Required Textbook

There is no single textbook, but the reading list comprises various readings in the Additional Literature section.

Additional Literature

*Abdel-Motaal, Kadria Ali, Wafa Abu El Kheir-Mataria, and Sungsoo Chun. "Global Health Governance and the WHO Pandemic Agreement: A Scoping Review of Challenges and Analysis of Reforms." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22, no. 01807 (2025): 1–33. https://doi.org/ *Abdullahi, Abdulkarim, et. al. "The Weaponization of Economic Interdependence: Sanctions, Financial Statecraft, and the Fragmentation of the Global Economic Order." International Journal of Social Sciences and Management Review 8, no. 4 (2025): 256–275. https://doi.org/10.37602/IJSSMR.2025.8417. *Abimbola, et. al. "Addressing Power Asymmetries in Global Health: Imperatives in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic." PLOS Medicine 18, no. 4 (2021): e1003604. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003604. *Acharya, Amitav, and Barry Buzan. "Why Is There No Non-Western International Relations Theory? Ten Years On." International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 17, no. 3 (2017): 341–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/irap/lcx006. *Aleessawi, Najm A. Kh. Alhatimi. "AI-Powered Warfare: Navigating the Strategic, Ethical, and Geopolitical Frontiers of Autonomous Arms Races." Journal for Strategic Studies and Political Research (2025): 1–16. *Anderl, Felix, and Antonia Witt. "Problematising the Global in Global IR." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 49, no. 1 (2020): 32–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829820971708. *Chen, Siyu. "The Evolution of the European Union's Securitization of Climate Change and the Effectiveness of Its Policies." Journal of Environmental Health and Sustainability Research 2 (2025): 1–10. *Cooper, Andrew F., et. al. "Fragmented Multilateralism and International Institutions: Between Complexities and Challenges." Third World Quarterly 46, no. 15 (2025): 1825–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2562908. *Debre, Maria J., and Hylke Dijkstra. "Are International Organisations in Decline? An Absolute and Relative Perspective on Institutional Change." Global Policy 13, no. 1 (2022): 16–30. *Drezner, Daniel W. The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. *Dunne, Tim, et. al. "The End of IR Theory?" European Journal of International Relations 19, no. 3 (2013): 405–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066113495485. *Floyd, Rita. "Climate Justice via Just Securitization: Problems and Possibilities." Journal of Global Security Studies (2025): 1–18. *Franks, Steven J., Eva Hamann, and Arthur E. Weis. "Using the Resurrection Approach to Understand Contemporary Evolution in Changing Environments." Evolutionary Applications 11, no. 1 (2018): 17–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12528. *Gasser, Paige. Toward a New Strategic Approach to U.S. Extended Nuclear Deterrence. Livermore Papers on Global Security No. 15. Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2025. *Haynes, Jeffrey. "Religion and International Relations: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?" Religions 12, no. 5 (2021): 328. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12050328. *Kissinger, Henry, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher. The Age of AI: And Our Human Future. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2024. *Kosal, Margaret. "How COVID-19 Is Reshaping U.S. National Security Policy." Biosecurity and Bioterrorism (2024): 1–16. *Lake, David A. "Theory Is Dead, Long Live Theory: The End of the Great Debates and the Rise of Eclecticism in International Relations." European Journal of International Relations 19, no. 3 (2013): 567–87. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066113494330. *Modongal, Shameer. "The Resurgence of Religion in International Relations: How Theories Can Accommodate It?" Cogent Social Sciences 9, no. 1 (2023): 2241265. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2023.2241265. *Murray, Donette, and David Brown, eds. Multipolarity in the 21st Century: A New World Order. Contemporary Security Studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. *Osborne, Augustus. "From Preparedness to Solidarity: Reimagining Global Health Security Post-COVID-19." BMJ Global Health 10, no. e021178 (2025): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2025-021178. *Persaud, Randolph B., and Alina Sajed, eds. Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations: Postcolonial Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2018. *Stoddart, Kristan. "Russia's Cyber Campaigns and the Ukraine War: From the 'Gray Zone' to the 'Red Zone'." ACIG Journal 3, no. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.60097/ACIG/189358. *Vakulchuk, Roman, Indra Overland, and Daniel Scholten. "Renewable Energy and Geopolitics: A Review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 122 (2020): 109547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.109547. *Vinjamuri, Leslie, ed. Competing Visions of International Order: Responses to US Power in a Fracturing World. US and the Americas Programme. London: Chatham House, 2025. *Vijaya, Poornima. "Signaling in Minilaterals in the Indo-Pacific: The Cases of Quad and AUKUS (2017-2022)." Journal of International Relations and Development (2024): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.60097/JIRD/2854-2-10-20241222. *Woods, Dwayne. "Escaping a Weaponized Network: China’s Reaction to the United States Escalating Technology Controls." Asian Review of Political Economy 4, no. 5 (2025): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44216-025-00047-7. *Yang, Zikun, and Li Li. "Positioning Religion in International Relations: The Performative, Discursive, and Relational Dimension of Religious Soft Power." Religions 12, no. 11 (2021): 940. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12110940.