Essential readings on international politics 2

Continuing with the series on essential readings on international politics, and in close relation with the last post, I wanted to share with you the (almost) complete work of Kenneth Neal Waltz--the true "The King of Thought." I hope you find it useful and entertaining.

BOOKS:



Man, the State and War, by Kenneth N. Waltz
(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1954 [2001]).

File Size: 11.25 MB
File Type: PDF
263 pages
With original covers (color)







Theory of International Politics, by Kenneth N. Waltz
(Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1979).


File Size: 12.96 MB
File Type: PDF
251 pages (double pagination)
With original covers (color)





CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES:

"Reason, Will and Weapons," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Sep., 1959), pp. 412-419. [425.16 KB, PDF]

"Kant, Liberalism, and War," The American Political Science Review, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Jun., 1962), pp. 331-340. [1.76 MB, PDF]

"The Stability of a Bipolar World," Dædalus, Vol. 93, No. 3 (Summer, 1964), pp. 881-909. [3.38 M, PDF]

"The Politics of Peace," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Sep., 1967), pp. 199-211. [1.16 MB, PDF]

"The Myth of National Interdependence," in Charles P. Kindleberger, ed., The International Corporation. A Symposium (MIT Press, 1970), as Chapter 8, pp. 204-223. [1.65 MB, PDF]

"A Strategy for the Rapid Deployment Force," International Security, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Spring, 1981), pp. 49-73. [1.66 MB, PDF]

"The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better," Adelphi Papers, Vol. 21, No. 171 (1981); reprinted in: The Evolution of Strategic Thought. Classic Adelphi Papers (London: The International Institute for Strategic Studies, Routledge, 2008), as Chapter 9, pp. 383-428 [493 KB, PDF]

"Letter to the Editor," International Organization, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Summer, 1982), 679-681. [55.43 KB, PDF] This is a response to Richard Rosecrance's review of Theory of International Politics.

"The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Spring, 1988), pp. 615-628. [227.75 KB, PDF]

"Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory," Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 44, No. 1. (1990), pp. 21-37. [1.19 MB, PDF]

"On the Nature of States and Their Recourse to Violence," United States Institute for Peace Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2 (June 1990), pp. 6-7. [13.9 MB, PDF]

"Nuclear Myths and Political Realities," The American Political Science Review, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Sep., 1990), pp. 731-745. [3.1 MB, PDF]

"America as a Model for the World? A Foreign Policy Perspective," PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 667-670. [1.11 MB, PDF]

"The Emerging Structure of International Politics," International Security, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 44-79. [2.63 MB, PDF]

"International Politics, Viewed from the Ground," International Security, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Summer, 1994), pp. 195-199. [84.35 KB, PDF]

"International Politics is not Foreign Policy," Security Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 54-57 [224.79 KB, PDF]

"Evaluating Theories," American Political Science Review, Vol. 91, No. 4 (December 1997), pp. 913-917. [1.07 MB, PDF]

"Globalization and Governance," PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Dec., 1999), pp. 693-700. [705.97 KB, PDF]

"Structural Realism after the Cold War," International Security, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Summer, 2000), pp. 5-41. [254.46 KB, PDF]

"Intimations of Multipolarity," in Birthe Hansen and Bertel Heurlin, eds., The New World Order (Macmillan, 2000), pp. 1-18. [103.6 KB, PDF]

"Globalization and American Power," The National Interest, No. 59 (Spring, 2000), pp. 46-56. [817.94 KB, PDF]

"Correspondance: The Neorealist and His Critic," International Security, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Winter, 2000-2001), pp. 204-205. [174.48 KB, PDF]

"America: Alone in the Word," conference paper, held at Universidad de Belgrano, in Bs.As., Argentina, October 2003, pp. 1-9 [37.38 KB, PDF]

"Fair Fights or Pointless Wars?", International Security, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Winter, 2003/2004), p. 181. [63.63 KB, PDF]

"Foreword: Thoughts about Assaying Theories," in Colin Elman and Miriam F. Ellman, eds., Progress in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field (BCSIA Studies in International Security, MIT Press, 2003), pp. vi-xii.

"Giants and Pygmies," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 82, No. 5 (Sep.-Oct., 2003), p. 193. [394.24 KB, PDF]

"Neorealism, Confusions and Criticisms," Journal of Politics & Society, Vol. XV (Spring, 2004), pp. 2-6. [1.24 MB, PDF]

"The Great Debate: Is Nuclear Zero the Best Option?", The National Interest, (Sep.-Oct, 2010), pp. 88-96 [208.28 K, PDF] 


INTERVIEWS & CONFERENCES: 

The Annual Review of Political Science presents an interview with Kenneth Waltz, Senior Research Associate at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University.

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"Kenneth Neal Waltz – The Physiocrat of International Politics," Theory Talks, No. 40 (04-06-2011), pp. 1-16. [630 KB, PDF]

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Conversations with History: "Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics," 2003.

You can also download the video, listen to a podcast, or simply read the transcription of this intervew here: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Waltz/waltz-con0.html

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Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz: The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed
UCSD-TV - University of California Television
Date: 5/9/2005
114 minutes

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A Nuclear Iran - Promoting Stability or Courting Disaster?, February 8, 2007, at SIPA, Columbia University.

Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz use the context of Iran to update the debate that began with their seminal work, "The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate," published in 1995.