Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies

SECOND YEAR BOOK LIST 2014/15

Mandatory units and selected options for MLES, LP, PwE, PIR

FRENCH

Azouz Begag, Le gone du Chaâba (Seuil: 1998) Faïza Guène, Kiffe kiffe demain (Livres de Poche: 2005) Alistair Cole, Sophie Meunier and Vincent Tiberj, Developments in French Politics 5 (Palgrave: 2013) [Semester 2]Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 F (Grasset et Fasquelle: 2007) [Semester 2]

GERMAN

H Dreyer & R Schmitt, A Practice Grammar of German (Verlag für Deutsch: 2001) [highly recommended]Ulrich Mählert, Kleine Geschichte der DDR (Beck: 2009)Ulrich Plenzdorf, Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. (Suhrkamp: 1976)Hermann Weber, Grundriss der Geschichte der DDR (Fackelträger: 1991)Manfred Görtemaker, Kleine Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (dtv: 2002) [Sem 2]Christian Kracht, Faserland [1995] (dtv: 2007) [Semester 2]Jürgen Weber, Kleine Geschichte Deutschlands seit 1945 (dtv: 2002) [Semester 2]

ITALIAN

Rosa Errico, Maria Antonia Esposito and Stella Lineri, Campus Italia Vol 2: Esercitarsi con l’Italiano (Guerra: 2012) [required]Rosa Errico, Maria Antonia Esposito and Stella Lineri, Campus Italia Vol 2: Corso Multimediale per le Università (Guerra: 2012) [optional]Denise De Rôme, Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian, 2nd edn (Hodder: 2013)Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics 1943-1980 (Penguin: 1990) [Semester 1]Paul Ginsborg, Italy and its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State 1980-2001(Penguin: 2003) [Semester 1]Luigi Pirandello, Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (1921, preferably Mondadori Edition) Ignazio Silone, Fontamara (1933, 1949, preferably Mondadori edition) Dacia Maraini, Donna in guerra (1975, 1998) Aldo Nove, Superwoobinda (1998)

RUSSIAN

Terence Wade & David Gillespie, A Comprehensive Russian Grammar, 3rd edn (Blackwell: 2010)Robert Service, The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the 21st Century, 3rd edn (Penguin: 2009)

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SPANISH

Carlos Fuentes, Aura [1962] ed Peter Standish (Manchester: 2009)Eduardo Galeano, Las venas abiertas de America Latina [1971] (Siglo XXI: 2003, or any other edition) Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada [1981] (Plaza y Janés: 2001)Ronaldo Munck, Contemporary Latin America (Palgrave: 2012)

EUROPEAN STUDIES

European Integration [mandatory unit for MLES, option for LP, PwE and PIR]Dr David Clarke

Sofi Oksanen, Purge (Atlantic Books: 2011) Caryl Philips, The European Tribe (Vintage: 2000)

POLITICS

European Political Thought [mandatory for LP, PwE and PIR]Ingolfur Blühdorn

Tudor Jones, Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas: an Introduction (Routledge: 2001)Nigel Warburton, Jon Pike and Derek Matravers, Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill (Routledge: 2000)

American Politics [mandatory for LP, PwE and PIR][Convenor to be advised]

David McKay, American Politics and Society 7th edn (Wiley Blackwell: 2009)John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation: Why America is Different(Penguin: 2005)

Research Design and Methods in Politics [mandatory for LP, PwE and PIR]Dr David Cutts

David Silverman, Interpreting Qualitative Data 4th edn (Sage 2011)Alan Bryman, Social Research Methods 4th edn (Oxford 2012) Andy Field, Discovering Statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics 4th edn (Sage 2013)

European Union Politics [mandatory for LP, PwE, PIR, option for MLES]Dr Ainius Lasas

Michelle Cini and Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds), European Union Politics 4th edn (Oxford: 2013)

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ECONOMICS

Economics of Politics [mandatory unit for PwE, not available to others]Professor Philip Jones

John Cullis and Philip Jones, Public Finance and Public Choice 3rd edn (Oxford: 2009) or John Cullis and Philip Jones, Microeconomics: a Journey Through Life’s Decisions (Prentice Hall: 2009) Economic Thought and Policy [mandatory unit for PwE, not available to others]Dr Catherine Winnett

Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: the Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers 7th edn (Oxford: 2000)

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Conflict and Security [mandatory for PIR, option for LP and PwE][Convenor to be advised]

Craig A Snyder (ed), Contemporary Security and Strategy 2nd edn (Palgrave: 2008) [preferred]Roland Dannreuther, International Security: The Contemporary Agenda (Polity: 2007) [useful]Alan Collins (ed), Contemporary Security Studies (Oxford: 2007) [useful]

International Organisation [mandatory for PwIR, option for LP and PwE][Convenor to be advised]

Margeret P Karns & Karen A Mingst, International Organizations 2nd edn (Lynne Rienner: 2009) [preferred]Malcolm M Shaw, International Law 6th edn (Cambridge: 2008) [also useful]

History of International Relations Theory [mandatory for PIR, option for LP and PwE]Dr Scott Thomas

Torbjorn L. Knutsen, A History of International Relations Theory 2nd edn (Manchester: 1997)

Foreign Policy-Making and its Analysis [mandatory for PIR, option for LP and PwE][Convenor to be advised]

Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield & Tim Dunne, Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases 2nd edn (Oxford: 2012)

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