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Theories of International Relations

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ISBN-10: 0230362230

ISBN-13: 9780230362239

Edition: 5th 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Jack Donnelly, Terry Nardin

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List price: $33.99
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 4/24/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.44" wide x 9.15" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Richard Devetak is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Political Science and International Studies at University of Queensland.

Preface to the Fifth Edition
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Frameworks of analysis
Diversity of theory
Contested nature
The foundation of the discipline of International Relations
Theories and disciplines
Explanatory and constitutive theory
Interdiscplinary theory
What do theories differ about?
Evaluating theories
Realism
Defining realism
Hobbes and classical realism
Waltz and structured realism
Motives matter
System and structure
Morality and foreign policy
How to think about realism (and its critics)
Liberalism
After the Cold War
The liberal view: 'inside looking out'
War, democracy and free trade
Globalization, the financial system and terrorism
Conclusion
The English School
From power to order: international society
Order and justice in international relations
The revolt against the West and the expansion of international society
Progress in international relations
Conclusion
Marx and Marxism
Class, production and international relations in Marx's writings
Theories of nationalism and imperialism
The changing fortunes of Marxism in International Relations
Beyond the paradigm of production: implications for the emancipatory project
Conclusion
Historical Sociology
Origins of historical sociology
Power and production in historical sociology
Power and interdependence in international relations
System and society
Morality, culture and the emotions
A higher synthesis?
On grand narratives
Conclusion
Critical Theory
Origins of critical theory
The politics of knowledge in international relations theory
Rethinking political community
Conclusion
Post-structuralism
Power and knowledge in international relations
Textual strategies of post-structuralism
Problematizing sovereign states
Beyond the paradigm of sovereignty: rethinking the political
Conclusion
Constructivism
Rationalist theory
The challenge of critical theory
Constructivism
Constructivism and its discontents
The contribution of constructivism
Recent developments in constructivism
Conclusion
Feminism
Empirical feminism
Analytical feminism
Normative feminism
Conclusion
Green Politics
Theorizing environment within international relations
Beyond IR: Green politics and the challenge to world order
Bioenvironmentalism - authority, scale, and eco-centrism
Social greens - limits to growth and political economy
Greening global politics
Conclusions
International Political Theory
Theorizing international politics
Justice in war
International justice
Global justice
The history of international thought
Bibliography
Index