political science primer

I turned in my research paper draft (that was really fairly final, in all truth) today.  It sits at 34.5 pages, with 1 inch margins and "tiny font", as Professor Cooley said.  We'll see how it looks after I get it back, riddled with corrections and cross-outs and "this is incoherent" and of course, the worst, "this is not good enough for my class", and I have to rewrite it in a week. 

Still, I am relieved and happy with it, and I am in a let's-celebrate-poli-sci! mood... not that I'm not frequently enough in these moods as it is... and decided to list my favorite political science readings of the past two years.  And because I am a medium social scientist, I will actually put them in order, starting with the best.

Classics
1.  Rousseau - The Social Contract
2.  Machiavelli - The Discourses

Modern (Books)
1.  Jagdish Bhagwati - In Defense of Globalization
2.  Joseph Stiglitz - Globalization and Its Discontents
3.  Mark Juergensmeyer - Terror in the Mind of God

Modern (Articles - Specific)
1.  Robert Wade - "The Asian Debt-and-Development Crisis of 1997: Causes and Consequences"
2.  Michael Mousseau - "Market Civilization and its Clash with Terror"
3.  Robert Wade - "What Strategies are Viable for Developing Countries Today?  The World Trade Organization and the Shrinking of the 'Development Space'"
4.  Thad Dunning - "Condiitoning the Effects of Aid: Cold War Politics, Donor Credibility and Democracy in Africa"
5.  David Laitin - "Hegemony and Religious Conflict: British Imperial Control and Political Cleavages in Yorubaland"
6.  Inis Claude Jr. - "Collective Legitimization as a Poliitcal Function of the UN"
7.  Deborah Avant - "Conserving Nature in the State of Nature: The Politics of INGO Policy Implementation"
8.  Clifford Bob - "Merchants of Morality"
9.  Michael Webb - "Defining the Boundaries of Legitimate State Practice: Norms, Transnational Actors and the OECD's Project on Harmful Tax Competition"
10.  Peter Ekeh - "Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa"
11.  Elizabeth Economy - "China's Environmental Challenge"
12.  Robert Wade - "US Hegemony and the World Bank: The Fight Over People and Ideas"
13.  Robert Pape - "Soft-Balancing Against the United States"
14.  Peter Singer - "Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry and its Ramifications for International Security"
15.  Michael Barnett - "Humanitarianism Transformed"
16.  Sheri Berman - "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic"
17.  Atul Kohli - "State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery"

Modern (Articles - Theory)
1.  John Ruggie - "International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order"
2.  Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink - "International Norm Dynamics and Political Change"
3.  Sinisa Malesevic - "Rational Choice Theory and the Sociology of Ethnic Relations: A Critique"
4.  Anthony Marx - "The Nation State and Its Exclusions"
5.  David Brown - "Are There Good and Bad Nationalisms?"
6.  Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi - "Modernization: Theories and Facts"
7.  Peter Evans - "The State as Problem and Solution: Predation, Embedded Autonomy, and Structural Change"
8.  Robert Dahl - "Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition"
9.  Grant and Keohane - "Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics"
10.  Juan Linz - "The Perils of Presidentialism"
11.  John Rapley - "Development Theory in the Postwar Period"

thanks, kim. thanks.

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