International relations theory / Mark V. Kauppi, Paul R. Viotti.

• Preface. Thinking about IR theory : Epistemology, methodology, and ontology -- What is theory? -- Images -- Interpretive understandings -- The intellectual roots of IR theory. Part 1 Images of international relations theory : Realism: the state and balance of power : Major actors and assumptions -- Intellectual precursors and influences -- Power -- System -- Change -- Globalization and interdependence -- Realists and international cooperation -- Realists and their critics -- References. Liberalism: interdependence and global governance : Major actors and assumptions -- Intellectual precursors and influences -- International organization -- Integration -- Transnationalism -- Interdependence -- International regimes -- Neoliberal institutionalism -- Global governance -- Economic interdependence and peace -- The democratic peace -- Decision-making -- Change and globalization -- Liberals and their critics -- References. Economic structuralism: global capitalism and postcolonialism : Major actors and assumptions -- Intellectual precursors and influences -- Dependency theorists -- The capitalism world-system -- Gramsci and hegemony -- Change and globalization -- Postcolonialism -- Economic structuralists and their critics -- References. The English school: international society and Grotian rationalism : Major actors and assumptions -- Intellectual precursors and influences -- The divergence of British and American scholarship -- Genesis of the English school -- Levels of analysis and theory -- Change -- The English school, liberals, and social constructivists -- The English school and its critics -- References. Part 2 Interpretive understandings and normative considerations : Constructivist understandings : Major actors and assumptions -- Intellectual precursors and influences -- Intersubjectivity -- Structure, rules, and norms -- Agents -- Identity -- Logic of appropriateness -- Interests -- The diversity of social constructivist thought -- Wendt's "naturalist" constructivism -- Constructivist affinities in the broader IR field -- Constructivists and their critics -- References. Positivism, critical theory, and postmodern understandings : Positivism -- Mill's canons of causality -- Cause-effect relations -- Intellectual precursors: phenomenology and hermeneutics -- Critical theory: major assumptions -- Postmodernism: major assumptions -- Critical theorists, postmodernists, and their critics -- Summation -- References. Feminist understandings in IR theory : Intellectual recursors and influences -- Major assumptions -- Strands of feminism in international relations -- Gender, war, and security studies -- Gender and international organizations -- Gendered understandings and IR theory -- Feminists and their critics -- References. Normative IR theory: ethics and morality : Norms, ethics, and morality -- Normative theory: alternative perspectives -- Justice and war -- Justice and human rights -- Armed intervention and state sovereignty -- Alternative images and foreign policy choice -- Rationality and foreign policy choice -- Values, choices, and theory -- References. Part 3 The intellectual roots of international relations theory : The Ancients: Greek, Chinese, and Indian thought : Homer, Herodotus, Sun Tzu, and Kautilya -- Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War -- After Thucydides: Plato, Aristotle, and Polybius -- References. Greco-Roman thought and the Middle Ages : The Roman Empire and the development of Greco-Roman thought -- The Middle Ages -- References. The rise of the state and modern political thought : The Renaissance, Reformation, and the rise of the state -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thinking on international relations -- References. Glossary -- Index.

• Theory meets intellectual history in this new and expanded edition of International Relations Theory. Long known for its concise presentation of the various images and interpretive understandings of how to approach the complexity of international politics, this edition devotes a significant portion of the book to the intellectual precursors who have informed current perspectives on international relations. The discussion moves well beyond the usual cannon of Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Hobbes by linking them and other writers to present-day IR theory—realism, liberalism, economic structuralism, and English School images; as well as constructivist, feminist, postmodern, and critical theory lenses. This unique approach enhances our abilities to think conceptually and critically not only about how our 21st-century world of diverse state and non-state actors works, but also the implications of the changes we observe domestically and globally. 

Ämnesord

Internationella relationer  (sao)

International relations.  (LCSH)

89.70 international relations: general.  (bcl)

International relations.  (fast)

International relations  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

JZ1305 (LCC)

327.101 (DDC)

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