The fully updated and revised fifth edition of this widely-used text provides a comprehensive survey of leading perspectives in the field. Updated throughout to take account of major events and developments, such as the Arab Spring, it also includes new material on neo-realism and neo-liberalism, postcolonialism and cosmopolitanism.
This book is a comprehensive guide to theories of International Relations (IR).
Forfatterens mål med denne bog er: 1) Analyse af de gældende teorier for international politik og hvad der heri er lagt størst vægt på. 2) Konstruktion af en teori for...
... international system, not least with respect to the dynamics of power relations involved in the decline of the Catholic Habsburg Empire and in the strengthening of the secular realm of political authority (see Gutmann, 1988).
The book opens up space for analysis and debate and leaves students to decide which theories they find most useful in explaining and understanding international relations. The book is supported by an Online Resource Centre.
Dougherty, James, Pfaltzgraff, Jr., Robert L., Contending Theories of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey, 5th Edition*\ The most comprehensive and inclusive survey and synthesis available on the subject, this book...
Written by leading figures in the field, the third edition of this successful text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of all the major theories of international relations, supporting them with case study examples.
Gross national product (GNP), balance of, 172 Grundy, Kenneth W., 27n Gulliver's Troubles, 45 Haas, Ernst B., 117 Halle, Louis J., 66 Halperin, Morton, 122 Harris, Errol E., 7, 123 Heath, Prime Minister, 84, 87 Heisenberg, Werner, ...
The book counters the view that international relations has no theoretical tradition and shows that scholars, soldiers and statesmen have been speculating about the subject for the last 700 years.
289–313. Good on the nature of theory and the problems of defining the scope of IR as a subject area. NEUMAN, W.L. (2007) Basics of Social Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, 2nd edn. New York: Pearson Education.
'This book should be of interest to all students of international politics, and, of course, especially to those interested in theory.