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This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations. Written by leading ES scholar Barry Buzan, it expertly guides readers through the English School’s formative ideas, intellectual and historical roots, current controversies and future avenues of development. Part One sets out the English School’s origins and development, explaining its central concepts and methodological tools, and placing it within the broader canon of IR theory. Part Two offers a detailed account of the historical, regional and social structural strands of the English School, explaining the important link between the school’s historical projects and its int...
Invaluable to students and those approaching the subject for the first time, An Introduction to International Relations, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to international relations, its traditions and its changing nature in an era of globalisation. Thoroughly revised and updated, it features chapters written by a range of experts from around the world. It presents a global perspective on the theories, history, developments and debates that shape this dynamic discipline and contemporary world politics. 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.
This Oxford Handbook assembles the world's leading scholars in International Relations to present diverse perspectives about purposes, questions, theories, and methods. It will become the first point of reference for scholars and students interested in these key issues.
Offering unrivaled coverage of classical theories, contemporary approaches, and current issues, together with an exceptionally clear writing style, Introduction to International Relations, Seventh Edition, provides a genuinely accessible and engaging introduction to the subject. With an emphasis on theoretical approaches and their application to the real world, the authors encourage readers to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments presented, and the major points of contention between them. In this way, the text helps the reader to build a clear understanding of how key debates in the discipline are connected with each other and with our perceptions of developments in the con...
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
What are the challenges facing international cooperation to mitigate climate change? Was US foreign policy under President Trump all that different from his predecessors? Are we witnessing world order or world chaos? With an emphasis on theoretical approaches and their application to the real world, this book is the definitive guide to answering such key questions in international relations. Throughout the text, the authors encourage you to engage critically with essential theories by highlighting their strengths, weaknesses, and the major points of contention, helping you to understand how contemporary debates in the discipline are connection with each other, and how they are shaping the wo...
This new edition has been updated in light of current events and ongoing debates and includes a new chapter on feminism, post-structuralism, and post-colonialism. It provides a highly readable introduction to the principal theories in international relations, combining original analysis with a range of learning features.
Aims to provide a source to those working in the area of contemporary Chinese international relations. This title helps to fill a gap in the study of International Relations which has been dominated by the mainstream Anglo-American school of thought, leaving most indigenous studies largely marginalised, ignored or even neglected.
International Relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century as scholars and practitioners sought to address the causes of war and conditions for peace in a systematic and sustained way. Its philosophic foundations, however, draw on centuries of thinking about human nature, political authority and obligation, justice and injustice, and their implications for relations within and between political communities. Since then, IR has become one of the most important and dynamic fields of academic study in the contemporary period. In this second edition, Stephanie Lawson retains a broad historical and contextual approach in introducing readers to the central them...