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Essential reading 
Baylis, J., S. Smith and P. Owens ‘Introduction’.
Cox, M. ‘From the Cold War to the world economic crisis’.
Scott, L. ‘International history 1900–1999’.
Further reading
Ashworth, L. ‘Did the Realist-Idealist debate ever take place?: a revisionist 
history of international relations’, International Relations 16(1) 2002, 
pp.33–51.
Buzan, B. and R. Little ‘Why international relations has failed as an intellectual 
project and what to do about it’, Millennium 30(1) 2001, pp.19–39.
Cox, M. ‘Introduction’ in Carr, E.H. The Twenty Years’ Crisis. Edited by M. Cox. 
(New York: Palgrave, 2001) [ISBN 9780333963777].

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