These notes were written by, and appear here through the generosity of, the students in the Stanford Graduate IR sequence, 1999-2000. (And a particular doff of the cap to Alex Montgomery, who maintains these notes online in .RTF form.) Please do not redistribute them without credit to the Stanford gang.

1: Organization

Walt, S. M. "The Renaissance of Security Studies."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Baldwin, D. A. "Security Studies For the 1990s."

All (notes by Stanforder).

2: Levels-of-Analysis and War

Waltz, K. N. Man, the State, and War.

All (notes by Stanforder).

Waltz, K. N. "Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Fearon, J. D. "Rationalist Explanations For War."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Fearon, J. D. "Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and Theories of International Relations."

All (notes by Stanforder).

3: Psychology and Decision-Making

Jervis, R. Perception and Misperception in International Politics, Chaps. 3, 8, and 9.

All (notes by Stanforder).

Lebow, R. N. Between Peace and War, pp. 101-147.

All (notes by Stanforder).

Levy, J. S. "An Introduction to Prospect Theory."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Levy, J. S. "Prospect Theory and International Relations."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Farnham, B. "Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis."

All (notes by Stanforder).

O'Neill, B. "Risk Aversion in International Relations Theory."

All (notes by Stanforder).

4: Organizational Theory and IR

Allison, G. T. Essence of Decision, Chaps. 3 and 4.

All (notes by Stanforder).

Bendor, J. and T. H. Hammond. "Rethinking Allison's Models."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Sagan, S. The Limits of Safety.

All (notes by Stanforder).

5: The Sources and Consequences of Military Doctrine

Snyder, J. "Civil-Military Relations and the Cult of the Offensive."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Posen, B. The Sources of Military Doctrine.

All (notes by Stanforder).

Sagan, S. D. "1914 Revisited."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Fearon, J. D. "The Offense-Defense Balance and War since 1648."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Kier, E. "Culture and French Military Doctrine Before World War II."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Van Evera, S. "Offense, Defense, and the Causes of War."

All (notes by Stanforder).

6: Domestic Politics, War, and Peace

Snyder, J. L. Myths of Empire.

All (notes by Stanforder).

Farber, H. S. and J. Gowa. "Polities and Peace."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Mansfield, E. D. and J. Snyder. "Democratization and the Danger of War."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Russett, B. M. Grasping the Democratic Peace.

All (notes by Stanforder).

Schultz, K. A. "Domestic Opposition and Signaling in International Crises."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Legro, J. W. and A. Moravcsik. "Is Anybody Still a Realist?"

All (notes by Stanforder).

7: Security Dilemmas in Interstate and Civil Wars

Jervis, R. "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Wendt, A. "Anarchy Is What States Make of It."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Posen, B. R. "The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Gagnon, V. P. "Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Schweller, R. "Neorealism's Status Quo Bias: What Security Dilemma?"

All (notes by Stanforder).

Glaser, C. L. "The Security Dilemma Revisited."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Kydd, A. "Game Theory and the Spiral Model."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Fearon, J. D. "Commitment Problems and the Spread of Ethnic Conflict."

All (notes by Stanforder).

8: Norms, Culture, and International Security

Johnston, A. I. "Cultural Realism and Strategy in Maoist China."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Price, R. M. The Chemical Weapons Taboo.

All (notes by Stanforder).

Tannenwald, N. "The Nuclear Taboo."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Weldes, J. "The Cultural Production of Crises."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Frankel, B. "The Brooding Shadow."

All (notes by Stanforder).

9: Proliferation

Sagan, S. D. and K. N. Waltz. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons.

All (notes by Stanforder).

Eyre, D. P. and M. C. Suchman. "Status, Norms, and the Proliferation of Conventional Weapons."

All (notes by Stanforder).

Sagan, S. D. "Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?"

All (notes by Stanforder).

Sagan, S. "The Commitment Trap."

All (notes by Stanforder).