Section I: The Nature and Purpose of International Relations Theory
1. Martin Wright Why is there no international theory? Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Politics [1966]
2. Hans Morgenthau The intellectual and political foundations of a theory of international relations The Role of Theory in International Relations [1964]
3. Hedley N. Bull The theory of international politics, 1919-69 The Aberystwyth Papers: International Politics 1919-69 [1972]
4. Stanley Hoffmann An American social science: international relations Daedalus [1977]
5. Hayward Alker and Thomas J. Biersteker The dialectics of world order: notes for a future archeologist of international savoir faire International Studies Quarterly [1984]
6. Richard K. Ashley and R.B.J. Walker Reading dissidence/writing the discipline: crisis and the question of sovereignty in international studies International Studies Quarterly [1990]
7. J. Ann Tickner You just don't understand: troubled engagements between feminists and IR theorists International Studies Quarterly [1997]
Section II: Idealism and Realism
8. Andreas Osiander Re-reading early twentieth-century IR theory: idealism revisited International Studies Quarterly [1998]
9. Edward Hallet Carr The beginnings of a science The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939: an Introduction to the Study of International Relations [1961]
10. John H. Herz Idealist internationalism and the security dilemma World Politics [1950]
11. Hans J. Morgenthau Another 'great debate': the national interest of the United States American Political Science Review [1952]
12. Arnold Wolfers The pole of power and the pole of indifference World Politics [1951]
13. Ken Booth Security in anarchy: Utopian Realism in theory and practice International Affairs [1991]
Section III: The Scientific Turn and its Critics
14. Morton Kaplan Problems of theory building and theory confirmation in international politics World Politics [1961]
15. Hedley Bull International theory: the case for a classical approach World Politics [1966]
16. Morton Kaplan The new great debate: traditionalism versus science in international relations World Politics [1966]
17. J. David Singer The incompleat theorist: insight without evidence Contending Approaches to International Politics [1969]
18. Hidemi Suganami Correlates On the Causes of War [1996]
19. John L. Gaddis International relations theory and the end of the Cold War International Security [1992-93]
20. Alexander Wendt The agent-structure problem in international relations theory International Organisation [1987]
21. Jim George and David Campbell Patterns of dissent and the celebration of difference: critical social theory and international relations International Studies Quarterly [1990]
22. Steve Smith Positivism and beyond International Theory: Positivism and Beyond [1996]
Section IV: Society and Cooperation in International Relations
23. Hedley M. Bull Society and anarchy in international relations Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Politics [1961]
24. Alexander Wendt Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of world politics International Organisation [1992]
25. Karl W. Deutsch 'Concepts and processes' and 'transactions and integration' Political Community at the International Level: Problems of Definition and Measurement [1970]
26. David Mitrany A functional approach to world organisation International Affairs [1948]
27. Ernst B. Haas
