Realist international theory and the study of world politics

New Thinking in International Relations Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 163-201

  Grieco, Joseph M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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66. Richard K. Betts, “Wealth, Power, and Instability: East Asia and the United States After the Cold War,” International Security 18 (Winter 1993/1994):34-77.
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68. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, p. 106.
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70. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, p. 105.
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72. Robert Jervis, “Realism, Game Theory, and Cooperation,” World Politics 40 (April 1988), especially pp. 334-336.
73. Joseph M. Grieco, Cooperation Among Nations: Europe, America, and Non-tariff Barriers to Trade (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990), pp. 10, 44.
74. Duncan Snidal, “Relative Gains and the Pattern of International Cooperation,” American Political Science Review 85 (September 1991):701-726
75. Robert Powell, “Absolute and Relative Gains in International Relations Theory,” American Political Science Review 85 (December 1991):1303-1320;
76. Helen Milner, “International Theories of Cooperation Among Nations: Strengths and Weaknesses,” World Politics 44 (April 1992):466-496.
77. Robert Keohane, “Institutionalist Theory and the Realist Challenge After the Cold War,” are also in Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate, edited by David A. Baldwin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
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80. Helen Milner, “International Theories of Cooperation Among States: Strengths and Weaknesses,” World Politics 44 (April 1992):466-496
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82. Michael Mastanduno, “Do Relative Gains Matter? America’s Response to Japanese Industrial Policy,” International Security 16 (Summer 1991):73-113 (reprinted in abridged form in Neorealism and Neoliberalism, ed. Baldwin, pp. 250-266).
83. Stephen D. Krasner, “Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto Frontier,” World Politics 43 (April 1992):351-360 (reprinted in abridged form in Neorealism and Neoliberalism, ed. Baldwin, pp. 234-249).
84. Joseph M. Grieco, ed., The International System and the International Political Economy, vol. 1, Hegemony and Cooperation in the International System (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993).
85. David A. Lake, “Leadership, Hegemony, and the International Economy: Naked Emperor or Tattered Monarch with Potential?" International Studies Quarterly 37 (December 1993):459-489.
86. Gilpin’s key works on this subject are “The Politics of Transnational Relations,” in Transnational Relations and World Politics, edited by Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye Jr. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972), pp. 48-69;
87. U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment (New York: Basic Books, 1975);
88. The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), especially pp. 72-80, 85-97.
89. Charles P. Kindleberger, The World in Depression, 1929-1939 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973).
90. “State Power and the Structure of International Trade,” World Politics 28 (April 1976):317-347;
91. “Power Structures and Regional Development Banks,” International Organization 35 (Spring 1981):303-328.
92. Gilpin, Political Economy of International Relations, pp. 72-73, 88, 91.
93. Timothy J. McKeown, “Hegemonic Stability Theory and Nineteenth-Century Tariff Levels in Europe,” International Organization 37 (Winter 1983):73-91
94. John A.C. Conybeare, “Public Goods, Prisoners’ Dilemmas, and the International Political Economy,” International Studies Quarterly 28 (March 1984):5-22
95. Arthur A. Stein, “The Hegemon’s Dilemma: Great Britain, the United States, and the International Economic Order,” International Organization 38 (Spring 1984):355-386;
96. Duncan Snidal, “The Limits of Hegemonic Stability Theory,” International Organization 39 (Autumn 1985):579-614.
97. Robert O. Keohane, “The Theory of Hegemonic Stability and Changes in International Economic Regimes, 1967-1977,” in Change in the International System, edited by Ole Holsti, Randolph Siverson, and Alexander George (Boulder: Westview Press, 1980), pp. 131-162.
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99. Bruce Russett, “The Mysterious Case of Vanishing Hegemony, or, Is Mark Twain Really Dead?" International Organization 39 (Spring 1985):207-231;
100. Susan Strange, “The Persistent Myth of Lost Hegemony,” International Organization 41 (Autumn 1987):551-574.
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102. Gowa, “Bipolarity, Multipolarity, and Free Trade,” American Political Science Review 83 (December 1989): 1245-1256
103. Gowa, Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade.
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105. Lake, Power, Protection, and Free Trade, especially pp. 91-118 and 184-215.
106. Friedrich V. Kratochwil, “The Embarrassment of Changes: Neo-realism as the Science of Realpolitik Without Politics,” Review of International Studies 19 (1993):63-80.
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109. Robert O. Keohane, “Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond,” in Neorealism and Its Critics, ed. Keohane, p. 179
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113. Alexander Wendt, “Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics,” International Organization 46 (Spring 1992):391-425;
114. Wendt, “The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory,” International Organization 41 (Summer 1987):335-370.
115. Jonathan Mercer, “Anarchy and Identity,” International Organization 49 (Spring 1995):229-252.
116. Gilpin, War and Change, p. 7;
117. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, pp. 65-66.
118. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, p. 69.
119. Kenneth N. Waltz, “The Emerging Structure of International Politics,” International Security 18 (Fall 1993):45.
120. Keohane, After Hegemony.
121. Barry R. Posen, The Sources of Military Doctrine: Prance, Britain, and Germany Between the Two Wars (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984).
122. Michael Doyle, “Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 12, part I (Summer 1983):205-235, and part II (Fall 1983):323-353
123. Doyle, “Liberalism and World Politics,” American Political Science Review 80 (December 1986):1151-1169;
124. Bruce Russett, Grasping the Democratic Peace (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
125. Mansfield and Snyder, “Democratization and the Danger of War,” International Security 20 (Summer 1995):5-38.
126. Waltz, “Emerging Structure of International Politics,” passim.
127. Walt, Origins of Alliances, pp. 25-26, 32-33, 167-171.
128. Christensen and Snyder, “Chain Gangs and Passed Bucks,” especially 138-139, 146, 167.
129. Posen, The Sources of Military Doctrine, pp. 173-175, 208-213.
130. Grieco, Cooperation Among Nations, pp. 24-25, 188-193, 198-209.
131. Stephen M. Walt, Revolution and War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996).
132. Barry R. Posen, “Nationalism, the Mass Army, and Military Power,” International Security 18 (Fall 1993):80-124.
133. Otto Hintze, “The Formation of States”
134. “Military Organization,” in The Historical Essays of Otto Hintze, edited by Felix Gilbert (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975), pp. 157-215.
135. Aristide R. Zolberg, “Strategic Interactions and the Formation of Modern States: France and England,” International Social Science Journal 22 (1980):713.
136. Joseph M. Grieco, ed., The International System and the International Political Economy, vol. 2, State Structures and Strategies (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993).
137. Charles Tilly, “Reflections on the History of European State-Making,” in The Formation of National States in Western Europe, edited by Charles Tilly (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), p. 55.
138. Samuel E. Finer, “State- and Nation-Building in Europe: The Role of the Military,” in Formation of National States, ed. Tilly, pp. 84-163.
139. Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
140. “A Critical Review of Barrington Moore’s Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy,” Politics and Society 4 (Fall 1973): 1-34;
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142. “Wallerstein’s World Capitalist System: A Theoretical and Historical Critique,” American Journal of Sociology 82 (March 1977):1075-1090.
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145. Theory of International Politics, pp. 74-77, 92-93, 127-128.
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147. Rodney Bruce Hall and Friedrich V. Kratochwil, “Medieval Tales: Neorealist ‘Science’ and the Abuse of History,”
148. Markus Fischer, “On Context, Facts, and Norms: Reply to Hall and Kratochwil,” International Organization 47 (Summer 1993):479-500.
149. John J. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International Institutions,” International Security 19 (Winter 1994/1995):5-49;
150. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, pp. 88, 115-116.
151. Robert O. Keohane and Lisa Martin, Charles A. Kupchan and Clifford A. Kupchan, John Gerard Ruggie, and Alexander Wendt, and Mearsheimer’s rejoinder to them, see the exchange in International Security 20 (Summer 1995):39-93.
152. Randall L. Schweller and David Priess, “A Tale of Two Realisms: Expanding the Institutions Debate,” Mershon International Studies Review, forthcoming.
153. Aron, Peace and War, pp. 411-415.
154. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, pp. 70-71.
155. “The Maastricht Treaty, Economic and Monetary Union, and the Neorealist Research Programme,” Review of International Studies 21 (January 1995):21-40.
156. Schroeder, “Alliances, 1915-1914: Weapons of Power and Tools of Management,” in Historical Dimensions of National Security Problems, edited by Klaus Knorr (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1976), pp. 227-262.
157. “State Interests and International Rule Trajectories: A Neorealist Interpretation of the Maastricht Treaty and European Economic and Monetary Union,” Security Studies 5 (Spring 1996): 176-222.
158. Lionel Barber, “Bonn Sets Agenda for Monetary Union,” Financial Times, October 2, 1995, p. 2.
159. Erik Hoffmeyer, “Bystanders at the Infighting: The Real Debate on Monetary Union Is About the Relative Power of France and Germany,” Financial Times, February 9, 1996, p. 22.
160. Arnold Wolfers, “The Pole of Power and the Pole of Indifference,” in Wolfers, Discord and Collaboration: Essays on International Politics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1962), pp. 81-102.
161. Randall L. Schweller, “Bandwagoning for Profit: Bringing the Revisionist State Back In,” International Security 19 (Summer 1994):85.
162. Randall L. Schweller, “Bandwagoning for Profit: Bringing the Revisionist State Back In,” International Security 19 (Summer 1994) pp. 85-88.
163. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International Institutions,” p. 11;
164. Fareed Zakaria, “Realism and Domestic Politics: A Review Essay,” International Security 17 (Summer 1992):190-196.
165. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International Institutions,” p. 10.
166. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International Institutions,” pp. 11-12.
167. Schweller, “Bandwagoning for Profit.”
168. Arthur A. Stein, “Coordination and Collaboration: Regimes in an Anarchic World,” in International Regimes, ed. Krasner, p. 134.
169. Snidal, “Relative Gains,” pp. 172-173.
170. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations, 1st ed., pp. 13, 15.
171. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations, 1st ed., pp. 155.
172. Waltz in Man, the State, and War, pp. 16-41.
173. Scientific Man vs. Power Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946; Midway Reprint, 1974), pp. 191-203.
174. Nicholas J. Spykman, America’s Strategy in World Politics: The United States and the Balance of Power (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1942), p. 7, emphasis added; also see p. 41.
175. John H. Herz, “Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma,” World Politics 2 (January 1950): 157.
176. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations, 1st ed., p. 45.
177. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, p. 117, emphasis added.
178. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, pp. 118-119, emphasis added.
179. Gilpin, War and Change, p. 51.
180. Gilpin, War and Change, pp. 67-68, emphasis added.
181. Gilpin, War and Change, p. 74.
182. Gilpin, War and Change, p. 95.
183. Christensen and Snyder in “Chain Gangs,”
184. Snyder in Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991).