Security, 19 (2), 5-49. Mearsheimer, J. (2014). The tragedy of great power politics, 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton. Vitalis, R. (2000). Graceful and generous liberal gesture: making racism invisible in International Relations. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 29 (2), 331-356. Is Britain at war? These readings can all be accessed via the online reading list, under Week 5 Barkawi, T. (2016). Decolonising war. European Journal of International Security, 1 (2), 199-214. Barkawi, T. and Laffey, M. (1999). The imperial peace: democracy, force and globalisation. European Journal of International Relations, 5 (4), 403-434. Blakeley, R. and Raphael, S. (2020). Accountability, denial and the future-proofing of British torture. International Affairs, 96 (3), 691-709.

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Raphael, S. and St John, J. (2016). Arming repression: the new British imperialism in the Persian Gulf. London: War on Want. Shabibi, N. (2020). Revealed: the CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya. Declassified UK, 28 August. Wearing, D. (2016). A shameful relationship: UK complicity in Saudi state violence. London: Campaign Against the Arms Trade. Wearing, D. (2018). AngloArabia: why Gulf wealth matters to Britain. Cambridge: Polity. Read the introduction and Chapters 1, 5 and 6 In what ways is state violence gendered? These readings can all be accessed via the online reading list, under Week 7 Basu, S. (2011). Security as emancipation: a feminist perspective. In: Tickner, J.A. and Sjoberg, L. (eds.) Feminism and international relations: conversations about the past, present and future. Abingdon: Routledge, 98-114. Cohn, C. (1987). Sex and death in the rational world of defense intellectuals. Signs, 12 (4), 687-718. Cohn, C. et al. (2005). The relevance of gender for eliminating weapons of mass destruction. Stockholm: Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission. Enloe, C. (2014). Bananas, beaches and bases: making feminist sense of international politics. Berkley, CA.: University of California Press. Read Chapters 1 and 3 Enloe, C. (2016). Globalization and militarism: feminists make the link, 2nd ed. Lanham, MD. Read Chapter 4 Hansen, L. (2000). Gender, nation, rape: Bosnia and the construction of security. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 3 (1), 55-75. Shepherd, L. (ed.) (2014). Gender matters in global politics: a feminist introduction to international relations, 2nd ed. London: Routledge.