Social Constructivism as a Theory of International Relations
(社會建構國際關係理論)
Fall 2012
Monday, 13:20 -15:10 hrs.
Department of Political Science, NTU
Prof. I Yuan (袁易教授)
E-Mail: yyuan@nccu.edu.tw
Office Hours: by appointment

This course will survey the major literature in the International Relations theories under the rubric of social constructivism, including various strands of scholarship as well as its applications to the subfields of International Security, International Law, and International Political Economy. The course will also focus on the ontological, epistemological or methodological dimensions of its developments and its applications to the respective issues. The class will be conducted in seminar format. All students are required to prepare the weekly readings for class discussion. Students are also required to produce two short papers (ten pages in length). Reading materials are available at the University Copy Center for purchase.

Week 1 – 9/17 Introduction

Week 2 – 9/ 24 International Relations Theories: The State of the Field
1- Tim Dunne, Mijia Kurki, and Steve Smith, eds., International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (2nd edition) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), chapters 1 and 15.
2- K. J. Holsti, “Scholarship in an Era of Anxiety: the Study of International Politics during the Cold War,” in Tim Dunne, Michael Cox and Ken Booth, eds., The Eighty Years’ Crisis: International Relations 1919-1999 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 17-46.
3- Steve Smith, “The Discipline of International Relations: Still an American Social Science?” in Jorg Friedrichs ed., European Approaches to International Relations Theory (London & New York: Rutledge, 2004), pp. 1-23.
4- Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson and Michael Tierney, The View from the Ivory Tower: TRIP Survey of International Relations Faculty in the United States and Canada, (Feb. 2007) . http://web.wm.edu/irtheoryandpractice/trip/surveyrepo