Understanding International Relations, Third Edition

Document Outline

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction: Defining International Relations
  • Perspectives and theories
  • Conclusion
• 2 The Development of International Relations Theory in the Twentieth Century
  • Introduction
  • Liberal internationalism and the origins of the discipline
  • The 'realist' critique of liberal internationalism
  • The post-war synthesis
  • International Relations and the behavioural sciences
  • Challenges to the realist synthesis
  • Pluralism and complex interdependence
• 3 International Relations Theory Today
  • Introduction: rational choice theory and its critics
  • From realism to neorealism
  • From neorealism to neoliberalism
  • Constructivism and the 'English School'
  • Critical, poststructuralist and 'postmodern' international thought
  • Conclusion
• 4 The State and Foreign Policy
  • Introduction
  • The state and International Relations
  • Foreign and domestic policy: the 'decision' as focus
  • Conclusion: from foreign policy to power
• 5 Power and Security
  • Introduction: statecraft, influence and power
  • Dimensions of power
  • Power, fear and insecurity
  • Conclusion: managing insecurity
• 6 The Balance of Power and War
  • Introduction
  • The balance of power
  • The political conception of war
  • War in the twentieth century
  • Conclusion: the end of state-centric International Relations?
• 7 Global Governance
  • Introduction: sovereignty, anarchy and global governance
  • Functionalism
  • Integration theory, federalism and neofunctionalism
  • Global economic institutions: Bretton Woods and after
  • International regimes and regime theory
  • Global governance and (collective) security
• 8 The Global Economy
  • Introduction
  • The growth of the world economy
  • Problems and perspectives
  • Structuralism
  • The new global economy
  • The end of the South?
• 9 Globalization
  • Introduction
  • A new economy?
  • Neoliberalism and its critics
  • New global problems – 'Westfailure'?
  • Global civil society?
• 10 The International Politics of Identity
  • Introduction
  • Politics in industrial societies
  • Identity politics post-1989
  • Globalization and postindustrial society
  • Democracy promotion, Asian values and the 'clash of civilizations'
  • Pluralism and international society
  • Conclusion
• 11 International Relations and the Individual: Human Rights, Humanitarian Law and Humanitarian War
  • Introduction
  • Universal human rights
  • Rights and international law
  • Humanitarian intervention
  • Conclusion
• 12 US Hegemony and World Order
  • Introduction
  • An American century – again?
  • Ideology and US strategic doctrine
  • The significance of 9/11
  • The United States and Europe: Mars and Venus?
  • America, the war on terror and the non-Western world
  • Empire?
  • World order in the twenty-first century
• Bibliography
• Index
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