IPL 752 2024: Library Course Guide

Theme 1: Theme 1: A critical assessment of IRT debates: the debates we have not had

Main reading

• European Journal of International Relations, Special Edition, 2013 – End of International Relations Theory

Further readings:

• Fukuyama, Francis. “The End of History?” The National Interest, no. 16, 1989, pp. 3–18. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24027184. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
• Bell, D. 1960. The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, Harvard: Harvard University Press. *GV 320.50973 BELL
• Schake, K. 2018. America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved?”, Australia: Penguin Random House. Please contact lecturers.
• Badie, B. 2020. Rethinking International Relations: Rethinking Political Science and International Studies, Edward Elgar Pub
• Knight W.A. and Mahdavi, M. 2012. “Introduction: Towards ‘The Dignity of Difference’: Neither ‘The End of History’ nor ‘The Clash of Civilizations,” in Mojtaba Mahdavi and W. Andy Knight (eds.), Towards the Dignity of Difference? Neither the End of History nor the Clash of Civilisations London: Ashgate, pp.1-26.
• Schake, K. N. (2018) America vs the west can the liberal world order be preserved? Docklands, VIC: Penguin Random House Australia (Lowy Institute paper). Please contact lecturers.

Theme 2: Re-centering Africa in International Relations Theory

Main reading:

• Faleye, O. 2014. Africa and international relations theory: acquiescence and responses, Globalistics and Globalization Studies, 154–163.
• Grovogui, S. ‘Come to Africa: A Hermeneutics of Race in International Theory’, in Alternatives, no 26, 2001, pp, 425 – 448.
• Abrahamsen, R. ‘Africa and International Relations: Assembling Africa, studying the World’ in African Affairs, 116/462, 125-139
• Tella, O and Motala, S (eds). 2020. From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers. Transforming Humanities Curricula in South Africa, Africa and African-American Studies. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. Section V: African Schools of Thought’ *GV 325.3 FROM

Further reading:

• Scarlett Cornelissen, Fantu Cheru and Timothy M. Shaw, ‘Introduction: Africa and International Relations in the 21st century: Still challenging theory?’ in Scarlett Cornelissen, Fantu Cheru and Timothy M. Shaw (eds) Africa and International Relations in the 21st
  Century (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) . *GV 327.6 AFRICA
• Zondi, S. 2013. ‘Common Positions as African Agency in International Negotiations: An Appraisal’, in Harman, S. and Brown, W. (eds.). African agency in international Relations,London: Routledge, 19-33. eBook

Theme 3: International Relations Theory and the Global South

Readings

• Boniface E.S. Mgonja 1 and Iddi A.M. Makombe. 2009. ‘Debating international relations and its relevance to the third world’, African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 3(1), pp. 27-37.
• Amitav Acharya, & Barry Buzan (eds.) 2010. Non-Western international relations theory: Perspectives on and beyond Asia. New York: Routledge. eBook
• Spegele R. 2002. ‘Emancipatory International Relations: Good News, Bad News or No News at All?’ International Relations, 16(3):381-401.
• Tickner A. 2003. ‘Seeing IR Differently: Notes from the Third World’ Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32(2):295-324
• Mazrui A. 1977. Africa’s International Relations: The Diplomacy of Dependency and Change. London: Heinemann. eBook
• Comaroff, J & Comaroff J. 2012. Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa. Anthropological Forum: a Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, pp. 113-31.
• Adekeye Adebajo “Pan-Africanism: From the Twin Plagues of European Locusts to Africa’s Triple Quest for Emancipation,” in Adekeye Adebajo (ed.), The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2020; and Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021).
• Kweku Ampiah, The Political and Moral Imperatives of the Bandung Conference of 1955 (London: Global Oriental, 2007), Introduction. eBook
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace (New York: United Nations, 1992). *GV 327.172 BOUTROS-GHALI
• Francis M. Deng, “From ‘Sovereignty as Responsibility’ to the Responsibility to Protect,” in Adekeye Adebajo, Mark Paterson, and Jeremy Sarkin (eds.), “Africa’s Responsibility to Protect,” special issue, Global Responsibility to Protect, Volume 2 No. 4, 2010, 353-370.
• Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1982, Introduction. *GV 338.96 RODNEY
• Seng Tan and Amitav Acharya (eds.), Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the 1955 Asian- African Conference for International Order (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2008), Introduction.

Theme 4: Dissecting the “International” in International Relations Theory

Readings

• Grosfoguel, R. 2009. ‘A Decolonial Approach to Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Border Thinking and Global Coloniality,’ Kult- Special Issue: Epistemological Transformation, Fall, pp. 10- 37.
• Clark, I. 1999. Globalization and International Relations Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. *GV 327.101 CLARK
• Manchanda, N. and Shilliam, R. Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line, London: Routledge. eBook
• Amin, S. 2002. ‘Africa: Living on the Fringe’, Monthly Review, March, no page numbers
• Amin, S. 1996. ‘The Challenge of Globalisation,’ International Review of Political Economy, 3 (2), pp. 216-59
• Zondi, S. 2015. 'Decolonial humanism and the Africa's presence in international diplomacy. Please contact lecturers.
• Scott, M and Alcenat, W. 2008. Revisiting the Pivot: The Influence of Heartland Theory in Great Power Politics

Theme 5: How to Critique Mainstream IR Theory

Additional readings

• Grovogui, S. ‘Come to Africa: A Hermeneutics of Race in International Theory’, in Alternatives, no 26, 2001, pp, 425 – 448.
• Abrahamsen, R. ‘Africa and International Relations: Assembling Africa, studying the World’ in African Affairs, 116/462, 125-139.
• Olivier, L. ‘Theoretical approaches in International Relations: the South African Military as an Foreign Policy instrument’ in Scientia Militaria, South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 43, No. 2, 2015, pp. 39-64.
• Mahdavi, M and Knight A. 2012. “Introduction: Towards ‘The Dignity of Difference’: Neither ‘The End of History’ nor ‘The Clash of Civilizations”
• Knight, W A. 2013. "Is there a new theory of International Relations?" in Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy vol 1, no 2 (2013), pp.21-39
• Knight W A. and Keating T. 2010. Global Politics, Toronto: Oxford University Press. 454 pp. Chapter 1. Making Sense of International Politics: Concepts, Theories, Approaches, (pp 1-43). Chapter 2. Alternative Conceptions of Global Politics, pp 44-72. *GV 327 KNIGHT

Theme 6: Harnessing alternative thoughts for building alternative IR Theory

Additional readings and suggestions of emerging thinkers from Africa

• Magadla, S. Politikon ‘The Personal Is the International: For Black Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn't Enough’ in Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies
• Yolande Bouka (research focus- gender, African politics, security).
• Sara Salem (postcolonialism, political sociology, feminist theory, empires and imperialism, Egypt).
• Oumar Ba (International Relations Theory, Human Security, Human Rights and Humanitarianism, R2P, Legal Norms and Postcolonial Theory

Theme 7: Towards alternative theory building in International Relations

Additional readings

• Pamela J. Shoemaker, James William Tankard Jr. & Dominic L. Lasorsa (2011) “Creativity and Theory Building” In: How to Build Social Science Theories. eBook
• Bhambra, G.K (2021) Colonial global economy: towards a theoretical reorientation of political economy, Review of International Political Economy, 28:2, 307-322,
• Brown, W. ‘African agency in international politics: scope, analysis and theory’ Paper presented at the ESRC African agency in international politics seminar, New Directions in the study of Africa’s IR: perspectives from southern Africa Wallenberg Research Centre, University of Stellenbosch, 2-3 November 2011.
• Badie, B. 2020. Rethinking International Relations: Rethinking Political Science and International Studies, Edward Elgar Pub. eBook
• Knight W A. and Keating T. 2010. Global Politics, Toronto: Oxford University Press. 454 pp. Chapter 1. Making Sense of International Politics: Concepts, Theories, Approaches, pp 1-43. Chapter 2. Alternative Conceptions of Global Politics, pp 44-72. *GV 327 KNIGHT
• Amitav Acharya, & Barry Buzan (eds.) 2010. Non-Western international relations theory: Perspectives on and beyond Asia. New York: Routledge. eBook
• Spegele R. 2002. ‘Emancipatory International Relations: Good News, Bad News or No News at All?’ International Relations, 16(3):381-401.

*NOTES:

WHERE IS GV? Books with the prefix GV are to be found in the Study Collection on Level 3. At the entry to the library building, after passing through the turnstiles at the security guard station, do not turn right and enter the library, but turn left and go through the doorway. The GV/Study Collection is directly on your left. You may borrow GV books for two hours at a time to make copies. Keep to the time, or you will be fined.

WHY ARE SOME BOOKS IN GV? Copyright. In the case where more than 10% of the total content of a book has been included in a reading list for students, the students will have to go to the book themselves and make their own copies; lecturers or the library making copies available if the content is more than 10% is in contravention of copyright legislation.