A postgraduate reading group
within the School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology, University of Melbourne
The GPTRG is a fortnightly gathering of political science postgrads with an interest in global politics, contemporary international relations and political economy, and political theory in general.
Each meeting a reading is recommended to the group by a member, who briefly outlines the paper (possibly connecting to previous readings or their current research) before it is discussed in an informal and encouraging peer environment.
All pol. sci. postgrads are welcome - keep an eye out for Department notices and e-bulletins for details on the next meeting.
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The idea for the group came out of casual discussions amongst a couple of tutors who are MA / PhD students in the department. Meetings are quite informal, with a modest goal of discussing with peers an article / chapter / working paper that someone has read recently which they think has something interesting to add to the study of IR, IPE or political theory.
2006
Week beginning August 7th:
Rengger, N. 2006. Theorizing World Politics For a New Century. International Affairs 82.
Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline and Nicholas Rengger. 2006. Apocalypse now? Continuities or disjuncture in world politics after 9/11. International Affaris 82:3.
Jennifer Senior, 'Ugly American' tells it like it is, 14 January 2006: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17813128%255E2703,00.html
2005
Blyth, Mark. "A Theory of Institutional Change" in Great Transformations: The Rise and Decline of Embedded Liberalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Gill, Stephen. "Transformation and Innovation in the Study of World Order" in Innovation and Transformation in International Studies, edited by Stephen Gill and James H. Mittelman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Richard Higgott, "American Unilateralism, Foreign Economic Policy and the 'Securitisation' of Globalisation" http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/research/workingpapers/2003/wp12403.pdf/
Daniel C. Thomas, ‘Boomerangs and Superpowers: International Norms, Transnational Networks and US Foreign Policy’ 15(1) (2002) Cambridge Review of International Affairs 25-44
Executive Summary, "In larger freedom" (2005) http://www.un.org/largerfreedom/executivesummary.pdf & Kofi Annan, "The Quiet Revolution" (1998) 4 Global Governance 123
2004
Risse, Thomas. "Global Governance and Communicative Action." Government and Opposition 39, no. 2 (2004): 288-313.
Cox, Robert W. "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory." Millennium 10, no. 2 (1981): 126-55.
Cerny, Philip G. "The New Security Dilemma: Divisibility, Defection and Disorder in the Global Era." Review of International Studies 26 (2000): 623-46.
Held, David. "Democratic Accountability and Political Effectiveness from a Cosmopolitan Perspective." Government and Opposition 39, no. 2 (2004): 364-91.
Kennedy, Paul, and Bruce Russett. "Reforming the United Nations." Foreign Affairs 74, no. 5 (1995): 56-72.
Moravcsik, Andrew. "Is There a 'Democratic Deficit' in World Politics? A Framework for Analysis." Government and Opposition 39, no. 2 (2004): 336-63.
Hejeebu, Santhi, and Deirdre McCloskey. "The Reproving of Karl Polyani." Critical Review 13, no. 3/4 (1999): 285-314.
Mastanduno, Michael. "Economics and Security in Statecraft and Scholarship." International Organisation 52, no. 4 (1998): 825-54.
J G Ruggie, 'Taking embedded liberalism global: the corporate connection' in David Held and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (eds) Frontiers of Governance (2003).
Robert Keohane, 'Reciprocity in international relations'(1986) 40(1) International Organization 1.
Alexander Wendt, Why a World State Is Inevitable: Teleology and the Logic of Anarchy, University of Chicago, January 2002.
Peter van Ham, ‘Branding territory: inside the wonderful world of PR and IR theory’ (2002) 31(2) Millennium.
Anthony Pagden, 'The genesis of 'governance' and Enlightenment conceptions of the cosmopolitan world order' (1998) 50(155) International Social Science Journal 7.
Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore. "The Politics, Power and Pathologies of International Organisations." International Organisation 53.4 (1999): 699-732.
Richard Higgott, 'Toward a Nonhegemonic IPE: An Antipodean Perspective' The New International Political Economy. Eds. Craig N. Murphy and Roger Tooze. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1991.
2003
Ann Florini, 'The Evolution of International Norms' International Studies Quarterly 40 (1996): 363-89.
Martha Finnemore, 'Norms, Culture, and World Politics: Insights from Sociology's Institutionalism' International Organisation 50.2 (1996): 325-47.
Christian Reus-Smit, 'The Strange Death of Liberal International Theory' European Journal of International Law 12.3 (2001): 573-93.
James F Keeley,. "Toward a Foucauldian Analysis of International Regimes." International Organisation 44.1 (1990): 83-105.
Robert Latham, "Politics in a Floating World - toward a Critique of Global Governance." Approaches to Global Governance Theory. Eds. Martin Hewson and Timothy J. Sinclair. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
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** if you have any other ideas for promoting the meeting, such as sending a reminder email, inviting staff/students from another department or putting up a flyer in the tutors’ rooms, then feel free to do so! **
Email: gptrg-info@unimelb.edu.au