International Relations – Annotated Bibliography

Each annotation should begin with relevant bibliographic details (author, title, source,
publisher, year of publication). The length should be from 250 to 300 words. It should not be in
point form and do not use sub-titles. Use paragraphs. It should include the following
information:

• Topic of the reading – why is this an interesting and important issue

• Key question or central argument

• Key supporting claims of the author

• Your identification of a strength and/or weakness of the reading

You will write an annotation of one of the following readings from weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4 of class.

• Richard Higgott, “Economics, Politics and (International) Political Economy: the need
for a balanced diet in an era of globalisation,” New Political Economy, 4 (1), 1999: 23-36.
• Eric Helleiner, “Economic Liberalism and Its Critics: The past as Prologue? Review of
International Political Economy, 10: 4, 685-696.
• Robert J. Barro, “Trump’s mercantilist mess,” Project Syndicate, September 5, 2019,
accessible at: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-trade-policy-
mercantilism-by-robert-j-barro-2019-09
• Robert W. Cox, “Social forces, states and world orders: beyond international relations
theory,” Millennium, 10:2, 1981.
• Felix Mantz “Decolonizing the IPE syllabus: Eurocentrism and the coloniality of
knowledge in International Political Economy,” Review of International Political
Economy, 26:6, 2019, 1361-1378,

You will be graded on the precision and comprehensiveness of your reconstruction, and the
clarity of your writing.