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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Defining International Relations | |
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| Perspectives and Theories | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Development of International Relations Theory in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Liberal internationalism and the origins of the discipline | |
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| The 'realist' critique of liberal internationalism | |
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| The post-war synthesis | |
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| International Relations and the behavioural sciences | |
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| Challenges to the realist synthesis | |
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| Pluralism and complex interdependence | |
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| International Relations Theory Today | |
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| Introduction: rational choice theory and its critics | |
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| From realism to neorealism | |
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| From neorealism to liberal institutionalism | |
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| Constructivism and the 'English School' | |
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| Critical, poststructuralist and 'postmodern' international thought | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Agency, Structure and the State | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The agent-structure problem and levels of analysis | |
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| The state and International Relations | |
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| Foreign and domestic policy: agency within the state | |
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| Conclusion: from foreign policy to power | |
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| Power and Security | |
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| Introduction: statecraft, influence and power | |
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| Dimensions of power | |
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| Power, fear and insecurity | |
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| Conclusion: managing insecurity | |
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| The Balance of Power and War | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The balance of power | |
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| The political conception of war | |
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| War in the twentieth century | |
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| Conclusion: the end of state-centric International Relations? | |
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| Global Governance | |
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| Introduction: sovereignty, anarchy and global governance | |
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| Functionalism | |
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| Integration theory, federalism and neofunctionalism | |
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| Global economic institutions: Bretton Woods and after | |
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| International regimes and regime theory | |
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| Global governance and (collective) security | |
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| The Global Economy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The growth of the world economy | |
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| Problems and perspectives | |
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| Structuralism | |
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| The new global economy | |
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| The end of the South? | |
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| Globalization | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A new economy? | |
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| Neoliberalism and its critics | |
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| New global problems - 'Westfailure' and the environment | |
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| Global civil society? | |
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| The International Politics of Identify | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Politics in industrial societies | |
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| Identity politics post-1989 | |
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| Globalization and postindustrial society | |
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| Democracy promotion, Asian values and the 'clash of civilizations' | |
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| Pluralism and international society | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| International Relations and the Individual: Human Rights, Humanitarian Law and Humanitarian War | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Universal human rights | |
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| Rights and international law | |
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| Humanitarian intervention | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Shape of Things to Come | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A return to multipolarity? | |
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| Crisis in the global economy | |
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| Bad times, good times | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |