Advanced Topics in International Relations

Take home exam date

2008-04-26T03:04:32Z

Discuss what dates would suit you best in the comments to this post. If there is no agreement, I will unilaterally make a decision based on what seems to suit people best.

Changes to schedule

2008-03-22T20:18:31Z

Dear all

As discussed in the last class, we will not have a class on March 27 because I will be in San Francisco for the International Studies Association meeting. This, together with the changes to accommodate the guest class with Jim Fearon, complicates our schedule somewhat. So what will be happening over the next few weeks is the following.

On March 27, there will be NO CLASS.

On April 3, we will have the class on North-South relations in the World Economy (the last of the IPE sequence).

On April 10, we will have the guest class with Jim Fearon.

On April 17, we will have a three hour omnibus session, comprising the classes on Relative Gains, Cooperation and Conflict, and Conflict and Security: The Balance of Power, in one class.

From April 24 on, we will renew our normal schedule, albeit one week late, beginning with Rationalist Approaches to Security and going on from there.

We will schedule a make-up class at the end of the semester to ensure that we get everything covered.

Realism, pragmatism and game theory

2008-01-27T04:04:24Z

This blogpost by Jim Johnson (who despite having the dubious judgment to be a friend of mine is one of the most interesting political theorists out there) may be of interest to students wading through the first part of the Wendt assigned reading - it speaks to the relationship between game theory and the kinds of broadly scientific realist accounts of society that Wendt (in somewhat different ways) is interested in.

Sign-up sheet

2008-01-18T04:03:54Z

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