Theories of International Relations, Third EditionThe 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. |
Contents
Contested nature | 5 |
Explanatory and constitutive theory | 15 |
Evaluating theories | 23 |
ix | 32 |
Motives matter | 40 |
Morality and foreign policy | 48 |
Liberalism | 55 |
The English School | 84 |
Rethinking political community | 146 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Textual strategies of postmodernism | 167 |
rethinking the political | 181 |
Conclusion | 187 |
The challenge of critical theory | 193 |
Feminism | 213 |
Green Politics | 235 |
Order and justice in international relations | 93 |
Progress in international relations | 103 |
Marxism | 110 |
Nationalism and imperialism | 120 |
Marxism and international relations theory today | 132 |
The politics of knowledge in International Relations theory | 140 |
Green rejections of the statesystem | 242 |
Greening global politics? | 248 |
Conclusions | 254 |
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Theories of International Relations Scott Burchill,Andrew Linklater,Richard Devetak,Jack Donnelly,Matthew Paterson,Christian Reus-Smit No preview available - 2005 |
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