International Political Economy: Hollywood and War Movies - Fuller, Kubrick, Altman, Malick and Coppola (FORTHCOMING)

Essential Readings - Foreign Economic Policy

David Baldwin, Economic statecraft, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985
I.M. Destler, American trade politics, Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 2005
I. M. Destler & C. Randall Henning, Dollar politics, Washington DC: Peterson Institute, 1989
Alan Dobson, US economic statecraft for survival, 1933-91, London: Routledge, 2002
Daniel Drezner, The sanctions paradox, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
Jeffry Frieden, The political economy of the Brettons Woods agreements, Harvard, 2017
Joanne Gowa, Closing the gold window, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983
Albert Hirschman, National power and the structure of foreign trade, Berkeley: University of California Press, [1945] 2018
Clyde Hufbauer et al, Economic sanctions reconsidered, Washington: Peterson Institute, 2009
G. John Ikenberry et al, The State and American foreign economic policy, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988
Peter Katzenstein, Between power and plenty, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978
Robert Putnam, Diplomacy and domestic politics, International Organization, 42(3), 1988

Eclectic Readings - Sino-US Relations

Stephen Biddle & Ivan Oelrich, Future warfare in the Western Pacific, International Security, 41(1), 2016
Brookings, Global China: domains of strategic competition, 2019
Jeffrey Bader, Obama and China’s rise, Washington DC: Brookings, 2012
CFR, Revising US grand strategy towards China, Special Report No. 72, 2015
CSIS, China’s belt and road initiative, 2018
Benjamin Cohen, Currency power, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015
Chris Coker, The improbable war, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
Bill Hayton, The South China sea, New Haven Yale University Press, 2014
Kai-Fu Lee, AI superpowers, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018
Edward Luttwak, The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012
Theodore Moran, CFIUS and national security, Peterson Institute, 2017
Andrew Nathan & Andrew Scobell, China’s search for security, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012
William Norris, Chinese economic statecraft, and state control, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016
Peterson Institute, Bridging the Pacific, 2014
Peterson Institute, WTO’ing a resolution of the China subsidy problem, 2019
Barry Posen, Command of the commons, International Security, 28(1), 2003
RAND, War with China: Thinking the unthinkable, 2016
Robert Ross & Oystein Tunsjo, Strategic adjustment and the rise of China, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017
Mark Wu, The ‘China, Inc’ Challenge to global trade governance, Harvard International Law Journal, Volume 57, No. 2, 2016
Qiyu Xu, Fragile rise: grand strategy and the fate of Imperial Germany, 1871-1914, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2016

Essential Readings - International Money

David Andrews, International monetary power, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006
Mark Brawley, Power, money, and trade, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005
I.M. Destler & C. Randall Henning, Dollar politics, Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1989
Benjamin Cohen, Currency statecraft, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019
Benjamin Cohen, Currency power, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015
Barry Eichengreen, Golden fetters, 1919-1939, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
Francis Gavin, Gold, dollars and power, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003
Eric Helleiner & Jonathan Kirshner, The great wall of money, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014
Eric Helleiner & Jonathan Kirshner, The future of the dollar, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009
C. Randall Henning, Currencies and politics in the United States, Germany, and Japan, Washington DC: Institute for International Economics, 1994
John Odell, US international monetary policy, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982
Eswar Prasad, The dollar trap, Princeton; Princeton University Press, 2014
Karl Polanyi, The great transformation, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944
Susan Strange, The politics of international currencies, World Politics, 23(2), 1971

Essential Readings - International Trade

John Conybeare, Trade wars: the theory and practice of international commercial rivalry, New York: Columbia University, 1987
Dale Copeland, Economic interdependence and war, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015
I.M. Destler, American trade politics, Washington: Institute for International Economics, 2005
Joanne Gowa, Allies, adversaries, and international trade, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994
Ronald Findlay &Kevin O’Rourke, Power and plenty, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007
Albert Hirschman, National power and the structure of foreign trade, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980 [2018]
Douglas Irwin, Clashing over commerce: a history of US trade policy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017
Douglas Irwin, Free trade under fire, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015
David Lake, Power, protection and free trade, Itahaca: Cornell University Press, 1988
Edward Mansfield & Helen Milner, Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012
Stephen Krasner, State Power and the structure of international trade, World Politics, 28(3), 1976
Edward Mansfield, Power, trade, and war, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994
Ronald Rogowski, Commerce and coalitions, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1989

Essential Readings - International Finance

Rawi Abdelal, Capital rules, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007
Benjamin Cohen, Phoenix Risen: Resurrection of Global Finance, World Politics, 48(2), 1996
Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996
Robert Gilpin, US power and the multinational corporation, New York: Basic Books, 1975
John Goodman & Louis Pauly, The obsolescence of capital controls?, World Politics, 46(1), 1993
Eric Helleiner, States and the reemergence of global finance, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994
Stephen Krasner, Defending the national interest, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978
Charles Kindleberger, Manias, panics and crashes, New York: Basic Books, 1978
Henry Laurence, Money rules, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001
Frederic Mishkin, Is financial globalization beneficial?, NBER Working Paper No. 11891, 2005
Michael Moran, The politics of the financial services revolution, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991
John Gerard Ruggie, International regimes, transactions and change, International Organization, 36(2), 1982
Barbara Stallings, The globalization of capital flows, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 610(1), 2007

Essential Readings - Bureaucracy & Foreign Policy

Graham Allison, Essence of decision, Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1971
Anthony Downs, Inside bureaucracy, Santo Monica: RAND, 1964
Daniel Drezner, Ideas, bureaucratic politics and the crafting of foreign policy, American Journal of Political Science 44(4), 2000
Daniel Ellsberg, The doomsday machine, New York: Bloomsbury, 2017
Morton Halperin et al., Bureaucratic politics and foreign policy, Washington: Brookings, 2006
Irving Janis, Victims of groupthink, Boston: Houghton, 1972
Stephen Krasner, Are bureaucracies important, Foreign Policy 7, 1972
John Nagle, Counterinsurgency lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, Chicago: University of Chicago, 2005
Richard Neustadt, Presidential power, New York: Wiley, 1960
Charles Perrow, Normal accidents, New York: Basic Books, 1984

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