- Артикул:00-00005156
- Автор: CXhris Brown & Kirsten Ainley
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21311-1
- Обложка: Мягкая обложка
- Издательство: Macmillan (все книги издательства)
- Город: London
- Страниц: 322
- Год: 2009
- Вес: 495 г
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This book is an introduction to the discipline of International Relations; 'International Relations'.
Contents
Preface to the Fourth 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 liberal institutionalism
Constructivism and the 'English School'
Critical, poststructuralist and 'postmodern' international thought
Conclusion
4 Agency, Structure and the State
Introduction
The agent-structure problem and levels of analysis
The state and International Relations
Foreign and domestic policy: agency within the state
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' and the environment
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
Conclusions
12 The Shape of Things to Come
Introduction
A return to multipolarity?
Crisis in the global economy
Bad times, good times
Bibliography
Index
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