Salmon Trevor C., Imber Mark F. Issues in international relations

Routledge, 2009. 160 p. This volume considers the most recent demands for justice within the international system, examining how such aspirations often confl ict with norms of state sovereignty and non-intervention. From an interdisciplinary approach that combines issues of international relations with international law, this book addresses issues neglected in both disciplines concerning the establishment of a more just international order and i...

SAGE Publications, 2002, 572 p. Table Of Contents Part One: Historical, philosophical and theoretical issues in international relations On the History and Historiography of International Relations Brian C. Schmidt Philosophy of Social Science and International Relations Colin Wight Rationalism v. Constructivism: A Skeptical View James Fearon and Alexander Wendt Rational Choice and International Relations Duncan Snidal Constructivism and Internat...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 212 p. This book examines the role religion plays in international relations as well as why this role has been ignored until now by international relations theorists. Fox and Sandler argue that while religion is not the driving force in world politics, international relations cannot be understood without taking religion into account. Religious legitimacy influences policy makers and their constituents; local religious p...

State University of New York Press, Albany, 2001, 265 p. The thought of the eighteenth century philosopher, Immanuel Kant, has been widely used and debated in international relations, especially in the past decade. Reflecting on this, Mark F. N. Franke ably demonstrates that Kant's thought does not cohere neatly with any of the disciplinary paradigms or concepts that have constituted the field. He also shows how many contemporary exponents of Ka...

Systemic Approaches to Middle East International Relations by F. Gregory Gause III This article critiques four important works that use systems-level perspectives to explain the international politics of the Middle East, and suggests an alternative way of conceptualizing the Middle East international system. Its purpose is to show how insights from international relations theory can be used to explain the specificities of the Middle East, and th...

Cambridge University Press, 2003. 258 p. This book provides students with a fresh overview of the main theories of the state found in International Relations. The book surveys realist, liberal, Marxist, constructivist, postmodern, postmodern feminist and neo-Weberian approaches to the state, and places each perspective's view of the state in relation to its theory of IR as a whole. It offers readers a unique introduction to state theory in Inte...

London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2010. - 304 p. Friedrich Kratochwil is the author of the classic book: Rules, Norms and Decisions (1989), which introduced constructivism to international relations and has had a profound and significant impact on the discipline. The Puzzle of Politics brings together for the first time a collection of his key essays to explain his approach to international relations and how his thinking...

Routldge, 2000. 239 p. At the turn of the millennium, and now after the fall of the Berlin wall, the best way to map the trajectories of contemporary international relations is hotly contested. Is the world more or less ordered than during the Cold War? Are we on the way to a neo-liberal era of free markets and global governance, or in danger of collapsing into a new Middle Ages? Are we on the verge of a new world order or are we slipping back i...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008. 800 р. ISBN:019921932X The Oxford Handbook of International Relations offers the most authoritative and comprehensive overview to date of the field of international relations. Arguably the most impressive collection of international relations scholars ever brought together within one volume, the Handbook debates the nature of the field itself, critically engages with the major theories, surveys a wide spectrum...

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007, 214 p International Relations: the Basics is a concise and accessible introduction for students new to international relations and for the general reader. It offers the most up-to-date guide to the major issues and areas of debate and explains key issues including humanitarian intervention and economic justice; features illustrative and familiar case studies from around the worl...