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Professor Roger Owen Has Passed Away

Edward Roger John Owen (27 May 1935 – 22 December 2018) was a British historian who wrote several classic works on the history of the modern Middle East. His research interests included the economic, social and political history of the Middle East, especially Egypt, from 1800 to the present, as well as the theories of imperialism, including military occupations.
He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1956 to 1959, followed by a D Phil in Economic History at St. Antony's College, from 1960 to 1964. One of his close advisers was the renowned Middle East historian Albert Hourani. His thesis which was on the cotton production and the development of the economy in nineteenth-century Egypt was later published into a book.
When in the 1960s new postgraduate course in modern Middle Eastern studies were introduced at St Antony's College and a raft of new posts created with British government funding, Owen was appointed in Economic and Social History in 1964. He served as Director of St. Antony's College Middle East Centre, from 1971-4, 1980-2, 1986-8, and 1991-3.
Subsequently he became the A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard University and was the director of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).
In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Owen frequently wrote columns for the English-language versions of the Arabic newspapers Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram.
He was a member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, also known as MESA.
He died on 22 December 2018

https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/edward-roger-owen
https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/news/professor-roger-owen-has-passed-away

Strategy, Evolution, and War: From Apes to Artificial Intelligence by Kenneth Payne

Georgetown University Press, 2018


Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things - with dramatic consequences for international affairs. This book explores the evolutionary origins of human strategy, and makes a provocative argument that Artificial Intelligence will radically transform the nature of war by changing the psychological basis of decision-making about violence.
Strategy, Evolution, and War is a cautionary preview of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will revolutionize strategy more than any development in the last three thousand years of military history. Kenneth Payne describes strategy as an evolved package of conscious and unconscious behaviors with roots in our primate ancestry. Our minds were shaped by the need to think about warfare—a constant threat for early humans. As a result, we developed a sophisticated and strategic intelligence.
The implications of AI are profound because they depart radically from the biological basis of human intelligence. Rather than being just another tool of war, AI will dramatically speed up decision making and use very different cognitive processes, including when deciding to launch an attack, or escalate violence. AI will change the essence of strategy, the organization of armed forces, and the international order.
This book is a fascinating examination of the psychology of strategy-making from prehistoric times, through the ancient world, and into the modern age.

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Kenneth Payne is a senior lecturer in the School of Security Studies at King's College, London. He is also a senior member of St Antony's College, Oxford University, having earlier been a visiting fellow in the Department of International Relations there. Payne's research is broadly in the field of political psychology and strategic studies. He is the author of two previous books, The Psychology of Strategy: Exploring Rationality in the Vietnam War and The Psychology of Modern Conflict.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: The Evolution of Strategists
1. Defining Strategy as Psychology
2. Evolutionary Strategy
3. Strategic Heuristics and Biases
Part 2: Culture Meets Evolved Strategy
4. The Pen and the Sword in Ancient Greece
5. Clausewitz Explores the Psychology of Strategy
6. Nuclear Weapons Are Not Psychologically Revolutionary
Part 3: Artificial Intelligence and Strategy
7. Tactical Artificial Intelligence Arrives
8. Artificial General Intelligence Does Strategy
Conclusion: Strategy Evolves beyond AI 

The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America E. Digby Baltzell

The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America 

E. Digby Baltzell

Yale University Press
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300038187/protestant-establishment

This classic account of the traditional upper class in America traces its origins, lifestyles, and political and social attitudes from the time of Theodore Roosevelt to that of John F. Kennedy. Sociologist E. Digby Baltzell describes the problems of exclusion and prejudice within the community of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (or WASPs, an acronym he coined) and predicts with amazing accuracy what will happen when this inbred group is forced to share privilege and power with talented members of minority groups.

“The book may actually hold more interest today than when it was first published. New generations of readers can resonate all the more to this masterly and beautifully written work that provides sociological understanding of its engrossing subject.”—Robert K. Merton, Columbia University

“The documentation and illustration in the book make it valuable as social history, quite apart from any theoretical hypothesis. As such, it sketches the rise of the WASP penchant for country clubs, patriotic societies and genealogy. It traces the history of anti-Semitism in America. It describes the intellectual conflict between Social Darwinism and the environmental social science founded half a century ago by men like John Dewey, Charles A. Beard, Thorstein Veblen, Franz Boas and Frederick Jackson Turner. In short, The Protestant Establishment is a wide-ranging, intelligent and provocative book.”—Alvin Toffler, New York Times Book Review

“The Protestant Establishment has many virtues that lift it above the level we have come to expect in works of contemporary social and cultural analysis. It is clearly and convincingly written.”—H. Stuart Hughes, New York Review of Books

“What makes Baltzell’s analysis of the evolution of the American elite superior to the accounts of earlier writers . . . is that he exposes the connections between high social status and political and economic power.”—Dennis H. Wrong, Commentary

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America By Margaret O’Mara

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

By Margaret O’Mara

Penguin Random House, 2019

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534709/the-code-by-margaret-omara/9780399562181/

 

The epic human story of how, out of a small patch of land in Northern California, high tech recreated America in its image, for good and for ill.

Long before Margaret O’Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw first-hand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government, and always had been, and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Valley’s success actually was. Now, after almost five years of pioneering research, O’Mara has produced the definitive history of Silicon Valley for our time, the story of mavericks and visionaries, but also of powerful institutions creating the framework for innovation, from the Pentagon to Stanford University. It is also a story of a community that started off remarkably homogeneous and elitist and stayed that way, and whose belief in its own mythology has deepened into a collective hubris that has led to astonishing triumphs as well as devastating second-order effects.
Deploying a wonderfully rich and diverse cast of protagonists, from the justly famous to the unjustly obscure, across four generations of explosive growth in the Valley, from the Forties to the present, O’Mara has wrestled into magnificent narrative form one of the most fateful developments in modern American history. She is on the ground with all of the key tech companies, and chronicles the evolution in their offerings through each successive era, and she has a profound fingertip feel for the politics of the sector, and its relation to the larger cultural narrative about tech as it has evolved over the years. Perhaps most impressively, O’Mara has penetrated the inner kingdom of tech venture capital firms, the insular and still remarkably old-boy world that became the cockpit of American capitalism and the crucible for bringing technological innovation to market, or not.
The transformation of big tech into the engine room of the American economy and the nexus of so many of our hopes and dreams–and increasingly nightmares–can be understood, in Margaret O’Mara’s masterful hands, as the story of one California valley. As her majestic history makes clear, its fate is the fate of us all.

Margaret O’Mara is Professor of History at the University of Washington. She writes and teaches about the history of U.S. politics, the growth of the high-tech economy, and the connections between the two, and is the author of Cities of Knowledge and Pivotal Tuesdays. She received her MA/PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Northwestern University. Prior to her academic career, she worked in the Clinton White House and served as a contributing researcher at the Brookings Institution.

Edward Said: 'Out of Place' | Al Jazeera World

Is war between China and the US inevitable? | Graham Allison

White House Warriors by John Gans

White House Warriors:
How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War

By John Gans
(University of Pennsylvania)

W.W. Norton, 2019
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294997644 

This revelatory history of the elusive National Security Council shows how staffers operating in the shadows have driven foreign policy clandestinely for decades.
When Michael Flynn resigned in disgrace as the Trump administration’s national security advisor the New York Times referred to the National Security Council as “the traditional center of management for a president’s dealings with an uncertain world.” Indeed, no institution or individual in the last seventy years has exerted more influence on the Oval Office or on the nation’s wars than the NSC, yet until the explosive Trump presidency, few Americans could even name a member.
With key analysis, John Gans traces the NSC’s rise from a collection of administrative clerks in 1947 to what one recent commander-in-chief called the president’s “personal band of warriors.” A former Obama administration speechwriter, Gans weaves extensive archival research with dozens of news-making interviews to reveal the NSC’s unmatched power, which has resulted in an escalation of hawkishness and polarization, both in Washington and the nation at large.

National Geographic Documentary: Year Million (Artificial Intelligence)

"Big Data Revolution" - PBS Documentary - Artificial Intelligence: Mankind's Last Invention

"Big Data Revolution" - PBS Documentary

Artificial Intelligence: Mankind's Last Invention

The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time By Jeffrey D. Sachs

The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time

By Jeffrey D. Sachs

Penguin Books, 2006.

The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world’s poorest citizens, from one  of the world’s most renowned economists
Hailed by Time as one of the world’s hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world’s poorest countries.
Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations’ target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.

Cambridge Analytica scandal

Here's everything you need to know about the Cambridge Analytica scandal
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/facebook-cambridge-analytica-scandal-everything-you-need-to-know.html

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: What You Need to Know as Fallout Widens https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambridge-analytica-explained.html

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and data mining: What you need to know
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-mining-and-trump-what-you-need-to-know/

What Did Cambridge Analytica Really Do for Trump's Campaign?
https://www.wired.com/story/what-did-cambridge-analytica-really-do-for-trumps-campaign/

The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained with a simple diagram https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/23/17151916/facebook-cambridge-analytica-trump-diagram

Privacy & Influence in Online Social Networks:  Case Study of Facebook & Cambridge  Analytica http://www.bowdoin.edu/~mirfan/slides/2018%20Spring/Networks/Cambridge%20Analytica.pdf

Cambridge Analytica Scandal:  Don’t Blame Facebook.   Blame Bad Ethics.
https://www.intouchsol.com/wp-content/uploads/CambridgeAnalyticaPOV_IntouchSolutions.pdf

Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: The Scandal and the Fallout So Far
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-scandal-fallout.html

A New Book: Strategy, Evolution, and War: From Apes to Artificial Intelligence by Kenneth Payne

Georgetown University Press, 2018

http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/strategy-evolution-and-war#toc

Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things - with dramatic consequences for international affairs. This book explores the evolutionary origins of human strategy, and makes a provocative argument that Artificial Intelligence will radically transform the nature of war by changing the psychological basis of decision-making about violence.
Strategy, Evolution, and War is a cautionary preview of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will revolutionize strategy more than any development in the last three thousand years of military history. Kenneth Payne describes strategy as an evolved package of conscious and unconscious behaviors with roots in our primate ancestry. Our minds were shaped by the need to think about warfare—a constant threat for early humans. As a result, we developed a sophisticated and strategic intelligence.
The implications of AI are profound because they depart radically from the biological basis of human intelligence. Rather than being just another tool of war, AI will dramatically speed up decision making and use very different cognitive processes, including when deciding to launch an attack, or escalate violence. AI will change the essence of strategy, the organization of armed forces, and the international order.
This book is a fascinating examination of the psychology of strategy-making from prehistoric times, through the ancient world, and into the modern age.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: The Evolution of Strategists
1. Defining Strategy as Psychology
2. Evolutionary Strategy
3. Strategic Heuristics and Biases
Part 2: Culture Meets Evolved Strategy
4. The Pen and the Sword in Ancient Greece
5. Clausewitz Explores the Psychology of Strategy
6. Nuclear Weapons Are Not Psychologically Revolutionary
Part 3: Artificial Intelligence and Strategy
7. Tactical Artificial Intelligence Arrives
8. Artificial General Intelligence Does Strategy
Conclusion: Strategy Evolves beyond AI 

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Kenneth Payne is a senior lecturer in the School of Security Studies at King's College, London. He is also a senior member of St Antony's College, Oxford University, having earlier been a visiting fellow in the Department of International Relations there. Payne's research is broadly in the field of political psychology and strategic studies. He is the author of two previous books, The Psychology of Strategy: Exploring Rationality in the Vietnam War and The Psychology of Modern Conflict. 

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Xinhua's first English #AI anchor makes debut at the World Internet Conference that opens in Wuzhen, China

The Great Delusion Liberal Dreams and International Realities by John J. Mearsheimer

The Great Delusion
Liberal Dreams and International Realities

by John J. Mearsheimer

Yale University Press, 2018

A major theoretical statement by a distinguished political scholar explains why a policy of liberal hegemony is doomed to fail
In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended, is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, for Washington to adopt a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of how nationalism and realism constrain great powers abroad.
It is widely believed in the West that the United States should spread liberal democracy across the world, foster an open international economy, and build institutions. This policy of remaking the world in America’s image is supposed to protect human rights, promote peace, and make the world safe for democracy. But this is not what has happened. Instead, the United States has ended up as a highly militarized state fighting wars that undermine peace, harm human rights, and threaten liberal values at home. Mearsheimer tells us why this has happened.

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. His many books include Conventional Deterrence. He lives in Chicago, IL.

Meet Sophia The first robot declared a citizen by Saudi Arabia

DARPA: The Formative Years 1958 - 1975

DARPA: The Formative Years 1958 - 1975

The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA with Annie Jacobsen

DARPA and How The Government Created the Surveillance State with Annie Jacobsen

Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence 

By Oren Etzioni     

The New York Times - Sept. 1, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/opinion/artificial-intelligence-regulations-rules.html

Regulating Artificial Intelligence: How to Control the Unexplainable

Elon Musk calls for regulation of artificial intelligence

Should the government regulate artificial intelligence? It already is

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/375606-should-the-government-regulate-artificial-intelligence-it-already-is

How should we regulate artificial intelligence? 

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/376/2128/20170360 

Should AI be regulated? 

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3267609/artificial-intelligence/should-ai-be-regulated.html

Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated? By Amitai Etzioni 

https://issues.org/perspective-should-artificial-intelligence-be-regulated/

Garry Kasparov on Artificial Intelligence, Technology and Politics, and AlphaZero Chess

Allan Dafoe: The AI revolution and international politics

Why AI is the most important political issue of our generation | Chelsea Guo | TEDxYale

A New Philosophy on Artificial Intelligence | Kristian Hammond | TEDxNorthwesternU

Artificial intelligence & the future of education systems | Bernhard Schindlholzer | TEDxFHKufstein

MIT reshapes itself to shape the future

Center for Global Governance Newsletter - Issue 2/2018

Center for Global Governance Newsletter - Issue 2/2018

1. Artificial Intelligence, Politics, & Humanity By Ryan Kiggins
2. China Studies by Martín Rozengardt
3. Political Economy of Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment (COFDI) in Europe:  An Examination of its Drivers and Emerging Issues and Anxieties by Conrad John Masabo
4. Stalemate in Europe: The Greek Debt Crisis and its (Un)cooperative Roots  by Cengiz Mert Bulut
5. Book Review: Rethinking Think Tanks in Contemporary China Author: Silvia Menegazzi Reviewed by Abdurrahim Sağır
6. New MA (International Relations and Diplomacy) and PhD (Global Studies) Students at Shanghai University.
7. CFP: Artificial Intelligence and International relations Conference, April 12, 2019.
8. Call for papers:  5th China and The Middle East and North Africa Conference, Northwest University, Xi’an, May 16, 17 and 18, 2019.

A New Issue: Sociology of Islam Journal - Volume 6, Special Issue: Unregistered Muslim Marriages: Regulations and Contestations

Sociology of Islam  

Volume 6, Special Issue: Unregistered Muslim Marriages: Regulations and Contestations, 2018

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/22131418/6/3

Contextualizing Muslim Religious-Only Marriages

• pp.: 263–273 (11) 

Secular Rule and Islamic Ethics

• Authors: Annelies Moors; Martijn de Koning and Vanessa Vroon-Najem
• pp.: 274–296 (23) 

Contesting the Boundaries between Civil and Religious Marriage

• Author: Anja Bredal
• pp.: 297–315 (19) 

Religious-Only Marriages in the UK

• Author: Rehana Parveen
• pp.: 316–337 (22) 

Unregistered Marriages of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Malaysia

• Author: Eva F Nisa
• pp.: 338–358 (21) 

Marriage Registration among Palestinians and Syrians in Jordan

• Author: Dina Zbeidy
• pp.: 359–380 (22) 

Beyond Non-Registration: Women Opting for Cohabitation in Tunis

• Author: Iris Kolman
• pp.: 381–400 (20)

Final Paper Topic Selection: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Graduate Course – MA in International Relations and Diplomacy - FALL 2018 SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY

Yelif Ulagpan	Topic: Human Rights and International Relations 1.     What Human Rights Mean. Charles Beitz. Daedalus, Vol. 132, No. 1, On International Justice (Winter, 2003), pp. 36-46. 2.     Imperialist feminism redux. Saadia Toor. Dialect Anthropol (2012) 36:147–160. 3.     Obama’s Implicit Human Rights Doctrine Amitai Etzioni. Hum Rights Rev (2011) 12:93–107.
Jill Mujaji	Topic: Human security and International Relations 1.     Human security. Amitav Acharya. 2.     HUMAN  SECURITY: CONCEPT AND PRACTICE. SUDHA MENON. 3.     King, Gary, and, Christopher J. L. Murray. 2002. Rethinking human security. Political Science Quarterly 116(4): 585-610.
Hasan Erdal	Topic: Africa and African Studies and International Relations 1.     The African Experience. Vincent B. Khapoya. Pearson, 2013. http://www.pearsonhighered.com/product?ISBN=9780205851713
Catherine Kuamoah	Topic: Environmental Issues and International Relations 1.     Environmental issues and international relations, a new global (dis)order - the role of International Relations in promoting a concerted international system. Joana Castro Pereira. Rev. bras. polít. int. vol.58 no.1 Brasília Jan./June 2015. 2.     Environment and International Politics: Linking Humanity and Nature. Simon Dalby, May 23 2016. 3.     Global Environmental Issues and International Politics Global Problems and Common Security. Peter Gleick. pp 204-217.
Trinh Tung Lam	Topic: Terrorism and International Relations 1.     Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists - Charles Tilly. 2.     Terrorism before and after 9/11 – a more dangerous world? Meagan Smith, Sean M. Zeigler. 3.     The War of Words with Terrorism: An Assessment of Three Approaches to Pursue and Prevent Clive Walker. Journal of Conflict and Security Law, Volume 22, Issue 3, 1 December 2017, Pages 523–551.
Sardor Gafforov	Topic: US Foreign Policy Toward Central Asia after 1991 1.     U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Central Asia: 1991-2003. Jarkyn B. Samanchina. 2.     U.S. Policy Toward Central Asia 3.0 Eugene Rumer,  Richard Sokolsky, Paul Stronski. 3.     Growing U.S. Security Interests in Central Asia. Elizabeth Wishnick.
Tammy Esther Andoya	Topic: Humanitarian Intervention in World Politics 1.     Humanitarian intervention in world politics. Nicholas Wheeler. University of Birmingham. 2.     Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, and World Politics.  Kelly Kate Pease and David P. Forsythe Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 290-314. 3.     Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, International Politics and, US Foreign Policy A Feminist Normative Analysis of the Libyan Intervention. Faith I.OkpOtOr ASPJ  Africa & Francophonie  - 3rd  Quarter 2017.
Elorm Ewurama Kumah	Topic: Poverty/Development/Hunger and International Relations 1.     Global Poverty and Hunger: An Assessment of Millennium Development Goal #1. Rebecca Shoaf Kozak , Margaret Lombe & Katia Miller.  Journal of Poverty Volume 16, 2012 - Issue 4. 2.     REDUCING POVERTY AND HUNGER: THE CRITICAL ROLE OF FINANCING  FOR FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND  RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rome, February 2002 Paper Prepared for the  International Conference on Financing for Development  Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March 2002. 3.     A Study on Poverty and Hunger in India. Junofy Anto Rozarina. N. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol 4 No 12 MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy October 2013.
Felix Amoh-Siaw	Topic: Nuclear proliferation and International Relations 1.     The Role of Nuclear Weapons in International Relations. K. Subrahmanyam. Strategic Analysis Volume 34, 2010 - Issue 2. 2.     Nuclear Proliferation and International Order –  The Reform of the Non-Proliferation Regime  by  Joachim Krause  Professor of Political Science  Institute of Security Studies at  the University of Kiel (ISUK). 3.     Theories of Nuclear Proliferation: The State of the Field. Jacques  E. C. Hymans. 4.     The Spread of Nuclear Weapons and International Con flict: Does Experience Matter?  Michael Horowitz.
Kek Sonaroth	Topic: Immigration and International Relations 1.     Theories of International Immigration Policy-A Comparative Analysis. Eytan Meyers. The International Migration Review Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter, 2000), pp. 1245-1282. 2.     Immigration and ethnic and racial inequality in the United States. Waters, Mary C., and Karl Eschbach. 1995 Annual Review of Sociology 21: 419-446. 3.     Beyond Two Identities: Turkish Immigrants in Germany. Tugrul Keskin.
Yelnaz Kembayeva	Topic: Regionalism in International Relations 1.     Regionalism. Edward D. Mansfield and Etel Solingen. 2.     Theories of Regionalism. Fredrik Söderbaum. 3.     Conference: Regionalism in a Globalized World.
Tann Eangdavid	Topic: Culture in World Affairs 1.     Culture and International Relations: The Culture of International Relations. Richard Ned Lebow. 2.     Culture and international relations. Michael J. Mazarr. The Washington Quarterly Volume 19, 1996 - Issue 2. 3.     Culture, Identity and International Relations. Rajen Harshe Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 41, No. 37 (Sep. 16-22, 2006).
Munkhbileg Batmunkh	Topic: Health and International Relations 1.     Health: an issue in global politics and international affairs. The Chatham House-Centre on Global Health Security. 2.     International Relations and the Global Politics of Health:  A State of the Art Preslava Stoeva. GLOBAL HEALTH  GOVERNANCE , VOLUME  X, NO.3 (WINTER  2016). 3.     Mental Health and International Relations: Why We Need to Look at Mental Health as a Security Issue. Anna Cornelia Beyer. International Political Psychology.
Kim Kung	Topic: Globalization and the Post-Cold War order 1.     The Post-Cold War Order: The Spoils of Peace by Ian Clark. January/February 2002 Issue. 2.     “The New World Order”: An Out line of the Post-Cold War Era. Muzaffer Ercan YlLMAZ. Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, 2008. 3.     Will Trump make China great again? The belt and road initiative  and international order. ASTRID H. M. NORDIN AND MIKAEL WEISSMANN.
Yasemin Memur	Topic: Gender and International Relations 1.     Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security / J.A. Tickner. 2.     Gender and International Relations Terrell Carver, Marysia Zalewski, Helen Kinsella and R. Charli Carpenter International Studies Review Vol. 5, No. 2 (Jun., 2003), pp. 287-302. 3.     Feminist Theory and International Relations: The Feminist Challenge to Realism and Liberalism by Tricia Ruiz. 4.     Feminist International Relations: a contradiction in terms? Or: why women and gender are essential to understanding the world ‘we’ live in. GILLIAN YOUNGS. International Affairs.
Ignatius Kgomo	Topic: Marxists Theories of International Relations 1.     Karl Marx's Conception of International Relations. Regina Buecker. 2.     Marxism in IR: Condemned to a Realist fate? Andrew Davenport. European Journal of International Relations 19(1) 27 –48. 3.     The return of Marx in international relations theory. Yohan Ariffin. Economy and Society.
Phann Phrdhorsrithy	Topic: Nationalism and International Relations 1.     Nationalism and International Relations. James G. Kellas. The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity pp 189-208. 2.     Nationalism and International Order: A Contemporary Perspective. Erika Harris. 3.     Nationalism and International Relations Theory. Martin Griffiths and Michael Sullivan. 4.     Kissing Cousins: Nationalism and Realism John J. Mearsheimer.
Usgal Undval	Topic: Urbanization in Latin America and International Relations 1.     The Power of the Political in an Urbanizing International. Jodok Troy. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political - 2018. 2.     Global Cities, International Relations and the Fabrication of the World. Anni Kangas.  Global Society Volume 31, 2017 - Issue 4. 3.     The Experience of Latin  America and the Caribbean in  Urbanization Knowledge Sharing Forum on  Development Experiences:  Comparative Experiences of Korea  and Latin America and the Caribbean Ezquiaga Arquitectura, Sociedad y  Territorio S.L. 4.     From Polarization to Fragmentation. Recent  Changes in Latin American Urbanization. Axel Borsdorf and Rodrigo Hidalgo.
Sultan Hamid Alizai	Topic: Think-Tanks and Foreign Policy 1.     Think Tanks and Influence on US Foreign Policy: The People and the Ideas A Monograph by COL Peter M Little British Army. 2.     Think tanks and foreign policy in a globalized world: New ideas, new ‘‘tanks,’’ new directions. Howard J Wiarda. International Journal 2015, Vol. 70(4) 517–525. 3.     The New Powerhouses: Think Tanks and Foreign Policy    Howard J. Wiarda. American Foreign Policy Interests, 30: 96–117, 2008. 4.     The Rise and Influence of the Foreign Policy Think Tank.  Rohinton P. Medhora. The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), November 30, 2015.
Necati Demircan	Topic: Liberal World Order and International Relations 1.     The Post-Cold War Political Topography of the Middle East: Prospects for Democracy Sandra Halperin Third World Quarterly Vol. 26, No. 7 (2005), pp. 1135-1156. 2.     The Real History of the Liberal Order Neither Myth Nor Accident. By Michael J. Mazarr. Foreign Affairs, August 7, 2018. 3.     After liberal world order. CONSTANCE DUNCOMBE AND TIM DUNNE. Chatham House, Summer, 2018. 4.     The Return to Great-Power Rivalry Was Inevitable. Thomas Wright. Sep 12, 2018. 5.     The Future of the Liberal World Order: Internationalism After America. G. John Ikenberry. Foreign Affairs Vol. 90, No. 3 (MAY/JUNE 2011), pp. 56-62, 63-68.
Yattara Aminata	Topic: Neoliberalism in Africa and International Relations 1.     What is  Neoliberalism? Dag Einar Thorsen and Amund Lie Department of P olitical Science University of Oslo. 2.     Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Change in Africa: the Political  Economy of Heterotopias. Pádraig Carmody and Francis Owusu. Journal  of  African Development (2016) 18:18:61–73. 3.     NEOLIBERAL IMPERIALISM AND PAN-AFRICAN RESISTANCE. Niels S. C. Hahn. Journal of World-Systems Research, Volume XIII, Number 2, Pages 142-178. 4.     SOME POSITIVE ASPECTS OF NEO-LIBERALISM FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: THE REVIVAL OF SOLIDARITY IN COOPERATIVES.  Fredrick O. Wanyama. International Journal of Arts and Commerce.