The fully updated and revised third edition of this widely used text provides a comprehensive survey of leading perspectives in the field including an entirely new chapter on Realism by Jack Donnelly. The introduction explains the nature of theory and the reasons for studying international relations in a theoretically informed way. The nine chapters which follow--written by leading scholars in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand--provide thorough examinations of each of the major approaches currently prevailing in the discipline.
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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.
This book is a comprehensive guide to theories of International Relations (IR).
With chapters on all the major theories of international relations, accompanied by contemporary examples from popular culture, film and literature, this Third Edition is the ideal introduction to the key perspectives in the field.
Innovative in its mixture of classic and contemporary readings by our greatest thinkers and scholars, this highly reputable and popular book provides one of the best single analyses and introductions...
Introducing students to the main theories in international relations, this textbook also deconstructs each theory, allowing students to engage critically with the assumptions and myths that underpin them.
Second, a group around Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett have taken up the concept of security communities developed in the 1950s by Karl Deutsch. Security communities are saidtoexist when a group of states share asense of community and ...
London: Simon and Schuster. Huntington, S. (2007). 'Interview', New Perspectives Quarterly, 24/1: 5–8. Hurd, I. (2008). 'Constructivism', in C. Reus-Smit and D. Snidal (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Relations.
Now in full-colour and accompanied by a password-protected companion website featuring additional chapters and case studies, this is the indispensable guide to the study of international relations.
In the book, Jill Steans illustrates how gender is central to nationalisms and political identity, the state, citizenship and conceptions of political community, security, and global political economy and development.