For Dev World first week:

1. complete the readings on topic one of the reading list
2. prepare short answers to the two questions:
   • In 1979 Robert Cox wrote about five ideologies and their place in understanding and framing developing countries’ demands of the international system. What perspectives or ideologies have taken their place today?
   • Does mainstream IR theory leave significant gaps in our understanding of the international relations of the developing world? In thinking about this question, use your readings from the core IR theory course last year, as well as the last reading below.
3. come along with one article or book-length `better reading' suggestion - something really interesting and up-to-date on the topic which you have found particularly useful in the course of your preparation.

Readings:

- Robert Cox, 'Ideologies and the NIEO', International Organization (1979).
- Stephen Krasner, Structural Conflict: The Third World against Global Liberalism (University of California, 1985) pp.3-31 and 59-94.
- Mohammed Ayoob, 'The Security Problematic of the Third World', World Politics 43 (1991): 257; and 'Inequality and Theorizing in International Relations: The Case for Subaltern Realism' in The International Studies Review, Vol: 4 Number: 3 Page: 27-48 (Ingenta at OxLip) and the response by Michael Barnett, 'Radical Chic? Subaltern Realism: A Rejoinder' also in The International Studies Review, Volume: 4, Number 3, Page: 49 - 62.
- Arlene Tickner, 'Seeing IR Differently: Notes from the Third World', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32, no. 2 (2003): 295-324.
- Stephanie Neumann, International Relations Theory and the Third World (1998), Chapter 1.
- Alex Wendt & Michael Barnett, 'Dependent State Formation and Third World Militarisation', Review of International Studies 19, no. 4 (1993).
- Chapters 1 and 16 in Governance in a Global Economy: Political authority in transition (Princeton University Press 2003).

Some further background readings:
Christopher Clapham, Third World Politics (most recent edition)
Louise Fawcett and Yezid Sayid, The Third World beyond the Cold War: continuity and change (OUP 2000; Oxford Scholarship Online 2003)
- posted by Milan @ 9:01 PM