mccheese commented on…
Stacey's "International Affairs books I've read"
Nice List — 3 years ago
Was curious to know what people who read my list read, and so ended up here. Your list is nice, weighty and scary! Can’t get too afraid though… first two books are by “Joe Nye the political science guy?” How scary can it be. :)
The Sterba book looks very interesting, esp in light of the recent Guantanamo rulings.
Here’s mentioning a couple other items you might be interested in (if you haven’t read em already):
“Poverty Amidst Plenty” edited by a prof named Weisband is supposedly “the” textbook of Political Economics of the 80’s and 90’s. 9-11 sort of diverted attention from this subject, which is too bad.
“Political Theory and International Relations” by Charles Beitz is my favorite. Applies Hobsian and Rawlsian tests to a lot of interesting questions… “national rights to self determination” and “just war theories” to name a few.
Pretty wonky stuff, but I think it might fit in with your reading.
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Stacey
Arlington
Thanks!
I was kind of wondering whether anyone looked at this thing…weighty, yes, but this is a list of three years’ worth of reading taken mostly from classes I’ve had. Weighty is good, because in the case of IAFF, probably like most disciplines, the authors who are read most widely aren’t always the ones that SHOULD be read the most widely…
The Sterba book is, in my opinion, one of the best on the list. I think everyone should read it. You can get it on Amazon.
Oooo, just war theories. I like just war theory. I’ll check out Beitz, thanks much.
There’s a bunch of other IAFF authors that I enjoy reading who didn’t end up on this list, probably because I’ve only read essays or articles by them. This list is also gonna be growing significantly soon, seeing as it’s the beginning of a new semester and I’m once again bogged down with reading that would fit the list.
Thanks for checking out my list :-)
mccheese