This essay needs to be completed in MHRA format.
Requirements for assessment are as follows. Requirements for each articles are shown in – bulletpoints – utilise 1 article provided in each week. This is a 2000 word essay so 500 word per article.
For the Reading Diary, you have to critically assess 4 articles. The articles will cover weeks 2-5 of the module. For each week, you can find below 3 articles. From this list, you will have to pick one per week as the object of your critical assessment.
Each critical assessment should not be longer than 500 words for a total of no more than 2000 words. In your critical assessment, you are supposed to:
- Identify the author’s main argument,
- Critically evaluate the strength and weaknesses of the argument,
- Place the author’s argument within broader debates discussed in the module (e.g. How does the argument compare to that of others? What is the author building upon? How has s/he been criticized?)
Reading List for Reading Diary
Week 2
– Nicholas Ross Smith and Grant Dawson, “Mearsheimer, Realism, and the Ukraine War,” Analyse & Kritik(2022), https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/auk-2022-2023/htmlLinks to an external site.
– Guilhot, Nicolas. “Imperial realism: post-war IR theory and decolonisation.” The International History Review 36.4 (2014): 698-720.
– Ann Tickner, “Hans Morgenthau’s Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation,” Millennium, 17.3 (1998): 429-440.
Week 3
– Amitav Acharya, ‘After Liberal Hegemony: The Advent of a Multiplex World Order,’ Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2017), 271-285.
– Ikenberry, G. John. “Why the liberal world order will survive.” Ethics & International Affairs 32.1 (2018): 17.
– Rapp-Hooper, Mira ; Lissner, Rebecca Friedman, ‘The Open World: What America Can Achieve After Trump,’ Foreign Affairs, 98, 2019, 18-25.
Week 4
– Michelsen, N., De Orellana, P., & Costa Buranelli, F. “The reactionary internationale: the rise of the new right and the reconstruction of international society,” International Relations, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178231186392Links to an external site.
– Vincent Charles Keating, Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society, International Studies Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 3, September 2022, sqac040, https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac040Links to an external site.
– Barry Buzan, ‘The ‘Standard of Civilisation’ as an English School Concept,’ Millennium, 42, 3 (2014), pp. 576-594.
Week 5
– Lantis JS, Wunderlich C. “Resiliency dynamics of norm clusters: Norm contestation and international cooperation.” Review of International Studies. 2018;44(3): 570-593. doi:10.1017/S0260210517000626
– Finnemore, Martha, and Kathryn Sikkink. “International norm dynamics and political change.” International organization (1998): 887-917.
– Jose, Betcy, “Bin Laden’s targeted killing and emerging norms,” Critical Studies on Terrorism, 10:1 (2017), 44-66.