Classics and Must-Read IR Theory
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
On War
Clausewitz
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Second Treatise
John Locke
Man, the State, and War
Kenneth Waltz
War and Change in World Politics
Robert Gilpin
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
Robert Jervis
Constructing the World Polity
John Gerard Ruggie
Social Theory of World Politics
Alexander Wendt
Myths of Empire
Jack Snyder
A History of the League of Nations
F.P. Walters
Discord and Collaboration: Essays on International Politics
Arnold Wolfers
The Prince
Machiavelli
Present at the Creation: My Years at the State Department
Dean Acheson
Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger (and his many other books)
Memoirs: 1950-1963
George F. Kennan
The World Crisis: 1911-1918
Winston Churchill (and his many other books)
Selected Speeches and Writing,
Abraham Lincoln
Politics among Nations,
Hans Morgenthau
Moral Man and Immoral Society
Reinhold Niebuhr (and his many other books)
Thoughts on the Cause of the Current Discontent,
Edmund Burke
The Portable Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (and her many books)
The Twenty Years Crisis: 1919-1939
E. H. Carr
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T.E. Lawrence
Revolt in the Desert
T.E. Lawrence
The Rights of War and Peace
Hugo Grotius
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
V.I. Lenin
Political Community and the North Atlantic Area (1957)
Karl Deutsch
International Politics in the Atomic Age (1959)
John H. Herz
Swords Into Plowshares (1959)
Inis Claude
Power and International Relations (1962)
Inis Claude
The Strategy of Conflict (1963)
Thomas Schelling
Essence of Decision (1971)
Graham Allison
Crisis, Escalation, and War (1972)
Ole Holsti
The Study of World Society: A London Perspective (1974)
John Burton
Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (1974)
Alexander George and Richard Smoke
The Power of Nations: The Political Economy of International Relations (1975)
Klauss Knorr
Arms and Influence (1976)
Thomas Schelling
The Anarchical Society (1977)
Hedley Bull
Power and Interdependence (1977)
Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye
The Capitalist World Economy (1979)
Immanuel Wallerstein
Theory of International Politics (1979)
Kenneth Waltz
The Correlates of War (1979)
J. David Singer
Structural Conflict: The Third World Against Global Liberalism (1981)
Stephen Krasner
Stephen Krasner (ed.), "International Regimes," special issue of International Organization 36, 2 (Spring 1982).
After Hegemony (1984)
Robert Keohane
The Sources of Military Doctrine (1984)
Barry Posen
Economic Statecraft (1985)
David Baldwin
The Rise of the Trading State (1986)
Richard Rosecrance
Cooperation Under Anarchy (1986)
Kenneth Oye
The Origins of Alliances (1987)
Stephen Walt
War and Reason (1992)
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and David Lalman
The War Trap (1981)
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Handbook of War Studies (1989)
Manus Midlarsky (ed.)
Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate (1993)
David Baldwin (ed.)
Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge (1995)
Charles W. Kegley, Jr. (ed.)
The Clash of Civilizations (1997)
Samuel Huntington
Articles
Jacob Viner, "Power Versus Plenty as Objectives of Foreign Policy," World Politics (October 1948), pp. 1-29.
Kenneth Waltz, "The Stability of a Bipolar World," Daedalus (Summer 1964), pp. 881-887, 899-902, 907-909.
Henry Kissinger, "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy," Daedalus (Spring 1966), pp. 503-529.
Kenneth Waltz, "International Structure, National Force, and the Balance of World Power," Journal of International Affairs, XXI (1967), pp. 215-231.
J. David Singer, "The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations," in Rosenau (ed.) International politics and Foreign Policy (1969), pp. 20-29, and Knorr and Verba (eds.), The International System (1981), pp. 77-92.
Stephen Krasner, "State Power and the Structure of International Trade," World Politics (April 1976), pp. 317-347.
Karl Deutch and J. David Singer, "Multipolar Power Systems and International Stability," World Politics (January 1979), pp. 390-406.
Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, Introduction and conclusion to Transnational Relations and World Politics (1970), pp. ix-xxix and 371-398.
Peter Gourevitch, "The Second Image Reversed," International Organization (Autumn 1978), pp. 881-912.
Josef Lapid, "The Third Debate: On the Prospects of International Theory in a Post-Positivist Era," International Studies Quarterly (1989), pp. 235-251.
Robert Jervis, "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma," World Politics, vol. 30, no. 2 (January 1978).
Alexander Wendt, "Anarchy is What States Makes of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics," International Organization, vol. 46, pp. 391-426.