TEACHING
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING
I teach two papers for the Politics, Philosophy and Economics BA(Hons.)
degree: International Relations (Core) and International Relations in the
Era of the Cold War.
For the core paper, the reading list can be dowloaded via the University of
Oxford website. My own favourite readings (in no particular order) include:
E.H Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis (1939)
Zaki Laidi, A World Without Meaning (1998)
Justin Rosenberg, The Empire of Civil Society (1994)
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (2001)
Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (2001)
David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul (2006)
Eric Hobsawm, Age of Extremes (1994)
For the IR in the Cold War paper, the reading list can be downloaded via
the Univerity of Oxford website. My own favourites are:
Arno Westad, The Global Cold War (2005)
Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (2005)
Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century (1998)
William Appelbaum Willians, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Fred Halliday, The Making of the Second Cold War (1983)
GRADUATE TEACHING
I teach the three core courses for the M.Phil in International Relations.
These are The International System (1900-1950), Theoretical Controversies
in International Relations, and The International System (1950-present). All
the reading lists can be downloaded here.
My own recommended readings for The International System (1900-1950)
are:
AJP Taylor, The Course of German History
James Joll, Origins of the First World War (1992)
Arno J. Mayer, The Persistence of the Old Regime
--- , Political Origins of the New Diplomacy 1917-1918
--- , Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking
--- , Why did the heavens not darken?: the ‘Final solution’ in history
My own recommended readings for The International System (1950-present)
are:
See the IR in the Cold War readings above.
Gabriel Kolko, The Politics of War
Wm Roger Louis, Imperialism at Bay, 1941-1945: the United States and the
decolonization of the British Empire (1977)
Arno J. Mayer, From Ploughshares into Swords (2008)