Political Science Question

Description

Firist: Please write a three pages as a reaction memo about the reading. please no summery instead try to make critical analysis, see what the connection between the reading pick three or four reading or maybe more as you like but not less than 3

Second: come up with two questions from any reading and write them in the head of the paper. if you want you can answer one of the questions in the memo if not you do not have to just write the two question in the head of the paper then do the memo.

please no using for AI or Grammarly or other stuff like that at all

the course is international security

The reading of the week is:

The Security Dilemma

Classical Works

John H Herz. “Idealist internationalism and the security dilemma.” World politics 2, no. 2 (1950): 157-180.

Robert Jervis, “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma.” WP 30:2 (January 1978), pp.167-186.

Refinement and Critique

Charles L. Glaser, “The security dilemma revisited.” World politics 50.1 (1997): 171-201.

Randall L. Schweller, “Neorealism’s status?quo bias: What security dilemma?.” Security Studies 5.3 (1996): 90-121.

Shiping Tang. “The security dilemma: A conceptual analysis.” Security Studies 18.3 (2009): 587-623.

Jennifer Mitzen, 2006. “Ontological Security in World Politics: State Identity and the Security Dilemma”, European Journal of International Relations 12:3, pp. 341- 370.

Empirical Applications

Robert Jervis, “Was the Cold War a Security Dilemma?.” Journal of Cold War Studies 3.1 (2001): 36-60.

Joshua D. Kertzer, Ryan Brutger, and Kai Quek. “Perspective-Taking and Security Dilemma Thinking: Experimental Evidence from China and the United States.” World Politics 76, no. 2 (2024): 334–78.